The Truth About ObamaCare and the Fight for our Lives

OK, WE'RE RIGHT! ^ | August 30, 2009 | Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos

[OK Right]

Under the guise of compassion and concern for others and health care for everyone, the Democrats are proposing a reform of US health care. Obama’s agenda appears in a bill backed by the House and another issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Health committee. However, these two bills undermine our Constitutional liberties, freedoms and rights. The push for reform is not about health, it’s about control – it’s a power grab.

ObamaCare is about removing our choice of doctor, insurance plan and privatized healthcare. “Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans – and that the benefits and access they prize will be enhanced through reform” (“5 Freedoms You’d Lose in Health Care Reform,” Fortune on CNNMoney.com, 7/27/09). However, a close reading of the bills reveal “a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage” (Fortune on CNNMoney.com). The fine print in the Congressional plans contradicts President Obama’s assurances.

ObamaCare is about a single-payer government-run system. Obama asserts that a government-run health option would drive down costs by breaking down monopolies of private insurance companies. However, ObamaCare will put private insurance companies out of business. We the People will only have one healthcare option, the government-run option.

In addition, the bills propose a raid on Medicare. In his weekly GOP address yesterday (8/29/09), Senator Enzi, a Banking Member of the Senate’s Health Committee, stated that such a raid “will result in cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from the elderly to create new government programs” (gatewaypundit.blogspot.com, 8/29/09).

ObamaCare is about creating 53 new government bureaucracies and controlling every aspect of our nation’s health care system. Do we need a more bloated and intrusive government? Here are just a few of the new bureaucracies that will be created: Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 123, p. 30), Health Choices Administration (Section 141, p. 41), Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 144, p. 47), Program of Administrative Simplification (Section 163, p. 57), Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 164(d), p. 70), Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 72), Mechanism for insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Administration Commissioner (Section 206(b), p. 106), Special Inspector General for the Health Insurance Exchange (Section 206(c), p. 107), Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 207, p. 109), State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 208, p. 111), “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 221, p. 116), and that’s just the first eleven comittees that the House bill proposes (“HR 3200- Obamacare Creates 53 New Federal Bureaucracies,” rightsoup.com August 10, 2009).

ObamaCare is about invading our medical and financial privacy. An editorial in today’s (8/30/09) The Washington Times reports that under Obama’s health care reform, “The innermost secrets of people's personal lives would be made available to thousands of government bureaucrats” (www.washingtontimes.com). Apparently, the bill requires the Internal Revenue Service to give taxpayer information to the new health choices commissioner and state health programs under Section 431(a). Besides an individual’s income, dependents and filing status, “The IRS would be commanded to provide whatever information about individual taxpayers the health choices commissioner deemed necessary” (www.washingtontimes.com, 8/30/09).

ObamaCare is about funding unions. The Detroit Free Press reports that the health care reform bill being pushed by the Left “includes a provision that would supply up to $10 billion to shore up the UAW’s Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) fund, which was established in the last round of labor negotiations to allow the union to control and administer the health care benefits of retired autoworkers” (Ed Brayton, “Health care reform bill includes billions for union fund” michiganmessenger.com, 8/24/09). Didn’t we already give the auto industry a bailout?

ObamaCare is about rationing care and forming death care panels. The privileged late Sen. Edward Kennedy was provided with the best of care as he battled brain cancer. The cancer-fighting drug Avastin that was among the arsenal Kennedy used to fight his disease bares an estimated cost of over $100,000 a year. Yet, studies show that “it [Avastin] prolongs life by only a few months” (Gina Kolata and Andrew Pollack, “Costly Cancer Drug Offers Hope, but Also a Dilemma,” New York Times, July 6, 2008). Access to such a drug and treatment plan is not the kind of care that Obama has in mind for taxpayers.

Obama has suggested painkillers for the terminally ill and has even questioned his grandmother’s decision to have a hip replacement when she was told that she had terminal cancer and had only six to nine months to live after suffering what doctors believed was a mild stroke (ABC Health Care infomercial and town hall meeting, June 24, 2009). In a May 3, 2009 interview in the New York Times Magazine, Obama addressed end-of-life care costs. He agreed that the elderly in their final weeks of life are a “huge driver of cost” and that they account for potentially 80% of the nation’s total health care costs. Obama has since denied that his plan would pull the plug on grandma. He’s even mocked the idea – but in May he told the New York Times that a “conversation guided by doctors, scientists and ethicists, needs to take place.” Weeks later, he repeated the warning: “there’s going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place . . . it would be best served by independent groups [death panel] that can give you guidance – it’s not determinative, but it has to give you guidance” (The Steve Malzberg Show, www.wor710.com, 8/24/09). Obama proposes a panel that would slow the costs of medical advancement and consumption. That sounds like an end-of-life panel – aka, a death panel – to OK.

