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Call your Congressmember RIGHT NOW to oppose Pelosi's HR 3962

If there is anyone left out there who thinks this is not their fight or doesn’t matter… Think again!!!!!!!!!

Right now, Democrats in the United States House of Representatives are meeting and trying to push through Nancy Pelosi's government "health care" bill, HR 3962.

The latest terrible fact to come out is that families that don't comply with Pelosi's plan will be subject to huge fines or jail time.

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail

Friday, November 06, 2009

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

In response to the JCT letter, Camp said: “This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.”

Key excerpts from the JCT letter appear below:

“H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax.” [page 1]
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“If the government determines that the taxpayer’s unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply…” [page 2]
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“Criminal penalties

Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses. Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:

• Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.

• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]

When confronted with this same issue during its consideration of a similar individual mandate tax, the Senate Finance Committee worked on a bipartisan basis to include language in its bill that shielded Americans from civil and criminal penalties. The Pelosi bill, however, contains no similar language protecting American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could include a $250,000 fine and five years in jail.

“The Senate Finance Committee had the good sense to eliminate the extreme penalty of incarceration. Speaker Pelosi’s decision to leave in the jail time provision is a threat to every family who cannot afford the $15,000 premium her plan creates. Fortunately, Republicans have an alternative that will lower health insurance costs without raising taxes or cutting Medicare,” said Camp.

According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016.

Committee On Ways & Means Republicans Ranking Member, Dave Camp

Please pick up the phone. Because, unless you and millions of Americans call right now to oppose HR 3962, this very bad bill could be approved Saturday or Sunday.

PLEASE TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION

Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard day or night at 202-224-3121 to provide your zip code to be connected to your representative's office.

Click this link to call your U.S. Representative by name. It is strategic for you to call BOTH the Capitol office AND the local district office of your representative.
Tell your United States Representative's office staff, "Please tell the Representative to vote NO on the government healthcare takeover. Vote NO on abortion funding, whether it is directly or indirectly funded by taxpayers. Vote NO on HR 3962."

WHAT IS WRONG WITH HR 3962

Tom Winter, editor of Human Events, describes the threat of Obama/Reid/PelosiCare:

"…this monstrous, evil plan must be stopped. If Obamacare passes...

MEDICARE WILL BE SLASHED. To pay for his government healthcare behemoth, Obama admits he'll have to cut $500 billion from Medicare. How can he chop that much without reducing medical services to seniors? He can't. It's fiscally impossible. Medicare services will have to be cut.

YOU'LL LOSE YOUR CURRENT COVERAGE. Truth is, Obama's plan is designed to eliminate employer coverage. He's acknowledged it, but only to fellow liberals. When the "public option" forces private insurers out of the market, odds are you'll be shoved into a government plan.

YOU'LL LOSE YOUR CURRENT DOCTOR. Once the government plan is reality and you've been forced to participate, it's a virtual certainty you'll lose your doctor. In fact, the more skilled your physician is, the more likely he or she will shun working for the government. Obamacare won't take your doctor away. Obamacare will drive your doctor away.

ILLEGALS WILL GET FREE HEALTHCARE. Despite what Obama says, none of the Democratic bills prohibits coverage for illegal aliens and all Republican attempts to exclude such coverage for illegals have been rejected.

OBAMACARE WILL BANKRUPT AMERICA. Universal healthcare will add at least $1 trillion to the already mind-boggling deficit. Obama claims "eliminating waste and fraud" will save money -- a laughable assertion, since when has the government ever decreased its spending? In the end, Obama will slash Medicare and raise taxes, pleading he had no choice.

OBAMACARE WILL PAY FOR ABORTIONS. Obama calls this a "lie." But all Democratic plans call for payments for "reproductive services," a well-known euphemism for abortion. Plus, Obama's minions in Congress have rebuffed all amendments prohibiting coverage for abortions. You be the judge. What are the Democrats trying to hide?

PRO-ABORTION, PRO-DEATH

A few dozen pro-life Democrats in Congress are on the edge about taxpayer dollars paying for abortions and pro-death consultations, which, no matter what you've heard, are still in HR 3962.

HR 3962 contains two clear end-of-life provisions -- including one that requires insurance companies to distribute advance directives and other planning tools to all who are insured on the new government-run exchange. These advance directives, by default, deny patients food and water if they become unconscious, just like California's government-drafted living wills. (This is why you need the protection of the pro-life "Will to Live.")
The other provision allows Medicare reimbursement for optional end-of-life planning consultation, which claims to ban "assisted suicide," but does not prohibit "palliative sedation," which leads death by dehydration.

