The Senate Bill Has Landed

Dear Kurt,

Progress toward real health care reform took another huge step this week when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the Senate’s health care reform bill. Now it’s time for debate on the bill, but shockingly enough, some senators don’t even want to debate the bill on the floor, much less pass it.
We expect the Senate to vote this Saturday night on whether to allow debate on the health care reform bill. No matter how your senators feel about the bill itself, tell them they must vote to allow the debate to begin.
Tell Senators: Stop obstructing reform and vote this Saturday to let the Senate debate begin for real health care reform.
We are further along in the process for real health care reform than we have ever been. The House has already passed a historic bill that will end insurance company abuses, require employers to pay a fair share and establish a strong public option to lower costs and make insurance companies compete. And it won’t tax the benefits of hard-working middle class families.
The Senate bill put forward by Sen. Reid moves us closer to the historic goal of real health care reform in America, but it's not perfect and some of it needs to be fixed. To keep the reform process moving and to fix the bill, it's critical that the Senate start to publicly debate its health care reform bill.
Sign our petition to the Senate today.
The Senate needs to proceed with the debate now. The petition also reminds senators that as they debate their bill, the House got it right by passing a reform bill that works for America’s working families and does NOT tax our health care plans.
The health care reform debate must continue. Sign our petition today.
In solidarity,
Marc Laitin
AFL-CIO Online Mobilization Coordinator
P.S. We can’t let a minority of senators stop the debate for real health care reform. Sign our petition today.