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Silent no more! Voters unleash fury on Congress

Americans are speaking up and confronting the President Obama and Democrat lawmakers with concerns about their health care

"reform."

Citizens are flocking to town hall forums across the nation and letting their representatives know where they stand. Meetings are filled to capacity while thousands wait outside for their chance to be heard.

New Hampshire

At a Portsmouth, N.H., high school today, President Obama hosted a health care town hall.

An estimated 2,000 proponents and opponents of his plan gathered in the streets with signs and bullhorns, ready to greet the president’s motorcade. While groups opposed to the health "reform" arrived in small groups with hand-made signs, supporters from pro-Obama organizations, such as Organizing for America and Health Care for America Now, spilled out of buses.

"Let’s get this done," Obama shouted to a crowd of 1,800 inside Portsmouth High School.

Critics remained calm and polite when the president solicited responses from "skeptical" attendees, according to the Associated Press.

Pennsylvania

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn., held a town hall meeting this morning in Lebanon, Pa., where constituents booed and jeered him for at least an hour. One man began shouting because he was not given an opportunity to speak. He complained that Specter, a long-time Republican who switched over to the Democratic Party this year, would not listen because he’s "not a lobbyist with all kind of money to stuff in your pocket."

"One day, God’s going to stand before you," he told the senator to his face. "And he’s going to judge you and the rest of your damn cronies up on the Hill – and then you will get your just desserts."

Other attendees complained about Democrats plans for health "reform." CBS News reported that one woman wore a "member of the mob" T-shirt – referencing Democrat claims that insurance companies and the Republican Party had enlisted "angry mobs" to disrupt town hall meetings.

"I don’t believe this is just health care. This is about the systematic dismantling of this country," a woman told Specter. "You have awakened a sleeping giant. I don’t want this country turning into Russia, turning into a socialized country. What are you going to do to restore this country back to what our founders created, according to the Constitution?"

Her question prompted a standing ovation. Several members of the crowd shouted, "You work for us!" Meanwhile, a large crowd gathered outside with signs warning of socialism.

The following video shows the exchange:

Missouri

At an Aug. 6 forum sponsored by Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., many protesters were turned away at the door while SEIU members were allowed in. A video of the St. Louis, Mo., incident can be seen below:

The event resulted in six arrests. Afterward, town hall attendee Kenneth Gladney, 38, was beaten, kicked and called racist names outside the meeting. He was at the forum to sell "Don’t tread on me" flags, but he said he found himself with a Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, member in his face, calling him the "N"-word and asking what he was doing peddling his message.

Gladney claims he was punched in the face and two other SEIU members jumped on top of him, yelled racial epithets and kicked and punched him. He said he sought treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face.

Also in Missouri, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., faced "shouts and jeers" even in "friendly territory" at her town hall forum on Aug. 10.

At Poplar Bluff, Mo., the report said, an audience of 500 applauded the loudest when Obama was called a socialist.

Another audience member asked, "Where’s the birth certificate?" alluding to the dispute over Obama’s still-unreleased eligibility documentation .

AP reported McCaskill was visibly frustrated and at one point said, "You guys are so mean."

Florida

Rep. Kathy Castor’s Aug. 6 town hall meeting in Tampa, Fla., ended abruptly after 1,500 citizens attempted to enter an event intended to hold approximately 250 people.

Hundreds of people remained outside, many of whom had been waiting for hours to attend the meeting. Meanwhile, seats remained empty inside while SEIU workers and other attendees distributed flyers and signs for the Democrat health care plan to audience members.

One woman outside shouted, "This was supposed to be a town hall meeting. Last time I checked, those were open to the public."

Finally, some attendees were allowed in, but hundreds waited in line with signs outside.

Castor left 15 minutes into the meeting. Just outside the meeting room, constituents chanted, "You work for us," "Tyranny, tyranny” and "Read the bill."

A businessman with a shredded shirt reported to police that staffers attacked him, twisting his arm and tearing his watch off. Another, he claims, grabbed him by the neck and tore his shirt.

"I just came to listen and see what I’m missing about this health care thing because it doesn’t make sense to me," he told a reporter.

Castor later said the event has strengthened her resolve to promote health care reform.

"It has strengthened my resolve to stand up for families and seniors," Castor told reporters for Tampa Bay Online. "Floridians are bearing a great burden in health care costs, more than almost any other state."

A video of the crowd outside the event can be seen below:

Georgia

Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., hosted an Aug. 10 town hall meeting at the Georgia Perimeter College campus in Clarkston. At least 500 citizens showed up in an auditorium while between 1,000 and 1,500 watched the discussion on closed circuit television screens in the gymnasium . Hundreds of citizens stood in an exceedingly long line to have their voices heard while as many as 500 people left the event. Though there was a mix of booing and cheering, attendees stayed calm during the discussion

The following video by a group called Secular Stupidest shows the length of the line:

Maryland

In Maryland, Sen. Ben Cardin faced booing and jeering constituents at his Aug. 10 forum as he attempted to defend the health care legislation. According to Fox News, when Cardin said details of how the plan will be funded have not been worked out, attendees shouted, "Taxes!" and "Spend, Ben, spend!"

