Daily Archives: February 24, 2010


Tune In To Health Care Summit

Organizing for America
Steven —

Tomorrow, the President will be hosting leaders from both parties at a bipartisan meeting about how to reform our broken health insurance system. It’s a critical step toward getting the job done on health reform — and a historic moment you won’t want to miss.

Senators and representatives will gather with the President to talk through the bills that have already passed the House and Senate, as well as the proposal President Obama released on Monday. And they’ll have an open discussion about any new ideas from either side of the aisle for how to solve this crisis.

OFA will live-stream the meeting starting at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. We’ll provide live updates and feature video of key moments during and after the event.

Will you join us for this pivotal moment? Sign up and RSVP to get a reminder before the meeting starts, and then check in throughout the day tomorrow to see this historic conversation unfold.

Sign up to watch the bipartisan meeting

During tomorrow’s meeting, the President will moderate a discussion on four critical goals:

Protecting Americans from insurance company abuses;
Reining in the cost of care;
Putting affordable, high-quality coverage within reach of every American; and
Reducing our unsustainable national deficit.

Tomorrow, the bottom line is simple: This issue is more important than any partisan divide. It’s time to put all real solutions on the table, and it’s time to move forward.

And this is your chance to be there when the long sprint toward health reform enters its final phase.

Please sign up for a reminder before the meeting starts, and then tune in for as much as you can starting at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time:

http://my.barackobama.com/BipartisanRSVP

Thanks,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America

Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee — 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

This email was sent to: steve@ssgreenberg.name


The Cost Of Not Fixing Health Care

Some people want to keep us from organizing our government to provide a control on health care costs.

Some prefer to leave it to the ‘free’ market which is exempt from anti-trust provisions. Some ‘free’ market.

Total real compensation per worker excluding health care benefits in 2009 was about $46,000. Adding a Health care benefit added about $10,000.

By 2039, the compensation excluding health care is projected to be a little over $60,000. Adding a Health care benefit added about $40,000.

Do you want 40% of your total compensation to consist of your health care insurance premiums? If so, keep putting roadblocks in the way of solving the health care crisis. This is what you get from the ‘free’ market.

The abovr graph comes from my extraction of graphs from the Economic Report Of The President – February, 2010.  My extraction of graphs also has a link to the report itself.