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Remind President Obama that a Real Public Option is Not Negotiable
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  2. Created By
    Petar Simic
    New York, NY
About this Petition Petition Letter

Obama's publicized three principles of the Health Care Reform are too vague and almost any final compromise, including the absence of a serious public option, can be sold to the public by politicians, masters of manipulation, as satisfying these three principles. As a result I believe that millions of Obama's supporters, the core of his "movement", are not on-board any more because they are not ready to rubber-stamp his vague three-principles initiative. Too bad, the historic opportunity for a real reform may be slipping out of our reach.

One problem with Obama's split at the middle approach in this case is that he did not make sure that the Single Payer and other progressive options are on the table, so split at the middle will be skewed to the right and there is no real reform there.

This all could be changed overnight and the people would get energized if he realizes that there is a sleeping giant of a support for a Single Payer out there and if he declares that a real public option is non-negotiable, but the clock is ticking and it seems this will not happen unless we do something about it...

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A Real Public Option is Not Negotiable

Dear Mr. President

I am one of the millions who believed in your Health Care Reform promise and who gave you the overwhelming mandate to carry it forward. I stand for some time now on the sidelines, like millions of others, refusing to rubber-stamp your Health Care initiative represented by the three principles you publicized recently because they are too vague, too agreeable, and therefore easy to manipulate (too easy to lipstick any "pig"). Mr. President, you told us, and we agreed, that there is no real health care reform without a Public Option which competes head-to-head with the private insurance industry and is open to all, rich and poor, employed or not, Congressman or just a man, Congresswoman or just a woman. Mr. President, I respectfully request that you honor the mandate that we the people gave you and carry out your Health Care Reform promise without any material compromise to its core Universal Health Care character. A publicly funded, universally accessible and affordable non-profit competitor to the private insurance business is the essence of your promise, and can not be negotiable without breaking it.  

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