RSSURGENT: House to Vote on ObamaCare by March 18!
CAGW | March 13, 2010
As I send you this e-mail, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Obama are pulling out all the stops to pass the wasteful, intrusive, budget-busting, big-government takeover of healthcare by the White House’s mandated deadline of Thursday, March 18.
If we can keep them from securing the 216 votes necessary for passage, we will put the final nail in the coffin of this Administration’s and Congress’ ill-conceived healthcare “reform” plan.
That’s why, before you do anything else today, I urge you in the strongest terms possible to tell your U.S. Representative to oppose the Obama/Pelosi/Reid government takeover of healthcare!
Jeff, you must let your Representative know that you will hold him or her accountable for providing one of the pivotal votes that tips the scale in favor of socialized medicine in America.
The House will be voting on the healthcare bill that passed the Senate last December. That bill is chock-full of sweetheart deals, including: the “Cornhusker Kickback,” which rewarded Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) for his “yes” vote by having federal taxpayers pick up the tab for the bill’s mandated Medicaid expansion in Nebraska; the “Louisiana Purchase,” which bought Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) favorable vote with $100 million in federal money for her home state; and the union exemption from $60 billion in taxes on “Cadillac” healthcare plans, which secured the support of Big Labor.
This healthcare bill would cost a minimum of $1 trillion over the next decade at a time when our national debt has already reached $12.6 trillion and is expected to nearly double by 2019.
What’s more, the President claims his healthcare “reform” will reduce the budget deficit, but when you take away all the fiscal smoke and mirrors from the Senate bill, it actually increases the deficit by $460 billion over 10 years.
The Obama/Pelosi/Reid government takeover of healthcare would impose massive new taxes and burdensome mandates on individuals and small businesses as our economy continues to struggle and unemployment remains near double digits. This healthcare bill inserts government between patients and their doctors in numerous intrusive ways and would cause millions of Americans to lose the employer-provided insurance they have today and pay even higher health insurance premiums.
And if all of that isn’t bad enough, this so-called healthcare “reform” would cut $450 billion from Medicare, endangering the quality and increasing the costs of healthcare for seniors, while expanding Medicaid to cover an additional 15 million people.
Make no mistake, Jeff. You may have heard that the Senate bill does not contain a “public option,” but the increase in Medicaid enrollment under this bill, the millions of Americans who would lose their employer-provided insurance, and the new mandate requiring that all Americans have healthcare coverage will ultimately lead to a single-payer, socialized healthcare system in this country!
Passing the Senate bill in the House is the first step of two-part process, including the filibuster-proof “reconciliation” plan, that the White House and Democratic leaders have crafted to force their wildly unpopular vision of healthcare “reform” on Americans. If we can keep the Senate bill from passing the House, it will truly be the Waterloo for the Obama/Pelosi/Reid government takeover of healthcare.
Sincerely,
Thomas A. Schatz
President
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