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There is a simple solution to the
health care debate. If the bill is indeed designed for the common citizen,
do the following:
1. Go out and pick 3,000 persons
at random
2. Give them each a copy of the
2,700 pages of the health care bill that is designed for them
3. Give them one week to study the
bill
4. At the end of the week test
them on the bill to see if they thoroughly understand it
5. If the majority of them pass
the test, and agree with it - sign the bill into law, but if they flunk the
test, scrap the bill and come up with a
new billthat they can read, understand and agree
with.
If you won't allow someone to
spend your hard earned money to buy you a pair of shoes without your
approval (to see if they fit or to see if you really like them), why would
you let someone develop a healthcare plan for you, one that you have not
personally approved of or can even understand.
Anyone can write up a proposal and
tell you to sign it and approve of it without having you to read it. This is
how they trapped and obligated uneducated poor black sharecroppers who made
their mark with an X. These poor individuals worked for years, but could
never pay off their debt because they were merely told what was in the
contract rather than reading it themselves. These individuals learned one
lesson: "Thoroughly read it - before you sign it."
So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts's devastatingly
negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.
The final act was carefully choreographed. The rollout began a week earlier
with a couple of shows of bipartisanship: a Feb. 25
Blair House "summit" with Republicans, followed five days later with a few
concessions tossed the Republicans' way.
Show is the operative noun. Among the few Republican suggestions President
Obama pretended to incorporate was tort reform. What did he suggest to address
the plague of defensive medicine that a
Massachusetts Medical Society study showed leads to about 25 percent of
doctor referrals, tests and procedures being done for no medical reason? A few
ridiculously insignificant demonstration projects amounting to one-half of
one-hundredth of 1 percent of the cost of his health-care bill.
As for the Blair House seminar, its theatrical quality was obvious even
before it began. The Democrats had already decided to go for a purely partisan
bill. Obama signaled precisely that intent at the end of the summit show -- then
dramatically spelled it out just six days later in his 35th health-care speech:
He is going for the party-line vote.
Unfortunately for Democrats, that seven-hour televised exercise had the
unintended consequence of showing the Republicans to be not only highly informed
on the subject, but also, as even Obama was forced to admit, possessed of
principled objections -- contradicting the ubiquitous Democratic/media meme that
Republican opposition was nothing but nihilistic partisanship.
Republicans did so well, in fact, that in his summation, Obama was reduced to
suggesting that his health-care reform was indeed popular because when you ask
people about individual items (for example, eliminating exclusions for
preexisting conditions or capping individual out-of-pocket payments), they are
in favor.
Yet mystifyingly they oppose the whole package. How can that be?
Allow me to demystify. Imagine a bill granting every American a free
federally delivered ice cream every Sunday morning. Provision 2: steak on
Monday, also home delivered. Provision 3: a dozen red roses every Tuesday. You
get the idea. Would each individual provision be popular in the polls? Of
course.
However (life is a vale of howevers) suppose these provisions were bundled
into a bill that also spelled out how the goodies are to be paid for and managed
-- say, half a trillion dollars in new taxes, half a trillion in Medicare cuts
(cuts not to keep Medicare solvent but to pay for the ice cream, steak
and flowers), 118 new boards and commissions to administer the bounty-giving,
and government regulation dictating, for example, how your steak is to be
cooked. How do you think this would poll?
Perhaps something like 3 to 1 against, which is what
the latest CNN poll shows is the citizenry's feeling about the current
Democratic health-care bills.
Late last year, Democrats were marveling at how close they were to historic
health-care reform, noting how much agreement had been achieved among so many
factions. The only remaining detail was how to pay for it.
Well, yes. That has generally been the problem with democratic governance:
cost. The disagreeable absence of a free lunch.
Which is what drove even strong Obama supporter Warren Buffett to go public
with his judgment that the current Senate bill, while better than nothing, is a
failure because the country desperately needs to bend the cost curve down, and
the bill doesn't do it. Buffett's advice would be to start over and get it right
with a bill that says "we're
just going to focus on costs and we're not going to dream up 2,000 pages of
other things." (Disclosure: Buffett is a director of The Washington Post
Co.)
Obama has chosen differently, however. The time for debate is over, declared
the nation's seminar leader in chief. The man who vowed to undo Washington's
devious and wicked ways has directed the Congress to ram Obamacare through, by
one vote if necessary, under the parliamentary device of "budget
reconciliation." The man who ran as a post-partisan is determined to remake a
sixth of the U.S. economy despite the absence of support from a single
Republican in either house, the first time anything of this size and scope has
been enacted by pure party-line vote.
