Government Run Health Care Coming to a Vote

VERMONT. The House Democratic leadership expects to bring H. 524, which seeks to impose a Canadian-style, government run and taxpayer financed health care plan on Vermont, to the House floor for a vote by the middle of next week.

By doing so, they will begin the process of putting the lives of all 620,000 Vermonters in the hands of a system that has failed everywhere it has ever been tried. The tab for this misguided experiment will require at least $2 billion in new taxes. Personal income and payroll taxes are the likely targets for substantial increases.

This plan would be a disaster for Vermont’s businesses and economic environment. It would virtually eliminate consumer choice in health care. It will certainly lead to a massive expansion of government, giving bureaucrats power over the most critical and intimate decisions we will make in our lives.

It is critical that you contact your local Representatives and urge them to oppose this legislation.

To contact your legislators regarding this issue, messages can be left in the State House at (802) 828-2228 or faxed to 828-2424.

If you do not know your representatives, go to this web site:

http://www.leg.state.vt.us/legdir/findmember.cfm

If you want direct contact information for your representatives, go to this web site:

http://www.leg.state.vt.us/legdir/alpha.cfm?Body=H

Please feel free to contact FreedomWorks-Vermont State Director, Rob Roper, at rroper@freedomworks.org, 802-999-8145, or visit the website at www.freedomworks.org.

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