CCHC ACTION ALERT!
Citizens' Council on Health Care
www.healthcarefreedom.us
Friday, March 26, 2010

Dear Friends of Freedom,

Sign our PETITION against conforming Minnesota law to ObamaCare!
 
THE MN LEGISLATION: Three days before the U.S. House voted to pass ObamaCare, Rep. Tom Huntley (D-Duluth) introduced a bill to conform Minnesota law to ObamaCare. The day before ObamaCare was signed into law, Senator Ann Lynch (D-Rochester) did the same. The Minnesota bill would be even worse than ObamaCare! Hard to imagine, I know.

EVEN WORSE: The bill not only requires Minnesota to conform to the federal bill, it moves the date of implementation and the individual mandate from 2014 to January 1, 2012. It adds a more restrictive individual mandate to purchase health insurance (no exceptions), regional payment reform for Medicare (think Hillary's regional alliances doing cost containment through care restrictions) the "public option" (single-payer plan rejected by the U.S. Senate), and a state "health insurance exchange" (bureaucracy to sell insurance and track insurance status) by 2012.

OBAMACARE SUPPORTERS GATHERING PETITIONS: Two days ago we put our petition against the bill online to see who noticed. The freedom-minded have found it, but it seems someone on the pro-ObamaCare side may have as well. Yesterday, a CCHC supporter had someone from a progressive organization at his door seeking signatures on a petition asking Governor Pawlenty not to block ObamaCare.

HELP PAWLENTY SAY NO: Let's give Governor Tim Pawlenty all the help we can!. The DFL will likely try to put this language in the middle of another bill making it more difficult for Governor Pawlenty to veto. Although the Governor was a strong supporter of the single-seller Exchange in 2007 and 2008 (we defeated it both years with your petitions, testifiers at hearings, insurance agents attending hearings and other organizations), we suspect that he will be pleased to get our support to stop this bill this year.

The CCHC petition is online in a "click and send" version and online in a pdf version to download, copy and distribute.

We want to deliver thousands of petitions to Governor Pawlenty as soon as possible. Please sign one and get others to sign it as well!

Twila Brase, RN, PHN
President
Citizens' Council on Health Care
www.healthcarefreedom.us
651-646-8935