Goodlatte calls for action on health care reform bill
Congressman Bob Goodlatte is asking for your help to keep the newest health care bill from passing. Goodlatte says the newest version of the bill is nearly 2,000 pages long and will significantly increase federal spending.
He wants you to call your Senators or Representative, and complain if you don’t want what he calls, “A massive government takeover of our health care system.“
“I think they have reached out in so many ways with the tentacles of big government to try control various things in our health care plan, that as they write this bill it keeps getting bigger and bigger,” said Goodlatte.
Goodlatte says the House of Representatives could vote on the bill as early as the end of the week.
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Or are you one of those who want to roll back all the amendments to the *original* intent of 1789 when only free, white, land-owning men over 21 who could read were allowed to vote, slavery was legal and they were only reguarded as 3/5 of a person, and women had less status than that? There were no requiredments, or provisions for, public education, and most of the country was illiterate.
You got typhoid from the well water frequently as there was No safe water act, sewage was poured out of your windows onto the muddy streets, you could get sickened by tainted meats as there was no FDA or Dept of Agriculture, children were worked as slave labor, as there were no child labor laws. Women died in childbirth regularly, and large numbers of children died in their first year.
Yes, LET’S roll back all the evil laws and regulations forced upon us since the founders wrote a beautiful, wonderfully perfect document 233 years ago that should never, under any circumstances be amended or changed in any way, for any reason. Heaven knows we have not made ANY progress in science, education, safety, health, food quality, or progress that would require any sort of changes.
So, I guess you were ok when 43 was doing all the Constitutional trashing and spending??? Also, nothing in there gave him authority for Black Ops sites, suspension of Habius Corpus, starting a war on a soverign nation that did not attack us. You were ok with all that because it wasn’t Obama?
Goodlatte won’t address the unconstitutionality of federal health care legislation because both the Democrats and the Republicans are complicit in ignoring the law.
Nothing in Article 1 Section 8 grants Congress the authority to legislate on matters of health care. If congress refuses to follow the supreme law of the land, why should we follow any of their subsequent laws?
Agreed. Congress should lose their benefits until every other American is covered. I also believe in the original Congressionl pay standards, They were paid $5/day, and paid ONLY for the days they were present in Congress.
if goodlatte and his fellow congressmen would cut out their own health care and put that money back we can afford insurance for everyone.
He should be more worried about serving the people of SW VA and less about co-sponsoring HR1503, the birther bill. We need health ins here and not partisan bickering and obstructionism.
As an RN of almost 30 years, we should agressively be working toward a Medicare-For-All program to cover everyone. We profess to be a nation of Christian people, yet we deny simple basic healthcare to our citizens. We should be ashamed of the povery and want in this country. 122 people die every day because they do not have health insurance and access to healthcare. 18,000 die evey year who DO have insurance but are denied the lifesaving care they paid for. And Goodlatte is ok to keep that happening? Why did we elect him ??? I won’t make that mistake again I asure you.
Congressman Goodlatte should have be concerned about the people he is supposed to serve. Instead of trying to kill insurance reform Goodlatte could be in the forefront in trying to make a difference. Guess since he has the best insurance out there he really doesn’t have to worry.
And now he is worried about federal spending, after he and his leader George Bush spent trillions on the Iraq war?
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