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ObamaCare director Kathleen Sebelius thinks that we need ‘a lot of re-education’
Sonoran News ^ | September 22, 2010 | Paul Hsieh, MD

Posted on 09/22/2010 6:22:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

As explained in the short article pasted below my signature, Sebelius and other supporters of ObamaCare still refuse to admit that the federal takeover of America’s health care sector was a bad idea. Instead, “the Obama administration is trying to pretend that the problem is merely one of bad public relations."

Here in Arizona, U.S. Representatives Gabrielle Giffords, Raul Grijalva, Ann Kirkpatrick, Harry Mitchell, and Ed Pastor are working hard to convince the citizens in their districts that they voted for something good when they voted for ObamaCare. Or, depending on the audience, they are desperately trying to change the subject.

Please read the article pasted below my signature for details on the “re-education” effort by supporters of ObamaCare. Then, use this link to join AFP’s Freedom Phone Project: URL: http://novemberiscoming.com/beta/?page_id=540

AFP needs your help to ensure that your fellow citizens, especially the independents and moderates, are informed about what ObamaCare is really doing to this country and informed about exactly what Giffords, Grijalva, Kirkpatrick, Mitchell and Pastor actually voted for.

Please dedicate a small portion of your time to make at least 25 calls to your fellow Arizona citizens in key parts of the state through our Freedom Phone Project. Your 25 phone calls will make a monumental difference and AFP wants to reward you for your dedication. When you make 25 calls via our Freedom Phone Project, we will send you our most popular November is Coming T-shirt.

This is one of the simplest and most effective ways to make a difference. You can use your own phone, making local calls from the comfort of your home. You can choose anytime between 10 am and 8 pm to make your calls. And our system guards your privacy: the phone numbers displayed on the other end are the numbers for AFP Arizona’s local phones in Scottsdale, Tucson, and Flagstaff.

The Leftists and their paid union hacks are working hard right now on their campaign of “re-education,” with their own phonebanking and doorhanger efforts. Your fellow Arizonans need to hear from real citizen volunteers like you, and learn what’s really going on in Washington.

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Get Ready for Your Health Care “Re-Education” Dr. Paul Hsieh PajamasMedia.com September 14, 2010

URL: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/get-ready-for-your-health-care-re-education/?singlepage=true

After Congress passed ObamaCare, senior Democratic leaders predicted that public opposition would fade and voters would reward congressional supporters in the November elections.

However, the exact opposite has occurred. Opinion polls show that ObamaCare remains deeply unpopular with the American people, because it will limit their freedoms, reduce their access to quality medical care, and raise their health care costs.

Democratic congressional candidates now regard health care as toxic for their re-election chances. Those who had voted for ObamaCare are running away from that fact, whereas the few Democrats who voted against ObamaCare now use it as a selling point in their campaigns.

But rather than acknowledging that their health care plan is fundamentally flawed, the Obama administration is trying to pretend that the problem is merely one of bad public relations. Hence, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has stated that “we have a lot of re-education to do.”

This Orwellian re-education program has now begun, directed against three major targets: the voting public, doctors and patients, and health insurance companies.

The first target of the “re-education” campaign is the voting public.

Prior to its passage, ObamaCare supporters repeatedly claimed that the plan would “bend the cost curve” down. However, detailed analyses instead show that ObamaCare will actually raise health costs, while reducing patient choices. Hence, ObamaCare supporters are now attempting to sell a different message.

As Politico’s Ben Smith reported: “Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit and instead stressing a promise to ‘improve it.’”

In other words, they’re hoping that the voters will be too stupid to notice this abrupt about-face.

The second target for “re-education” is doctors and patients.

Liberal media outlets like National Public Radio are now trumpeting the supposed virtues of the “medical home,” where primary care doctors and specialists theoretically coordinate their expertise to provide comprehensive, integrated care for patients. Even the phrase “medical home” has a warm-and-fuzzy feel. But under ObamaCare, “medical homes” will instead likely be used to control costs by using primary care doctors as gatekeepers to restrict access to expensive tests such as MRI scans, or to specialists such as cardiologists and orthopedic surgeons.

Patients will be herded into these new “medical home” plans under ObamaCare laws, which will start limiting employers’ ability to continue offering their current health plans.

Similarly, the government will nudge doctors into working for “medical homes” via a combination of financial rewards and penalties. Once there, the government will specify how doctors must practice and what “quality” measures they must meet in order to get paid.

Hence, under ObamaCare “medical homes” will be more like “medical government housing projects.”

Finally, the most Orwellian rhetoric is being directed against health insurance companies. Under ObamaCare, insurers must now offer dozens of services for “free,” including various forms of cancer screening, vaccinations, and AIDS testing. But of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch — instead the costs must be shifted to other customers.

Hence, many insurers have started raising their rates, explaining that it is due to these new regulations.

In a chilling response, Secretary Sebelius has just ordered insurance companies not to blame their rate hikes on ObamaCare. She warned that she would show “zero tolerance” for any insurers spreading such “misinformation.” Companies that objected could be banned from the new government-run “insurance exchanges” where millions of Americans will be obliged to purchase their health plans starting in 2014.

In effect, the government is saying: “Let’s pretend we never said ObamaCare would lower costs — even though that’s how we sold it to the public.” “Let’s push patients into restrictive health plans — and call it a ‘medical home.’” “Let’s label it ‘misinformation’ when insurers tell the truth about how our laws raise their costs — and then punish them if they complain about it.” And as the problems of ObamaCare deepen, we can expect such “re-education” efforts to intensify.

