GOA advises contacting your Representative re: HR 3962, the Democrat ‘health care’ bill
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I posted last Monday concerning the Democrats health care bill which came out of committee last Friday (just before Halloween). Other than the Constitutionality of the legislation, its effectiveness, its cost, its growing government, there is also the small concern regarding the government being able to control the health care that you receive. Included in that is government’s ability to use your owning a firearm against you, using health care legislation to require firearm registration, and even with holding health care based on firearm ownership. Yeah, the last seems a bit paranoid at this time but 10 or 20 years down the line, who knows what your Uncle would be doing, other than growing its involvement and control.
The Gun Owners of America (GOA) share a similar concern. Apparently they were not able to find any reference to ‘gun’ or ‘firearm’ in the bill but they, as well as I, remain extremely skeptical regarding government’s intentions. We must stop this legislation, not wait to find out what’s in store for us.
From an Email Alert from the GOA dated 11/04/2009 entitled, “Anti-gun ObamaCare bill Coming to the House Floor Very Soon — This week is the critical time to lobby your Representative”:
We have reached the point in the battle over ObamaCare which will decide whether we win or lose.
The details of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill are in, and they can be seen at http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf.
The bill (H.R. 3962) is 1,990 pages long and weighs over 20 pounds. And even though a search of the bill will not reveal the word “gun” or “firearm,” that doesn’t mean the bill is neutral in regard to your Second Amendment rights.
For starters, this bill will — like all the ObamaCare versions before it — most likely result in all of your gun-related health data being dumped into a government database that was created in the stimulus bill. This includes any firearms-related information your doctor has gleaned… or any determination of PTSD, or something similar, that can preclude you from owning firearms.
The bill will also create special “wellness” programs in section 112 which would allow the government to offer lower premiums to employers who bribe their employees to live healthier lifestyles — and nothing within the bill would prohibit rabidly anti-gun HHS Secretary Sebelius from decreeing that “no guns” is somehow healthier.The bill purports to cut Medicare by $500 billion — in a move which will result in massive rationing for seniors, while ultimately adding hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit.
The bill will mandate that you purchase expensive government-approved policies and will (according to some studies) triple your insurance premiums through taxes and government requirements.
Of course, this all means that you will have less money to spend on pursuing your real passions — like providing for your family and purchasing guns and ammunition!
ACTION: Write your Representative. Tell him or her to oppose this bill. Don’t be discouraged by reports in the liberal media which have tried to tell us — since January — that this battle is hopeless. We can win, and, with your help, we will win.
You can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send a pre-written message to your Representative.
—– Pre-written letter —–
Dear Representative:
The Pelosi health care bill, sponsored by Rep. Dingell, has now been made public.
For starters, this bill will — like all the ObamaCare versions before it — most likely result in all gun-related health data being dumped into the government database that was created in the stimulus bill. This includes any firearms-related information that doctors have gleaned… or any determination of PTSD, or something similar, that can preclude a person from owning firearms.
The bill will also create special “wellness” programs in section 112 which would allow the government to offer lower premiums to employers who bribe their employees to live healthier lifestyles — and nothing within the bill would prohibit rabidly anti-gun HHS Secretary Sebelius from decreeing that “no guns” is somehow healthier.
The bill will, according to some studies, triple insurance premiums through taxes and government requirements — while mandating that Americans purchase expensive government-approved policies.
But, perhaps most instructively, there is this: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid promised to produce a $900 billion bill which would not add “one dime” to the deficit.
This bill will cost $1.3 trillion and will increase the deficit by AT LEAST $150 billion.
The only way Pelosi or the Congressional Budget Office can continue to pretend to the contrary is to take $247 billion in bill costs and slip them through in separate legislation.
In short, this process is fraudulent.
I have many issues with this legislation. And so I urge you to oppose this legislation and keep the government from inserting itself even more into my everyday life.
Sincerely,
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