North Carolina TURNED Blue - thank you for your support of President Barack Obama

Health care is at the top of the agenda!

Health care reform should: REDUCE COSTS, GUARANTEE CHOICE, and ASSURE QUALITY AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL.

More than 2/3 of Americans support a public option, yet special interests can still derail this critical piece of healthcare reform.

A PUBLIC OPTION MUST INCLUDE:

CHOICE:	Americans deserve the right to choose their own health- care. Congress must allow universal availability of a public health- care option like Medicare. Limiting choice to for-profit insurance only is the same broken healthcare system we have right now.
COMPETITION:	Capitalism thrives on competition. A public health-care option would bring new competition into the market driving lower prices and incentives for better service and care.
COMFORT:	There is no need to create something new or unfamiliar to the American people. Americans already know about for-profit insurance and they know about Medicare. We need to make a public option like Medicare available to all Americans.
WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW?
Contact	legislators (listed on back) and urge them to support a public option
Ask	friends, families, neighbors, and co-workers to do the same
Tell	your healthcare story. Go to http://www.healthreform.gov/
Join	the Orange County Campaign for Change Healthcare Work Group — visit http://oc3nc.org/ and sign up NOW

Contact the following key legislators:

Senator Kay Hagan- She needs to hear from us! Be persistent.
Senator Kay Hagan   Phone: 202-224-6342
http://hagan.senate.gov/?p=contact

Senator Richard Burr    Phone: 202-224-3154
http://burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

Senator Max Baucus
Senate Finance Committee    Phone: 202-224-2651;202-224-4515
http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/emailForm.cfm?subj=issue

Senator Harry Reid   http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Senator Richard Durbin    http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Phone numbers for both are listed on their websites.

Contact Senator Kennedy and ask him to fight with us for a robust Medicare-like public option in health care reform. (202) 224-4543.

The following NC legislators sit on key health-related committees:

GK Butterfield (D)    Phone: (202) 225-3101 Fax: (202) 225-3354
413 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515

Sue Myrick (R)    Phone:(202) 225-1976 Fax:(202) 225-3389
230 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515

Call the White House - support President Obama: 202-456-1111

Related Health Care links:

Principles for healthcare reform, from the HCAN website http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/about_us/

White House Healthcare Reform site: http://www.healthreform.gov/index.html

Please pass this along to friends and neighbors. Encourage them to sign up for future communications. Our voices and actions together do make a difference-remember November!

Barack Obama web site for North Carolina.