While Support for congressional health care reform has fallen to a new low (Rasmussen), there are still people who seem to want it. Today, I talked to an acquaintance still rooting for health care reform about what he believes it will look like and why he wants it.

At 6:30pm CDT, I participated in the Telephone Town Hall with U.S. Representative Debbie Halverson (D - IL 11) on the subject of health care reform. Political Illiteracy's liveblogging feature is new, but I recorded as much as possible of the event as it happened. (See below.)

The following is an open letter to my fellow Americans, and to our representatives in both houses of the legislature. I have sent this to my congresspersons and senators individually, and I post it here for the benefit of my readers. It is distributed under a Creative Commons license, so feel free to use it or pass it on with attribution.

The rallying cry for so-called health care "reform" goes something like this: Think of the uninsured! Think of the small businesses! Think of the single mothers! Think of the children! Anything must be better than what we have. This is effective only as long as we blindly accept that anything is better, making it pointless to evaluate what is really being offered.

As an uninsured, small business employed, single mother concerned for the health and well-being of her six-year-old child, I feel compelled to tell the side of the story being most ignored -- that of the people this legislation promises to help.