A REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM PROPOSAL

Here is a woman who is a small business owner at a California town hall meeting with the best plan for true healthcare reform without the Marxism.  She is addressing U. S. REPRESENTATIVE LYNN WOOLSEY, D-California.

I said this in a previous post here.  It is absolutely ludicrous that we can buy a car, a house, a TV, or whatever in another state, but are not allowed, BY FEDERAL LAW, to purchase health insurance from a company outside of the state where we live.  In California, this small business owner can only choose from six insurance companies for healthcare plans, with over 1,300 health insurance companies nationally.  This was not even considered much less taken action on during the Obamacare debates in Congress.  Want to see your health insurance rates come way down?  Do away with this idiotic Federal law.  It would be like Wal-mart moving to your town.  Everyone else would have to lower their prices to compete or go out of business. I wonder what the payoff is to the Washington politicians by leaving this law in place?  You know there has to be one.  They don't do anything that doesn't benefit them.

DEMOCRATS NOW THREATENING HEALTHCARE TAKEOVER OPPONENTS

True to form, the fascist Democrats are now trying to threaten and intimidate those who oppose the government healthcare takeover. Here is an ARTICLE that appeared on the WASHINGTON EXAMINER about REPRESENTATIVE HENRY WAXMAN, D-California, called in some of the top executives of several companies to explain why they had said the recently passed healthcare takeover would cost their companies millions of dollars. Waxman is also demanding the companies turn over company documents related to their healthcare expenses. Now, the last time I checked, the First Amendment guaranteed freedom of speech which includes the expression of opinions.

Representative Waxman and the POLITBURO are using scare tactics to try to stop any public opposition to the healthcare takeover. Now, since when has political opposition been an offense where the government calls one to Washington to "explain themselves"?

Here is one of the letters to one of the executives:

HENRY A. WAXMAN, CALIFORNIA

CHAIRMAN

ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE

2125 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

WASHINGTON, DC 20515-6115

Mr. Samuel R. Allen

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Deere & Company

One John Deere Place

Moline, Illinois 61265-8098

Dear Mr. Allen:

On March 23,2010, President Obama signed health care reform into law. One of the top

priorities of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will be to ensure that the law is

implemented effectively and does not have unintended consequences.

After the President signed the health care reform bill into law, your company announced

that the new law would adversely affect its financial outlook for Fiscal Year 2010, stating, "As a

result of the legislation, the company's expenses are expected to be about $150 million higher on

an after-tax basis."!

The new law is designed to expand coverage and bring down costs, so your assertions are

a matter of concern. They also appear to conflict with independent analyses. The Congressional

Budget Office has reported that companies that insure more than 50 employees would see a

decrease of up to 3% in average premium costs per person by 2016,z The Business Roundtable,

an association of chief executive officers from leading U.S. companies, asserted in November

2009 that health care reform could reduce predicted health insurance cost trends for businesses

by more than $3,000 per employee over the next ten years.3

1 Deere & Company, Press Release: Deere says new health care reform law will increase

2010 expense by $150 million after-tax (March 25,2010) (online at

http://www.deere.comlen_ US/newsrooml20 1 0/releases/corporate/25mar20 1 0_ corporaterelease.h

tml).

2 Letter from Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director, Congressional Budget Office, to Senator

Evan Bayh (Nov. 20,2009).

3 Business Roundtable, Health Care Reform: Creating a Sustainable Health Care

Marketplace (November 2009).

Mr. Samuel R. Allen

March 26, 2010

Page 2

The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on April 21, 2010

at 10:00 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to examine the impact of the

new law on Deere & Company and other large employers. We request your personal testimony

at this hearing.

To assist the Committee with its preparation for the hearing, we request that you provide

the following documents from January 1,2009, through the present: (1) any analyses related to

the projected impact of health care reform on Deere & Company; and (2) any documents,

including e-mail messages, sent to or prepared or reviewed by senior company officials related to

the projected impact of health care reform on Deere & Company. We also request an

explanation of the accounting methods used by Deere & Company since 2003 to estimate the

financial impact on your company of the 28% subsidy for retiree drug coverage and its

deductibility or nondeductibility, including the accounting methods used in preparing the cost

impact released by Deere & Company this week.

We ask that you provide the requested information by April 9, 2010. For purposes of this

request, the term "senior company officials" includes all company officials at the level of Vice

President and above for the company or any subsidiary. Attachments to this letter provide

additional information about responding to Committee document requests and testifying before

the Committee.

If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact Meredith Fuchs with the

Committee staff at (202) 226-2424.

