Posted on 09/14/2009 6:29:41 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
In general, statists like Obama have been trying for decades to impose government run healthcare so that they can control everyone’s lives. No matter how limited the reach of any initial, enabling legislation, they will never stop trying to reach their basic goals – through future amendments, executive directives, and interpretations and decisions of regulators, and their goals are to put everyone under government care and include illegals and abortion.
1. Despite assurances from Obama on covering illegals and abortion, Democrats have put forth deceptive language in their bills that appear to prevent this coverage, but they have soundly defeated every amendment that would positively prevent such coverage. We might not like the way he did it, but Representative Wilson was absolutely right to point out that Obama is lying.
(Excerpt) Read more at forthegrandchildren.blogspot.com ...
Here they come to save the day
The RINOS are on the way
Because he said today that passing the HealthCare Reform Bill would reduce the national debt ?
The "regulators" will be people like Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Cass Sunstein and John Holdren. These people have written and published books about their belief in rationed healthcare, forced sterilization, forced abortion and euthanasia. A 1,000-page bill will enable them to write 20,000 pages of new regulations, and amend thousands of pages of existing regulations. They will exploit every loophole that the 1,000-page bill creates.
It won't be hard to force existing health insurance companies out of business. All they have to do is follow the established formula: impose additional costs, and then prohibit the companies from raising rates to cover those additional costs. In this specific case, they have already announced that they don't want coverage denied for people who have pre-existing conditions such as HIV. They'll also prohibit health insurance companies from raising premiums to cover the costs of providing medical care for people with pre-existing conditions. Voila! Companies like Aetna and Blue Cross/Blue Shield withdraw from the health insurance market, leaving the public option as the only option. And when you have only one option, it's not an option.
Also, they claim that illegal immigrants won't be covered and they point to phrases in the bill that support this claim. But there is no enforcement mechanism: no penalty for anyone who goes ahead and provides health care coverage on the public dime for illegal immigrants. If the bill provided a fine or a jail sentence, then Obama would be telling the truth. Furthermore, they plan to provide amnesty for illegal immigrants, and the bill is carefully phrased to provide coverage for people who are "present in this country legally," not just "citizens."
There's a lot they're not telling you. Combined with the lies they ARE telling you, it's enough to make 2 million conservatives march on Washington.
To understand what you are saying one must have the ability to realize that we have a rouge Federal Government on our hands that is no loger answering to the people “and” they are lying throught their teeth. Our government has gone wild on us.
Letters to the Editor Fresno Bee (Calif)
No authority over insurers
Published online on Monday, Sep. 14, 2009 E-Mail
Having taught insurance law at the college level for many years, I can say, unequivocally, that the statements currently coming from Washington, in reference to forcing health insurance companies to liberalize their underwriting and reduce their rates, is beyond the authority of the federal government. Any attempt to do so would be, in legal terms, an ultra vires, and thus, illegal act.
Neither the president nor Congress have any authority over who insurance companies insure or what they charge. In 1945, Congress passed the McCarran-Ferguson Act (Public Law 15) which gives exclusive authority for such regulating to the individual states under their “police power” laws. Every state has an insurance department headed by a commissioner, director or superintendent of insurance. (Note: Social Security and Medicare are not insurance. You have no binding contract with either one.)
The president has been claiming that health insurance companies must change their underwriting to include everyone, regardless of age, dangerous activities, medical history or existing health problems. This is pure rhetoric, designed to encourage favoritism for his controversial health plan.
H.B. “Bud” Thompson
http://www.fresnobee.com/277/story/1637420.html?story_link=email_msg
Obama did have that there would be 622 billion in medicare cost cuts on his website but he said he isn't going to cut medicare in his speech.
His website’s have always changed like a chameleon.
Yeah, the cuts are from the popular Medicare Advantage plans, not technically “Medicare,” so ‘Bama can convince himself he’s not technically lying. But he is, as Joe knows.
Here are GLOBAL reasons:
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2009/09/23/hr_3200_will_collapse_global_medicine_97423.html
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