Mayor Pat McCrory to Join AFP in Patients’ Rights in Health Care Debate

Interested citizens can register online here: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=186253

 -Patients First Tour rallies for real health care reform with less interference from Washington bureaucrats- 

 RALEIGH – Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory will join Americans for Prosperity’s Patients First Tour to discuss the harmful government-centered health care reform proposals being debated in Congress right now, and demand free market solutions to our health care needs that will protect patients’ rights.  

 “With his extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, we can’t think of a better person to help generate a dialogue about free market health care solutions than Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory,” said AFP State Director Dallas Woodhouse. “Mayor Pat McCrory knows America needs real health care reform focused on delivering affordable, quality choices to all Americans.  He also knows that a complete government takeover of our health care will hurt American patients by delaying – and denying – critical treatments.”

 Patients First opposes any government takeover of American health care and supports expanding health insurance options focused on patients.

 Activists can sign the Hands Off My Health Care online petition, www.joinpatientsfirst.com, which urges lawmakers to oppose any legislation that imposes greater government control over health care and results in less choice for patients.  

 “I believe patients and doctors should make health care choices, not Washington bureaucrats,” said Mayor Pat McCrory. “Nothing is more personal or more important than the health of our families. Our health is too important to gamble on a system designed and run by bureaucrats in Washington.  As an American, you deserve the right to make all your own health care choices – and those choices should never be limited by government bureaucrats.”

 The tour will kick off July 21st at the RBC Center in Raleigh and continue on July 22nd at the Jesse Helms Center. A reception and light dinner will be held both nights at the cost of $15. 

 Interested citizens can register online here: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=186253

 *Mayor McCrory will be available for interviews following the event.*

What: Health care tour for real reform
Who:  Patients First,
Mayor Pat McCrory

Day 1: Tuesday July 21, 2009
6:15pm Reception
7:00pm Dinner and event
Where: RBC Center 1400 Edwards Mill Rd |  Raleigh, NC 27607-3624

Day 2: Wednesday July 22nd
6:15pm Reception
7:00pm Dinner and event
Where: Jesse Helms Center 3910 Highway 74 E |  Wingate, NC 28174

Learn more about Patients First at http://www.joinpatientsfirst.com/

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. AFP has more than 500,000 members, including members in all 50 states, and 23 state chapters. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org

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