http://wa-demchairs.org/kcdems/documents/oct2009.1.pdf
Many thanks to the volunteers of the 5th, 41st, 45th, and 48th
District for a fabulous Eastside Dinner - a great blend of fun,
entertainment, and good olde' fashioned politics!!
Please note date change for next KCDCC meeting - stay tuned for details.
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Thank you,
Susan Sheary
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Debra J. Entenman
Field Representative
In the office of Congressman Adam Smith
Direct phone line 253-593-6604
We have moved our new address is:
2209 Pacific Ave, Suite B, Tacoma, WA 98402.
Our new phone number is 253-593-6600.
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| susan -- The cavalry is here -- and they're in white coats and scrubs: More than a half a million doctors and millions of nurses are joining forces to help pass real health reform. Americans listen to their nurses and doctors when it comes to health reform -- and for good reason. If we can help them amplify their voices, it'll be a huge boost to our campaign for change. So we're working on a new television ad featuring their voices explaining why doctors and nurses so strongly support President Obama's plan -- and asking Congress to pass it. We'll run the ad in key states and districts all around the country to show folks where health professionals stand, cut through the spin, and build even greater support for reform. But to produce and air the new ad before the Senate starts debating a final bill, we'll need to raise $300,000 by Thursday. Please donate $5 right away.  The American Medical Association, Doctors for America, and a dozen other physicians groups representing 500,000 doctors are endorsing reform. So are the American Nurses Association and other organizations representing millions of nurses. They're speaking out because they see the shortcomings of our health care system firsthand, every day: patients denied the care they prescribe, families losing access to their doctors, and a system that forces them to spend more time with paperwork and less time with patients. These voices need to be heard -- with so much deception out there clouding the debate, it's critical that medical professionals are able to focus the country on the simple fact that health reform is good medicine. But the final congressional committee could vote on their reform bill as early as Wednesday -- and debate on final legislation could start by the end of the week. So if we're going to help make these doctors and nurses' voices heard, we'll need to do it right now. Can you chip in $5 or more to help get our ad on the air? https://donate.barackobama.com/HealthAd Thanks, Mitch Mitch Stewart Director Organizing for America  |
Please use the links at our KCDCC website to write to our Washington
State delegation today!
http://wa-demchairs.org/kcdems/2009/healthcarereform.php
We cannot give up now. We have to fight harder! The people want a
public option, and our Congressional leaders are not giving us what we
want. If they do not include a public option, they should go back to
the drawing board. They can just expand Medicaid and put in insurance
reform - and that shouldn't cost us anywhere near $1 trillion. Then
when the system collapses in five years, we'll go back to the drawing
board.
Congressman Jim McDermott, in a health care forum at the 34th District
Democrats meeting said, "This is War!" "If this goes down, we're
back to organizing for single payer."
Combined message from Dr. Lisa Plymate and Susan Sheary, KCDCC Chair
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/09/29/cantwell-public-option-amendment-defeated
Cantwell Public Option Amendment Defeated
Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Like the Rockefeller amendment earlier, the Schumer-Cantwell amendment, which sought to add a public option to the Senate Finance Committee's health insurance reform bill, has just been defeated.
The vote in the Finance Committee, which came after impassioned arguments by both Schumer and Cantwell, was closer than for the Rockefeller amendment. That one had only 8 votes in favor, with 15 votes against. Schumer-Cantwell got 10 votes in favor and 13 votes against—with Cantwell, of course, voting yes and committee chairman Max Baucus (D-Montana) voting no.
(An explanation of the differences between the two amendments is here.)
As happened during debate on the Rockefeller amendment, there was again high praise for Cantwell from Schumer during this debate. He pointed toward a different—but related—Cantwell amendment to reform Medicare's dysfunctional "fee for service" system and said it was perhaps as important as the public option to the overall reform process. That amendment should be debated later this week
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