Obama Health Care

President Barack Obama has signed a law that finalizes his health care overhaul and makes the government the issuer of all federal college loans.
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General Motors hit a road bump by the name of the U.S. Senate on their way to collecting a few BILLION from you and I. It seems that a couple of Senators have the sham figured out. It’s the UNIONS! The unions want the bailout bucks so they can keep their position and power. Bankruptcy wouldn’t be the end of GM, but it would sure hurt the unions. It seems some are figuring out that bankruptcy is better than riots which is just what might happen if GM and auto industry is bailed out while others are not.  

Pesky presidential candidates and Congressman Ron Paul says that bailouts of U.S. corporations are “bad morally” — and that current federal economic policies “will literally destroy the dollar.”  Paul also insists that the use of “counterfeit” paper money instead of a gold-backed currency is “insane,” and declares it is “foolhardy” for Barack Obama to propose national health care under the present economic conditions.

Meanwhile, prospects for passage of a $14 billion auto industry rescue package dimmed Thursday amid strong Republican opposition, despite urgent appeals by both President-elect Barack Obama and the Bush White House. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell came out against the legislation – the product of a hard-fought behind-the-scenes compromise between the majority Democrats and the White House. And not even the White House’s argument that it was crucial at a time of rising joblessness seemed to restore lost momentum for enactment.

Who believes Congress or the president anyway? 

In an interview following a Dec. 10 press conference where he and four other senators aired their opposition to the oposed bailout deal struck by congressional leaders and the White House (and approved by the U.S. House of Representatives 237-170 that evening), Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., warned that the perception that some industries are being bailed out and some aren’t could lead to violence.

Violence? 

“We’re going to have riots. There are already people rioting because they’re losing their jobs when everybody else is being bailed out. The fairness of it becomes more and more evident as we go along. The auto companies may be hurting,” he said, but “there are very few companies that aren’t hurting and they’re going to hurt. We don’t have enough money to bail everyone out.”

Can you  relate?

By bailing out institutions and industries with hundreds of billions of dollars, we’re creating another hell call hyper-inflation just two years down the road. But of course, we keep those who have literally one bankrupt in business. Does than make sense or resonate with you?

Ernie Fitzpatrick
http://www.articlesbase.com/economics-articles/riots-ruined-dollar-680335.html

(n)Obama is a raving, race baiting populist. His record, statements, writings and church activities say so. The man is the most seriously under-qualified nominee for President in the entire history of the United States. Underachievers like Grover Cleveland or the abysmal Herbert Hoover look majestic when compared to the community organiser who believes there are 57 US states. The collective orgasmic expostulations around the little man with the big ears hides the relevant and important fact that (n)Obama is the worst possible leader imaginable – worse even than the stupidest man in US history, that obscene anti-semite dimwit Jimmy Carter. The Americans might as well elect Mickey Mouse to lead them than (n)Obama. At least Mickey is honest.

(n)Obama is a classic economic populist, cultural marxist and a raging ‘progressive’ liberal [an oxymoron with the emphasis on the moron]. Not only is (n)Obama the most left-wing Senator in the US Senate based on his voting record, but possesses the most radical ideas garnered from his supporters about redistribution, government’s role to ‘unite’ society, and genuflection to the global ‘community’ [whatever that means]. (n)Obama is simply the most dangerous demagogue to come forward in US politics since Huey Long.

Long was a nationalist-populist during a period of history when authoritarian rule was deemed ‘progressive’. So-called intellectuals supported the twin absurdities of corporate fascism and communism. State management was deemed moral, and community feeling and extremist nationalist ideology in which the individual was submerged into the whole was portrayed as necessary, spiritual and mandatory. Long’s program of populist race baiting; ecomomic management and the creation of ‘us versus them’ rhetoric was part of a troubled episode in which freedom and clear thinking were replaced by blind emotion and state created enthusiasm.

(n)Obama exhibits much of the same penchant for simplistic formulae, state organised parades and speeches; and ego-centricity as any tin horn dictator, populist or Roman senatorial demagogue. (n)Obama is just a pale version of what has long gone on in politics – the pandering to the populist mass by promising some set of nonsense to mask what is really at issue – the aggrandizement of state power. Ironicially the very lemmings and automata who support the little man with no experience, and who say that only they and he have the right ideas, programs and beliefs, are the same small people who cry about freedom, rights and individualism. Their statist program of course would result in the exact opposite of what they weep so emotionally about.

