Washington DC U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-32) today joined other House Republican leaders and Senators to receive over 1.3 million petitions against government-run health care. Organized by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) and Salem Radio Network the constituent signature drive marks the largest policy petition delivery on record.
The record-breaking health care petitions arrived by ambulance at a press conference on Capitol Hill this afternoon. In addition to Sessions press conference participants included Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) NCPA President John Goodman and Salem Radio Network hosts Mike Gallagher and Hugh Hewitt.
The American people are not buying Congressional Democrats government-run health care prescription for higher costs fewer choices more taxes deeper deficits and interference in the patient/doctor relationship" Sessions stated.
Thanks to the organizational efforts of the NCPA and Salem Radio Network more than 1.3 million Americans are now voicing this opinion through the largest ever health care petition delivery to Congress" Sessions said.
On May 25 2009 NCPA and Salem Radio Network launched the Free Our Health Care Now" petition providing an opportunity for over a million Americans to voice their opposition to increasing the role of government in health care. Additionally the petition outlines support for patient-centered priorities including the right of Americans to choose their own doctors and coverage total access to quality care fairness in the health care tax code and portability in health coverage.
Today more than a million Americans stood up and were counted in the debate over how best to repair a dysfunctional health care system" said
NCPA President John Goodman. To the naysayers
who have dismissed the town hall protestors as unrepresentative of the American people as a whole we present this petition as evidence the opposition is real it is deep and it extends to voters in all 50 states."
The need for reform is clear" said Sessions and the American people should see Congress working in a bipartisan effort to craft patient-centered solutions that will lower costs expand coverage prioritize access to quality care and increase patient choice through competition in the marketplace. Its past time for Congress to start listening to the American people."
The
National Center for Policy Analysis is a nonpartisan conservative public policy research organization based in Dallas Texas.
Salem Radio Network is a satellite radio network that serves over 2000 affiliate radio stations across the nation including KSKY 660 AM in Dallas/Fort Worth. For more information on the Free Our Health Care Now" petition visit
www.freeourhealthcarenow.com or
http://mediakit.ncpa.org.
