Still looking for more reasons why you should tell your representative we need to pass health reform now? We've got some for you right here.
- Because 50 million people in America don't have health insurance
- Because those of us with insurance have seem our premiums rise three times faster than wages
- Because health care costs are crushing small business
- Because our current system of bureaucracy and rationing care needs to change
- Because we need a strong public health insurance option to lower costs and to keep insurance companies honest
- Because thousands of people wait in long lines in parking lots for health care and that's not right
- Because the House bill being proposed would save the average family up tp $2,200 per year
- Because if Congress takes three weeks off, 143,250 people will lose their health insurance coverage , 53,507 people will file for bankruptcy because they can't pay their medical bills, and 1,265 people will die because they lack coverage
- Because this is the change we voted for, and we meant it - inaction is not an option.
The health care reform bill being voted on in the House is headed for a vote in the next 48 hours, so there's really no time to waste. Click here to tell Congress it's time everyone - even millionaires - did their part to fix health care.