When one person asked Cardin for a single example of a government-run program that provided services to citizens at a lower cost, Cardin cited national parks system and Medicare.

The crowd booed and jeered in disapproval.

Earlier, Cardin admitted to receiving nearly 1,600 RSVP’s for a town hall meeting at a concert hall that only seated only 500. When and estimated 1,500 showed up for the meeting , protesters lined the streets outside with signs and shouts.

Iowa

More than 200 citizens shared their thoughts on government-run health care with Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, today. On several occasions, he was challenged by the crowd after he declared the current health care system unsustainable.

During an Aug 8 event, one man yelled: "This is not health reform, this is control, control over our lives."

Harkin accused the man of being part of "a nationally coordinated effort to disrupt these meetings," but the man said no one sent him to the forum.

There were no violent incidents

Michigan

As WND reported, an irate Michigan father worried over what Obamacare would do to his handicapped adult son said he was threatened after trying to get a direct answer from Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich, on Aug 6. In an interview with Fox, Sola explained how he took his wheelchair-bound adult son to the front of the room to confront Dingell, 83.

Sola said he demanded information about what Obamacare would provide for his son, and Dingell responded with a statement that there is an amendment to address the needs of the handicapped.

However, Sola said that amendment doesn’t exist.

Dingell tried to explain at a town hall that people "don’t know" how much they’re already paying to cover the uninsured , but his reasoning was drowned out by protesters.

In an MSNBC interview, Dingell later said the town hall protests remind him of Ku Klux Klan protests.

"Well, the last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it," he said. "At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble."

As WND reported , legislators coming to their home districts in attempt to sell the health care plan to constituents are being met with fierce opposition and huge crowds:

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was confronted by self-described Democrats who accused their representative of lying about health reform and protested, "Why would you try to stuff a health care plan down our throats in a couple days when the president took six months to pick a dog for his kids?"
Rep. Tim Bishop, D-N.Y., has called off further events after a June 22 event he held in Setauket, N.Y., in which protesters dominated the meeting by shouting criticisms at the congressman for his positions on energy policy, health care and the bailout of the auto industry.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., got an earful, too – especially on the health-care issue.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., visited a Denver, Colo., clinic for the homeless to raise support for Obama’s health care plan, only to be met by streets lined with protesters opposed to the measure .
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-TX, went out to meet constituents , only to be met with protesters shouting in opposition to the health care bill, "Just say no!"
At a health care town hall event in Syracuse, N.Y., in July, police were called in to restore order, and at least one heckler was taken away by local police.
Close to 100 sign-carrying protesters greeted Rep. Allen Boyd, D-Fla., at a late June community college small-business development forum in Panama City, Fla.
Danville, Va., anti-tax tea party activists claimed they were "refused an opportunity" to ask Rep. Thomas Perriello, D-Va., a question at a town hall event and instructed by a plainclothes police officer to leave the property after they attempted to hold up protest signs.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., was chased by a crowd saying the Pledge of Allegiance .
The constituents of Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., unable to access their representative through a town hall meeting, created a video charging that Tanner has met with Michael Moore and Fidel Castro, "But he won’t meet his constituents in the 8th District to talk about health care."

The biggest source of protests are the health-care bill, the $787 billion economic stimulus package and the cap-and-trade legislation. They’re also angry about Barack Obama’s refusal to release his birth certificate to prove he is a "natural born citizen" and constitutionally eligible to serve in the White House.

According to an Associated Press report, Obama’s top political adviser, David Axelrod, showed Senators in D.C. video of some of the boisterous town-hall meetings and discussed how to respond to disruptions.

"It’s a challenge, no question about it, and you’ve got to get out there and make the case," Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said afterward. "This is not the time for the faint-hearted."

August 12, 2009 | Patriot | Comments 0

Expose Obama & ObamaCare

(c) 2009 ExposeObama
Make no mistake about it: the chaotic situation Gratzer describes in Canada is exactly the one that awaits you and your family if Obama and his political soul mates have their way.

It’s up to use to stop them.

When you told Barack Hussein Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid that the American people wanted no part of their health care schemes… they tried to shove it down your throat.

Without even bothering to read the legislation, liberals in Congress twisted arms, called secret meetings, made deals and frantically dashed to sneak ObamaCare past you before leaving on vacation.

But then… to add insult to injury… even after you caught them red-handed… they had the audacity to tell the American people that they want the time to go home and regroup so they can hit us again when they come back into session.

They essentially said, let us go back home and make some more deals… have some more secret meetings… twist some more arms… and we promise, we’ll come back in a month with a version of ObamaCare that you’ll really like.

They must think the American people are fools.

Of course… they probably still won’t bother to actually read the legislation… and it would come as no great shock if they tried to sneak it past again once they rolled back into town.

That’s why we need to send a message to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama… and we need to send it now.

When it comes to ObamaCare… The American people don’t want your Retreat… The American people want your Defeat.

