Posted on 05/13/2011 2:07:52 PM PDT by jeffq73
Matthew Hay Brown of the The Baltimore Sun reports that Rep. Steny Hoyer, House Minority Whip, sent a letter to colleges in his congressional district encouraging them to teach their students about how beneficial the new health care reform law is. Hoyer's letter indicates that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have also sent letters on this same subject.
The Sun report repeats the saw that the law will become more popular as time goes on and people learn more about it (Cue then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's statement about passing the bill so we can find out what's in it.)
Hoyer's letter is below:
May 11, 2011Dear ------,
As we approach the graduation season, I wanted to follow up on a letter you should have received from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan regarding health care coverage for students.
The recently enacted Affordable Care Act contains a vitally important, immediate improvement in health coverage options for young people under age 26. Thanks to this new law, young people up to age 26 can typically obtain coverage on their parents’ health insurance plan as long as that plan covers dependent children. This option is true regardless of whether they are employed, in school, or living at home. I encourage you to follow up on the secretaries’ advice and ensure that your graduating students – and the entire student body – are aware of this new option for health coverage.
The Administration provided numerous ways to supply this information to your student body. Listed below are those links for your convenience:
• Place a “badge” on the home page of your Website that automatically links to information about how students can remain on their parents’ health insurance plan. Download the badge by visiting: http://www.healthcare.gov/stay_connected.html.
• Distribute a flyer to students and their parents about this new benefit along with graduation materials. Download a sample flyer by visiting: www.healthcare.gov.
• Encourage staff to talk to students about other insurance options – for example, if their parents do not have coverage – by visiting: www.healthcare.gov.
• Host a session to explain insurance options to your students. HHS has helpfully offered to assistance in creating this event and you can email them at: externalaffairs@hhs.gov.
• Encourage students to visit the Administration’s Facebook page with information for young adults and parents about coverage for individuals under age 26. That can be found at: www.facebook.com/youngadultcoverage.
Another excellent resource for your student body is the non-partisan Young Invincibles online tool kit: http://www.gettingcovered.org/Toolkit/, which has information tailored specifically to young people. It is searchable by state and explains exactly what the new law means to young people, including how to get on a parent’s insurance policy, what to do if he or she has a pre-existing condition, and how the new law impacts women and young people with cancer.
Working together, we can ensure more students and recent alumni obtain the health coverage they need. Please feel free to contact my office at 202-225-4131, should you have any questions. We appreciate your attention to this important matter.
Wishing you the best during this graduation season and with kindest regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
STENY H. HOYER
How very....Stalinist.
How very....Stalinist.
Just imagine the response from the professors if GWB had tried this.
This crap NEEEDS to stop. This is not what a representative form of government is supposed to do.
The indoctrination might work - as long as students are restricted to using only “liberal math”.
Liberal math = little understanding of any digit beyond 10 coupled with absolutely no understanding of any math function...such as +, -.
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends...”
I bet you will get kicked out of college if you don’t attend, or if you disagree with the propagandist teaching the class.
Actually, I think college students stand to lose alot with Obamacare. Sure, O’s plan lets them stick to Mommy and Daddy’s plan until they are 25....but then the hammer falls. Most single 26 y/0 don’t have healthcare. Many are in entry level jobs that don’t offer it, and this demographic would rather spend their paycheck on a cell phone than a health plan.
Well guess what? Obama will make them buy a plan. I can hear the howls now...and I look forward to seeing how this gets pegged on the GOP somehow.
bump
Liberal elites run the colleges - there hasn’t been diveristy of thought in decades. They’ll push whatever liberals in Washington want pushed...
Whose right is health care? Do you think it's yours?Congressman Anthony Weiner has said that health care is not a commodity. If it isn't a commodity then do doctors and nurses have rights? Assigning health care the status of a right makes health care workers slaves to that right who must serve it. On what ground could a health care worker refuse to provide their products and services since that would violate the patient's "basic human right to health care."
