---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ron Calzone <r...@mofirst.org> Date: Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:08 AM Subject: MO Legislative Liberty Update -- Senate Republicans to Discuss Setting Up Obamacare Exchange To: t.ma...@gmail.com
Tom, *Yes, Obamacare can still be killed, one state at a time, just like we killed the RealID Act...* ...but it will take a lot of work. The first step is to keep Missouri from establishing the Obamacare health insurance exchange. Although 63% of Missourians voted to prohibit the * governor* from setting up an exchange last Tuesday, Prop E does not keep *the state legislature* from setting on up. The senate Republicans will be meeting Friday and Saturday to dicuss their options. We have just a few days to convince them to comply with the people's will, and *just say NO! to the exchange* and all of Obamacare. *Here are some facts the media just won't point out:* 1. The Obamacare exchange is NOT simply an online resource for shopping insurance. It sets up new restrictions and penalties that will reduce your options. Some smaller insurance companies have already gone out of business -- Obamacare will leave only a few huge insurace companies with monopolistic protections. 2. An exchange set up by the state *does not give us control*. HB609, the 2011 bill to set up a Missouri exchange included at least 40references to federal laws or bureaucracies that dictate virtually every meaningful aspect of the exchange. Click for a marked up copy of HB609<http://www.libertytools.org/files/SCS-HB-609.pdf>. And here's the Missouri First analysis<http://www.libertytools.org/files/HB609-M1-Analysis.pdf>of that bill. Here are a couple of very good articles by the Cato Institute's Michael F. Cannon pointing out the need to fight the exchange: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/obamacare-road-repeal-starts-states http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333040/obamacare-still-vulnerable-michael-f-cannon *Action Item:* Call or email each Republican senator before Thursday. *Tell them the people of Missouri don't want them to set up an Obamacare exchange any more than they want the governor to.* The sentiment behind the Prop E vote applies to them, too! (Here are the senators for whom we have public contact information. Some of the new senators don't have published information yet.) *FName<http://www.libertytools.org/LibertyTools/CRM/group-members.php?sort=First_Name> * *LName <http://www.libertytools.org/LibertyTools/CRM/group-members.php?sort=Last_Name> * *City<http://www.libertytools.org/LibertyTools/CRM/group-members.php?sort=City> * *Email1 * *O. Phone * *Party <http://www.libertytools.org/LibertyTools/CRM/group-members.php?sort=Party>* Dan Brown Rolla dan.br...@senate.mo.gov 573-751-5713 R Mike Cunningham R Tom Dempsey St Charles tom.demp...@senate.mo.gov 573-751-1141 R Bob Dixon Springfield bob.di...@senate.mo.gov 573-751-2583 R Edgar Emery Lamar R Michael Kehoe Jefferson city 573-751-2076 R Will Kraus Lees summit will.kr...@mail.senate.mo.gov 573-751-1464 R Brad Lager Savannah brad.la...@senate.mo.gov 573-751-1415 R John Lamping St Louis 573-751-2514 R Douglas Libla Poplar Bluff R Brian Munzlinger Williamstown 573-751-7885 R Brian Nieves Washington brian.nie...@senate.mo.gov 573-751-3678 R Michael Parson Bolivar mpar...@senate.mo.gov 573-751-8793 R David Pearce Warrensburg david.pea...@senate.mo.gov 573-751-2272 R Ron Richard Joplin 573-751-2173 R Gary Romine Farmington R Scott Rupp Wentzville 573-751-1282 R David Sater david.sa...@house.mo.gov R Robert Schaaf St Joseph rob.sch...@senate.mo.gov R Kurt Schaefer Columbia kurt.schae...@mail.senate.mo.gov 573-751-3931 R Eric Schmitt St Louis eschm...@senate.mo.gov R Ryan Silvey Kansas city ryan.sil...@house.mo.gov R Wayne Wallingford wayne.wallingf...@house.mo.gov R Jay Wasson Nixa jay.was...@senate.mo.gov 573-751-1503 R For Liberty, - Ron -- "no cause is lost if there is but one fool to fight for it" ~Will Turner~ ~Pirate's of the Caribbean @ World's End~ "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." ~Goethe www.moliberty.org http://417-political-pundit.blogspot.com The power to tax involves the power to destroy. ~Justice John Marshall~ Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -Pericles (430 B.C.) A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. ~Justice John Marshall~ -- This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever.
