http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Call or Write your Senators and Representatives
and tell them to VOTE NO on H.R. 1215!
The U.S. Congress is fighting hard to take away your rights and the power of individual states to protect those rights.
The influence of BIG BUSINESS over your elected representatives is being used protect careless and greedy companies and their insurers from the responsibility to pay for their own misconduct. They are working to transfer to taxpayers the expense of caring for the victims of corporate misconduct. And if the responsibility to pay for the harm they do disappears then a primary motive for manufacturers and drug companies to make safe products disappears with it.
Let’s Get Specific
H.R. 1215:
If your loved one ends up in a nursing home, and develops fatal bedsores because the nursing home chose to understaff to maximize profits, it won’t matter. This bill leaves victims of nursing home abuse with no practical remedy.
Is it okay with you if your hospitalized child suffers brain injury and dies because there were not enough health care professionals to provide proper supervision? Under this bill, Congress says your child does not have enough value to matter.
Congress is considering a devastating anti-justice wish list in H.R. 1215. The bill would federalize (so long states’ rights!) health care malpractice lawsuits, severely limiting victim’s access to justice.
Oppose H.R. 1215: Congress Should Protect Patients. Period. As many as 440,000 Americans die from preventable medical errors every year, making it the third leading cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease and cancer.
XYZ drug company produces a drug that is hazardous to people taking it. Doctors are told that the drug “has problems”, but some doctors continue to prescribe it because they enjoy benefits from the drug company. You will not be permitted to sue those physicians under this law.
How Will It Cost Tax Payers?
Injured people must get care somewhere. If they cannot receive compensation from the party at fault, they will have to go elsewhere.
*Private health insurance costs can be expected to go up.
*Medicare will get hit for more payments.
*Medicaid will see increased claims.
*Social Security will see increases in disability claims.
*Healthcare costs will rise to cover the uninsured who seek treatment.
*Unemployment claims should be expected to rise as injured workers, uncompensated by the real wrongdoers, will make claims that would otherwise have been unnecessary.
*If you are somehow able to receive a jury verdict or settlement in any of the cases under this bill, the responsible party can require that any amounts over $50,000 be paid out over time; will it be one year, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years?? And what happens to your compensation if the wrongdoer goes out of business before the debt owed to you is paid?
So Why Would Congress Do This?
Because members of Congress owe big corporations and insurance companies for getting them elected. What other reason would cause Congress to pass laws they know will hurt Americans and add to an already heavy tax burden?
Mar 28, 2017 @ 23:27:33
Debbie,
This is an excellent synopsis of the reality of the effects of passing HR 1215. Thank you for writing it. I wrote to my Congressman and hope others do as well. My career was in pharmaceuticals and my Mom has been injured in a nursing home…I’ve seen both sides and if this is passed it will truly be a huge loss of our rights and carte blanche for doctors, medical device companies, and the pharmaceutical industry to be absolved from all responsibility to individuals. PLEASE keep taking about this so you’ll continue to raise awareness. Thanks again
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Mar 18, 2017 @ 12:37:08
Dear Marti,
Congress is About to Take Away Your Rights! Oh really? I beg to differ. Whoever stated such nonsense is very much in need of reading my book, It’s Not The Law. Especially Chapter 43, Unalienable and Inalienable Rights and 44, The Source of All Rights. (attached to this email)
Nobody can take away your rights. The president can’t. Congress can’t. No king or ruler could. I seriously doubt that God could either. Someone might infringe upon them, but it would be impossible to take them away.
This kind of thinking is what has gotten us into the mess we are in today. As an example, consider how many people are standing in line to request a concealed carry permit. There is no better permit than the Second Amendment.
Perhaps the author of your recent article did not understand the meaning of the word “Rights.” Perhaps going so far as to think rights were granted by government, therefore being nothing but privileges?
After the second thirteenth Amendment came along, the Negros were moved to the federal plantation and having no protection by the Constitution For the united States as they were not “free, white, people,” the feds needed to have a way to deal with them in the courts, so they granted them, “Civil Rights. Civil rights are privileges, a pitiful counterfeit, and as such can be overruled.
Wayne Barbuto
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Mar 17, 2017 @ 15:49:12
Why are private people not helping to get the elect to be elected?
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Mar 16, 2017 @ 16:06:59
@ Joe, Your so truly welcome! Always my pleasure. What we allow is what will continue and worsen. One person can make a difference, together we can change the world. Teamwork Matters! It is so Inhumane, Injustice, Unbelievable, and Unjustifiable what they are trying to do. Its suppose to be People before Profit but that isn’t how it is.. Its Totally Disgusting! Thank you for your response!~
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Mar 15, 2017 @ 20:55:26
Thanks for sharing this important information. It is despicable what they are trying to do!!
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Mar 15, 2017 @ 18:34:27