Posted on 08/31/2009 8:08:24 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
House Resolution 615 - Force Congress to enroll themselves in their new plan
Fleming House Member ^ | Congressman John Fleming
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 12:41:45 PM by do the dhue
House Resolution 615
Over the past few weeks, members of Congress and the American people have come to know the details of the Administration's proposed health care plan. Call it whatever you like, I believe this proposal is nothing more than government-run health care. As a physician, I am amazed at the number of bureaucrats in this House who are quick to claim a government-run health care plan is the reform this country needs. In response to this, I have offered a resolution that will offer members of Congress an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is, and urge their colleagues who vote for legislation creating a government-run health care plan to lead by example and enroll themselves in the same public plan.
Fighting Health Care Change, and Proud of It (Senator Jim DeMint)
New York Times ^ | August 30, 2009 | Katharine Q. Seeleye
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:13:25 PM by reaganaut1
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Senator Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who predicted that President Obama’s effort to overhaul the health care system would become his “Waterloo,” is doing his best to make that happen.
Taking questions from a friendly crowd of 500 people here the other day, Mr. DeMint reinforced their worst fears about health care in particular and the government in general.
When one man said the major House bill on health care would give the government electronic access to bank accounts, Mr. DeMint told him that the bill was never about health care. “This is about more government control,” he declared. “If it was about health care, we could get it done in a couple of weeks.”
Sorting Fact From Fiction on Health Care (Significant change in patient/doc relationship)
The Wall Street Journal ^ | August 31, 2009 | JEROME GROOPMAN AND PAMELA HARTZBAND
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 11:14:23 PM by St. Louis Conservative
In recent town-hall meetings, President Barack Obama has called for a national debate on health-care reform based on facts. It is fact that more than 40 million Americans lack coverage and spiraling costs are a burden on individuals, families and our economy. There is broad consensus that these problems must be addressed. But the public is skeptical that their current clinical care is substandard and that no government bureaucrat will come between them and their doctor. Americans have good reason for their doubts—key assertions about gaps in care are flawed and reform proposals to oversee care could sharply shift decisions away from patients and their physicians.
Consider these myths and mantras of the current debate:
Fear & loathing, not always facts, fuel health care forums in FL and country: Undercover report
The New York Daily News ^ | August 30, 2009 | Michael McAuliff
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 1:13:56 AM by 2ndDivisionVet
APALACHICOLA, Fla. - In government, they do not trust.
And there's no way they'll let Uncle Sam run their health care - even if they have none. Even if they already have government-run care, like Medicare, and wouldn't give it up.
"I believe this bill is literally a death bill," said Diane Berryhill, a mother of four who has no insurance.
And it doesn't seem to matter what officials say to the contrary.
To find out why, the Daily News made under-the-radar visits last week to contentious town hall meetings in the Florida panhandle district of conservative Democratic Rep. Allen Boyd.
The answer was opponents trust more what they're learning on their own from Internet activist sites, e-mails sent around by folks they know and talk show hosts like Glenn Beck.
The Lobbyists-First Healthcare Reform Bill
The American Thinker ^ | August 31, 2009 | Kyle-Anne Shiver
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 7:14:46 AM by Scanian
In the vernacular preferred by most men I know, Obamacare could be called the "Screw-You" plan. Just about every special interest in this Country will make out like bandits, while you and I will be...well yes, I hate to say it, but here goes: we taxpayers will be royally screwed.
We pay; they play.
The special interests that elected this president are conducting multi-million dollar ad campaigns to seal the deal on Obamacare. Every one of them has had a very cushy seat at the power table where the bill was written, not on C-SPAN as candidate Obama promised, but behind closed doors.
Good ole boys, whether from Chicago or New Orleans, play ball by the same slimy rules.
Medical Doctor Mocks ObamaCare; Calls it "Radical Piece of Legislation" - Video 8/28/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | August 31, 2009 | BrianinMO
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 7:47:04 AM by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of a medical doctor, Dr. Jane Orient, turning the tables on President Obama by likening what he is trying to do to Health Care to a doctor who "cuts off a leg because there is a sore on the leg." She was referring to Obama's insinuation that doctors will sometimes refer patients for amputations because there is more money involved. He also previously had suggested doctors remove tonsils in order to make more money. Orient was speaking at the Tucson Tea Party Meeting on August 28, 2009.
She said ObamaCare is the "most radical piece of legislation" ever to come out of Congress and it will "affect your life."
She mocked the Democrats saying we have a "Health Care Crisis" by pointing out they have been saying this "since the 1940's" - more than 60 years!
She said the ObamaCare plan "outlaws true insurance." She explained "insurance is a voluntary contract," but the ObamaCare plan makes it mandatory.
She compared Medicare to Bernie Madoff, Saying "Isn't Medicare wonderful! Bernie Madoff's early investors thought he was really wonderful too!"
This is a very bright woman with a sharp wit! . . . . . .(Watch Video)
VIDEO: Gore Yells: Country Has "Moral Duty" To Pass Health Care
Real Clear Politics ^ | August 31, 2009 | Real Clear Politics
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 9:33:24 AM by ianschwartz
Former Vice President Al Gore told guests at the Tennessee Democratic Party’s annual Jackson Day dinner that the country has “a moral duty to pass health care reform.
