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Watch this great video montage about Obama-Care...and then pass it on. ARE YOU WILLING TO GAMBLE...JAND PLAY JOKER POKER WITH YOUR HEALTCH CARE?

CONGRESSMAN____________________________________ If you aren’t going to read the entire HealthCare bill, here is a summary: PG 22 MANDATES the Government will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!! PG 24 Line 116 Government effectively sets prices for ALL private health plans. PG 30 Line 123 THERE WILL BE A Government COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get. PG 37 Line 132 The Government will be reviewing grievances about themselves and will decide on appeals for rejected claims. PG 29 Line 4-16 YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!! Additionally you can reference PG 15 Line 19-25. PG 42 The Health Choices Commissioner...

Obama Administration’s Health Care Plan HR 3200 currently under consideration in the House of Representatives Reviewed, revised and adapted on July 29, 2009, by Liberty Counsel from the original authored by Peter Fleckenstein and posted on FreeRepublic.com and his blog, http://blog.flecksoflife.com. * Sec. 113, Pg. 21-22 of the Health Care (HC) Bill MANDATES a government audit of the books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self-insure in order to “ensure that the law does not provide incentives for small and mid-size employers to self-insure”! * Sec. 122, Pg. 29, Lines 4-16 - YOUR HEALTH CARE WILL BE RATIONED! * Sec. 123, Pg....

<p>It seems that, despite all the media attention lavished on e-mail appeals to his political supporters, not everyone pushing for President Obama's embattled healthcare reforms these warm August days is an idealistic volunteer in it for the sake of helping move the country forward and gaining medical attention for millions of uncovered Americans.</p>

Let us suppose ... that some prince were desirous to force his subjects to ... preserve the health and strength of their bodies. ..." The above hypothetical was posited not in yesterday's debate but in 1685, in "A Letter Concerning Toleration," John Locke's momentous essay on religious liberty. To expose the folly of 17th-century religious intolerance, Locke brings it to a logical and ridiculous extreme: government-run health care. Self-evident to his contemporaries was the truth that . . . .

Obama and Public Debate George Joyce At a town hall meeting in Chester, Va. back in August last year candidate Obama had this to say about the important value of public debate regarding health care: "People say, 'Well, you have this great health care plan, but how are you going to pass it? You know, it failed in '93,' And what I've said is, I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able...

The Thursday wrapThursday, August 6, 2009 Spendaholic Barack: CBS News reports that "so rapid is the pace of deficit spending by the federal government that the national debt has increased (by more than) a trillion dollars since President Obama took office." To put this in perspective, that's a $1 trillion-plus increase in just under seven months. The deficit increased under George W. Bush by $4.9 trillion in eight years. You do the math. Then cringe. Confessions of an architect: You probably never heard of Claude Castonguay. He's the fella who designed Canada's government-run health care program. And it's a monumental...

In a series of articles published from 1902-1904, Ida Tarbell attacked Standard Oil, the leading US supplier of kerosene lamp fuel. The centerpiece of Ms. Tarbell's criticism was that the company had engaged in predatory pricing by continually lowering its prices. Her readers must have asked themselves, "How is that a bad thing? Am I supposed to be outraged that the amount I pay for lamp oil has fallen?" Although company cofounder John Rockefeller had retired from actively managing Standard Oil in 1896, Ms. Tarbell vilified him in her articles, even criticizing his elderly appearance. Populist US president Theodore Roosevelt...

Ok..time for some fun with "Government Healthcare" as seen through the lyrics of Alice's Restaurant Massacree, by Arlo Guthrie. The link is above, pick a section, and rework the words. Starting: This song is called Government Healtcare Plan, and it's about Government, and the healthcare plan thing, but Government Healtcare is not the name of the plan, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Government Healtcare Plan. You can't get anything you want from a Government Healthcare plan. You can't get anything you want from a Government Healthcare plan. The whole damn train...

The other day Comrade Lochhead told us how Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent Congress home for the summer holiday with some talking points to spew when their local townsfolk asked pointed questions about health care. Hah! Town hall meetings. Nobody shows up to those snoozefests, right? Oooh, but have you seen some of the stuff that's been going down over the past few days? Congressfolk have been getting heckled when they hold town meetings back in their home districts. Looks like the work of the Tea Party crew -- combined with Obama health care haters like the Conservatives for Patients' Rights....

