Democratic Party of Racine County Picnic
Sanders Park - 4809 Wood Rd.
Racine, Wisconsin
Sunday, August 16th
Noon to 5pm
Please mark your calendars, and join us!
Sanders Park - 4809 Wood Rd.
Racine, Wisconsin
Sunday, August 16th
Noon to 5pm
Please mark your calendars, and join us!
Mike Tate has been invited along with others from Madison.
Raffle Tickets are on sale NOW - please support your local party by selling at least one booklet of tickets. Thank you.
Canvass for Russ Feingold
Saturday August 22, from 10 am to 2 pm
We need your help to make this event successful for Russ!
If you have friends, or relatives, or neighbors, or friends of relatives, or relatives of neighbors, or friends of neighbors, or neighbors of friends, or neighbors or relatives, anybody who can and will help with this effort, please e-mail Meg at:
meg.andrietsch@gmail.com
meg.andrietsch@gmail.com
A Message from Paula Zellner:
Dear Labor Leaders:
I have attached a final list of cities in which we are having canvasses - 32 cities on August 22nd and another 4 cities on Sept 19th.
Please note this has significant changes from the last list I sent you. Most notably we will not be canvassing in Sun Prairie or Orgeon but we have added canvasses in cities such as Sheboygan, Watertown, Portage, Waukesha and Sturgeon Bay. We appreciate any help you can give Russ with sharing this information with labor members across the state.
Thanks again,Paula ZellnerState Field DirectorFeingold Senate Committee 715-735-7811 zellner@russfeingold.org
Please note this has significant changes from the last list I sent you. Most notably we will not be canvassing in Sun Prairie or Orgeon but we have added canvasses in cities such as Sheboygan, Watertown, Portage, Waukesha and Sturgeon Bay. We appreciate any help you can give Russ with sharing this information with labor members across the state.
Thanks again,Paula ZellnerState Field DirectorFeingold Senate Committee 715-735-7811 zellner@russfeingold.org
Another Message from Paula Zellner:
Dear Racine County Steering Committee Members:
Thank you again for all of your efforts on behalf of Russ for the upcoming canvass. I personally spoke with Russ on Friday and he is extremely pleased that we have steering committee lead canvasses scheduled in 36 cities across Wisconsin!
I wanted to make sure you had the latest info on your canvass:
9:30 AM start
Home of Esther and Marv Letven
4341 Greenbriar Road, Racine
ContactMeg Adrietsch
meg.andrietsch@gmail.com or megwi@aol.com
262-886-5533
Please contact Meg to get on the list of volunteers scheduled to canvass. We hope that all steering committee members will canvass themselves and will talk to their friends/family about helping. I know that this is a drive for some of you but since we aren't able to hold canvasses in all 72 counties at this time, we would really appreciate you driving and helping out on the nearest canvass.
We do need a head count (by this Thursday the 6th) of those signed up to canvass in order to move forward on the targeting and to get you the appropriate number of walk packets.
Please continue to recruit folks to canvass as we will continue to check in during the next two weeks to get an update on how many volunteers are scheduled to help.
In addition, the person/s who will train your canvassers on the morning of the event should plan on joining a conference call with Will Lemke, our Green Bay field staff, on Monday/Tuesday, August 17th/18th at 6:30 pm. Will will review the script, info recording sheet and answer any of your questions. We will be in contact again once we have a call in number and code for your canvass trainers.
Finally, the lit piece will be completed this week. It is my plan to deliver it across the state in the week or two before the canvass. However, if you or anyone you know will be in either Milwaukee or Middleton between August 10th - 20th, and would be willing to stop by one of our offices to pick up lit, please have them contact me. As always, the best way to reach me is at my home office number listed below.
Sincerely,
Paula ZellnerState Field DirectorFeingold Senate Committee715-735-7811 (office)zellner@russfeingold.org
Healthcare for All
The American people understand that good health is the foundation of individual achievement and economic prosperity. Ensuring quality, affordable health care for every single American is essential to children's education, workers' productivity and businesses' competitiveness. We believe that covering all is not just a moral imperative, but is necessary to making our health system workable and affordable. Doing so would end cost-shifting from the uninsured, promote prevention and wellness, stop insurance discrimination, help eliminate health care disparities, and achieve savings through competition, choice, innovation, and higher quality care.
Health care reform must also provide adequate incentives for innovation to ensure that Americans have access to evidence-based and cost-effective health care. Research should be based on science, not ideology. For the millions of Americans and their families suffering from debilitating physical and emotional effects of disease, time is a precious commodity, and it is running out.
A recent study by the White House Council of Economic Advisers shows that small businesses pay far more per employee for health insurance than a larger company.
Small businesses pay up to 18 percent more to provide health care coverage for their employees, and as a result, fewer small businesses provide those benefits and the number is growing in these financially challenging times.
The study shows that 49 percent of businesses with 3 to 9 workers and 78 percent of businesses with 10 to 24 workers offered any health care insurance in 2008, while 99 percent of companies with more than 200 employees offered health insurance benefits.
The study found that small companies pay proportionately more for health insurance than large companies because they lack bargaining power and incur greater administrative costs.
