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I received this by email.  It is great to have people out there doing the hard work on exposing this stuff.  Like I have said before this is not socialized health care but Soviet style health care.  And I use the words health and care loosely.

Here is the Health Care Bill in ‘bullet’ form…..You can look at the whole bill. if you do not believe

See below: Example…..pg. 425 etc…..you have to be counseled on how to end your life early; it’s for the good of the nation.

The fact that our legislators could even consider passing such an invasion of privacy and of your basic rights is inconceivable. All members of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government enjoy a “Cadillac” health care plan. If what they propose for Americans is so great, why aren’t they giving up their current plan and jumping on board to this one? The answer is simple. Theirs is much better.

  • July 23, 2009: 48 Important Things to Know About Obama’s Health care Plan
  • Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
  • Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
  • Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
  • Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
  • Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services.
  • Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Health card.
  • Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
  • Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
  • Page 72: All private health care plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Health care Exchange.
  • Page 84: All private health care plans must participate in the Health care Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
  • Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
  • Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
  • Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
  • Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
  • Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
  • Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
  • Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
  • Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
  • Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
  • Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
  • Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
  • Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
  • Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.
  • Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”
  • Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
  • Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.
  • Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
  • Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
  • Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
  • Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
  • Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
  • Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited from owning and investing in healthcare companies!
  • Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
  • Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
  • Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
  • Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
  • Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
  • Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
  • Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
  • Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
  • Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
  • Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
  • Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
  • Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
  • Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
  • Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
  • Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
  • Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

“I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.”
Excerpt from the original Hippocratic Oath

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“Rod Cleveland has some interesting views on the Health Insurance debate”

The President and Democrats have been talking about “insurance reform” for months now.  However, after months of talking about getting the so called 40 million uninsured covered, many Americans are now uneasy with their plan.  Once you get past the sound bites and examine the details, the President’s plan boils down to you controlling your health insurance and care or giving it all up to government control.  read more

What are some more reforms that we can collect and send to our congressmen?

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Jul
27

Tobacco And Big Government

Posted by: Bob Cleveland | Comments (1)

Tobacco and Big Government

Recently, I took the day off and went to Bokchito to work at our family ranch. As the day progressed, I decided to drive into Bennington and get a burger. While waiting for the burger, I opened the “Durant Democrat” to catch up on the news there and turned to the Opinion page. I soon realized I was reading one of the most liberal newspapers in the state. Wow, does this paper have some left-wing opinions. One opinion that caught my eye was an article concerning Tobacco Controls.

The article begins with, “In a historic move many thought might never occur, Congress overwhelmingly approved unprecedented new legislation that backers say could go far in addressing the scourge of tobacco.”

It goes on and quotes Obama saying it “truly defines change in Washington.” The House approved it by 309-97 and the Senate 79-17. So, again, we had some Republicans going over to help Obama and change.

The bill put the FDA with new powers. Now I do not smoke and detest cigarette smoke. My brother died at the age of 51 of throat cancer as a result of smoking. My sister died of the same at the age of 69. I loved my brother and sister and miss them dearly. I was with my brother the day the doctor told him he had cancer and would not live six months. I will never forget that day.

Both my brother and sister were well aware of the end results of smoking. Every person in America knows the results of cigarette smoking. Obama is not going to change the results. We are getting a lot of change from Obama and his socialist agenda, and none of his ideas are good for America.

First of all, the FDA did not want control of the tobacco industry. Second, we do not need more government control even with products like tobacco. I do not believe you can pick and choose which big government we want. You are either for or against big government. Is Obama going to ban fatty foods next? Some would say, “No, that’s crazy. There are safe levels of cheeseburger consumption, but not tobacco.”

That may be true, but who is to say what Obama will ban next? I just hope all our Republican friends will just say “NO” to Obama!

Remember what Thomas Jefferson said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.”

The government is claiming that lives will be saved by changing the control of cigarettes to the FDA. Yeah, just like the stimulus was going to put people to work, and if we don’t pass this stimulus right now unemployment will reach 10%. I could go on and on.

Big government is big government. Do we really want EVERYTHING to change?

As one bumper sticker says, “I’ll work to keep America. You keep the change.”

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