YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE: Baucus Version of ObamaCare Bullies Gun Owners (guests in DC or by phone)
One way or the other, if you’re a law-abiding gun owner in America, the latest ObamaCare plan put forth by Congress will own you. At least, that’s the way the bill—sponsored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Max Baucus (D-MT)—appears to be written.
Except no one is allowed to actually read the bill!
Larry Pratt, Executive Director of the Gun Owners of America (GOA), is available for interviews to discuss what he calls another attempt by Washington to ramrod a bill that, this time around, is “the most expansive government intrusion into healthcare of our lifetime.”
What has Pratt so alarmed? Dovetailing on a provision written into the President’s $787 billion stimulus bill last spring, Baucus’ government healthcare plan “option” would require all gun-related medical data associated with those under the plan be funneled into a national health database.
True, Americans would have the so-called option to decline the government plan and NOT have such personal information at the fingertips of the feds. But, for those folks however, the Baucus bill levies up to a $3,800 fine, payable to Uncle Sam.
“Let me get this straight,” says Pratt. “If you choose to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights under Senator Baucus’ proposed healthcare law, you have to buy your right to medical privacy.”
As if that wasn’t enough, Pratt calls out Baucus for trying to force feed the legislation down the throats of the American people, with a little insult cherry on top, stating, “We, the people, have every right to see the actual language of the bill to confirm its intentions. But what is Senator Baucus’ view on that? He tries to sweep it aside with condescension by saying the ‘legislative language is very complex,’ as if the American people are too stupid to understand it.”
In his organization’s membership email alert, rallying the troops to call their Senators and kill this bill, the GOA also demands a definitive Congressional Budget Office assessment of the plan’s cost—another request that ObamaCare drones are reluctant to fulfill.
For an impassioned discussion on this highly controversial topic, call Special Guests right away to invite Larry Pratt on your show. His seasoned perspective and intellectual proximity to such legislation always makes for a compelling interview.
Also available for interviews is GOA communications director Erich Pratt.
ABOUT YOUR EXPERT GUEST, LARRY PRATT:
Larry Pratt has been Executive Director of Gun Owners of America for 30 years. GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their second amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.
GOA lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington and is involved in firearm issues in the states. GOA’s work includes providing legal assistance to those involved in lawsuits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the federal firearms law enforcement agency.
Pratt has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC’s Today Show, CBS’ Good Morning America, CNN’s Crossfire and Larry King Live, Fox’s Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC’s Phil Donahue and Dan Abrams show and many others.
Larry Pratt has debated Congressmen James Traficant, Jr. (D-OH), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Vice President Al Gore, among others.
Larry’s columns have appeared in newspapers across the country.
Pratt published a book, Armed People Victorious, in 1990 and was editor of a book, Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution & Militias, 1995.
Pratt’s latest book is “On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty.”
Pratt has held elective office in the state legislature of Virginia, serving in the House of Delegates. Pratt directs a number of other public interest organizations and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the American Institute for Cancer Research.
About Erich Pratt
Director of Communications, GOA
Erich Pratt is currently the Director of Communications for Gun Owners of America. Shortly after getting an MA from Regent University in Public Policy, he went to work for GOA where he has been employed since 1990. GOA is a national membership organization of 350,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their Second Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.
GOA lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington, DC and is involved in firearm issues in the states. GOA’s work includes providing legal assistance to those involved in lawsuits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the federal firearms law enforcement agency.
Pratt has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC’s Today Show, MSNBC, CNN and Fox Cable News. His columns have appeared in newspapers across the country.
In addition to authoring a book, Bearing Arms: Our Rights, Our Duties & Our Freedom, in 1991, he is the author of a forthcoming civil government textbook, The Constitutional Recipe for Freedom: Twelve Principles of Liberty Today’s Politicians Don’t Want You to Know.
Mr. Pratt and his wife, Stacy, have eight children.