Patients First – A project of Americans for Prosperity is sponsoring a National Call Congress Day on October 6th. Please go to the following website:
House phone campaign:
Senate phone campaign:
Type in your zip code and it will give you the contact numbers for your reps. Make your calls.
If you call before or after work, you can leave a message. They will get it.
TALKING POINTS
1) I don’t want a government bureaucrat making health care decisions for me and my family. Contrary to what President Obama says, several independent studies show that a public “plan” or “option” will take 114 million people off private insurance and put them on the government plan. I don’t want that to be me!
2) The federal deficit for 2009 is over $1.5 trillion, a historic high. The Congressional Budget Office says that this health care reform plan will add $239 billion to our deficit. Now is not the time for new, increased entitlement spending, now is the time to trim government and make it more efficient.
3) When Medicare was created in 1966, it was projected that it would cost $12 billion in 1990–the actual cost of Medicare in 1990 was $107 billion. There is no doubt this plan will end up costing American taxpayers like me much more than the current estimates.
4) Raising my taxes will be the only way to foot the bill for Washington’s out of control spending. This is no time for tax hikes. In the current economy, we should be cutting spending and taxes, not funding massive new programs by raising income taxes.
5) The mandates that this reform plan places on businesses will increase unemployment and lower wages, according to the CBO. Many small businesses are already struggling to make ends meet. With unemployment climbing, in August it was over 9%, government should not be making it even harder for businesses to succeed and hire new employees.
6) Please oppose this bill or any health care bill that takes health decisions out of the hands of patients and doctors and give them to politicians and bureaucrats. Please oppose increased federal spending. And, please do not raise my taxes. Thank you for taking the time to listen to me today.
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