DCCC Launches New Phase In Health Care Reform Fight Targeting Republicans
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will begin strategically hitting vulnerable, moderate, and high-profile Republicans today, as part of a month-long ground assault for health care reform. Seven of the more than two dozen Republicans on their target list will be attacked in radio ads, like this one targeting Michele Bachmann:
Similar ads will greet Reps. Joseph Cao (R-LA), Charlie Dent (R-PA), Dan Lungren (R-CA), Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), Erik Paulsen (R-MN), Dave Reichert (R-WA), and Pat Tiberi (R-OH).
The DCCC is also sponsoring live, and automated calls in the districts of 25 Republicans. Here's the script of a robocall targeting Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)
This call is paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, 202-741-1350. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committeeI have an important message about your health care. Insurance companies are posting record profits while health bills skyrocket. Now they are lining up to stop health care reforms and protect profits. Congressman Pete Sessions took almost four hundred thousand dollars from the insurance industry and now he's trying to block reform... like reducing costs by forcing insurance companies to compete and preventing them from denying you coverage. Call Congressman Sessions today. Ask him to stop standing up for insurance companies and start standing up for us.
I've pasted a full list of those being targeted below the fold. The campaign, dubbed "Health Care ER" will also include an email and letter-writing drive, volunteer calls to talk radio stations, petitioning, and tele-town hall events.
Dan Lungren (CA-03) Elton Gallegly (CA-24) Buck McKeon (CA-25) David Dreier (CA-26) Ken Calvert (CA-44) Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) Brian Bilbray (CA-50) Mike Castle (DE-AL) Bill Young (FL-10) Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25) Judy Biggert (IL-13) Joseph Cao (LA-02) Thad McCotter (MI-11) Erik Paulsen (MN-03) Michele Bachmann (MN-06) Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-09) Lee Terry (NE-02) Jean Schmidt (OH-02) Pat Tiberi (OH-12) Jim Gerlach (PA-06) Charlie Dent (PA-15) Mike McCaul (TX-10) Pete Sessions (TX-32) Eric Cantor (VA-07) Frank Wolf (VA-10) Dave Reichert (WA-08)
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Nice summary from ThinkProgress
August 5, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to the scoring of CBO on the prevention & wellness program, all fitness centers around the world should close down immediately and all media have to end reporting health tips about prevention.
Immune System & Levee System :
All of the excellent health systems seem to have one thing in common, a expansive, systematic preventative program requiring immense investments. I think a prevention system works as a 'levee' built against flood by the government, similarly, it also needs non-profit investments from the government 'on a large scale'.
This might offer us the clue of why all of the free states have public insurance policy in place.
It won't be easy to draw some specific numbers on the economic effect of the 'levee' , but the flood measure lacking a stable 'levee' would be a house on sand, as the too high level of 'preventable' chronic diseases in America shows.
At present, about 75 percent of each health dollar goes to treating chronic conditions.
When tests reveal patients are at risk of a chronic disease, physicians have no benefit to help them make necessary changes to stay healthy. Rather, the system today is designed around treating patients once they become sick.
If current health care system could shift a small percentage of total spending into programs that help prevent people from getting sick in the first place, it would dramatically reduce the overall cost of care.
Thankfully, the health care reform bill currently before Congress makes several key investments in preventive care, and those pieces of the PUBLIC OPTION must be maintained.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.", said Benjamin Franklin , and 'Early Detection' goes beyond monetary value as we see the recent case.
As far as I'm concerned, the congress affected by the special interests has impeded the budget request for prevention program in Medicare & Medicaid. Let's imagine the costs and invaluable lives following the levee breach.
Thank You !
August 7, 2009 5:34 AM | Reply | Permalink