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Scrambling To A Weekend Vote On HR 3962

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Have YOU read all 1,900-plus pages of HR 3962 yet?  Introduced not quite one week ago, it’s doubtful that all of the unrepresenting representatives in the House have, either.  But nonetheless, debate and a vote is being scheduled for Saturday.

I’ve been reading the bill and analyses of it, and as stated earlier, it’s a disaster.  And I’m being very, very kind.  The devil is, of course, in the details, and common sense tells us that when key details remain unresolved it’s pure insanity to force a vote.  But Washington today is purely contrived insanity, designed to baffle Americans into submission so, personally, I’m not the least bit surprised.

But let’s consider a couple of those critical details; the ones the Democrats want to gloss over since they are well aware the majority of tax-paying Americans want nothing to do with them.

Abortion funding:  there is still no language specifically excluding federal funding for abortions.  There is talk about denying it but including language saying women could pay for an abortion themselves, but that doesn’t exclude the woman’s insurance plan from receiving federal funds.  Adding a “third party” to handle the financial transactions is just needlesslly padding someone’s wallet without addressing the issue.  Bottom line:  a gimmick does not an exclusion make and tax-payer money may be sent around twisting corners to pay for abortions.

Illegal immigrants:  House leaders with an eye on 2010 elections desperately want illegal immigrants to be able to buy health insurance from their government option.  Bottom line:  what part of “illegal” do they still not understand?  Enforce the immigrations laws on the books; don’t force American taxpayers to subsidize the health care of criminals.  To even suggest that criminals paying their own premiums is somehow ok is a most blatant blowing of smoke in the faces of real Americans.  It proves only that those in Washington, Democrats espcially, really and truly believe the American people are stupid.  Health insurance premiums do not now and will never cover the entire cost of anyone’s medical care.  No matter how you try to spin it, this leaves the rest of us picking up the tab to give criminals a benefit of citizenship.

Bottom line of the bottom line:  exactly where in the United States Constitution does it mandate this kind of legislation anyway?  That this isn’t even being question or debated is a sign that everyone in Washington needs to go.  Now.

GE Sells Out Shareholders To Obama Administration

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Did anyone wonder why GE Capital received $140 billion from the government in order to stay in business even though they are NOT a bank?  Their latest business initiative, “Healthymagination”, is the reason.  With Tom Daschle on board, and working with Intel to ready various “tools”, GE is smugly and firmly positioning itself to help President Obama nationalize health care to the tune of some $75 – $100 billion in contracts to computerize the nation’s health care records.  Among other things.  Because, according to GE CEO Jeff Immelt, we aren’t just experiencing an economic cycle, we’re deliberately doing a “reset”. “People who understand that will prosper in the future, and people who don’t understand that will get left behind.”

Left behind like the old people in England and other countries who can’t afford their country’s nationalized health care.  Left behind like those with certain diseases that just aren’t “cost effective” to treat promptly in England.

From the healthyimaging.com website:

GE also is engaging experts and leaders on policy and programs to create a GE Health Advisory Board, which will include former U.S. Senators Bill Frist and Tom Daschle, as well as Andrew von Escenbach, MD, former commissioner of the FDA.

To increase its focus on consumer-driven healthcare, Immelt mentioned the recent GE partnership with Intel to provide products to remotely monitor the health of seniors and those with chronic conditions. Now, through GE’s media network, the company said it also will focus on healthcare broadcasting, namely:

  • NBC Universal and NBC News will make a commitment to bring health and wellness content to consumers in the form of more than 5,000 televised reports annually on health and wellness and companion online tools.
  • MSNBC will launch a new, daily program dedicated solely to health information, beginning in June. The program will be anchored by NBC News Chief Medical Editor Nancy Snyderman, MD, who will tackle everything from health and wellness tips and medical breakthroughs to examining health policy.
  • The Cleveland Clinic will join with GE and NBC to conduct research that seeks to better understand important factors that move consumers from being aware of a health condition via the media to actually changing their behaviors.