The American people don’t want your so-called health care legislation delayed… the American people want it gone.

The American people didn’t ask you to regroup just so you can could back and hit us again. We’re not going to give you a single solitary inch or let you take a breath. We’re going to press you… we’re going to press our advantage… right here and right now.

Starting today, you will come to know that your attempts to transform America into a socialist country are over. The madness ends… now.

Today is the day you start losing and the American people start winning.

With your help, that’s the message we’re going to send right now.
ObamaCare: Is It The American Dream Or An American Nightmare?

During on of his press conferences, Barack Obama actually had the nerve to blame Republicans for blocking his bizarre health proposals.

Can you imagine that? Democrats have majorities in the House and Senate, but Obama blames the GOP. Disingenuous? Or just plain dishonest – take your pick.

Obama’s health agenda is in trouble because the American people – that’s you – think it’s too expensive, too restrictive, too much about politics… and too little about improving people’s health and extending their lives.

The head of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas W. Elmendorf, rained heavily on Obama’s parade. He said the proposal legislation would not reduce costs… and that it would sharply increase costs.

The secret is out: the sham health care proposals Barack Obama and his congressional cronies are peddling will bankrupt our nation, force you into an inferior government-run health plan, and endanger your family’s lives and health.

Remember what Obama said in assuring you about your private health insurance and physician choices under ObamaCare?

"If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."

When Obama said that, his nose presumably grew faster than Pinocchio’s.

Obama has the disturbing habit of feigning ignorance. And true to form, he did it when confronted with the scary words on page 16 of the proposed so-called health care legislation:

“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y [Year 1].”

That congressional gobbledygook basically means you’ll lose your private insurance – forever – if you change jobs… or your insurer modifies the plan… or if your employer tries either to change insurers or stop offering coverage altogether.

Of course, it also means it would be prohibitive for new private insurers to enter the game. And it means the private insurers now in business can never grow. It means the private insurers will simply fade into history.

So, if you now have a plan that’s the equivalent of sailing first-class, the government will use its power to shove you and your family down below deck into steerage – where you can join the teeming masses stuck with the so-called “public option.”

Here’s a quick description of what health care would be like under that public option: imagine if obtaining essential medical treatment was like going down to the DMV, getting in an endless line, and waiting there… essentially forever. That’s “change” nobody can believe in.

ObamaCare will turn the American Dream into the American Nightmare. We can’t let it happen.
Health Care “Reform” … or Something Much More Ominous?

Do any of the leftist scams masquerading as health care proposals really have anything to do with improving health care?

No more than the government takeover of the banks… and AIG… and General Motors had to do with improving banking, insurance, and the automotive industry

As Mark Levin told his fellow radio-talk show host Sean Hannity; Obama is seeking “a massive transfer of liberty and property from the American people to the government.”

Former Texas Congressman Dick Armey told Fox News that the Democrats’ health care proposals are not about better care… not about greater access to care… and not about lower health care costs.

Instead, Armey said the liberals are involved in a power grab, seeking control over one-sixth of our country’s economy.

What on earth is Obama really up to? Is he merely trying to tear down our America… and build a new one more to the liking of the radical left?

Apparently, he was dead serious when he bad-mouthed the United States all over the world. And seizing health care is only the next step in his relentless march to socialism.

Perhaps the key question is: Do they – Obama and his fellow Marxists - really want to destroy private insurance and private health care in America?

If you believe the answer to that is no, please read the following from the proposed health care legislation:

"The [Health] Commissioner shall establish a grace period whereby, for plan years beginning after the end of the 5-year period beginning with Y1, an employment-based health plan in operation as of the day before the first day of Y1 must meet the same requirements as apply to a qualified health benefits plan under section 101, including the essential benefit package requirement under section 121."

Translating this into English, it means all private health plans in America must be comparable to the government’s public option. Most experts believe that, after a few years, private insurance would have gone the way of buckboards, spittoons, and corsets.

After five years, your private insurance plan - if it still exists - would be indistinguishable from the public option.

Frankly, it’s now or never for us to stand up to the leftists, academic pinheads, and self-important “czars” who are playing Russian Roulette with our economy, our freedom, and our health.

Use the button below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to Barack Hussein Obama and each and every leader of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

Tell them the proposed health care legislation now boiling like a witch’s brew in Congress is a monument to deceit and political cynicism, a recipe for rationing, human suffering, and medical mediocrity. Tell them that the American people want freedom of choice. Tell them that a government-run system will bankrupt our nation and harm its people. And finally, tell them that the American people do not want ObamaCare delayed. We want ObamaCare killed and buried so deep that it can never again rear its ugly head.

Obama’s Real Goal: A Socialistic Single-Payer System…

It’s now clear that all the rhetoric about “public options” and the like is obviously a smokescreen for Barack Obama’s real goal: to establish a European and Canadian socialist “single-payer” system.

That’s where the single-payer is supposedly the government, but is actually the taxpayer – that’s, you. But even though you’re the one who pays, the government takes control over every detail of the care you get – and more often, don’t get.

