KEEPING THE FAITH
ACTION ALERT
August 10, 2009
JOIN US! Healthcare
Rally Centennial Park - Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 1pm - 4pm
Exciting News for
America's Health Care Town Hall. Country Music Star John Berry has
agreed to come and perform our National Anthem and his new song "Give Me
Back My Country". The slate of speakers and panelists are set - join us
on August 15th!
HEALTHCARE rally on Aug
15th at Centennial Park
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
AND SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS STAND UNIFIED IN LARGEST HEALTH CARE TOWN HALL
TO DATE
Key Note Speaker: Congressman
Dick Armey
Town Hall Moderator: Talk Show Host Herman Cain
Signatory Host: Talk Show Host Joel Aaron
It's YOUR health and
YOUR life that's at stake!
Dissent Is
Not Un-American
The Morning Bell - Monday, Aug 10, 2009
The Heritage Foundation
Whether the source is Gallup, Pew, Quinnipiac, the Wall
Street Journal, NPR, the Washington Post, or even the New York Times;
every recent poll on the issue shows that either pluralities or
majorities of Americans have serious doubts about President Barack
Obama’s health care plan. Reviewing the month’s polling data, Gallup’s
Frank Newport sums it up: “The bottom line is a sense that, while
Americans apparently favor some type of healthcare reform in the long
term, they are in no hurry to see healthcare reform legislation passed
in the short-term on a rushed schedule. … A Pew Research poll released
this week shows that those who are worried about new health care
legislation are most likely to say it is because it involves too much
spending and would increase the deficit.”
Wrapped in their liberal Washington cocoon, however, the
leadership in Congress simply do not want to hear this message. Instead,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
have chosen to pen an op-ed in today’s USA Today calling those who want
Congress to hear their concerns about health care “simply un-American.”
Pelosi and Hoyer claim that opponents of Obamacare are
disrupting townhalls across the country by “drowning out the facts”
about health reform. However, it is not the townhall-attending Americans
that don’t have their facts straight. It is Pelosi, Hoyer, and Obama’s
allies that are doing violence to the truth.
The Threat to Your Current Medical Care: Pelosi and Hoyer
claim: “The first fact is that health insurance reform will mean more
patient choice.” This is simply not true. According to the non-partisan
Lewin Group, under the House legislation about 83.4 million people would
lose their current private insurance. This would represent a 48.4
percent reduction in the number of people with private coverage. Pelosi
and Hoyer also claim: “Reform will mean affordable coverage for all
Americans.” But thanks to new price controls set in the legislation,
yearly premiums for the typical American with private coverage could go
up by as much as $460 per privately insured person.
The Cost Explosion: Pelosi and Hoyer also claim their
plan will “lower costs.” But this has been thoroughly refuted by the
Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In fact, the House plan significantly
expands health care costs and it is Pelosi and Hoyer who have gamed the
system to try and conceal this truth from the American people. The House
plan delays any real spending increases until 2013 so that Obama allies
like the Washington Post’s Steven Pearlstein can claim the bill only
increases government health care spending “by about $140 billion” In
reality, once all of the House bill’s spending takes effect, Obamacare
will be spending $245 billion a year. And in the out years? CBO director
Doug Elmendorf said this: “In sum, relative to current law, the proposal
would probably generate substantial increases in federal budget deficits
during the decade beyond the current 10-year budget window.”
A Government Takeover of Health Care: In his weekly radio
address, President Obama again claimed his health plan would not: “bring
about a government takeover of health care.” Obama needs to check his
facts with Pelosi’s and Hoyer’s colleagues in the Democratic Caucus,
because Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) is on record saying that Obama’s public
“is the best way to reach single-payer.” And Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
is also on record saying: “A public option will put the private
insurance industry out of business and lead to single-payer.” Do Pelosi
and Hoyer consider Frank and Schakowsky un-American for contradicting
the President?
The raucous nature of some of the townhalls may sometimes
be regrettable. But it should be noted that none of the confrontations
turned violent until the White House instructed their big labor allies
to “punch back twice as hard.” Dissent and public debate are part of the
First Amendment. People who seek to stifle public debate are the one’s
acting in contradiction to our core American values. Which is why it was
so troubling to hear the President of the United States utter these
sentences last week: “I don’t want the folks who created the mess doing
a lot of talking. I want them to just get out of the way so we can clean
up the mess.”
Quick Hits:
- With the drug industry set to run ads in favor of
President Obama’s health care plan, President Bill Clinton’s Labor
Secretary Robert Reich explains “How the White House’s Deal With Big
Pharma Undermines Democracy.”
- Bailouts for financial firms and billions in tax
revenue lost because of the recession drove the deficit to a record
$1.3 trillion in July.
- USA Today reports that the absence of the 750,000
vehicles destroyed by the Obama administration’s Cash for Clunkers
program will cause “already rising prices for used cars to head even
higher.”
- According to the Los Angeles Times, President’s
Obama’s grass-roots team has slipped in the health care debate due
to “core supporters’ disenchantment and effective GOP resistance.”
- President Obama’s use of signing statements is
provoking mounting criticism by lawmakers from both parties.
Thank you for Keeping The Faith,
Sadie Fields
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