TAKE ACTION!  Act NOW to Defeat the Government-Forced Health Insurance Bill in the House.   The vote WILL occur at the end of this week. Phone calls are best, so please try to phone both your Representative’s Capitol Hill office and his/her district office at least once a day, everyday this week.  Here is a list of crucial target Members of Congress, according to Eagle Forum: these Members need extra pressure to stand up to Nancy Pelosi and vote NO on H.R. 3962 this week.   Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.  If your own Representative is solidly opposed to this bill, please phone one of your friends or family members who lives in a district who has a Representative on the fence or who may be leaning toward supporting it, and encourage them to get involved in this fight!

From Eagle Forum: “The U.S. has the best health care system in the world, which happens to make up one-sixth of the U.S. economy. After months of witnessing an American uprising to oppose Congress’ first health care proposal, famously remembered as H.R. 3200, liberals in Congress are now pushing a twice as long, yet almost identical bill under the guise that it is a new compromise that won’t push America further into bankruptcy. But, Americans will not be fooled.”

“Pelosi’s ‘new’ bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), has been scheduled to go to the House floor for only a few hours of debate this week! Debate could begin as early as Thursday, November 5th, and a vote could occur shortly thereafter. Pelosi’s goal is for this bill to receive as little attention and scrutiny as possible before the vote, so please be aware that once this bill goes to the floor, it will move fast. We need you to continue sounding the alarm and urging opposition to this 2,000-page monstrosity of massive new bureaucracy, redistribution of wealth, and rationed medical care.”

See the EAGLE FORUM website for a summary of the provisions in H.R. 3962:

• Slashes Medicare payments to providers by more than $400 billion.

 • Cuts $170 billion from the Medicare Advantage program.

 • Prohibits states from using tort reform to reduce health care costs.

• “Grandfathers” out of existence individual health insurance coverage.

 • Institutes $729.5 billion in job-killing tax increases on all Americans.

 • fines those who can’t afford to purchase government-forced insurance.

• cripples businesses by taxing health benefits.

• Creates dozens of new bureaucracies (111 to be exact) including the Health Benefits Advisory Committee and the Health Choices Administration.

 • Provides for a “health care czar” called the Health Choices Commissioner, who could forcibly enroll individuals in government-run insurance and whose tasks include requiring random compliance audits on Americans’ health benefits plans. This will be an appointed official, not an elected official or a medical professional.

• Allows for “community organizations” like ACORN and Planned Parenthood to assist the Health Choices Commissioner in enrolling individuals in the Health Insurance Exchange.

• Encourages identity fraud for illegal immigrants seeking to gain taxpayer-subsidized health benefits through inadequate citizenship and legal status verification standards. Page 255, Section 345 of H.R. 3962 includes language requiring verification of income for individuals wishing to receive federal health care subsidies, and while the bill currently does include a requirement for applicants to verify their citizenship, it does not include a similar requirement to verify that person’s identity, a key component of effective verification.

 • Provides for 13 new and different tax increases, including an employer mandate excise tax.

 • Provides for creation of a panel of bureaucrats to work on new comparative effectiveness institute funded by a tax on health benefits, which may result in protocols needed to deny patients access to life-saving treatments on cost grounds.

 • Imposes a 2.5% tax on an individual’s modified adjusted gross income if they fail to purchase “acceptable” health care coverage.

• Imposes a surtax, starting in 2011, on “high”-income people.

• Fails to hold Members of Congress to the same health care system requirements that Americans will have to live by under the public health insurance option.

From Eagle Forum: “If all of this weren’t enough, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) even predicts that the public option’s premiums will end up being quite high because it will attract less healthy people, who are more costly to the insurer. But, with a government-run plan, the government is the insurer, so higher cost projections for the government really means higher costs to American taxpayers. In addition to all of this bureaucracy, taxation, and theft of individual liberty, the very same CBO has estimated the 10-year cost of H.R. 3962 to be a whopping $1.1 trillion, and that doesn’t even include the “Doc Fix” legislation, which seeks to lump $245 billion of Medicare reimbursement payments into the national debt. The exclusion of the healthcare-related “Doc Fix” legislation into the overall pricetag of H.R. 3962 is nothing more than a Washington numbers gimmick, intended to deceive the American people about the true cost of the plan. So, now is the time to pick up the phone and demand the defeat of a government takeover of health care!”