Hi,
Chris sent this email out last night and I thought that he said it so well and that it was important enough to post it on my blog. If you are interested please read below and follow the link. Please share this information with people that you know. I hope that we can get enough people to become more aware of what is happening with our heath care. And I pray that we will be able to make a difference and stop this from going any further.
At the bottom of this post there is a link to a website that has a video that talks about who the uninsured in America is. Please check that out as well.
Morgan
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Hi All,
I usually don’t get involved with emailing groups of people regarding different political issues. However, with the recent direction that our elected leaders have been taking the size and scope of our government, I feel an increasing duty to stand up and at least try to make a difference. With the recent “Energy Bill” narrowly passing the House, it is imperative that we, as citizens, not only become better educated in regards to what Washington is doing which, in a very real way, will affect many aspects of our personal rights and freedoms, on which America was founded, but to also make our voices heard. Currently there is legislation being formulated to “reform” our health care system, which will have significant negative impacts on our health care. There is a nationwide effort to make our voices heard by signing a petition and delivering it to our elected officials in Washington. While there isn’t much we can do when certain legislation that we don’t agree with is being purposed, signing a petition is one of the few. Let us at least do this, it only takes a minute and it may have an impact (as did the big uproar when Immigration Reform was on the agenda).
Here is the link to the page for the petition:
www.freeourhealthcarenow.com
Please encourage all those you can to become educated in regards to this particular issue and sign the petition listed above. I do truly believe that if we, as Americans, sit idly by as our self-serving representatives push their agendas and the agendas of special interest groups, we will one day, in the near future, wake up to an America that we don’t want for ourselves and we certainly don’t want for our children. Whether you are Republican, Democrat, Independent or any other political affiliation, please put that aside and take the time to go and sign this petition to tell our politicians that we want a common sense solution that will actually reduce costs (and thereby making it more “universal”) while maintaining and improving the quality of our current system and staying out of our lives. Congress has a goal, shared by the President, to try to push this through to the President’s desk in a very short matter of time (we are talking a matter of weeks), which in and of itself, is irresponsible. You don’t completely overhaul a health care system in a matter of weeks, no matter what your ultimate goal. Please sign, if for nothing else, to hopefully allow for more time for discussion and debate, to hopefully prolong and prevent their reckless ambition to push their agenda.
This petition is gaining momentum, over 510,000 have signed last time I have checked, this included an impressive 40,000+ in one day. (Go here to check the ticker: http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/Numbers.php)
If you have any questions regarding this, I’ll try to answer them. If there are any of you who would like to debate me on whether “universal”, government-ran health care is right for our country… don’t. Thank you for your time.
Best Regards,
Chris Turley
For those that would like a few more little tidbits of information regarding this matter:
According to the Census Bureau - 46 million people are Uninsured, of which the following is true:
17 million make more than $50k/year and CHOOSE not to have health care for whatever reason
9 Million of these earn over $74k/year
14 million are eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP, but just haven’t taken the time to sign up
A few more million for illegal immigrants who don’t buy insurance (who knows what this number really is)
This leaves you with a much lower number of around 15million (without accounting for illegal immigrants, which would put it closer to probably 5-7 million), which is still a lot of people but it is no where near the 45 million that politicians and agenda-driven groups love to quote
Better survival rate than Europe for 13 of the 16 most common cancers
One Quick Example - Prostate Cancer
U.S. Survival rate – 91.9%
France – 73.7
Great Britain - 51.1%
The Great Britain “National Health Care Office” yearly cancels over 100,000 procedures due to “cost” issues (I thought Socialized medicine was free and “universal” for everyone...)
Over 1 million Brits are currently waiting to be Admitted to a hospital for some type of care with an additional 200,000 waiting to get on the waiting list (a 45 minute wait at a doctors office doesn’t sound so bad…)
In 2003, when there was unusually hot summer, over in 37,000 people died in Europe due to overcrowded hospitals. 37,000 people, that is insane!
In Canada, over 800,000 people, out of a population of 33 million are on a waiting list for more than 18 weeks, which even for the socialized medicine standards of Canada is twice as long as what is consider clinically reasonable.
If you put this into perspective for the size of our population, it would be like every single person in L.A., Chicago and Seattle on a waiting list, that would be over 7 million Americans on waiting lists if we were to have the same type of system as Canada.
Doctor shortages in Canada, due to the fact that Canadian doctors make 58% less than U.S. doctors make.
In 2006 The Prime Minister of Italy came to the U.S. for his heart surgery. He must have not heard that health care is free in his country…
In the proposed House bill, a new federal health board will decide whether your health care is "effective" or "appropriate."
According to Tom Daschle (one of our politicians), the idea is based on Britain's model which has determined that one year of life is worth only $44,000. I can see where this is going, can you? From what I understand, many types of treatments for disease costs more than $44,000 in a year. Makes you wonder...
The subcommittee in the House, where this health care reform bill was introduced, the first draft was introduced at about midnight on a day last week. They took a vote that morning. The vote went down party lines, with 3 or 4 Dems defecting to vote against, sighting that they haven’t had time to read it (who can read a 1,000+ page bill given only a few hours in the middle of the night). Can this really be good for America, passing health care reform in the cover of darkness?
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, NCPA, & The Fox News Channel
If you have 9 minutes, watch this video, it may open your eyes:
http://www.freemarketcure.com/uninsuredinamerica.php
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