Pushing for Real Health Care Reform

As soon as the battle over the recovery act and the budget ended, the battle for real health care reform began. Throughout the summer of 2009 we engaged in several campaigns to push both Congress and President Obama to make sure a public health insurance option was part of any health insurance reform that passed Congress. Together with our allies we gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions demanding real reform, and had thousands of our supporters call their members of Congress. As a result of our efforts and the sustained push from progressives across the country Congress defied the conventional wisdom in Washington submitted health insurance reform bills that include a public option in both chambers of Congress!

We are in a much stronger position now than anyone would have originally predicted, thanks to the support of the progressive community and of course the American public at large, which remains firmly in support of a robust public option, no matter how often conservatives and the media like to suggest otherwise. Now all that is left is for us to see this hard wrought reform to the end--on President Obama's desk in the Oval Office.