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Will the Health Reform Bill Become A Joke?

Joseph Raglione
October 14, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the "Public Option" is important for honest health care reform within your United States. Without it, your health care bill will become simply a list of rules and regulations easily broken and discarded. History has proven this to be true. The discarded bank regulations leading to the current economic melt down is a good example of political and corporate manipulation; and the E.P.A. transformation from friend to enemy is another. The Environmental Protection Agency became a string puppet for the last Republican government where many E.P.A. rules and regulations were ignored or discarded or simply changed to benefit those in power. Don't let that happen to the health reform bill or the word "reform" will become a joke...>

Joseph -

When we started this fight, some people were skeptical. We drew a line in the sand, and told skeptics that inclusion of a public option was the only way to have affordable healthcare reform. We told them that competition from the choice of a public option would decrease the cost of premiums and increase the quality of service.

We were right.

Join us Wednesday to tell Sen. Bayh that affordable healthcare reform must include a public option

Senator Bayh has repeatedly stated that he wants to see a healthcare bill that reduces the deficit rather than raising it. Over the past few weeks, reports from the Congressional Budget Office have stated that a robust public option tied to Medicare rates would lower the price-tag of healthcare reform by $110 billion.


Click here to find Senator Bayh's regional office near you and join us

Even if you can't make it at noon on Wednesday, we need passionate activists like you to let Senator Bayh know we support fiscally responsible healthcare reform. Write to Senator Bayh's office asking him to support a public option that will save us money. Write a letter to editor of your local newspaper to let other people know, too!

Click here to let us know you'll be writing a letter to Senator Bayh urging him to support a fiscally responsible robust public option

The facts are on our side. The people are on our side. Let's get Senator Evan Bayh on our side, too.

Thanks for all of your hard work.

Tom De Luca, Indiana Public Option Organizer

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!