Christmas Present From Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi says she hopes ObamaCare will be a “Christmas present to the American people.”

 

A Red-Ink Train Wreck: The Real Fiscal Cost of Government-Run Healthcare

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains why healthcare proposals in Washington will result in bloated government and higher deficits. This mini-documentary exposes the pervasive inaccuracy of congressional forecasts and succinctly lists 12 reasons why Obamacare will be a budget buster.

 

Halloween Special: Paranormal legislative activity?

In a spoof of the movie “Paranormal Activity” this video looks at the healthcare bill coming out of congress in the same light. Funny video.

 

Big Government Health Care: A Parody

This is a well done parody public service announcement about Big Government and its plans to take over health care.

 

Right Photoshop: National Socialist Healthcare

In this Right Photoshop we get a glimpse of ObamaCare and the steps taken to make it happen:

• beat up the opposition
• call the other side fascists
• whip up hysteria
• criminalize difference of opinion
• report dissenters to flag@whitehouse.gov

via ThePeoplesCube.com

 

ObamaCare: The Death Story

A parody of the consequences of ObamaCare presented by FortHardKnox.com.

 

Obamacare Opponent: “He Ate My Finger In The Process”

Bill Rice had words with a supporter of ObamaCare and gets his finger bitten off.

 

Seeing Through the Wool of ObamaCare

The primary reason given by the White House and the socialist members of Congress for needed healthcare reform is skyrocketing costs and un-affordability of insurance. They are correct about the costs but then they have added things to the current proposal (HR 3200) which will only increase costs, increase government control of our day to day lives, decrease our life expectancy, decrease our individual privacy and bankrupt this Nation.

Let’s do a quick examination of healthcare. Pharmaceutical companies who are pushing for the proposal are still making profit with markups on drugs that often are ridiculous. One reporter in Detroit found that generic drugs had a markup of over 3000%. That is for normal retailers NOT hospitals where the markup is even higher.

While on the subject of hospitals, have you ever wondered why costs are so high? Most people think it is the Doctors but they would be wrong. According to the Department of Labor statistics and Payscale.com the mean salary for Physicians ranges from $121K to $212K depending on specialty. Remember that figure. Also remember that most doctors work long, irregular hours. Often doctors work in excess of 60 hour weeks and they are required to pay for their own malpractice insurance and expensive equipment. Nurses average $45.5K. Were you aware that many medical professionals are self-employed? Even those whom you come into contact with in the hospital. ER physicians are often contract workers billing separately for their time. Doctors are only associated with hospitals few are employees. Nurses often work from a registry and are not employees of the hospital.

You should ask them why. I have. Nurses employed by a hospital lose many rights. Their jobs are in jeopardy if they object to JCAHO violations or Doctor’s errors. They are often mandated to work double shifts endangering patients. Just who is a hospital employee? The dietitian, perhaps the pharmacist, maybe the janitorial staff, sometimes the security, but always the Administration.

Just what does an administration make? Well in the case of Michelle Obama from $121,910 to $316,962 per annum. She was one of 16 Vice Presidents at her hospital all with equivalent salaries. Her qualifications for the job? Community organizer. Her major accomplishment? A plan to divert non-paying patients to other medical facilities. After she left to “support” her husband her job that was so crucial to the hospital that it was folded into another office and disappeared.

Her position at the University of Chicago Medical Center was the Office of Community Affairs (External Affairs) and had never existed prior to her hiring. The job started out with just her and an aide but when she was done the office staff had bulged to 23. This is typical of most hospitals. The administrative staff exceeds the employees. During a recent stay in the hospital I inquired of the nurse (registry) what his current patient load was. I was in a Critical Cardiac Care unit where patient load should be from one to five patients per nurse. His reply was telling, he had 26 patients on the midnight shift. How could this happen?

Easy, the hospital counted up every nurse on duty in the hospital for a 24 hour period including those that were not assigned nursing duties and divided that by all the patients; ambulatory and non-critical were grouped with the critical and intensive care. During my stay, there were two critical mistakes made with my meds either of which could have caused me severe harm or death and a phlebotomist drew my blood while I was in a drug induced sleep but left the tourniquet on my arm, thankfully my nurse found it before any real damage was done.

The cost of a hospital room? It varies depending on care but a 2005 study said it averaged $1237 per day and remember that does NOT include the cost of the doctors, medications, tests or equipment. The cost of a stay in ICU or CCU for that same study; $2401.

Hospitals justify their administrative costs by saying they need the personnel to meet government reporting requirements. So in effect they are claiming that the majority of hospital costs are caused by Big Brother and now Obama wants to add additional layers of administration, additional reporting requirements and government employees to “monitor” and enforce his reforms? Give me a break.