GE will partner with governments and other companies to build a “healthy work site” certification program. Immelt said GE will turn its 175 health centers into wellness clinics and increase the use of employee incentives and decision support for health and prevention, providing personal health records to employees to identify health risks and track behaviors.

Obama validates it in this email sent to his supporters:

 
The White House, Washington
   Good afternoon, You are receiving this email because you signed up at WhiteHouse.gov. My staff and I plan to use these messages as a way to directly communicate about important issues and opportunities, and today I have some encouraging updates about health care reform. The Vice President and I just met with leaders from the House of Representatives and received their commitment to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill by July 31. We also have an unprecedented commitment from health care industry leaders, many of whom opposed health reform in the past. Monday, I met with some of these health care stakeholders, and they pledged to do their part to reduce the health care spending growth rate, saving more than two trillion dollars over the next ten years – around $2,500 for each American family. Then on Tuesday, leaders from some of America’s top companies came to the White House to showcase innovative ways to reduce health care costs by improving the health of their workers. Now the House and Senate are beginning a critical debate that will determine the health of our nation’s economy and its families. This process should be transparent and inclusive and its product must drive down costs, assure quality and affordable health care for everyone, and guarantee all of us a choice of doctors and plans. 

Reforming health care should also involve you. Think of other people who may want to stay up to date on health care reform and other national issues and tell them to join us here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/EmailUpdates 

Health care reform can’t come soon enough. We spend more on health care than any country, but families continue to struggle with skyrocketing premiums and nearly 46 million are without insurance entirely. It is a priority for the American people and a pillar of the new foundation we are seeking to build for our economy.

P.S. If you’d like to get more in-depth information about health reform and how you can participate, be sure to visit http://www.HealthReform.gov.  

We’ll continue to keep you posted about this and other important issues. 

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With its initiatives targeted for completion in 2015, you can bet that GE is putting everything they have to insure a 2nd term for President Obama or another progressive, liberal Democrat in his place, and based on these tactics is going to use every one of its business holdings – including its media arm – to insure their bed-partner…errrr….business partner stays in office and to be the propaganda machine for his fascist wares.

I wonder what the shareholders are going to think when Obama decides they are no longer entitled to their profits?

Whatever Barry Wants, Harry Gets?

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I fear the Democratic majority in Congress is starting to feel the heat building up around them as the American people begin to see that all the campaign rhetoric was just that – rhetoric.  To understand that it is the administration’s intention to destroy this country.

And so in all due haste to do as much damage as possible before the Democrats rightly lose their Congressional majority in 2010’s mid-term elections, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now pulling out the final stops and making the decision to include a little procedural tactic called “reconciliation” in legislation intended to, this time, nationalize health care and institute cap and trade.  What this does is allow extremely limited time for debate about a bill, effectively preventing a fillibuster by the minority party and forcing something through to law. 

This is a budget-targeted procedure, and there are provisions to call for exceptions.  You know, those invaluable checks and balances upon which this country was founded and intended to operate.  It could be argued that the fiscal changes to the budget that would accompany nationalizing health care is an exception.  As could the “trickle down” effect of implenting cap and trade in the form of higher prices for everything (since what will be considered “dirty” energy production and therefore become a commodity to be traded for profit will impact the cost of everything from utilities to transportation costs of goods).

Some Democrats are actually – and rightly – concerned about this particular bit of high-handedness from the man who personally supersized the deficit through his heavy hand in crafting the TARP and stimulus packages.  Guess they’ve been reading those cards, letters, and emails from their out-of-change constituents.  There is hope that enough Democrats have begun to recover from their Kool-Aid stupor; however it needs to be a good number because should there be a tie vote, guess who gets to break it?  Yup.  The President’s own little shadow, Vice-President Biden.

We can only hope that his propensity for misspeaking will cause him to say the wrong thing when it would really make a positive difference.

But I’m not going to hold my breath.  It’s time to put pressure on those who work for us – particularly if they are of the Demon-crat persuasion – to stop this one in its tracks and tell Harry that this time he’s gone way, way too far.