Congratulations, Cal Democrats: Feinstein Signs Letter to Majority Leader Reid Supporting Public Insurance Plan
Via Eva Chrysanthe, Talking Points Memo reports that Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio has sent a letter to Harry Reid strongly calling for the inclusion of a public insurance plan in the Senate health care reform bill. 29 other senators signed Senator Brown’s letter including…
…our own Senator, Dianne Feinstein. So congratulations, Cal Democrats! Only a handful of weeks ago, Senator Feinstein refused to take a stance on the central component of meaningful health care reform. But we spent the fall calling Senator Feinstein’s office (so often that the office began asking people on the phone if they were from our group) and gathering signatures for the public insurance plan and it’s that kind of public pressure that can really shape outcomes even in a repugnantly undemocratic institution like the United States Senate. This is how we can beat the corporate lobbyists who have run Washington for too long and if we keep working hard, we will have a universal health care bill on the president’s desk sometime next month that makes us all proud.
Finally everyone! Now let’s keep pushing what’s right until we succeed. One victory at a time.
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