Warning

There's hints that the Public Option for health insurance reform may be in danger of being dropped.:

The “public option,” a new government insurance program akin to Medicare, has been a central component of Mr. Obama’s agenda for overhauling the health care system, but it has also emerged as a flashpoint for anger and opposition. Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, said the public option was “not the essential element” for reform and raised the idea of the co-op during an interview on CNN.

Mr. Obama himself sought to play down the significance of the public option at a town-hall-style meeting on Saturday in Grand Junction, Colo., when a university student challenged him on how private insurers could compete with the government.

Let us be clear: any reform without a public option will simply further enrich the for-profit health insurance corporations. Any government mandate or government assistance to citizens unable to afford health insurance without such help will simply be either a pilfering of the American citizen or another Bush Era-type raid on the U.S. Treasury -- citizen money.

If, like Nettertainment, you care about this issue enough that you would not vote for your Democratic Representative, Senator or President in any upcoming election should they fail to achieve this basic citizen right (see every other industrialized Western nation), then this is your fair warning, and maybe the only one you'll get.

Let your Congressperson know how you feel here.

Let your Senator know how you feel here.

Let the White House know how you feel here.

And, for good measure, tell these two men who hold so much of this in their hands:

Sen. Max Baucus (D - MT)
(202) 224-2651
baucus.senate.gov/contact/emailForm.cfm?subj=issue

Sen. Kent Conrad (D - ND)
(202) 224-2043
conrad.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm

Warning to you delivered. Make your warning to them known, pronto.