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AFP Patients First Health Care Rally
Patients First, a project of AFP, is joined by Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory at a rally against Government Run Health Care in North Carolina.
AFP Pres. Tim Phillips Discusses Card Check on Glenn Beck
AFP President Tim Phillips joins Glenn Beck to discuss the Card Check provision being pulled from the Employee Free Choice Act. However, now Congress is replacing it with another terrible provision which calls for a Fast Track Election.
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AFP State Chairman Peter Foy will join national talk show host Hugh Hewitt at this important rally, joining healthcare professionals and patients together in opposition to a government takeover.
Saturday, November 21, in Los Angeles
Noon - 1:30pm
The Federal Building
11000 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024
Click here for more information and to RSVP for the event.
READ MOREYesterday, a federal panel decided that self-exams and some mammograms are no longer necessary for women in their forties and should only be administered every other year for those in their fifties and sixties. Despite being said to reduce cancer deaths by about 15% in women ages 39-59, the federal panel based their decision to change the guidelines because they concluded too much money was spent on “unnecessary tests.”
READ MOREA printable pdf version of this list is available here:
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/files/azevents11-18-09.pdf
AFP Arizona’s list of Town Halls and Tea Parties
(Updated Nov 17, 2009)
To suggest updates, email Tom Jenney at tjenney@afphq.org
Event Type: Tea Party
Topic(s): Farmer Relief & Freedom Rally
Date: Friday, November 20
Time: 5:00 to 7:00 pm
City: Mesa
A few things we know for sure:
- Medicaid is quickly heading toward insolvency and threatening to bring many state budgets down with it.
- Current health care legislation in both the House and the Senate seek to expand the defunct Medicaid program to millions more by raising the eligibility levels by as much as 50% (150% of FPL in the House bill and the Senate HELP bill and 133% in the Senate Finance proposal)
- To finance the expanded coverage, proposals seek $500 billion in Medicare cuts to help pay for it.
On Thursday, we gathered with doctors in Little Rock and Jonesboro at Congressman Snyder and Berry’s offices to tell them they got the prescription for health care reform wrong. Along with many of you, these doctors were outraged that the passage of Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill will put government in between you and your family’s doctor.
