This Is Not A Drill. This Is the Real Thing.
Majority Leader Harry Reid is planning to ram through the massive government health care takeover bill with a crucial preliminary vote likely Saturday and a full Senate vote by next week.
More and more Americans oppose this 2,000-page fraudulent scheme, so House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Reid and President Obama are trying to get it done quickly.
Call or email your Senators now! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. To reach your senators by email, please click here: U.S. Senators.
• Ask them to vote NO on cloture on the Motion to Proceed.
• Tell your senators you want them to vote against any advancement of the health care takeover.
A cloture vote on a Motion to Proceed will probably take place by Saturday.
Sixty votes are needed on this vote, so if all 40 Republican senators oppose it and only one Democrat or Independent joins them, the bill is dead.
Several Democrats are seriously considering voting against the motion.
Call or email your Senators now! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. To reach your senators by email, please click here: U.S. Senators.
Again, calls are needed now to your U.S. Senators! Especially in the following states where several Senators are wavering:
• Arkansas residents, must call:
Senator Pryor’s office (202) 224-2353
Senator Lincoln’s office (202) 224-4843
• Connecticut residents, must call:
Senator Lieberman’s office (202) 224-4041
• Indiana residents, must call:
Senator Bayh’s office (202) 224-5623
• Nebraska residents, must call:
Senator Nelson’s office (202) 224-6551
• West Virginia residents, must call:
Senator Byrd’s office (202) 224-3954
• North Dakota residents, must call:
Senator Dorgan’s office (202) 224-2551
Senator Conrad’s office (202) 224-2043
Call today!
Here’s What’s Wrong With the Bill
The Senate version will allegedly cost $849 billion. But that is a fraud, since it leaves out a quarter of a trillion dollar “fix” for Medicare payments to doctors over the next 10 years. The Senate already defeated that dishonest dodge, but Reid is right back trying it again. Also, every federal health care program has exceeded initial cost estimates by billions and billions of dollars. A full-scale takeover will bankrupt our nation.
The current bill is a chamber of horrors:
• New tax-supported subsidies to purchase private health plans that cover abortion on demand;
• Watered down abortion federal funding restrictions;
• Many new taxes, including taxes on medical device makers, a 5 percent tax on cosmetic surgeries, and penalties on American households with incomes over $200,000; a government-run “public option” health insurance plan that will destroy private insurance;
• A mandate for all Americans to purchase a government-approved plan or go to jail;
• A mandate for employers to offer insurance or pay a fine, which will spur many to pay the fine and end employee insurance plans;
• $500 billion in Medicare cuts for older Americans, thus introducing rationing;
• Subsidies for “end-of-life” counseling.
President Obama said last week that he wanted a bill that would not be “restricting women’s insurance choices.” He has promised Planned Parenthood that he would force taxpayers to fund “reproductive care,” i.e., abortions. Reid and Pelosi also want taxpayers to fund abortions.
The health care takeover attempt is full of paybacks to various leftwing constituencies. The bill would also change Medicaid eligibility rules that could put nearly 21 percent of the U.S. population on Medicaid, the federal-state medical funding plan for the poor, according to a study cited by the Heritage Foundation.
A Plan to Turn Us Into Government Serfs
A prime goal of the Left is to make as many Americans as possible dependent on government until the private sector is overwhelmed and we all become subjects, not free citizens.
Obama, Pelosi and Reid want to force socialized medicine on the nation. This is about far more than medical costs. It’s a way to turn us into government serfs who will be afraid to speak out against government erosion of our freedoms lest we jeopardize our loved ones’ access to government-controlled health care.
In communist and socialist nations, the people who get first-class care are those who cooperate with government party officials. If this scheme succeeds, our children and grandchildren will not grow up in a free country. It is that serious.
Again, calls are needed now to your U.S. Senators.
Ask them to vote NO on cloture on the Motion to Proceed. Tell your senators you want them to vote against any advancement of the health care takeover.
ACTION
Call or email your Senators now! The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. To reach your senators by email, please click here: U.S. Senators.
Thank you for making your voice heard!
Sincerely in Christ,
Robert Knight
Senior Writer and Washington, D.C. Correspondent
To learn more about the government health care takeover plan and its threat to freedom, please request our DVD The Health Care Lie!
Robert Knight is Senior Writer and Washington, D.C. Correspondent for Coral Ridge Ministries and the author of Fighting For America’s Soul.
Here’s one example: Republican Senator Charles Grassley has taken two million dollars from the health care sector. How can he represent the health concerns of any constituents from Iowa? Why can’t other senators (such as our own Wyden and Wu) stand up and tell him that? Why is he even involved in this vote with that record?
Note: I’m not against social medicine. The social medicine system in Switzerland saved my life in 1989. What I am against is a medical system that doesn’t work run by the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