And the SEIU, the largest healthcare union wants to promote this so called reform. Personally, I smell a rat. When has any union actually improved quality control or lowered the cost of anything?  A Science Advisor who promotes eugenics, population control and euthanasia, and a wife who sucked at the tit of corporate shills enriching herself and hubby raising health care costs and an Administration full of socialist leaning non-tax paying Chicago thugs does not bode well for America.

I owe my life to dedicated nurses and they deserve all the credit I can give them, but they are caught up in the untenable position of doing their job correctly and being fired or caving to the wishes of greedy administrators. This is much the same position the average American voter is being placed in.

Do we need health care reform? Yes, but not ObamaCare, we need real reform; tort reform, honest nurse to patient ratios, realistic reporting requirements, smaller hospital administrations, and enforcement of patient rights.

It is time for you to choose sides and speak up!

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Abandon hope all ye who enter here…

 These words from Dante’s Divine Comedy are apt for all friends and allies of the United States and could be the future motto for Americans still living after the coming purge.

Obama is going to disregard years of diplomacy and promises of protection to Democratic nations. His actions will embolden Putin’s Socialist States to accomplish their aim of rebuilding the USSR. His failure to follow through on promises will cause even our staunchest allies to distrust us. His actions will make it easier for Iran to spread its umbrella of terror.

Obama has nationalized banking and automobiles. He has put capitalism under the control of his appointed “Czars” who aren’t responsible to the voters or Congress. They staff their offices  and draw in six figure salaries living off the sweat and hard work of tax paying Americans all the while pursuing their inane hatred of this country. They were plucked from a conglomeration of radical ideologies with a common goal, that of destroying American ideals.

From his Attorney General who won’t prosecute racists who attempted to intimidate voters but will pursue American intelligence Agents who blew second hand smoke into the faces of prisoner captured on the battlefield to his Homeland Security Secretary who thinks veterans, Bible readers, gun owners and conservative bloggers are the only real terrorists and his Science Czar who believes in population control and compulsory abortion, this Administration is a bunch of nuts and crackpots from every fringe element.

From a cap and trade con-game designed to destroy the financial backbone of America to give away programs like HR 3200, the Obama Kennedycare Bill, designed to create even more poverty and make more citizens dependent on handouts. While our enemies dance in the streets, shooting Christians our Great Leader is apologizing for our belief system. From a Green Czar who is an acknowledged communist with a belief that we deserved what happened on 9-11 to paid agitators who attack dissenting citizens, to “Bully” Congressmen who threaten legal businesses with subpoenas in an effort to shut them up. Censorship both of media and the internet, “false flags”, red herrings, and all the transparency of a brick wall from a Community Organizer who hides all his records. Smoke and mirrors, distraction and diversion are the norm while in the back rooms they plot to destroy this Nation.

And yet with all the Machiavellian manipulations of this Anti-American mob that is in power, too few Americans bother to get inform, even fewer speak out. Teachers who indoctrinate rather than teach, Politicians that go with the money rather than stand on principles.

I didn’t think any President could be as bad as Jimmy Carter, sadly I now know I was in error.

I have this say…

Wake the HELL up America !! 

 

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Right Photoshop: Obama Death Panel

This Right Photoshop aptly describe Obamacare’s Death Panel.

 

Caveat Emptor: Buyer Beware the Snake Oil

 

Fake doctors, fake white supremacists, stacked town hall meetings,  craigslist ads for paid “supporters” (Sacramento, Berkley, Los Angeles, Boston, NYC,  Seattle, Washinton, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Chapel Hill, NC  and others I am sure.), staged town halls, fake protestors and thuggish union enforcers and sycophant news readers are all trying to convince us that we should accept Obama’s plan for America because it is good for us. The minions of the NWO seem to show up, infiltrate the real grassroots campaigns just in time for some punctual “reporter” to get ammunition against “right wingers”. Investigations time and time again have traced these “plants” back to supporters of Obamacare.

If his plans are so great then why does he have to try so hard to sell us on them? Why are Legislators having to “sell” this Bill? Why does he continually lie about the Bill and it’s future effects? Who is paying for all these “grassroots” canvassers and supporters? Why is someone paying money to ram the proposed Healthcare Reform Bill down the throats of the American Taxpayer? Why are Legislators creating an even bigger problem with 1000 plus paged Bills of incomprehensible language? Why are the America-Hating accent-speaking tycoons of silicon valley and George Soros spending their own money to bring ruin to this Republic?

The community organizers operating under Saul Alinsky’s proven methods want to discredit the real messengers and shame the true grassroots movement back into hiding. After all what true patriot would be aligned with “nut cases””?