That is a direct loss of individual rights for health care providers. The collective right of the people to receive health care would supersede the provider's individual right to set fees and hours or to change their occupational status or even decide how to apply their skills and knowledge if taken to its logical extreme. A collective right, by practical definition, is a state right because it is a right that is created and given by the government to those it chooses to give it to. It is not a natural right possessed by each person protected by the Constitution from the government. It is also a collective/state right by virtue of the fact that it would supersede individual rights when the two come into conflict. How else would the government view a right that it created and administers vs. one it has no control over?
Of course it isn't stated in any bill that a patient's right to care supersedes a provider's right to set fees and hours etc, but it doesn't need to. Rights, as always, are adjudicated in the courts. The Health Care Reform bills simply establish the foundation for the courts to rule in favor of the collective right.
Weiner’s view is collectivist, fascist and totalitarian. Collectivist because it has to be described as being a right of the many instead of the one and superior due to that fact. Fascist because ultimately the sole authority for its creation and oversight is from one entity the Federal government. Totalitarian because the Federal government is the enforcer of this collective right as well. State and local jurisdictions will have little say about it.
Congressman Weiner's view is the underlying philosophy of all of the Health Care Reform legislation in the House and Senate. Consider this section in the Senate version of the bill; the setting up of community watch dogs that will monitor citizens for various health parameters. Read pages 382 - 393.
TITLE I—QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS pps 382 - 393
So, even citizens themselves will be subject to Federal regulations on their behavior in order to fulfill the "human right" of universal health care. It isn't the individual's liberty that is being protected by that it is the government's control over its own health care system that is being guarded. How much clearer can it be that these bills abrogate the concept of individual rights? Someone will be checking your lifestyle, according to gov regulations, to be certain you serve the best interests of the "basic human right to health care" ie. "the Public Option."
HCR is not just about rationing care and wealth redistribution. It's about the end of individual rights as the corrosive effects of the new collectivist "basic human right to health care" spreads throughout the legal and political systems like a virus.
I think that the main purpose of Health Care Reform (HCR) is as a direct assault on individual liberties.
Health Care is a Liberty Issue
Conservative Underground - 18 August 2009 - Tim DunkinAnother Stupid Argument: Heath Care is a Right
Obama's Authoritarian, Unconstitutional Health Care Proposal
To Americans Who Believe Healthcare is a Right
OBAMA: HEALTH CARE DESTROYING FREE SPEECH
Mandated health insurance threatens freedom, privacy
Bad Laws and Unintended Consequences, part 1.
Obamacare Rips Doctor-Patient Relationship Apart
Second Bill of Rights aka FDR's economic bill of rights
(An early attempt to embed collective rights into American politics and society.)
Hey Stenny..when these kids are in their fifties and older and they are waiting around for weeks, or months for basic medical services (and hoping they don’t die during that wait) that your generation had at the tip of their hands, do you think they will think socialized medicine was a great idea???
The communists party (formally the Democratic Party) will never quit trying to turn what is left of the Country into a dictatorship controlled by communists. Don’t take this lightly.
“...and I look forward to seeing how this gets pegged on the GOP somehow”
Simple. The next step will be to drive up the minimum wage so that the lowest wage earners will be able to afford the mandated healthcare cost. $30/per hour ought to cover it. We’ll all be rich then. GOP will oppose because they’re against the idea of poor people having money. /S
Now they have to get their loans through the government. Might as well add a MANDATORY HEALTH FEE to that loan.
Anyone doubt if Joseph Goebbel’s were alive today, he would be working with this Regime in this White House? And, I might add, he would be invited to all the RAT parties hosted by the DC Liberal Elitists.
” Anyone doubt if Joseph Goebbel’s were alive today, he would be working with this Regime in this White House? “
Well, Soros is just as evil, and so are a hand full of bankers who work with him. I’m sure they made BILLIONS the past 2 years shorting the dollar, knowing in advance, that Obama would trash the economy.
Totalitarian states do this. No dissent is tolerated in Utopia.
I am forced to recognize that the Washington government has the capacity to kill or imprison me if I brazenly defy it, and for that fact alone I am compelled to submit - for the moment. But the Kremlin on the Potomac has lost all legitimacy and authority other than that of brute coercion. It has indeed become Stalinist, and government dictated or restricted HealthControl is inherently totalitarian.
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