No matter where you're from, if you want health reform to pass this year, please sign on to urge Congressman Larry Kissell (D-NC) to vote in favor. The House Democratic leadership is struggling to get enough votes to pass the bill. They need Kissell's vote.

Congressman Kissell was elected in 2008 with a lot of grassroots support that expected him to look out for the interests of the men, women and children of his district when elected. Instead he voted against health reform when it passed the House last year and has announced he will do so again.

Congressman Kissell main public complaint about the bill has been its supposed cuts to Medicare. However, these cuts are to end overpayments and eliminate fraud in the home health care system - overpayment and fraud that has been documented extensively in many states, including North Carolina. These cuts will NOT reduce benefits for seniors.

More than 11% of children in the 8th district of N.C. have no insurance. More than 20% of non-elderly residents here have no insurance. Both of these stats are higher than the national averages. Kissell's constituents need health insurance reform, and so does the rest of the state and the country. Sign on now!