(n)Obama’s socialist agenda:

1. Taxes: The little Black messiah would enact the largest tax increase in US history. This would completely wipe out an already weak US economy and cause capital flight from the US, and from the US dollar, to overseas. There would truly be a deep and profound US economic recession.

2. Trade: Given that (n)Obama’s base are union and government workers, trade restrictions and an increase in barriers would be mandatory. Trade intra-NAFTA and with China would be put at risk. The world trading system would suffer reverses from 60 years of GATT-WTO tariff and protectionist reduction. The average consumer will suffer as will the economy.

3. Spending: The US government is going bankrupt. Social security and medicaid and future liabilities [ie future taxes] now stand at $58 Trillion or 4 times the size of the US economy. (n)Obama’s plan of state power accretion would increase this future debt and increase the size of current and future entitlement spending by $ 1 Trillion per year. It is madness. Spending needs to be reduced by 50% and the entitlement programs need to be privatised.

4. The Death Cult: (n)Obama is the most pro abortion member of the Senate. He openly advocates the creation of government sponsored abortion clinics. Obviously the little Black man has never seen a video of a fetus’ development. How is murdering a human consistent with his rhetoric about love, humanity and unity?

5. Eco-fascism: (n)Obama’s plan to hire 50.000 green-workers to go around and trim trees smacks of FDR’s make work programs during the depression which did nothing to solve unemployment but did a lot to destroy private capital. (n)Obama would also raise taxes on carbon usage; engage in carbon trading [ie tax and redistribution]; and ensure that the eco-fanatics stopped any development of sensible carbon or nuclear energy usage. How this helps the ‘average’ man when energy costs will of course only increase, perhaps only (n)Obama knows.

6. The Useless Nations: Like a typical globalist-socialist little (n)Obama is deeply concerned about whether everyone loves the US or himself personally. Knee bending to the marxists at the UN would come very naturally to the little man from Chicago. That the UN is useless, corrupt and wastes $500 million per annum of US money never crosses the knotted little liberal minds. Yet they will weep that $150 million spent on Iraq per annum is too much.

7. Socialisation of the economy: Whole sectors from health care to energy will undergo a massive government re-regulation and imposition. Health care fraud wastes $100 billion per annum in the US – because it is managed by the government. Contrary to cartoonish portrayals that the US health care system is some free market nirvana, the reality is that the US system is 60% directly owned or managed by government with the remaining 40% under European styled regulation. The US needs a real market in health care, not (n)Obama state management.

8. Iraq and the war: (n)Obama is clueless about war, foreign affairs, or why we are in Iraq to start with [hint WMD is not the answer]. Being an appeasing clown (n)Obama has maintained over 4 years that the US must exit Iraq post haste. Leaving Iraq would have resulted in a huge US defeat and in a resurgence in extremist Islamic power and terorism. How that would benefit US strategic interests or that of the region perhaps the little orator can condescend to enumerate to us beknighted peasants. (n)Obama is a pacifist and a globalist. He has no idea about national strategic interests.

Summary:

Nice words don’t make nice leaders. Lenin was famously dynamic at the podium. Mussolini held most of Italy in thrall. Hitler speeches are apogees of stage management and acting to support emotionally galvanizing rhetoric. Huey Long could mobilise populist passions in a direction that was not only dangerous but at times immoral. Be aware of the charismatic leader. (n)Obama’s rhetoric means nothing. Any actor can stutter about hope, change, more hope, unity, some more change and of course love. It is just drivel.

What the little Black man from Chicago wants to do is reasonably straight forward: increase taxes; install more government spending; end US military paramountcy; lose the war against Islamic terror; regulate and limit freedoms and turn the US into a larger version of Sweden. That is what his plans and those of this supporters comes down to. Just another infantile set of measures designed to wipe out the US experiment. That is what this charlatan is all about. It is fantastically disgusting.