Surprised? You can only be disillusioned if you were once illusioned.
The bill is being debated, written and re-written on the
floor, tweaked behind closed doors 24-7 in the hope of passage in time to
present this "Great Christmas Present" to the people.
Well people, time is getting short so unless you want this
wonderful present to land under your Christmas tree, you'd better engage every
means of communication you have at your disposal to defeat it.
It's time to quit being articulate. Just tell them you
don't want the damned thing! I'll try and explain why
in laymen's terms, as simply as possible!
The bill being presented as the "All Encompassing
Universal "Health Care Bill" has very little to do with health care and very
much to do with control… period. Passing legislation
of this magnitude would provide the government with absolute control of a major
portion of our economy, our resources and last but not least, our fundamental
rights and freedom of choice.
Nowhere under the Constitution and Bill of Rights have the
federal government been provided the powers to legislate such a bill into the
law of the land.
If the violation of our Constitutional rights is not
deterrent enough, sheer logic should be a factor in reaching an intelligent
decision. Why would it make sense to turn over a
monumental share of authority and GNP to those who have flagrantly abused and
bankrupted us with the inept and utter mismanagement of programs such as Social
Security the Federal Post Office, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Medicare,
Medicaid, FDIC, and The Federal Reserve? More recent items of note include The
Bailout of Wall Street and the banking industry, the auto industry, the Cash for
Clunkers program and wait, (as they say on TV)…. There's more to come.
Race, religions, morality or immorality has nothing to do
with it. The Health Care Plan is just ONE BAD IDEA!
But the smoke and mirrors continue to fuel the argument.
"Should it pay for abortions? Should it be mandatory?
Can we opt out? Will it cover illegals?
Who should pay? Who should be exempt?
Should elected officials be included? Should that be
mandatory?" as though solving this host of problems will make the entire bill
more palatable.
So I say to those we've elected to do our bidding…
Let's just CUT THE CRAP! The
Health Care Bill in its basic premise violates our constitutional rights. Kill
it and find a better cure. Through this ongoing volume of verbal intercourse
you've already defined the problems! You broke 'em…
now sit down and fix them, one at a time. And keep in
mind that you additional funding does not constitute a solution. Often the
obvious answer is ADMINISTRATION rather than REGULATION.
A recent "Investor's Business Daily"
article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations
International Health Organization.
Percentage of
men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S.
65%
England
46%
Canada
42%
Percentage of
patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:
U.S.
93%
England
15%
Canada
43%
Percentage of
seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S.
90%
England
15%
Canada
43%
Percentage
referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:
U.S.
77%
England
40%
Canada
43%
Number of MRI
scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S.
71%
England
14%
Canada
18%
Percentage of
seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":
U.S.
12%
England
2%
Canada
6%
Moreover, it
was Sen. Harry Reid who said:' "Elderly Americans must learn to accept the
inconveniences of old age."
It was Ezekiel Emmanuel (Rahm's brother)
who said "American doctors need to get over the Hippocratic Oath."
The Health Care Program will soon be a reality if we are not
absolute and united in our convictions and resolve. I don't care you're
Republican, Democrat, Black or White or striped like a zebra. I think our
biggest issue is stopping the health care plan in it's tracks. The libs and
administration are on track to shove it down our thoats in some kind of watered
down version which they think they can make palatable.
Make no mistake... once health care is on the table our liberties as individuals
are down the tube. The government rules. Think of it, the possibility of going
to jail because you didn't buy insurance. How asinine and over the top is that?
Please, put every bit of your effort into the total defeat of the government
mandated health care bill. convince your friends, family and acquaintances to do
the same.
I would urge each of you to make copies of this correspondence. Then send them
via e-Mail, U.S. Mail, Telephone, Telegraph or Pony Express to your local
Senators, Representatives, Mayors, Governors as well as a CC of each directly to
the White House.
Inform them that…
The U.S. Postal
Service was established in 1775 - you have had 234 years to get it right;
it is broke.
Social Security was
established in 1935 - you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.
Fannie Mae was
established in 1938 - you have had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.
The "War on Poverty"
started in 1964 - you have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our
money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked
and our entire country is broke.
Medicare and
Medicaid were established in 1965 - you've had 44 years to get it right;
they are broke.
Freddie Mac was
established in 1970 - you have had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.
