Tyranny Again

Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/11/pelosi_breaks_pledge_to_put_he.asp

Evidently, it is too much to submit the bill to the stupid american public before the house votes to end freedom as we know it. The health plan will put our LIVES into the hands of faceless bureaucrats that take our money at the threat of imprisonment and will eventually bankrupt our country. I though Social Security would eventually do that, but it seems that we are bound to destroy our country a lot faster than that.

I have gone from loving my country and principles to hating what we have done with it.

The Speech

Ronald Reagan.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1777069922535499977

http://www.ronaldreagan.com/sp_23.html

This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

HC Monstrosity revisited.

http://blog.flecksoflife.com/2009/07/19/the-hc-monstrosity/

Enjoy the read as much as I did. Incredible that anybody even printed this, let alone have it pass committee.

Post Turtle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand
was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a
conversation with the old man.. Eventually the topic got around to
Obama.

The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'Post Turtle''.
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was.
The old rancher said, 'When you’re driving down a country road and you
come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post
turtle'.

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he
continued to explain. ‘You know he didn't get up there by himself, he
doesn't belong up there, and he doesn't know what to do while he's up
there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to
begin with.’

Some more in the health care debate.

A great article is here.

http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/lone_republican/index.php/2009/07/21/no-obamacare/

Obama’s plan to reform health care is dangerous.  It is not the right prescription for the United States.

Here are some concerns to consider:

1. Government should not take over 17% of GNP.  To quote Michael Steele, it is “reckless.”

2. Joe Biden admitted that the Obama administration “misread” the economy.  That mistake cost us $787 billion.  What if the Obama administration is wrong about their health care plan?  It could cost us trillions of dollars.

3. As I have stated before, if the government-run plan is so great, then why are no Congressional Democrats supporting the amendment to require that lawmakers use the same system?

4. Did you know that if a government health care bureaucrat denies a medical procedure, you cannot pay for it with your own money?  You will not be allowed to privately hire doctors.  And they say there is no rationing happen in this bill.

5. Check out this chart on how it will work.  88 government agencies will oversee health care.

6.  How does the agency of “Cultural & Linguistic Competence Training” improve health care or lower the costs?

7. Here in Massachusetts we already know that when the government interfere that costs increase.  Over the past 2 years, small business have been hit hard with a 50% increase in health insurance premiums.  The cause of this drastic increase is the government mandates.

8. The Obama Administration claims that their plan is not going to add to the national debt.  No one can believe that hogwash!  According to the President, this plan will save money because people will no longer visit emergency rooms for non-emergencies.  Yeah right.  That’s what they thought here in Massachusetts.  Emergency rooms visits have not decreased.

9. Health care costs will continue to rise under this bill.  For example, it does not address the issue of medical liability.  With costs skyrocketing, the middle class will be forced to join the government-run insurance option and hence we will have socialized medicine.

Overall we have the best health care system in the world.  Let’s fix it not ruin it!

(Please see previous posts on ideas for health care reforms.)

 

On page 16 of the house bill states:

(A) I

N GENERAL.—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 Y1.

 

So, you can't buy individual insurance after this. Great. Damn politicians.