ALERT ALERT ALERT
Call your Congressmember RIGHT NOW to oppose Pelosi's HR 3962
If there is anyone left out there who thinks this is not their fight or it doesn’t matter… Think again!!!!!!!!!
The latest terrible fact to come out is that families that don't comply with Pelosi's plan will be subject to huge fines or jail time.
PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail
Friday, November 06, 2009
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
In response to the JCT letter, Camp said: “This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.”
Key excerpts from the JCT letter appear below:
“H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax.” [page 1]
- - - - - - - - - -“If the government determines that the taxpayer’s unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply…” [page 2]
- - - - - - - - - -“Criminal penalties
Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses. Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:
• Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]
When confronted with this same issue during its consideration of a similar individual mandate tax, the Senate Finance Committee worked on a bipartisan basis to include language in its bill that shielded Americans from civil and criminal penalties. The Pelosi bill, however, contains no similar language protecting American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could include a $250,000 fine and five years in jail.
“The Senate Finance Committee had the good sense to eliminate the extreme penalty of incarceration. Speaker Pelosi’s decision to leave in the jail time provision is a threat to every family who cannot afford the $15,000 premium her plan creates. Fortunately, Republicans have an alternative that will lower health insurance costs without raising taxes or cutting Medicare,” said Camp.
According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016.
Committee On Ways & Means Republicans Ranking Member, Dave Camp
Please pick up the phone. Because, unless you and millions of Americans call right now to oppose HR 3962, this very bad bill could be approved Saturday or Sunday.
PLEASE TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION
Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard day or night at 202-224-3121 to provide your zip code to be connected to your representative's office.
Click this link to call your U.S. Representative by name. It is strategic for you to call BOTH the Capitol office AND the local district office of your representative.
Tell your United States Representative's office staff, "Please tell the Representative to vote NO on the government healthcare takeover. Vote NO on abortion funding, whether it is directly or indirectly funded by taxpayers. Vote NO on HR 3962."
WHAT IS WRONG WITH HR 3962
Tom Winter, editor of Human Events, describes the threat of Obama/Reid/PelosiCare:
"…this monstrous, evil plan must be stopped. If Obamacare passes...
YOU'LL LOSE YOUR CURRENT COVERAGE. Truth is, Obama's plan is designed to eliminate employer coverage. He's acknowledged it, but only to fellow liberals. When the "public option" forces private insurers out of the market, odds are you'll be shoved into a government plan.
YOU'LL LOSE YOUR CURRENT DOCTOR. Once the government plan is reality and you've been forced to participate, it's a virtual certainty you'll lose your doctor. In fact, the more skilled your physician is, the more likely he or she will shun working for the government. Obamacare won't take your doctor away. Obamacare will drive your doctor away.
ILLEGALS WILL GET FREE HEALTHCARE. Despite what Obama says, none of the Democratic bills prohibits coverage for illegal aliens and all Republican attempts to exclude such coverage for illegals have been rejected.
OBAMACARE WILL BANKRUPT AMERICA. Universal healthcare will add at least $1 trillion to the already mind-boggling deficit. Obama claims "eliminating waste and fraud" will save money -- a laughable assertion, since when has the government ever decreased its spending? In the end, Obama will slash Medicare and raise taxes, pleading he had no choice.
OBAMACARE WILL PAY FOR ABORTIONS. Obama calls this a "lie." But all Democratic plans call for payments for "reproductive services," a well-known euphemism for abortion. Plus, Obama's minions in Congress have rebuffed all amendments prohibiting coverage for abortions. You be the judge. What are the Democrats trying to hide?
A few dozen pro-life Democrats in Congress are on the edge about taxpayer dollars paying for abortions and pro-death consultations, which, no matter what you've heard, are still in HR 3962.
HR 3962 contains two clear end-of-life provisions -- including one that requires insurance companies to distribute advance directives and other planning tools to all who are insured on the new government-run exchange. These advance directives, by default, deny patients food and water if they become unconscious, just like California's government-drafted living wills. (This is why you need the protection of the pro-life "Will to Live.")
The other provision allows Medicare reimbursement for optional end-of-life planning consultation, which claims to ban "assisted suicide," but does not prohibit "palliative sedation," which leads death by dehydration.
ABORTION FUNDING IN HR 3862
According to House Republican Leader John Boehner, the government-run health care bill being considered in Congress would include "a monthly abortion premium ... [to] be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan."
Boehner states, "Section 213 [of the bill] describes the process in which the Health Benefits Commissioner is to assess the monthly premiums that will be used to pay for elective abortions under the government-run plan. The Commissioner must charge at a minimum 1$ per enrollee per month."
