ALERT: The End Game Is Now!

According to our D.C. intelligence, the House would be in session this evening voting on the Senate-passed “healthcare reform” bill—if Speaker Pelosi had the votes.

She is likely to call the roll immediately if she gets them, so as to not allow time for introspection or reconsideration. The  Leadership does not want Congress to go home for Easter break without having it “done”—lest wavering congressmen get exposed to their constituents.

According to the latest CNN poll, only 25% of Americans favor current legislation; 73% want Congress to stop, or start over.

Today, Obama gave another talk, repeating his mischaracterizations of the bill, asserting Americans could keep their current plan, and that costs would decrease. In fact, within 5 years, all plans would be defunct if they weren’t approved by the federal Health Choices Commissioner. The Congressional Budget Office finds that premiums would increase.

While Obama claimed that Republican ideas had been “incorporated,” Rep. Michael Burgess, M.D., pointed out that Republican amendments that had been passed in committee all got stripped out of the final bill, without explanation. The only Republican ideas from the Feb 25 summit that Obama liked were very weak: putting a few more dollars, amounting to “budget dust,” into pilot programs on tort reform, and Sen. Tom Coburn’s idea of deploying undercover investigators to find Medicare fraud.

According to an Associated Press survey, 10 Democrats have not ruled out switching their ‘no’ votes to ‘yes’ on Obama’s plan. They are:

Brian Baird of Washington
Bart Gordon of Tennessee
John Tanner of Tennessee
(The above three are not seeking re-election.)
Rick Boucher of Virginia
Suzanne Kosmas of Florida
Frank Kratovil of Maryland
Michael McMahon of New York
Walt Minnick of Idaho
Scott Murphy of New York
Glenn Nye of Virginia.

The Capitol Switchboard is: (202) 224-3121.  Call and tell the operator which office you would like to be connected to.

More contact information can be found at http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ and http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml .

Tell them you oppose the Obama plan. Reasons include: the insurance mandate; tax increases; more interference with the practice of medicine government-appointed experts; and the unaffordable $1 trillion dollar price tag. Remind them that the majority of Americans are opposed to this bill, and opposition grows as people learn what is really in it.

Additionally, consider calling the 64 Democrats who voted for the Stupak amendment, which forbids forcing Americans to fund abortion.

They are: