Barack
Obama - President Obama asks supporters to declare their support for
his three core principles for health care reform, and to share their
personal stories to help build support for the reforms that are so
desperately needed. [ctrl-click to launch video] Learn more at
http://my.barackobama.com/healthcare
The Marketing Of ObamaCare, Or ... Madoffing America
The atmosphere here in America is laden heavy with the feel of
Caveat Emptor ... let the buyer beware.
We
are being told almost daily, that the Government needs to get what the
Obama Administration wants to get done in terms of (name program here)
legislation immediately, otherwise (name imperative here) will befall
all of us and people are suffering.
Further, the Obama
Administration is responding to the information that is leaking out
about some programs they are fighting for with plastered over
non-truths in order to be able to give the patina of cover for the
Congress as they go back to their districts during the summer recess.
Linda
Douglass - In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director
for the White Houses Health Reform Office, addresses a story that makes
it look like the President intends to eliminate private coverage, when
the reality couldn't be further from the truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0XCl6OHgiM
The Obama
healthcare agenda, ObamaCare, is rife with misrepresentations and lies
that are designed to have people believe that what this Administration
is proposing is not a single payer, a one-size fits all healhcare
system, that will push out and eliminate free market solutions that
exist today.
Just like
Bernie Madoff,
who induced investors to give his company money with promises of
unbelievable returns, the Obama Administration, with the help of the
Democrat Political Party leadership in Congress, are promising
something they can not, and do not intend to deliver.
The
principles, as outlined on the wbsite -
http://my.barackobama.com/healthcare - claims the following so that we
citizens can feel comfortable about the proposed Government take-over
of one-sixth of our economy - the healthcare system.
Example:
The Principles
President Obama has announced three bedrock requirements for real health insurance reform:
* Reduce Costs
— Rising health care costs are crushing the budgets of governments,
businesses, individuals and families and they must be brought under
control
* Guarantee Choice — Every American must have the freedom to choose their plan and doctor – including the choice of a public insurance option
* Ensure Quality Care for All — All Americans must have quality and affordable health care
All of the above principles are not only untrue ... they are impossible promises to deliver given the
text of H.R 3200,
America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (currently 1,018 pages)
passed through the House Energy and Commerce Committee on a 31-28 vote
last Friday.
Obama
to Jane Sturm: Hey, take a pill - Jane asks the President if her 100
year old mother (now 105) would have gotten a pacemaker under his plan.
Well now that's a tough one ... that costs a lot and maybe we will have
to say, just take a pill. Priceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dQfb8WQvo
This excerpted and edited from the Charlotte Conservative Examiner and About.com -
Obamacare: death and taxes
Hailey Wilson - Charlotte Conservative Examiner - August 4, 12:13 AM
House
Democrats have narrowly pushed Obama’s Healthcare bill - H.R 3200,
America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 - through a key
congressional committee this past Friday.
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The
official vote [by all of Congress] should be sometime in September,
leaving little time for representatives and Americans to learn what the
bill is really about.
Here is a start:
This
new healthcare plan will take the independence you have in deciding
where and how you get your healthcare and put those decisions into
bureaucratic hands.
Think
about it this way: going to your doctor will be like going to your
DMV—long waiting lines, substandard service and inefficient care.
There
is one very important difference, however: you or your loved one will
be sick, hurt or dying. The inevitable delays in government-funded
healthcare mean death, pain or a worsened condition. And what is worse,
the government will decide what quality of healthcare is acceptable.
Here are some of the provisions in Obama’s Healthcare bill:
Page 29: Health care will be rationed.
Page
30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you
get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
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About.com:
Page
57, under section 163, there is something that would give the
government power to reach into benefits recipients' bank accounts. It
is called "Administrative Simplification," and Subsection 1173A of this
measure, "Standardize Electronic Transactions" has a provision
(a)(2)(B) that ensures that this new governmental power:
"be authoritative, permitting no additions or constraints for
electronic transactions ..." (C) "be comprehensive, efficient and
robust, requiring minimal augmentation by paper transactions or
clarification by further communications;" and, finally, (D) enable the
real-time (or near real-time) determination of an individual’s
financial responsibility at the point of service and, to the extent
possible, prior to service, including whether the individual is
eligible for a specific service with a specific physician at a specific
facility, which may include utilization of a machine-readable health
plan beneficiary identification card;" ... (E) "enable, where feasible,
near real-time adjudication of claims ..." (Emphasis added)
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Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
Page
84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare
Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
Page
124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial
review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply,
private insurers will be crushed.
Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
Page
195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will
have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected."
Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.
Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
Page
298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that
results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia.
Page
425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills,
durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate
taxes ahead of time.
Reference
Here and
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There is more ... a lot more (and will be updated here from time to time) and it is not pretty.
Single Payer as articulated by now President Barack Obama at an AFL-CIO union meeting.
People
are up in arms, showing up in record numbers at politician summer
recess community meetings and having their voices heard. Last weekend,
10,000 people showed up at one of these gatherings in Ohio and the
press reported that only 200 citizens were in attendance.
The
Democrat Political Party leadership have drafted up some talking points
to confront this display by condemning it as a manufactured response
organized by "Big Insurance" companies, yet AARP, one of the biggest
insurance marketers, is on record in supporting the Obama
Administration's efforts - no matter what.
We are reminded of an anthem song produced by
Bob Marley and the Wailers -
"Get Up, Stand Up ... Stand Up For Your Right!
[ctrl-click to launch music video] - don't give up the fight!" The time
is now to not be duped by the efforts of our one-party leadership
scheme and its efforts to nationalize healthcare, no matter how minimal
their intrusion. Medicare and Medicaid are government programs that
have failed, and all the Democrat leadership wants to do is give all of
us this type of program as our only option.
Be very aware of the
efforts of the one-party leadership represented by the Obama
Administration and the Democrat Political Party led Congress during
this Carter's Second Term to convince us to invest in their healthcare
(big, bigger, biggest government control) ponzi scheme ... their
Madoffing of America.