| Yesterday Organizing for America, the political arm of President Obama, organized a national day of action to call Congress in favor of healthcare reform. They set a goal of making 100,000 calls to Congress for the President's Plan for Healthcare Reform which includes a public health insurance option. Well after a day of calling Congress they tallied up the results and it turns out 315,023 called Congress for healthcare reform. And news reports said that addition to these calls being for the President's Plan (which as I mentioned includes the public option) 4 out of 5 directly mentioned the public option in their calls.
This is without a doubt one of if not the biggest outpouring of support for real healthcare reform ever. And already it is paying off. Senate Democrats have announced that they will strip health insurers of their antitrust exemption in the healthcare bill and House Democrats are 8 votes away from moving forward with the strongest possible public option. And this is just the start, it will be hard but we are making huge progress. But we can't let down our guard.
If you haven't yet, call both of your Senators as well as your representative. If they are already strongly behind healthcare reform and a public option thank them for it (for example, when you call Franken). If they still need a little nudging tell your personal story about why healthcare is important to you and urge them to back real healthcare reform that includes a strong public option.
Just click here to use the calling tool.
That will give you the numbers for our representatives in Congress and will let you report how the calls went so calls can be tracked.
And let us know in the comments how your call went.
Call Congress for Healthcare Reform.
Now over 329,046 Americans and counting have called Congress. Don't let up. If you havn't made your calls yet what are you waiting for? The healthcare crises to get worse?
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