Five questions to ask your Congressman on health care
August 11, 2009| By Amanda Reinecker
As members of Congress break for their August recess, many have planned to host town hall discussions on health care. "This country deserves a respectful, honest debate about health care," Conn Carroll writes in The Heritage Foundation's Morning Bell. "And the hundreds of town halls members of Congress will be hosting across the country this August are just the place for these conversations to happen."
» FreedomWorks has compiled a list of town hall meetings. Find a meeting near you.
To help concerned citizens prepare for the town hall discussions, The Heritage Foundation has a constructed a list of five important questions that the proposal's proponents need to answer.
- Can you promise me that I will not lose my current plan and doctor?
- Will members of Congress enroll in the public plan?
- Can you guarantee that Obamacare will not lead to higher deficits in the long term?
- Will there be rationing of health care for patients on the public plan?
- Can you promise that my tax dollars will not fund abortions?
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The heated town hall meetings of the past week have already demonstrated the broad public opposition to big-government health care. As one University of Pennsylvania professor tells Politico, this movement could present a political problem for the Left. "If this comes down to vocal individuals, the Obama campaign ought to be able to always outnumber their opponent. And if they're not, then that's a problem."