Fortunately, we can stop this. Last spring, when Obama demanded that Congress pass his health care bill he said that if Americans didn’t like it, “then that’s what elections are for.”

Well, the 2010 election is nearly here. Soon, it will be our turn to have our say. And unless we want to be on the receiving end of perpetual “re-education” from our politicians, we must re-educate them about our commitment to basic American freedoms.

This November, let’s teach every politician who supported ObamaCare a lesson. And let’s make sure it’s a lesson they never forget.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: libsareevil; obama; obamacare; sebiliusonmysleeve; socializedmedicine
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1 posted on 09/22/2010 6:22:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Change the headline to “StalinCare” and “Molotov” and it works very nicely indeed.
2 posted on 09/22/2010 6:24:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sebelius needs to stick to sneezing in her armpit. Everything else is far above her pay grade and intelligence level.


3 posted on 09/22/2010 6:25:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't know which is dumber. A pert or an expert.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because we are the “little people”

They don’t work for us.

Here is a cute little video, well worth viewing.

Jeanne Harris, won’t let citizens speak at town hall meeting. Watch her meltdown as citizen tries to speak out against tolls.

http://notolls.com/


4 posted on 09/22/2010 6:28:27 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because we are the “little people”

They don’t work for us.

Here is a cute little video, well worth viewing.

Jeanne Harris, won’t let citizens speak at town hall meeting. Watch her meltdown as citizen tries to speak out against tolls.

http://notolls.com/


5 posted on 09/22/2010 6:28:30 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When do the camps open?

Commies always do this

6 posted on 09/22/2010 6:30:07 PM PDT by Regulator (Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kathy needs to return to Topeka, pronto.


7 posted on 09/22/2010 6:30:11 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I'd forgotten about that bit of Sebelius hygiene. Thanks for reminding me. :-(
8 posted on 09/22/2010 6:31:03 PM PDT by JPG (Care for another lobster, Mookie? How's your steak? Ready for another triple Stoli/rocks?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ObamaCare director Kathleen Sebelius thinks that we need ‘a lot of re-education’

I’m sure she’d build some nice “re-education facilities” for those requiring a “new way of thinking” if she could get away with it.


9 posted on 09/22/2010 6:32:04 PM PDT by Free in Texas (If islam is so great, why are there "religious police" who's main task is to beat you into a mosque?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, coming from a group that appears not to have ever been substantively educated for the first time, I can't give much credence to their calls for reeducation.
10 posted on 09/22/2010 6:38:31 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Free in Texas

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


11 posted on 09/22/2010 6:38:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We are having a “re-education”. Class starts on November 2 and your sorry a$$ is going to be exhibit number one.


12 posted on 09/22/2010 6:48:17 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Topeka ... no eject her out of our atmosphere


13 posted on 09/22/2010 6:57:52 PM PDT by fujimoh
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Scares the bat crap out of me when leftist Marxists use the word “re-education”


14 posted on 09/22/2010 7:32:02 PM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thank you so much for that link. I've never read that. But I shall never forget it. Many years ago when I was a roughneck working on drilling rigs in west Texas, we were sitting in the doghouse one day talking about hunting, shooting and weapons in general. Our driller said: "I'll show you boys how to properly shoot a rifle if you're willing to learn and pitch in for the cost of the ammo." We agreed, and the very next day he brought an M-1 Garand and a couple of tins of ammunition.

Turns out he was a Marine and over the next few days we devoted every spare moment to learning to shoot that magnificent rifle in the manner he taught us. He also taught us to shoot a 1911 Colt. Then he sat us down and talked to us about why our newfound knowledge mattered. He made a big impression on me, and I purchased an M-1A and a Commander. And though I hope that I can do what must be done at the ballot box, my implements of freedom remain at the ready in the event that the worst comes to pass.

To anyone who would listen I would say: "Join the NRA. Join the Appleseed Project. Join the Tea Party. Honor the Constitution. Honor The Creator from whence our rights and freedoms spring. Honor life yet to be. And VOTE CONSERVATIVE!"

15 posted on 09/22/2010 7:53:19 PM PDT by Free in Texas (If islam is so great, why are there "religious police" who's main task is to beat you into a mosque?)
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To: Free in Texas

If someone's on a budget, Hi-Point is the way to go.

16 posted on 09/22/2010 8:01:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sweet! Just checked their web site. Their prices are fantastic. Pistol specs didn’t say if they are ambidextrous, however. I’m a lefty.


17 posted on 09/22/2010 8:16:34 PM PDT by Free in Texas (If islam is so great, why are there "religious police" who's main task is to beat you into a mosque?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Sebelius needs to stick to sneezing in her armpit. Everything else is far above her pay grade and intelligence level.


When they make the movie “ObamaCon” 20 or 30 years from now, I think the movie will open with images of people doing just this. To me it was like almost more emblematic of what we’re going through than anything you can name. Heaven help us all!


18 posted on 09/22/2010 8:20:22 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Regulator

When do the camps open?

Commies always do this

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True, but only with disarmed and subservient people.


19 posted on 09/22/2010 9:35:04 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (3 great American Thomases: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Thomas Sowell.)
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To: JPG

I’d forgotten about that bit of Sebelius hygiene. Thanks for reminding me. :-(

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Don’t forget Sheryl “Dags” Crow.


20 posted on 09/22/2010 9:40:18 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (3 great American Thomases: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Thomas Sowell.)
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