Next GOP attack on the right to health care

[GinaMaria]

This arrived in my in box this morning from Conservative Alerts
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Friend,

As you know, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid are dead set on forcing America into accepting their plans for socialized health care.

They think that we can't stop them -- but in fact, we know HOW to stop them cold.

It's a way that has worked in the past, and it can work TODAY -- but we need YOUR help to MAKE it work!
TELL CONGRESS TO KILL THE OBAMACARE
BILL BY EXPOSING THE DETAILS:
SELECT HERE! https://secure.conservativedonations.com/ameripac_chart_bg/?a=3028 (where you can download the chart)

Let me explain. In 1993, the new Clinton administration was itself dead set on ramming through their OWN version of socialized medicine -- what came to be known as "HillaryCare" since Hillary Clinton was leading the public charge for it. The Democrats had the votes to pass it right through -- they controlled Congress AND the presidency. The American people were about to be FORCED to swallow this bitter pill of socialism.

Sound familiar?

So what happened to STOP them? Something incredibly simple -- because it exposed the incredibly complicated web of details of the proposed plan.

What stopped "HillaryCare"... was a CHART.

You read that right. A government takeover of healthcare was moving on a fast track to passage... and then GOP Representatives and Senators took to the floors of Congress and made speeches, using a chart to show the tangled maze of new bureaucracies that the plan would create, and which would bury average Americans with a tsunami of government regulations.

That chart, created by Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and his staff, was captioned "Simplicity Defined." Sen. Arlen Specter (a Republican back then) displayed the chart in the Senate, and on Larry King Live in 1995 he declared, "I was one of the leaders in the Senate that defeated health care plan. You might remember my chart... which showed what a tax and spend policy it was."

One of Hillary Clinton's comments after the defeat of HillaryCare was, "We never overcame the chart." Sen. Bob Dole showcased the memorable spaghetti-like visualization during his 1994 response to President Clinton's State of the Union address, and it was a powerful warning against the sales pitch that preceded it.

In 1993, the radical Left's attempt to force a government takeover of healthcare in America was defeated by a CHART. Now, in 2009, we can defeat the new attempt from the Left... with a NEW chart, full of the socialistic, bureaucratic mess of a maze that is "ObamaCare." But to do that, we need to FORCE Congress to LOOK at it -- and we need YOUR help to do that!
TELL CONGRESS TO KILL THE OBAMACARE
BILL BY EXPOSING THE DETAILS:
SELECT HERE! https://secure.conservativedonations.com/ameripac_chart_bg/?a=3028

As reported in National Review, "When it became clear that another effort would be made at overhauling the nation's health-care system, House Minority Leader John Boehner and other Republicans asked the Joint Economic Committee to draw up another chart, depicting how the system would work under House Democrats' draft legislation. Each staff economist was directed to go through the bill, spotlighting new agencies, mandates, and regulations. Then the bill was dissected a second time, line by line, to ensure that all the parts were accurately represented."

It was Rep. Kevin Brady and the GOP staff of the Joint Economic Committee who finally charted the byzantine health care structure that would be established by the House Democrats' version of the ObamaCare bill. Needless to say, this "panorama of jelly beans on top of a computer's circuit board" isn't pretty; to the average American, it looks like a maze that they'll have to navigate before receiving medical care. AND IT IS -- the parts in white already exist, and the colored boxes are the new entities, offices, requirements, reports, and subsidies the Democrats' bill would create.

THIS IS THE SILVER BULLET THAT CAN KILL THE OBAMACARE BEAST!

In recent weeks, we've begun to see this new chart appear on the floor of the House of Representatives. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) refers to the old Hillarycare chart regularly in his floor statements, declaring that it "hung on the office in my construction office throughout that entire decade and probably past the change of the millennium. It hung there because it scared the living daylights out of me, as an employer who was providing health insurance for my employees and, of course, my family as well... sunk HillaryCare, because the people in this country did not want to create all of this bureaucracy and give all of this control and authority over to the government."

