Keep the pressure on the House members to stop the Pelosi Monster.
The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste – Action Alert
Dear BRENDA,
The House of Representatives is expected to vote TOMORROW on H.R.
3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) disastrous healthcare reform bill.I urge you, if you haven’t already, to tell your U.S.
Representative that you OPPOSE this absolutely unaffordable government
takeover of healthcare!
http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=EUrE7-aXRDdgbv7QZ8Bjmw..As if the original House healthcare reform bill that sparked outrage
at congressional town hall meetings in August weren’t bad
enough, Speaker Pelosi has now crafted a 1,990-page regulatory and
fiscal nightmare.BRENDA,
H.R. 3962 poses a fundamental threat not only to our nation’s
and your own financial health and prosperity, but to every
American’s individual liberties and right to free choice!According to an initial estimate by the nonpartisan Congressional
Budget Office (CBO), H.R. 3962 will cost our country a minimum of $894
billion over 10 years. Robert Pear of The New York Times
reported on October 30, “By the most commonly used yardstick,
the bill would cost $1.05 trillion over 10 years.”
Historically, healthcare programs have cost more than predicted — in
1990 Medicare spending was nearly 10 times what was originally
estimated in 1967 — and this is the biggest healthcare plan in
history.Quite frankly, America cannot afford even the minimum price tag for
Speaker Pelosi’s healthcare scheme when the federal deficit
stands at an all-time record and the national debt is projected to
nearly double over the next 10 years.What’s more, President Obama has said that his healthcare
“reform” will cut costs in the long run, but CBO’s
preliminary analysis of H.R. 3962 found that the bill would bend the
federal cost curve for healthcare UP, not down.H.R. 3962 would also inflict a whole host of new taxes and costly
mandates on individuals and businesses as American families struggle
to make ends meet and unemployment approaches double digits.For example, the bill would impose an individual mandate tax of up to
2.5 percent of income on individuals earning as little as $9,350 who
do not purchase “acceptable health care coverage.”
The National Federation of Independent Business estimates that the
employer mandate in H.R. 3962 will disproportionately affect small
businesses, triggering up to 1.6 million lost jobs. The direct
impact on families of all the new rules, regulations, and tax
increases will be an additional $500 per year in the cost of
insurance.And I can’t believe I’m saying this,
BRENDA,
but the financial burden of this healthcare plan to our government and
the costs to American businesses, taxpayers, and our economy
aren’t even the worst of it.The most dangerous part of Speaker Pelosi’s healthcare
“reform” bill is that it paves the way to a complete
government takeover of healthcare in this country that will
dramatically expand the size of government; allow bureaucrats and
politicians to dictate your choice of doctors, treatments, and
medicines; and ration quality care to control costs.H.R. 3962 creates 111 new federal boards, bureaucracies, commissions,
and programs. It also expands Medicaid to all individuals with
incomes below 150 percent of the federal poverty level, an estimated
10 million Americans.President Obama has repeatedly vowed that “if you like your health
plan, you can keep it,” but the so-called “public health
insurance option” that Speaker Pelosi included in her bill at
the urging of her pro-socialized medicine backers will quickly
undermine private insurance by undercutting its costs. A study
earlier this year by The Lewin Group, a respected economics consulting
firm, projected that 83.4 million Americans would lose the private
coverage they have today if a “public option” becomes law.On top of everything else, Speaker Pelosi proposes to pay for this
government takeover of healthcare with massive cuts to Medicare.
Those include more than $170 billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage
Plans that will gut the program, forcing the more than 10 million
seniors who opt for it back into traditional fee-for-service Medicare,
which has higher out-of-pocket expenses.Make no mistake. With these cuts to Medicare coming as the Baby
Boomers are retiring and the program is facing bankruptcy in just
seven years, seniors will be the first to experience rationing and a
decline in their quality of care!BRENDA,
that’s why it’s so vitally important that you tell your
U.S. Representative to vote NO on H.R. 3962 today!
http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=96Dxb9YOOcsglretjZPVDw..If we don’t succeed in blocking this very dangerous government
takeover of our healthcare, you and I and all Americans will have no
choice but to live under the mandates, restrictions, and rationing
that federal bureaucrats and politicians in Washington will impose to
curb costs.The goal of Speaker Pelosi and her pro-socialized medicine backers is
clear: to put all Americans under a single-payer, government-run
healthcare system, like those in Canada and Great Britain, that will
dictate our choice of doctors, treatments, and medicines and ration
the care we can receive.Time is short! The House will vote TOMORROW, Saturday, November
7. Tell your U.S. Representative today to vote NO on this costly
and dangerous government takeover of healthcare.
http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=M9jnbxYxWL-cfKayDon8QQ..Sincerely,
Thomas A. Schatz
PresidentP.S. BRENDA, if
you’re still not convinced that the real goal of Speaker
Pelosi’s healthcare legislation is to force all Americans into a
one-size-fits-all, government-run and rationed healthcare system, heed
the words of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who said: “I
think if we get a good public option, it could lead to single
payer. And that’s the best way to get to single
payer.” Please tell your U.S. Representative that America
cannot afford and you do not want Speaker Pelosi’s misguided
vision of healthcare “reform.”
http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=nt-3n7MRjfD0d_h_PhUiTA..
