Subject: Give 'em hell, Harry! Show the insurance cartel who's boss!
From: "Bobby Clark, Executive Director" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:25:49 -0400

Dear friend,

The health insurance cartel has no shame.

"America's Health Insurance Plans"--the health insurance lobby--is running misleading TV ads in Colorado to scare senior citizens about health insurance reform. Nonpartisan FactCheck.org blasted the ad because it misrepresents the proposals in Congress.

Why are insurance companies trying so hard to mislead Colorado seniors? Because Colorado's Senators, Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, support a public health insurance option that will compete with the health insurance industry.

Right now, Senate leaders are working with the White House to come up with the final Senate bill. The Senate could vote on it as early as next week. Now is the time to stand up for real health insurance reform. Tell Senator Reid you stand with Senator Udall and Senator Bennet:

http://progressnowcolorado.org/TheTimeIsNow

Want more evidence of health insurance cartel lies? Last week, they paid a Wall Street accounting firm to do a so-called "study" on the Senate Finance Committee's health care plan that, according to the AARP, is "not worth the paper it's written on." The "health insurance company hatchet job," as the spokesman for the Senate Finance Committee called it, is "untrue, disingenuous, and bought and paid for by the same health insurance companies that have been gouging too many consumers for too long as they stand in the way of reform yet again."

The fake study cherry-picked pieces of the Senate Finance Committee plan to make the claim that reform will "increase the cost of private insurance coverage for individuals, families, and businesses above what these costs would be in the absence of reform."

Let me translate that for you. The health insurance cartel is telling us that if we pass reform that they don't like, they will jack up our rates. They are telling you that they have you in the corner, they own the market, and they have the power to steal money out of our pockets. It's a threat, plain and simple.

But if reform is done right, the health insurance cartel won't be able to carry out that threat.

Your insurance premiums shouldn't be subject to threats of retaliation from the insurance companies, nor should they be driven by multimillionaire corporate CEOs and their fixation on their companies' stock prices. That's why Coloradans deserve a public insurance option. Both of Colorado's senators support a public insurance option. And poll after poll shows that voters broadly support it, too.

Stand with Colorado's Senators for real health insurance reform. Tell Senate Majority Leader Reid to fight the insurance industry with the best weapon we have--true competition. Tell him we need and support the public option.

http://progressnowcolorado.org/TheTimeIsNow

Best regards,

Bobby Clark
Executive Director

P.S. - Just as I was writing this, FactCheck.org noted the latest industry-funded hack job--another "study" funded by Blue Cross. "We have plenty of skepticism for industry-backed reports that examine elements the industry doesn't like, while discounting aspects of the bill that could soften their conclusions," they said. How about you?

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