Email I received from the Health Insurance Industry

[EmeraldCityGrl]

All eyes are on the Senate Finance Committee as it continues to "mark-up" its America's Healthy Future Act. This process of debating, amending and rewriting the long-awaited bill will culminate in a vote - likely by the end of this week - on whether to advance the legislation.

As you may know, this bill does not include a new government-run plan that would cause millions to lose the private coverage they enjoy today. While this indicates that your voices are being heard, it is critical to keep the pressure on because there are several ways a government-run plan could still be slipped into the final Senate bill.

First, the Senate Finance Committee bill will have to be combined with the Senate HELP Committee bill - which includes a government plan - before a vote can be taken by the full Senate. Second, an amendment is likely to be offered to add a "trigger" for a government plan to take effect if certain criteria are not met. The trigger is being billed as a fallback plan, but in reality it is a back-door strategy that would make a government-run plan inevitable.

We need your continued help to urge your lawmakers to keep a government plan out of healthcare reform and instead build on the employer-based system that's already working for more than 160 million Americans. That means opposing any provision that would establish a government plan immediately or make one inevitable through a back-door "trigger."

Thank you in advance for making your voice heard on this important issue and for telling Congress to Get Health Reform Right for America.
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Get Health Reform Right is a project of organizations whose shared mission is to ensure consumers continue to have access to employer-sponsored healthcare plans. We are concerned about federal legislation that would create new government bureaucracies that would unravel the workplace healthcare system where more than 160 million people get their coverage.

Association of Health Insurance Advisors

America’s Health Insurance Plans

American Benefits Council

BlueCross BlueShield Association

Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers

Healthcare Leadership Council

Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers

National Association of Health Underwriters

National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

National Retail Association

This came with an auto-response to my congress critters. Write emails, call congress NOW.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Irony: A "We're doing the right thing" insurance company commercial just finished.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Wow they are getting this to their email servers

now that takes stones. The wrong kind, but it still takes them.

[Critters2]

3. The nerve! The unmitigated gall!

I've called my congress critters, that's for damn sure!

[LTR]

4. Is this for real?

How did you get on their email list?

And how do these assholes sleep at night, knowing how much they're screwing over their customers. Scaring people into thinking they'll lose their overpriced, lousy quality insurance.

This is why we need reform. Fuck big pharma!

[EmeraldCityGrl]

5. It's for real. The only connection is that my

provider is on the list. So, they must be sending this out to the patients they insure.

[LTR]

6. Okay, that's just sleazy

These people are beyond evil.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

7. This could potentially be going out to millions of

clients. I can't stress enough how important it is for EVERYONE to slam congress with emails and phone calls tomorrow.

[shellgame26]

8. you gotta be kidding!

They really believe they have the majority on their side. They're drunk on MSM koolaid.

[WCGreen]

9. The only health care insurer on this list is Blue Cross and Blue Shield..

Most of these proponents are insurance agents/broker associations.

My old man use to say that Insurance Agents became Insurance Agents because didn't have the balls to sell used cars...