Letter to the President of the United States

I just learned from National Public Radio that the administration might be willing to abandon a government sponsored health care option. It is difficult to express the degree to which this news disappoints me. I belong to the younger generation of Americans who voted for you with the hope that you would lead an agenda of progressive changes to make a more fair and just country for all its citizens. The issue at the very forefront of that agenda is health care. You know this, but you are allowing moderate and conservative legislators who receive millions of dollars from the health care industry to have it their way, and not the way of the American citizens.

After eight years of George W. Bush's corrupt government working for the corporations instead of the American people, we did not expect more of the same when we elected you to take his place. The degree of apathy the younger generation will have for this administration, as well as a profound cynicism of the entire American government system should this crucial component of legislation not pass, has the potential to leave the majority of an entire generation despondent, and may forever change the political landscape of this country. It is not too late to demand a public option in health care reform.


I suggest you do the same thing here:

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