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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">November
19, 2013<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/4"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(85, 150, 170); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-underline: none; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">Margaret
Flowers, Secretary of Health</font></span></a><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">Dear MoveOn,<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">It is with great sadness that I watch you
making last-gasp desperate attempts to save Obamacare and Obama’s reputation.
You look foolish when you say that “Of course, it’s a good law” at the same
time as your constituents see through the </font><a href="http://clearingthefogradio.org/obamacare-the-biggest-insurance-scam-in-history/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(85, 150, 170); text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><font size="3">Obamacare illusion</font></span></a><font size="3">. The law is becoming less popular
because people are beginning to see through the false partisan claims of
Democrats. And worse, you are actually playing right into the
Republican’s trap, really the trap of Wall Street and big business interests.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">It’s time for honesty. Obamacare is policy
that has roots in the Nixon administration, was updated by the Heritage
Foundation, a Right-wing think tank, and supported by people like Newt
Gingrich. It was first put in place by Republican Governor Mitt Romney in
Massachusetts (where it has not worked). The ACA further privatizes our health
care by pouring hundreds of billions of public dollars into the pockets of
private health industries. It is accelerating the privatization of our public
health insurances, gutting our safety net and fomenting greater consolidation
of our health delivery system into private hands. It sets the stage to
completely privatize the pillars of the old Democratic Party: Social Security
and Medicare.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">Obamacare is the opposite of single payer.
And supermajorities of those who vote for Democrats support single payer,
Medicare for All. This is one of the reasons that people are not in the streets
to save it. In this time of health care crisis in which 80 million went without
needed care last year because of the cost and 4 million families went bankrupt
because of medical costs and illness over the past two years, why do you think
it is so hard to sell them on Obamacare? Because it is the opposite of what
people want and need.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">Yes, Obamacare is failing. It’s just a
matter of time before the complex, bureaucratic, insurance-based law collapses.
It may limp along for years as the government throws hundreds of billions of
more dollars into it and the Department of Health and Human Services continues
to cave in to every health industry demand, but eventually it will fall under
the burden of its insurance-based corruption, for-profit healthcare and waste.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">And what will we have then? The Republicans
will sing the song of Wall Street to the far corners of the country that
government can’t do anything right and they’ll have Obamacare as their poster
child. Your constituents will feel even more betrayed than they do now by the
sold-out Democrats who sided with corporate interests instead of their voters.
The health reform vacuum will be filled by deregulation of the health
industries and the end of public health insurance.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">The human cost of this result is that
health care will be fully commoditized as a profit center rather than a public
good. Only the wealthy will be able to afford care. Health professionals will
be slaves to the industry and forced to care for only the profitable patients.
Preventable deaths and human suffering will be even greater than they are now.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">Obamacare is not worth saving and more
people are waking up to that fact. Don’t let yourself fall further behind the
people on this issue. Poverty is growing in this country. Austerity measures
are being forced upon us. Real human suffering is the result. Now is the time
to be bold.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">If the Democrats truly want to be in
control again, if you want the people to rally behind your party, then you must
embrace a bold agenda now. It is time to do the right thing. Tell the truth.
Put the blame where it belongs – not on government but on the health industries
that wrote the law to their advantage and are incapable of putting the needs of
the people before their insatiable crusade for profits.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">Tell the people that Obamacare is the wrong
direction. It is corporate-run healthcare. The Democrats tried to work within
the current system, but now see that is impossible. It is time to join the rest
of the civilized world, including our neighbors to the North and South, who
treat healthcare not as a commodity but as the public good that it should be.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">The Constitution clearly states that the
government may tax for the general welfare. Just as taxes pay for roads,
schools, fire departments and more, what better use could we have for our taxes
than to invest them in solving our healthcare crisis, not through greedy health
corporations but through our American institution, Medicare? The </font></span><a href="http://clearingthefogradio.org/solve-the-real-problems-poverty-retirement-and-health-insecurity-and-the-economy-will-recover/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(85, 150, 170); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-underline: none; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">best path for the American people</font></span></a><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3"> right now is to scrap Obamacare,
immediately extend Medicare to every person and double social security
benefits. This will create an economic stimulus effect not seen since the New
Deal.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">Don’t miss this opportunity. During the
Depression, it was the New Deal Democrats who stood up and did what was right
for the people. The Democrats must do that again or become irrelevant. The
people will love the Democrats for this. They will rally to your side. And we
will be a stronger country for it.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">Take control of the message and the policy
debate now – save Social Security and Medicare by expanding them. Save the
people of America. Show the Right Wing that they are the fools for opposing a
law that came out of their camp and show the people that the Democrats are
capable of promoting policies that put public interests first.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">It is time for a total remaking of the
party you have allied with and if that is not possible (and the corruption of
the Democratic Party looks very deep, so it is probably impossible), it is time
to replace that party with one that really represents the people, not the
corporate interests.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><i><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">~ </font></span></i><a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/member-profile/4"><i><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(85, 150, 170); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-underline: none; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><font size="3">Margaret
Flowers</font></span></i></a><font size="3"><i><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'>
MD, Serves as Secretary of Health in the General Welfare Branch of the Green
Shadow Cabinet</span></i><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(37, 55, 28); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
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