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Negative superlatives define healthcare opponents:
“A Rhode Island Democrat has implied that those who oppose government-run
healthcare are nothing more than racists. The following remarks, made by
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from the Senate floor on Sunday, were aimed
at conservative opponents of the healthcare reform legislation: ‘Why
all this discord and discourtesy [and] all this unprecedented destructive
action?’… Senator Whitehouse then got specific with who he thinks is behind
the opposition, pointing to ‘the birthers, the fanatics, [and] the
people running around in right-wing militias and Aryan support
groups.'”
Does that statement
remind you of our Homeland Security Secretary’s view of those who value
the founding values of our nation?
See
Homeland Security
House Health-Care Bill Would Establish ‘Medical Homes’ for the Elderly and Disabled:
“The House health-care reform bill proposes to decrease hospital visits by establishing a
‘medical home pilot program’ for elderly and disabled Americans.
Such a medical home would not require a physician to be on the staff, and therefore could be run solely by nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Medical homes also would practice
‘evidence-based’ medicine [EBM], which advocates only the use of medical treatments that are supported by effectiveness research.
… It also may lead to dumping Medicare/Medicaid patients in facilities that are not required to have physicians on staff.
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The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) expressed its concerns….
‘Unfortunately, EBM now is being distorted by government bureaucrats and HMOs in ways that impose top-down, one-size-fits-all restrictions on patients and their healthcare providers.’
Rationing for Dummies:
“Its beginning to sink in that Obamas nationalized health care will lead directly
to rationing, which Americans desire about as much as a case of salmonella….
[Princeton ethicist Peter Singer]…who advocates the right of parents to kill
their newborns even several days later if the babies disappoint them, poses
a series of ethical dilemmas that resemble the
lifeboat analogy.
The boat is sinking and holds only so many. Who stays
aboard and whos thrown to the sharks?
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‘…we
might say that the good achieved by health care is the number of lives saved.
But that is too crude. The death of a teenager is a greater tragedy than the
death of an 85-year-old, and this should be reflected in our priorities. We
can accommodate that difference by calculating the number of life-years saved,
rather than simply the number of lives saved. If a teenager can be expected
to live another 70 years, saving her life counts as a gain of 70 life-years,
whereas if a person of 85 can be expected to live another 5 years, then saving
the 85-year-old will count as a gain of only 5 life-years. See
The Dark Roots of EUGENICS
Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan
:
“Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obamas
stimulus
bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash…. Tragically, no one from
either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion.
These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee
to head the Health and Human Services Department….
“Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system….
One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology,
will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government
deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and ‘guide’
your doctors decisions…. According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy
and ‘learn to operate less like solo practitioners.’…Hospitals and doctors
that are not ‘meaningful users’ of the new system will face penalties.
“‘Meaningful user’ isnt defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary,
who will be empowered to impose ‘more stringent measures of meaningful use over
time.’… In his book, Daschle proposed an
appointed body with vast powers to
make the ‘tough’ decisions elected politicians wont make….He praises Europeans
for being more willing to accept ‘hopeless diagnoses’ and ‘forgo experimental
treatments,’ and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care
system….
“In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration
had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly
new drug to save the other eye.”
The Economic Argument for Euthanasia:
“One idea that politicians on neither the left nor the right will touch due
to political sensibilities, however, could be the easiest way to save billions
of dollars without affecting health care quality at all: legalizing euthanasia.
…those with terminal illnesses are resource sinks for society. End of life
care is incredibly expensive…. Obviously, those in the final stages of a terminal
illness are no longer in any position to contribute economically to society.
Their continued existence may be personally meaningful to the those who love
them, but from a economic perspective they are all cost and no benefit.…”
The same calloused view
of life fueled last century’s eugenics movement among American leaders during
much of the last century, which found its most cruel expression in Nazi Germany
— with much financial help from America.
List 1.
Horrors in the New Healthcare Bill.
Compiled by Robert Moon, Macon County Conservative Examiner July 24, 2009.
PG 29, Lines 4-16: Directly rations health
care for the elderly. [Read
the pages and lines here]PG 30, Sec 123:
Establishes a government committee that decides what treatments/benefits you
get.PG 42: The Health Choices Commissioner will
choose your benefits for you.PG 50, Section 152: Extends benefits and
coverage to illegal immigrants.PG 58: The creation of a national ID
health card and a comprehensive federal database containing
streaming data on every American’s personal financial records.PG 59: The federal government accesses
your bank accounts for mandatory funds transfers.PG 65, Sec 164: Creates special,
federally-subsidized coverage for Unions and “Community
Organizing” groups.
PG 84 Sec 203 HC bill – Dictates the
benefits packages of all private health insurance plans.
PG 85, Line 7: Limits what private
insurers can offer (rationed care)….
Pg 95, Lines 8-18: The
mandatory use of
ACORN
and Americorps for signing up Americans to government insurance.
PG 85, Line 7: Imposes more limits on
coverage (rationing).
PG 102, Lines 12-18: Mandates Medicare for
all who fit criteria (removes all choice).