Trillions of dollars
were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the "Stimulus", the
Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009... None show
any
signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new
bitch: the American taxpayer
And finally, to set
a new record:
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took good
dependable cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them
with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of
the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for
Congress' generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed
experiments.
So with a perfect
100% failure rate and a record that proves that "services" you shove down our
throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be
trusted with a government-run health care system?
15%
of our entire economy?
Are you out of your minds?
Tell them this...
With
all due respect, if you want to
put the budget back on track and lighten the load on the American citizen and
taxpayer… go back to the drawing board. Take the time and effort to evaluate and
repair the damage you have already done.
When that's
done, come back to us, humbly and apologetically, with your hat in your hand and
show us what you have to offer.
Until then we, Americans all, stand united in delivering in an emphatic and
resounding NO to any health care bill you put forward.
Congressman Mike Rogers' opening statement on Health Care reform in
Washington D.C. Congressman Rogers' makes his opening statement
on Health Care reform legislation that is under debate in Congress. July 18th,
2009
ATown Hall Meeting with
U.S. Congressman Brian Baird
I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was
not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it.
I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that
started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I
quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a
pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So
much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.
HITLER RANTS ABOUT OBAMA HEALTHCARE AND RIGHT WINGERS
Like Obama, Hitler wants to round up your neighbors if they oppose Obama's
government takeover of healthcare, the plan that will make us worse than the
other socialist utopias who have screwed up t.
Group one: These are the achievers,
those who strive, work hard and are rewarded with the fruits of their toil.
Group two: The non-achievers. This group seldom exerts the
extra effort required to rise above their station and attain their perceived
goals. They are dissatisfied with their lot in life and spend much of their
lives in envy of the achievers.
Group three: This segment consists of those who contribute
absolutely nothing, yet demand equity based on the labor and achievement of
society as a whole.
Some ride bicycles, some drive Chevys and Fords and others drive Cadillac's.
Some just don't.
That's just the way it is.
In our Republic we have a Constitution and a Bill of
Rights. These are the cornerstones on which our Republic was founded. Within
this framework are three guarantees, the right to Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness.
Man's life, liberty and property are held sacred and
protected by this constitutional framework and the government is simply an
extension of mans basic rights. Any attempt to engage in the confiscation or
the conscription of the fruit of one mans labor, by either man or
government, in order to provide goods or service to another is an act of
illegal plunder and as such should be protested and resisted by all.
And so on to the issues of "Cap and Trade" and "Government Health Care".
Whether or not each of these issues may or may not have
perceived benefits in the eye of the beholder is not the question or the
issue. The question is, "Are they acts of illegal plunder?" and "Are they in
defiance of the very Constitution and Bill of Rights this country was
founded on?" The simple and unequivocal answer in each of these instances is
a resounding yes.
As such they should be resisted to the extreme. Call your
congressman, your senators, your representatives, your family, your friends
and your neighbors and stop this madness.
If love of country and our way of life are not enough to instill a sense
of reason
The national debt as of this years budget is an estimated
1.7 Trillion, five times the amount of last years budget. All within one
year. With Health Care and Cap and Trade this number will rise
exponentially.
Do we want to place our faith and trust in the same
people who ran the railroads into oblivion, who oversee our failing Postal
System, the Barny Franks and Senator Dodd who ran oversight on Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac which triggered our current state of economy, to those
entrusted with our Social Security program, Medicaid and Medicare who have
voted themselves exempt? Do we want these folks to control our very
livelihood and well being?
Chairman Tom
Price admonishes govt-takeover of healthcare
Chairman Tom Price of Georgia admonishes the Democrat government-takeover of
health care. (July 16, 2009)
Say "NO" to Obama's
Nationalized Health Care.
The undersigned view the currently pending 2009 Congressional Healthcare
legislation as UNTRUTHFUL, UNWISE and
UN-AMERICAN.
The President says it is needed because 46 Million Americans are uninsured. But
other analysts point out that approximately 14 million of these are already
eligible for programs like Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP, but just haven't yet
signed up. Approximately 18 million make more than $50,000 a year with over half
this number making over $75,000. These individuals have simply chosen not to
purchase it. Lastly, over 10 million of the uninsured are not U.S. citizens. So
the true number of uninsured Americans who cannot afford health insurance is not
46 million, but instead 4 to 8 million. This is less than 2 - 3 % of Americans.
So this legislation is based on UNTRUTHFUL hype.
