Bus tour set to protest Obama health-care plan
A 13-state tour aiming to rally patients to speak out against President Barack Obama's desired health-care overhaul is scheduled to kick off in Richmond this weekend.
Americans for Prosperity's "Patients First" bus tour will start Saturday at a Richmond-area Tea Party, before traveling around the country and through the states of key U.S. senators in the health-care debate, said Ben Marchi, state director of Americans for Prosperity.
Organizers will urge constituents to call or visit their senators and sign a petition that asks members of Congress to "oppose any legislation that imposes greater government control over my health care that would mean fewer choices for me and my family and even deny treatments to those in need."
The bus, covered with a giant red hand print and a message that reads: "Hands Off My Health Care," is slated to make 26 stops in Virginia.
Organizing for America, a grass-roots organization set up by the Democratic National Committee, also has held events in the state. They are calling on Congress to pass a comprehensive health-care bill.
After departing Virginia, the "Patients First" bus will travel to North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Louisiana, Marchi said. Another bus will travel to Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Arkansas and Missouri.
"Virginians are fired up about health care and what they see as an overreaching federal government," Marchi said.
"We don't want legislators to come between them and their doctor. The relationship that exists between doctors and patients is sacred and should not be interfered with."
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how many months has he been in office? and protesting already? wow….yeah, give him a chance…you gave bush 8 years and BILLIONS of dollars and a lot of debt…..
Anything to stop this insanity is worth a try. Good Luck to the Bus Tour..hope they accomplish what they set out to do.
Enough already with the protests. Obama already has the blue bloods in his base bolting, poll numbers plummeting and a bumbling press conference designed to energize the America public going horribly wrong.
He now has to resort to blocking GOP mailings from going out to people in the Congressmens home district to prevent them from knowing the truth about his plan.
The House of Cards is tumbling around the poor guy. And you want to protest?
Can we cut the poor guy a break? It is painfully obvious he is in way over his head.
Armtdm
There will be less freedom of choice for a number of reasons in the Bill.
Read it for yourself and good luck comprehending what is written. I’m on page 273 and started reading it last night.
The reason your Insurance Plan prohibits using HCA hospitals is because your insurance company wants to really pay lower prices than HCA will allow. This is exactly what is proposed in the National Health Care Bill.
Read it yourself, before criticizing others on assumptions.
Here’s the link to the 1,017 page Bill:
http://tiny.cc/Kl8WG
Why do the non health care reform advocates assume that there will be less freedom of choice etc.
Check your current plan, are you covered for all medications, can you get all tests you need without pre approval? Answer is no! My current plan prohibits the use of any HCA owned hospital. Is this freedom of choice. The managed care companies control health care much more then the GOV ever would IMO. Look at the facts not what the news media and lobbists are putting forth!!
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