Letter to Senator Reid

I have attached a copy of my letter to Sen. Reid. Please use this letter to send to your Senators.

You must not resort to reconciliation to ram health care "reform" down America's throat. This is a strong arm tactic that needs to be better defined. It was originally intended for BUDGET reconciliation, not to shove questionable bills through the process. We had the previous administration use this tactic to push through oil drilling and trade authority among other things. This process must be more clearly defined if not removed altogether. The Byrd rule is helpful but doesn't go far enough, there is no indication of what is incidental according to reconciliation. This rule makes a mockery of the Senatorial process this country was founded on.

Look at the polls, the town hall meetings, the blogs, the editorials more people are against the proposed health care reform. We, the people, do want and need health care reform, we just don't want BIG GOV'T health care. There are several types of reform that would really help United States citizens among these are: tax credits for individuals, not the employer; allowing portability of insurance plans; allowing interstate purchase of insurance policies; reducing the some of the 2000 federal and state mandates put on insurance companies; pre-tax health insurance accounts. These are some things that would reduce the cost of health insurance without the government involvement. There are approximately 47% of people living in the country (legal or not, citizen or not) that are already on some form of government ran health care. Would it not be better to fix the problems in the existing "government" health care such as welfare, social security, medicare, medicaid and Veteran's Affairs before cramming another half thought, hair brained program down the throats of the people you are "representing"?

The use of reconciliation to pass a very controversial health care reform bill would be a great injustice to the foundations this great country was founded and shows that our "politicians" in Washington are not even listening to what the people are saying. I would not be happy with any government ran health care program, it takes away my freedom, even more than all the insurance mandates. I would feel a little better about the government plan if all of our elected officials were mandated to accept the same health care you want to jam through the "Senatorial Process".

If you resort to this underhanded reconciliation tactic to pass health care reform, I will do everything in my power to make sure you do not get reelected. I will rally supporters, protest and create petitions to get the word out. I am not a "paid" protester, was not organized by a radio host or political party, not an "astroturf" protester and I am most certainly not an "EVIL MONGER" or a racist nazi (as you and other members of Congress have called me). I am simply a hard working, United States Citizen that wants to pursue the American Dream.