In Europe citizens are asked to accept fatal diagnoses. We don’t need a group to decide our end-of-life care here in America. We should retain the right decide on surgery and treatment, in consultation with our doctors. Senator Kennedy was able to do. We the People need to retain this right.

ObamaCare is about letting the government decide whose life is worth living. “That feels dishonest to me,” said President Obama when asked about death care panels in the health care reform bills. However, Joseph Ashby in The American Thinker asserts that the death panel is already in Stimulus Bill, HR1. He notes that the bill contains $1.1 billion dollars to fund “The Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research.” The Council’s function is to empower an “unelected bureaucracy” to make decisions about end-of-life health care. This Council has the power to make decisions about our health, the treatment and care we receive and basically whether we get to live. Ashby writes, “Daschle's stated purpose (and therefore President Obama's purpose) for creating the Council is to empower an unelected bureaucracy to make the hard decisions about health care rationing that elected politicians are politically unable to make” (‘“Death panel’ Is Not In the Bill . . . It Already Exists,” The American Thinker, 8/15/09, www.americanthinker.com).

Your denial and protests feel dishonest to OK, President Obama. You’ve called the notion of death panels “crazy,” but they may already exist, thanks to the rhetoric in the stimulus bill.

To fight against ObamaCare is truly to fight for our lives. In spite of being called an unruly mob – and worse! – we must continue to protest the radical ratification of health care in America. ObamaCare will only sink our quality of life, not elevate it.

[Whenifhow]

See this article from Canada free press about Obama - a wolf in sheep’s clothing on the Fabian Coat of Arms.
Worldwide socialism is the plan.

“The Fabian Society casts all doubt aside about what Obama really is: He’s the quintessential Socialist wolf in sheep’s clothing being used to shape a new world.”

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13999

[GloriaJane]

"Shackles And Chains"

Here they come with their shackles and chains
Democrats are commin to take our freedom away
Said they're gonna force though their health care plan
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains

Work us day and night and take our money away
Work us for the tax man in shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains

They take our money and they through it away
They live like kings but want us in shackles and chains
Now they want to decide if we live or die
Put themselves in charge of our health care plan

Yea here they come with their shackles and chains
Democrats are commin to take our freedom away
Said they're gonna force though their health care plan
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains

Work us day and night and take our money away
Work us for the tax man in shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains

They take our money and they through it away
They live like kings but want us in shackles and chains
Now they want to decide if we live or die
Put themselves in charge of our health care plan

Yea here they come with their shackles and chains
Democrats are commin to take our freedom away
Said they're gonna force through their health care plan
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin to take your freedom away
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains

[jonrick46]

Thanks for the link!

[ANGGAPO]

It would appear that if you elect to keep your own insurance plan, you can look forward to it becoming so expensive that you will be forced into the Public Option, just as the Government planned. The playing field is not level.

[jonrick46]

The destruction of the private health care insurance industry is the target of the anti-capitalist shadow government that is pulling the strings in the Obama Administration. Most appear to me quite ignorant of what the consequences of such an event.

Because of my limited time today, let me be brief. Insurance companies have been so demonized by this leftist government that we have been afraid to stick up for them. This demonization has been for a reason: to make us feel that it is no use to defend what insurance companies do so well: They reinvest the money they receive from our premium payments.

Where is that money invested? The money that we pay for premiums does not go into insurance company execs back pockets. It goes into investments. And, because it is wise to diversify such investments, this money goes throughout the economy. It is capitol that your company can use to grow their means of production and make new jobs. It is money going into that new office building or that new sports stadium. It is money from that evil thing called profits. It is money for hospitals to pay doctors and high tech machines that diagnose and heal sick people.

When the health insurance industry is taken down, what house of cards will go with it? When that money is no longer used to generate new wealth, what will that do to the economy? Such a question has not been asked anywhere I have looked on subject of health care. Are people that stupid? It makes me furious that not one peep has been made of the economic consequences when Obama takes down the private health care industry!