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Topic Started: Jul 21 2009, 04:20 PM (112 Views)
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Calls Needed to Congress About National Healthcare Bill


Urgent calls are needed to the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate to oppose H.R. 3200, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.” This bill would significantly impact parental rights and early childhood education.

While this bill is being promoted as a way to reform health care and help Americans, it should be opposed because it would:

* Spend billions of dollars to allow the federal government to fund home visitation programs, where government officials would enter homes and monitor children and instruct parents in how to raise their children;
* Encourage states to pressure families to enroll their children in these home visitation programs;
* Put the federal government in the healthcare business, resulting in loss of competition, loss of patient choice, and loss of patient freedom;
* Require all health insurance plans, whether offered by a private company or the government, to include controversial “essential benefits,” which courts or the Secretary of Health and Human Services may determine to include medical procedures which businesses and taxpayers may oppose on philosophical and religious grounds; and
* Increase the size and power of the federal government.
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Another copy and pasted email? Let's see, you're objecting to nurses visiting newborns and mothers in their homes, having an option to those who can't afford expensive private health insurance (which will stay available to those who want to buy them), I think they're talking about birth control and abortion for #4- maybe even blood transfusions. I just don't get why a bloated and unresponsive private system rocks your world so much. Bottom line, our heath care costs us more and delivers less then any other system.
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Bottom line, our heath care costs us more and delivers less then any other system.


I assume you are talking about price vs value, in which case I disagree. We pay more, but get more than anywhere else. I am completely unhappy with the present system because it is employer based. I am completely unhappy with the House version (Obama's plan) because it actually legislates the responsibility to employers. What we need is removal of this vital service (insurance) from an employer system and put it in the private sector, much like car insurance. There need to be some regulations preventing enormous rate hikes due to health conditions, although some rate hikes are necessary. Cigarette smoking should be more heavily taxed to pay for that additional expense. There should be a mandated "basic" level coverage that is very inexpensive or even free with some kind of means testing and subsidized by government instead of this "government plan" which competes with private insurers. This would drive costs down by getting rid of the group plan system and making the United States the group. We also need some kind of limited tort reform if we really want to drive down costs. I wonder how much of every medical dollar spent goes into some lawyer's pocket.
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