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Subject:
Don't allow a filibuster on the Public Option
To:
Sen. Blanche Lincoln
November 3, 2009
Sen. Lincoln,
You probably seldom see my name as I typically forward my concerns through prefabricated letters of groups with similar interests as mine.
That's not the case tonight.
I just resisted the urge to sign a petition on Democratic Caucus Accountability that calls for Democrats who side with a Republican filibuster to be stripped of their Committee Chairmanship. That would be bad for Arkansas.
I read of your meeting with President Obama; I respect your insistence on exhausting all options prior to voting on this issue. I don't envy the position you and others face, i.e. dealing with an issue that should have been solved when I was a child.
I teach at a University now, finally getting health care through my job. It only took until the age of 35 for that to happen. I cannot tell you how many times I've thanked God that I didn't get so sick that I had to drop out of school. Now I see it from the other side of the desk, i.e. once people drop out for whatever reason, they seldom come back.
I don't need to tell you that's bad for Arkansas.
Too many of my students are single parents, just trying to make ends meet and fulfill their wish for a better life for them and their kids. The vast majority do not have health care.
Those that work waiting tables to pay their way through school won't get 40 hours a week because their employers don't want to pay health-care costs. When they get sick, they must keep working or have the utilities cut off. It's awfully hard to study without lights and heat.
And yet some do it. They keep coming back because they don't want to end up desperate ... or maybe they come back because they're so desperate, there's no place else to go.
I'm doing a poor job of explaining how a public option benefits my students, which benefits education, which benefits the state. I apologize for my lack of words.
But please ...
Take care of health care NOW so that my step-son and (hopefully) grandkids don't have to deal with it later. Don't allow a filibuster on the Public Option. Debate it to death if you have to, but let's move on it.
It's already way past time.
Thank you for your time.
North Little Rock , AR
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