The Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America campaign is putting pressure on some of its own members to accept the health care reform measure being debated in the Senate Finance Committee, even if it’s not all they had hoped for – and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow is among them. The group was sending an e-mail to its Michigan mailing list today urging people to call Stabenow’s office in Washington, D.C. . . . Stabenow, a Democrat, is a staunch believer in health care reform and a supporter of the bill. But she has said she doesn’t believe it goes far enough. On Tuesday, she said the legislation proposed by committee Chairman Max Baucus still needs work, and she would prefer that it include a so-called public option to provide competition to private insurers and hold down costs.
President Barack Obama, too, supports a public option. But the White House has suggested it doesn’t want a public option to derail the bill. . . . In the e-mail, Organizing for America praised Stabenow for working toward health care reform. But it warned her against letting her desire for a public option get in the way of passage, saying, “The bill currently under consideration isn’t perfect. But two weeks ago, in his address to Congress, President Obama reminded us all that while there are many details still unresolved, for the millions of Americans without insurance and the millions more who could lose their coverage at any time, failure is not an option.”
Obama'a organization is also pressuring Sen. Marie Cantwell in Washington state. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
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