Health Care Reform Referendum

Here is a copy of the letter I sent to my senators regarding a health care referendum. A similar one was sent to the President.

Please feel free to use all or any part when contacting your representatives.

Its our health, we need to be in control.

Its Common Sense!


Dear Senator
For the past several days I have watched town hall meeting on news networks and CSPAN and the one thing very clear is that there is a lot of misinformation floating around.

Primarily, there is no health bill at this moment. Evidently there are several versions floating around the House of Representatives, but the Senate has not put anything together yet.

I propose that you, Congress and the President announce that once there is an actual bill, agreed upon by the majority of the Congress, that rather than the President signing off on it, that you make it available to the American public, and allow the people whose lives will be affected by the legislation to vote on it as a national referendum.

This is for all Americans, we should be the ones who get to vote on whether we want it or not.
Unfortunately, we can not trust our representatives to do the right thing because we know they are highly influenced by lobbyists and seem to be out of touch with the reality of their constituents.
An example of that appeared this week when it was discovered that Congress budgeted in the Air Force budget, money for executive air planes to fly themselves around the country and the world. They condemned the CEO's of the Big three Auto makers, but have no problem looking out for themselves.

For an issue this important, I want a direct say. My vote needs to count, not the vote of someone I did not elect or think qualified for the job.

Please consider letting the decision of health care reform be the decision of the American citizens and not the Capital Hill Gang.

Thank you.
Michael Wolfe