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Senator Bob Casey:
202-224-6324
Capitol Switchboard - (202) 224-3121
Washington, DC - (202) 224-6324
Harrisburg - (717) 231-7540
Philadelphia - (215) 405-9660
Pittsburgh - (412) 803-7370
Scranton - (570) 941-0930
Erie - (814) 874-5080
Bellefonte - (814) 357-0314
Allentown - (610) 782-9470
Casey assistants:
open_positions@casey.senate.gov
richard_spiegelman@casey.senate.gov
morna_murray@casey.senate.gov
Bryn_McDonough@casey.senate.gov
jackie_erickson@casey.senate.gov
sara_mabry@casey.senate.gov
Senator Arlen Specter:
202-224-4254
Capitol Switchboard - (202) 224-3121
Washington, DC - (202) 224-4254
Harrisburg - (717)-782-3951
Philadelphia - (215)-597-7200
Pittsburgh - (412)-644-3400
Scranton - (570)-346-2006
Wilkes-Barre - (570)-826-6265
Erie - (814)-453-3010
Allentown - (610)-434-1444
Specter assistants:
regina_campbell@specter.senate.gov
corene_ashley@specter.senate.gov
seema_singh@specter.senate.gov
Christopher_Bradish@specter.senate.gov
Maria_Plakoudas@specter.senate.gov
Scott_Hoeflich@specter.senate.gov
Below are a series of new email suggestions based upon a read of the Senate Bill and the CBO report. Please feel free to cut and paste and create your own email or draft for your phone call or phone message. Sample emails to Specter and Casey who are both "YES men" on healthcare.
Dear Senator ______,
Please explain how you can vote for a healthcare bill that raises taxes by $370.2 billion during a weak recovery? Please explain how you can vote for a healthcare bill that contains small business mandates that will kill American jobs? Please explain how you can vote for a healthcare bill that places fines on individual citizens for not purchasing healthcare? How can you explain forcing American citizens to purchase services? A bill this large is not about reform but rather a government takeover of healthcare. It establishes the structure for the executive branch to assume without legislative or judicial oversight control of the decisions and lives of Americans.
Please reconsider your plan to vote for this bill and instead vote for real reform. Real reform is about (a) individual ownership of health insurance (so it is portable from job to job), (b) tax credits for individual purchases of health insurance, (c) cross state purchases of health insurance
(competition between the nearly 2000 insurance companies), (d) reduced mandates and restrictions on HSAs, and (e) tort reform with regard to non-economic damages.
Sincerely,
Dear Senator Casey,
At one point in your career you advocated justice for the unborn. How can you consider voting for a Senate healthcare bill that fosters taxpayer funding of elective abortion by authorizing the HHS Secretary to create a
funding scheme that will permit inclusion of abortion coverage in the bill's public option and mandates the inclusion of a least one plan with elective abortion coverage in each state's health insurance exchange?
Please reconsider your plan to vote for this bill and instead vote for real reform that respects life.
Sincerely,
Dear Senator _______,
How do you expect the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to afford a healthcare bill that expands Medicaid eligibility and other eligibilities for people below or between 133 and 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level? How will the Commonwealth deal with this unfunded mandate? As you know we were the last state to pass a 2010 budget.
Please reconsider your plans to vote for this bill and instead vote for real reform. Real reform is about (a) individual ownership of health insurance (so it is portable from job to job), (b) tax credits for individual purchases of health insurance, (c) cross state purchases of health insurance (competition between the nearly 2000 insurance companies), (d) reduced mandates and restrictions on HSAs, and (e) tort reform with regard to non-economic damages.
Sincerely,
Dear Senator,
On page 16 of Mr. Douglas W. Elmendorf's CBO letter to Senator Harry Reid, the cost analysis and statements show that health care cost for the Federal Government and families would increase and not decrease. Why are you voting for a bill that will not decrease the cost of health care? I recall that was one of the key reasons you gave for "health care reform." Please explain why it makes sense to vote for more expensive healthcare?
Please reconsider your plan to vote for this bill and instead vote for real reform. Real reform is about (a) individual ownership of health insurance (so it is portable from job to job), (b) tax credits for individual purchases of health insurance, (c) cross state purchases of health insurance
(competition between the nearly 2000 insurance companies), and (d) reduced mandates and restrictions on HSAs. We need competitive market forces to create efficiencies not a government monopoly.
Sincerely,
Dear Senator,
How can you support a healthcare bill that takes the "Doc Fix" provision that would add $250 billion to the deficit "off line" so that the healthcare bill appears less fiscally irresponsible? This is not only fiscally irresponsible but dishonest.
Rather than play games I ask you to reconsider
your vote and do what is right for the people of our Commonwealth. We need an economic recovery. We need business investment and jobs. Real reform is about (a) individual ownership of health insurance (so it is portable from job to job), (b) tax credits for individual purchases of health insurance, and (c) cross state purchases of health insurance (competition between the nearly 2000 insurance companies).
We do not want a new Medicare Commission of unelected bureaucrats dictating "patient protection and affordable care" replacing the doctor patientrelationship. This is not healthcare reform.
Sincerely,
The Pennsylvania Coalition for Responsible Government is a network of individuals formed to promote the application of limited government principles. www.parespgov.org
Sincerely,
Pennsylvania Coalition for Responsible Government
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