In his final push for entire control of the American healthcare system, the President is in full campaign mode traveling the nation peddling his ill-conceived healthcare agenda.  In order to accommodate his schedule, the White House has set another arbitrary deadline of March 18 for House members to vote on this bill.  Our friends on Capitol Hill tell us that the White House has effectively mobilized their 9 million citizen activists and the congressional telephone lines are buzzing with calls to pass this healthcare bill.  Our silence will NOT stop this disastrous legislation.  We have proven over the past year that our calls, faxes, emails and visits to congressmen have beaten back this effort every time.  By all accounts, this is the final act in the healthcare drama, as polls demonstrate that Americans are fatigued by the process and are more concerned about jobs and our struggling economy.  If the US House passes the Senate bill as written, we WILL have government healthcare.  This is end game.  There will be NO reconciliation.  It is a smokescreen and the citizens and US House members who voted YES will have been deceived.  More importantly, language buried deep within the Senate bill makes it virtually impossible to repeal.  This is what we need to do NOW until vote time:

1.  Contact every US Representative on this list and tell them to VOTE NO on the bill or face the consequences in November.  Please try to contact every one of them, regardless of state, as their vote will impact you and your family.  

2.  Doctors: Every doctor reading this email needs to be in Washington on March 24-25th for our “House Calls On Congress”, especially if your congressman's name appears on this list.   You need to bring as many physician colleagues from your district as possible, since it will be impossible to get an appointment with these officials unless we have you with us.  Sitting in your office, wishing this away is NOT helping your patients or the profession.  This will be our sixth trip to DC.  Believe us when we say patients will understand and applaud your sacrifice to travel to Washington on their behalf.  Go here for details and hotel discounts.

At the very least, we need you to visit www.docs4patientcare.org and sign the SERMO.com “Physicians Petition to the President and Congress” that we will deliver to the majority leadership on March 25th.  We want to have 10,000 signatures by the 25th.  Please recruit as many doctors to sign and every one of you need to tell concerned patients to contact Congress and tell them to VOTE NO.

3.  Friends:  Keep doing the amazing job you have been doing since we began this effort.   Maintain the communications barrage on the congressman listed here and call every one of your doctors and have them join and donate to www.docs4patientcare.org.  Please tell them about our trip to Washington and urge them to go with us.  Also, inform friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers how their healthcare quality and decisions are in jeopardy and get them to call Congress.  Refer them to the D4PC website, where they can click on “How You Can Stop the Final Push for Government Controlled Healthcare”.

The President, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid recognize this is most likely their last chance to impose this destructive bill on the American people.  They also understand that they CANNOT, under any circumstance, permit congressmen to go home and face angry voters on Spring break without passing their federal takeover of healthcare.  This is a defining moment in our nation.  Please take the above actions and help us live another day so patients and their doctors can continue the fight for responsible, affordable and sustainable healthcare reform.  

Respectfully,

The Executive Board of Docs4patientCare.org