Many of us agree: YES, for the 4-8
Million of uninsured Americans, this problem must be corrected in a fair and
compassionate manner. But our American current Healthcare system ranks as the
best in the world by many metrics, including:
better access to preventive cancer
screening than Canadians; better survival rates than Europeans for common
cancers; better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other
developed countries; lower income Americans are in better health than comparable
Canadians; Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada
and the U.K.; Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than
Canadians; Americans have much better access to important new technologies like
medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K.; Americans are responsible
for the vast majority of all global health care innovations.
Additionally, the thrust of the
legislation relates to controlling and allocating benefits rather than dealing
with high cost elements of the current system. Moreover, the bill would destroy
the current private insurance that many Americans have elected for themselves.
For any group of Politicians to mount an assault to correct a 2 - 3% problem by
dismantling our current, unsurpassed system is extremely UNWISE on the face of
it.
In 1776, Americans threw out a
Government to pursue the right to Life, Liberty and Happiness, as cited in our
Declaration of Independence. But legislation that puts nameless bureaucrats in
charge of our health in lieu of decision between a doctor and patient - - is a
clear assault on our well-being. In some cases, to save $$, those with less than
some arbitrary time-to-live may actually be deprived of their life in the name
of cost-cutting. This kind of paternalistic zealotry is totally UN-AMERICAN .
Legislators who defer to this kind of Un-Constitutional attack on the American
people deserve to be deprived of any votes whatsoever by the American Citizenry.
Rather, we must band together, in Tea Party fashion, to achieve a Constitutional
governance that responds to the People's will.
Accordingly, the undersigned hereby Petition our legislators
to, in the spirit of our Founders, throw off this 'King George' mentality. We
solicit you, as the People's representatives, to oppose this UN-AMERICAN affront
to our Health, Life, Liberty and ability to Pursue Happiness.
Aaron Burkhalter | Skagit
Valley Herald August 07, 2009 - 08:35 PM
MOUNT VERNON - U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen can expect high emotions and tough
questions Saturday afternoon at a town hall-style forum here.
The Washington Democrat faced a
contentious and divisive crowd Thursday in Coupeville at a League of Women
Voters-sponsored forum. The crowd split between people who want a reformed,
government-sponsored option and people who fear that such an option would lead
to steep tax increases.
Larsen will hold another session at 2
p.m. Saturday at the Skagit Public Utility District No. 1 offices at 1415
Freeway Drive in Mount Vernon.
Nels Kelstrom said opponents of
government-run health care were "rude" and "overbearing" at the Coupeville
forum. Nels said the crowd booed and made noise whenever Larsen or anyone else
said anything promoting health care reform.
"Their whole intent was to shut down
anybody who expressed a view other than their own," Kelstrom said.
Andy Stevens, who organizes "Tea Party"
events in Anacortes to oppose higher taxes and government growth, said the
reports on health care reform protests across the country overstate the temper
of the events and dismiss the protesters as mouthpieces for the Republican
Party.
He said people at these forums may
become angry, but only because they are not getting the answers that they
deserve.
"Nobody goes there with the object of
being disruptive, but they damn sure do want answers," Stevens said. "They want
answers, and they're not getting answers. They're doing the next thing: They're
being assertive to get the answers. I don't think that's out of line."
Tea Party member responses from the
Meeting in Coupeville
Already the left wing attack dogs have responded to the
article via the newspaper forum response, Their primary agitator under the
alias of Tea-Time writes:
Quote: Andy Stevens said "people may become angry"? Andy
Stevens and his clan ARE and HAVE BEEN angry. NOW they wave signs worrying
that they "can't afford Obama" while HILARIOUSLY during the Bush years they
stood under the gas station sign that went from under $2/gal to nearly
$5/gal and we simultaneously shipped BILLIONS of dollars to the middle east
to rebuild their country while our deficit skyrocketed! Oh.....its
laughable. "Support the President, Support the Troops" Andy Stevens, and
"Don't Forget 9-11". I'm a little disgusted and even embarrassed that he was
even included in this article based on his corner behavior
and
Andy - the answer you want is likely not the answer you want to
receive because its not what Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck told you was true.
Not getting the answer you want does not constitute an uprising, ok?
My direct and immediate response
Quick note to Tea-Time and affiliates.
I see you folks are still around and using your classic playbook guidelines,
i.e., "If you don't like the message, attack the messenger."
I don't mind. Experience has taight me that when you stand up for something
you believe in you're also going to become a target of the Bevis and
Butthead mentality folks like you. Fortunately I've developed a pretty thick
skin over the years. Fire your best shot. It won't change the facts, or your
perception of them.
