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AFA of PA ACTION ALERT
December 2, 2009
Issues (check corresponding number in ‘Details’ and ‘Action’ Sections)
1.) Health Care Debate Begins in Senate
2.) State Hate Crimes Bill
Details
1.) On Monday the US Senate began debate on so-called health care reform. Senator Harry Reid has said this ‘real crisis’ must be addressed by Christmas and if it takes being in session on Saturdays and Sundays they will pass health care reform because it “is simply too hazardous to our country's and our constituents' health not to work as much and as long as we have to." The Reid health care bill was tacked onto the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009. Polls show the majority of American people are more concerned with Congress seeking to ‘reform’ health care than they are about their health care coverage. The Congressional Budget Office found that people who purchase insurance individually will see their premiums jump by as much as 13 percent. Those who get insurance through their employer or other group plan will see their premiums stay the same or drop by up to 3 percent. For more info on the costs click here.
Remember abortion is still part of the Senate bill, but even if abortion is removed America does not need a nationalized health care system.
Moveon.org is organizing rallies/vigils in support of health care around the country and I’m sure you’ve see their TV ads. A ‘vigil’ is scheduled to take place in Carlisle on December 8th. One hundred people showed up at the one in September. The question is who will Senator Arlen Specter and Senator Bob Casey listen to – the few hundred who have expressed support for a government takeover of health care or the thousands who have gathered at town hall meetings and TEA Parties opposing this effort to take over the best health care system in the world?
2.)The State House will meet several days in December before the Christmas break. As you recall H.B. 745, the state hate crimes bill, was voted out of the House Judiciary Committee in a surprise move on November 17th. This bill adds ‘actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity’ to the state’s ethnic intimidation law. However, the terms are not defined. Click here for a list of sexual orientations that are apparently protected under this bill. The bill now moves to the House Appropriations Committee which is scheduled to meet on December 7, 8, 9, 14, and 15. Currently no committee agenda has been posted for any of those days.
Action Steps
1.) E-mail and call Senators Specter and Casey’s DC office and the district office nearest you and ask them to vote ‘no’ on HR 3590 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act because it does everything but protect patients and is not affordable.
2.) If your State Representative is on the House Appropriations Committee, it is CRUCIAL that you contact him or her and ask that they vote ‘no’ on SB 745 in Committee. But even if your State Rep is not on this committee, contact him or her to vote ‘no’ on HB 745. Click here for contact information; key in your zip code in the upper right hand corner to find your State Representative. Remember a similar law was used to arrest eleven Christians in 2004 for singing choruses and reading Scripture at a homosexual event in Philadelphia.
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