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With a campaign entitled "We the People Can Read," Let Freedom Ring is campaigning for more Representatives to sign on to a discharge petition for HR 554. When you visit the Web page set aside for this purpose, you'll learn more about HR 554 and you'll see a list of House members and their current status where the discharge petitionis concerned. You'll also find a list of talking points as well as contact information for your own Representative. Only 36 more signatures are needed as of this writing. All too often we're not aware of even the salient points of bills until it's too late. HR 554 would give everybody—activists, interested parties, even politicians—both the time and the wherewithal to see just what a "yea" or "nay" vote would really mean. Only those politicians who don't want us to know what's happening could fail to support HR 554 and the mechanism needed to get it to the floor for a vote. And any politician who doesn't certainly deserves to have his constituents kow he prefers to keep them in the dark! Make your phone calls urging your representative to sign the discharge petition and then vote in favor of HR 554 today! 11-15-09 |
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The rush toward approval of a national health care plan is one we can ill afford in more ways than one. The plans are being rushed so that neither you nor your representative can possibly know or understand everything contained in this more than 1,000 page legislation package (early word on several Senate packages doesn't offer any more hope for remotely effective or acceptable reform). Some few things that we know are contained in the package include the effective death knell for private insurance, punishment for businesses and individuals who don't toe the government line, healthcare rationing and refusals, and a gargantuan price tag.
Nobody is suggesting that some reform isn't needed. But a total reformatting combined with socialization won't change things in a good way. The least we can do is delay passage of any measure so that everybody has a chance to truly review and understand the implications, and to prevent this plan all together! At the very least, we must oppose in no uncertain terms wholesale government involvement in healthcare. 11-20-09 There's an online petition opposing government involvement in healthcare at Free Our Healthcare Now. Perhaps the best reason "Obamacare" would prove a bad thing? The legislation itself. Here's the House version as introduced on Occtober 29, 2009, all 1,990 pages of it. The Senate version isn't much better, but it is a little slimmer, coming in at just over 1,500 pages. More information and reasons "Obamacare" shouldn't be implemented: |
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