Sorry folks, but the great "Health Care Debacle" and "Cap and Trade" are far
more about legislative powers and government control than they are about the
welfare of Joe Citizen.
For information on our Tea Party activities and perspective on where we're
headed please visit my "Tea Party" Website at:
http://www.teaparty-patriots.com/
For many other issues that concern me and millions of Americans like me,
please visit my Go-Patriots Website where I receive an average of 5,000
visitors a day:
http://www.go-patriots.com/
A special thanks for Tea-time for allowing me to respond.
Later,
Andy
Game on....
Responses from folks who attended the Coupeville
event
My wife went to the event in Coupeville. She got there ½
hour early and the hall was already packed with Obama supporters. So she
stood outside with a couple hundred other people. The event was totally
one-sided -basically a Liberal Circle Jerk.
Be sure and get to the PUD early as their tactic seems to be to announce an
event at 2PM and get all their supporters there by 1PM to fill up the hall.
Thks so much............ FYI I went to the Rick Larsen event in
Mt. Vernon today ------ couldn't even think about getting inside .......
5-6K people easy.......... 20% stupid --- 80% MOB ........... since I had
already heard what he was going to say from last Thurs. nite in Coupeville
........... with packed room and 50+ more outside ...... I decided no need 4
me to stay at this one ........ was beaming from ear to ear that America's
MOB is out in force. Heard from a friend who was "outside" listening on the
outdoor speaker......evidently was an open forum of people from the audience
asking ? 's vs. the controlled liberal event in Coupeville where no one
could talk or clap but only the moderator who asked ?'s that were written
out ahead of time ........... BS at the best.........Larsen continues to LIE
about the Bill by saying that it is better than maintaining the STATUS QUO
of the last 55 years......... no one bought it ......... he lied in
Coupeville by trying to say no Illegal's would be included in the Health
Care Bill .......lots of boooooooos ..........in a nutshell ....... AMERICA
IS WAKENING ............... makes one take heart and HOPE FOR CHANGE
...........ON OUR SIDE OF THE LEDGER. 2010 IS COMING SOON! AMERICA WILL NOT
LET THIS STAND ............ IF THESE CONGRESSIONAL MORONS BELIEVE OTHERWISE
........ GOOD 4 THEM .......... THEIR EPITAPH WILL READ ....... DIDN'T
LISTEN - WAS BRAIN DEAD AND RECALLED FOR STUPIDITY. .............. HOPE U
CAN FILL ME IN ON WHAT OCCURS AT THE MTGS IN BELLINGHAM AND LOL
............. OBAMA .......... "ORGANIZED BASTARDS AGAINST MAINSTREAM
AMERICA" ......... SORRY 4 THE HARSHNESS ......... BUT W/44+ CZARS SO FAR
.......... IT IS TRUE TO THE MAX.
Andy, here's my take on what happened at the meeting in
Coupeville last night. Note that I did not stay for the entire event. Once I
recognized that the event was tightly scripted and controlled, I left to
seek other, less painful applications of my time.
Since Larsen doesn't spend much time in Anacortes and my schedule prevents
me from attending the few Skagit County events he will conduct, I took
advantage of the proximity and drove down to Coupeville last night and
participated in that event. Even though the sponsor (League of Women Voters)
professed bi-partisanship and neutrality on the issue, none of the 7
speakers were against a government option for health care and only one
(Republican State Representative Barbara Bailey,) spoke out about not
increasing taxes to pay for it.
The audience was not permitted to speak, but we were allowed to submit
written questions. The first question was directed to Larsen and was, " I do
not have the right to expect my neighbor to provide me with a meal to eat, a
house to live in or a car to drive, so why should my neighbor have to pay
for my health care?" Larson stood and began a long litany about cost
increases, number of people uninsured, etc, etc...but he never answered the
question. Several members of the audience yelled out "Answer the Question!"
but Larsen just bagan to pontificate again, never answering the question. At
that point, it was evident that the only communication that would be shared
at the meeting was the script they had prepared. There would be no
dialogue...and certainly no pesky questions answered. I got up and left,
accompanied by several others in the audience. I noted that in the King 5
news coverage, others followed the example later in the program, when they
grew tired of the BS from the panel of speakers.
It seems that the media and politicians are not interested in listening to
the public. Instead, they are using their energy and communication outlets
just to demonize those of us who have long been pleading for representation
in government, but have only been screwed, by government and mainstream
media.
