[...] Not only did the pacifiers get the attention of Senate staff, they also attracted the media.  CNN, the Washington Times, and Talk Radio News Service followed us throughout the halls of Congress.  Check out a great video news report of the delivery here. [...]

What an outstanding idea to attach the pacifiers -- they do draw attention! Keep up the great work!

Naturally CNN followed the story.. another liberal media source following a liberal government program being promoted by liberals! Just curious.. Did those passing out the pacifiers (pushing to get the healthcare reform bill passed!) actually read the bill? Do they realize that the Fed's had the good sense to exclude all Fed. employees from the bill? We do need healthcare reform, but not the pending legislation! Don't help to make a bad problem worse!

As soon as President Obama puts his family and every other government officer on this ridiculous plan, then, and only then, will I even consider supporting this ridiculous plan! Remove me from your mailing list. I want NO part of supporting government ran health care.

As a healthcare professional, I think you need to read the proposed bill more closely. Yes we need healthcare but we need quality healthcare. It needs to be good enough for everyone including federal employees including the PRESIDENT.

I think momsrising.org see healthcare from their immediate needs and not what healthcare means down the road. I don't want the government dictating what medications my child needs based on a fee schedule rather than what works. Should my child need surgery for anything from tonsils, hernias or a life threatening condition,I want the opportunity to see the doctor of MY choosing and as quickly as possible and not wait months and months to be seen by a specialist. I especially DONOT want doctors to treat my children who have been admitted into medical schools because of affirmative action and not based on skill. Should my child( God forbid) be subjected to a disabling accident which leaves my child less than he was before, I don't want to be forced to end of life care because someone else thinks it's an inconvenience. I don't want to pay for someone else's abortion. I don't care where you stand on abortion, it is NOT a right and I shouldn't have to pay for it. I also don't want the government to tell me when I have to say no to treatment such as breast cancer treatment or heart valve repalcement because they don't think I am useful.I want my God to decide that, not my congressman especially when they are getting wealthier and wealthier as they stay in congress, and will never have to face these situations that they want to impose upon us. Great Example TED KENNEDY...He would never get the care he receives now at the hands of the taxpayers if he was on a GOVERNMENT HEALTHPLAN. Can you also understand what it will mean for the government to have access to all your medical records?? All the medications you have taken and for what reason. There goes HIPPA regulations..everyone will have access to your medical records if this passes. Before you so casually want to pass this bill I suggest that you read the over 1000 pages and really understand what this is going to mean for your lifetime and not just your immediate needs.

Blue dogs... alert.. we know who you are. We will NOT help reelect you. Stand up and do what is right and vote for health care for everyone, affordable, with competition between companies vying for our health care dollar. We need to unite for the country, not cave into the recent hires of 350 former congressional aids etc.. the pharmaceuticals have hired to convince us of the lie the right is promoting. As a precinct chair.... watch out... I can help elect your replacement!

What mass mental illness has struck you ladies? Have you Obama-fever? I have never witnessed such Pavlovian fawning over a bill so treacherous that no government employee will be required to sign on for it. The aged, the infirmed, the poor will be allowed to die because a fee schedule doesn't compute them as being "of benefit to society." This is the work of Tom Daschle, who as you know by now was given a free pass to compose the death-sentence bill even though he was a tax evader for close to 10 years. Knock of the supercillious bullshit and tell your reps to vote this ogre-bill DOWN.

I am afraid this bill is a band-aide for some. I don't like the idea of government run medicine.

Look how well the banks are doing....

YOU LADIES ARE EITHER VERY IGNORANT OR NOT WHO YOU ARE PRETENDING TO BE. THE BILL IS NOT GOOD FOR ANYONE. I AM A HEALTHCARE WORKER AND HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE TURNED AWAY FROM FACILITIES WHEN THEY ARE SEEKING HELP. IF YOU ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT COSTS AND HEALTHCARE, HAVE THE ILLEGAL ALIENS STOPPED. IN PHOENIX MOST OF THE LABOR AND DELIVERY AT ALL THE HOSPITALS ARE 60% AND HIGHER ILLEGAL MEXICAN WOMEN GIVING BIRTH AND GETTING WELFARE. THE ILLEGAL DRUG ADDICTS ARE BROUGHT IN AND TREATED WITH ER VISITS AND HOSPITALIZATIONS. ONE INCIDENT COST OVER $400,000. THE ER'S ARE PREDOMINETLY MEXICANS WHO ARE ILLEGAL, SEEKING CARE.
DON'T PUT THROUGH LEGISLATION THAT WILL PENALIZE ALL OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO DESERVE THE CONTINUED GOOD CARE OUR SYSTEM SERVES BY BEING UNEDUCATED ON THE BILL YOU ARE SUPPORTING. IGNORANCE IS NOT WRONG, UNLESS YOU CONTINUE TO ALLOW IT TO RULE YOUR JUDGEMENT.

