Posted on 04/30/2017 5:17:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Like E.F. Hutton, when the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights “Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health” talks, people listen.
In disbelief, perhaps. Or amusement. But they listen.
Well, at least Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank listens, anyway.
Unfortunately, Milbank couldn’t get Dr. Dainius Puras to talk.
Puras is the Lithuanian serving as the U.N.’s “Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to blah, blah, blah.” Milbank did, however, uncover an “urgent appeal” sent by Puras to the U.S. State Department, with instructions to pass it along to U.S. congressional leaders.
Dr. Puras won’t discuss his confidential February correspondence until June, when “it becomes public at the next session of the Human Rights Council.” But the “leaked” five-page letter announces the U.N. has launched an investigation to determine whether repealing the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, violates international law.
As Milbank offers, “It turns out that the notion that ‘health care is a right’ is more than just a Democratic talking point.”
The letter cites possible U.S. transgression of Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which proclaims, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
This is standard U.N. legal speak: triumphantly overstated; unenforceably vague.
It’s no surprise once one realizes the U.N. represents the governments of the world, not the people. It never addresses discernable individual rights to life, free speech, freedom of the press or the free exercise of religion. Instead, the socialist-oriented organization proclaims a “right to a standard of living adequate for . . . health and well-being.”
Who is to determine the meaning of “adequate”? And are all the countries currently on the U.N. Human Rights Council — such as China, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela — providing the people over whom they rule adequate “well-being”?
Dr. Puras’s letter references other U.N. gobbledygook, including Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. That sacrosanct document requires States to “recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,” including the “prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases,” as well as the “creation of conditions which would assure to all medical service and medical attention in the event of sickness.”
An implied threat is delivered against repealing any government-provided medical benefit, declaring “there is a strong presumption that retrogressive measures taken in relation to health are not permissible.”
“The letter urges that ‘all necessary interim measures be taken to prevent the alleged violations’” Milbank explains, “and asks that, if the ‘allegations’ proved correct, there be ‘adequate measure . . . to guarantee the accountability of any person responsible.’”
Should Congress repeal Obamacare, will U.N. troops occupy Washington, arresting congressmen for voting against its mandate?
The international body has no way “to impose its will,” acknowledges Milbank, seeming to wish it did and complaining that folks just “scoff at lectures from U.N. bureaucrats.”
Don’t scoff at their scoffing. It’s a reasonable response to a long history of incompetence, corruption and worse. Throughout the world, people all across the political spectrum — from the UK’s Daniel Hannan to former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton — upbraid the U.N. for its poor track record.
Earlier this month, the Associated Press released a report alleging nearly 2,000 instances of U.N. “peacekeepers” sexually abusing Haitians — including hundreds of children — along with no arrests and zero accountability. The report followed a 2016 report of sexual crimes committed by U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic and many other such reports before that.
Taking solace from the Special Rapporteur’s letter, Milbank declares: “[T]he U.N. letter is at least a bit of moral support for those defending Obamacare.”
Moral support?
From the U.N.?
Now, you’re pulling my leg.
How would the UN not permit anything this country does?Send in the blue helmets?Oh yea.
They can try and will be completely ignored.
Its the goal of the globalists. “International law” as defined by UN bureaucrats supersedes US law and subjects the American people to the will of the “world”. It was the goal of the Obama administration. Remember the Iran deal. It had not a prayer of being ratified by the US Senate in a constitutional manner. Instead Obama had it passed as a UN Security council resolution and them promptly proclaimed it “international law”. The American people must come to understand that at the core of every Democrat is a globalist and that they when in power will subtly but effectively undermine the sovereignty of the United States and subjugate the American people to foreigners.
Very easy.
WITHDRAW!! Kick ‘em down the East River to the sea.
Then fumigate.
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To evade taxes, Obama is probably donating his speaking fees to his foundation....that's more spending money for Michelle. And Cantor Fitzgerald gets shaken down for donations to Obama's foundation.....these are Clinton Crime Family MO's.
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Obamacare is a stupid failed scam that depended on the stupidity of the American people to get passed (according to architect Jonathan Gruber). From the get go....Obama lied about the plan to dupe Americans. Democrats jumped onboard and continued the Obamacare charade.
MEMORY LANE---As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted (by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote) into the "Affordable Care Act:"
QUOTING OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”
Repeated over and over by every loyal Democrat---- conning Americans into believing they'd also be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.
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LOCK-STEPPING DEMOCRAT PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1930-40's ERA EUROPE.