For those of you who haven’t yet gotten angry enough or those of you staying home out of fear, I say, protest what you disagree with, civilly, peacefully and fully informed. If someone is there with a message that is contrary to Conservative beliefs; then  document, and verify that person or groups bona fides. Do NOT not show up!

Folks this information does not do much good unless you pass it on so please tell your friends, relatives and neighbors!

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ObamaCare

 

Benjamin Disrael is accredited with saying, “There are three types of lies – lies, damn lies and statistics.

A few days ago I received an email from Matthew J. Cochran (www.justmatthewj.com).  He had mailed a list of “little gems from the Health Care Bill”. I guess the White House Secretary of Propaganda would call this “fishy”.

Matthew’s lists has talking points and references page numbers but he failed to tell us which copy or where we could check for ourselves the original document. I am sure this was just an oversight on his part, but it is important because the information on WH websites and other Government websites has been changing lately. The Administration wipes data, amends data and changes data constantly.

There is a PDF copy of H.R. 3200, the House Bill: 

To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.

at the Energy and Commerce Committee’s website, there is a text version at Thomas.Gov, PDF at Education and Labor Committee’s website and a PDF copy at the Government Printing Office website. Plus if we are to believe even more amendments and revised bills working their way through the nightmarish system that our Legislators have created.

The preamble to this bill is funny in a black humor way.

A BILL
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.

That’s what they claim even after the Congressional Budget Office informed them that:

According to CBO’s and JCT’s assessment, enacting H.R. 3200 would result in a net increase in the federal budget deficit of $239 billion over the 2010-2019 period. That estimate reflects a projected 10-year cost of the bill’s insurance coverage provisions of $1,042 billion, partly offset by net spending changes that CBO estimates would save $219 billion over the same period, and by revenue provisions that JCT estimates would increase federal revenues by about $583 billion over those 10 years.

And those numbers do NOT include federal administration costs or how it will affect other government programs.

If you plan on going to a Town Hall Meeting, a Tea Party or any event where you might be talking about health care get informed, print out the facts and take them with you.

At the end of this article I have listed the data that I received from Matthew (some of what he has listed is the same as what is attributed to Peter Fleckenstein at his blog: hat tips to both), I have also listed a few other websites where you will see analysis of certain provisions of HR 3200.  I realize that any attempt to read the whole Bill will cause your eyes to glaze over so please feel free to take advantage of the research of others. Do not Google for this information. Google has a signed contract with the Federal Government, for “monitoring” and they are exempted from certain privacy laws. Also a Google search will give you all the great reasons to support Obama and every reason given is that they spend more money.

I have read the “lefty” blogs and the propaganda put out by the Administration. I have read how the Health Care Bill has been “written” or “influenced” by such organizations as Health Care for America Now (HCAN),MoveOn.Org, SEIU, Democracy For America. AFSCME, Annenberg Public Policy Center. I have read that George Soros is throwing money into this fight and trying to buy support (someone has to be paying for all those “grassroots” protestors). Soros is a greedy, greedy man who has never done anything without a plan for him to gain more money and more power. He actually feels this current bill is not enough of a move to a “single payer” system, but is supporting it as a stepping stone. He sees the end result, so why don’t freedom loving Americans?

Matthew’s Notes:

Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the government option!
. Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
. Page 29: Admission: your 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.
. Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
. Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
. Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
. 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 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
. 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 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll <>BR . Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
. 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 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.
. 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 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
. 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 from owning and investing in healthcare companies!
. Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
. Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
. 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 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
. 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.
. Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
. Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
. Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
. Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
. Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
. Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
. Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
. Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services

 

(My advice to you is to grab some eye drops and use them before and while trying to wade through all this reading.)

http://www.classicalideals.com/HR3200.htm

http://www.ball4ny.com/blogArchive.aspx?date=8-2009

http://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/healthcare_overview_obama_072909.pdf

http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/HR3200NRLCfactsheet.pdf

http://commonsense2020.com/2009/08/11/fact-of-the-day-the-hr-3200-bill-line-by-line-in-its-own-words/

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2009/07/20/barack-obama-inadvertently-tells-the-truth-about-his-health-care-plan.php

http://tomdaly.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/hr-3200-a-line-by-line-analysis/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/13/obamacares-tax-hikes/

 

 

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ObamaCare Protestor Sets The Record

A woman on CSPAN gives the host an earful and sets the record straight as to why people are so angry about Obamacare.

Many Unable To Get Into Town Hall Meeting

A TV crew shows that many people protesting healthcare are not able to get into the town hall meeting even though they were there early.

When Democrats Say Stupid Things: Joe Biden

Joe Biden told a group of AARP members we need to spend money to keep from going bankrupt:

“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’ The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.”

 

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