Contact Illinois’ U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Roland Burris and urge them to oppose the Senate health care bill, which may be up for a vote within the next day or two.
The U.S. Senate health care “reform” bill, H.R. 3590, will massively expand government’s control over your health care, ration your access to health care, and fund abortions with your tax dollars, to name just a few of the dangerous aspects of this bill — which is 2,074 pages long and will cost taxpayers more than $849 billion over 10 years.
Take ACTION: Call Senators’ Durbin and Burris and let them know you don’t want the government making your health care decisions, raising your taxes to pay for it and using your tax dollars to pay for abortions. Tell them to vote against bringing the bill to the floor.
Sen. Durbin
(202) 224-2152 – Washington D.C.
(312) 353-4952 – Chicago
(217) 492-4062 – Springfield
(618) 998-8812 – MarionSen. Burris
(202) 224-2854 – Washington D.C.
(312) 886-3506 – Chicago
(217) 492-5089 – Springfield
(618) 529-7471 – Carbondale
Government Control of Health Care
The U.S. Senate bill will create a “public option” for government health insurance and impose government controls on private insurance and health care providers — critical steps in the direction of universal, government-run health care under which government bureaucrats and standards, not your doctor, will determine what health care is appropriate for you. And it will raise taxes by billions of dollars to ruinous levels to pay for it all.
Taxpayer Funding of Abortion
The bill will also result in “abortion on demand” coverage in the government run health care plans. National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) Legislative Director Douglas Johnson said the Senate bill language “would result in coverage of abortion on demand in two big new federal government programs.” He said the bill authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to require coverage of “any and all abortions” throughout the public option program.
“This would be federal government funding of abortion, no matter how hard they try to disguise it,” Johnson commented, adding that the bill also creates tax-supported subsidies to purchase private health plans that will cover abortion on demand.
