Sign the petition re: the public option

The public option is back on the table! Will you sign the petition to show your support for health care for all?

Tell your Senator to support the public option now! 

In less than 48 hours, 33 of my fellow senators came together to cosponsor a resolution supporting a public health insurance option but many others haven't yet made a decision. We have a powerful opportunity right now to catapult the public option—a broadly popular and progressive issue—into the center of the 2016 election debate. Tell your Senator to support the public option now, because everyone deserves health care.

Dear MoveOn member,

When I partnered with MoveOn, Bernie Sanders, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and other progressive allies on a new Senate resolution calling for a public health insurance option, national headlines in Forbes, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere made it clear: the public option is back on the table.^1,2

And when the resolution ballooned to 33 Senate cosponsors in less than 48 hours, the insurance lobby told their allies to attack us—and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor right away to do it.^3,4,5

With the public option, progressives are going on the offense. We are changing the 2016 election debate and we’re inspiring voters. Will you sign and share my petition calling on the U.S. Senate to support the public option?

We can't back down. We must keep playing offense. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama endorse a public option. Now, with Senate allies and partner organizations, we're pushing the entire Democratic Party to make this a central 2016 issue.⁶

Support a public option for health care. Click here to add your name alongside Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama.

Thanks!

—Senator Jeff Merkley

Sources:

1. "As Polls Tighten, Clinton's Senate Allies Push Bernie's Public Option," Forbes, September 18, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/5922?t=6&akid=170662.10220574.u7PtNN

2. "Senate Progressives, Activists Plan Big Public Option Push," The Huffington Post, September 15, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/5919?t=8&akid=170662.10220574.u7PtNN

3. "Merkley: 33 Senate Dems now back ObamaCare public option," The Hill, September 16, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/5920?t=10&akid=170662.10220574.u7PtNN

4. "Health Insurers Fire Volley In New Battle Over The Public Option," The Huffington Post, September 20, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/5948?t=12&akid=170662.10220574.u7PtNN

5. "Democratic liberals, moderates feud over public option," Politico, September 22, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/5951?t=14&akid=170662.10220574.u7PtNN

6. "As Polls Tighten, Clinton's Senate Allies Push Bernie's Public Option," Forbes, September 18, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/5922?t=16&akid=170662.10220574.u7PtNN

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