Here's a summary of arguments against so-called health care "reform," specifically, the Senate Bill, HR 3590. It might be useful when contacting a member of Congress (e.g., those on the fence). The bracketed numbers refer to the reference list at the end. (To keep your e-mail short, you can omit ...
From the New York Times:
Seeking to avert the collapse of major health care legislation, the White House and Democratic leaders in Congress face a crucial decision about whether to use a procedural maneuver that would allow them to advance the bill despite the loss of their 60-vote majority in the ...
The Institute for Health Freedom invites you to contact your representative in DC about the Senate health care bill:
Congress Is Trying to Bypass Filibuster-Proof Senate to Pass Insurance Mandate
If House Approves Senate Bill (Verbatim), It Bypasses Filibuster-Proof Senate and Goes Directly to Oval Office
Contact Your Representatives ASAP ...
Paul Hsieh, MD reminds us of how, in both the House and Senate health care bills the so-called health care "reform" will further empower government officials to tell us what insurance we can and cannot have:
Under any system of mandatory insurance, the government must necessarily determine what constitutes an “acceptable” ...
A new study from Cato about the House and Senate health care bills
House and Senate Democrats have produced health care legislation whose mandates, subsidies, tax penalties, and health insurance regulations would penalize work and reward Americans who refuse to purchase health insurance. As a result, the legislation could trap many ...
Writes Vince Carroll in the Denver Post:
If the Senate health care bill becomes law, your preventive care will become "free." ... We have the word of Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet that the bill guarantees "free preventive care for everyone." ...
What the senator actually meant, of course — and would eventually ...
By attacking Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Democrats want use tax policy to punish people who prefer to buy medical care directly, rather than through insurance. Sounds like they favor the insurance industry, no?
On January 9, the AP reported that:
House Democrats want to require insurers to ...
That's what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are ... - Barack Obama, Jan. 31 2008
From the AP:
House and Senate Democrats ...
Dr. Paul Hsieh points out some scary aspects of the House health bill (HR 3962) and the Senate health bill (HR 3590):
Under ObamaCare, patients will be forced to pay for certain kinds of medical care whether they want it or not — thus raising their health care costs.
And patients ...
Patients First summarizes of how the House and Senate health care bills fail to meet president Obama's promises:
They won't "slow the growth of health care costs."
They won't "make the insurance you have work better for you," or increase choice and competition
They won't address out-of-control Medicare and Medicaid spending
The currently uninsured ...
