Email your senator Tell them to keep up the fight and VOTE NO. Yes we need reform but this is not it. It is better to start over and come up with something that is good for the country and its people. Remember the constitution says We the people, not "US" the Government. Do you know there is a provision in the Health Care Reform bill that gives the IRS powers not only to fine you but to arrest you if you do not get health insurance? Do you know it covers everybody on US soil legally or illegally. Do you really want to give the IRS more powers then they have without you having fair and equal representation. If your senator is already voting no then call one who is swinging yes. Do you think that those voting yes have really read the entire Bill? After all its only 1017 pages long. Are you pulling for the team because its your team or because you really understand and like what they are doing. Even winners can make mistakes and need correction vote with your mind and not with your heart. The bill in its current form is not good for America, what kind of future are we leaving for our kids and grandkids?
Here are some excerpts:
· Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the government option!
· Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
· Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
· Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
· Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
· Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
· Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
· Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
· Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
· Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
· Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
· Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
· Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
· Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
· Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
· Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
Now having said that there are some good things such as Hmmm, I will get back with you on that.
You can go to the White House web site to get an unedited copy if it is still there.
Chuck Tolbert
A Concerned American Citizen
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