Before I left .... I did talk to the group out in front holding the banner
that said "HEALTH CARE FOR ALL" - I ASKED THEM WHO - IN AMERICA - DID THEY KNOW
THAT ARE DENIED HEALTH CARE? OF COURSE, THEY COULDN'T ANSWER ........ ONE GUY
MEEKLY SAID "THE CHILDREN" --- I TOLD HIM HE WAS INCORRECT AND EXPLAINED THE
"CHIP" PROGRAM ........... I TOLD THEM ABOUT MY 89 AND 85 YEAR OLD PARENTS WHO
HAVE HAD NUMEROUS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES AND HAVE NEVER - NEVER - EVER
NOT HAD IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO THIS COUNTRY'S GREATEST MEDICAL CARE. I TOLD THEM
ABOUT NUMEROUS FRIENDS THAT HAVE HAD MULTIPLE ARTERIAL HEART BYPASSES WITHOUT
WHICH WOULD HAVE THEM PUSHING UP DAISIES AT THIS TIME ... BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY -
I ASKED THEM IF THEY HAD - IN FACT - READ THE BILL - OR AT LEAST READ THE
DIABOLICAL "EXCERPTS" THAT ARE INCLUDED WITH THE INTENTION OF POWER OVER THE
PEOPLE ONCE AND FOR ALL ............ OF COURSE ........ THEY HAD NOT NOR DID
THEY WANT TOO.
Dennis Cardoza (CA-18)***
DC Address: The Honorable Dennis Cardoza
United States House of Representatives
1224 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0518
DC Phone: 20225-6131
DC Fax: 20225-0819
Mike Thompson (CA-01)***
DC Address: The Honorable Mike Thompson
United States House of Representatives
231 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0501
DC Phone: 20225-3311
DC Fax: 20225-4335
Jim Costa (CA0)***
DC Address: The Honorable Jim Costa
United States House of Representatives
1314 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0520
DC Phone: 20225-3341
DC Fax: 20225-9308
Adam Schiff (CA9)***
DC Address: The Honorable Adam Schiff
United States House of Representatives
2447 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0529
DC Phone: 20225-4176
DC Fax: 20225-5828
Jane Harman (CA-36)***
DC Address: The Honorable Jane Harman
United States House of Representatives
2400 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0536
DC Phone: 20225-8220
DC Fax: 20226-7290
Joe Baca (CA-43)***
DC Address: The Honorable Joe Baca
United States House of Representatives
2245 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0543
DC Phone: 20225-6161
DC Fax: 20225-8671
Harry Mitchell (AZ-05)
DC Address: The Honorable Harry Mitchell
United States House of Representatives
1410 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0305
DC Phone: 20225190
DC Fax: 20225-3263
Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-08)***
DC Address: The Honorable Gabrielle Giffords
United States House of Representatives
1728 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0308
DC Phone: 20225542
DC Fax: 20225-0378
Henry Cueller (TX8)***
DC Address: The Honorable Henry Cuellar
United States House of Representatives
336 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-4328
DC Phone: 20225-1640
DC Fax: 20225-1641
Dan Boren (OK-02)
DC Address: The Honorable Dan Boren
United States House of Representatives
216 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3602
DC Phone: 20225701
DC Fax: 20225-3038
James D. Matheson (UT-02)
DC Address: The Honorable James D. Matheson
United States House of Representatives
2434 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-4402
DC Phone: 20225-3011
DC Fax: 20225-5638
John Salazar (CO-03)
DC Address: The Honorable John Salazar
United States House of Representatives
326 Cannon House Office Building M
Washington, D.C. 20515-0603
DC Phone: 20225-4761
DC Fax: 20226-9669
Dennis Moore (KS-03)***
DC Address: The Honorable Dennis Moore
United States House of Representatives
1727 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1603
DC Phone: 20225865
DC Fax: 20225807
Walter C. Minnick (ID-01)
DC Address: The Honorable Walter C. (Walt) Minnick
United States House of Representatives
1517 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1201
DC Phone: 20225-6611
DC Fax: 20225-3029
Earl Pomeroy (ND)
DC Address: The Honorable Earl Pomeroy
United States House of Representatives
1501 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3401
DC Phone: 20225611
DC Fax: 20226-0893
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD)
DC Address: The Honorable Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
United States House of Representatives
331 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-4101
DC Phone: 20225801
DC Fax: 20225-5823
Collin Peterson (MN-07)***
DC Address: The Honorable Collin Peterson
United States House of Representatives
2211 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515307
DC Phone: 20225165
DC Fax: 20225-1593
Leonard Boswell (IA-03)***
DC Address: The Honorable Leonard L. Boswell
United States House of Representatives
1427 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1503
DC Phone: 20225-3806
DC Fax: 20225-5608
Marion Berry (AR-01)
DC Address: The Honorable Marion Berry
United States House of Representatives
2305 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0401
DC Phone: 20225-4076
DC Fax: 20225-5602
Mike Ross (AR-04)
DC Address: The Honorable Mike Ross
United States House of Representatives
2436 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0404
DC Phone: 20225-3772
DC Fax: 20225-1314
Charlie Melancon (LA-03)
DC Address: The Honorable Charlie Melancon
United States House of Representatives
404 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1803
DC Phone: 20225-4031
