Despite Senate health care bill, the public option is coming

...and once the White House has overcome a potential filibuster it will re-open the door to the public option.

The House of Representatives, under Nancy Pelosi, has not abandoned the government option and such a government option will pass the House of Representatives. As a result, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, the White House and a handful of chosen delegates will conference to hammer out the details of final legislation. The problem is that all three of the parties involved in combining House and Senate versions of health care bills support and have lobbied for a government option. As a result, this conference is likely to produce a final bill that not only contains a public option, but is also no longer subject to...

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If the public would step back and take a second look, they would quickly find that the thrust of the White House has been solely upon passage of a Senate bill. Little attention has been paid to current House legislation and no pressure has been placed upon the House to adopt a bill without the government option. What we are witnessing is the worst of political posturing, publicly admonishing a public option, while privately working out details as to how to pass such an option. The public, for their part, is blind, naively trusting our legislative leaders to do the right thing, abandon government run health care and pass a bill designed to lower medical costs. However, in our blindness, we are overlooking the reality that Washington has no interest in lowering health care costs, if they were then reform would begin at the production level of goods and services rather than the end-user insurance level.

The key to scuttling this crap forever is ORGANIZATION.

Politicians’ primary concern is keeping their jobs. That is why the constant stream of phone calls, emails, letters, faxes and demonstrations is causing many of them to think twice about supporting the grossly misnamed “health care reform” legislation.

However, print and electronic communication can be ignored, while visits from constituents are a much more in-your-face mode of reaching your elected officials. At this point (in addition to keeping up increasing pressure through our calls and emails), we should be organizing local and state demostrations for the near-term, and another large demonstration for the coming quarter.

Personally, I am organizing at my local level. We hosted a “Conservative Cookout” this summer; the result was getting a couple dozen new people on board who were previously in the dark about what to do. They were conservatives, but they were inactive on the issue - now they’re involved in the fight.

This is how we continue to build and educate a grassroots campaign, and how that movement morphs from the grassroots to the national level.

We all have the wherewithall to organize, and every one of us has skills to offer. Let’s get on it!

via twitter:
From @LadyImpactOhio

Operation Countermeasures. Please tweet this link in the open and send directly to your follows. We want to reach as many people as possible.

Organizing for America plans to make 100,000 calls to Congress on Heathcare - through home “Call Parties” this Tuesday, Oct. 20th which will include a webcast by Obama.

Here is the OFA link:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/oct20hostattend/

We’re going to use countermeasures. Here is a good link to Congressional contact info:

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

So make sure your cell phones are charged up for Tuesday!

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