Top 10 Ridiculous Democrat Quotes on Health Care
Human Events ^ | 8/31/2009
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 11:18:06 AM by SeekAndFind
1. “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.” -- President Obama at an August 6 at a rally in Virginia
2. “They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.” -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an August 5 interview
3. “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” -- Rep. John Conyers (Mich.) at the National Press Club, July 24
Obama Faces Calls to Grab Health Care Reins From Congress
Fox News ^
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 3:18:42 PM by wk4bush2004
With public support waning, President Obama is at a crossroads on health care reform: Does he attempt to breathe life into Congress' efforts or do something more drastic -- offer his own solution?
The president faces these questions as Congress returns next week from a summer recess which by most accounts took a heavy toll on reform legislation.
Health care-funding the revolt to freedom - ALAN KEYES
Loyal to Liberty ^ | August 31, 2009 | Alan Keyes
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 3:24:57 PM by EternalVigilance
Judging by some of the responses I've received to the previous posts in this health care series, I think it's important to make it clear that the illustrative features I talked about in my last post are not suggested components of some government run health care scheme. I oppose the government takeover of the health sector. It should also be clear from the ideas I've outlined that I oppose perpetuating the third party payer system in any form, whether as a single payer government run approach, or in continuation of the existing private corporate structure. One of the keys to improving the health sector's cost efficiency is to restore the responsible decision-making role of individual payers, so that price signals in the health market once again reflect the aggregate response of buyers to the sufficiency, quality and cost efficiency of the goods and services available to them in the health marketplace.
HEALTH BILL BREECHES IRS PRIVACY
dickmorris.com ^ | 8/31/2009 | Dick Morris And Eileen McGann
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 3:36:44 PM by Bobkk47
As if Obama’s health care proposals were not flawed enough, CBS News reports a previously unnoticed provision of the bill which makes a shambles of any privacy surrounding your federal tax returns. Under the House bill, the IRS is required to make available to the new government Health Choices Commissioner” established by the legislation and to each state health program all of your personal tax information.
GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH SCARE CANADA FREE PRESS ^ | August 26, 2009 | JB WILLIAMS
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 4:10:38 PM by patriot08
For months the Obama administration has been working to scare the hell out of every American concerning a “world wide pandemic” of the H1N1 “swine flu” virus. This week, Obama health officials are out in number warning that the virus will infect 50% of Americans over the coming weeks, and that at least 90,000 Americans will die, double the number of normal flu season fatalities.
Sweden's Single-Payer Health System Provides a Warning to Other Nations
National Center for Public Policy Research ^ | May 2007 | David Hogberg, Ph.D.
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 8:58:39 PM by South40
Sweden is a country of about 9.1 million people on the Scandinavian Peninsula of Northern Europe. Geographically, it is slightly larger than California. It is by any measure a first world country, with a labor force working primarily in industry or the service area, a GDP per capita of about $31,600 and an unemployment rate of 5.6 percent.1
For much of the 20th century, Sweden had a single-payer system of health care in which the government paid almost all health care costs. Like other nations with a single-payer system, Sweden has had to deal with the problem of ever-growing health care expenses causing a strain on government budgets. It has dealt with this problem by rationing health care - instituting waiting lists for medical appointments and surgery.
Cut Costs Without Rationing Care By Putting Patient Back In Charge
IBD Editorials ^ | August 31, 2009 | TEVI D. TROY AND JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 8:59:04 PM by Kaslin
Decades of data confirm a simple truth: If we want to lower health costs, we need to put consumers back in charge.
Many people now feel like second-class citizens when they enter the doctor's office. That's because everyone in the office knows that the patient isn't really the payer — that the patient doesn't hold the purse strings.
The greater the percentage of medical costs that patients pay to their insurance company in premiums, the more insurers are in charge.
The greater the percentage that patients instead pay directly to their doctor out-of-pocket, the more patients are in charge.
STATE SENATOR Obama Tried the Same Rhetoric in Sneak Health "Trojan Horse" Through Illinois Senate
Chicago Sun Times/The Lid ^ | 8/31/09 | The Lid
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 9:22:56 PM by Shellybenoit
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Back in 2004, Barack Obama was an Illinois State Senator, and an announced candidate for the US Senate. The future POTUS introduced a health care bill to revolutionize the health insurance industry in his state, kind of a proto-Obamacare bill.
The Republican opposition realized the way the bill was written it was just a Trojan horse leading to a state-run insurance company that would put private insurers in Illinois out of business and eventually a single-payer system (sound familiar?) Just before the vote, Obama debated the bill with State Senator Peter Roskam (now in Congress) on the floor of the State Senate (listen to the debate below)
Massachusetts Cuts Back Immigrants’ Health Care
NYTimes ^ | August 31, 2009
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 9:59:14 PM by Steelfish
Massachusetts Cuts Back Immigrants’ Health Care
By ABBY GOODNOUGH Published: August 31, 2009
BOSTON — State-subsidized health insurance for 31,000 legal immigrants here will no longer cover dental, hospice or skilled-nursing care under a scaled-back plan that Gov. Deval Patrick announced Monday.
Mr. Patrick said his administration had struggled to find a solution “that preserves the promise of health care reform” after the state legislature cut most of the $130 million it had previously allotted immigrants, to help close a budget deficit.
Obama’s “Waterloo”, indeed. The ‘Rats overreached big time on this issue alone. I think they thought the ‘08 elections signified an endorsement of socialism and a desire to get BIG government and to repudiate traditional American capitalism-now they’re finding out how WRONG they are! I think many Americans who voted for Zero did so due to economic panic. Moral: Think rationally in a crisis. Don’t panic!!
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