I have been following Health Care Reform since President Obama got into office.  Health Care Reform is the number one problem facing the American People in the long term.  Don’t get me wrong, jobs are important too and is also a number one problem but the signs are there that the economy is coming back and so will the jobs.  The real problem with that is if you have a job now and for the people that will be getting a job most of their hard earned money will go to insurance companies if Health Care Reform is pasted in its current form.  The House put together a Health Care Reform Bill that was not perfect but good.  Then Senate has watered down the Health Care Reform Bill so much that it is not Health Care Reform anymore and made it into financial profit machine for the insurance companies.  The Health Care Reform Bill needs to be rejected in its current state.  The only way to get the insurance companies from over charging the American People is to have a Very Strong Health Care Reform with a very Strong Public Option so the insurance can have competition from a non-profit insurance company.
How bad is the bill? 

1. Forces you to pay up to 8% of your income to private insurance corporations -- whether you want to or not
2. If you refuse to buy the insurance,  you'll have to pay penalties of up to 2% of your annual income to the IRS
3. After being forced to pay thousands in premiums for junk insurance, you can still be on the hook for up to $11,900 a year in out-of-pocket medical expenses.
4. Massive restriction on a woman's right to choose, designed to trigger a challenge to Roe v. Wade in the Supreme Court
5. Paid for by taxes on the middle class insurance plan you have right now through your employer, causing them to cut back benefits and increase co-pays
6. Many of the taxes to pay for the bill start now, but most Americans won't see any benefits -- like an end to discrimination against those with preexisting conditions -- until 2014 when the program begins.
7. Allows insurance companies to charge people who are older 300% more than others
8. Grants monopolies to drug companies that will keep generic versions of expensive biotech drugs from ever coming to market.
9. No re-importation of prescription drugs, which would save consumers $100 billion over 10 years
10. The cost of medical care will continue to rise, and insurance premiums for a family of 4 will raise an average of $1000 a year -- meaning in 10 years, you family's insurance premium will be $10,000 more annually than it is right now.

I could go on, but it should be clear: this is not reform.  This is a con job.
Make no mistake, we need health care reform.  But the Senate's idea of reform is a disaster, and will make things far worse than they are today.

The President has time and times again have asked the Republicans to help create a Health Care Reform Bill that the Americans People would be proud of.  Their response was flat out make Obama fail and they are giving their best to so.  They were glad that the President failed at getting the Olympics to the United States, in fact, they stood up and cheered at the President failing.  They have on their agenda to vote “NO” on every proposal that goes up for vote to help the American People and the President.  The Republicans have no intensions of helping the American People and their objective is to have every bill fail until the President is voted out of office for failing.  The Republicans want the President of the United States and the United States of America to fail period just to get back into power.
The Republicans gave us two wars, failing banks, failing auto industry, more foreclosed homes, more people living on the streets, higher insurance rates, more people out of a job and I could go on.  They have been lying about the Health Care Reform Bill, Filibustering each and every chance they get, (three times more filibuster than any other congress in history which shuts down any work from congress), sending out scare tactics and more to stop Health Care Reform.  The Republicans destroyed this country and now they want do more damage. 

When President Obama took over which was just under a year things are changing to the better.  I have been through many elections and this President has gotten more done in such a short time than any other President in history.  I wish the President and he does too could do more but the United States was left in such sad shape by the Republicans a person can only do so much.  I fully understand that it takes time to get the United States back to where we should be and hope that the rest of the people understand that too.  We all want the United States to be a leader in the world and we can if we get rid of the Republicans.  They cannot see the damage that they have done and the damage that they are doing just to get back in power.  If they really wanted to keep the power they should have done something about it before destroying the country.  That is why they lost the power in the first place, lying to the people and not giving the people what they need.

