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from the Independence Institute

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To be sung to the melody of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”:

Barry* had a health care plan, health care plan, health care plan.
Barry had a health care plan; it cost a lot of dough.

Everywhere that Barry went, Barry went, Barry went.
Everywhere that Barry went, the people told him “no.”

* Substitute the two-syllable name of another elected official and her for him if it’s a woman.

Video:  “Health Reform“

Information

Here are some websites with information you can use to arm yourself for townhall meetings with your Congressmen or conversations with your friends and family:

• GOP.gov > “Reading Guide – Democratic Health ‘Reform’“
• The Obama Experiment > “Health Care Talking Points“
• Heritage Foundation > “Analysis of the July 15 draft of The American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” “Rapid Response: Obama Health Care Plan,” “A Federal Health Insurance Exchange Combined with a Public Plan: The House and Senate Bills,” “Micromanaging Americans’ Health Insurance: The Impact of House and Senate Bills,” “Employer Health Care Mandates: Taxing Low-Income Workers to Pay for Health Care,” “Medicaid Expansion: The Impact of the House and Senate Health Bills,” and “New Taxpayer Subsidies: The Impact of the House and Senate Health Bills“
• Christian Coalition of America > “Health Care Action Center“
• Independence Institute: Patient Power > “Real reform:  free markets” (includes responses to common arguments for government-run health care)
• Fix Health Care Policy > “Senate Health Bill” and “House Health Bill” (among other documents)
• Pacific Research Institute > “The Top 10 Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide“
• Americans for Free Choice in Medicine > “American Health Care:  Essential Principles and Common Fallacies“
• Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine
• John David Lewis, PhD > “HR3200 Health Care Bill: What Does it Say, in more detail?” and “HR3200 Heallth Care Bill: 2 Page Flyer“
• Common Sense from a Common Man > “The HC Monstrosity-All 1,018 Pages” and “Politifact Checks a Chain Email, I Check Politifact“
• Newsmax.com > “Fact-checking Obama on Healthcare“

Tips:

Here are some other things to keep in mind:

Rush Limbaugh has recommended that you ask about specifics at townhall meetings, and Mark Levin has strongly suggested recording the meetings.

The Heritage Foundation has provided a list of five questions to ask about health care at town halls (Go to that page for information about what is in the bill regarding these points):

1. Can you promise me that I will not lose my current plan and doctor?
2. Can you promise that you and your family will enroll in the public plan?
3. Can you promise that Obamacare will not lead to higher deficits in the long term?
4. Can you promise that government bureaucrats will not ration health care for patients on the public plan?
5. Can you promise me that my tax dollars will not fund abortions?

Rocky Mountain Right has posted these questions, which should be “should be asked in townhall meetings, letters to members of Congress, speeches, TV appearances and in conversations with your friends and acquaintances”:

1. Do you think one person or one company can manage 20% of the American economy fairly and honestly?
2. When you get a big NO, ask, do you trust any politician or the 535 members of Congress to skillfully, honestly and fairly to run health care in a way that is good for anybody but their campaign contributors and favorite lobbyists?
3. Then ask, do you think Congress and the President could radically change 20% of the economy, the health care markets, and get it right? Ever?
4. Are you prepared to see Washington’s careerist politicians turn your health insurance and health care into another mismanaged, corrupt Katrina, California, New York , Illinois or New Jersey?
5. Do you realize that on a per person basis, Medicare is more expensive to administer than private health insurance and that nothing Washington will do will cut administrative costs?
6. Do you want government-run health care that favors the rich and powerful as well as the political class who will take care of their friends and themselves regardless of how it hurts you?
7. Will you support changes in health care insurance laws and regulations that won’t put the employes of large and small businesses out of work?
8. And, finally, are you ready for some minor changes in state and federal insurance laws that will let private health insurers sell and administer policies that don’t discriminate based on your medical history, can’t be cancelled when you get sick, can’t be made more expensive after you submit major claims and make it possible to take your insurance with you when you change jobs?

Human Events has posted a copy of a letter from Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership to Democratic members of Congress outlining a “Strategic Communications Plan for August: Health Insurance Reform” for them “to use this month to build support and momentum so [they] can return in September well-positioned to pass a health reform bill in the House.”

The letter includes the following talking points that are “in sync with the White House” and counter “the Republican ‘government takeover’ message”:

• Hold the insurance companies accountable.
• Remove them from between you and your doctor.
• No discrimination for pre-existing conditions.
• No dropping your coverage because you get sick.
• No more job or life decisions made based on loss of coverage.
• No need to change doctors or plans.
• No co-pays for preventive care.
• No excessive out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles, or co-pays.
• No yearly or lifetime cost caps on what insurance companies cover.

How will you respond to these points if your senator or representative raises them?

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Following is the letter I sent to Colorado’s U.S. Senators, Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, and my Representative, Ed Perlmutter, through their websites:

Under the Constitution, which you took an oath to uphold, the federal government has no power over health care or insurance.

There are only 8 million American citizens who are without health insurance because they cannot afford it or are not eligible for another program.  That is less than 3% of the population of the U.S.  In any case, it’s not the government’s responsibility to provide health insurance for those people.

You represent me and other voters in Colorado, and the majority of us are happy with the health coverage that we have.  Do NOT vote for any legislation that would interfere with our right to make our own decisions about our health care and coverage.

In fact, please do NOT vote for any bill that you have not read.

You can find contact information for Colorado’s Congressional Delegation here.

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