The Right Thing to Do

• Four out of five health care reform bills coming out of congressional committees contain a public option. 

• According to the most recent New York Times/CBS poll, 65 percent of Americans are in favor of a public option. 

• A survey of doctors published by the New England Journal of Medicine this month  revealed that 73 percent of doctors support a public option. 

• According to Harvard Medical School researchers, 45,000 people per year (that's one person every 12 minutes ) die due to lack of adequate health care because they do not have insurance.

Thus, there is no reason that a bill without a public option should appear on the president's desk. A health care bill with a public option is a necessity. It is the right thing to do. It is what the people want.