~",~ Henry A. Waxman

Chairman

Attachment

Did you notice? The Oversight and Investigations subcommittee? What is there to investigate? Folks, this is government gone (even more) crazy. The government absolutely cannot ask for a private enterprise's internal documents without probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. Furthermore, asking for even e-mails? Mr. Waxman, I seriously don't think so. So Soviet Unionish of you.

Refer to the Fourth Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." The only crime here is that someone stood up and told the truth about this healthcare disaster in the making. Mr. Waxman and the rest of the Politburo needs to refer back to the First Amendment above.

This shouldn't be surprising. Obama asked citizens a long time ago to report anyone who opposed the healthcare debacle.

I think we're going to see much more of this between now and November. The leftist Democrats know their time is limited, and they are well aware of the poll numbers showing they are all in serious trouble.

Just a little side note here. This is where it is really a very good thing that the TEA PARTY movement does not have a single leader. If it did, I think he or she would have already been called to Washington to "explain themselves."

OBAMACARE UNDER FIRE - FROM OBAMA'S COUSIN!

Here is something I'm sure has drawn the ire of the Obama administration, Reid and Pelosi. This isn't one of the many doctors throughout the doctors that oppose this attempt at a government takeover of our healthcare system. This is OBAMA'S OWN COUSIN!

Dr. Milton Wolf-Barack Obama’s Cousin Speaks Against Obamacare
March 11, 2010

Well now among all the other problems with passing National Health Care here comes Obama’s second cousin who is a doctor (Milton Wolf) saying things against Obamacare.

“Primum nil nocere.” First, do no harm. This guiding principle is a bedrock of medical care. Sadly, those politicians who would rewrite our health care laws do not live in the same universe as do the doctors and health care professionals who must practice it.

Imagine if, like physicians, politicians were personally held to the incredibly high level of scrutiny that includes civil and financial liability for any unintended consequence of their decisions. Imagine if they were forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars each year on malpractice insurance and still faced the threat of multimillion-dollar lawsuits with every single decision they made. If so, a government takeover of health care would be the furthest thing from their minds.




Obamacare proponents would have us believe that we will add 30 million patients to the system without adding providers, we will see no decline in the quality of care for the millions of Americans currently happy with the system, and -if you act now!- we will save money in the process. But why stop there? Why not promise it will no longer rain on weekends and every day will be a great hair day?

America has the finest health care delivery system in the world. Let’s not forget that and put it at risk in the name of reform. Desperate souls across the globe flock to our shores and cross our borders every day to seek our care. Why? Our system provides cures while the government-run systems from which they flee do not. Compare Europe’s common cancer mortality rates to America’s: breast cancer – 52 percent higher in Germany and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom; prostate cancer – a staggering 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway; colon cancer – 40 percent higher in the United Kingdom.

Look closer at the United Kingdom. Britain’s higher cancer mortality rate results in 25,000 more cancer deaths per year compared to a similar population size in the United States. But because the U.S. population is roughly five times larger than the United Kingdom’s, that would translate into 125,000 unnecessary American cancer deaths every year. This is more than all the mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, cousins and children in Topeka, Kan. And keep in mind, these numbers are for cancer alone. America also has better survival rates for other major killers, such as heart attacks and strokes. Whatever we do, let us not surrender the great gains we have made. First, do no harm. Lives are at stake.

Obamacare: Fixing price at any cost

The justification for Obamacare has been to control costs, but the problem is there is little in Obamacare that will do that. Instead, there are provisions that will ration care and artificially set price. This is a confusion of costs and price.

As one example, consider the implications of Obamacare’s financial penalty aimed at your doctor if he seeks the expert care he has determined you need. If your doctor is in the top 10 percent of primary care physicians who refer patients to specialists most frequently – no matter how valid the reasons – he will face a 5 percent penalty on all their Medicare reimbursements for the entire year. This scheme is specifically designed to deny you the chance to see a specialist. Each year, the insidious nature of that arbitrary 10 percent rule will make things even worse as 100 percent of doctors try to stay off that list. Many doctors will try to avoid the sickest patients, and others will simply refuse to accept Medicare. Already, 42 percent of doctors have chosen that route, and it will get worse. Your mother’s shiny government-issued Medicare health card is meaningless without doctors who will accept it.

Obamacare will further diminish access to health care by lowering reimbursements for medical care without regard to the costs of that care. Price controls have failed spectacularly wherever they’ve been tried. They have turned neighborhoods into slums and have caused supply chains to dry up when producers can no longer profit from providing their goods. Remember the Carter-era gas lines? Medical care is not immune from this economic reality. We cannot hope that our best and brightest will pursue a career in medicine, setting aside years of their lives – for me, 13 years of school and training – to enter a field that might not even pay for the student loans it took to get there.

