Can't Wait to Bid You Goodbye

The Senate health care vote was one of the saddest events since 911.  At least half of the voting public was officially abandoned by the ship of state. Their voices weren’t silenced. They were simply ignored.

Senator Harry Reid extolled the True Congressional Ethos: Buying and selling votes is how business gets done, he explained.

The country and western song, “Mothers, don’t let your sons grow up to be cowboys” had it all wrong. The words should be: Don’t let your sons or daughters grow up to be Members of Congress – or more specifically in this case, Democrats.

Reid & Company claim that they saved 30 million Americans or more from life without health insurance. But in fact, they shamed the majority of Americans with their dictatorial behavior.

It’s no wonder that so few adults – let alone children – can only name a handful of Senators or Congressmen.

There are heroes among them, notably the handful who refuse to lobby or vote for earmarked funding for their districts or state. But  ‘hero’ is not a word easily associated with a senator or congressional representative. Indeed, anti-hero would be a more appropriate term in many cases.

Perhaps it’s better to be cast overboard than to remain on a ship of fools.

Fortunately, help is on the horizon. Can you see the flag?

It’s a gigantic battleship called the American Spirit. And amazingly, there’s room for all of us on deck.

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Members of Congress, as we pointed out previously, receive their income for life – no matter how many or few years they serve – and the best healthcare your money cannot buy.

Yet, the citizens have no real control over their votes or actions, have little information about campaign contributors (until watchdog groups demand this information) and are left in the dark about the lobbyists who court Members of Congress once they’re elected.

Is this about to change? Is the present prologue? [See our article and listen to our show on Mandated Healthcare. Obamacare: Will Senior Citizens be Safe or Sorry With Government Mandated Healthcare? Valid Solution or www.Healthcare.con?]

Tough Questions for Member of Congress:

• Can you promise I will not lose my private plan or doctor under any healthcare bill
  that you vote for?
• Can you promise that you will enroll in the new healthcare plan if it passes?
• Can you promise that the healthcare plan you vote for will not lead to higher deficits?
• Can you promise that government bureaucrats will not ration health care?
• Can you promise to personally read every bill you vote on?
• Can you promise to disclose all money and gifts you receive from lobbying groups on your website?
• Can you promise that you will vote to reduce retirement benefits to Members of Congress
  and restrict the number of years that such benefits can be received?
• Can you promise to hold regular Town Hall meetings in your state and listen to questions raised?

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To your empowerment!

Dr. Joyce Starr

Townhall Protests + Obama Health Care + Congress = Pandora’s Box: Citizens vs Congress. originally appeared on Rights Radio™ with Dr. Joyce Starr - An Independent Voice on August 12, 2009.

The President and Congress are vaulting toward…national health care. Dr. Lawrence Hunter, founder and president of the SocialSecurityInstitute.com and PatientOptOut.com warns that you will not be able to keep your insurance, choose your own doctors or control your own health if they succeed.

10.3 million citizens on medicare advantage – 23 percent of pool – will be thrown off the plan.  Yet, a recent study finds that medicare advantage results in less emergency and regular admissions.

Obamacare?

According to Dr. Hunter, you will be forced to pay for the government-mandated healthcare “before you pay your mortgage, put food on your table for your family and put gas in your car.”

“You will have few or no options to shop for what is best for you and your family’s health needs. Doctors will be chosen for you. Doctors will become virtual bureaucrats like employees at the DMV and IRS.”

“Your healthcare will be rationed. Rationing means if you are too sick, too old, too frail, too over-weight, too high risk and so forth — YOU MAY BE DEEMED BY BUREAUCRATS TO BE UNTREATABLE.”

Call your congressmen and senators. Let them know how you feel about this 1.5 trillion dollar plan.

Says Hunter, “They’re petrified at the White House. They know if they don’t pass it soon, there is a danger there will be a big backlash. Our first objective is to slow this down before the Members of Congress go home in august.”

Rationing for Senior Citizens? Issues discussed:

- Why is the Obama Administration so intent on a radical overhaul of our healthcare system?

-  What are the basic outlines of the Obama national health care plan?

- What about Medicare? Before Obama came into office, I thought everyone agreed that the biggest immediate problem facing our national health care system was MEDICARE, which is headed off a cliff financially.

- You appear to be saying is that Obama’s approach to “fixing” healthcare is going to do it on the backs of senior citizens through rationing and cuts to Medicare. Am I hearing you correctly?

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Obamacare: Will Senior Citizens be Safe or Sorry With Government Mandated Healthcare? Valid Solution or www.Healthcare.con? originally appeared on Rights Radio™ with Dr. Joyce Starr - An Independent Voice on July 14, 2009.

It also establishes a Medical Advisory Council to determine the “amount, duration, and scope” of the items and services that must be included as “essential health care benefits” in a plan that qualifies for subsidies.

Best Healthcare Statistics

The costs are now 611 billion dollars with total coverage – whatever that means.

Critics say the revamped Kennedy Health Care “Reform” Plan  does not account for Medicaid coverage – which is crushing state budgets.

Additional provisions include:

• Expand Medicaid to 150 percent of the federal poverty level.
• Require health insurers to accept every employer and individual in the state for coverage.
• Require health insurance providers to report to the government how premiums are spent.
• Ban annual or lifetime limits on coverage.
• Establish committee boards, called Affordable Health Benefit Gateways, in each state to certify and inform residents about insurance plans.
• Extend dependent coverage so citizens may be covered on their parents’ insurance until they are 26 years old.

Follow the Obamacare Money Trail: The Other K Street

Michelle Malkin connected the Obamacare Follow the Money dots in a June 24 column:

If you believe the White House, there are 30 million Americans who support a government health care takeover. But if you look at the funding behind the Obamacare Astroturf campaign, it’s the same few Leftist billionaires, union bosses, and partisan community organizers pushing the socialized medicine agenda. Let’s connect the dots.

On Thursday, a national “grass-roots” coalition called “Health Care for America Now (HCAN)” will march on Capitol Hill to demand universal health care. The ground troops won’t have to march very far. HCAN, you see, is no heartland network. It is headquartered at 1825 K Street in Washington, D.C. – smack dab in the middle of Beltway lobby land.

In fact, 1825 K Street is Ground Zero for a plethora of “progressive” groups subsidized by anti-war, anti-Republican, Big Nanny special interests. Around Washington, the office complex is known as “The Other K Street.”

Why do they want Obamacare? An internal ACORN memo I obtained from August 2008 …  outlines the ACORN/HCAN partnership and strategy of opposing any programs that rely on “unregulated private insurance” – and then parlaying political victory on government-run health care “to move our ACORN agenda (or at least part of it) with key electeds that we might otherwise not be able to pull off.”

The objective, in other words, is to piggyback and exploit Obamacare to improve and protect their political health. The “grass-roots” movement is not about representing Main Street. It’s about peddling influence and power on 1825 K Street.

Michelle Malkin: Who’s funding the Obamacare Astroturf campaign?

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