C. Read
http://www.articlesbase.com/news-and-society-articles/8-reasons-why-n-obama-is-a-socialist-675189.html

One would imagine that living in the industrialized nation of the United States would almost guarantee affordable health care at a standard far above the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

There are 29 other countries with a higher life expectancy than Americans, and there are 38 who have lower rates of infant mortality. Even worse, almost 50 million Americans are without health care, and many others lack affordable health insurance.

President-Elect Barack Obama not only has a vision of a nation without such disparities, but he has a three-fold plan to achieve these transformations. Barack Obama deems the following to be crucial to his ideas:

1. First, affordable and accessible health care should be available to all Americans. There are several ways that Obama plans to succeed in this. Obama believes that prescription medication is more expensive than it needs to be. He proposes that by importing medications from other countries, as well as utilizing generic medications in public programs, the out of pocket expense for those in need of prescriptions would be drastically reduced.

2. Second, Barack Obama would like to see a health care system that is up to date with the available modern technologies. He feels that by doing this, there will be a reduced quantity of medical errors that could potentially be fatal to patients. Research has shown that there are ways in which costs can be lowered, while simultaneously improving the medical care that patients receive.

3. Lastly, the President-Elect would like to see more emphasis on preventative measures. Too often, by the time an individual has been diagnosed with a chronic disease, it is already costing the American people millions and millions of dollars. Many of these chronic diseases can be prevented. With Obama’s plan, preventative measures, such as cancer screenings, will be a requirement.

Despite his repeated refutations, many individuals believe that Obama’s plan for affordable health care is synonymous with “socialized medicine.” On the contrary, this is not the case at all.

As he has stated time after time, those who are satisfied with their current medical insurance coverage will not have to change anything; they will still be able to go to the same doctors, clinics and hospitals. The change would benefit the insured, as their yearly cost would go down by as much as $2,500. Those who don’t have coverage, however, would now have access to affordable health insurance.

Hopefully, time, energy, and effort will prove his plan to be very successful in the near future.

Dante Lee
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/president-obamas-plan-for-affordable-health-insurance-704028.html

The congressional fight over President Barack Obama’s proposed health care plan has, not surprisingly to political observers, become a major issue in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race.

“Right now, it’s the No. 1 issue dominating the political scene,” said Kevin Unter of the University of Louisiana at Monroe’s Political Science Department. So it’s no surprise that it would be an issue in an election that’s still a year away.

Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter “is trying to be at the forefront of the opposition,” he said, while his challenger, conservative Democrat U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, tries to show that he’s not part of the liberal wing of his party.

Vitter proclaims in a re-election campaign e-mail message issued Wednesday: “Washington liberals know I’m the biggest thorn in their side when it comes to their disastrous health care agenda. I’ll use every procedural tool to take this bill down.”

Vitter’s message also asks: “Will you help me keep up the fight against Washington’s takeover of Louisiana’s health care?” The sentence serves as a link to a federal campaign contribution form.

“There’s a lot of pressure on both of them,” Unter said. Even though Melancon is a conservative Democrat, he’s at a disadvantage because “President Obama is not very popular in Louisiana and President Obama’s plans are not very popular.”

Melancon has joined Republicans in voting against the plan, but Vitter paints him as supporting it because he didn’t vote for some Republican committee amendments — the key one to make Congress participate in whatever plan is approved.

Pearson Cross, head of the Political Science Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, said the dispute “indicates the 2010 Senate race is nationalized. It’s being fought on the terrain of national politics and that presents a very harsh arena. This promises to be a brutal race. It’s so intense right now that it’s hard to imagine where it will be a year from now.”

Vitter never mentions Melancon in the e-mail, but regularly refers to “liberals,” as in “Team, the bottom line is that fundraising numbers indicate the strength of support I have as I fight this bill. Every dollar you can pledge right now will represent one more unit of support I can show Washington’s liberals when this bill is brought up for a vote.”

BATON ROUGE — The congressional fight over President Barack Obama’s proposed health care plan has, not surprisingly to political observers, become a major issue in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race.
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“Right now, it’s the No. 1 issue dominating the political scene,” said Kevin Unter of the University of Louisiana at Monroe’s Political Science Department. So it’s no surprise that it would be an issue in an election that’s still a year away.

Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter “is trying to be at the forefront of the opposition,” he said, while his challenger, conservative Democrat U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, tries to show that he’s not part of the liberal wing of his party.

