Oppose Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill

Oppose Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill

The Issue

This is a campaign from NOW( National Organization for Women).

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Your voice is urgently required!

The long-awaited Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill unveiled this week has many deficient and undesirable provisions and it must be opposed. First and most important, the legislation does NOT contain a public option -- and, as a result, there is no effective mechanism to stimulate competition and control escalating health care costs. There is no mandate for employers to provide health insurance. Everyone will be required to get their own costly insurance and, failing that, they will be assessed a stiff penalty. Essentially, the same factors that have caused health care costs to rise at four times the rate of wages are left in place. This is not reform!

For those reasons and many other burdensome and costly features (detailed in the Background section), as well as ideology-driven restrictions on women's reproductive health care, the Senate Finance Committee bill must be stopped. Send a message to your senators right away to oppose this legislation.


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The Issue

This is a campaign from NOW( National Organization for Women).

Send a message to your senators right away

Your voice is urgently required!

The long-awaited Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill unveiled this week has many deficient and undesirable provisions and it must be opposed. First and most important, the legislation does NOT contain a public option -- and, as a result, there is no effective mechanism to stimulate competition and control escalating health care costs. There is no mandate for employers to provide health insurance. Everyone will be required to get their own costly insurance and, failing that, they will be assessed a stiff penalty. Essentially, the same factors that have caused health care costs to rise at four times the rate of wages are left in place. This is not reform!

For those reasons and many other burdensome and costly features (detailed in the Background section), as well as ideology-driven restrictions on women's reproductive health care, the Senate Finance Committee bill must be stopped. Send a message to your senators right away to oppose this legislation.


Send a message to your senators right away

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Petition created on September 18, 2009