A Plea from America's Physicians To Kill the Healthcare Bill
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 9:16PM AAPS, this evening, is faxing all members of Congress with the message below.
If you have the capacity to fax, please send a similar message or a message of your own before the vote scheduled for Sunday, March 21st sometime after 1:00 pm Eastern.
A list of targeted Congressmen with their DC phone and fax numbers are listed at the bottom of this message. The pro-life Democrats listed below should be reminded that the Senate bill will result in the largest expansion of abortion services since Roe v. Wade. Any promised executive order fix cannot override this problem in the Senate Bill.
Congress is open and staffed to answer calls and read faxes all weekend, so keep up the pressure - victory is within reach!
Saturday's Code Red Rally at the U.S. Capitol had more than 50,000 people telling Congress loud and clear to "Kill the Bill!" Photos taken by AAPS director Richard Amerling, MD can be seen at the Take Back Medicine Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/takebackmedicine .
A Plea from America's Physicians
To Kill the Healthcare Bill...
Before it Kills Medicine in America
You have no doubt received a letter of endorsement from AMA president Rohack: the letter that will end the AMA’s pretense of speaking for American physicians.
A coalition of state and specialty medical societies representing half a million practicing physicians, far more than the AMA does, has arisen to counter AMA support for this monstrous bill. We add our voice to theirs.
On behalf of our thousands of physician members in all specialties nationwide, and the millions of patients we serve, we urge you to vote NO on the Senate bill.
It forces Americans into expensive health plans that they don’t want.
It destroys economical true insurance policies that Americans DO want.
It imposes a massive, unaccountable bureaucracy between patients and their physicians.
It piles yet another entitlement on the already unsustainable entitlements of Medicare and Medicaid. The costs of these programs were massively underestimated by government actuaries. The CBO’s fanciful assertion that this one will stay under $1 trillion totally lacks credibility—even if the program somehow did manage to bleed one-half trillion dollars from Medicare.
It will compel Americans to pay for abortions.
It will drive up to half of America’s physicians out of practice.
The casualties from this bill will include: jobs, medical innovation, patient privacy, ready access to excellent medical services, financial security for millions who worked and saved, the right of conscience, and the credit rating of the United States.
In return Americans get hollow noble-sounding promises that cannot possibly be kept.
The more Americans learn about what the bill really does, in stark contrast to what it is supposed to achieve, the more strongly they oppose it. Listen to their voices. Vote NO.
Reader Comments (1)
The mon after the bill was passed the company my huband works for canceled their ins. now we have no health insurance. we are baby boomers , vet of the vietnam war and we have worked hard all our married life. this is our reward. we will have to pay 500.oo a month insurance that really does not cover much. no one cares even the MD. health care in america is dead. I know this first hand and in my profession as a nurse.