By GottaLaff
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In a move that seems designed to push Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) on health care reform, the North Dakota Democratic Party voted two weeks ago to make the public option for insurance coverage a stated objective of its platform.
At a little-noticed policy committee meeting on September 19, state Democratic officials passed a resolution affirming their commitment to "universal single payer health care legislation."
As a fallback option, the resolution read, the officials supported the creation of a government-run plan for insurance.
And that's how President Obama should have presented his health care reform push. Start with single payer and fall back on the public option.
Oh well. Too late now.
In an effort to apply the pressure to their representatives in Congress, the party also sent letters to the offices of Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, as well as Rep. Earl Porneroy, alerting them to the passed resolution. [...]
"I don't understand the votes that have gone on," said [Chad Nodland, who sits on the executive committee for the state party], in reference to the debate in the Senate Finance Committee. "What I'm saying is, I can't put together what I've watched with what has been explained to me. I'm frustrated. I wish that what we were seeing were different [from Conrad] than what we've been seeing."
Love,
Most of America
The letter is above.
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