The Senate Finance Committee met yesterday for a daylong bipartisan symposium to lay the groundwork for next year’s health care legislation.  Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, was cited in the New York Times as impatient with the process:

"Health care is 'the No. 1 economic issue in our country,' Mr. Grassley said, but 'Congress does not seem to have the political guts to do anything about it.'”

When a senator of Grassley’s stature thinks that Congress does not have the political guts to do anything about health care, it is time to take health care out of the clutches of Congress and demand change ourselves.  That is why this week we are issuing a challenge to the candidates to adopt the elements of our Declaration for the Health of America in both their health care platforms.  This Declaration not only identifies key values and core elements, but it also take statistically valid research data to validate those points.

The Senate Finance Committee discussed reform, agreed that everyone should be covered and that we should keep a private insurance market and keep the employer involved. 

We could not agree more with Senator Grassley.  Please sign and send our Declaration today to your elected officials. 

Cheers and more later. 

Kathleen