Vitter proclaims in a re-election campaign e-mail message issued Wednesday: “Washington liberals know I’m the biggest thorn in their side when it comes to their disastrous health care agenda. I’ll use every procedural tool to take this bill down.”

Vitter’s message also asks: “Will you help me keep up the fight against Washington’s takeover of Louisiana’s health care?” The sentence serves as a link to a federal campaign contribution form.

“There’s a lot of pressure on both of them,” Unter said. Even though Melancon is a conservative Democrat, he’s at a disadvantage because “President Obama is not very popular in Louisiana and President Obama’s plans are not very popular.”

Melancon has joined Republicans in voting against the plan, but Vitter paints him as supporting it because he didn’t vote for some Republican committee amendments — the key one to make Congress participate in whatever plan is approved.

Pearson Cross, head of the Political Science Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, said the dispute “indicates the 2010 Senate race is nationalized. It’s being fought on the terrain of national politics and that presents a very harsh arena. This promises to be a brutal race. It’s so intense right now that it’s hard to imagine where it will be a year from now.”

Vitter never mentions Melancon in the e-mail, but regularly refers to “liberals,” as in “Team, the bottom line is that fundraising numbers indicate the strength of support I have as I fight this bill. Every dollar you can pledge right now will represent one more unit of support I can show Washington’s liberals when this bill is brought up for a vote.”
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But in the many “town hall” meetings Vitter conducted during the August break, he regularly targeted Melancon for voting with “liberals” and criticized him for not holding town meetings.
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Melancon issued his own e-mail Wednesday criticizing Vitter’s support of a Pelican Institute for Public Policy report that targets the proposed health care plan as a financial burden but also has some controversial suggestions. The 34-page report has a two-page conclusion that suggests several changes — a few of which reflect Vitter’s stand, like allowing interstate purchasing of insurance and reforming tort laws — but also some he wouldn’t support.

Based on a published account of a press conference in which Vitter joined Pelican Institute President Kevin Kane, Melancon’s message says: “David Vitter has made yet another deeply troubling move that is nothing but bad news for the people of Louisiana.”

The news story states: “U.S. Sen. David Vitter has endorsed a new study from a conservative think tank that calls for scrapping the nation’s employer-based health insurance system in favor of individually owned policies and converting the Medicaid program into vouchers for private insurance.”

Melancon’s e-mail says: “If Vitter’s plans were instituted, almost two million Louisianans would be thrown off their existing health care plan and forced to buy insurance on their own. How can David Vitter justify putting that additional financial burden on working families, especially during these tough economic times?”

Kane said Wednesday: “Sen. Vitter’s participation in our press conference can reasonably be viewed as an endorsement of our conclusion that Obama’s proposals would take us in the wrong direction” but not an endorsement of the proposals at the end of the report.

Vitter said on his Facebook account that the report contained “common sense conservative reforms.”

Kane said Vitter said “nothing about ‘scrapping employer provided healthcare’ or vouchering the entire Medicaid program. Our report doesn’t even say that.”
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The report suggest beginning “with individual ownership of insurance policies. The tax deduction that allows employers to own your insurance should instead be given to the individual.”
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It also suggests reallocating “the majority of Medicaid spending into simple vouchers for low-income individuals to purchase their own insurance. An income-based sliding scale voucher program would eliminate much of the massive bureaucracy needed to implement today’s complex and burdensome Medicaid system” and would save money.

Melancon cautions :”If the Vitter Health Care Plan were enacted, millions of Louisianans would be forced to purchase health care coverage on the open market, where they’d have to pay much more out of pocket and face discrimination for pre-existing conditions.

“All that said, my opponent is right on one thing — we desperately need to change the way our health care system works,” he said “But throwing people off their existing plans is absolutely the wrong way to do it. Instead, we need to focus on how we can lower costs and expand coverage — not the opposite.”

Melancon concluded his e-mail with a contribution link.

William R. “Bob” Lang, a Natchitoches independent who is campaigning for the Senate, said “Congress shouldn’t even be talking about health care because it’s not in the constitution. It ought to be a private issue for individuals.”