You ladies need to listen to the people from Great Britain. They have the system this bill is pushing. They wait for weeks to get seen by a Dr. Tony Blair passed a mandate stating every patient had to be seen within 48 hours.....so the Dr. has you come in within that time to tell you your appointment will be in 10 days! Their system still sucks big-time. Our health care system has been ruined by the huge influx of illegals using it for free. It wasn't set up to handle that amount of "free" care. Unfortunately, this issue is intertwined with the illegal alien issue. The illegal aliens have been a huge drag on our country and unless we set some standards, we will continue to see our healthcare costs and taxes go up. Someone has to pay for their use of our systems....that's you and me. There are 22 million illegals in this country that are accounted for...and it is still growing...no telling how many are not accounted for that are here. Personally, I support a flat sales tax instead of income tax so everybody pays...no more free rides. If they had to pay a 20% sales tax on everything they bought, many of them would go home on their own. It wouldn't be worth working here to send home small amounts of income. As for this bill, if congress and the president aren't using it, then neither should we.

Dear Kristin, Donna, Ariana, Dionna, Ashley, Julia, and the rest of the MomsRising.org team ;
Have you read the bills? I do not feel that a reform of this magnitude should be decided by August. I enjoy having my mother, and enjoyed my grandmother even with her Alzheimer's. To have watched my grandmother suffer the indecency of this disease without appropriate health care would have devastated our family. You are moms, someday you will be grandparents and if fortunate enough maybe great-grandparents, your body will ultimately fail, and if your lucky your mind will follow shortly thereafter so you will not know the awful decisions your government will make on your behalf. The decisions will be based solely on your continued monetary value and your family will have little if anything to do with the decisions regarding your medical care. There will be no respect for the fights you fought in your youth, the good you may have brought to society or the joy even in your final despair that you continue to bring to your family.
I can not support any bill that demonstrates such lack of respect for human life. Your organization should take the time to read the bills and evaluate the outcomes of such legislation. You are being used, by organizers that feel you have a tremendous following (probably not for long). The health care system can be fixed but it will take an adjustment of greed; caps on malpractice, caps of pharmaceutical profiteering. limitations of third opinions, pooling of small business to purchase insurance, etc. Socialized medicine will only result in more deaths than Bush's wars, but perhaps that is the general idea "downsizing the population by starvation of medical treatment."

It's obvious from the impassioned responses above that any change to our healthcare system must be thought out and deal with tough issues. It's time that Americans have a debate, but I sure hope that we can leave out sound bytes and outright misinformation that appears in these posts.

Also, it seems to me that Moms Rising is simply trying to raise awareness in regards to a need for change, and aren't necessarily supporting the current bill.

For moms to be so closed minded as to say "remove me from your mailing list" because of hearing ideas that they don't like, we aren't going to be having the necessary debate. And also strange comments about Socialized medicine killing people when the House Bill has nothing to do with socialized medicine (by the way, socialized medicine is what the U.K. has -- totally government funded through taxes, all doctors are government employees as are the hospital employees -- this is not what has been proposed).

Has anyone read the bill or are they just listening to pundits that tell them what they want to hear?

This is sad.

There's so much misinformation out there, it's our responsibility as moms to start reading everything we can about all the different options out there (Frontline did a special about 5 democracies who do variations on public health care called Sick around the World -- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/). Then it's our responsibility to tell our representatives what we want!

It looks like the health care propaganda machine that is spending over a million dollars a day to stop any real reform is working.Its real simple.Oppose any reform that doesn't have a public option (so you can be the "decider" of your plan),that isn't accountable to Congress and the voters (accountability is a good thing),and isn't available on day one (so there is not bait-and-switch or swindle going on).This is the most important decision you will make for your family in your lifetime.Get informed.Read those bills.They are different.I can't believe some of the stuff written here.You people are being taken for a ride.Really, why would the health care industry not want us to have real reform? Because they can't stand the competition and they would make less money.Americans love competition.It brings down cost.Most of the stuff written about Canada is pure crap.Don't believe everything you hear or read.Do your own research.