DC Fax: 20226-3944
Travis Childers (MS-01)
DC Address: The Honorable Travis W. Childers
United States House of Representatives
1708 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515401
DC Phone: 20225-4306
DC Fax: 20225-3549
Gene Taylor (MS-04)
DC Address: The Honorable Gene Taylor
United States House of Representatives
2269 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515404
DC Phone: 20225-5772
DC Fax: 20225-7074
Bobby Bright (AL-02)
DC Address: The Honorable Bobby Bright
United States House of Representatives
1205 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0102
DC Phone: 20225901
DC Fax: 20225-8913
Parker Griffith (AL-05)
DC Address: The Honorable Parker Griffith
United States House of Representatives
417 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0105
DC Phone: 20225-4801
DC Fax: 20225-4392
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02)***
DC Address: The Honorable Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
United States House of Representatives
2429 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1002
DC Phone: 20225-3631
DC Fax: 20225203
Jim Marshall (GA-08)
DC Address: The Honorable Jim Marshall
United States House of Representatives
504 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1008
DC Phone: 20225-6531
DC Fax: 20225-3013
John Barrow (GA-12)
DC Address: The Honorable John Barrow
United States House of Representatives
213 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1012
DC Phone: 202225823r> DC Fax: 20225-3377
David Scott (GA-13)***
DC Address: The Honorable David Scott
United States House of Representatives
225 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1013
DC Phone: 20225939
DC Fax: 20225-4628
Allen Boyd (FL-02)***
DC Address: The Honorable Allen Boyd
United States House of Representatives
1227 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0902
DC Phone: 20225-5235
DC Fax: 20225-5615
Mike McIntyre (NC-07)
DC Address: The Honorable Mike McIntyre
United States House of Representatives
2437 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3307
DC Phone: 20225731
DC Fax: 20225-5773
Heath Shuler (NC-11)***
DC Address: The Honorable Heath Shuler
United States House of Representatives
422 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3311
DC Phone: 20225-6401
DC Fax: 20226-6422
Lincoln Davis (TN-04)
DC Address: The Honorable Lincoln Davis
United States House of Representatives
410 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-4204
DC Phone: 20225-6831
DC Fax: 20226-5172
Jim Cooper (TN-05)***
DC Address: The Honorable Jim Cooper
United States House of Representatives
1536 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-4205
DC Phone: 20225-4311
DC Fax: 20226-1035
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John S. Tanner (TN-08)
DC Address: The Honorable John S. Tanner
United States House of Representatives
1226 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-4208
DC Phone: 20225-4714
DC Fax: 20225-1765
Ben Chandler (KY-06)***
DC Address: The Honorable Ben Chandler
United States House of Representatives
1504 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1706
DC Phone: 20225-4706
DC Fax: 20225122
Joe Donnelly (IN-02)
DC Address: The Honorable Joe Donnelly
United States House of Representatives
1530 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1402
DC Phone: 20225-3915
DC Fax: 20225-6798
Brad Ellsworth (IN-08)
DC Address: The Honorable Brad Ellsworth
United States House of Representatives
513 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1408
DC Phone: 20225-4636
DC Fax: 20225-3284
Baron Hill (IN-09)***
DC Address: The Honorable Baron Hill
United States House of Representatives
223 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1409
DC Phone: 20225-5315
DC Fax: 20226-6866
Charles Wilson (OH-06)
DC Address: The Honorable Charles Wilson
United States House of Representatives
226 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3506
DC Phone: 20225-5705
DC Fax: 20225-5907
Zack T. Space (OH-18)***
DC Address: The Honorable Zack T. Space
United States House of Representatives
315 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3518
DC Phone: 20225-6265
DC Fax: 20225-3394
Glenn Nye, III (VA-02)
DC Address: The Honorable Glenn Nye, III
United States House of Representatives
116 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-4602
DC Phone: 20225-4215
DC Fax: 20225-4218
Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-03)
DC Address: The Honorable Kathy Dahlkemper
DC Phone: 20225-5406
Jason Altmire (PA-04)
DC Address: The Honorable Jason Altmire
United States House of Representatives
332 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3804
DC Phone: 20225565
DC Fax: 20226274
Patrick Murphy (PA-08)***
DC Address: The Honorable Patrick Murphy
United States House of Representatives
1609 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3808
DC Phone: 20225-4276
DC Fax: 20225-9511
Chris Carney (PA-10)
DC Address: The Honorable Christopher Carney
United States House of Representatives
416 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3810
DC Phone: 20225-3731
DC Fax: 20225-9594
Tim Holden (PA-17)
DC Address: The Honorable Tim Holden
United States House of Representatives
2417 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3817
DC Phone: 20225-5546
DC Fax: 20226-0996
Frank M. Kratovil, Jr. (MD-01)***
DC Address: The Honorable Frank M. Kratovil, Jr.
