Posted on 08/16/2009 5:47:19 PM PDT by ucsd1974
First, Congress addressed the economic crisis with a stimulus bill that produced a crushing national debt and the highest unemployment rate in a quarter century. Then it developed the "Cash for Clunkers" program that ran out of cash in seven days and encouraged Americans to turn in domestic clunkers for Japanese automobiles. Now Congress and the president are preparing to use their management skills to take over health care services.
In the care of a fellow human being, there are a few concepts that every young physician learns. Regrettably, those who would take control of medical services have demonstrated a woeful ignorance of these tenets. Before Americans relinquish their freedom of choice to ObamaCare, they should ponder these 12 basic principles for doctors and health care legislators:
1. First, do no harm. No patient should come away from a doctor's visit damaged because of the intervention. The most advanced medical care delivery system in the world should not be irreversibly injured by a Congress with limited understanding of medical practice and a dismal 22 percent approval rating (CBS poll, July 12).
2. Physician, heal thyself. A physician should clean up his own act before he attempts to direct the lives of others. Since major contributors to the cost of medicine are smokers and lawyers, does the country really want a smoking lawyer as the physician-in-chief?
3. Do your homework! Lawmakers who do not care enough to read the 1,000-page bills they vote on do not deserve the nation's trust. A president who suggests painkillers as an alternative to a pacemaker and implies that surgeons are cranking out tonsillectomies based on reimbursement rates is demonstrating an ignorance of the facts and insulting the team that he wishes to manage.
4. Keep your cool. A panicked physician inspires as much confidence as...
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It is beyond woeful ignorance. It is scornful, arrogant, and rabid antipathy towards those tenents.
"Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others" - Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
Lets not forget that Social Security and Medicare are running out of money. A ponzi scheme if you will.
Now the dimoKKKRATS want to nationalize health care and turn it into the biggest ponzi scheme ever. They will never get my support for something so stupid.
First do no harm but he attacks 60 million smokers in the country!
Now that is priceless.
My goal was to offer my perspective as a doctor to warn Americans of the perils of HR 3200. The more they learn about this irresponsible legislation, the less they like it.
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NEWSFLASH! GOVERNOR RICK PERRY IS SCHEDULED TO BE ON PLAINS RADIO MONDAY, AUGUST 17 FROM 7-8 PM CST TO DISCUSS
OBAMA DEATHCARE AND INVOKING THE 10TH AMENDMENT OVER IT.
PLAINS RADIO:
http://www.plainsradio.com/radio.html
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ATTENTION FELLOW TEXANS:
Governor Rick Perry may invoke the 10th Amendment over Obama’s health care bill (Vanity)
7/23/09 | Cowtowney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2299225/posts?q=1&;page=51
Get after Perry, Texans. Burn up his switch board and fax!
Let him know we don’t want Obama DeathCare.
Say no to Obama’s DeathCare.
Send a message; DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS healthcare!
No! NO you don’t, you muzzie pos. You’re not denying our seniors deserved health care while insuring millions of illegal aliens and while Demorats are REJECTING Obamacare for themselves and their families!
Join organizations who fight ObamaCare.
This is a good organization:
The Alliance of Texans Against Government Controlled Healthcare:
http://www.notintexas.org/
office (972) 466-2915
fax (972) 466-2965
toll-free (866) 377-1300
From the website:
We are currently contacting Governor Rick Perry by fax and mail!
We have made it easy for you to help. Click here to display the letter and contact information.
http://www.notintexas.org/Letter_rick_perry.htm
Petition to STOP government controlled healthcare in Texas
Read and sign the petition
http://www.notintexas.org/Letter_to_Reps.htm
Print and sign the letter
(feel free to make changes if you wish)
Fax the letter to the fax numbers
Mail a hard copy to the addresses
Call their offices
Dear Governor Perry,
On March 30, 2009 the Texas House of Representatives passed HCR 50 affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment.
You have publicly supported this bill, and stated that attorney generals from all over the union could be getting ready to sue the US Government.
We are asking you to take the lead.
We are asking you to order the Texas Attorney General to publicly begin working on a law suit under Article IV, Ninth, and Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.
We are asking you to protect the citizens of Texas that we will not stand for government controlled healthcare in our state.
Under your leadership we can effectively kill the proposal of this administration and allow Texas to be a state free from socialism and collectivism.
Be the voice of reason in the national debate and allow Texans the ability to solve the problems of our state.
Thank you,
(Signature Date)
Lookup your state representatives
FREE FAX SERVICSES:
http://www.gotfreefax.com/
http://faxzero.com/
or google ‘free fax’
Contacting Rick Perry
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711
Phone: (512) 463-2000
Fax: (512) 463-1849
Washington Office:
122 C St., NW, Ste. 200
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 638-3927
Fax: (202) 628-1943
Contact Budget Planning and Policy
Address:1100 San Jacinto
Austin, Texas 78701
Phone: (512) 463-1778
Fax: (512) 463-1975
Gregory S. Davidson
Constituent Communication Division Director and
Executive Clerk to the Governor
Phone: (512) 463-1873
Office of the General Counsel
Department Mailing Address
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711
Phone: 512.463.2000
Fax: 512.463.1932
Press Secretary
Allison Castle, Press Secretary
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711
Phone: (512) 463-1826
Fax: (512) 463-1847
Contact Texas Health Care Policy Council
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711
Phone: (512) 463-1778
Fax: (512) 463-1975
Sign up. Become a member.
Sign petition against Obamacare!
See member interview with Cavuto!
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From Texans Against Government Controlled Health Care
Facts about the 10th Amendment:
The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution’s principle of Federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people.
HCR 50 HAS PASSED THE HOUSE 99-36!
Affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.
Take Action! Before it is too late!
If we can draw this out long enough for people to see what a disaster “cash for clunkers” really is - it’ll help defeat the mess...
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