**AFP Conference Call On Healthcare**
I just got off a brief phone call with Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity and Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann. I can’t emphasize enough that we are at a tipping point in the healthcare debate. House Democrats led by Nancy Pelousy are primed to pass a 1990 page monstrosity of a bill that, make no mistake, will take over our healthcare system. It is up to us now to stop them.
Rep Bachmann said the House bill will cut $500B from Medicare. On average, people will pay $4000 a year more for health insurance. If you are under 30, 8%-12% of your income will go to health insurance. Ameerican businesses would be made to pay at least 8% more in payroll tax. And 5.5 million jobs could be lost.
On Monday, the House will actually post the final version of the bill. Rep. Bachmann said the bill released today is incomplete and that other items will likely be added to this destructive measure at the last minute with the final version, again, coming out on Monday. Thereafter, the House will have 3 days of *debate* with a vote scheduled for next Friday.
Rep. Bachmann pointed out that if this passes the federal government will ‘own or control’ almost 50% of private sector wealth. Currently, in this bailpout era, 30% of the private sector is in the hands of the federal government. A takeover of the healthcare industry would bring us to an outrageous 48%.
The Congresswoman pleaded for all of us to start calling our Senators and Representatives and to join in the AFP ‘House Call’ scheduled for next Thursday. In fact, she went so far as to say to ‘get here [to Washington] next week,’ go to the offices of our legislators and put as much pressure on possible for them to stop. She believes that they have forgotten the town hall meetings and they think the rest of us have likewise forgotten.
Summing it up, Rep. Bachmann said, ‘This is it. There is no going back.’
Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!
