Calls Needed to Congress About National Healthcare Bill

We received this in an email today and we feel this is an urgent call to action that applies not just to homeschooling families, but ALL families regardless of where your child is educated!!!!

"Dear Colorado homeschooling families,
Our friends at the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) have passed on an urgent message to us:
William A. Estrada, Esq.Director of Federal Relations July 21, 2009
Urgent calls are needed to the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate to oppose H.R. 3200, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009." Although this bill does not directly impact homeschool freedoms, it would significantly impact parental rights and early childhood education. For more information, read HSLDA's legislative summary of H.R. 3200.While this bill is being promoted as a way to reform health care and help Americans, it should be opposed because it would:
*Spend billions of dollars to allow the federal government to fund home visitation programs, where government officials would enter homes and monitor children and instruct parents in how to raise their children;
*Encourage states to pressure families to enroll their children in these home visitation programs;
*Put the federal government in the healthcare business, resulting in loss of competition, loss of patient choice, and loss of patient freedom;
*Require all health insurance plans, whether offered by a private company or the government, to include controversial "essential benefits," which courts or the Secretary of Health and Human Services may determine to include medical procedures which businesses and taxpayers may oppose on philosophical and religious grounds; and
*Increase the size and power of the federal government.

Action: Please call your U.S. representative and your two U.S. senators, and ask them to oppose the federal government's takeover of health care.
You need not identify yourself as a homeschooler. You can use some or all of the following message:
"Please oppose H.R. 3200, the 'America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.' I am opposed to H.R. 3200's creation of home visitation programs through grants to the states. Parents, not federal or state officials, should make child-rearing decisions for their young children. Additionally, H.R. 3200 will expand the federal government's role, the federal deficit, and will interfere with medical decisions between my doctor and me."

Please also forward this information to as many of your friends as you can and urge them to call their elected officials. You can find the contact information for your U.S. representative by using HSLDA's contact information for your U.S. representative by using HSLDA's Legislative Toolbox.
If you are in Colorado, here is the contact info for COLORADO SENATORS:
1. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Washington, D.C. Office:702 Hart Senate Office Building,District of Columbia 20510-0605
Phone: (202) 224-5852 Fax: (202) 228-5036
Denver Office: 2300 15th Street, Suite 450 Denver, Colorado 80202
Phone: (303) 455-7600 Fax: (303) 455-8851

2. Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO)
Washington, D.C. Office: 317 Hart Senate Office Building, District of Columbia 20510-0605
Phone: (202) 224-5941 Fax: (202) 224-6471
Denver Office: 999 Eighteenth Street, Suite N 1525 Denver, Colorado 80202
Phone: (303) 650-7820 Fax: (303) 650-7827