Health Care Sample Letters
Please write your local papers and Representatives to let them know that you don’t agree with President Obama’s and Congressional Democrats’ government-run health care plan.
Sample Letter to the Editor
[Date]
Letter to the Editor
Subject: Government-run Health Care
Dear Editor:
The president has put forward a plan to run yet another part of our lives. This time he has proposed to have government run our health care system, delving into the highly personal decisions of choice of provider as well as quality of care. His assurances that a government-run plan would strengthen our current system while driving down costs are simply not the case.
The president claims that patients will be able to keep their choice of provider under his plan. That is not reality. Independent analyses have concluded that millions of Americans will lose their private coverage once a government-run plan is introduced to the market place. Recently the president himself admitted that there is nothing in his plan that would prevent employers from dropping the health coverage they currently offer when faced with unfair competition from a government-run plan. The president should level with the American people on this crucial point.
The president’s promise that care will be strengthened under his plan is also misleading. As more of the population is forced onto the government-run plan, bureaucrats in Washington will have no choice but to ration care and mandate what they consider “best practices” to try and keep costs down.
And the president’s plan will do nothing to lower costs. It will actually drive costs up. The initial price tag for the president’s plan is somewhere between $1 and $2 trillion dollars. The president and Democrats in Congress are considering proposals that will substantially increase taxes on small businesses and the middle class, and implement cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Everyone knows that interjecting government control has never led to lower costs. Quite the opposite.
Your readers should carefully consider the implications of allowing the government to control this very personal part of our lives. A government takeover of our health care system is the wrong answer.
Name
Address
City, State ZIP
Phone number
Sample Letter to Elected Official
[Date]
The Honorable [First and Last name of Congressman or Senator]
United States [House of Representatives or Senate]
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear [Congressman or Senator and Last Name]:
The president’s plan for a government takeover of health care will cause many Americans to lose the private insurance they currently enjoy and interfere with decisions of care that belong between a doctor and patient. Any health care reform passed by Congress should strengthen a patient’s control of health care, not threaten it.
The president’s insistence that there is only one option before Congress to reform health care presents a false choice. Republicans have presented principles for reform that will strengthen patient choice, preserve quality care, end lawsuit abuse and drive down costs. All of these reforms are possible without a government-run plan that would add substantially to the public debt.
As a concerned constituent, I am urging you to oppose any government-run component in health care reform and consider a solution that truly strengthens our health care system.
Sincerely,
[Name]
[Address]
[City, State ZIP]
The president has put forward a plan to run yet another part of our lives. This time he has proposed to have government run our health care system, delving into the highly personal decisions of choice of provider as well as quality of care. His assurances that a government-run plan would strengthen our current system while driving down costs are simply not the case.
The president claims that patients will be able to keep their choice of provider under his plan. That is not reality. Independent analyses have concluded that millions of Americans would lose their private coverage once a government-run plan is introduced to the market place. Recently the president himself admitted that there is nothing in his plan that would prevent employers from dropping the health coverage they offer when faced with unfair competition from a government-run plan. The president should level with the American people on this crucial point.
The president’s promise that care would be strengthened under his plan is also misleading. As more of the population is forced onto the government-run plan, bureaucrats in Washington will have no choice but to ration care and mandate what they consider “best practices” to try and keep costs down.
And the president’s plan would do nothing to lower costs. It would actually drive costs up. The initial price tag for the president’s plan is somewhere between $1 and $2 trillion dollars. The president and Democrats in Congress are considering proposals that would substantially increase taxes on small businesses and the middle class, and implement cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Everyone knows that interjecting government control has never led to lower costs. Quite the opposite.
Your readers should carefully consider the implications of allowing the government to control this very personal part of our lives. A government takeover of our health care system is the wrong answer.
