Health Care Town Hall after the Code Blue Rallies

Maricopa County Taxpayers and Tea Partiers:

Pasted below is more information about tomorrow’s health care reform activities:

1) Health Care Town Hall in Arcadia with John Shadegg
2) Health Care Freedom Tea Party at Harry Mitchell’s Office
3) Information on Other AZ Health Care Rallies Today
4) Ideas for Signs
5) Why this Tea Party Protest is Important

1) HEALTH CARE TOWN HALL IN SCOTTSDALE W/ JOHN SHADEGG

Unlike Congresspersons Gabrielle Giffords, Ann Kirkpatrick and Harry Mitchell, Congressman John Shadegg is actually scheduling a public town hall that is conveniently located in a major population center. (No slight against Douglas, where Giffords scheduled her only public town hall appearance for the August recess. Our last researcher was from Douglas…)

Shadegg’s town hall is located in Arcadia, five minutes’ drive from the site of the Code Blue Tea Party protest at Harry Mitchell’s office (on the SE corner of Camelback and Scottsdale—details in item #2 below). We will conclude the Mitchell protest by 10:30, to give Tea Partiers plenty of time to get to the Shadegg town hall. Here are the details:

What: Health Care Town Hall with Congressman Shadegg
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: Arcadia Neighborhood Learning Center (Cafeteria)
Address: 4330 N. 62nd Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251 (North of Indian School Road.)

Shadegg’s office tells us they will have water and iced TEA for our thirsty protesters.

If you have any questions about the Shadegg town hall, or if you require special assistance, please contact Shadegg’s staff at (602) 263-5300 so that proper accommodations can be made.

(Also: Cong. Jeff Flake is having a town hall on Monday night, August 10, beginning at 6:00 pm, at the Basha High School Auditorium at 5990 S. Val Vista Drive in Chandler, 85249.)

2) HEALTH CARE FREEDOM TEA PARTY AT MITCHELL’S OFFICE

The Arizona chapter of Americans for Prosperity is joining allied organizations this Saturday, August 8th, at 9 am, for a protest at the office of Congressman Harry Mitchell, on the SE corner of Camelback and Scottsdale Roads.

Our message to Congress, Washington bureaucrats, and special interests:

HANDS OFF OUR HEALTH CARE!


AFP Arizona activists will join Arizona Tea Party, 912 Project Arizona, Smart Girl Politics, Tea Party Patriots, and hundreds of citizen activists in this Code Blue protest for health care freedom at Harry Mitchell’s office.

Congressman Mitchell has serious reservations about the initial versions of the Obama-Pelosi-Kennedy “reform” plans. He knows that the current plans would result in massive new taxes, fail to control costs, and take America a long way toward a single-payer, Canadian-style system of government-directed health care (under which Washington bureaucrats would decide which doctors you can go to, and which medical procedures you can and can’t have).

Mitchell is under intense pressure from President Obama, from his hard-left colleagues in Congress, and from radical activist groups that want to destroy what remains of America’s private health insurance system. We need to make sure that Mitchell hears loud and clear from grassroots supporters of health care freedom!

Location for Harry Mitchell’s office: Saturday, August 8, 9:00 am. On the SE corner of Camelback and Scottsdale Roads (7201 E. Camelback Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85251). Street parking available one block east, around the W Hotel. Covered parking two blocks west, at the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall. Please bring water, sunscreen/umbrella, and signs with large letters.

3) INFORMATION ON OTHER AZ HEALTH CARE RALLIES

To sign up for a rally, please take the following five steps:

a) Decide which Congressional office you wish to visit tomorrow (August 8th)—or go to AARP office. The offices and their offices are listed on the Code Blue flyer. For a link to the flyer, go to www.aztaxpayers.org, or www.americansforprosperity.org/arizona, and scroll down to the news item for the Code Blue Flyer.

b) Reply to this email (or write to tjenney@afphq.org) to let AFP Arizona know which office you plan to visit.

c) Let your local Tea Party organizer know which office you’re going to, by signing up at www.arizonateaparty.com.

d) Get talking points, policy updates, and ideas for signs at: http://joinpatientsfirst.com/

e) Email and call your friends and family members, and urge them to join us on August 8th.

4) SOME IDEAS FOR SIGNS

My doctor is my choice!
Hands off our health care!
ObamaCare = Long lines, poor quality
ObamaCare = Death
Read the Bill! Then vote NO!
We want reform, NOT rationing
Just Vote NO
Don’t let DC bureaucrats destroy health care
Don’t pull the plug on elderly Americans!
Fed up with govt health care
The VA almost killed me—ObamaCare will finish the job
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s “free”
We say NO to ObamaCare
Where will the Canadians go for surgery?
Fascism: When govt says who lives and who dies
Read Page 30 of HR 3200: Govt will decide who gets treated
Read Page 72 of HR 3200: All private plans must conform to govt rules
Read Page 124 of HR 3200: No one can sue the govt health monopoly
Read Page 149 of HR 3200: 8% payroll tax on large employers
Read Page 150 of HR 3200: 6% payroll tax on small employers
Read Page 167 of HR 3200: 2.5% tax on people who don’t go along
Read Page 272 of HR 3200: Cancer hospital payments will be rationed
Read Page 318 of HR 3200: Hospital expansions prohibited w/o govt approval
Read Page 335 of HR 3200: “Outcome-based measures” = Rationing

5) WHY THIS PROTEST IS IMPORTANT

This is the fight of the decade for American liberty. Now is the time to take a stand.

President Obama and the leftists in Congress wanted to hurry up and complete the national government’s takeover of American health care--before the public got a chance to find out what was in the legislation. We are grateful to report that the legislation does not look like it will move until after the August recess. That means we have a very limited window to act.

The same people who have taken over private banks and much of the auto industry now want to take over even more of the health care sector. The same people who make you wait in line at the Post Office want to create a system in which you will have to wait weeks, months, or even years for life-saving or life-improving medical services. The same kind of people who run America’s very expensive and very ineffective public schools claim that they will (somehow) maintain quality and control costs in the health care sector.

Some of the central planners in Washington want to give government the power to say which doctors you can go to, and which medical procedures you can and can’t have. President Obama is not sure whether the government should have allowed his own grandmother to get a hip replacement. Imagine how Washington bureaucrats will treat YOU!

We must take a stand NOW to protect elderly patients, to maintain the high quality of health services in America, and to preserve the essential doctor-patient relationship. Government has already distorted US health insurance markets by making private health insurance too expensive for many Americans, and by making American workers dependent upon on employer-provided insurance. But if you think things are bad now, wait until government completes its takeover of the medical sector. We must STOP the rapid march of socialist health care!

For Liberty,

--Tom

Tom Jenney
Arizona Director
Americans for Prosperity
(Arizona Federation of Taxpayers)
www.aztaxpayers.org
tjenney@afphq.org
(602) 478-0146