Every time you take a Tylenol or get a wart excised, some far-away bureaucrat will have determined whether you really have a headache… or if the growth is unsightly enough to justify removal.

George Will brilliantly analyzed Obama’s real intentions in a Washington Post Op Ed:

“The puzzle is: Why does the president, who says that were America ’starting from scratch’ he would favor a "single-payer" - government-run - system, insist that health-care reform include a government insurance plan that competes with private insurers? The simplest answer is that such a plan will lead to a single-payer system.

“Conservatives say that a government program will have the intended consequence of crowding private insurers out of the market, encouraging employers to stop providing coverage and luring employees from private insurance to the cheaper government option.”

How would that affect the overwhelming majority of people who are happy with their private insurance plans?

Will notes:

“The Lewin Group estimates that 70 percent of the 172 million persons privately covered might be drawn, or pushed, to the government plan. A significant portion of the children who have enrolled in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program since eligibility requirements were relaxed in February had private insurance. “

The raw, unchecked power of government – the kind that allows it to fire CEOs of private companies and dictate compensation – would remove any trace of a level playing field… and drive your insurance company out of business.

Once again, George Will hits the nail on the head:

“Government is incapable of behaving like market-disciplined private insurers. Competition from the public option must be unfair because government does not need to make a profit and has enormous pricing and negotiating powers.”

It’s absolutely critical to stop Big Government’s relentless – and mindless – effort to bulldoze a health system that has served our nation so well.

Obama’s Fanatical Effort to Canadianize Our Health System…

Of course, we’ve been told for years that the best single-payer system in our hemisphere is Canada’s.

And many believed it until we started hearing the horror stories.

Invariably, these stories deal with people, often women, who were not near enough to death – or unbearable agony – to qualify for care in Canada.

Many of the Canadian we see telling their stories wouldn’t be alive if they hadn’t been able to pay for needed care across the border… in the United States.

Why does Canada, like its counterparts in Europe, ration care? They do so for the same reason ObamaCare will practice rationing: not enough doctors, not enough hospitals, and not enough money to service the hordes seeking care from good old Uncle Sam.

The bad news is that this health care would not really be government-provided… you’d pay for it with your hard-earned tax dollars. The really bad news is that it probably wouldn’t be available when you needed it the most anyway.

Listen to Dr. David Gratzer, a Canadian-trained physician now practicing in the United States:

“I trained in emergency rooms that were chronically, dangerously overcrowded… all across Canada. I met a middle-aged man with sleep problems who was booked for an appointment with a specialist . . . three years later; a man with pain following a simple hernia repair who was referred to a pain clinic . . . with a two-year wait list; a woman with breast cancer who was asked to wait four more months . . . before starting the lifesaving radiation therapy.”

Gratzer continues:

“According to the government’s own statistics, some 1.2 million Canadians could not get a family doctor. In some rural areas, town councils resorted to lotteries: the winners would get appointments with the only general practitioners around.”

Make no mistake about it: the chaotic situation Gratzer describes in Canada is exactly the one that awaits you and your family if Obama and his political soul mates have their way.

It’s up to use to stop them.

August 02, 2009 | Patriot | Comments 0

Hot Career under ObamaCare: Funeral Director

Rahm’s Brother Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel: The Death Czar. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel and Obama’s Health Policy Adviser, announced a new “Complete Lives System” for selecting which sections of the population should be killed, in his article “Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions.”. His writings were published Jan. 31, 2009 in the British medical journal Lancet…11 days after President Obama’s inauguration.

On March 19, Emanuel was appointed to the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, to begin the design of a Federal system for withdrawing care from those chosen for death. Dr. Emanuel provides a preview of how such a system will get started…

“Such an approach accepts a two-tiered health system-some citizens will receive only basic services while others will receive both basic and some discretionary health services… Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity-those that ensure healthy future generations, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations-are to be socially guaranteed as basic. Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”

Emanuel’s cold, academic language can’t disguise his philosophies’ resemblances to Adolf Hitler’s. Here’s how Emanuel sums up who is to be treated, and who is to die:

“When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.” This may be justified by public opinion, since “broad consensus favours adolescents over very young infants, and young adults over very elderly people.”

Of course, the elderly won’t be the only ones killed. Infants are at the top of his list as well.

“Strict youngest-first allocation directs scarce resources predominantly to infants. This approach seems incorrect. The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects…. Adolescents have received substantial substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments…. It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.”

Dr. Death doesn’t spare older children:

“The ‘complete lives’ system also considers prognosis, since its aim is to achieve complete lives. A young person with a poor prognosis has had few life-years but lacks the potential to live a complete life. Considering prognosis forestalls the concern that disproportionately large amounts of resources will be directed to young people with poor prognoses.”

