June 6th: It all begins (Obama's legion readies itself to organize for Socialized Medicine)

http://my.barackobama.com ^ | May 22,2009 | David Plouffe

[Maelstorm]

Obamaphile --

Remember this date: Saturday, June 6th, 2009. We will look back on that day as the moment when the fight for real health care reform began in your neighborhood -- perhaps even in your own living room.

On June 6th, in thousands of homes across the country, we'll gather to launch our grassroots campaign for health care. We'll watch a special message from the President. We'll build the teams and draw up the plans for winning health care reform the same way we won the election: Building support one block, one neighbor, one conversation at a time. And we'll put those plans into action.

These kickoffs are so crucial that President Obama will join confirmed hosts and attendees on a live conference call.

Sign up today to host or attend a Health Care Organizing Kickoff.

 

There's no prior experience required. We'll send you the details for dialing into the President's call and provide you everything you need to make your meeting a success.

After the election, people gathered at over 9,000 meetings across every state to set priorities for health care reform. Our voices were heard. Now the race is on to make sure Congress produces a plan that reflects the President's call for reduced costs, guaranteed choice, and quality care for all.

To make that happen, we need to build a groundswell of support in every district and every state, and we have no time to lose. All summer we'll be reaching out to our neighbors, knocking on doors, serving in our communities, and building a grassroots network strong enough to win.

These gatherings on June 6th are just the beginning of a battle between those who fought and believe in change and those who would protect a broken status quo. The stakes for our country could not be greater.

Some call this strategy pie-in-the-sky. They say we'll never have enough volunteers to make a real impact; that you need insiders and Washington lobbyists to make a difference. But you and I know firsthand how wrong they are. Starting June 6th, it's once again time to show this country how bottom-up change is done.

Please sign up today to host or attend a kickoff near you.

http://my.barackobama.com/HCkickoff

These kickoffs will be both effective and fun. You'll meet likeminded supporters in your neighborhood, share stories, enjoy good company and a shared mission, and know that no matter what this effort requires of us, if we work together we'll be ready to face it and persevere.

I look forward to joining you and the President to chart our course.

David Plouffe
Organizing for America

P.S. -- This week, President Obama asked us to send in our personal health care stories. Hundreds of thousands of people have already responded, and the stories are simply incredible. Here are just few that help remind us what we're fighting for:

 

I am a single parent and have lost my teaching job effective in June. I'm scared to death because my son has a serious pre-existing condition (Neurofibromatosis) and can't go without medical insurance. However, my employer has just informed me that continuing my family coverage under COBRA will cost $1,400.00 a month! That's a house payment for me. Or three times my car payment! How can I keep my family covered without going under financially?

--Cathy
Apple Valley, Minnesota

Since I lost my job in 2006, I have had no health insurance. After paying for insurance through my employer for 30 years, I have no major medical. But now that I am approaching 60, I may need insurance more than ever. I have not had a mammogram for three years because it would be too stressful to find anything suspicious. Risky but true.

--Kathy
Macon, Georgia

My husband isn't getting enough hours at his job to qualify for health insurance so we have been looking around for a provider. He has a pre-existing health condition (non-epileptic seizures) and he is being denied left and right. We don't make a lot of money, about $23,000/year and we can't afford to not have insurance, in case he needs to go to the doctor. And it looks like we can't afford to have it either. We are stuck.

--Amanda
Pasadena, California

 

 

 

 

Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Socialist National Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

 

 

[Maelstorm]

We can stop Nationalized Health Care please help. Help get the message out and contribute what you can.

http://www.conservativesforpatientsrights.com/

 

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A Message from Rick Scott

Conservatives for Patients' Rights Chairman Rick Scott provides an update on CPR's...

 

1:58

 Charlie Wadge

Told to just live with the pain of a crippling hip injury

 

1:53

 Faces of Government Healthcare

Listen to the real-life stories of the victims of government-run healthcare

 

[TigersEye]

Getting ready for Federal Health Care Rationing is more like it.

[icwhatudo]

From the people that gave you Amtrak, the Motor Vehicle Department, FEMA, public schools, and the post office.

[freekitty]

Obamaites are so stupid. They just follow this jerk right over the cliff without ever truly questioning one thing he says.

[Maelstorm]

I hope they show up on my door step.

[rwh]

June 6, 2009, 65th Anniversary of D-Day. D-Day- the moment we look back on as the day we started the real fight with Germany.

Obama makes me sick.

[Lazamataz]

We need to get in these calls.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I went to the Post Office in Mt. View, CA today to drop a package in the mail slot. The line was a mile long and they all looked like resigned zombies, dutifully lined up at the government window. I had to really fight back the urge to yell "Do you want to get your health care from these people? ARE YOU INSANE?"

[ExTexasRedhead]

Start calling your elected Socialist morons in DC at 202-225-3121. Whisper in their ear that they will be voted out come 2010 and 2012 in other words they’re TOAST like Dodd and Reid. They can start packing now.

[JPG]

Don’t get sick. If you do, you’re screwed.

[DBrow]

The Theodore M Kennedy National Service Act redefines September 11th as national Service Day.

The left will destroy all the old heroes (like trashing Jefferson) and replace them with Leftie heroes, and they will go after any historical event and replace it.

“A people separated from their history are easily persuaded”, which was attributed to Marx.

