The votes are in for "healthcare for all" at MoveOn

As I mentioned in an earlier post, MoveOn held a vote last week to decide the three issues that would make up their "Positive Agenda". Over 100,000 people voted, and "healthcare for all" got the most votes. I'm going to post the vote totals and a member quote that MoveOn sent out to their subscriber list below.

Obviously, getting people to agree on "healthcare for all" in the abstract is pretty easy. The real fight will be over how to actually deliver on that policy goal. The recently passed Massachusetts "universal healthcare" bill is just one example of the fact that we don't always get what we vote for.

MoveOn Positive Agenda Vote Totals:

Health care for all - 65091
Sustainable energy independence - 61030
Restored constitutional rights - 35675
Guaranteed accurate elections - 35133
Global leadership through diplomacy - 28912
High quality education for all - 27874
Solutions to global warming - 26306
A guaranteed living wage - 25527
Publicly funded elections - 21096
A balanced federal budget - 20945

We need a system that is equitable and affordable for all...Health care should not be treated like a commodity. We have 46 million uninsured and many million more who are underinsured and don't have adequate health care. It is estimated that 18,000 people die each year because they don't have adequate health care that works out to 50 people every day. We cannot continue to tolerate a fragmented health care system which worries more about profits and stock holders than it does the well-being of Americans. It is time for a systemic change which will bring down the cost of health care.–Rebecca E. from Ithaca, NY.