HM International Blog

Soon, every senator and representative must decide where they stand. Lobbyists will be racing to each office, trying every trick in the book to derail the President’s plan. In fact, just this week, the insurance lobby released a self-serving report falsely claiming that reform would increase costs. Journalists called it “deceptive” and said “something doesn’t smell right here.” A prominent M.I.T. economist described the study as “deeply flawed.”

It’s a blatant scare tactic designed to frighten voters and bully Congress — and it’s just the beginning. We need to speak out right away to show Congress that their constituents are watching closely, and we’re counting on them to say “no” to the lobbyists and “yes” to reform.

Send a message urging Congress to stand with voters, not D.C. lobbyists, and pass real reform.
It’s becoming clear that the insurance companies will do whatever it takes to stop progress: The New York Times is reporting that special interests are spending $1.4 million every day to kill reform — and even commissioned their own slanted analysis of the Finance Committee’s legislation in an effort to defeat it. But today, after widespread criticism, the company that produced the report issued a statement saying that it analyzed only part of the bill because that’s exactly what the insurance industry paid them to do!

And we just got word that insurance companies are spending $1 million on a misleading ad to scare seniors out of supporting reform. The ad falsely declares that reform will cause cuts in Medicare, even though reform is crucial to ensuring the long-term survival of the program and preserving the care that millions of seniors depend on.

Now that all five congressional committees have passed reform legislation, we’re sure to see attacks that are even more extreme. It’s up to us to make sure that ordinary Americans continue to be heard louder than the Washington lobbyists.