The son of the late Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone made a big push Wednesday for
mental health insurance long championed by his father, leading a call-in effort
urging Congress to take up the legislation before its August
recess.
Imagine this scenario: To control costs, a giant health insurer
announces that it's singling out heart disease patients. From now on,
it will charge them higher co-pays and put lifetime limits on the
number of times they can see a doctor for their condition. The ensuing outrage would be loud and vitriolic. And rightfully so.
It's wrong to target one group of patients.
The progressive movement has prided itself on its ability to get its
messages out by harnessing the Internet, but now a liberal-minded group is returning to an old-fashioned model: a book club.
This past weekend in Albuquerque,
the buzz was generating around a certain presidential candidate, but for Wellstone Action, the Camp Wellstone participants were the real buzz circulating.
We spent a whole week with the organizers, leaders, and front-line activists of the Power Vote campaign training them on the skills needed to successfully fight for a clean energy future on their campuses and in their communities.