Melancon issued his own e-mail Wednesday criticizing Vitter’s support of a Pelican Institute for Public Policy report that targets the proposed health care plan as a financial burden but also has some controversial suggestions. The 34-page report has a two-page conclusion that suggests several changes — a few of which reflect Vitter’s stand, like allowing interstate purchasing of insurance and reforming tort laws — but also some he wouldn’t support.

Based on a published account of a press conference in which Vitter joined Pelican Institute President Kevin Kane, Melancon’s message says: “David Vitter has made yet another deeply troubling move that is nothing but bad news for the people of Louisiana.”

The news story states: “U.S. Sen. David Vitter has endorsed a new study from a conservative think tank that calls for scrapping the nation’s employer-based health insurance system in favor of individually owned policies and converting the Medicaid program into vouchers for private insurance.”

Melancon’s e-mail says: “If Vitter’s plans were instituted, almost two million Louisianans would be thrown off their existing health care plan and forced to buy insurance on their own. How can David Vitter justify putting that additional financial burden on working families, especially during these tough economic times?”

Kane said Wednesday: “Sen. Vitter’s participation in our press conference can reasonably be viewed as an endorsement of our conclusion that Obama’s proposals would take us in the wrong direction” but not an endorsement of the proposals at the end of the report.

Vitter said on his Facebook account that the report contained “common sense conservative reforms.”

Kane said Vitter said “nothing about ‘scrapping employer provided healthcare’ or vouchering the entire Medicaid program. Our report doesn’t even say that.”

The report suggest beginning “with individual ownership of insurance policies. The tax deduction that allows employers to own your insurance should instead be given to the individual.”

t also suggests reallocating “the majority of Medicaid spending into simple vouchers for low-income individuals to purchase their own insurance. An income-based sliding scale voucher program would eliminate much of the massive bureaucracy needed to implement today’s complex and burdensome Medicaid system” and would save money.

Melancon cautions :”If the Vitter Health Care Plan were enacted, millions of Louisianans would be forced to purchase health care coverage on the open market, where they’d have to pay much more out of pocket and face discrimination for pre-existing conditions.

“All that said, my opponent is right on one thing — we desperately need to change the way our health care system works,” he said “But throwing people off their existing plans is absolutely the wrong way to do it. Instead, we need to focus on how we can lower costs and expand coverage — not the opposite.”

Melancon concluded his e-mail with a contribution link.

William R. “Bob” Lang, a Natchitoches independent who is campaigning for the Senate, said “Congress shouldn’t even be talking about health care because it’s not in the constitution. It ought to be a private issue for individuals.”

Chad
http://www.articlesbase.com/insurance-articles/health-care-major-issue-in-senate-race-mike-hasten-1254647.html

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ICN Informed Citizen News broadcast Sunday August 9th, 2009. The news you should have heard this week, but didn’t.
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Story #1 – The Real US Unemployment Rate Hits a 68-Year High Comparing u3 and u6

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14529

Story #2 – 34 million on food stamps

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/reuters/2009/08/06/2009-08-06T152646Z_01_N06328040_RTRIDST_0_FOODSTAMPS-USA.html

Story #3 – Congress Gets an Upgrade $550 Million Slated for Purchase of Eight More Planes as Lawmakers’ Travel Soars

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124960404730212955.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124969431303416161.html

Story #4 – WHO maintains 2 bln estimate for likely H1N1 cases

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090804/ts_nm/us_flu_who

Story #5 – Novartis starts testing swine flu vaccine

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090805/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_swine_flu_vaccine

Story #6 – Immunity for Swine flu vaccine manufacturers

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjdCHrP82YTFser5vD6CzTK1az6wD99GH8580

Story #7 – Baxter has filed a patent one year before swine flu outbreak (Very Interesting) 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14430

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/documents/vaccines/Baxter%20Vaccine%20Patent%20Application.pdf

Story #8 – UK: Half of the children given Swine Flu vaccine are reporting immediate side-effects such as nausea and nightmares.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/Swine_flu/article6734056.ece

Story #9 – New York Nurses Association declares opposition to mandatory immunization of health-care workers against influenza because “the vaccine is not 100%

http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2009/07/20/daily49.html

Story #10 – Foreign Embassies Urged to Stockpile Local Currencies!!!!
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