I just got off the phone speaking with our local Congressman’s office in Washington, D.C. He did indeed vote for President Obama’s health care reform legislation, and I wanted to thank him. Maybe they don’t get many “Thank You” type phone calls, I don't know, but they seemed REALLY pleased to get my call.
This bill which just barely passed the house of representatives certainly does not represent universal health care. Millions of people will still not have access to health care even if the senate were to pass similar legislation. And it specifically excludes abortion - so if your pre-teen daughter were to be raped and were to get pregnant you would have to pay for the abortion yourself.
The senate if full of hard core, right wing lunatics who if life were fair would be committed to an insane asylum. These crazy people are much more heavily represented among the republicans, but there are plenty of democrats who are fellow travelers. So the situation there looks even more difficult than in the house.
Most cell phones nowadays bill long distance calls at the same rate as local calls. So take a few minutes to call your own representative in congress. Either to thank him/her. Or to tell the no-good bum just how terribly ashamed you are of him.
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