PG 124, Lines 24-25: Bans companies from
suing the federal government, bans the entire judicial system from
hearing any cases on the legitimacy of this blatantly unconstitutional
socialist health care takeover (no judicial review allowed whatsoever).
PG 127, Lines 1-16: Instructs doctors/AMA on
what salaries they are allowed to make.
PG 145, Line 15-17: Requires all employers to
enroll all new employees in the government system (no choice whatsoever).
PG 126, Lines 22-25: Requires employers to
independently provide insurance for part-time workers, whether they can
afford it or not (no choice).
PG 149, Lines 16-24: Imposes an 8% payroll
tax penalty for any employer (making over $400k) who fails to force his
employees onto government insurance….
PG 167, Lines 18-23: Imposes 2.5% income tax
penalty on any privately-insured individual who fails to get “adequate”
private insurance.
PG 170, Lines 1-3: Stipulates that all
non-resident aliens pay nothing (we foot the bill).
PG 195: Federal officers will have full
access to every citizen’s most private records….
Pg 241, Line 6-8: Mandates that all
doctors be paid the same, regardless of specialty.
PG 253, Line 10-18: Imposes
federally-determined price tag for the worth of every doctor’s time and
services.
PG 265, Sec 1131: Imposes controls on
productivity for private health care companies….
PG 272, SeC. 1145:
Cancer treatment
rationing.
PG 280, Sec 1151: Imposes penalties and
fines on private hospitals for “preventable” visits.
PG 298, Lines 9-11: Imposes penalties and
fines on private hospitals for readmissions after initial treatment (fix
it on the first try or suffer the consequences)….
PG 321, Line 2-13: Pretends to give hospitals
the choice to go fully-federal, but
only if local “community” groups (ACORN)
approve.
PG 335 (and 336), Line 16-25, Pg 336-339: Imposes more
rationing of services.
PG 341, Lines 3-9: Creates the federal power
to arbitrarily disqualify HMOs, forcing people onto government care at
random.
PG 354, Sec 1177 – Rationing of care for
special needs people.
PG 379, Sec 1191: Creates new Telehealth
bureaucracy (nanny state health care by phone).
PG 425, Lines 4-12: Creates mandatory end
of life consultation.
PG 425, Lines 17-19: Mandatory
government instruction and consultation on living wills, durable power of
attorney, etc.
PG 429, Lines 10-12: Empowers the federal
government to order end-of-life plans through something called,
“advanced care consultation.”…
PG 430, Lines 11-15: Puts the federal
government in complete control of what care you receive at the end of
your life.
List 2.
What
Obama Doesn’t Know Can Hurt the Rest of Us
by Ernest Istook. Posted 7/27/09 at
www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=32863
How? By outlawing the methods used by private insurance to control costs
and hold down the premiums you pay: Section 101 outlaws new health benefits plans
that dont meet the new federal requirements. Section 102 requires existing employer group
plans to meet the new requirements within five years. Section 111 requires insurers to accept anyone
regardless of previous health, without limits or conditions. Presumably, you
could enroll after arriving at the hospital and still be covered for
whatever problem sent you there. Section 113 requires charging the same premium to
everyone, varying only by age and geography. No discounts for non-smokers,
non-drinkers, fitness buffs, healthy eaters or anything else. It also limits
higher premiums based on age, thereby increasing the premiums charged to
younger people. Section 114 outlaws any limits on coverage of
mental health and substance abuse. Section 115 shifts authority over networks of
health care providers, moving them from state regulation to federal control.
Section 116 is the real kicker. If insurers are
able to turn a profit despite the federal restrictions and public plan
competition, they must give back much of that profit to their customers, as
dictated by a new federal bureaucrat. This so-called “medical loss ratio”
gives power to a presidential appointee, the new Health Choices
Commissioner, to dictate the permitted level of administrative costs and
profits.Even without these provisions, the bill gives an automatic advantage to
the new public health plan. The public plan uses price controls, requiring
doctors and hospitals to accept Medicare-designated payment amounts.
Typically, these are significantly lower than private plan payments, often
paying less than the cost of providing the care. (This is why so many
doctors today refuse Medicare patients.)Private plans lack this power, so doctors, hospitals and clinics will
offset their public plan losses by shifting the costs onto the bills of
their other patients — making private plans even costlier. The Lewin study
estimates this cost-shifting will add an extra $460 per person per year to
the cost of private insurance. That worsens the automatic disadvantage they
have of competing against a taxpayer-subsidized government plan.Trying to rush this 1,018-page bill through Congress before the public
disenchantment grows worse is like a midnight burglar trying to grab all the
goods before the homeowners wake up. When the president doesnt know whats
in a bill, thats a sign everybody else should start finding out. Ignorance
may be bliss for some, but not for the rest of us.
List 3.
(Similar to List 1) “Terrifying Health Care Bill!
… If you care
about your health and your family’s health you need to read the Health Care
Bill that is now being pushed through Congress. We have a very short amount
of time to stop this bill.”
http://blog.flecksoflife.com/2009/07/19/the-hc-monstrosity/
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….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 aliensPage 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.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 payrollPage 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 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
But God tells His people,
“‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made
perfect in weakness.’ Therefore most gladly I will rather
boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in
reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for
Christs sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:9-10