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If you haven’t done so already (and if you have strong opinions about Health Care Reform), NOW is the time to contact your Congressman. The House is expected to vote on the Pelosi Health Care Reform bill on Saturday…this Saturday! A mere handful of votes will decide the issue.

Opposition to “Omaba Care” (as the so-called “public option” has come to be called) continues to spread and intensify. The latest polling puts it 42% “aye” and 58% “nay”…and yet it looks as though Congress may ignore the will of the American people and pass its bill anyway.

For a sample of the popular mood, consider excerpts from a piece that recently appeared in The Chicago Tribune…right in the President’s home town:

“If Medicare were a bank, federal regulators would be closing its doors, selling its operations and sacking its managers. Thanks to soaring costs, the program is fast running out of money — even though it pays such low fees that many doctors refuse to take Medicare patients. Meanwhile, Medicare fraud costs taxpayers some $60 billion a year, according to a report by CBS’ “60 Minutes,” making it among the most profitable fields for felons…

“So what do congressional Democrats propose to do? Offer government-run health insurance to everyone else. But deploying a version of Medicare to repair the status quo is like using a brick to improve a window.”