Emanuel the “reformer” assures us that unlike other death-selection systems, “the complete lives system is least vulnerable to corruption. Age can be established quickly and accurately from identity documents.” So, our National Eugenics system, paired with our National Health-Care system will be free of corruption?!! I have some oceanfront property in Arizona for sale…

Even more data-points go into the calculation on whether you are worthy to live. It’s very important to Dr. Emanuel that you be politically correct, so future generations of Obamabots are assured:

“Social Value Allocation” prioritizes specific individuals to enable them to promote other important values, or rewards them for having promoted these values. In view of the multiplicity of reasonable values in society and in view of what is at stake, social value allocation must not legislate socially conventional, mainstream values.”

Your job will figure into Dr. Death’s calculations as well:

“Allocators must also avoid directing interventions earmarked for health needs to those not relevant to the health problem at hand, which covertly exacerbates scarcity. For instance, funeral directors might be essential to preserving health in an influenza pandemic, but not during a shortage of intensive-care beds. For instance, former organ donors seem to deserve reciprocity since they make a serious sacrifice and since there is no surplus of organ donors. By contrast, laboratory staff who serve as vaccine production workers do not incur serious risk nor are they irreplaceable, so reciprocity seems less appropriate for them.”

Oh, I think funeral directors will be in BIG demand under Obamacare and “Complete Lives.” Don’t get me started on Obama’s “Science Czar”, John Holdren. Besides advocating forced abortions and sterilizations- he doesn’t consider you a human even AFTER you are born…you must be “properly fed and socialized” before you win that prize.

Our legislators are coming home for an August break from all the hard work they do on our behalf. It is our job to see that it is the hottest ‘effin August they have ever seen. Wear their asses OUT. Go to their town-hall meetings, and if they aren’t holding any…shame them into doing so. Call, call, call. Write, write, write. You can find their home office contact info here. Protest outside their offices. We have to stop this horrific insanity.

July 30, 2009 | Patriot | Comments 0

‘bamaCare: “This is going to hurt”

July 21, 2009 Posted by: Erin ( c) RightSoup

Get ready for another full-court, prime-time, health-care press from the Obamatator himself tomorrow night. Plus, another staged “town hall” on Thursday. Meanwhile, Peter Fleckstein (aka Fleckman) is reading the ObamaCare bill along with us, and has been posting his findings on Twitter. These are from his postings, and I’ve added a few. (You have to abbreviate on Twitter to fit into the character limits, ergo the short-speak. I’ve lengthened some abbreviations for better understanding.) Thanks, Peter! Here we go:

“Pg 22 of the Health Care Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self-insure!!

Pg 30 Sec 123- THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.

Pg 29 lines 4-16 - YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!!

Pg 42 - The “Health Choices Commissioner” will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice!

PG 50 Section 152- HC will be provided to ALL non-US citizens, illegal or otherwise.

Pg 53- Severability (KEY GEM)

“If any provision of the Act, or any application of such provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of the provisions of this Act and the application of the provision to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected.”

Pg 58 - Govt will have real-time access to individual’s finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued!

Pg 59 lines 21-24- Govt will have direct access to your bank accounts for electronic funds transfer

PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations (ACORN).

Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Govt is creating an HC Exchange to bring private HC plans under Govt control.

PG 84 Sec 203 - Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the Exchange

PG 85 Line 7 - Specs for Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare!

PG 91 Lines 4-7- Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example: Translation for illegal aliens

Pg 95 Lines 8-18 The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals. for Govt HC plan.

PG 85 Line 7 - Specs of Benefit Levels For Plans. #AARP members- Your Health care WILL be rationed

PG 102 Lines 12-18- Medicaid-Eligible Individual will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.

pg 124 lines 24-25 No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt Monopoly.

pg 127 Lines 1-16- RE: Doctors- The Govt will tell YOU what you can make.

Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST auto-enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE

Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.

Pg 149 Lines 16-24 ANY Employer w/ payroll $400k & above who doesn’t provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll.

PG 150 Lines 9-13- Biz w payroll between 251k & 400k who doesn’t provide pub. opt pays 2-6% tax on all payroll

Pg 167 Lines 18-23 ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income.

Pg 170 Lines 1-3 Any NONRESIDENT Alien is EXEMPT from individual taxes. (Americans will pay)

Pg 195 -Officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans financial/personal records

PG 203 Line 14-15- “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it actualy says that.

Pg 239 Line 14-24-Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor will be affected. Expendable.

Pg 241 Line 6-8- Doctors, doesn’t matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same.

PG 253 Line 10-18 Govt sets value of Dr’s time, professional judgment, etc. Literally sets the value of humans.

PG 265 Sec 1131-Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries

PG 268 Sec 1141- Fed Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs.

PG 272 SEC. 1145- TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!

Page 280 Sec 1151- The Govt will penalize hospitals for what Govt deems “preventable re-admissions.”

Pg 298 Lines 9-11- Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a readmission? Govt will penalize you.

Pg 317 L 13-20- OMG!! PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells Drs. what/how much they can own.

Pg 317-318 lines 21-25,1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating hospitals cannot expand.

pg 321 2-13: Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input required. Can you say ACORN?!!

Pg335 Lines 16-25, Pg 336-339 - Govt mandates establishment of outcome based measures. HC the way they want. Rationing.

