Healthcare Freedom Rally
Sunday
October 3, 2010
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Parking lot of “Office This”
4031 E Harry Wichita, KS 67218
Scheduled Speakers Include
Not in order and probably not a complete list.
US Congressman Todd Tiahrt
KS Senator Dick Kelsey
Dr Jeff Colyer MD – Candidate for Lt Governor
Dr. George Watson D.O.
Mike Pompeo – Candidate for US Congress
Dr. Josh Umbehr M.D. – http://atlas.md/
Dr. Mark Fesen MD – Oncologist & Author of
“Surviving the Cancer System”
Dr. Peggy Elliott – Elliott Ministries
David Powell CLU, CHFC, CFP, RHU – Health Insurance Agent
Lynda Tyler CFS, CLTC - Kansans for Liberty - Emcee
Larry Halloran – Kansas 9/12 Group
Well over 50% of Americans oppose the US Government’s takeover of our country’s Healthcare Industry.
Kansans must educate themselves on the affects of the new laws, then support solutions and politicians who will protect their families.
There is hope. Come and learn more.
Bring your lawn chairs, your family and your friends!
Signs are okay too.
Questions? Call Lynda Tyler at 316-722-8031
http://stateofthestateks.com/2010/10/04/pompeo-colyer-and-kansas-gop-host-health-care-freedom-rally-to-oppose-new-federal-law/
Pompeo, Colyer and Kansas GOP Host “Health Care Freedom” Rally To Oppose New Federal Law
Of Course the title is wrong - this was hosted by Kansans for Liberty and NOT THE GOP!!
October 4, 2010
by Rebecca Zepick
A crowd of about 200 political spectators turned out Sunday afternoon to hear from Republican candidates and protest the new health care law. The event marked the first week the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as the new health care reform law, went into effect and the organizers said the event was to educate the audience about the new law.
Candidates were out in full force with appearances by Mike Pompeo (R), State Senator Dick Kelsey (R), Todd Tiahrt (R) and the candidate for Lieutenant Governor State Senator Jeff Colyer (R).
David Powell (R), the former candidate for Kansas Insurance Commissioner, organized the event and said that he was one of the few people to read the entire health care bill before it became law.
Specifically Powell told the crowd that the new law would leave more people uninsured, saying that employers will pay fines rather than give employees insurance benefits.
However, a number of news sources including Newsweek the New York Times report that over 30 million people will be covered for the first time by the health care law by 2019.
Powell also said that insurance premiums will increase, as the additional cost to insurance companies will simply be passed on to consumers.
The White House disputes the increased costs saying, “The Affordable Care Act will make health insurance affordable for everyone, with tax credits for those who need help buying coverage and a hardship waiver for those who still can’t afford it.”
The White House says this will help protect people from going into bankruptcy over health care bills and will reduce “the ‘hidden tax’ that people with insurance pay to cover the health care costs of people without insurance.”
Powell told the crowd that the law includes deep cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, programs that give health insurance to the poor and elderly, saying that “more than $22 Billion dollars was cut from the Medicare funds the day the law was signed.”
CNN reports that the “$22 billion in proposed cuts would come from smaller reforms, such as adjusting payment rates for physician imaging services and cutting waste, fraud and abuse.”
The New York Times reports that “most of the government subsidies that Medicare Advantage plans have received will be phased out by 2017″, but Former Kansas Governor and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (D) said that some of the changes will simply stop over-paying for the Medicare program.
The Weekly Standard reports Sebelius saying at a recent event, “Some of it is ceasing the overpayment for Medicare Advantage—companies being paid on average about 12 percent more than fee-for-service Medicare. It was set up that way intentionally by Congress in the early 90s to get private plans to participate and offer some competition and choice, but it has continued.”
“And the data is pretty clear that there are no medical advantages for that overpayment,” Sebelius continued. “The health impact is not more significant. The health outcomes are not better. So we are gradually over time going to–not cease to pay them–but cease to overpay them.”
Mike Pompeo, a candidate for Congress in the 4th District, said he had experienced government health care as a soldier in the U.S. Army.
“This is the most bizarre byzantine bureaucratic model mankind has ever seen,” Pompeo said speaking of health care for military service members. “I try and extrapolate that from a couple million folks under arms and veterans to 300 million Americans across the country and I know that this law will be a disaster for all of us and we’ve got to undo it.”
Pompeo added he vowed to repeal the the health care law if elected to Congress, “I made a pledge to repeal the Obamacare law….Rep. Goyle had two opportunities while serving in the Kansas House to speak up against it and twice he rejected it, he voted to impose Obamacare on Kansas.”
When asked about State Representative Raj Goyle’s (D) votes on health care issues in the Kansas legislature, his campaign did not address Goyle’s votes but said Pompeo was trying to distract voters.
“Today, serial outsourcer Mike Pompeo tried and failed to distract from his record of outsourcing jobs, supporting tax breaks that reward corporations for shipping American jobs overseas, and hurting Kansas families,” said Kiel Brunner, Goyle Campaign Manager.