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We have a little over a month to apply pressure to Senator Carper to support public option health care.
(302) 573-6291
Put this number in your cell phone or your wallet or purse. Call it on your lunch break tomorrow. Ask his staff (or leave a message asking) if Senator Carper supports offering public option healthcare for uninsured families, like the what Senator Carper himself has and what is offered to our troops and veterans. Tell them that the US healthcare system is the envy of no one – it is the worst in the civilized world. Remind them that in most states, only one or two companies hold 60-80% of the market share (65% in Delaware), and in half of the states, one company holds 50% or more (42% in Delaware)1.
I assure you, the companies that limit amputees to one prosthetic limb per lifetime (imagine wearing one pair of sneakers for the rest of your life, or driving one car) will be spending plenty of time and money wooing Senator Carper. He is, after all, perhaps the most anti-consumer, pro-megacorp Democrat in the Senate. If we don’t raise holy hell, I guarantee you that Carper will be voting to keep our health insurance system as it is – for the benefit of few and to the detriment of most.