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Restore Americas Voice Foundation and Mike Huckabee Petition to take back Affordable Health Care

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That's right Pennsylvania Call Now!!!

Mike Huckabee wants to protect his freedom not to be concerned with another American's health care.

New AD  seen in Pennsylvania  from Restore Americas Voice Foundation at the expense of the voice of 50 Million Americans who will now have Affordable Health Care, wants you to add your name to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better demagogued on the Right as ObamaCare, or as I like to say at times -- National Romneybama Care. Don't you just love how a Republican Presidential Candidate tries to divorce himself from his greatest accomplishment in his only elected position?

I mean, Romney can't run on shipping American Manufacturing to China or downsizing American companies while making a profit for shareholders and himself and leaving taxpayers on the hook for the Workers pensions; on how he was once supposedly more Pro-Gay Rights than Ted Kennedy, invested in Stericycle -- the company that disposes of aborted fetuses -- and even donated money to planned parenthood when he was a US Senate hopeful in the 90s.

Or my favorite -- how Ann and Mitt understand what working families go through because while Mitt was out shipping working class families jobs overseas, Ann was working hard at home raising their five boys. I'm sure it was hard raising five boys. In January my wife and I will learn how hard it is to raise one boy; however, like many Americans, we will learn how it is hard to raise that child while both parents work.

So let's get back to health care and Romney surrogate Mike Huckabee's need to return to the Pre-Insurance Company Protection days and Pre-Existing Care days of yore. We have to repeal this, we really do, and not because parts of it are very popular when not demagogued as ObamaCare, but because we want to be free not to care about another's health care, especially when it drives Insurance Company profits down. I mean 80% of all the money Insurance Companies take in have to go to Patient Care, not executive bonuses, lobbying or other administrative costs

And let's not forget how ObamaCare took money from Medicare and will bankrupt it; you know, the latest Senior Scare tactic. According to an article from Equities.com, ObamaCare could be improving something that Republicans rarely care for and consider a tool of class warfare -- Corporate Accountability. In the article, Oklahoma State Senator Jim Wilson (D) states:

"PPACA is not expanding Medicare coverage per se. It is, however, going to require people get better treatment. For instance, Medicare spends $165 million per year in Oklahoma for hospital readmissions due to mistakes and poor followup. The real value of PPACA is Medicare will finally be paying for how well the patient does, instead of the number of unnecessary procedures."

Helping to address a conservative state bleeding $165 million per year in wasted taxpayer funds sounds awfully "fiscally responsible." Think of all the tax cuts for those who don't need it that will now be available in the Sooner State.

The greatest fear I believe Conservatives like Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney (who plays one on TV) have is by adapting a health-care initiative created by a Conservative Think Tank, instituted on the state level by a once Massachusetts Moderate and advanced by a Democratic President will prove to be quite successful, even when valiantly distorted to protect profits in the name of not my problem and freedom not to care.

The Party that Opposed the creation of Medicare, the idea of Social Security, and which welcomed the Southern Strategy and the Southern Democrats with open arms once again wants to push an individual mandate not to care for your fellow American.

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Rich Bergen is the managing editor and primary writer for ProgressMo Shuffle. Rich is a Center for Progressive Leadership 2012 Pennsylvania Political Leader Fellow, a Correction Officer, Union Steward, graduate from Concordia College-Bronxville with (more...)
 
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