SEN. HARRY REID (D-Nev.): “In fact, one of our core principles is that if you like the health care you have, you can keep it.” (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.8642, 8/3/09)
SEN. RICHARD DURBIN: “We believe — and we stand by this — if you like your current health insurance plan, you will be able to keep it, plain and simple, straightforward.” (Sen. Durbin, Congressional Record, S.6401, 6/10/09)
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): “If you like your insurance, you keep it.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/29/09)
SEN. PATTY MURRAY (D-Wash.): “Again, if you like what you have, you will be able to keep it. Let me say this again: If you like what you have, when our legislation is passed and signed by the President, you will be able to keep it.” (Sen. Murray, Congressional Record, S.6400, 6/10/09)
SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D-Mont.): “That is why one of the central promises of health care reform has been and is: If you like what you have, you can keep it. That is critically important. If a person has a plan, and he or she likes it, he or she can keep it.” (Sen. Baucus, Congressional Record, S.7676, 9/29/10)
SEN. TOM HARKIN (D-Iowa): “One of the things we put in the health care bill when we designed it was the protection for consumers to keep the plan they have if they like it; thus, the term ‘grandfathered plans.’ If you have a plan you like — existing policies — you can keep them. … we said, if you like a plan, you get to keep it, and you can grandfather it in.” (Sen. Harkin, Congressional Record, S.7675-6, 9/29/10)
THEN-REP. TAMMY BALDWIN (D-Wis.): “Under the bill, if you like the insurance you have now, you may keep it and it will improve.” (Rep. Baldwin, Press Release, 3/18/10)
SEN. MARK BEGICH (D-Alaska): “If you got a doctor now, you got a medical professional you want, you get to keep that. If you have an insurance program or a health care policy you want of ideas, make sure you keep it. That you can keep who you want.” (Sen. Begich, Townhall Event, 7/27/09)
SEN. MICHAEL BENNET (D-Colo.): “We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it. If you have your doctor, and you like him or her, you should be able to keep them as well. We will not take that choice away from you.” (Sen. Bennet, Press Release, 6/11/09)
SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D-Calif.): “So we Democrats want people to be able to keep the health care they have. And the answer to that is choice of plans. And in the exchange, we’re going to have lots of different plans, and people will be able to keep the health care coverage they need and they want.” (Sen. Boxer, Press Release, 2/8/11)
SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D-Ohio): “Our Democrat bill says if you have health insurance and you like it, you can keep it…”(Sen. Brown, Congressional Record, S.12612, 12/7/09)
SEN. BEN CARDIN (D-Md.): “For the people of Maryland, this bill will provide a rational way in which they can maintain their existing coverage…” (Sen. Cardin, Congressional Record, S.13798, 12/23/09)
SEN. BOB CASEY (D-Pa.): “I also believe this Democrat legislation and the bill we are going to send to President Obama this fall will also have secure choices. If you like what you have, you like the plan you have, you can keep it. It is not going to change.” (Sen. Casey, Congressional Record, S.8070, 7/24/09)
SEN. KAY HAGAN (D-N.C.): ‘People who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it’ “We need to support the private insurance industry so that people who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it while also providing a backstop option for people without access to affordable coverage.” (“Republicans Vent As Other Compromise Plans Get Aired,” National Journal’s Congress Daily, 6/18/09)
SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D-La.): “If you like the insurance that you have, you’ll be able to keep it.” (MSNBC’s Hardball, 12/16/09)
SEN. PAT LEAHY (D-Vt.): “[I]f you like the insurance you now have, keep the insurance you have.” (CNN’s “Newsroom,” 10/22/09)
SEN. BOB MENENDEZ (D-N.J.): “If you like what you have, you get to keep it” “Menendez is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which is expected to release a bill later this week. He stressed that consumers who are satisfied with their plans won’t have to change. ‘If you like what you have, you get to keep it,’ he said.” (“Health Care Plan Would Help N.J., Menendez Says,” The Record, 6/19/09)
SEN. JEFF MERKLEY (D-Oreg.): “[E]nsuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it” “The HELP Committee bill sets forward a historic Democrat plan that will, for the first time in American history, give every American access to affordable health coverage, reduce costs, and increase choice, while ensuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it.” (Sen. Merkley, Press Release, 7/15/09)
SEN. BARBARA MIKULSKI (D-Md.): “It means that if you like the insurance you have now, you can keep it.” (Sen. Mikulski, Press Release, 12/24/09)
SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-W.Va.): “I want people to know, the President’s promise that if you like the coverage you have today you can keep it is a pledge we intend to keep.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Hearing, 9/23/09)
SEN. JACK REED (D-R.I.): “If you like the insurance you have, you can choose to keep it.” (Sen. Reed, Town Hall Event, 6/25/09)
