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Questions for Your Congressmen on Health Care 8/19/2009 1. Without an explicit exclusion for abortion, a bureaucrat or judge will say it covers abortion. Will you oppose a bill that does not exclude abortion coverage or funding for abortion? [Your representative may claim that "abortion isn't in the bill." You can point out that the word "abortion" isn't in the Constitution but judges and radical feminists tell us it's in the 'emanations of the penumbra.' We know how these things work — Congress passes vague legislation and lets bureaucrats and judges read 'abortion' into the regulations. That's why any health care reform bill must explicitly exclude abortion."]
2. Congress and federal employees can decide what insurance plan they want. But the health care bills empower government boards and bureaucrats to decide what my insurance plan must be, leaving citizens with no choice. Will you support true health care reform that lets citizens choose their plan and what it will cover — with no government mandates? Or are we too naďve to know what we need and must have the government tell us?
3. Many women are pressured to abort their babies, especially when the baby is diagnosed with a health problem. If abortion is covered in the government plan, make no mistake, bureaucrats will decide that abortion is more cost effective than treatment or delivery. This will lead to bureaucrats deciding for women that the government will pay for her abortion but not delivery or treatment for her child. Will you support excluding abortion coverage from the health care bills?
4. If every person in America is required to have health insurance or else they get fined, what happens if they can't pay the fine? Will bureaucrats have the power to decide what happens to them? If a family cannot afford the government insurance or the fine, can a government agent — like the IRS — garnish their wages, put a lien on their house, and even throw them in jail? If not, where in the bill does it protect individuals from government abuses?
5. President Obama voted to deny medical care for newborn babies that survives abortion. His health czar Ezekiel Emanuel said medical care should not go to people "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens" and defends medical discrimination against the elderly. Would you trust your families' health care decisions to them? Would you let them make health care decisions for your grandmother?
6. The House bill compels seniors to undergo "counseling" on end-of-life care. Obama's czars are focused on cost cutting and rationing. The harsh reality is that a dead patient costs less than a live patient. Will you oppose any health care bill that promotes euthanasia?
7. Congress and federal employees have gold-plated insurance plans. If you support a public option or a co-op for the rest of us, will you enroll your family in it?
8. Some people share and pay for each others' medical expenses through private organizations. Because many of the people are Christian and live moral lives, they have lower medical risks. Yet an "individual mandate" that requires every person have health insurance does not allow medical sharing plans. So Christians who are covered and pay their medical bills would, under the health care reform, pay more for a government-approved insurance plan that may fund abortions. Will you oppose any bill that forces people who are following their faith by sharing their medical expenses, and do not want to pay for other people's abortions, into a government-approved plan?
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