Pg 341 Lines 3-9: Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Adv Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt plan

Pg 354 Sec 1177 - Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people! WTF. My sister has downs syndrome!!

Pg 379 Sec 1191- Govt creates more bureaucracy - “Telehealth Advisory Committee.” Can you say HC by phone?

PG 425 Lines 4-12 Govt mandates “Advanced Care Planning Consultations.”

PG 425 the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier.

Pg 425 Lines 17-19: Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney . Mandatory!

PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Govt provides approved list of end of life resources , guiding you in death.

PG 427 Lines 15-24: Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends.

Pg 429 Lines 1-9: An “advanced care planning consult” will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates

PG 429 Lines 10-12: “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from the Government.

Pg 429 Lines 13-25 - The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

PG 430 Lines 11-15- The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.

Pg 469 - Community Based Home Medical Services = Non profit organizations. Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?

Page 472 Lines 14-17: PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORG. 1 monthly payment to a community-based org. Like ACORN?

PG 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which means they will insert Govt into your marriage.

Pg 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services.”

And that’s less than half of the 1000+ page bill! (Click here to read the beast.)

PEOPLE, THIS IS IT. YOU CAN NO LONGER IGNORE THIS BLATANT TAKEOVER OF OUR COUNTRY.

This is not about health-care, it is about the POWER OF THE STATE. I beg you if you’ve never read Animal Farm , 1984 and Atlas Shrugged please, please, do.
IT IS TIME TO TAKE TO THE STREETS.

God help us all.

Continue reading to learn about the racial preferences mandated by the bill.
The Democrats’ health care bill creates a very significant financial incentive for medical schools and other entities to lower admission standards for “individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups” if that is what it takes to have the winning “demonstrated record”.

On page 879-880, the bill states that the Secretary of Health and Human Services :

“shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, eligible entities . . . to operate a professional training program in the field of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, or geriatrics, to provide financial assistance and traineeships and fellowships to those students, interns, residents or physicians who plan to work in or teach in the field of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, or geriatrics.”

On page 881-882 the bill states:

“In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following: . . . Training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds.”

On page 883 the bill states:

“The Secretary shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, eligible entities . . . to operate or participate in an established primary care residency training program, which may include-(A) planning and developing curricula; (B) recruitment and training of residents; and (C) retention of faculty.”

On page 884-885 the bill states:

“In awarding grants and contracts . . . the Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of training . . . individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds . . . .”

On page 887-889 the bill states that the

“Secretary shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, eligible entities . . . to operate a professional training program for oral health professionals, to provide financial assistance and traineeships and fellowships to those professionals who plan to work in or teach general, pediatric, or public health dentistry, or dental hygiene, to establish, maintain, or improve academic administrative units (including departments, divisions, or other appropriate units) in the specialties of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry, to operate a loan repayment program for full-time faculty in a program of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry.”

On page 889-890 the bill states:

On page 908-909 the bill states: “The Secretary shall award grants and contracts to eligible entities” to do the same things for the field of public health as the Secretary can do for dentistry.

On page 909 the bill states:

July 22, 2009 | Patriot | Comments 0

Take 2 aspirin and call me when your cancer is stage 4

All the problems with the American health care system come from government intervention, so naturally the Democrats’ idea for fixing it is more government intervention. This is like trying to sober up by having another drink.

The reason seeing a doctor is already more like going to the DMV, and less like going to the Apple "Genius Bar," is that the government decided health care was too important to be left to the free market. Yes – the same free market that has produced such a cornucopia of inexpensive goods and services that, today, even poor people have cell phones and flat-screen TVs.

As a result, it’s easier to get your computer fixed than your health. Thanks, government!

We already have near-universal health coverage in the form of Medicare, Medicaid, veterans’ hospitals, emergency rooms and tax-deductible employer-provided health care – all government creations.

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So now, everyone expects doctors to be free. People who pay $200 for a haircut are indignant if it costs more than a $20 co-pay to see a doctor.

The government also "helped" us by mandating that insurance companies cover all sorts of medical services, both ordinary – which you ought to pay for yourself – and exotic, such as shrinks, in vitro fertilization and child-development assessments – which no normal person would voluntarily pay to insure against.

This would be like requiring all car insurance to cover the cost of gasoline, oil and tire changes – as well as professional car detailing, iPod docks, leather seats and those neon chaser lights I have all along the underbody of my chopped, lowrider ‘57 Chevy.

But politicians are more interested in pleasing lobbyists for acupuncturists, midwives and marriage counselors than they are in pleasing recent college graduates who only want to insure against the possibility that they’ll be hit by a truck. So politicians at both the state and federal level keep passing boatloads of insurance mandates requiring that all insurance plans cover a raft of non-emergency conditions that are expensive to treat – but whose practitioners have high-priced lobbyists.

As a result, a young, healthy person has a choice of buying artificially expensive health insurance that, by law, covers a smorgasbord of medical services of no interest to him … or going uninsured. People who aren’t planning on giving birth to a slew of children with restless leg syndrome in the near future forgo insurance – and then politicians tell us we have a national emergency because some people don’t have health insurance.