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.): “‘If you have coverage you like, you can keep it,’ says Sen. Sanders.” (“Sick And Wrong,” Rolling Stone, 4/5/10)
SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-N.H.): ‘if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it’ “My understanding … is that … if you have health coverage that you like you can keep it. As I said, you may have missed my remarks at the beginning of the call, but one of the things I that I said as a requirement that I have for supporting a Democrat bill is that if you have health coverage that you like you should be able to keep that. …under every scenario that I’ve seen, if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it.” (Sen. Shaheen, “Health Care Questions From Across New Hampshire,” Accessed 11/13/13)
SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW (D-Mich.): “As someone who has a large number of large employers in my state, one of the things I appreciate about the Democrat chairman’s remark is — is the grandfathering provisions, the fact that the people in my state, 60 percent of whom have insurance, are going to be able to keep it. And Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that. That’s a strong commitment. It’s clear in the bill … I appreciate the strong commitment on your part and the president to make sure that if you have your insurance you can keep it. That’s the bottom line for me.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/24/09)
SEN. JON TESTER (D-Mont.): “‘If you like your coverage, you’ll be able to keep it,’ Tester said, adding that if Medicare changes, it will only become stronger”. (“Tester In Baker To Discuss Health Care,” The Fallon County Times, 11/20/09)
SEN. TOM UDALL (D-N.Mex.): “Some worried reform would alter their current coverage. It won’t. If you like your current plan, you can keep it.” (“What I Learned: About Health Care Reform This Summer, By Your Lawmakers In Congress,” Albuquerque Journal, 9/8/09)
SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D-R.I.): “..it honors President Obama’s programs and the promise of all of the Presidential candidates that if you like the plan you have, you get to keep it. You are not forced out of anything.” (Sen. Whitehouse, Congressional Record, S.8668, 8/3/09)
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) the 60th vote on Obamacare: "people who are happy with their current plan, wouldn't need to change it."
FRANKEN YOUTUBE SOUND BITE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8I
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Twenty-nine Democrats who voted for it (including onetime lawmaker Landrieu who pocketed a bundle to vote for it) were ousted in the 2014 midterm Democrat Demolition Derby.
"Now, I don't want you insurers to worry; when you start
losing money, we are going to jump in and bail you all out."
Obama Siphoned off GSE Dividends To Prop Up OBAMACARE
ZeroHedge ^ | April 2, 2017 / FR Posted on by Zakeet
Earlier this month, Harvard Ph.D. Jerome Corsi of InfoWars (@jerome_corsi) and a CPA "who worked for two years for a major U.S. accounting firm as an outside auditor for Freddie Mac," confirmed a 2012 scheme hatched by the Obama administration.
The audacious looting involved funnelling hundreds of billions in dividends from Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prop up the failing Obamacare program - by paying subsidies to insurers to remain in the system. [Snip]
The conclusion reached by Corsi and others is that this was probably illegal. In fact, House Republicans actually sued the Obama Administration in 2014 over the fact that the subsidies to insurers weren't appropriated by congress and won, which the Obama administration appealed.
Zerohedge and the Atlanta Journal Constitution pointed out last week, the Trump administration has until May 22nd to decide whether or not to pursue the appeal: (Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
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UPDATE: Trump and Repubs will not pursue the appeal.
How would they stop it? And why would they stop it considering the Republicans are trying to enact something that is, in its own way, just as bad?
Ha ha! Will USA permit the UnitedNazis to stay in America? ( praying DJT gets rid if them asap!)
It is time to let the UN know where is place is. The best way to do that is for the USA to withhold their share of the funding. Out of 173 countries the USA’s share is 22% while the next inline is Japan at 9.8% with France, Germany, UK and Italy together paying 19.495% Yet these nations always want to rule the roost. For the UN’s basic funding plus all of the other activities US is paying out some $3.3 billion
Will Donald Trump ‘permit’ the U.N. to remain in the U.S.?
bookmark zero care
US out of the UN
UN out of the US
UN land is prime realestate, throw them out send them to a muslim country and rent the building out, win win
Bookmark
As long as the electrical crisis in Gaza lasts(it’s just starting), The UN will be preoccupied with that and will be unable to deal with anything else.
That means: Ming Your Own F**king Business, United Nations, Why Should You Tell Us How To Spend Our Money You F**king UnAmerican Bunch Of Islamic F**king Globalist!!
I hope if the UN reads this, they won't get upset at me, I might be upset... :-)
bookmark zero care
just say'n
What a strange headline
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