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Please read this important message from our friends at Americans For Prosperity Arizona

 

To all Arizona Taxpayers and Health Care Consumers:

Arizona’s 2012 Legislative Session is officially over, but our Legislators’ work is not yet done. Legislators have until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 18 to sign the Arizona Health Care Freedom Pledge to stop Governor Jan Brewer from setting up an ObamaCare insurance exchange in Arizona. Listed below are five things YOU can do to stop ObamaCare in Arizona.

If the U.S. Supreme Court does not strike down the ENTIRE corpus of the ObamaCare legislation (not just the individual mandate) the federal takeover of health care will march onward, making health care more expensive and less accessible, and stifling medical innovation through huge new tax and regulatory burdens.

Unfortunately, Gov. Jan Brewer is helping the bureaucratic beast of ObamaCare to survive, by spending $30 million of your federal tax dollars to set up an ObamaCare health insurance exchange in Arizona. The exchange is a new bureaucracy that will soon require tens of millions of dollars annually in new surcharges, fees and/or taxes on Arizona families and businesses.

Five things YOU can do to STOP ObamaCare in Arizona

1) Click here to urge your Legislators to sign the Arizona Health Care Freedom Pledge (our email action system will also send thank-you emails to Legislators who have already signed the Pledge).

2) Look out for the June release of AFP-Arizona’s 2012 Legislative Scorecard. Our statewide postcard mailers about the Scorecard will let constituents know whether or not their Legislators signed the Health Care Freedom Pledge by the May 18 deadline.

3) Get educated about the Arizona ObamaCare insurance exchange. Start by reading our Fraudulent Claims document, about the misinformation the insurance company lobbyists are telling your Legislators.  Also, please take 90 seconds to watch AFP-Arizona’s new web ad and meet Arizona’s ObamaCare Czar.

4) Click HERE to see a list of the Arizona Legislators who have already signed the Pledge, and use our email action system to send thank-you emails to the signers.

5) Get ready to fight the ObamaCare exchange in a special legislative session in September, if Gov. Brewer persists in trying to set up an exchange here in Arizona.

Nationwide, health care freedom activists are winning the battle to stop the imposition of ObamaCare exchanges in the States. But we must win in every State, including Arizona.

AFP-Arizona is asking all Arizona Legislators to sign the Pledge by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 18. Legislators who fail to sign the Pledge are leaving the door open to the imposition of an ObamaCare exchange in Arizona–and harming the prospects for the repeal of ObamaCare.

For Liberty,

Tom Jenney
Arizona Director
Americans for Prosperity
www.aztaxpayers.org
tjenney@afphq.org
(602) 478-0146

April 15 update:  THANKS TO YOUR support, Gov. Brewer signed this bill into law late last month!

 

SB 1188 would raise the bar for imposing discipline. It passed the Arizona Senate Health Committee, with nay votes from  Democratic Senators Aboud and Lopez.

It is to be heard before the Arizona House Committee on HHS at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, Mar 7, in HHR 4.

Please consider letting your representatives know your views.

Contact Information for members of the Committee are:

Chairman Republican Cecil P. Ash, cash@azleg.gov, (602) 926-3160
Vice Chairman Republican Heather Carter, hcarter@azleg.gov, (602) 926-5503
Democrat Kate Brophy McGee, kbrophymcgee@azleg.gov, (602) 926-4486
Democrat Sally Ann Gonzales, sgonzales@azleg.gov, (602) 926-3278
Democrat Matt Heinz, mheinz@azleg.gov, (602) 926-3424
Democrat Katie Hobbs, khobbs@azleg.gov, (602) 926-5325
Republican Peggy Judd, pjudd@azleg.gov, (602) 926-5836
Republican Justin Pierce, jpierce@azleg.gov, (602) 926-5495
Republican Kimberly Yee, kyee@azleg.gov, (602) 926-3024

You can find your own legislators, at www.azleg.gov.

Here is the message AAPS Executive Director, Jane Orient, MD is sending:

The Arizona chapter of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons strongly supports a clear and convincing standard of evidence for imposing discipline, particularly if it involves major practice restrictions, suspension, or revocation. No exception is warranted for “sexual misconduct.”

If a person is charged criminally with such offenses, there is a criminal standard of proof to be met, in a court that follows rules of evidence, permits cross-examination of accusers, and assures representation to defendants who cannot afford it. Before the Board, a physician has no such due process guarantees. Yet the punishment, the equivalent of a professional death sentence, can be more severe than that faced by a rapist. This sentence can be, and has been, handed down by the AMB for vaguely defined offenses such as “inappropriate touching,” based solely on the testimony of witnesses found to be not credible by a forensic psychiatrist. A physician’s life is ruined, and patients who need and desire his services are deprived of a physician.