ABORTION FUNDING IN HR 3862

HR 3962 explicitly allows federal funding of abortion through the public option, and permit federal subsidies to go to private insurance plans that cover abortion.

According to House Republican Leader John Boehner, the government-run health care bill being considered in Congress would include "a monthly abortion premium ... [to] be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan."
Boehner states, "Section 213 [of the bill] describes the process in which the Health Benefits Commissioner is to assess the monthly premiums that will be used to pay for elective abortions under the government-run plan. The Commissioner must charge at a minimum 1$ per enrollee per month."
THE ELLSWORTH DECEPTION
Unfortunately, a fake pro-life amendment by Democrat Brad Ellsworth of Indiana is being pushed to try to round up votes from "pro-life Democrats."

The National Life to Life Committee is exposing the abortion funding in HR 3962:

To read NRLC's November 2 letter to U.S. House members, explaining in detail the pro-abortion problems with the bill, click here. To read NRLC's statement on the phony "Ellsworth Amendment" that Pelosi is using to undercut the real pro-life amendment, click here.

As LifeNews.com reports:

However, pro-life groups across the country say Ellsworth's proposal is a sham. Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration are desperately trying to undercut Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Michigan) and other pro-lifers who want to pass an amendment barring abortion funding.
"How do they do that? By coming up with some phony baloney language and finding some pro-life guy who's willing to play along and be the front man," explains Johnson. "And unfortunately Mr. Ellsworth has been drawn into that role."

Johnson says Ellsworth's amendment not only keeps abortion in the bill, but it also adds insult to injury.

"He actually writes…he would write into the bill a provision where the federal Secretary of Health would have to pay a private contractor to make the payments to the abortionists. Now, that's a money laundering scheme," he contends. "It's still the federal government, the federal government taking federal government money and paying the abortionists for abortion on demand, and somehow he thinks that they can claim it's not the federal government if the federal official has to hire somebody to deliver the payment."

johnson is urging Americans who do not want the government creating a large new abortion program to call Congressman Ellsworth and let him know they are not fooled by his "political hoax." http://www.ellsworth.house.gov/

LEARN MORE

1. Watch the U.S. House floor LIVE on C-Span
2. Join the discussion at http://facebook.com/saveamerica
3. See, skim, read HR 3962 by Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco

They set up kings without my consent;
they choose princes without my approval.
With their silver and gold
they make idols for themselves
to their own destruction.
Hosea 8:4 NIV

UPDATED: List of Undecided Congress Members for Calls Tomorrow (Pelosi is Short on Votes… Keep up the Pressure:

Leaning Yes - 20


Completely Undecided - 12


Leaning No - 8


Please Call Them All, Plus Your Own Rep and Pelosi

Abercrombie (202) 225-2726

Arcuri 202.225.3665

Boyd 202.225.5235

Boccieri (202) 225-3876

Cuellar 202.225.1640

Giffords 202-225-2542

Carney (202) 225-3731

Edwards (TX-17) 202.225.6105

Halvorson 202-225-3635

Connolly (202) 225-1492

Ellsworth 202.225.4636

Klein 202-225-3026

Driehaus (202) 225-2216

Kanjorski 202.225.6511

Maffei 202.225.3701

Etheridge (202) 225-4531

Kirkpatrick 202.225.2315

Nye 202.225.4215

Hodes (202) 225-5206

Kosmas 202.225.2706

Sanchez (CA-47) 202.225.2965

Inslee (202) 225-6311

Langevin 202.225.2735

Scott (VA-03) 202.225.8351

Kaptur (202) 225-4146

Mollohan 202.225.4172

Kucinich (202) 225-5871

Rodriguez 202.225.4511

Lynch (202) 225-8273

Schrader 202.225.5711

Markey (MA-07) (202) 225-2836

Smith 202.225.8901

Murtha (202) 225-2065

Perriello (202) 225-4711

Peters (202) 225-5802

Rahall (202) 225-3452

Richardson (202) 225-7924

Ruppersberger (202) 225-3061

Visclosky (202) 225-2461

Wu (202) 225-0855

Speaker of the House Pelosi - (202) 225-0100

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