Need Your Help- Please Call Congress!
Posted March 18th, 2010 by Donna NortonThe imminent vote on health reform is going to be incredibly close. We’ve got to pump up the volume to help make sure it passes. That’s right: It’s time to make sure our voices are heard once again by Congress that healthcare reform is critically important to our nation’s families in order to counter corporate lobbyists who are out in full force.
That’s why we’re making a big ruckus on-the-ground at the Capitol this week–and that’s why we need your help with some on-the-phone from your home back up.
All this week MomsRising members are delivering Diaper-O-Grams, diapers cutely decorated with member messages to Congress, from MomsRising members who think the insurance industry’s practices stink! And, on Monday, MomsRising Healthcare Campaign Director, Donna Norton, flanked by dozens of MomsRising members and their adorable and vocal babies and children, spoke in support of healthcare reform at an event with Speaker Pelosi.
Can you back us up by calling your members of Congress now? Online, on-the-phone, and on-the-ground, we need to make sure Congress knows that America’s families are ready for a change NOW! Click here to get the exact right phone number to your House Representative:
http://action.momsrising.org/go/12?akid=.7.FhFtKK&t=4
Here’s a sample of what you can say when you call: “Hello. I’m a constituent and a member of MomsRising. Healthcare reform is critically important for our nation’s families and I urge you to pass healthcare reform as soon as possible. Thank you.”
Why the Diaper-O-Grams? What stinks? Health insurance rate hikes of up to 39 percent are now happening around the country. And the five biggest insurance companies earned 56% more in profits last year, while covering 2.7 million fewer people. [1]
Some are saying we should just hang tight in this stinky situation. But what’s the cost of doing nothing? A recent article in the New York Times documents the unbearable costs that will accrue if we fail to take action to fix our broken healthcare system:
* Without a change, 275,000 people will die prematurely over the next 10 years because they do not have insurance
* Without a change, the typical price of family coverage is expected to almost double from $13,000 to $24,000 a year by 2020
* And, without a change, the number of uninsured people is predicted to increase from about 49 million today to between 57 and 66 million by 2019. [2]
Together, we’ll remind Congress that when you catch a whiff of something bad, ignoring the smell isn’t going to make the mess go away. These costs are too much to bear, are expected to get worse without action–and are avoidable if we act now to pass meaningful healthcare reform and rein in health insurance companies.
Help us tell Congress it is indeed time for a change! Call your legislators now: http://action.momsrising.org/go/12?akid=.7.FhFtKK&t=6
Please share this blog post with friends, family, parent groups, soccer/basketball lists, and more so the number of real people who are demanding that Congress rein in the abuses of health insurance companies can’t be ignored.
Together we are a powerful voice for America’s families.
P.P.S. If you haven’t signed the petition yet, click here.
[1] Insurance Companies Prosper, Families Suffer: Our Broken Health Insurance System, Health insurers take heat for rise in profits
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Did you ask your doctor what they think, I have and they tell me that it will drive them out of business? I have talked to four Doctors and a dentist that has a brother that is a doctor and they tell me the same thing that this bill is bad. There was a conviction of doctors in Florida a few months ago and 48% of them said they would get out of the business if this bill passed. At this meeting they were ask how many liked this bill and not a single one raised their hand. Did you know that tax dollars while be used to pay for abortions? How about, we will be tax for five years before any of the benefits go into effect.
Read Amendment 28 of our Constitution (it is as follows)
“Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.”
Last question, why would anyone want a bill to pass when Nancy Pelosi said we have to pass this bill to see what is in it?
You may want to go to Liberty Counsel and read or join. This counsel is part of Liberty University the largest angelical college in the US.
Here are some things you may want to read that I received from the Liberty Counsel
* In a last-minute “sweetener,” the government
will grab power from the insurance industry and
the student loan industry simultaneously. Banks
and lenders will be cut out of the guaranteed
student loan business, which of course will cost
jobs. If ObamaCare passes, the government will
become the sole source for federally guaranteed
student loans.
* Beginning in 2014, under the “individual mandate,”
Americans will be required to purchase insurance
or face stiff penalties for refusing.
* In an arrangement similar to KGB-style oppression,
ObamaCare will broaden IRS power, allowing that
agency to confiscate refunds or other payments
to Americans if there are unpaid penalties for
not buying “approved” healthcare insurance. The
IRS will have to hire tens of thousands of new
agents to enforce the law.
* The bill increases Medicare payroll taxes while
increasing Medicare cuts to over $500 billion.
Other tax hikes will be inevitable. The CBO’s
“estimated cost” of ObamaCare at under a trillion
dollars is tooth-fairy accounting, and wasn’t
even an official statement!
Please get more informed about things before you send stuff out you just may be liable for a person’s bad decision.
Charles Wright
P.S. The insurance companies on average only make 2.2% profit and the top company makes just over 4% profit. Wal-mart makes more profit than that and I do not here you complaining about how mush they make.
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March 20, 2010 at 2:53 pm by MicheleYes – jump on the bandwagon…don’t look at the facts of how expensive this will be and how your children will be saddled with this debt for the rest of their lives! Exactly WHY does this bill have to be passed so soon? How about going back to the drawing board and coming up with a bill everyone can live with? One that combats Insurance and Medicare fraud – and uses that money toward paying down Health Care costs? This isn’t a fantasy world – someone has to pay for this fiasco – and the American people who are cheerleading for passage have NO idea what this is going to cost America. Your moms and dads do – they’re the elderly in this country – they’re going to pay by being denied treatment because it’s too expensive and their life expectancy doesn’t justify the cost on some gov’t accountant’s line item. Not to mention that their Medicare benefits are going to be cut – who picks up the slack on that? Moms have power – but wise up and use it wisely – there are a lot of moms at the tea party in Washington that have added up the numbers – and realize there’s no free ride! Those are the moms I’m behind!
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