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The following is the basis for a letter to every U.S. representative and senator, and to the executive branch, regarding health care reform (or any other issue important to the left). It's meant to put the politicians on notice of what we demand, and what the consequences will be if they don't do as they're told.
Bear in mind something that should be plain to everyone reading this: the politicians are supposed to be working for Us, the People of the United States. We do not work for them. With that in mind, here is a letter on health care reform that can be applied to practically any issue of importance to the left.
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| Mr. (or Ms.) [Insert Name Here]:
As a concerned citizen and voter struggling to make ends meet, I have been following the health care reform issue closely. I have watched as senators and representatives have debated endlessly, not on how best to provide access to health care for every American, but on how best to deny Americans that vital access.
As you know, the Declaration of Independence asserts that among the rights endowed to us by our Creator are those to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that it is the function of government to secure these rights. To that end, the founders of this nation drafted a Constitution laying out what government may and may not do in the service of securing essential liberties. And since the Constitution has over time proven incomplete, amendments have been added that we as a nation may better live up to the high standards set down by the founders.
In order to fully enjoy the rights mentioned in the Declaration, we as Americans require that certain other rights also be protected. One such right is that to adequate health care, so that we may fully enjoy the right to life. Without access to adequate health care, millions of Americans must suffer ill health, financial ruin if they become sick or injured - which infringes upon the right to pursue happiness, and all too often, death itself. This is not in keeping with the letter and spirit of the Declaration of Independence. We exist in a system in which health care is rationed out on the basis of who has money enough to afford it and who doesn't, with insurers routinely denying authorization for treatment, payments therefor, and on numerous occasions, canceling insurance policies on the flimsiest of excuses so as to avoid paying for health care.
This is unacceptable in and of itself. It is wholly abhorrent for U.S. representatives to cater to the very corporations that have so crippled the health care system, in the interests of preserving the status quo. Currently there is legislation, H.R. 676 - which would cover every American under Medicare, languishing in committee without hope of an honest hearing or even proper debate in the House of Representatives. Meanwhile, senators from both major political parties representing large business interests continue to gut the already wholly inadequate legislation now being considered for debate.
Again, this is unacceptable. As a U.S. [senator or representative], your job is to represent my interests as well as those of the whole of your constituency. Our interests are not served when politicians routinely side with large business interests over ours. Therefore, this is what I am telling you: make every effort to block the sham bills now up for consideration from passing, and work to pass H.R. 676 - intact - so that every American may finally enjoy the right to adequate health care. If you do not do this, then you may forget about receiving either money, votes, or campaign support from me. I will gladly give those to any candidate for office, regardless of political party, who expresses a willingness and record to represent my interests. |
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