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We thank Representative Foxx for coming clean (guest editorial, Winston-Salem Journal, 19 Aug. 2009) and admitting
that what she said in the past about the proposed health care reform plans was
not true. We are glad Ms. Foxx is now willing to confess that the health care
plans currently being considered do not pay for abortions or euthanasia and are
not plots to put seniors to death.
We also appreciate that Ms. Foxx, after four years of being in
the majority in Congress and doing nothing whatsoever about health insurance
reform, finally wants to get on board as a “vocal supporter.” Problem is, Ms.
Foxx’s plan is to give more taxpayer money to the insurance companies, while
stiffing the rest of us who are trying to find a way to pay the increasing
costs of premiums and copays.
Health insurance corporate profits were up by over 1,000
percent in the past five years. Meanwhile, working families saw their premiums
rise by over 300% over the same period of time.
But Ms. Foxx thinks the insurance companies deserve better. She wants to eliminate all state regulations
on insurance companies, and she wants to shield the insurance companies from
any honest competition. That’s what she
means when she says she doesn’t support any government run health care. And
that’s why the insurance companies are so keen on Representative Foxx.
Ms. Foxx’s opposition to any non-profit competition to the
health insurance companies also means that Ms. Foxx does not support Medicare
for Seniors, Veterans insurance, or even her own tax-payer funded government
insurance. That’s right -- we the
taxpayers are paying for Ms. Foxx’s government health insurance, and it’s a
real bargain for her (for us, not so much).
So we respectfully ask Ms. Foxx to stand up for her
principles against government run insurance and sign the following pledge:
I, Virginia Foxx, Congressional Representative for District 5 of the
State of North Carolina, acknowledge that I am the beneficiary of a health care
plan and policy that is paid for by the American taxpayers and run by the
Federal government.
For this reason, I hereby pledge I will forgo my government insurance
until all Americans have full access to the same or better health insurance
opportunities and the same or lower out-of-pocket costs for their personal and
family health care needs.
We are sure in light of Ms. Foxx’s desire for accountability
to the people of the Fifth district, she will agree to sign this
pledge and return it to the newspapers for all to see. How else can a
representative who opposes government run insurance show the people she really
means what she says?
Diane Tilson is Chair of the Watauga County Democratic Party
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