Thanx a shit load Harry R. for this email

[Botany]

Dear Botany,

With the leading cause of bankruptcies in America related to health care costs and 528,000 Nevadans without health care coverage, we knew from the beginning that the final health insurance reform legislation had to be strong enough to cut costs, strengthen Medicare, and ensure quality, affordable care for all Americans.

We knew it had to stabilize insurance for everyone while lowering the cost of premiums for consumers and the national deficit for taxpayers.

And we had to stop insurance companies from denying health care to the sick.

The bill we proposed a few weeks ago does every one of these things - and the revisions being read right now on the Senate floor are even stronger.

The newest version will:

Reign in costs even further
Make care more affordable by expanding small business tax credits;
Demand even greater accountability from insurance companies;
Create more choice and competition for consumers.
All of these things will help lower costs for Americans, and will finally level the playing field between Nevada families and insurance companies.

There are some that believe the bill doesn't go far enough and suggest it should be stopped.

While I, too, strongly prefer a public option, I also know that this bill will make it easier for every American to afford to live a healthy life. It will ease the suffering of millions and ensure fewer die from diseases we know how to treat.

Be assured that this by no means is the end of health insurance reform, but only the beginning - and if we don't get started now, we might never have this chance again. This bill is more than worthy of support from Democrats, Independents, and Republicans alike.

However, there are also those that believe this bill goes too far, and that it should be stopped. To them I say: the status quo is not acceptable.

Our broken system cannot and will not continue.

And I am eager for when President Obama signs this bill into law and we officially end the era in which insurance companies win only when patients lose.

All Senate Democrats stand shoulder-to-shoulder with President Obama and the American people who know that inaction is not an option.

This bill is about providing quality affordable care, protecting consumers' rights, strengthening our economy, and making the hard choices necessary to do what is right.

Throughout the many twists and turns of this process - while many have tried to knock us off course - we have stayed true to these principles. And that is why we will succeed.

Sincerely,


Harry

[Cleita]

1. If he asked for money,

send it back to him with a note stating that any further contributions you make will be going to any progressive candidate who is going up against him the next time he's up for election.

[endless october]

2. is reigning in costs similar to reining in costs?

if so, how does this bill rein in costs?

i can't believe they added insult to injury by sending out an email with an ironic typo.

[Botany]

3. i might be wrong but the email is wrong about out so many things.

The bill the senate just passed is a total capitulation to the for profit health care industry.

[ElboRuum]

Freudian Slip

Alludes to royalty.

[sabrina 1]

4. What a load of BS this is:

Demand even greater accountability from insurance companies;
Create more choice and competition for consumers.

Where's the choice? What competition? Isn't this Bill a continuation of the abhorrent for-profit based Health Care system? We have less choice with this bill than we did before as to whether we want to buy the shoddy product being offered by the Private Industry. At least before this bill, we could 'opt out' if what they were selling wasn't worth the price. Now, there is no choice. Harry and his band of DLCers have removed the only chioce there was and added a punishment in the form of bringing in the IRS as a collection agency for Big Insurance, if anyone either can't afford the protection money, or refuses to be bullied into buying something they don't want, from people they thoroughly despise.

Thanks a lot Harry ~ I hope they're not asking for money. They don't need our money. They never did, their Corporate Masters will make sure they are richly rewarded by funding their reelection.

So now, what do we do? Only 33% of the public support a bill that includes a mandate with no public option. But once again, the people lost to big money.

[Botany]

5. in the United States we spend about 17.6% of our GDP on health care .....

.... in the U.K. and France they spend around i9% of their GDP on health care
(with better results too) much of the difference is the money that health insurance
companies are making ..... you can buy a lot of politicians and media for that money.

[laughingliberal]

6. Aside from the fact that he is leader of the Senate, Harry represents a state which

is #2 in unemployment, #2 in home foreclosures, #1 in negative home equity. And he is conspiring with the rest of Democrats in the Senate to pass a bill which is shifting a huge amount of the burden of health care costs to the people. I have never been a big basher of Harry Reid. Certainly, there are some Senators who do a better job standing up for Democratic party principles but there are worse, also. But this thing here, it's the end for me. I know he does not agree with much of what is in this bill. I believe he would have preferred a public option. I know he is between a rock and a hard place due to his position as Senate Leader but this bill is bad for the entire country and worse for the people of his state.

[Diane R]

7. Sounds much like the one I just got from Patty Murray...must be the talking points. She asked for $