"I am a concerned citizen - a citizen concerned about the direction this country is moving in, and the steps this government is taking in moving us there.
There's no possible way that the healthcare reforms being proposed and debated in both the House and the Senate are going to help average Americans. For the sake of around 8 million Americans without healthcare, the current proposed legislation will force every other taxpaying American to support a giant government intrusion into the healthcare market, with a distinct possibility of the government taking over the healthcare industry entirely, down the road. Healthcare will become more expensive for the average American, with more regulation in the healthcare industry, and adoptions of public, government-run insurance plans. This is not what was promised, and is not fair.
From a self-interested perspective, don't you actually want to lower healthcare costs for average Americans? These people are your constituents - they're your voters, the people who put you into office. And they are wising up to what's happening. Why be an agent against them, when you can be one for them? America is by the people, for the people - America is the people. Don't sacrifice them.
Beyond that, is the power to regulate an entire economic industry in the powers enumerated to the federal government? Such an intrusion betrays our trust, and the trust given by the Founding Fathers that what they created was good - that their experiment was an experiment in freedom. This would take us down the road journeyed by so many states dominated by their governments, by so many states unfree precisely because of these sorts of intrusions. We, the people, aren't stupid as a whole - we know what our Constitution says, what our Declaration says. The actions of this government will be held to account, whether now or in the future.
So please, please - in the name of what this country stood for, in what it should stand for - fight this. Side with the people, and renew our esteem of our country and our government."
