Flag Day Tea Party to Pressure Betsy Markey on Obama's Healthcare Plan

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FORT COLLINS, CO – Ft. Collins' second Tea Party rally, scheduled for noon Saturday at Washington Park behind the Fort Collins City Hall building, will focus on pressuring Congresswoman Betsy Markey to vote against President Obama's announced proposal for a socialist government-owned healthcare system, local organizers say.

Fort Collins Tea Party co-organizer Ray Harvey Thursday said if Markey supports Obama's proposal to increase the federal government's control of medical care, "it will result ultimately in rationing healthcare for our senior citizens, and also in long delays in receiving treatment that will threaten our own lives and the lives of our family members."

"No government possesses legitimate authority over the life and labor of any individual, including the life and labor of doctors," Harvey said. "These men and women devote astronomical hours to the science of medicine; they do it not because they are forced to but by choice. No one -- not Betsy Markey, not Nancy Pelosi, not Barack Obama, not anyone -- has the right to tell these people how they must live their lives."

"Doctors and patients who practice and live in socialized healthcare systems throughout the world, such as Canada, can always flee to the United States, and they do. If Betsy Markey votes to let the Obama Administration take control of our system and do away with our freedom of choice here, where do we flee? Answer: nowhere."

The Obama Administration has announced its plan to push its disastrous policy through by the end of this summer. According to CNS NEWS,

"Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod said on CBS's "Face the Nation" (Sunday) that President Obama intends to promote a health-care reform plan that will include creating a government-owned health-care company and predicted that Congress will enact such a plan by the end of the summer." http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49243

Harvey said that Tea Party activists will respond this summer by pressuring Rep. Betsy Markey to vote against government-controlled healthcare "over the phone, by mail, at her district offices, or on her front doorstep, if necessary, starting this Saturday."

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