(Green Bay) The Organizing for America (OFA) Health Care Public Meeting on Sunday, July 19th at the Harmony Cafe drew an estimated 120 people to hear various local leaders in the Health Care field share their views and stories from the community.

Dr. Monk Elmer from Kimberly lead most of the session in a discussion of President Obama's Health Care Principles and Public Opinion; that we must reduce costs, protect choice, and assure affordable quality health care for all Americans. 

Today, Senator Russ Feingold spoke from the floor of the U.S. Senate in favor of a strong public option as part of the health care reform package currently being debated in the U.S. Senate. During his speech, Senator Feingold spoke about how affordable, quality health care has consistently been one of the top issues raised at his listening sessions over the past 17 years and cited that over 75 percent of Americans, according to a poll released yesterday, support the public option.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3RD, 2009. Yesterday the President met with some key Senators on health reform, emphasizing the urgency of the situation in his remarks beforehand: "So we can't afford to put this off, and the dedicated public servants who are gathered here today understand that and they are ready to get going, and this window between now and the August recess I think is going to be the make-or-break period.  This is the time where we've got to get this running."

Today the White House released a letter sent by the President to Senators Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus, the Chairmen of the key committees in the Senate handling health care reform, spelling out in detail what he would like to see in this historic legislation.  The full letter is below: