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ACTION ALERT

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Call Senate Finance Committee Members!
Ask them to VOTE NO on government takeover
of healthcare!

Senator Harry Reid wants the healthcare bill to pass the Senate Finance Committee by Tuesday October 6th and the full Senate to vote by Thursday, October 8th.

Senate Finance Committee rejects more conservative amendments:
Rejected: Grassley (R-IA) amendment to require all immigrants, legal and illegal, to prove their identity with a photo when signing up for federal healthcare programs.
Rejected: Hatch (R-UT) amendment to prohibit federal funding of elective abortions and health plans that cover such abortions.
Rejected: Hatch (R-UT) amendment to ensure respect for the conscience rights of health care workers who don’t want to perform abortions because of moral or religious objections.
Rejected: Bunning (R-KY) amendment to require that final legislative language and the final cost be made publicly available on the committee Web site at least 72 hours prior to voting.
Rejected: Ensign (R-NV) amendment to require any “czar” handling health care issues to be subject to the Senate confirmation process.
Rejected: Cronyn (R-TX) amendment to ensure that nothing requires individuals or employers to change the coverage they currently have.
Rejected: Cronyn (R-TX) amendment to ensure that people could keep the same coverage they have through their employer without new government mandates driving up their costs.
Rejected: Enzi (R-WY) amendment allowed individuals who would otherwise be enrolled in Medicaid through expansion of the program the right to choose to enroll in private coverage.
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H.R. 3571, The Defund ACORN Act

Ask Georgia Congressmen to support H.R. 3571 because …

It prohibits ACORN and its affiliates from receiving a federal contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or any other form of agreement (including a memorandum of understanding).
It prohibits ACORN from receiving any federal funds in any other form, whatsoever.
It prohibits the promotion of ACORN by any federal employee or contractor (including recommending to a person or referring to a person for any purpose).
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July 29th ACTION ALERT

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For the Rest of this Week: Keep Calling! Keep Opposing!

“At the end of the day … families are going to be told what doctors they can choose, what treatments they deserve, and what medicines they can receive all by an unelected bureaucrat. We think that’s a scary thought.”
— Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX)

The U.S. Personal Health Care System Must Be Protected

Senior citizens, beware! Not your doctor but appointed councils would decide everyone’s care. It will be rationed. The determinants will be cost, patient age and value or burden to society.

CLICK HERE TO READ THIS Eagle Forum/Georgia Insight ALERT.

July 22nd ACTION ALERT

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ACT THIS WEEK:
Ask Georgia Delegation to Oppose Health Care Bills

H.R. 3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
S. ______ (no number yet) Affordable Health Choices Act

Health care Bill Outlaws Private Insurance, Benefits Illegal Aliens

Provisions in the 1,081-page H.R. 3200 will cost an estimated $1.5 trillion and force 114 million Americans to lose their current health insurance. The bills, as now written, would…

Outlaw private individual health coverage. H.R. 3200, page 16, section 102, kills the market for private individual coverage, since none could be written after a public option becomes law.

Mandate taxpayer funding of abortion on a massive scale. H.R. 3200 authorizes the appointment of a new committee to recommend minimum benefits all insurers must offer. If abortion is not explicitly excluded, U.S. taxpayers will pay for hundreds of thousands per year.

Expand Medicaid and exempt illegal aliens from mandates. The current Senate bill expands Medicaid and loosens tax credit eligibility requirements. Of 46 million U.S. residents, 15 – 22 percent are illegal aliens without health coverage. They won’t have to buy the health insurance, though it’ll be mandatory for U.S. citizens. Illegals will still get taxpayer-funded health care at clinics, emergency rooms, etc. But, lawful Americans will be fined if they don’t buy insurance.

Raise taxes and destroy jobs. H.R. 3200 puts a 5.4 percent surtax on incomes over $280,000, proposes over $800 billion in new tax hikes, and will destroy up to 4.7 million more jobs.

Create multiple bureaucracies to ration care. The President’s hired bureaucrats will use a “cost effective” standard to determine how to ration, treat, prohibit or intervene in patient care.

CLICK HERE TO READ THIS Eagle Forum/Georgia Insight ALERT.