IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Theresa Petry, (314) 807-7077
Invites Carnahan, Local Officials to Pledge Support for HCFA
(ST. LOUIS, MO.) July 15, 2010 – Ed Martin visited with hundreds of seniors this week talking to them about Missouri’s Health Care Freedom Act, or Proposition “C” at several assisted and independent living senior centers in Missouri’s 3rd district. Pelosi and Congressman Carnahan’s “pass the health care bill –then find out what it entails” attitude has left seniors, the largest group of health care users, in the dark regarding their future care. It has been months since the government takeover of health care and seniors are still at a loss for how it impacts them. What seniors do know and what they’ve expressed to Ed is; they want their voices heard and they want the right to choose. They do not want the government to come between them and their doctors – possibly risking their health care.
A similar message echoed throughout a health care forum titled “Obamacare’s Impact on Seniors…And Where We Go From Here.” Tuesday some 460 seniors attended the forum in St. Louis where Ed Martin was asked to speak. He spoke as not only a congressional candidate but also as a bioethicist and an attorney whose law focus was health care ethics.
Ed Martin told the crowd of seniors that one common sense approach to health care is to vote “Yes” on Proposition C, Missouri’s Health Care Freedom Act, August 3rd. Missouri is the first state to stand up and allow voters to speak out on the national debate of Obamacare. Ed Martin sent a letter to elected officials in the area asking them to pledge their support, as he has, to vote “Yes” on Prop C and return the right of health care back to the people of Missouri.
“I support a common-sense health care fix that cuts costs, does not cut care and provides more choices for every American. Health care costs are simply too high and the current system needs to work better. However, the Pelosi/Reid/Carnahan government takeover of health care is not the answer to our health care needs. Congressman Carnahan’s vote for the government takeover of health care raises taxes on every American, rations health care and cuts Medicare for our seniors. We need to start over and pass a new plan that will actually cut costs without cutting care, increase competition among providers and insurance companies, provide more choices for Americans and mandates coverage for pre-existing conditions,” said Ed Martin.
For more information about Martin’s background and the campaign, visit EdMartinforCongress.com, or follow him on Facebook and Twitter @ed4congress.
Theresa Petry
Press Secretary
“Ed Martin for Congress”
(314) 807-7077 (cell)
theresa.petry@edmartinforcongress.com
www.edmartinforcongress.com
