Tuesday

THE PUBLIC OPTION THAT WON'T DIE
THIS FROM Rep. Marsha Blackburn on women and health care reform:

I'd like to call your attention to this story in the POLITICO. It points out that women are split on the liberal health care plans and advocates in Washington are urging politicians to target women in order get their reform plans passed. This is completely off base. Most women aren’t uninformed about liberal health care plans, they are unimpressed.

I would also call your attention to a poll released by WhyMomsRule.com right here in Tennessee. It points out that only 7% of mothers think that they have a voice in Washington.

Women are the primary family decision maker where health care is concerned. If they don’t think that Washington is listening to them, why would they turn over their decision making power to a big government bureaucracy? Plans, like the ones I am co-sponsoring with Rep. John Shadegg would give moms more decision making power by allowing them to pool together and design plans that fit their family’s needs.

Women make up the core of America’s small business owners. They know that plans like the Baucus bill would impose a $554 billion “surtax” to fund a government takeover of healthcare. More than half of the people targeted under this “surtax” are small business owners. That tax would cripple our economic recovery in the name of a health care system that will ultimately drive up prices and reduce quality and access.