I was just e-mailed info from the US Chamber of Commerce.

The vote will begin on Tuesday 9/29/09 for amendments and the 'public option'.



•• Click here to easily send your reps e-mails about their flawed takeover of the Health Care system. ••


I think what they say below is is a great summary from a business perspective about what's wrong with the takeover):

Tell Congress to Oppose Flawed Health Care Proposals:

The U.S. Chamber continues to support reforming the health system, specifically efforts to control costs and improve quality, reforms of insurance markets, and the creation of a streamlined, simplified marketplace to purchase insurance.

However, bills in both the House and Senate fail a simple litmus test for health reform legislation: in its current form these proposals do not improve the current situation; in fact, they will largely make it worse.

Tax increases to pay for a public plan, employer mandates, and minimum coverage will do more than devastate the private insurance industry--they could bankrupt our economy.

This type of health reform would bankrupt our government and leave tens of millions of Americans without the health care they deserve. Tell Congress to oppose the creation of a "public plan," burdensome employer mandates, and minimum coverage requirements.

Tip:
I really dislike the 'boilerplate' text they suggest on those sites to e-mail your Reps, so I always make it very personalized... and then hopefully it also looks a little less like a form letter..

What I wrote for the House version (Some of it's their wording, some mine... I like to ratchet it up from 'I oppose this in it's current form' to 'OR ANY form!'.....just FYI):

I strongly urge you to oppose H.R. 3200, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009" in its current or ANY form.

The small business surtax would devastate small businesses already struggling with a severe recession.

I strongly urge you to oppose ANY legislation that would enact a government-run, public health care plan. I do not want the federal government in any way inserted further into my health care.

If you are looking to work on a critical project, please make Medicare and Medicaid viable, stable programs that are not gushing losses & fraud, before we can even have a dialog about the Federal Government being involved in any other program.

Instead, I encourage Congress to allow positive reforms the insurance market and find ways to control costs.

Don't create legislation to insert more government bureaucracy into the system, work with business and Health Care professionals to free them to work better with Health Savings Accounts, competition across borders, etc.

This legislation will not address the nation's health cost explosion, will steeply hike taxes in an already precarious economic situation, will fail to lead to more affordable, accessible, quality health coverage, and will lead us toward government-run health care.

In short, it will make a bad situation worse, at great costs to the nation in jobs, taxes, and freedom.


I strongly urge you to oppose the "America's Affordable Health Choices Act."