Where are we on Healthcare?

Posted on November 6th, 2009 by ecthompson md

These guys are depressing me (Larry Kissel is a no vote? I gave money to this man! I thought he was a progressive. Damn it.):

From McJoan: David Dayen has done tremendous work today keeping track of public statements from House members in health care.

These are those he has as definite no votes:

Adler, Baird, Boren, Bright, Childers, A. Davis, L. Davis, Gordon, P.Griffith, Herseth Sandlin, Kissell, Kosmas, Kratovil, Marshall, Massa, Matheson, McMahon, Melancon, Minnick, Peterson, Skelton, Stupak, Tanner, Taylor, Teague

Normally, I don’t recommend calling representatives other than your own. But there’s a big exception on that list for the netroots community. While Larry Kissel wasn’t among the candidates on Daily Kos’s Orange to Blue list last year, but over the last few years, netroots activists donated $485,795 to the Kissel campaign for Congress. If you were among those who donated, I don’t think you’d be out of order in calling and asking for a refund. And if you live in the district of one of those other members, and you don’t agree with their no vote, please call them tonight and tomorrow to let them know.

Particularly Brian Baird, who I have heard might be wavering. Here’s a list of those members that folks on the Hill think are those we need to focus on over the next day.

Arcuri, Baird, Bean, Boyd, Carney, Donnelly, Kaptor, Kucinich, McMahon, Scott Murphy, Nye

Vice President Biden is making phone calls to these guys, maybe you should, too? If one of the above is your representative, Call or e-mail and let him or her know you support H.R. 3962, and you’ll be watching their vote.

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  • Joe White

    How is this ‘a plan to help the poor’?

    Can you explain your support for this:

    PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

    Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.  The JCT letter  makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

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