Tuesday August 18, 2009, 7:46 pm
No matter how the Repukes slice it...It's inherently wrong to exploit a person's illness for profit. Truly a sick idea from diseased minds. And where is the incentive for a cure if each person is a cash cow? We need to be patients of a service-based system, not health customers exploited by insurance care.

Tuesday August 18, 2009, 7:50 pm


# 1,193: 7:50 pm PDT, Aug 18, Cher Clarke, Canada


Thnx Tom hun!!!

Tuesday August 18, 2009, 8:12 pm
Done!

Tuesday August 18, 2009, 8:54 pm
signed! thanks!

Tuesday August 18, 2009, 9:23 pm
CODE BLUERockefeller, Feingold, Pelosi Call Public Option Essential
Don't Panic. Howard Dean Says Bill Will Pass - With The Public Option

Gibbs: Nothing Has Changed, We Are Still Expecting The Public Option


The News of Its Death Is Greatly Exaggerated

Tuesday August 18, 2009, 9:28 pm
Noted and signed, thanks Tom.

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 3:04 am
Thanks Tom...David, thank you for signing "We Demand a Public Option"

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 3:29 am
Signed in support for you guys over there, keep it up and thanks Tom.

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 5:09 am
signed TY Tom

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 5:23 am
Done

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 5:55 am
#1321 signed. I know many people who desperately need health care now. 47 million Americans without health care is wrong. We need the public option reform now. Thanks Tom.

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 6:02 am
Signed, thank you Tom.

People may also want to sign Tell Obama: The public option is not optional.

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 7:14 am
Signed yesterday. Noted thanks Tom.

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 8:57 am
Thank you!
You already signed this petition at 8:26 am PDT, Aug 18, 2009.

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 10:17 am
Signed Thanks Tom

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 10:34 am

Signed. Tx Tom

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 10:56 am
# 1,469: signed this petition at 10:55 am PDT, Aug 19, 2009.
Noted awith thanks Tom

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 3:56 pm
Thanks Tom.

# 1,598: 3:55 pm PDT, Aug 19, Joycey Berry, North Carolina

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 6:33 pm
There may be a march on Washington FOR a Public Option on Sunday, September 13th, on Grandparent's Day. It was recently suggested by Robert Reich, the former Labor secretary, scholar and commentator, who says, "Very few things happen in Washington that are in the public's interest when corporations have huge financial stakes in the game, as they obviously do with health care -- unless the public is actively involved, engaged and organized."

An insurance industry sponsored fake grassroots march AGAINST a Public Option is scheduled for Saturday, September 12th. Promoted by wingnuts like Glenn Beck, it is being organized by insurance industry chief lobbyist and Republican Dick Armey who runs FreedomWorks Foundation, an insurance industry front. They have a slick website and the insurance industry is paying big bucks to stage their phony fearmongering event.

As usual, the Republican scoundrels wrap themselves in the American flag, co-opting key words like "freedom" and "patriot" and "resist" to fool people into thinking anyone against them is unpatriotic and against freedom. Meanwhile, their true loyalty is to their corporate masters -- the ruling plutocratic "King George" for-profit health insurance industry that effectively levies a tax on the people through high insurance premiums. They call themselves "teabaggers" when it is we, the people who are stuck with this "taxation with no representation." The politicians who toady up to the insurance industry certainly don't represent us. And what kind of "freedom" limits the people's choice of private or public insurance? Their "resistance" is against "We the people" and our Constitutional rights.

How patriotic is it to be against the United States Constitution, which says, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The self-describe "Patriots" are NOT promoting the "general Welfare, which is defined: welfare n. 1. health, happiness, or prosperity; well-being. How is letting almost 50 million Americans go without health insurance promoting the general health? How is that being "patriotic"?

The hypocrisy of the Republicans traitors is astounding. They call Democrats Nazis and Fascists while using Nazi mind-control methods such as fearmongering and the Big Lie
: The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf for a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". That's exactly how Bush and the Republicans got us into the Iraq War with their lies about WMDs and mushroom shaped clouds when they knew Iraq had no such weapons. Now they talk about "socialism" and "death panels" and "killing grandma" -- all lies! Are we going to be fooled again? How stupid are Americans? I thought this was the land of the brave, but it is sounding more and more like the land of the scared.

Republicans think that by sabotaging any meaningful health care reform put forth by Democrats, they will have a better chance of getting a Republican president back in office in 2012. They are wrong. They are corporate shills, they don't care about the poor who have no health insurance, and they will lose if people care enough to fight for a public option. The Blue Dog Democrats are traitors who must be told they won't be re-elected if they side with the Republicans against most Americans who want meaningful health care reform so everyone has health care in America.

As Robert Reich says, The “first step is to be very loud and very vocal: Write, phone, e-mail, your congressional delegation and the White House. Second step: Get others to do the same. Third step: Get voters in Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, and other states where Blue Dog Dems and wavering Senate Dems live, and have them make a hell of a fuss. Fourth step: March on Washington.”

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 8:41 pm
Signed.

Thursday August 20, 2009, 10:09 am
Signed & noted..
Thanks Tom..

Thursday August 20, 2009, 10:22 pm
They can't give us a public option because they are in too DEEP with Psychaitry who leads the way for Big Pharma to make more $$$$. They want to set up permanent shop in our schools so they can enlarge that 10 million kids on psych drugs into major $$$$$

Friday August 21, 2009, 8:02 am
Signed as there has to be an affordable option for those uninsured Americans. As far as I am concerned it is the shame of America that we are one (or were!) of the richest countries and we have millions of uninsured which shows our elected officials don't give a "hoot" about any one of us.
They have allowed the insurance companies to "rape" the American public and it's time for that to end!

Friday August 21, 2009, 8:04 am
Forgot to add, that we have one of those Blue Dog Democrats in Arkansas by the name of Mike Ross. He takes big bucks from the insurance industry by the way.

Saturday August 22, 2009, 10:55 am

"Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter? Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That's because there isn't any. This "right" has never existed in America."

Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey in arecent Wall Street Journal op-ed on health care.

Whole Foods Backlash & Boycott: Bloggers Outraged Over CEO's Anti-'ObamaCare' Column

Sunday August 23, 2009, 6:31 am
signed

Saturday September 12, 2009, 1:26 pm
Thank you Tom, just signed # 4027.