{news} Senator Lieberman

[vogel at ct.metrocast.net]

Teabaggers can thank Senator Lieberman for protecting health care as it is.

Your insurance company runs the show. It can protect its profits by denying coverage for sick people. It can cap coverage so your expenses do not get out of control. It can, as the free market is wont to do, reward its executives with salaries that are truly obscene. It can deny coverage about any  time. That's the free market for you. 

After all, Senator Lieberman has values, Like the Republicans he supports, he appreciates that money is more important than people. He always supports plenty of money for war though. For his good service, Senator Lieberman has been richly rewarded with contributions from health & insurance interests of $3,308,621 
 
Lieberman says "the public doesn't support the public option".  (A recent public opinion poll shows he is wrong. "More than three out 
of every four Americans feel it is important to have a "choice" between a government-run health care insurance option and private 
coverage,..." (Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_264375.html )

Sign the petition at http://BoldProgressives.org/majorityvote to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "Any Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles. Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care."

If the US was a real democracy, we should have the right to recall Senator Lieberman. Clearly, our money driven Congress cannot do the right things. See www.seconnecticut.com

Consider sending a strong letter to your newspaper or mailing list.

Robert L. Vogel
East Lyme, Ct 



  




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