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To: HPilot who wrote (16603)	8/1/2009 12:10:27 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 103300

H.R. 3200—“America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009” Action Requested: H.R. 3200 is scheduled to be considered on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by the end of this week. Please call your U.S. representative, as well as your two U.S. senators, and urge them to oppose the federal government’s takeover of health care. You do not need to identify yourself as a homeschooler. You can use some or all of the following message “Please oppose H.R. 3200, the ‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.’ In a time of economic hardship, the federal government should not take on a program that will double our national debt. I am also opposed to H.R. 3200’s creation of home visitation/early education programs through grants to the states. Parents, not federal or state officials, should make child-rearing decisions for their young children. Additionally, H.R. 3200 will expand the federal government’s role and will interfere with medical decisions between me and my doctor, as well as use my tax dollars to pay for someone else’s abortion.” You can find the contact information for your U.S. representative and senators by using HSLDA’s Legislative Toolbox. Summary: H.R. 3200 is President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform bill. While the United States has one of the best systems of private health care in the world, no one would disagree that reforms are needed. Unfortunately, H.R. 3200 has numerous flaws, and would create far more problems than it would fix. Although this bill does not directly impact homeschool freedoms, it would significantly impact parental rights and early childhood education. While this bill is being promoted as a way to reform health care and help Americans, it should be opposed because it would: Spend billions of dollars to allow the federal government to fund home visitation programs, where government officials would enter homes and monitor children and instruct parents in how to raise their children; Encourage states to pressure families to enroll their children in these home visitation programs; Put the federal government in the healthcare business, resulting in loss of competition, loss of patient choice, and loss of patient freedom; Require all health insurance plans, whether offered by a private company or the government, to include controversial “essential benefits,” which courts or the Secretary of Health and Human Services may determine to include medical procedures which businesses and taxpayers may oppose on philosophical and religious grounds; and Increase the size and power of the federal government. H.R. 3200 has been passed by two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives (Education and Labor and Ways and Means) and a vote has been postponed in the third committee with jurisdiction (Energy and Commerce) so that Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA), and President Obama can gather more support for the bill. Even though the Energy and Commerce Committee has not considered the bill, it is still scheduled to be considered on the House floor next week. H.R. 3200 still contains language setting up home visitation programs through grants to the states. The high cost of H.R. 3200, as well as tax increases and increases in the federal deficit continue to be contentious issues. There has also been much debate on the abortion issue in the past couple of weeks. Amendments to ensure that no taxpayer money is used for abortions have been presented in various House and Senate committees but all have failed so far. Several congressmen held a press conference on Wednesday, July 22, to discuss this issue. Representative Joe Pitts (R-PA) stated: “Without an explicit exclusion, abortion will [eventually] be determine to be included in [the] benefits standards.” Nineteen House Democrats wrote to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, stating: “We cannot support any health care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government defined subsidized health insurance plan.” hslda.org GZ