Category Archives: Health Care

August 10th Report

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Tightly Controlled District 4 Town Hall Meeting,
August 10, 2009

“Universal coverage does not equal universal access.”
-Dr. Todd Williamson, Medical Association of Georgia & Town Hall Panelist

Concerned citizens formed a line well before 6:00 p.m. for the 7 o’clock town hall meeting of Congressman Hank Johnson, scheduled for the 500-seat Cole Auditorium at Georgia Perimeter College in DeKalb County. When the doors opened at 7, that venue was immediately filled and 1,100 of us were herded into the overflow room. 15 security guards (triple the normal number) kept order and said “between 500 and 800” were turned away. Microphones were set up in the Cole Auditorium, but none in the overflow room, where no questions were asked or answered.

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August 2009 Newsletter

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Why Ruin the World’s Best Health Care
with Government Control?

At Issue: H.R. 3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
S. (No number, yet.) Affordable Health Choices Act

Facts About Government-Run Health Care

Oregon’s government plan: News media report that, currently, State health officials in Oregon are citing cost for refusing to provide treatment that would extend the life of a woman with cancer. Instead, they are said to have offered life-ending medication that costs about $100.

Massachusetts’ government health plan, adopted in 2006, is the model for Senator Kennedy’s “Affordable Health Choices Act”. Since its adoption, state government spending on health care programs has increased 42 percent and is, currently, 33 percent above the national average. Insurance premiums have increased nearly double the national average: 7.4 percent in 2007, 8 to 12 percent in 2008 and an expected 9 percent this year. Health insurance for a family of four averages $16,897, which is more than 33 percent above the national average of $12,700.

Massachusetts has more doctors per capita than any other state, but the Boston Globe reports the average wait to see a family doctor is now 63 days and up to a year for the busiest, most popular doctor. The wait to see a specialist is 50 days and a pregnant woman will be in her second trimester before she can see an obstetrician-gynecologist.

Canada’s physician shortage has caused officials to resort to lotteries. Patients that win the lottery tickets can see the local doctor. The problem is so severe in Canada that, between 2006 and 2008, Ontario sent 160 patients to New York and Michigan for emergency neurosurgery.

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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.

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Baffling Flow Chart

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Public Gets Peek at Complicated Bureaucracy in Democratic Health Care Plan

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), the lead House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, on July 15, 2009 unveiled a detailed flow chart of the complex health care reform proposal by Democratic congressional leaders.

The chart identifies at least 31 new federal programs, agencies, commissions and mandates that accompany the unprecedented government takeover of health care in America.

“Why should any patient be forced to give control of their health care over to this Faustian pit of Washington bureaucracy?” asked Brady.

“This government takeover has only one guaranteed result: to tell Americans what doctors you can see, what treatments you deserve and what medicines you can have.”

The attached chart depicts how the health care system would be organized at the national level if the Democrats’ plan became law. These new levels of bureaucracy, agencies, organization and programs will all be put directly between the patient and their health care.

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