Hagan Blocking Public Option?

Found on Kos:

i’ve called the White House and the many listed senators and those of the HELP committee every day this week since before last Thursday. And after imploring daily to tell their elected official including the president that the public plan is NON-NEGOTIABLE (no to 7 year trigger, no to taxing employer health benefits, no to daschle/dole, etc) the people on the receiving end of my phonecalls say that they have BARELY heard from us. This is NO exaggeration. I was about to cry. The wingnuts and freepers are winning this.They, even the blue states at Barbara Boxer or Diane Feinstein’s office (I’m from CA) say they get FAR more calls AGAINST the public option than for it. This includes the White House. I told the comment operators at thew the whitehouse or Senate offices that a poll came out yesterday saying 76% in the new NBC/WSJ poll support the Public Option. They laughed and asked “Really????”

P.S.: The white house comment operator told me that if i really want to get my message to the president, you MUST EMAIL AS WELL AS CALLING.

This is what I keep telling people. Fox viewers/conservative talk radio listeners make calls to stop legislation. Too many progressives call to complain only after the vote. Wrong.

Some useful stats:

83% support creating a new public health insurance plan that anyone can purchase:
• Strongly support—53 percent
• Somewhat support—30 percent
• Somewhat oppose—5 percent
• Strongly oppose—9 percent
Employee Benefit Research Institute – EBRI Issue Brief, July 2009
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/briefspdf/EBRI_IB_7-2009_HCS_09.pdf

EBRI’s biggest donors include: AT&T, Bank of America, Boeing, General Dynamics, General Mills, IBM, JBMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Northop Grumman, Schering-Plough, Schwab, T.Rowe Price, UBS Financial, and Wal-Mart. EBRI also receives large contributions from the insurance industry, including: Blue Cross Blue Shield, CIGNA, Hartford, Kaiser Permanente, Massachusetts Mutual, Metropolitan Life, Union Labor Life, and UnitedHealth.

75% favor changing the health care system so that all Americans have insurance that covers all medically necessary care currently.
Pew Poll – June 18, 2009
http://people-press.org/report/522/

76% Support For Choice Of Public Plan
NBC-WSJ Poll – Jun 17, 2009
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/090617_NBC-WSJ_poll_Full.pdf

Two-Thirds of Americans Support a Public Health Care Plan
Consumer Reports Poll – April 2009
http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_health_care/011131.html

67% “strongly” or “somewhat” favor establishing a public health insurance option “similar to Medicare” – 80% of Democrats, 60% of independents and 49% of Republicans
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll – April 2009
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147455.php

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