The whole idea of insurance is to insure against catastrophes: You buy insurance in case your house burns down – not so you can force other people in your plan to pay for your maid. You buy car insurance in case you’re in a major accident, not so everyone in the plan shares the cost of gas.

Just as people use vastly different amounts of gasoline, they also use vastly different amounts of medical care – especially when an appointment with a highly trained physician costs less than a manicure.

Insurance plans that force everyone in the plan to pay for everyone else’s Viagra and anti-anxiety pills are already completely unfair to people who rarely go to the doctor. It’s like being forced to share gas bills with a long-haul trucker or a restaurant bill with Michael Moore. On the other hand, it’s a great deal for any lonely hypochondriacs in the plan.

Now the Democrats want to force us all into one gigantic national health insurance plan that will cover every real and mythical ailment that has a powerful lobby. But if you have a rare medical condition without a lobbying arm, you’ll be out of luck.

Even two decades after the collapse of liberals’ beloved Soviet Union, they can’t grasp that it’s easier and cheaper to obtain any service provided by capitalism than any service provided under socialism.

You don’t have to conjure up fantastic visions of how health care would be delivered in this country if we bought it ourselves. Just go to a grocery store or get a manicure. Or think back to when you bought your last muffler, personal trainer, computer and every other product and service available in inexpensive abundance in this capitalist paradise.

Third-party payer schemes are always a disaster – less service for twice the price! If you want good service at a good price, be sure to be the one holding the credit card. Under "universal health care," no one but government bureaucrats will be allowed to hold the credit card.

Isn’t food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you’d be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.

Instead of making health care more like the DMV, how about we make it more like grocery stores? Give the poor and tough cases health stamps and let the rest of us buy health care – and health insurance – on the free market.

July 22, 2009 | Patriot | Comments 0

Barack Obama Is a Big Fat Liar

June 26, 2009 4:00 AM (c) NRO Jim Gerathey

E ver since Barack Obama declared his candidacy for president, it’s been easy — and great fun — to spotlight when his promises and statements come with “expiration dates.” The list is long: Public financing. Renegotiating NAFTA. His promise to support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies. His inability to disown Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The release of detainee photos. Denouncing Turkey for genocide.

Flip-flops are nothing new in politics, but every once in a while, a president breaks a promise or an important pledge on such an epic level that it defines him, at least in part: “Read my lips: No new taxes. ” “I did not have sexual relations with that woman. ” “We did not — repeat — did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages — nor will we. ” Even “I will never lie to you. ”

Barack Obama’s sudden about-face on taxing employer-provided health insurance deserves to rank among these classics. Not because it’s as laughable as Bill Clinton’s, or as emphatic as George H. W. Bush’s, but because it takes a certain moral venality to casually adopt, as president, a position that was a dominant theme of your argument for why your opponent should not be president.

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Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign spent $44 million on 16 different television ads hammering John McCain on this idea, according to research by Evan L. Tracey, founder and president of Campaign Media Analysis Group, a TNS Media Intelligence company.

“This message was a central theme and a significant percentage of the Obama campaign’s advertising in 2008,” Tracey said. His organization estimated last November that Obama’s campaign spent $250 million on television advertising, meaning that about 17 percent of all of Obama’s ads were denouncing McCain for this proposal.

The ads left no wiggle room:

Announcer: John McCain on health care.

John McCain: “I want to give every American a 5,000-dollar refundable tax credit.”

Announcer: Here’s the truth.

Barack Obama: “He says that he’s going to give you a 5,000-dollar tax credit. What he doesn’t tell you is that he is going to tax your employer-based health-care benefits for the first time ever. So what one hand giveth, the other hand taketh away.”

Announcer: John McCain. Instead of fixing health care, he wants to tax it.

Barack Obama: I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.

Sometimes the ads keyed the issue to a particular swing state:

Announcer: In Nevada, we work hard, and many of us get health insurance through our jobs. John McCain’s health plan would tax our health benefits as income. Taxing health benefits for the first time ever, meaning higher taxes for us. Under McCain, insurance companies prosper. Nevadans pay. Taxing our health-care benefits. An idea we should send back to Arizona. John McCain doesn’t get Nevada. He doesn’t get us.

Barack Obama: “I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.”

Obama won Nevada, 55 percent to 43 percent, a dramatic improvement on John Kerry’s 47.9 percent four years earlier.

The back-and-forth on the proposal in the vice-presidential debate provided the visuals and audio for another ad:

[Text]: McCain’s health plan. What she said.

Sarah Palin: “He’s proposing a 5,000-dollar tax credit for families so that they can get out there, and they can purchase their own health-care coverage.”

[Text]: What she didn’t say.

Joe Biden: “Well, you know how John McCain pays for his 5,000-dollar tax credit? He taxes as income every one of you out there, every one of you listening who has a health-care plan through your employer. Taxing your health-care benefit. I call that the ultimate Bridge to Nowhere.”

