We can VOTE for Single Payer Health Care! Until 9:30 am. Please K/R and ACT NOW!

[thesquanderer]

We may not be able to vote for the program itself, but we can vote to at least get Obama to talk about it.

The White House is allowing people to post questions for Obama to answer, and according to CNN, "Obama has promised to answer the most popular questions through a live video stream on WhiteHouse.gov. beginning Thursday at 11:30 a.m. ET."

I've never asked for a K+R before, but if we can all go to

http://www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions/

and click on the Health Care Reform topic, maybe we can all help make Single Payer the number one question in the category, which, hopefully, will prompt Obama to talk about it.

Currently, you have to scroll down just a little... the most popular Single Payer question is the fifth question down, with 3081 votes. It is perhaps not the best question posted on the topic, but it is the one with the most votes, so it's the one to vote for, the one with the most chance of getting to the top, and therefore, hopefully, getting answered. The current first-place question has 5669 votes to get it to the top... it's a long shot, but if everyone who reads this and cares about it votes, maybe we can help get Single Payer into first place in the category.

As Howard Dean and others have been saying, without a Single Payer (Medicare-like) option in the new health plan, it won't be true reform. Obama knows this... let's make sure he knows we know it too!

[biopowertoday]

1. K and R thanks for posting.

[thesquanderer]

2. Thanks, I only wish I'd known about it sooner! (n/t)

[Bread and Circus]

3. I voted for the single payer health care question. It looks like it is leading. K an R.

[LWolf]

4. When I go there,

it tells me that voting is closed, and new questions aren't being accepted.

[gblady]

5. according to OP

voting closed at 9:30 EDT....
it was open for several days and looks like
many folks asked questions and voted.

[LWolf]

6. Here on the left coast,

I often forget the eastern time zone designation.

It's only 8:17 here. ;)

[gblady]

7. looks like the live cast begins in about 5 minutes....

the site linked above said that
"92,922 people have submitted 104,123 questions and cast 3,606,828 votes"

[gblady]

8. it's starting now....

[Soylent Brice]

9. sorry! just now saw this. it's saying voting is now closed!!!

[avaistheone1]

10. Dang.

[Soylent Brice]

11. i know i know!!! i'm ready for my lashings!! lol