Giving power back to people

I believe there is a better way. The problems in the American health care system are not caused by a shortage of government intrusion. They will not be solved by more government intrusion. In fact, our current problems were precisely, though unintentionally, created by government.

World War II-era wage-control measures – a form of price controls – ushered in a perverted system in which we turn to our employers for insurance and the government penalizes us if we choose to purchase insurance for ourselves. You are not given the opportunity to be a wise consumer of health care and compare prices as well as quality in any meaningful way. Worse still, your insurance company is not answerable to you because you are not its customer. It is answerable to your employer, whose interests differ from your own.

Insurance companies have been vilified for following the perverse rules that government has created for them. But it gets worse. The government, always knowing best, deploys insurance commissioners across the land to dictate what the insurance companies must provide, whether you want it or not, and each time, your premiums increase. Obamacare will make all of this worse, not better.

One of America’s founding principles is our trust in the people and their economic freedom to rule their own lives. We should decouple health insurance from employers and empower patients to be consumers once again. Allow them to determine the insurance plan that best meets their families’ needs and which company will provide it. This will unleash a wave of competition that will drive costs down in a way that price controls never have. Eliminate the artificial state boundary rules that protect insurance companies from true competition and watch as voters demand that their state insurance commissioners get the heck out of the way. Innovative companies will drive down costs similar to how Geico and Progressive have worked for automobile insurance. And it won’t cost taxpayers a trillion dollars in the process.

This free-market approach has worked for everything from high-definition TVs to breakfast cereals, but will it work for medicine? It already is. Take Lasik eye surgery, for example. Because patients are allowed to be informed consumers and can shop anywhere, doctors work hard for their business. Services, availability and expertise have all increased, and costs have decreased. Should consumers demand it, insurance companies – now answerable to you rather than your employer – would cover it.

Between Barack and a hard place

I have personally trained and practiced in both the government-run and free-market segments of American medicine. The difference is vast. Patients see this for themselves, and this may be why, according to a recent CNN poll, they oppose Obamacare nearly 3 to 1. I am with them. It is difficult for me to speak publicly against the president on his central issue, but too much is at stake.

I wish my cousin Barack the greatest of success in office. But I feel duty-bound to rise in opposition to Obamacare. I must take a stand for my patients, my profession and, ultimately, my country. The problems caused by government will not be solved by growing government. Now that this new era of big-government takeovers has spread to our health care system, it’s not just our freedoms or our wallets that are at stake. It’s our lives.

Dr. Milton R. Wolf is a radiologist in Kansas. He is Barack Obama’s second cousin once removed. President Obama’s great-great grandfather, Thomas Creekmore McCurry, is Dr. Wolf’s great-grandfather. Dr. Wolf’s mother, Anna Margaret McCurry, was five years older than Mr. Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. The two were childhood friends until the Dunhams moved from Kansas to Seattle in 1955.

Washington Times.com

AND SPEAKING OF THE "CORNHUSKER KICKBACK" . . .

You guessed it, the leftists in Washington aren't about to give up on taking over your health care, even though 58% of likely voters now oppose it, and 61% say start all over (according to Rasmussen). The numbers of opposition just keep going up. Do you think they're in such a big hurry to push this through because they know their days are numbered with mid-term elections coming up?

Here is a LEGISLATIVE ALERT from Tim Wildmon, President of the AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION with the latest.

It's back - ObamaCare 2.0, worse than the first Call your senators and your representative today to insist that they vote "No" on socialized medicine.

CALL NOW Enter Your Zip Code President Obama, determined to press for the government takeover of our entire health care system, is reviving a tweaked version of the Senate health care "reform"bill. If possible, it's even worse than the one Sen. Harry Reid cobbled together in secret and then sprung on the country just before Christmas. The president will hold a highly-publicized just-for-show "summit" Thursday in an effort to breathe life into his version of this monstrosity. As our good friend Gary Bauer of the Campaign for Working Families and American Values points out, here are just some of the problems with the bill: The president is threatening to use what's called the "reconciliation process," a gimmick that will enable him to enact socialized medicine with just 51 votes in the Senate. A Rasmussen poll found that 58% of likely voters oppose both the Senate and House health care bills, and 61% want Congress to tear up both bills and start over. The American people have already made it clear they do not want a government takeover of health care. The president says his proposal will cost about $1 trillion, but the Congressional Budget Office says the language is too vague even to come up with an official cost estimate. Under his plan, senior citizens living off investment income will get hit with a new tax on so-called "unearned" income. (It's hardly "unearned" - you worked all your life to build those investments.) It extends the "Cornhusker kickback" to every state in the Union, essentially offering a bribe to every senator. It includes the unconstitutional mandate that every American buy insurance or pay a fine. (This means you will get taxed for not doing something!) It imposes price controls on the health insurance industry. Every time in history price controls have been used, they have resulted in shortages and rationing. It not only makes taxpayer funding of abortion a right, it provides for the direct funding of abortions through Community Health Centers and would lead to mandates that would require every private insurance plan to cover elective abortions. But as Gary says, "we stopped socialized medicine before...and I believe we can stop them again." Take Action Enter your ZIP CODE (above in the Call Now box) and click "GO" to get the direct telephone numbers for your senators and your representative, along with suggested talking points for your call. Please politely but firmly urge him (or her) to vote "No" on socialized medicine. It's critical for you to call your senators and your representative today in advance of the Thursday health care summit. (MY NOTE: It's still not too late to contact your Senators and Representative. Click on the "LEGISLATIVE ALERT" hyperlink above to use the "Call Now" box.) Forward this important alert to your friends and family. Sincerely, Tim Wildmon, President American Family Association