[Text]: Taxing health benefits for the first time ever.

Gwen Ifill: “Thank you, Senator.”

[Text]: The McCain health tax. What they can’t explain.

Barack Obama: “I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.”

Of course, it wasn’t just ads. Obama hammered the point again and again in his stump speech. On September 12, 2008, while appearing in Dover, N.H., Obama said :

And I can make a firm pledge: under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase — not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital-gains taxes, not any of your taxes. My opponent can’t make that pledge, and here’s why: For the first time in American history, he wants to tax your health benefits. Apparently, Senator McCain doesn’t think it’s enough that your health premiums have doubled, he thinks you should have to pay taxes on them too. That’s a $3.6 trillion tax increase on middle-class families. That will eventually leave tens of millions of you paying higher taxes. That’s his idea of change.

Notice there’s no mention of income level, or certain limited circumstances in which it would be acceptable to tax health benefits. No suggestion that the proposal might be something he would accept a compromise on. No ifs, no ands, no buts.

In early October he went even further, calling McCain’s plan “so radical, so out of touch with what you’re facing, and so out of line with our basic values.”

On Capitol Hill, however, Democrats have long liked the idea as a new form of tax revenue. Obama’s relentless denunciation of the proposal would seem to preclude his signing it into law, but “would seem to” is not “does.” Back in March, White House budget director Peter Orszag said taxing employer benefits was among several ideas that “most firmly should remain on the table,” and some congressional Democrats told the Washington Post that White House officials said Obama would accept such a tax “as long as he didn’t have to propose it himself.”

Finally, during Wednesday’s p.r. push for his health-care plan, Obama refused to rule out the proposal that he once said made John McCain unfit for office.

“I don’t want to prejudge what they’re doing,” he said about Senate proposals to tax workers who get expensive insurance policies. “I have identified the ways that I think we should finance this. I think Congress should adopt them. I’m going to wait and see what ideas ultimately they come up with.”

Poof! What was once “so radical, so out of touch with what you’re facing, and so out of line with our basic values” now is not worthy of prejudgment.

Where does John McCain get his reputation back? And if Obama will do an about-face on this issue, is there any promise he’s made that is not approaching an inevitable expiration date?

— Jim Geraghty writes the Campaign Spot for NRO.

June 29, 2009 | Patriot | Comments 0

US Taxpayers To Fund Abortion Worldwide

In the most outrageous political move any human being could make B. Obama put his signature for all eternity to allow the United States taxpayers to fund abortion internationally. This is a stamp of evil and eternal death for a man who has sworn allegiance to countless number of sins against righteousness. {ray}

Story from OneNewsNow.com

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday quietly ended the Bush administration’s ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option. Liberal groups welcomed the decision, while abortion rights foes criticized the president.

Known as the "Mexico City policy," the ban has been reinstated and then reversed by Republican and Democratic presidents since Ronald Reagan established it in 1984. Democrat Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but Republican George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office.

A White House spokesman, Bill Burton, said Obama signed an executive order on the ban, without coverage by the media, late Friday afternoon. That was in contrast to the midday signings with fanfare of executive orders on other subjects earlier in the week.

Obama’s action came one day after the 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion.

The Bush policy had banned U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of Agency for International Development funds, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion. The rule also had prohibited federal funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method.

Both Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who will oversee foreign aid, had promised to do away with the rule during the presidential campaign. Clinton visited the U.S. Agency for International Development on Friday but made no mention of the step.

Obama has spent his first days in office aggressively signing executive orders reversing Bush administration policies on issues ranging from foreign policy to government operations. TV cameras were invited in for Wednesday’s announcements on ethics rules and for Thursday’s signing of orders on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and banning torture in the questioning of terror suspects.

In a move related to the lifting of the abortion rule, Obama also is expected to restore funding to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), probably in the next budget. Both he and Clinton had pledged to reverse a Bush administration determination that assistance to the organization violated U.S. law.

The Bush administration had barred U.S. money from the fund, contending that its work in China supported a Chinese family planning policy of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization. UNFPA has vehemently denied that it does.

Organizations that had pressed Obama to make the abortion-ban change were jubilant.

"Women’s health has been severely impacted by the cutoff of assistance. President Obama’s actions will help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, abortions and women dying from high-risk pregnancies because they don’t have access to family planning," said Tod Preston, a spokesman for Population Action International, an advocacy group.

Anti-abortion groups criticized the move.

"President Obama not long ago told the American people that he would support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively guaranteeing more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion as a method of population control," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.

Obama also is expected at some point to lift or ease restrictions on federal money for stem cell research, an issue that divides people along similar battle lines, but there was no word about any action on that Friday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has expressed interest in pressing legislation on stem cells in the first 100 days of the new Congress if the new administration doesn’t act.

Some scientists want broader use of embryonic stem cells than is currently allowed, hoping for new treatments for many diseases. Obtaining stem cells from four- or five-day-old embryos kills the embryos, and many opponents see that as taking life.

January 23, 2009 | Patriot | Comments 0