Get ready for fight in Senate!
Thank you to all of you who kept the pressure on Congress yesterday with your phone calls, email, and faxes. The fight is not over. We are going to need your help to fight even harder in the Senate to stop government medicine.
Call your Senators on Monday to tell them you are counting on them to help stop government medicine. CLICK HERE to get your Senators’ phone numbers as well as a list of targeted Senators. Also call your Representatives to tell them how you feel about their vote on Saturday.
In the meantime we are continuing to assist in the battle at the AMA meeting in Houston to get the AMA to do the right thing and support patients and doctors and not government medicine. An emergency resolution to rescind the AMA’s support of the Pelosi bill may make it onto the agenda on Sunday.
AAPS Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Kathryn Serkes, was on the ground yesterday in Houston for the “AMA Shout-Out” rally and has sent in the following report:
AAPS Board of Directors member Juliette Madrigal Dersch, spoke to the large crowd gathered for the Tea Party Express stop at the Sam Houston Race Park. She told them how her patients are better served because she does not let the government and insurance companies tell her what is best for her patients. Click here to see photos of Dr. Madrigal-Dersch speaking at event.
Back in downtown Houston, outside the AMA meeting, about 150 people chanted, yelled, and talked for almost 2 hours and 3 television stations came out to report on the event. (We will pass footage along as it becomes available.) David McKalip, M.D. took a break from the AMA meeting and spoke to the assembled crowd. The AMA staff was on lookout through park for the hour or so beforehand checking out what we were up to.
The one casualty of the day was our Take Back Medicine sign, which mysteriously disappeared from the tree it was attached to.
Stay tuned…
I thought that Dr. Juliette Madrigal Dersch and Kathryn Serkes led a courageous effort yesterday at the Houston Tea Party & AMA Shout Out. Since the AMA is still having meetings today & tommorow, the battle to have the AMA follow the will of physicians rather than the far left in Congress goes on. I think the Senate will have great difficulty passing Radical HC Reform with all the opposing momentum currently in play.
My thoughts on HR3962 include:
1.) HR3962 only passed by a very-very small margin and there were about 40 or so Democrats who had a crisis of conscience and did the right thing voting “No”. Ironically, all those voting “No” showed the country that a bipartisan approach to legislation still exists. Also some of the Democrats can see what a terrible mistake it will be to destroy the US economy and way of life.
2.) In watching CSPAN for several hours yesterday, I was struck buy how aggressive the Republican Congressmen were in their debate. They finally “Manned Up”, got some gumption and laid it all on the line in a nuclear verbal assault on the Democrats and what they are doing to this country. Where were these guys for the past 4 years when the far left Democrats and liberal media were having so much fun trashing the Bush administration and Sarah Palin? For the 1st time, yesterday, the Republican Congressmen were not afraid that someone would call them racist for opposing the Democrats. Never mind the fact that the racist rebut works on the Republicans every time on any topic.
3.) We have 1 year to bring about a major reconfiguration in Congress and public offices in general with the November 2010 elections, and we have an excellent point to start from right now.
I think there are many reasons to be optimistics that things will get better and we can “take back medicine” !
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