CCHR Florida Wake-UP Action Alert on Health Care

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CCHR Florida Wake-UP Action Alert on Health Care

 

 

 

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:27:14 -0500 (EST)

 

 

 

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Wake-Up Action Alert

In an article from Livingston.com we are

informed that, "The Senate's version of the health-care bill contains

the provision that include alternative medicines. When the House and

Senate versions of the bills are brought together - which could be in a

matter of months - Warner said it's impossible to know what will be cut

and what will remain."

 

The issue of federally mandated mental health

screening is not finished. The subject of alternative medicines is up

for debate, Your ACTIONS are needed.  Please take the time to read

through this email.

 

 

 

The first article, below, was written by a CCHR Florida Volunteer, Gabe

Colon and is very informative.

 

The second article,

below, was written by another CCHR Florida, Deanna Calef and offers you

information from several nationally known investigators.

 

These articles provide you

with information and sources of informaiton that you can use to

communicate to your Federal Legislators and State Legislators.

 

In the State of Florida,

the issue of psychotropic drugging of children is being looked at.

 

Federally, the issue of

health care is being looked at, mental health screening is a big part

of this issue.

 

We need to continue to

contact our Federal legislators and state legislators and voice our

concerns.  Get the facts, read these articles, in full, and contact

your legislators.

 

To find you federal

legislators: go to www.whoismyrepresentative.com

To find your state

legislators: go to www.cchrflorida.org/floridalegislators

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHY THE

HEALTH CARE BILL IS NOT DEAD By

Gabe Colon

 

The health care

legislation that has progressed through Congress over the past year has

done so in large part because of one number: 60. That's the magic

number of Senators it takes in the United States Senate to end debate

on a bill and bring legislation to a simple majority vote. Because a

clear majority of Americans currently oppose health care reform (58% of

the public is opposed according to the latest Rasmussen poll while just

39% favor) all 40 Senate Republicans have been united in opposition and

have forced Democrats to hold all of their 60 senators at each crucial

vote to advance the bill. On Christmas Eve 2009, 40 Republicans voted

"no" to end debate, but 60 Democrats voted "yes" to advance the bill

(and pass it). Had Democrats only had 59 Senators, the bill would have

died last fall as Republicans would have the 41 votes needed to block a

final vote. So long as Democrats held 60 votes in the U.S. Senate,

there was simply nothing Republicans (or for that matter the average

American citizen) could do to stop it. But all this was B.F. (before

Brown).

 

On January 19th,

Republican Scott Brown shocked the political world by defeating Martha

Coakley in a special election in Massachusetts to replace long-time

Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy. The implications of this race were

enormous: Republicans now held 41 seats in the Senate and could block

any attempt to ram health care through. So the bill is dead right? Not

so fast. Here's how health care reform can still be enacted into law

this year (from simplest to most complex):

 

1.) The House of

Representatives could literally pass the Senate bill tomorrow morning

and send it to the President of the United States to be signed into

law. Remember, the Senate passed a health care bill before

Scott Brown was elected. That bill is good until January of next year.

It is simply sitting there. It can be taken up at any time

by the U.S. House and there is nothing

Republicans could do to stop it. It takes only 218 votes to pass a bill

in the House and Democrats currently have 258 votes. So why don't they

simply do this and be done with it? Because many House Democrats have

major problems with the Senate bill. So much so that Speaker Nancy

Pelosi announced a week after the Brown election that she did not in

fact have the 218 votes to pass the Senate bill. On to potential

solution number 2...

 

2.) The White

House could try to convince the House Democrats to go ahead and pass

the Senate bill with a promise that the things they do not like will be

"fixed" later on. As Andy Stern, President of the labor union SEIU

wrote, "Step One: The House should pass the Senate's health insurance

reform bill - with an agreement that it will be fixed, and fixed right,

and fixed right away through a parallel process." But remember, any

"fixes" would then be subject to a brand-new Senate vote, an "After

Scott Brown" vote. Republicans could block everything with that

all-important 41st vote. But what if there was a way around that 41st

vote? For Democrats intent on passing health care at all costs, there

might be...

 

3.) Democrat

congressional aides are now looking to use a special budget procedure

to revise the Senate bill and avoid needing

the full 60 votes. The procedure is known as reconciliation. Under

"reconciliation rules" only 51 votes are needed to pass a bill. What is

reconciliation? According to the Tax Policy Center, "congress

uses the reconciliation process when it wants to legislate policy

changes in mandatory or other direct spending or tax laws to achieve

the budget's resolution's goals." As promised, we've gone from

simplest to most complex. This is very tricky stuff, but essentially

the idea is that if changes are made to the Senate health care bill

that directly affect the budget, only 51 votes would

be needed. Obviously many of the changes Democrats want to make are not

budget related, and so they will have a very difficult time pulling

this off (not to mention having to face enormous public backlash).

 

The health care

bill is not dead. It is not dead until January of next year when the

Senate bill officially dies and would have to be put back together

again. For those who do not want to be mandated to purchase

"government-approved" health insurance with mandatory mental health

coverage, you should not rest now. Continue to call or fax the

representative in your DISTRICT (remember, the fate of this rests most

likely in the House. Find out who your local congressman is and urge

them to let the bill die the death it so truly deserves).

 

 

 

Investigative Reports - Health Care

 

by Deanna Calef

 

The mental health measures that were lurking in the Health

Care Bill still pose imminent danger to every individual's well being

and freedom. Will we allow our human race to be reduced to animals with

the stroke of a pen?

 

The World Health Organization, experienced

practitioners, professional organizations and parents have come to

similar conclusions. The mental health items in the Health Care Bill

remain a grave concern and it is imperative that the public get

educated as to what they are and how they can be influenced by them.

Regardless of the current status of that bill, we need to communicate

to our Federal and State legislators and let them know we oppose mental

health screening, due to its lack of scientific evidence and the

subjective nature of the questionnaires and that we oppose the

psychotropic drugging of our nation. To read the article, in full, go

to: http://mentalhealthscreening.wordpress.com/

 

 

Livingston.com article re: alternative medicine: http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20100131/NEWS01/1310324/-1/NEWSFRONT2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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