[PAA-Discuss] Why We Desperately Need Health Care for All - Now

[Juli3 at aol.com]

Why We  Desperately Need Health Care for All - Now 
Dear Friends, 

More about why we desperately need health care  for all:

This past weekend, I visited a festival at a church in a  working class 
area of my district. These events are opportunities for  people from the 
community to gather, to eat ethnic foods, listen to  music and enjoy each other's 
company; before the brisk, brooding  Cleveland winter begins to set in. When 
I walked through the doors, I  felt as though I had stepped back in time, 
to when I was a child growing  up in the inner city of Cleveland where I 
witnessed people struggling  every day to make ends meet. From this early 
experience I have learned  to recognize poverty, the clothes it wears and the 
physical appearance  it presents. 

What I saw in the church were humble people whose  shoes were well worn and 
whose clothes were in need of repair. I also  saw people struggling with 
various stages of ill health, with obvious  physical difficulties. I know what 
poverty feels like and I felt it here  and I was surprised. What made this 
visit memorable was that it occurred  in a suburban community which had 
formerly been known for its solid  middle class housing.

Meanwhile about 400 miles away, in  Washington, DC, the insurance companies 
have wielded enormous influence  to knock a public option out of the Senate 
Finance Committee health care  bill and we still struggle to keep the 
public option alive in the House.  A decision is due soon from the full Senate. 
Will they actually pass a  bill which requires that Americans buy private 
insurance? The House  continues to try to determine the shape and content of 
our legislation.  

The political system is failing the American people. Money for  Wall 
Street, not for Main Street. Money for War, not for Peace. Money to  move jobs out 
of America, not to create new jobs here. Money for  insurance companies, 
but what about the people? 

While 47 million  uninsured wait for an answer, and another 50 million 
underinsured stand  by, Americans are losing their jobs, their homes, their 
health care and  their retirement security. How long can people wait for help? 

I  am asking you to continue to join me in the push to have a state single  
payer amendment in the health care bill. Whatever passes the Congress  will 
be insufficient to meet the broad based health care needs of the  American 
people, which is why it is important to give the states the  option to move 
toward single payer. Call your representative now and  demand that the 
Kucinich state single payer amendment remain in the  bill. 

In my community, and many others across our nation, the  level of human 
suffering from an economy "gone bad" is rising to  shocking levels. A recent US 
Census report states that in this decade  the number of northeastern 
Ohioans who live fractionally above the  poverty line has risen 10% - to a quarter 
of a million people.  

But I do not see cold statistics. I see real people. I see the  poverty 
lining their faces. I see their eyes asking: Why?  

Sincerely, 
 
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