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June 12, 2009
Call to action: We don't need Canada-style single-payer healthcare under the camouflage of a "public option."
Topics:Hugh Hewitt: The Obama/Pelosi/Reid push to take over and nationalize health insurance via the so-called "government option" has received a face-lift this week, with many advocates of the takeover now calling it the "public option," which sounds less intrusive.
And "less intrusive" it is most definitely not:
... (it) will destroy private sector insurance very soon after it passes and will push tens of millions of employed and covered Americans from the insurance plans they currently own (and generally like) into the sprawling, top-down, rationing-on-the-sly plan that is just Medicare on steroids, a "public option" that will be just as broke and just as oppressive when it comes to intensive treatment of difficult diseases and conditions as medicare is.Read it all.
And, as Hewitt suggests:
Spend some time this weekend letting the Blue Dog Democrats in the House or Democratic Senators up for re-election in the Senate in 2010 know that you oppose the "public option" or the "government option" or whatever else the Obama/Pelosi/Reid takeover is called. Some of the offices won't accept e-mail from outside their District or state, but start with your own state's members and move out from there. Every e-mail and phone call to a "moderate" Democrat helps turn back the government takeover of health care.Time for action is short; healthcare rationing is headed our way unless all of us act now.To call any Senate office, just dial 202-225-3121. The list of Democrats up for re-election in 2010:
Posted by Richard at June 12, 2009 8:34 AM
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