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?

Today I saw something I thought I would never see. Thousands, no MILLIONS, about 2 Million people according to ABC News and CNN, marching on Washington protesting the government's deficit spending trillions at a time, Obamacare which will eventually eliminate private health insurance, and the resulting higher taxes as if we're not paying enough now. I was very happy to see the turnout, and see the area from the Capitol building all the way to the Washington monument completely filled with Americans who are fed up with the government's reckless spending. I haven't seen anything like that since, I guess since Dr. Martin Luther King was in Washington. News reports stated that the expressways around Washington were closed due to the numbers.

People are fed up and have been for years, but are now fed up enough to push back. The American people are discovering the power they wield as voters and citizens, and they are using it.

If the Democrats in Washington want to keep their jobs, they better listen to us. The potential exists for many of them, along with any RINO's, to be voted out in the midterm elections next year. Americans are sending a message. The message is loud and clear, and definitely represents the majority.

But this administration continues to ignore us. We all heard Obama during his speech to Congress this week make the threat that if anyone disagreed with him, he would call them out. Well, Mr. President, here we are. We're calling your hand.

And don't think the Obama administration isn't in serious panic mode now. The dissention continues to grow. I said it in a previous post, and I'll say it again: WE'RE HERE, AND WE'RE NOT GOING AWAY.

Though today's rally was awesome, we must continue from here and keep fighting. Keep on bombarding your Senators and Representatives as well as the White House. Click HERE to get contact information for The White House and your Senators and Representatives. Tell them you're fed up and you vote!

IT AIN'T JUST REPUBLICANS PROTESTING OBAMACARE!

This is an article posted on MLIVE.COM today. Interestingly enough, this man has received threats from parties unknown after this that have been reported to the local police there. I don't think it was evil caniving conservatives making these threats. Click HERE for an article on the DETROIT FREE PRESS's website.

Meet Mike Sola, the man who wheeled his son up to John Dingell and shouted him down

by Jonathan Oosting MLive.com
Tuesday August 11, 2009, 7:35 AM

If you watched any video of Thursday's town hall meeting turned shout-fest in Romulus, you probably remember Mike Sola.

He's that big guy who wheeled his son up to U.S. Rep. John Dingell and refused to back down.

"I have a question for this young man," Sola thundered after Dingell asked him to sit down, referring to his 36-year-old son who suffers from cerebral palsy. "This young man has the right to be represented. I'm his father and I wanna talk to you face to face."

Well, Bill McGraw of the Detroit Free Press dropped by Sola's Washtenaw County home. Turns out, Sola wasn't part of an organized or manufactured mob, but just a big guy who get's riled up.

Highlights from McGraw's piece:

• Sola said he's sorry he went to the town hall meeting and had no intention of confronting Dingell, who he described as a "pretty decent guy."

• Sola said the tipping point was when he saw a young woman, who appeared to be disabled, supporting Dingell. He felt she was being used.

• Sola said he attended the meeting after reading an article by Betsy McCaughey of the New York Post. McCaughey got caught up in a firestorm last month after making exaggerated claims that the proposed House health care bill contained a provision that would institute mandatory end-of-life counseling sessions telling seniors how "to do what's in society's best interest ... and cut your life short."

• Sola said he was mad about Democrats referring to protesters as "thugs" and said This was Americans saying, "What the hell are you doing?"

• Sola is a believer in the current health care system, having undergone back surgery, lung-cancer surgery and a battle with prostate cancer.

• Sola says his health insurance is "crappy," but "I'll keep it over government insurance any day. I'll gladly pay what I pay and not take Obama's insurance -- even if it was zero."

And Dingell's response to Mr. Sola? "Go sit down." Enough said.