Please get other Delawareans to contact Sen. Carper.  As you have heard, Pelosi and Reid are talking about passing the 2000 page health care spending bill by what the Democrats have called a parliamentary "trick" i.e. the reconciliation process.  I just found this material on the internet, stating that Sen. Carper is in favor of this.  This is going on while the president is preparing for a bipartisan health care summit to at least make the appearance of trying to find solutions and compromise.

Contact Carper and tell him you want to scrap the 2000 page monstrosity and start over.  Americans do not want that bill.  If the point is to lower costs let's do that with tort reform, high-risk pools for patients with pre-exisiting conditions, tax breaks for individuals that are the same as tax breaks for employers, the ability to buy policies across state lines etc.  Let's not have the feds take over health care.

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Senate Democrats not ruling out reconciliation to pass healthcare bill.

Roll Call (2/16, Drucker) reports, "Senate Democrats say they see no need to abandon the idea of using reconciliation to pass healthcare reform this year just because President Barack Obama has scheduled a bipartisan summit next week to try to break the impasse on Capitol Hill." Roll Call cites comments in support of reconciliation from Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Tom Harkin (D-IA). Senator Carper (D-DE) has been reaching out to moderates in the House to convince them that the reconciliation "sidecar" option is the way to go:

Sen. Tom Carper, a centrist Democrat from Delaware who played an active role in Senate healthcare talks, said he would reach out to House Democratic centrists to persuade them to vote for the Senate-passed bill along with a sidecar.

“We’ve had some conversations with some of them already,” he said.