The way of the Left is to “struggle” against imaginary villains. Obamacare is loaded with genuine villains. We’ll be the victims, here are the villains. ACORN now called COI will be handed billions of our tax dollars to be the street level “Brown Shirts” charged with enforcing the government’s new rules for our lives. Trial Lawyers will greatly benefit from this plan. A little noticed section of the House Leadership version gives them the right to sue anyone they can imagine on behalf of the government without a prior agreement with the government. Illegal aliens will benefit because there are...

Congress' own healthcare benefits: Membership has its privileges Lawmakers can choose among several plans and get special treatment at federal medical facilities. In 2008, taxpayers spent about $15 billion to insure 8.5 million federal workers and their dependents. Mark Z. Barabak and Faye Fiore August 2, 2009 Too much, too fast, too expensive. Those are some of the objections lawmakers have voiced against the healthcare overhaul Democrats are attempting on Capitol Hill. But many Americans think Congress is out of touch. How, they wonder, can lawmakers empathize with the underinsured or those lacking insurance when they receive a benefits package...

Friday, July 31, 2009 Tea Party: Bristol Style! Here are some photo's of the Town Hall in Bristol, Va. Yesterday. [Pics in URL] Didn't see any of these protesters in the MSM yesterday did you?

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Yesterday, Pres. Obama’s proposed takeover of the US healthcare system took hits in polling from from NPR, TIME, Gallup, NBC/WSJ and the New York Times. Today’s Pew poll is about as bad. The Hill and Politico report on the Congressional Progressive Caucus threatening to bolt over the deal their leaders forged with the Blue Dogs — and that is over the supposed substance, not the delay for a vote by the full House until September, when time is so clearly the Democrats’ enemy. The emerging proposal from the bipartisan “gang of six” Senate Finance Committee negotiators that would drop a...

Ever wish you could rap with the president? Here's your chance - an imaginary conversation in an occasional series. Quotation marks indicate actual words Barack Obama has used. Mr. President, thanks for the opportunity. Happy to do it. What's on your mind? Could we start with health care? You've said you want a plan providing improved care for reduced cost, and extending health insurance coverage to perhaps 50 million more Americans. You also want a taxpayer-financed public option to private insurance. I set an August deadline that obviously will be missed. But it will happen, as Madame Pelosi has said...

As a physician who has authored books on preventative health care, I was given the opportunity to be the keynote speaker at a Congressional Dinner at The Capitol Building in Washington last Friday (7/17). The presentation was entitled Health Care Reform, The Power & Profit of Prevention, and I was gratified that it was well received. In preparation for the presentation, I read the latest version of "reform" as authored by The Obama Administration and supported by Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid. Here is the link to the 1,018 page document: http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pd Let me summarize just a few salient points...

The Ontario government has filed a defence against a claim made by a Hamilton woman who's at the centre of the U.S. debate over health care. Shona Holmes is featured in a TV campaign in which she claims she had to mortgage her home and travel to a U.S. clinic for brain surgery in 2005, due to a six-month wait for care in Canada. The ad, which began airing about two weeks ago in all 50 states, warns Americans to reject Canadian-style health care because it failed her. In the ad, Ms. Holmes states that if she relied on her...

Taking away their surplus at gunpoint is 'only fair' Posted by Vin Suprynowicz Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2009 at 05:27 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama to tell nation that health reform is key to economic recovery, controlling deficit," said today's 3:06 p.m. news flash. No, actually, the key to economic recovery and controlling the deficit is giving me 10,000 ounces of gold, a nice bungalow on Maui, and all the unblended Scotch whisky I can drink. This is hilarious. This guy is convinced they'll believe ANYTHING. If having government pay for just the health care of the poor and the elderly...

Legislation: Still believe in post-racial politics? Read the health care bill. It's affirmative action on steroids, deciding everything from who becomes a doctor to who gets treatment on the basis of skin color.President Obama is on the record as being officially opposed to reparations for slavery. But as with other issues, you have to sift through his eloquent rhetoric and go beyond the teleprompter to get at what he really means. His opposition to reparations is based on the fact they don't go far enough. In a 2004 questionnaire, he told the NAACP, "I fear that reparations would be an...