Last Chance to Defeat - Reid/Pelosi Disease Care

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PRESS RELEASE

 

 

 

MAKE THE SENATE HEAR YOUR VOICES

ON HEALTH-CARE REFORM NOW

 

December 6, 2009

 

 

The House has passed the Pelosi government-run, health-care legislation,

H.R.3962. Now, the Harry Reid Senate bill, H.R.3590, is being debated.

H.R.3590 was a House bill pending at the desk of the Senate, to which Majority

Leader Harry Reid substituted his health-care bill – hence, there is no

Senate bill number. This is more deception by Congressional Democrat leadership

and the Obama Administration so as to confuse average people, and thereby

deny them the ability to make their voices heard in opposition to a

complete Federal government take-over of health insurance in America.

62% of Voters Reject These Bills

According to a new Rasmussen poll, an enormous 62% of voters are rejecting

the single-payer plans being pushed by the Democratic Congressional

Leadership. Only 27% of voters in the nationwide Rasmussen poll favor a

single-payer health-care system. Both H.R.3962 and H.R.3590 go far beyond

reforming

our private health-insurance market, they will restructure our medical

economy and eliminate alternative medicine as we now know it.

The NHF strongly opposes both bills, as do certain other health-freedom

groups, medical professional groups, and a majority of Americans. Everyone

should realize that the “Disease-Care†system that either bill would put in

place would eliminate free choice in health care, and with their “top downâ€

decision-making would really be nothing more than a single-decider, not

single-payer, system.

The Fatal Embrace between Big Business & Big Government

Of course, the big health-care industry players love these bills because

they will ensure even more sick customers and eliminate the competition.

Some of that industry’s key executives, like Liz Fowler and Nancy-Ann

DeParle,

have left that very industry to push for the bills’ passage from the

inside! Liz Fowler is now Senator Max Baucus' top aide and director of the

Committee's health-care staff, while Ms. DeParle is the so-called health-care

" czar " spearheading reform efforts for the White House.

At the same time, congressional representatives like Senator Dick Durbin,

Congressmen Waxman and Dingell, and others, perhaps your very own

Representative and Senators, are the ones who – in their utter conceit –

think that

all solutions to economic problems can only be resolved politically at the

Federal level. Instead of removing the Federal government from the medical

marketplace, which intervention was the original source of the problem,

they want to take us even further down that road. They believe that Americans

need bigger government control over individual rights, and that unlimited

control is better than letting average Americans take individual

responsibility and make their own decisions.

If you have not done so before, or even if you have, your vote and voice

need to be registered with your two Senators, especially if they are

Democrats. Health-freedom advocates need to take a united stand with their

elected Congressional representatives against this Monstrosity. The NHF has

serious issues with all of the main policy thrusts of the Harry Reid and Nancy

Pelosi bills:

First, both bills, establish a rigidly-structured Federal bureaucratic

system, controlled by 110 new agencies and a small, elite group of bureaucrats

and politicians, that will ration what medical treatment options we can

receive, regardless of whether these treatments are conventional or

integrated forms of medicine. Click here

[_http://www.thenhf.com/critical_health/ch_37/ch_37.htm_

(http://www.thenhf.com/critical_health/ch_37/ch_37.htm) ] to

read more about how your health-care will be rationed. This is a complete

restructuring of our medical economy.

Second, this system is completely unaffordable! It will cost U.S.

taxpayers at least $2.8 trillion, since the true cost of implementing this

Disease-Care system has been hidden in rampant accounting fraud that would land

any ordinary citizen using such practices in prison! The United States is

technically, if not actually, bankrupt and in very real danger of defaulting

on its debt. Yet, these lunatics running the insane asylum want to heap $2.8

trillion in new debt on our country’s already-burdened shoulders.

Third, there is the proposed excise tax on individuals having health

insurance, and the payroll tax on businesses that will disproportionately hit

small businesses, which will be unable to afford both healthcare insurance

coverage and employees. Either costs will be passed on to already-burdened

consumers, or else employees will have to be fired. Unemployment, already

sky-high, will rise further. And dietary-supplement companies and alternative

practitioners will be especially hard hit as their customers, now having to

pay some $12,000 to over $20,000 per year in mandatory (read, “coercedâ€)

health-care payments, will have precious little money left to buy

supplements to protect their health. That’s even more sick customers for the

Pharmaceutical Industry!

Fourth, on the taxpayer-funded government-insurance-plan option, the

Senate may change from a mandated requirement to a requirement with a " trigger

option. " Under the option, if private insurers do not meet specified targets

for insurance coverage, the government insurance plan would kick in. But,

who establishes these targets, the Congress or a bureaucratic agency?

Either way, in our view, this is just a clever means to trick voters into a

government-controlled, single-payer system.

Fifth, both bills mandate the collection and government bureaucratic use

of individual electronic medical records to make medical-treatment-option

rationing decisions. This spells the absolute end of doctor-patient

confidentiality and medical privacy.

Sixth, per the Congressional Budget Office, both bills establish

taxpayer-paid health-insurance coverage for at least 2.5 million illegal

aliens.

Seventh, there are the numerous hidden and stated increases in Federal

taxes. There are major cuts in Medicare benefits for seniors and serious jail

time for people who choose not to purchase health insurance. This is a

clear violation of our constitutional rights.

If you share our opposition to allowing a federal take-over of our health

freedoms to choose, our opposition to the rationing of any conventional or

alternative/integrative forms of medical treatment options by bureaucrats,

our opposition to spending trillions of taxpayer dollars for 110 new

Federal agencies and for health insurance coverage for illegal aliens, or are

opposed to circumventing our constitutionally protected individual right to

not be forced to buy health insurance and end up in prison if we do not, then

we are asking for you to personally contact your U.S. Senator now.

The message to you can send to a US Senator is simple and direct – " Dear

Senator, I am opposed to H.R.3590 and want you to vote against it on final

passage. I support health insurance market reform but am opposed to a

Federal bureaucratic take-over of my health-care treatment choice freedoms. "

Click here [_http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/HR3590_SamplePetition.doc_

(http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/HR3590_SamplePetition.doc) ] for a

more-complete sample letter to your Senator.

This is an urgent request for your help. The NHF and other groups were

partially successful with the Senate Food Safety legislation. With this

looming “Disease-Care†legislation, we now need to defeat the Reid and

Pelosi

legislation. Please write, call, and e-mail them now.

Act Now Petition (_http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?pnum=1009_

(http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?pnum=1009) )

 

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Click on this address to find your U.S. Senators: _http://www.senate.gov_

(http://www.senate.gov/)

 

Contact Information to E-mail Senators:

_http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm_

(http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm)

 

The Senate main number is (202) 224-3121

Click on the following link below for individual mailing addresses for

letter writing and other contact info for Congress Members:

 

_Senate

 

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(http://www.thenhf.com/government_affairs/federal/111th_congress_senate_adresses\

..htm)

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As the oldest and best-respected health-freedom group on Capitol Hill, the

NHF continues to be the credible source of objective assessment of, and

proactive actions on, Congressional legislation and FDA matters that have

material impact upon our freedom-of-health choices and access to dietary

supplements and nutritional foods.

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National Health Federation: Established in 1955, the National Health

Federation is a consumer-education, health-freedom organization working to

protect individuals' rights to choose to consume healthy food, take supplements

and use alternative therapies without unnecessary government restrictions.

The NHF is the only such organization with recognized observer-delegate

status at Codex meetings. _www.thenhf.com_ (http://www.thenhf.com/)