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President Obama White House Office of Health Reform, Sen Edward Kennedy,Sen Max Baucus, Rep Henry Waxman, Rep Charles Rangel, Rep George Miller, SenBarbara Boxer, Sen Dianne Feinstein, Rep Joe Baca, Rep Xavier Becerra, RepHoward Berman, Rep Brian Bilbray, Rep Mary Bono Mack, Rep Ken Calvert, RepJohn Campbell, Rep Lois Capps, Rep Dennis Cardoza, Rep Jim Costa, Rep SusanDavis, Rep John Doolittle, Rep David Dreier, Rep Anna Eshoo, Rep Sam Farr, RepBob Filner, Rep Elton Gallegly, Rep Jane Harman, Rep Walter Herger, Rep MichaelHonda, Rep Duncan Hunter, Rep Darrell Issa, Rep Barbara Lee, Rep Jerry Lewis,Rep Zoe Lofgren, Rep Daniel Lungren, Rep Doris Matsui, Rep Kevin McCarthy,Rep Tom McClintock, Rep Howard McKeon, Rep Gerald McNerney, Rep GaryMiller, Rep George Miller, Rep Grace Napolitano, Rep Devin Nunes, Rep NancyPelosi, Rep George Radanovich, Rep Laura Richardson, Rep Dana Rohrabacher,Rep Lucille Roybal-Allard, Rep Edward Royce, Rep Linda Sanchez, Rep LorettaSanchez, Rep Adam Schiff, Rep Brad Sherman, Rep K. Jacqueline Speier, RepFortney Stark, Rep Ellen Tauscher, Rep Michael Thompson, Rep Maxine Waters,Rep Diane Watson, Rep Henry Waxman, Rep Lynn Woolsey,

From: Ange Lobue, MD, MPH, BSPharm,trinidadca@gmail.com, CA, 95519Dear Sirs/Madams:I understand that you have refused to send HR 676 to CBO for scoring and have refusedto hold a full hearing on that bill and on single-payer health care. Please reconsider your position. The bill has within it explicit financing provisions that will easily allow it to bescored. Failing to score the one legislative proposal that will save $400-800 billion per year in administrative waste is inexcusable neglect. Please send HR 676 for scoring byCBO today.This is a very personal issue for me. As a 71 year-old physician who watched the flagrantco-opting of a well-intentioned Health Maintenance Organization concept which I helpedto craft and implement, I am no longer as naive as I was about the ways of American BigPharma and Big Insura. I now know that "If there's a way, they will take it over!" You can be sure that the $80 Billion Big Pharma is offering in "Senior Discounts over 10 years" issimply a shiny hook in a muddy river that no self-respecting, old trout would look attwice.Those of you who are too young to remember the merciless way health care was takenout of the hands of doctors and systematically dismantled in the name of stockholders andcorporate bonuses should be paying more attention to those of us who were there.Moreover, all who willingly participated in this rape of American medical care should befilled with shame at the thought of permitting such a debacle to happen twice within ahalf century.

Indeed, today, neuroscience research is showing us that the lack of compassion andempathy responsible for the financial abuses of many corporate leaders may, in fact, have been the result of a subtle neurological deficit. (Google: Mirror Neurons)How will your children explain to their grandchildren that we permitted our country to be pillaged by individuals with neurological disorders commandeering unregulated,inhumane, heartless, corporate entities? All committed in the name of "the free market,"using carefully chosen linguistics to terrify the hearts of innocent Americans who, if asked under normal circumstances, would easily share their neighbors' burdens.Being able to "put oneself in another person's shoes is the result of one aspect of thefunction of "mirror neurons." Would you rather your neighbors have too many or too fewmirror neurons?In the 20th Century we had our "Age of Anxiety," and our "Age of Depression." Will theycall the 21st Century, "The Age of Terror," an age of fear deliberately fostered by thoseunable to experience compassion and empathy?In the coming months, with my physician-colleagues, friends, neighbors and the largenumbers of unwell Americans with whom we hope to crowd the main streets of America,I expect to be respectfully asking "Can you hear us, Now?" with such volume that neither the traffic noise from The Beltway nor Wall Street or from any other "Congressional callto arms" should be a distraction.Please continue to listen to our swelling voices, avoid distractions and join us when we'vereached a critical mass sufficient enough to cause you to feel that the time is right for Medicare for All Americans.We'll be listening for your response.Respectfully,Ange Lobue, MD, MPH, BSPharmAmerican Board of Psychiatry & NeurologyAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences(707) 444-1616trinidadca@gmail.com