United States House of Representatives
314 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515001
DC Phone: 20225-5311
DC Fax: 20225-0254
Michael Arcuri (NY4)
DC Address: The Honorable Michael Arcuri
United States House of Representatives
127 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3224
DC Phone: 20225-3665
DC Fax: 20225-1891
1. Will we be forced to use doctors that are assigned to us by the government?
Can theCongressman or Senator guarantee they will not vote for anything that
will infringe on our ability to choose our own doctors?
2. Will we wind up with rationing of medicalservices
as more and more people have access to government run health care? Can they
guarantee they will not vote for anything that will result in rationing of
medical services?
3. Will there be waiting lists for standard procedures
and/or diagnosis necessary to be treated? Can they guarantee they will not vote
for anything that will result in waiting lists for standard procedures and/or
diagnosis?
4. If they insist on voting for socialized health
care, will they immediately change their health insurance and their spouse and
children's health insurance to the government option? If not, since the
government run is supposed to be better than the current health care options,
why won't they change it? Do they not have confidence in the plan's results?
5. Will our medical decisions be made by government
employed bureaucrats or by doctors? Will the final decision rest between the
doctor and the patient or will the final decision for treatment lie outside of
the doctor patient relationship?
6. Will individuals be able to pay for treatment out
of their own pocket or will they be required to have insurance, even if they do
not want it? 7. Will they sign a pledge not to vote on any nationalized health
care bill until they have it in hand - including all amendments - for at least
72 hours? 48 hours? 24 hours?
8. During the debate on the so-called stimulus
package, the President's estimates on future unemployment and economic recovery
proved to be wildly off-base. Why should Americans now believe that they will
not be forced out of the private coverage they enjoy, as basic economics would
dictate?
9. Despite the President's assertions that health care
reform will save money, the reality is that plans proposed by Democrats would
cost taxpayers between $1 trillion and $2 trillion. How does this save money and
how will we pay for this?
10. If, as the President claims, a government run option is essential to
maintaining honest competition in the health insurance market, why is it not
also true that we need a government-run competitor in the fast food industry,
neighborhood babysitting, or Major League Baseball?
11. Proponents of a government-run option claim that
it will compete on a level playing field with private insurance providers. In
that case, will the government-run plan operate under a for-profit model and be
forced to pay all applicable state, federal, and local taxes?
12. How will we meet the growing need for physicians
and medical professionals if the government-run plan pays lower than market
rates to physicians while forcing them to participate or lose a majority of
their patients and their livelihood?
13. If the government mandates that all Americans
purchase health insurance, it must also define what qualifies as health
insurance. Can you provide us your definition (with details please) and explain
how this definition will not limit innovation and choice in health care?
14. According to the House Democrats' plan, a family
of four with an income of $88,200, four times the federal poverty level, would
qualify for health insurance subsidies. In your view, is this a subsidy for
low-income Americans or an effort to use taxpayers to put more health care under
the purview of the federal government?
15. The new Federal Coordinating Council for
Comparative Effectiveness Research is charged with determining what treatments
should be offered to patients. Do you believe that these personal medical
decisions should be made by patients in consultation with their doctors, or by
unaccountable bureaucrats?
16. Why are there no actively practicing physicians
included in the membership of the Council for Comparative Effectiveness
Research?
17. If the final reform proposal is controversial
enough that it will not receive the necessary 60 votes in the Senate, Democrats
have left open the possibility of using a procedural move to pass it with only
51 votes. Do you believe massive changes to such a vital area of American life
should be pushed through in this manner with only 51 votes?
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