Help us Get a Public Option

I'm going to side step from cooking today to speak about an important and relevant issue cycling through Congress right now. Healthcare. More specifically, a public option.

Right now, Congress is working on a Healthcare bill, as I am sure that you know. One of the most contentious questions is whether to include a public option. This would help keep insurance companies honest, lower healthcare costs for Americans, and ensure that everyone can receive healthcare. (Which will then actually help premiums since people with insurance do not use the ER as their primary care physician which is ridiculously expensive.)

Basically, the public option is very important.

But not everyone thinks so. Not even all democrats. Many senators receive massive donations from insurance companies and are therefore fearful of standing up agaisnt them. That's not okay. So the PCCC (Progressive Change Campaign Committee) along with many others are campaigning, asking our senators to stand up against special interests and to do what is the in the best interests of the people. Their people. Their constituents.

Did I mention that 76% of Americans support a public option?

So what am I asking? Just that you go VOTE right here:
http://vote.wewantthepublicoption.com/p-jk-psnl

And to do it right now.

If 76% of Americans want a public option, if our President wants a public option, doesn't that mean that our Senators should stand up and vote for it? Don't we elect our Senators to be our representatives? Not to bow to special interests? So vote!

The PCCC has been running ads targeting Democratic senators who do NOT yet support the public option. Their ads have been hugely successful, with over 15,000 people signing up to list their names in the ads in the last couple weeks, several Senators announcing they now support the public option, and huge press in the NY Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere.

They are now holding a contest, voting ends Monday, to determine which Dem senators they should target now. So please go vote! Show support for the PCCC and these ads so they can continue to run them and we can get the public option.

(Note: I am just asking for your free vote! Nothing else.)