President Obama said, “Right now, they are getting crushed by skyrocketing health care costs.”
As the U.S. House and Senate moves forward to finish comprehensive health care reform legislation, congressional Republicans and their allies in the corporate health care world—especially the private health insurance industry—are following a well-crafted, but lie-filled, propaganda script to kill health care reform.
An insurance industry insider offers further proof why health care reform is so desperately needed—especially a plan that includes a strong public health insurance plan option and curbs to prevent the insurance industry’s abusive practices.
By use of the words “rationing,” “government takeover,” “bureaucrats” and “doctor-patient” in reference to health care reform on the floor of Congress the Republicans are trying to scare the American public away from desperately needed health care reform.
The defenders of the current health care system—more or less controlled by the private insurance industry—should give a listen to the former chief spokesperson for the insurance giant Cigna. Maybe then they wouldn’t be so quick to condemn the public plan option that would give families the choice of keeping their private insurance or choosing the public plan.
Wendell Potter tells Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman:
I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick—all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.
The insurance industry and Wall Street investors, writes Goodman on Truthdig: are addicted to massive profits and double-digit annual rate increases. To squeeze more profit, Potter says, if a person makes a major claim for coverage, the insurer will often scrutinize the person’s original application, looking for any error that would allow it to cancel the policy. Likewise, if a small company’s employees make too many claims, the insurer, Potter says, “very likely will jack up the rates so much that your employer has no alternative but to leave you and your co-workers without insurance.”
Potter says the insurance industry fears the possibility of a public plan and the choice it would give consumers.
They’ll pull out all the stops they can to defeat that to try to scare people into thinking that embracing a public health insurance option would lead down the slippery slope toward socialism…putting a government bureaucrat between you and your doctor. They’ve used those talking points for years, and they’ve always worked.
Information taken from articles on AFL-CIO.org and Whitehouse.gov
http://blog.aflcio.org/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/Health-Care-Reform-and-Small-Businesses/
The American people understand that good health is the foundation of individual achievement and economic prosperity. Ensuring quality, affordable health care for every single American is essential to children's education, workers' productivity and businesses' competitiveness. We believe that covering all is not just a moral imperative, but is necessary to making our health system workable and affordable. Doing so would end cost-shifting from the uninsured, promote prevention and wellness, stop insurance discrimination, help eliminate health care disparities, and achieve savings through competition, choice, innovation, and higher quality care.
Health care reform must also provide adequate incentives for innovation to ensure that Americans have access to evidence-based and cost-effective health care. Research should be based on science, not ideology. For the millions of Americans and their families suffering from debilitating physical and emotional effects of disease, time is a precious commodity, and it is running out.
A recent study by the White House Council of Economic Advisers shows that small businesses pay far more per employee for health insurance than a larger company.
Small businesses pay up to 18 percent more to provide health care coverage for their employees, and as a result, fewer small businesses provide those benefits and the number is growing in these financially challenging times.
The study shows that 49 percent of businesses with 3 to 9 workers and 78 percent of businesses with 10 to 24 workers offered any health care insurance in 2008, while 99 percent of companies with more than 200 employees offered health insurance benefits.
The study found that small companies pay proportionately more for health insurance than large companies because they lack bargaining power and incur greater administrative costs.
President Obama said, “Right now, they are getting crushed by skyrocketing health care costs.”
As the U.S. House and Senate moves forward to finish comprehensive health care reform legislation, congressional Republicans and their allies in the corporate health care world—especially the private health insurance industry—are following a well-crafted, but lie-filled, propaganda script to kill health care reform.
An insurance industry insider offers further proof why health care reform is so desperately needed—especially a plan that includes a strong public health insurance plan option and curbs to prevent the insurance industry’s abusive practices.
By use of the words “rationing,” “government takeover,” “bureaucrats” and “doctor-patient” in reference to health care reform on the floor of Congress the Republicans are trying to scare the American public away from desperately needed health care reform.
The defenders of the current health care system—more or less controlled by the private insurance industry—should give a listen to the former chief spokesperson for the insurance giant Cigna. Maybe then they wouldn’t be so quick to condemn the public plan option that would give families the choice of keeping their private insurance or choosing the public plan.
Wendell Potter tells Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman:
I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick—all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.
The insurance industry and Wall Street investors, writes Goodman on Truthdig: are addicted to massive profits and double-digit annual rate increases. To squeeze more profit, Potter says, if a person makes a major claim for coverage, the insurer will often scrutinize the person’s original application, looking for any error that would allow it to cancel the policy. Likewise, if a small company’s employees make too many claims, the insurer, Potter says, “very likely will jack up the rates so much that your employer has no alternative but to leave you and your co-workers without insurance.”
Potter says the insurance industry fears the possibility of a public plan and the choice it would give consumers.
They’ll pull out all the stops they can to defeat that to try to scare people into thinking that embracing a public health insurance option would lead down the slippery slope toward socialism…putting a government bureaucrat between you and your doctor. They’ve used those talking points for years, and they’ve always worked.
Information taken from articles on AFL-CIO.org and Whitehouse.gov
http://blog.aflcio.org/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/Health-Care-Reform-and-Small-Businesses/
