MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Thanks to your hard work, the “Free Our Health Care NOW!” petition ( www.freeourhealthcarenow.com ) which is your statement that you do not want government run health care, is now the largest health policy petition ever delivered to Congress. More than 1.275 million Americans have joined you in fighting government-run health care.
Sign, Sealed, Delivered. Governor Pete du Pont, Chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), and Dr. John Goodman, President of the NCPA, along with Mike Gallagher and other Salem Radio hosts Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt delivered the “Free Our Health Care NOW!” petition to the leaders of Congress - 55,000 pages contained in 15 boxes.
Your Identity is Secure. Some of you have asked if the government will know your email address because of your association with the petition. Please know that we have not and will not release your personal information to any other party, including the government. The petition only provides your first and last name and the state of your residence.
Thank you for your support! In response to our requests, many of you have given to the “Free Our Health Care NOW!” petition. We appreciate it. Please know that your support is crucial to keeping the fight alive! We are now on to the fall debate, Phase II Solutions. If you can afford to give to help us with Phase II, please do so.
Showdown at Capitol Hill. Yours is not the only voice that’s trying to be heard on Capitol Hill. In an attempt to regain control of the health care debate, Now that the Senate is moving to the debate phase of the bill you need to Call your Congressmen - tell them that yours is the voice that they should remember.
The Fight Continues! Please join thousands of grassroots Americans from across the country to tell the politicians the era of big government is over! For more information, see www.FreedomWorks.org.
Britain: Where It’s Better to be a Prisoner than a Patient. An examination of Britain’s government-run health care system reveals how terrifying nationalized health care can be.
- An article in the Daily Telegraph explains that the British government’s National Health Service has promulgated a policy which wrongly determines some patients as “close to death” and deprives them of the basic care that would otherwise sustain them.
- Meanwhile, this an article in the Daily Mail revealed that British prisoners have a better diet than patients in National Health Service hospitals.
Welcome to Massachusetts, Welcome to Rationed Health Care. As a New York Times article reported, Massachusetts has begun rationing its state-sponsored health care after only three years since the state adopted a government-run health care system. Governor Deval Patrick announced that 31,000 legal immigrants will no longer receive dental, hospice or skilled-nursing care because of scale-backs.
In response to rationing falling on her constituents, Eva Millona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, said she was worried about immigrants’ having to find new primary care doctors at a time when the state is suffering from a shortage of such providers. The question observant Commonwealth residents must be asking now is, “Am I next to see a reduction in benefits, services and care?”
The British and Massachusetts experience: government-run health care leads to higher cost, lower quality, and reduced access. As taxpayers and as patients, Americans simply can’t afford government-run health care!
Worried about the cost, quality and access of government-run health care? You should be. The good news is that a growing number of Americans share your concern.
There are lots of ways to stay involver or get involved if you haven’t already!
There is a wealth of other educational and resource material available, including better alternatives to government-run health care:
Health Care Solutions: http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Health_Care_Solutions_072909.pdf
Five Steps to a Better Health Care System: http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Five_Steps_to_a_Better_Health_Care_System_Web.pdf
Dr. John Goodman’s Blog - Current, up-to date information on the debate: www.john-goodman-blog.com
Heartland Institute’s Health Care Solutions: http://www.chcchoices.org
Thank you again for your support of the “Free Our Health Care NOW!” and for fighting against government-run health care. Please continue the fight as it moves into its debate phase. There are a lot of fence straddlers who need to be nudged to move off dead center and get reasonable about health care.
Jeanette Nordstrom
National Center for Policy Analysis
www.ncpa.org
In case you haven’t really understood the health care plan let us summarize it and set you straight.
This health care plan was written by a committee (outside of our congress and populated by a group put together by our president) whose head says he doesn’t understand it, voted on by a Congress that hasn’t read it and whose members will be exempt from it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is dead broke.
Now what could possibly go wrong?
Thanks to those of you who have provided input to this Blog
Until next time…
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants…Camus
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have…Thomas Jefferson
Change does not necessarily assure progress…Henry S. Commager
Somewhere in Kenya or Indonesia is a village which has lost its idiot … unknown
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other peoples’ money…Margret Thatcher