Yesterday, the Foundry at the Heritage Foundation published the plan Congress is planning to use to pass healthcare before Thanksgiving despite the fact that a majority of Americans oppose the proposal.
The article lists the steps Harry Reid will take to attach the healthcare bill to another bill in order to pass it. The article deals with Congressional procedures, and I am not going to try to capsulize it here. Please read the article and understand that this is not what America expects from its Congress.
The article sums it up:
"The San Francisco Examiner published an editorial today that exposed the fact that the American people can't see the bill. "When then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised not to sign major legislation until it had been posted on the Internet for public reading at least five days, trusting voters took him at his word. Now they know better. Not only is the actual language of what is likely to become the main legislative vehicle for Obama's signature health care reform not available on the Internet, it hasn't been given to members of the key Senate committees or the Congressional Budget Office." The procedure being used, in addition to the exclusion of the American people from the process, should be of grave concern to all who want to participate in democracy and have a say in Congress' health care reforms that will touch 1/6th of the American economy."
Unless the current Congress understands that passing this bill will result in their unemployment at the first available opportunity, there is no hope to keep America's healthcare system as one of the best in the world. Please call your Congressman and tell him that you do not support healthcare reform.
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