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From: patty (pattypax earthlink.net)
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| Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:54:33 -0800 (PST) | |
HI Saloners,Amber asked that i pass this along. She is asking for her name to be written in, you know---against Betty McCollum, as you will read. patty
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Remember: Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilot was a governor.From: Amber Garlan <agarlan [at] hammclinic.org> Date: Sun Nov 2, 2008 7:10:41 PM US/Central To: 'patty' <pattypax [at] earthlink.net> Subject: FW: Vote for solid health care reform Greetings, Congressional District 4 voter:I am dissatisfied with Congresswoman Betty McCollum's refusal to support the national health care reform which would relieve all Americans from worries about getting standard, medically-necessary health care. Cost, and insurance company barriers, are real worries. I have health care insurance now, but it does not provide me with a guarantee that my health care needs will be paid for. It only provides me with a contract stating that some of my health care needs will be paid for as long as I qualify for the company's coverage. This is not acceptable to me. Nor am I content with the glaring lack of access to health care services which many of my fellow Americans suffer.All Americans suffer from fears about how well our health care needs will be met . . . I am merely more fortunate that my health care needs are being attended to now, because I am lucky enough to have some insurance at this time. I know, however, that I could easily lose this insurance through no fault of my own. Therefore, I went to Congresswoman McCollum's office in St. Paul, about two months ago, on August 19, and I brought 16 other people with me. They were all her constituents. They all wanted her to pledge her support for the bill in Congress which would end our health care worries immediately, HR 676. But she will not support it. She thinks we need insurance companies to be invovled in our health care. That is flawed thinking. Those companies are making money without guaranteeing that Americans have standard, comprehensive health care. Those companies are, instead, creating a mountainous tangle of confusing paperwork, and making us pay people to push it around. Those companies are interfering with the care and treatment decisions of my doctor and medical experts. Those companies are using my insurance premium money to lobby our Congresswoman that they need to be involved in my health care decisions.Thank goodness my friend, Amber Garlan, has decided to send a message to our Congresswoman in the form of votes. Amber filed at the Minnesota Secretary of State's office as a write-in candidate for Congress on October 23. She is the "Medicare For All" candidate. McCollum is not on board yet with that bill, HR 676, which creates a national system of "Medicare For All." Amber and I won't wait until we're 65 to get the peace of mind that we will have all our medical needs taken care of at a reasonable cost. We won't wait for McCollum to decide that poor Americans have a right to decent health care even if they can't afford it themselves. We are writing in "Amber Garlan" on our ballots for the District 4 Congressional seat. Our goal is to get these votes counted, and revisit Congresswoman McCollum after Election Day to see what her response is to Amber's initiative. Amber has found a way to make her policy wishes heard in the language politicans understand: real votes cast by dissatisfied constituents. These will be real votes tabulated by the State of Minnesota. I am asking you to join me by writing in "Amber Garlan." I am also asking you to spread this initiative to your acquaintances, and especially to people in the health care professions.Already, a medical doctor in my congregation who is also a member of Physicians for a National Health Plan, has pledged to me that she will write in "Amber Garlan." One-on-one, we need to ask people who live in Ramsey County (which comprises the Fourth Congressional District) to do this. Amber has vowed to refrain from spending even one nickel on her campaign, freeing her from spending energy reporting into the Federal Elections Commission. She is relying on people power to spread the word about her campaign. This is a grassroots, people's movement to throw off our health care shackles. Defy the insurance profiteers, who have enslaved us, and cast a vote for health care freedom.Power to the People, Diane J. Peterson White Bear Lake, Minnesota birch7 [at] comcast.net
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