riderinthestorm
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Mon Jun-22-09 10:18 AM
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Just called White House Comment line about health care reform and got right through |
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So call RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!11!!1!!!
(heh, kidding) but seriously, I did just call and got right through to an operator. Clearly the lines are fairly free and I'll be this week's spokesperson encouraging you to call.
(202)456-1111.
I told the lovely older woman who answered that I'm a small business owner in Illinois and I was calling to ask President Obama and his Administration to take a more forceful, public role in demanding single payer healthcare, for all Americans. I briefly outlined how much we pay to cover 3 employees, how onerous it was, how many employees couldn't afford it and who were going without I was sure. I also told her I believed that health care was a moral right for all human beings and as an industrialized superpower, it was shameful how far behind we had fallen the rest of the industrialized world in our health care.
I know that many of you believe we MUST have stepping stones and should be trying to make the case for a "public option" - and that may be what shakes out - but I figured it wouldn't hurt to express my view that we need single payer even if I'd accept something less than that.
It couldn't have cost more than a few pennies and since I've already contacted virtually all of Congress, it was time to step it up to the big guy.
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Mon Jun-22-09 10:20 AM
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Mon Jun-22-09 10:24 AM
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If anyone wants to know how to help, in the change we all so want, that is how it's done. Have a great day :hi:
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Mon Jun-22-09 10:26 AM
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And urged them to support single payer, not for profit health care so we can join the rest of the industrialized world. I told the gentleman I spoke with that it's absurd that 80,000 people a year die in this nation due to no health care. Not for profit health care is the answer. Now I just hope it helps.
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Mon Jun-22-09 10:40 AM
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and you're right. They put me on hold for only about a minute and a half which is amazingly short. They need to hear the voices of the people, let them know we aren't just numbers in a poll but real voices.
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Mon Jun-22-09 11:08 AM
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Mon Jun-22-09 11:16 AM
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The wait was a few minutes so we must be getting through!
Thanks!
k/r
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Mon Jun-22-09 02:37 PM
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7. Tried twice in the last 15 minutes...busy both times. I'll keep trying. |
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Mon Jun-22-09 06:41 PM
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8. An evening bump to remind people that it's probably best to call early am. |
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I'm guessing the phone lines begin to get heavy as more of the US wakes up and begins phoning.
I phoned at about 9 am CT and got right in - no waiting at all.
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Mon Jun-22-09 08:13 PM
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10. Or for those of us on the west coast who may be still awake at 5AM-- |
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Mon Jun-22-09 07:08 PM
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9. Write LTTE's as well. And name names of the obstructors. nt |
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