The Institute for Health Freedom advises you to contact your Senator today about tomorrow’s vote “on a motion to proceed” on Harry Reid’s health care bill (Sat. Nov 21). There are many reasons not to like this bill. The Institute summarizes:
The bill would (among many other provisions):
- require nearly every legal resident to buy government-sanctioned health insurance;
- increase Medicare payroll taxes on individuals earning over $200,000 per year and couples earning over $250,000 per year (raising $54 billion in taxes over 10 years);
- slap a new tax on “Cadillac” health plans (high-cost plans offered by employers to their employees) – raising $149 billion in taxes over 10 years (2010–2019).
- finish laying the building blocks for a computerized “Nationwide Health Information Network” (NHIN) without patients’ consent.
For more information and a link to contact your Senator, see this summary of Reid’s Senate Health Bill. Here’s a page of direct-line phone numbers to Senators’ offices.
See also Cato‘s Michael Cannon: Reid Health Bill Perpetuates the $1.5 Trillion Fraud.
