Representative Schauer,

As I have tried calling all of your offices since Tuesday, this will be my last attempt to reach you regarding the vote on health care today.

Change your position now or tell your staff to commence sending out resumes now for new jobs come January. For both you and your staff will not have my vote regardless of the outcome should you go along with Speaker Pelosi on today’s health care vote.

Either you have not done your homework Sir, or you are lying to your constituents when you state:
?Passing health care reform will cut costs for Michigan families and businesses, close the prescription drug donut hole for seniors, cut the deficit by $130 billion, ban health insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions or the loss of a job, and allow the American people to sign up for the same kind of quality, affordable, private health care plans that are available to members of Congress. I am confident that a modified version of the Senate bill which removes special deals for states like Louisiana and Nebraska will meet these objectives.?

1. This will not cut the deficit, it will only add to it, despite the ma thematic trickery employed by your caucus. 2. American people are NOT getting the same type of access to private health care as members of Congress. If they were, you would have supported previous measures to fall under the same plan you are voting on.
3. The Senate version will NOT be modified so the special interests will go through.

To boot, estimates have it that tax payer funded abortions will increase nearly 40% over the roughly 300,000 funded right now every year. That will be over 100,000 more aborted children you Sir are voting for me Sir, to help fund.

I take it you are going to claim as Pontius Pilate did, and wash your hands of this blood saying it is not of your doing? If you are a Christian, I sincerely hope come Good Friday, you can hear your own voice say “Crucify him, Crucify him!” For with this vote, for those unborn children, you are.

I sincerely pray that your future job next year manages to avoid the corruption your last one did, which garnered you the title of the most corrupt Michigan politician in history.

Good day,
Mr. Smith

My congressman’s asinine statement supporting his vote today (talking about “talking points” from Pelosi/Hoyer… sheesh!):

?Make no mistake, our health care system is broken. If we do nothing, health insurance companies will continue to raise premiums on Michigan families and businesses by double digits each year for the foreseeable future. This is simply unacceptable, and unsustainable.

?Passing health care reform will cut costs for Michigan families and businesses, close the prescription drug donut hole for seniors, cut the deficit by $130 billion, ban health insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions or the loss of a job, and allow the American people to sign up for the same kind of quality, affordable, private health care plans that are available to members of Congress. I am confident that a modified version of the Senate bill which removes special deals for states like Louisiana and Nebraska will meet these objectives.?

?The health insurance industry has made it perfectly clear that their number one priority is to defend their multi-billion dollar profits at the expense of working Michigan families. In the past few weeks, four different special interest groups have spent nearly $300,000 on attack ads in my district to scare voters and kill health care reform. The bottom line is that I don?t work for the powerful health insurance industry ? I work for the people of Michigan, and passing health care reform will ultimately help get our economy back on track.?