From: 	senator@boxer.senate.gov
Subject: 	Responding to your message
Date: 	July 9, 2009 3:24:58 PM PDT
To: 	rhodes@bradleyrhodes.com

Dear Dr. Rhodes:

Thank you for writing to me about the need to include a public-interest
option as the Senate takes up health care reform legislation.  I
appreciate hearing from you on this important matter.

I was pleased to be an original co-sponsor of S.Res.156, a resolution
expressing the sense of the Senate that health care reform legislation
should include the establishment of a federally backed insurance pool.

Introduced by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), S.Res.156 says that any
reform of the nation's health care system should give consumers a choice
of an affordable, federally backed option to introduce competition in
the health insurance market and contain health care costs. I support
this approach.

Again, thank you for writing to me.  Please feel free to contact me
again about this or other issues of concern to you.


Barbara Boxer
United States Senator


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