Your Senators Need to Hear From You!

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A Senate vote on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is imminent. This legislation will impose unprecedented new costs on business, starting with hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes.

Under this bill, it’s unlikely that you, as an employer, will be able to offer the same benefits you do now. In the end, it is employees who will feel the impact.

The NAM is urging Senators to vote no on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and any legislation that will result in higher health care costs. It is critical that lawmakers enact a version of reform that reduces health care costs for manufacturers and improves the quality of care.

The NAM urges you to contact your Senators now to express your concern over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Now is the time for action:

1) Please contact your Senators immediately and urge them to oppose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The NAM has prepared a sample communication for your use. Please click here to contact your Senators now.

2) While it is important that every member of Congress hear from manufacturers on this important issue, we are especially encouraging members who have a constituent relationship with the following Senators to call, e-mail and/or fax them today:

Mark Begich (D-AK)

Blanch Lincoln (D-AR)

Mark Pryor (D-AR)

Joseph Lieberman (I-CT)

Michael Bennet (D-CO)

Thomas Carper (D-DE)

Roland Burris (D-IL)

Evan Bayh (D-IN)

Mary Landrieu (D-LA)

Susan Collins (R-ME)

Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

Jon Tester (D-MT)

Kay Hagan (D-NC)

Kent Conrad (D-ND)

Ben Nelson (D-NE)

Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

Arlen Specter (D-PA)

Mark Warner (D-VA)

Jim Webb (D-VA)

NAM Resources: Talking points and sample e-mails to Senators are located at www.nam.org/healthcare. Click here for a list of telephone and fax numbers for your lawmakers’ district/state offices.

NAM Contact: Jeri Kubicki, Vice President, Human Resources Policy, jkubicki@nam.org, (202) 637-3127.