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ACTION PLAN – Begins January 9

1. CONTACT OUR GOVERNOR

Contact Governor McCrory by letter or postcard, timed to arrive in Raleigh on January 9 or after*, and ask him to reverse the course which Bev Perdue set for us. Obamacare is the largest expansion of government in recent history and he has the power to stop it for us, our children and grandchildren. A simple, hand-written, polite note is well-received.

2. CONTACT OUR OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS

Contact Lt. Governor Forest, Speaker of the House Thom Tillis, Senate President Pro-Tem Phil Berger, along with your state representative and state senator, by letter timed to arrive on January 9 or after. Please thank them for standing against Obamacare. Please ask them to work with Governor McCrory to not allow a Health Care Exchange in NC. Contact information is below.

3. COME TO THE RALLY

Join us at the rally on January 9. If you will be there, you can bring your letters for your representatives at that time and hand-deliver them. Petitions from your groups would be great, as well. Details on the rally are here.

4. FOLLOW UP CALLS & EMAILS

Follow up your letters with phone calls and emails to these same representatives on Thursday and Friday, January 10 and 11, again asking them politely to stop the implementation of Obamacare in our state. Use the graphic in your emails.

5. USE SOCIAL MEDIA

Help us share our action plan all over social media. Use the public facebook pages and twitter accounts to reach out to our elected officials. The more attention we can bring, the better. Using the graphic on social media will help us have a consistent message.

MORE INFORMATION

Freedomworks prepared this statement specifically for us to explain why we need not set up the exchange:

States shouldn’t set up an exchange because doing so would raise health care costs, increase state dependence upon the federal government, and remove the best chance we have to dismantle ObamaCare. Exchanges are the bureaucratic mechanism for enacting ObamaCare in the states – an online marketplace people will have to use to buy their government-regulated health insurance. The law tasked states with setting up their own exchanges, but Washington would have ultimate control over the exchanges, while states bear the costs.

The government couldn’t make the exchanges mandatory, but they assumed that the subsidy and grant money that they were offering would cause most states to jump to establish an exchange. So they left us an opening – in states which refuse to set up an exchange, the federal government does not have authority under the law to distribute the premium subsidies that are essential for ObamaCare to operate. Thus, if a number of states fail to create a state-based exchange, ObamaCare fails to work, lawmakers will be forced to reopen it, and we will have an opportunity to dismantle it and replace it with real, patient-centered reforms.

Information on where U.S. states currently stand on implementation – note that 26 have opted out!

http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jwithrow/standing-up-to-obamacare-where-the-states-stand-on

NC is currently a “hybrid” exchange state soon to hopefully go totally “NO” (state #27).