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"Madoffing America" - The Marketing Of ObamaCare
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by Edmund Jenks | August 4, 2009 at 06:45 pm
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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=U0XCl6OHg...
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-dQfb8WQ...
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 Here>>
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.
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at 20:51 on August 4th, 2009
How the US is governed by corporations and how they buy votes to the detriment of the American people.
at 05:36 on August 5th, 2009
The spiteful, in the pocket hate of General Electric Corporation delivered by Kieth Olberman is only matched through the ignorant use of this clip by you to push back on researched FACT found in HR 3200.
This is beyond cynical ... it is a hateful, reaching diatribe from a corporate spokesman of General Electric, which funds the Democrat Political Party who wishes to take over our economy, sector, by sector through spending bills that start with the word - Trillion. Does "Cap & Trade ring a bell? This would be about the only way CEO Jeffery Immelt can restore the profits of GE.
Hyperinflation is coming and you choose to suck the spew of ... Kieth Olberman - one of the lowest rated and vile "political pundits", and refugee from the sports desk in the annals of American Television!
Honestly, I thought you were a little more reasoned and pragmatic than this. You are obviously not. This is a stoop.
at 06:58 on August 5th, 2009
This "Open Letter" comment left at this posting at SodaHead by you betcha:
Here is what I wrote to my senators and congressman:
Dear Sir,
I am writing because I feel very strongly about the issue of health care. While I believe that this nation needs some version of health care reform, the legislation being proposed currently is unacceptable. It is far too expensive and far too invasive.
I believe it will cripple or completely crush private insurance thereby eliminating the choice the President has promised we will keep. It will necessitate decisions about end of life care and care for the elderly which are distasteful to say the least.
I find it difficult to adequately express my repugnance at the notion of some bureaucrat "counseling" the elderly on decisions to be made about their death. It is such a short step from there to pressuring people to refuse treatments and pressuring them to choose death.
I realize that is not exactly what is being proposed, but I think it might well be the result. There can be no question that there will be some committee or department making decisions about who is eligible to receive what kind of care. There is also no question that YOU and YOUR FAMILY will not have to accept the same care WE will be stuck with.
The health care reform being proposed is UNACCEPTABLE. I and MANY more will be watching how you vote on this issue. Please do the right thing and hold out for a more thoughtful. considered, bipartisan approach that we can ALL get behind.
at 07:41 on August 5th, 2009
We all need to stand up and report ourselves to the Whitehouse as opposing Healthcare Reform ... at least as the Whitehouse sees it.
This from the Whitehouse website:
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
I recommend that we all send ourselves in today ... report yourself to the Whitehouse as having problems with the healthcare reform this Whitehouse wants to foist on all of us!
This move by the Whitehouse reminds me of what went on in Communist Russia during the Cold War!
This Whitehouse is against the American tradition of DISSENT. Where is free speech headed when the Whitehouse is busy about the business of shutting it down?
This tactic NEVER happened during the Bush Administration.
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Whitehouse Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/
at 18:59 on August 5th, 2009
This action may be illegal!
The White House is asking individuals to report misinformation to the White House on healthcare.
Given the near certainty that no one will be stripping from emails the names of the people forwarding on the information, the White House is most likely engaged in illegal activity.
According to 5 U.S.C. § 552a, United States agencies, including the Executive Office of the President shall, “maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity.”
The White House may take the position that certain of its offices aren’t subject to the Privacy Act (that is a longstanding Office of Legal Counsel position, see here). There is a clear cut court decision one way or the other. Nonetheless, most Presidents instruct their staffs to comply. This will be a the first significant time the White House has ignored the Privacy Act and may open President Obama up to litigation.
http://www.redstate.com/blog/2009/08/05/white-house-actions-might-be-illegal/
at 18:25 on September 2nd, 2009
I am one of those who would prefer a
I'm sick and tired of health care insurance companies and I hope I never have to deal with one of them again. I live in Brazil, where we have a <b>"single payer, one-size fit's all healthcare system".</b> It hasn't pushed out the private players, but I did see two people on the news tonight saying that as soon as one employee from an insured company got very sick, the insurance companies immediately and without notice terminated the whole company's insurance, simply by telling providers not to pay claims, but without ever having informed the companies first.
This is a type of free market buggery that I think we can all do without. My only objection to Obama's plan is that it doesn't go far enough toward driving these free-market insurance Ponzi schemes out of business.