The public can surely be protected by far less severe measures such as requiring presence of a chaperone. If a patient finds a physician’s behavior to be offensive in any way, she always has the option of firing the physician and never seeing him again. She can also file a civil complaint. There is no need to risk injustices by diluting the standard of proof in such cases.

YOU ARE INVITED!

AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly and a number of AAPS members will be in Phoenix on Monday, Oct 31, to testify at a legislative hearing regarding Arizona Medical Board reform.

Please join us for dinner, and a talk by Mr. Schlafly on medical board issues, our legal challenge to ObamaCare, and other legal issues affecting private medicine.

Bring your questions!

WHERE:           Macayo’s Mexican Restaurant Central (upstairs)

4001 N Central, Phoenix (south of Indian School Rd)

WHEN:                        Monday, Oct 31, 6:00-8:30 p.m.

(Dinner will start at 6:30 p.m.  Come early for a drink and to meet your colleagues)

COST:              $25

RSVP:              aaps@aapsonline.org or online at http://aapsonline.org/azmeeting

Space is limited, so sign up now!

For further information on Arizona Medical Board issues, see www.arizonamedicalboardwatch.com, a project of the Arizona State Chapter of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

Only 68 hours left to support this project!  It is now over 50% funded with only $370 needed to bring this important film to Phoenix.

Make a pledge to help show this film by 11am this Sunday and the Arizona Chapter of AAPS will match your contribution.

If the goal is not met by then, your credit card will not be charged.  See below for more information.  Several of your Arizona AAPS colleagues have already stepped forward to help.  Join them &  CLICK HERE to pledge your support today!

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Dear Arizona AAPS members and friends,

The Phoenix Objectivists are raising funds to show the documentary, Sick and Sicker.  To hold the screening they need to reach $800.00 by 11am Sunday, August 7.

Let’s help them reach their goal!  CLICK HERE to pledge your support today!
 

AAPS Board Member, Wayne Iverson, MD, organized a screening at a San Diego
area hospital this past week, despite attempts from the hospital
administrators to block it.

Can AZ AAPS supporters help ensure an Arizona debut?

This documentary exposes the cold, hard, truth about ObamaCare’s false promises
using the President’s own words contrasted with the stark, human
consequences of government-run medicine seen in our neighbor to the
north, Canada.  Witness real-life struggles of sick patients failing to
receive treatment when the government plays doctor, leaving the real
physicians with their hands tied.

CLICK HERE to pledge your support today!

You will be asked for a credit card number, but your card will only be charged once a total of $800 has been pledged.  If the goal is not met you don’t pay.

In addition, a $20 pledge will allow you to download a copy of the
movie.  Pledge levels over $20 will earn you DVD copies of the movie and
even Ayn Rand postage stamps!

Sick and Sicker provides
an authoritative message that can change minds and demonstrate to the
American people how our current leaders are leading us down the path to
medical disaster.

Where will ObamaCare lead America?
This film shows what happens when “the government becomes your doctor”
using licensed news footage from Canadian TV, interviews with doctors,
patients, journalists, a health minister, a Member of Parliament, a
doctor who went on a hunger strike as well the producer’s own Canadian
relatives.  Clements even rents a hospital to show the mismatch between
supply and demand in a medical system run by politicians.  SICK and
SICKER puts ObamaCare on ice with cold hard facts from Canada.

Producer of the movie, Logan Darrow Clements, is best known for leading a rebellion against eminent domain abuse under the banner “The Lost Liberty Hotel”. See his TV appearances on CNN, Fox, MSNBC at http://www.freestarmedia.com/videos.html.

Dear Arizona AAPS members and friends,

Please call Governor Brewer on Monday ask her to sign SB 1593 and
promote health care freedom. To send Gov. Brewer an email, use her web
contact page: http://www.azgovernor.gov/Contact.asp

The phone number for Gov. Brewer’s office is (602) 542-1361.

You can read more about this important issue at the Americans for Prosperity website.

CLICK HERE TO GO THERE NOW.

Please also read the below note from Arizona Senator Nancy Barto.

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Dear Friends,

It is time to act!

If we are going to address the very real problems in health care
without more government “solutions”, which inevitably lead to the unholy
alliance of:

• less control over your health care
• less quality health care
• and all of this at higher costs to taxpayers –

…we must enact free market solutions such as SB 1593.   SB 1593
dramatically increases the number of insurance options for Arizonans,
and is a big step in the right direction.  The battle is not over,
however.  Having passed the Legislature on Thursday – the bill awaits
Governor Brewer’s signature and lobbyists are out in force urging a
veto.

Click here  to read more from Americans for Prosperity on this issue and to call the Governor to urge her to sign the bill.

Quote of the Day:  “The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.”

Dennis Prager, Radio talk show host

Thank you!

Nancy

www.NancyBarto.com