But Rubio proposal could serve as a poison pill
“Congress is moving closer to
[passing] a bill which would require virtually every single American to
buy government-approved health insurance, whether they wanted it or
not. And, in the process, that bill would feed all of your most
confidential medical data into an enormous database, which could be used
to take away your guns.” -- GOA Alert, April 2009
Five years ago, during the spring of 2009, GOA told its members
that a major priority of Barack Obama's health care reform agenda was
to take away your guns.
This was three months before other groups and media outlets
came out in opposition of what became known as “ObamaCare.” At the
time, Republican Senators like Chuck Grassley and Orrin Hatch were
working hard to solidify a bipartisan consensus which would take the
issue of “health care reform” off the table.
Conservative pollsters were saying that opposition to health care reform would destroy the Republican Party.
At the time, GOA said that Obama's health care reform would
allow the ATF to troll a federal health database for tens of millions of
people -- individuals suffering from maladies like PTSD, ADHD or
post-partum depression -- and to send those names to the FBI’s NICS
system.
Spring forward to January, 2013, when President Obama published
an Executive Action concerning language that was inserted into
ObamaCare in a futile effort to appease GOA. Obama’s Executive Action
overturned a clear protection for gun owners and declared that doctors
are not prohibited from asking about guns and entering that information
in a federal database.
Then in January of this year, the Department of Health and
Human Services floated regulations which would waive federal privacy
laws to allow these gun owners’ names to be submitted to the NICS
system.
At the same time, states like New York are turning in the names
of New Yorkers, for no other reason that their psychiatrists have given
them prescriptions for anxiety medication. Even in pro-gun states like
New Hampshire, there are pro-gun groups that (in an effort to
compromise) are pushing legislation to send the names of many gun owners
who have visited psychiatrists to NICS -- thus, imposing gun bans on a
lot more people.
The anti-gun Left is pulling out the stops to save ObamaCare,
because this law helps fund much of their socialistic agenda --
including the culling of gun owners’ names. But if ObamaCare isn't
destroyed, the Second Amendment will be in grave jeopardy.
Realizing this, Senator Marco Rubio has crafted a legislative
proposal (S. 1726) which would repeal Obama's ability to spend $1
trillion to buy off “millionaires and billionaires” at wealthy insurance
companies.
Sen. Rubio is trying to repeal this bailout since its only
purpose is to keep the anti-gun ObamaCare law afloat through the 2014
elections.
The quickest way to put a stake through the heart of this
ObamaCare vampire is to pass the Rubio proposal. Once insurance
companies are no longer engaged in a conspiracy of silence on behalf of
ObamaCare -- because they realize Obama will no longer pay them $1
trillion of “hush money” -- ObamaCare collapses.
ACTION: Click Here to Contact your Senators.
Ask them to cosponsor Senator Rubio's S. 1726 -- a bill that will help
the anti-gun ObamaCare law to implode by repealing the bailout of
millionaires and billionaires in the insurance companies.