Rep. King is correct -- that chart DID sink HillaryCare. But that chart looks TAME compared to what Obama, Pelosi and Reid are now proposing -- which is why the NEW chart could sink ObamaCare even FASTER than was done before... IF we can force every Member of Congress to LOOK at it!
TELL CONGRESS TO KILL THE OBAMACARE
BILL BY EXPOSING THE DETAILS:
SELECT HERE! https://secure.conservativedonations.com/ameripac_chart_bg/?a=3028

How can we be sure that this chart can be the turning point in killing off the far Left's latest attempt at socialized healthcare? Because even THEY are trying to keep it hidden!

According to the Congressional newspaper Roll Call, the Democrats are so spooked by the idea that their constituents might learn some of the details of their health care plan that they are trying to block Republican Congressmen from mailing out the chart!

You read that right! According to reports, "Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority's health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate." And as Rep. Brady has responded, "The chart reveals how their health care bureaucracy works, and people are frightened by it... So this is their effort to try and discredit" the chart. "Hiding the truth about wildly unpopular policies is a Democrat specialty," said one GOP aide. "I'd like to see the flow chart on how Speaker Pelosi plans on implementing the open and transparent government she keeps promising everyone."

Don't hold your breath. Once again, the Democrats are using their majority power like they're dictators, trying to keep the TRUTH from the American people and their Representatives in Congress. We MUST not let them succeed! That's why we've set up our site to enable you to send "blast faxes" to every single Senator and Representative on Capitol Hill, demanding that they read every line of the ObamaCare bill, look at every single detail exposed by this new chart, and KILL this new attempt at a government takeover of American healthcare!

Please don't delay -- Congress is in session right now, and if we don't stand up and FIGHT against the radical Left, there might be nothing left of the America we know and love for our children! Take action now!

Sincerely,

Alan M. Gottlieb
Chairman, AmeriPAC

P.S. Rep. King has stood strong on the floor of the House in opposing ObamaCare, saying, "I would put it out this way: This is the HillaryCare plan. This is 1993 HillaryCare, the flowchart that I think sunk HillaryCare. The chart that scared the American people and mobilized them to ring the phones off the hook then, to run ads and raise their resistance because they did not want to have a government-run plan that took away their freedom. That's HillaryCare. This is ObamaCare. If you hated HillaryCare, you can't like ObamaCare... believe in censoring, but the American people cannot be censored. We have Internet. We have Twitter. This kind of a chart can be forwarded all over this country, and by tomorrow morning it could be on every computer if the American people just decided they wanted to make sure that you could see it. You can't understand this health care program if you read the print, but if you look at this chart on your screen, you will pick up the phone, and the American people will be scared enough, I think, to jam the phone lines again in field offices."

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN! We need to completely overwhelm every single Congressman and Senator's office, DEMANDING that they look at the details of ObamaCare, and KILL THE BILL. But we need YOU to take action NOW to make it happen!
TELL CONGRESS TO KILL THE OBAMACARE
BILL BY EXPOSING THE DETAILS:
SELECT HERE! https://secure.conservativedonations.com/ameripac_chart_bg/?a=3028

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Can someone help me here? Is this the same exact chart they used in the 90's? Was it even updated with current information? Do they really have no new ideas?
Their time would be better spent looking at charts depicting data about the uninsured and under insured in our country, or how about a chart on those who have insurance but can't afford to use it as a starting point?

[midnight]

1. I don't think it matters what chart they use, they intend to make it

their silver bullet. What is it with the republicans and their bullets?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. and what happens if the authors of this lose their job?

and they lose their healthcare? Trouble is that the spearheaders (corporate slavemasters) are rich and they leave their little poor Republicans in the lurch.

These people are denying people's right to healthcare. We need to get to the little people.

[Gman]

3. It doesn't matter as the chart they have is a lie designed to provoke fear

fear is their only weapon. They cannot discuss it rationally.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. It's that stupid chart from early in the summer that's been debunked.

Here's Media Matters on the subject.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200907170044

[GinaMaria]

5. LOL. That is really good!

Seriously though.... their strategy is a chart?! A chart? Talk about having nothing. It's the same tired thing they dragged out during the Clinton years. More than just the party of no... they are the party of no ideas. What's their healthcare plan? A chart? I feel healthier already! GOP tag line for the 2010 election cycle "Fun with Visio" :P