On January 16, four days before President Obama took office, Rush Limbaugh declared on his radio show: "I hope he fails." Those four words set the tone for a year of increasingly unhinged, vitriolic, and conspiratorial attacks on progressive leaders around the country.
Limbaugh has done more than passively "hope" for progressive failure: Along with Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Matt Drudge, and the rest of the conservative noise machine, he has worked hard to try to achieve it. Completing its transformation into the unofficial research and communications arm of the GOP, Fox News has abandoned any pretense of being a legitimate news network in favor of openly advocating against progressives.
"Death Panels"
No single example displays the ability of the noise machine to derail substantive policy discussion with misinformation than the outrage over supposed "death panels" in health care reform legislation. Sarah Palin, taking cues from serial misinformer Betsy McCaughey, posted a note on her Facebook page fear-mongering that optional end-of-life counseling amounted to "death panels."
Almost immediately, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and the rest of the conservative machine ran with the smear -- filling the airwaves with baseless, outrageous accusations that Democrats intended to euthanize the elderly in order to cut health care costs. While Media Matters repeatedly debunked these allegations, they effectively distracted the media from engaging in an accurate, thorough discussion of health care reform for weeks.
Right-wing witch hunt against progressive leaders
This year, the conservative noise machine has aggressively targeted administration officials and nominees. After environmental and green jobs official Van Jones resigned following his targeting by right-wing pundits, Sean Hannity told a crowd, "We got rid of one, and my job starting tomorrow night is to get rid of every other one."
Conservatives also engaged in a witch hunt against Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. During Sotomayor's confirmation process, right-wing pundits targeted her with sexist and racist attacks, and repeatedly distorted her past comments in order to paint her as a racist and a radical activist.
More recently, the conservative witch hunt against administration officials and appointees set its sights on Department of Education official Kevin Jennings, smearing him with a wide variety of anti-gay rhetoric and outlandish distortions, including repeatedly falsely accusing him of covering up a statutory rape while he was a teacher.

I strongly believe that the President is giving 110 percent to make the United States and the world a better place for all.  He cannot do it alone especially when you look at what he has to work with in Washington DC.  Nobody wanted to change in DC and this is why Obama was elected and with your help change will be made for the better if change in Washington DC is made.  This means we need to get rid of the Republicans that are refusing to help the President make change.  There are 32 Republicans that have to be removed from office.  I will be naming them later but for now you can help make Health Care Reform what it should be, Health Care for all.

I am asking each and every one of you to sign a petition, call your Senator, Representative, the President, and anyone else in congress and tell them that we need a very Strong Public Option in the Health Care Reform Bill and nothing less.  The bill now is nothing but a Insurance gift and the insurance stocks prove that by gaining in value in the Stock Market.  Wall Street knows that this Senate Bill is no good for the people but a very good deal for insurance companies.

Please call every one of your Senators and Representatives and sign all of the petitions calling for a Very Strong Health Care Reform Bill with a Public Option and not the weak bill from the Senate.  Tell Congress that you want a Public Option and nothing else.  Please do this as soon as you can even if it is pass December 24, 2009 when the Senate will vote on the bill.  The bill will still have to go back to the House for passage if it passes the Senate.

You can go to http://www.miamicomplaints.com/index/general_news_health_care.html and find more on Health Care Reform.  There are videos on Health Care Reform you can watch and there are more articles you can read about Health Care Reform.  (PS: If the video do not work, use Firefox Browser which you can download at http://firefox-get.info/m.html ).

Despite this latest setback, we can still win the health care fight. The House has already passed a strong health care bill with a real public option. It would cover millions of uninsured Americans, offer real competition to the insurance companies, and reduce costs in the long run.
All of the polls show that the American People time and time again want Health Care Reform Bill with a Public Option and the Insurance Companies are spending two millions a day to prevent Health Care Reform.  The money the Insurance Companies spending came from over charging their customers and denying claims in the first place.

Please Help Yourself by Calling, E-mailing, Writing, and Signing Petitions letting Congress Know You Want A Public Option Period.  Do it now!!!!!!

Here is where you can start:

Please call the President and tell him not to sign the Health Care Reform Bill if it does not have a Public Option in it.
White House – 1-202-456-1111  President

Please call Senator Bill Nelson and tell him to vote “NO” if Health Care Reform Bill does not have a Public Option in it.
Senator Bill Nelson  -  1-202-224-5274 Washington DC Office – 305-536-5999 Local Office – 305-536-5991 Fax Number
E-Mail Senator Bill Nelson - http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

Please call Senator George LeMieux and tell him to vote “NO” if Health Care Reform Bill does not have a Public Option in it.
Senator George LeMieux – 1-202-224-3041 Washington DC Office – 305-444-8332 Local Office – 305-444-8449 Fax Machine
E-Mail Senator George LeMieux - http://lemieux.senate.gov/public/?p=EmailSenatorLeMieux

Don’t Know Your Senator - Find Your Senator here - http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Please add your name to the petition put up by MoveOn.Org, a Political organization for change:
http://pol.moveon.org/block/o.pl?id=18358-15596988-NQ6Dmhx&t=4

Please sign the petition at Count Down to Health Care with Congressman Anthony Weiner

www.CountDownToHealthCare.com

We will continue to fight for real health care reform.  Now, we must kill this fake reform.

P.S. Please, after you've signed, forward this email to your friends, family, coworkers - anyone you know.  It's critical we act fast to kill the Senate bill, and we need everyone we can on board.
One more thing I want to say, Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.
Thank you very much for your time and if you have any questions or need help in this matter please contact me at: rnorman@miamicomplaints.com