What a Mess!

I have done a lot of researching over the past few weeks (the investigation that I had been doing on PhRMA somehow turned into a more global ionvestigation of ObamaCare itself, when I came across the original plan that the House Democrats had proposed (as opposed to the one that the Republicans had drawn up as a model for HR 3200) the one that the Dems proposed is a lot more insidious than the one that the Republicans. The Democrats worked hard to keep this out of the hands of the Republicans (who aren't very bright to begin with) Here are the two versions:

Republican:

The realor Democrat version:




Youu can't imagine how much the Democrats wanted to keep this out of the hands of people like me, but here it is. (I used the following articles in researching this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090819/pl_politico/26240
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/53491762.html
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=23889
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/19/consulting-firm-tied-white-house-given-millions-health-care-ad-campaign/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090821/pl_politico/26312_1
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26240.html
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/17/obamacare-doctors-ama-business-healthcare-obamacare.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/firms_with_obama_ties_profit_f.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090818/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul_47
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/25/obamas-lobbyist-problem-david-axelrod/
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/24/who’s-funding-the-obamacare-astroturf-campaign/
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95744
http://www.jeremiahfilms.com/released/WhiteHouse/Obamacare/908030519
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2761844.htm
http://www.newsweek.com/id/138519
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090820/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_health_special_interests_2
http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/04/axelrod-doesnt-get-tea-party-concept.html
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/lobbyists-leveraging-schip-bill-2007-10-16.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/17/eveningnews/main5247916.shtml?tag=stack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082003557.html?hpid=moreheadlines
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090821/pl_mcclatchy/3296784_1
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/08/17/white-house-phrma-memo-surfaces-again/

Ted Who?

An Open Letter To President Obama

Dear President Obama,

I am writing this letter as an open letter to President Barack Obama in an effort to clear some things out of the air in the healthcare debate. From what I have gathered, proponents of healthcare “reform”, Republicans and Democrats alike seem to be saying that healthcare is a right. I would like to respectfully disagree and detail my disagreement in this letter. In the Bill of Rights, as well as throughout the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments, with the exception of the right to an attorney when a person is charged with a crime (whose exception lies in the principle that the state is the one leveling the charges), every one of those rights has one thing in common: they are all non-material in nature. The right to speak freely, the right to keep and bear arms, the right to be free from soldiers living in your home, the right to be secure in your persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, etc. these rights describe a nature of humanity which cannot be provided or taken away by any government, and if there is a government which believes that these qualities exist it its expense, then said government has no business existing in the first place. That the rights I have mentioned above have been equated to a product and a service that must be provided by other people is why I have taken offense, and why I write this letter today. It is because of this equation that I fear will result ultimately in the death of the both.
For what it’s worth, the proponents of this plan charge its opponents of unfair tactics, fear mongering, and of things, that, if the Bush administration had accused its opponents of, these very same people would charge censorship. Below are two aricles from time magazine that detail the dangers of even coming remotely close to anything like this, that the risks themselves of anything like this happening are simply too great, and we cannot proceed with this out of the simple fear of creating our own worst nightmare.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875801,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870894,00.html

More details on the history of the fraud of the HMO

I have just been reading online, and the history of the situation is more contrived than I thought it was. Apparently the HMO was created by Congress in response to the increasing costs of Medicare. When people are busy blaming HOM's for rationing their care, they should be blaming congress. Read here.

http://www.cchconline.org/aboutus.php3

http://www.cchconline.org/privacy/hmoart.php3

A formal challenge

I am resident of Lowell, MA, and being such, Niki Tsongas is my congressman. I am hereby making a formal challenge to Ms. Tsongas: Afetr the accusations of disingenuousness that have been made by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barachk Obama, that we might be manifestations of Rush Limbaugh, insurance companies, or the Republican party's dreams, (which is false), after Barack Obama's setting up of a ratline for citizens to rat each other out on, nothing could enfuriate and motivate me more than the suggestion that my concerns for my own self interest are not legitimate. If you do not extract an apology out of Nancy Pelosi when you return to congress, or even before then, than those of us that are in this fight will do it for you, and we will take it out in spades.

The Ratline

So the Obama administration seems to think that developing a ratline where people can call up and rat on their neighborsw is a good idea. I wonder what would happen if people decided to email in with information about the president himself. Go to this link

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/

to find 0ut more.

In other news, HR3200 has the trojan horse in it that conservatives have accused Democrats of putting into the bill. It is in Sec 102, subsection a, paragraph 1, subparagraph A:

(A) IN 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.

In other words, after day 1 of y1 (Jan. 1, 2013), no one will be able to offer private health insurance to new individual customers. After all the employers drop their employees, whamo! instant takeover of you! If you thought the Bush Administrations policies of invasion of privacy were bad, well you ain't seen nothin' yet.

August recess has begun

The August Recess has begun, Obama is now reshaping his nightmare for the American people to look more light insurance reform than healthcare reform; Nancy PPelosi has declared that insurance companies are "villains". I thought they didn't want to put these guys out of business. I thought they just wanted to create some innocent goverment run insurance option, not an orwellian monopoly on how you use your body. I guess I was wrong.
It appears that, with all the difficulties that the propoinents of this nonsense have had with their own party, they are getting nervous about the chances of this passing. This in no way means that its opponents can lessen their criticism; in fact, I would say that they have the bill(s) at the perfect stages for observation by the American public for about a month; in a mont's time people will find out that in the US military, with its VA hospital, your body is public property, your medical records are public property. Indeed, you will not be able to take a p&#s without the Gov't knowing about it.
For all those people that pay for things with their own money, not the gov't's money, but their own, they know, that when you pay for something, you own it, and when you own it, you must make controlling decisions. So how is it that the gov't will pay for your healthcare and not make ownership decisions? It won't happen, you will be owned by Uncle Sam if this passes. They will create a competeing gov't option, which will put private companies out of business, because nobody competes with the gov't, and then, the gov't will own you, it will own all of the hospitals, and your freedom will be gone.
I think it was Sen. Jim Demint who had said that if Obama loses this fight, it will be his waterloo; wew have got to draw the line in the sand here.