To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Rise Up, Observer Readers!

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BY SHARON MARTIN

Do you want single payer insurance? Not only do I want it, I need it.

The opportunity seems to be slipping away from us, and we need to act now. Write to your senators. In Oklahoma, that might not be an effective strategy, but write to them anyway. Our representatives should know what we, their constituents, want. That part is our responsibility.

Hold President Obama to his promises. Write to him. Tell him we need single payer insurance. And if he can’t offer that prize to the American people, tell him he must at least include a public insurance option.

Corporate insurance companies are lobbying against it because they know it would reduce rates – and their profits.

Citizens, demand it!

Affordable preventive care should be a right for every one of us.

If every Observer reader wrote a letter or two, what impact on the coming decisions might we have? Do it. Write a letter to the president, to your senators, even to Muck-It-Up Baucus and the healthcare reform committee.

Tell them what we want!

Sharon Martin lives in Oilton, OK and is a frequent contributor to The Oklahoma Observer

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.
Mark Krawczyk
Mark Krawczyk
March 9, 2023
Exceptional reporting about goings on in my home state as well as informative opinion pieces that makes people think about issues of the day...........get a SUBSCRIPTION FOLKS!!!!!!!
Brette Pruitt
Brette Pruitt
September 5, 2022
The Observer carries on the "give 'em hell" tradition of its founder, the late Frosty Troy. I read it from cover to cover. A progressive wouldn't be able to live in a red state without it.