[goodnesswins]

THANKS....I knew there was another reason that day was important.....what a SH*THE*D

[Maelstorm]

Nothing stops us from signing up.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

His zobmies are coming to YOUR DOOR on Saturday -- D-Day! What an insult to the brave people who paid the ultimate sacrifice for us and our freedom!

[Lazamataz]

Precisely.

You, me, or both?

[goodnesswins]

Now THAT REALLY pisses me off! Sept 11th REDEFINED.....we all KNOW what THAT is about! That’s like changing the day Pearl Harbor was bombed. WE ARE AT WAR with THESE people!

[Jim Robinson]

Grassroots campaign my butt. It’s a full-court press by the socialist party elite led by the communist-in-chief himself.

[Lazamataz]

Right. We’re sendin in some moles. I’m one.

[Centurion2000]

June 6, 2009, 65th Anniversary of D-Day. D-Day- the moment we look back on as the day we started the real fight with Germany.

Obama makes me sick.

My personal 20 year anniversary of being in Marine Corps bootcamp.

[muawiyah]

Hmmmm ~ did you know you can see the snow covered Santa Cruz mountains through the windows of the employee cafeteria in the San Jose Post Office?

I suppose it's the same at Mountain View PO ~ it's actually a very beautiful site and restaurants, gas stations, horse stables, and everything else in that area is oriented and built so they can get "that view".

It's not hard to believe folks standing in line were mesmerized.

However, I think you are misleading folks if you had to stand in line to drop something in a slot.

[TigersEye]

Don't forget the CIA. /s

FWIW the Constitution gives us the Post Office.

[Vince Ferrer]

P.S. -- This week, President Obama asked us to send in our personal health care stories. Hundreds of thousands of people have already responded, and the stories are simply incredible. Here are just few that help remind us what we're fighting for:

I am healthy and in my prime earning years. I'm tired of all of these health care payments going to treat sick people, especially the ones who just end up dying anyway. And once a person is retired, what good are they? Don't they just drain the system?

- Bob in Ohio

As an HIV positive person, I am shocked that people who have behavior related illnesses, like smokers, get free health care, when the money could be better spent on HIV positive people. When are we going to address the inequality in the health care distributions?

- Stan from San Fransisco.

[BobMV]

Not sure about that one. I think standing in line at the grocery store or anything else is irritating but not a reason to do away with grocery stores. People won’t buy that argument. For health care it would amount to waiting to get your appointment if you’re not an emergency.

[TigersEye]

I hope they show up on my doorstep too. They will leave with a lot to think about.

[Lazamataz]

P.S. -- This week, President Obama asked us to send in our personal health care stories. Hundreds of thousands of people have already responded, and the stories are simply incredible. Here are just few that help remind us what we're fighting for:

As a busy professional woman, I sometimes don't have the time to get to a pharmacy for birth control. Abortion works just as well as the pill, and since I only have to abort a child two times a year, it's not too inconvenient. Thank God for Barak's plan to provide me free abortions!

Tabatha, Buffalo NY

[Lazamataz]

Not sure about that one. I think standing in line at the grocery store or anything else is irritating but not a reason to do away with grocery stores. People won’t buy that argument. For health care it would amount to waiting to get your appointment if you’re not an emergency.

Wrong analogy. Proper analogy would have the grocer denying you ice cream because "it's not cost-effective and you're gonna die anyways."

[JavaJumpy]

I understand the point from Amanda, if true. I’m not certain where you draw the line between terminal/high expenses and chronic/pre-existing/manageable expenses, but I do understand the point.

But the mammogram - you can get them for free if you don’t have insurance and/or can’t afford them so no dice on that one. And if you get diagnosed with cancer, you do what everyone else does - you see the social worker and financial aid counselor at the hospital and start from there.

Additionally, hospitals in Ohio are required by law to write off a very generous amount for families making up to around the $80K/year range (sliding scale). They’re also required by law to treat everyone who comes in through the front door, regardless of ability to pay. You can never be turned away for no money. Additionally, even if you’re illegal you can get not only free medical care but free dental care if you’re willing to go to a dental school.

Let’s keep things in perspective, shall we?

[ChetNavVet]

I can think of lots of reasons why health care is expensive;

Lack of tort reform.
Inefficiencies and waste in Medicare/Medicade.
Illegal aliens choking the emergency rooms.

If federal and state governments really cared about the people, they would attack the cause of increased premiums, but they don’t.

If it were up to me, no “slip and fall” lawyers would be allowed within 100 yards of a hospital unless they were called, or being treated themselves.

I’d ammend the 14th, no more illegal alien anchor babies.

Tort reform is tough to write legislation for, but I belive a doctors malpractice insurance should not be based upon frivolouse(sp) law suits, and idiots that hurt themselves because they refuse to follow written directions, or refuse to accept any responsibility for thier own stupidity, should not have the right to file a law suit.

When I heard that California gave free Viagra for convicted sex offenders, I about popped a gasket.

We conservatives need only to point out how well the NEA educates our youth - “..and now you want them to run health care?”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I didn’t wait...I marched right up the slot and dropped my envelope, turned around and marched out. I had the urge during my short entrance and exit marches.

And the view in the downtown MV PO is of stamp collections and cardboard cartons hanging on the wall. I didn’t see the photo collage of the Messiah, but I’m sure it must be there for awe and wonderment.

[Lilpug15]

BUMP

[muawiyah]

With the creation of USPS, post offices no longer had pictures of the current President.

No Obama in there that I know of.

[BobMV]

That’s what they do now. I was denied treatment because it wasn’t cost effective.