This may shake things up a bit. Congressman John Fleming is urging members of Congress to sign up for a public health care plan. The resolution can be viewed at fleming.house.gov.

On Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved a bill to revamp the nation’s health care system. The vote, however, 13 - 10, was strictly along party lines.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cleaned house yesterday, firing most of the members of California's State Board of Registered Nursing for what he is citing as the unacceptable length of time it takes to discipline nurses accused of gross misconduct.

Inaction about the current health care system where 46 million Americans go without health insurance coverage is not an option. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that that she predicts that the health care package may be passed by the House August recess as the president Barack Obama makes a renewed push with his congressional allies to push through the health care reform.

The debate about the health insurance and reform is warming up. Spanish newspaper from Las Vegas Prensa Latina Las Vegas quotes the words of Harry Reid, the senate majority leader saying that if we leave the way the current health insurance system is, they will put their profits over our health.

Last week the President said he would not "draw a line in the sand" about a public health care option as part of health care reform. Sunday morning, on Meet The Press David Axelrod added to this that, though Obama favors a public option, he will not "insist on it." This constant need by the President to compromise with vested interests is just too much; The time has come to ask Barack Obama to stand firm. I have, therefore, decide to write him an open letter on the matter.

As a New York Personal Injury lawyer I find the views I read about and of those I speak to interesting. Some, simply die hard conservatives, can't allow anything President Obama does to go by without castigating it. If he tries to keep the nation's largest automobile company from failing, it must be the act of a socialist. If he nominates Judge Sotomayor he is a person of color playing to another minority. If he attempts to create a dialog with Arab nations he is a Muslim.

We all know the facts now. 47 Million Americans have no health insurance, millions more are under insured, and even the fully insured are often denied coverage by their insurance company. We further know that Medical Bills are the leading cause of debt in the United States and, even worse, that they are responsible for nearly 2/3 of bankruptcies. This is why Obama, and others, have advocated a public plan. Oddly, however, today Barack Obama strongly suggested that the public plan is actually negotiable.

The physical and mental health needs of juvenile offenders should be treated as a priority if offenders held in detention have any real hope of rehabilitation, according to new research from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

While at a conference in England this week, Economist Paul Krugman said he was optimistic that a genuine Public Health Care option would be passed this year. I hope he is right. But the Republicans have come forward to offer an alternative plan.

Key to the entire effort at Health care reform is a Public Health care plan. Without such a plan, the profit motive will continue to control health care. I am happy to report that the congressional democrats are coming very close to a health insurance plan that they will propose and the public option is a central part of it.

Health care petition is now organized at freeourhealthcarenow.com, which asks the U.S. Congress to take actions protecting citizens' rights for private health insurance and not take actions for government-run health insurance.