THE ELLSWORTH DECEPTION 
The National Life to Life Committee is exposing the abortion funding in HR 3962:
To read NRLC's November 2 letter to U.S. House members, explaining in detail the pro-abortion problems with the bill, click here. To read NRLC's statement on the phony "Ellsworth Amendment" that Pelosi is using to undercut the real pro-life amendment, click here.
As LifeNews.com reports:
However, pro-life groups across the country say Ellsworth's proposal is a sham. Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration are desperately trying to undercut Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Michigan) and other pro-lifers who want to pass an amendment barring abortion funding.
"How do they do that? By coming up with some phony baloney language and finding some pro-life guy who's willing to play along and be the front man," explains Johnson. "And unfortunately Mr. Ellsworth has been drawn into that role."
Johnson says Ellsworth's amendment not only keeps abortion in the bill, but it also adds insult to injury.
"He actually writes…he would write into the bill a provision where the federal Secretary of Health would have to pay a private contractor to make the payments to the abortionists. Now, that's a money laundering scheme," he contends. "It's still the federal government, the federal government taking federal government money and paying the abortionists for abortion on demand, and somehow he thinks that they can claim it's not the federal government if the federal official has to hire somebody to deliver the payment."
Johnson is urging Americans who do not want the government creating a large new abortion program to call Congressman Ellsworth and let him know they are not fooled by his "political hoax." http://www.ellsworth.house.gov/
WSJ: Nancy Peloci’s Healthcare: The Worst Bill Ever!!!
LEARN MORE
1. Watch the U.S. House floor LIVE on C-Span
2. Join the discussion at http://facebook.com/saveamerica
3. See, skim, read HR 3962 by Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco
They set up kings without my consent;
they choose princes without my approval.
With their silver and gold
they make idols for themselves
to their own destruction.
Hosea 8:4 NIV
Please continue calling, faxing and emailing congress
Congressional Switchboard - 1-202-224-3121 or 1-202-225-3121
(202) 225-0100 - Speaker of the House Pelosi
Congress.org - Elected Officials
Posted: True Health Is True Wealth
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Please call ‘everyone’ on this list plus your own member and Pelosi (just for measure) and then back up the calls with faxes and emails. Also, please pass along these numbers to people who will call and tell Congress to… “Kill this Bill“ and keep your hands off our HealthCare until you are ready to address real bipartisan reform issues including, fraud and tort reform and portability… which might be all we need!
Glenn Nye is now voting NO… (was undecided yesterday), even after the Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Obama arm twisting. Your Calls can make a difference!!
List of Undecided Congress Members for Calls Tomorrow (Pelosi is Short on Votes… Keep up the Pressure:
Leaning Yes - 20
Completely Undecided - 12
Leaning No - 8
Please Call Them All, Plus Your Own Rep and Pelosi
Abercrombie (202) 225-2726
Arcuri 202.225.3665
Boyd 202.225.5235
Boccieri (202) 225-3876
Cuellar 202.225.1640
Giffords 202-225-2542
Carney (202) 225-3731
Edwards (TX-17) 202.225.6105
Halvorson 202-225-3635
Connolly (202) 225-1492
Ellsworth 202.225.4636
Klein 202-225-3026
Driehaus (202) 225-2216
Kanjorski 202.225.6511
Maffei 202.225.3701
Etheridge (202) 225-4531
Kirkpatrick 202.225.2315
Nye 202.225.4215 – Now Voting NO
Hodes (202) 225-5206
Kosmas 202.225.2706
Sanchez (CA-47) 202.225.2965
Inslee (202) 225-6311
Langevin 202.225.2735
Scott (VA-03) 202.225.8351
Kaptur (202) 225-4146
Mollohan 202.225.4172
Kucinich (202) 225-5871
Rodriguez 202.225.4511
Lynch (202) 225-8273
Schrader 202.225.5711
Markey (MA-07) (202) 225-2836
Smith 202.225.8901
Murtha (202) 225-2065
Perriello (202) 225-4711
Peters (202) 225-5802
Rahall (202) 225-3452
Richardson (202) 225-7924
Ruppersberger (202) 225-3061
Visclosky (202) 225-2461
Wu (202) 225-0855
Speaker of the House Pelosi - (202) 225-0100
Congressional Switchboard - 1-202-224-3121 or 1-202-225-3121
Congress.org - Elected Officials
Senators from your State.
Please Call Everybody!! Then back up with emails and faxes.
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