“Say NO to take-a-number-and wait government health care!”

FreedomWorks-Vermont, the newly-formed Vermont chapter of the citizen action group, vowed today to build a statewide coalition of citizens, taxpayers, small businesses, health care professionals, and patients to defeat the plans to put all Vermont health care under government control.

“The House majority’s new universal care plan will, if enacted, ration and deny health care to thousands of Vermonters. It will demoralize our health care providers, and drive many of our doctors out of Vermont entirely. It will create new government bureaucracies and require untold millions of dollars in higher taxes, which will send many tax-paying friends and neighbors fleeing to places like Florida and New Hampshire. Vermonters will not stand for this,” said FreedomWorks VT State director Rob Roper.

Roper strongly agreed with Gov. Douglas that the new plan will “ask Vermonters to pay more income taxes, but get less care,” and supports the governor’s pledge to fix our health care system’s problems without raising taxes.

“FreedomWorks stands with Gov. Douglas, and will build support for him and for every legislator who has the courage and common sense to defeat to this bad idea.” Roper said.

“The Vermont Medicaid program is already looking at a $600 million shortfall by 2009,“ Roper said, “Expanding that program to forcibly include everybody and magnifying its problems exponentially will certainly bring Vermont to complete insolvency.”

FreedomWorks-Vermont is building local organizations throughout the state to fight for lower taxes, less government and greater economic choice and opportunity for our citizens.

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