Our ‘leaders’ don’t seem to know the difference between health insurance and health care! In order to disguise the effort to re-distribute wealth, they have cooked up a 2,000 page bill that purports to solve a problem 85% of Americans do not feel we have. They will kill health insurance as we know it and will downgrade health care for most Americans. We seniors will be hurt the worst in terms of care and the young adults will bear the highest share of the costs! Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist and writer has nailed the issue here!

Kill the Bills. Do Health Reform Rightby Charles Krauthammer11/27/2009The United States has the best health care in the world — but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill as with its 2,014-page House counterpart is that it wildly compounds the complexity by adding hundreds of new provisions, regulations, mandates, committees and other arbitrary bureaucratic inventions.Worse, they are packed into a monstrous package without any regard to each other. The only thing linking these changes — such as the 118 new boards, commissions and programs — is political expediency. Each must be able to garner just enough votes to pass. There is not even a pretense of a unifying vision or conceptual harmony.The result is an overregulated, overbureaucratized system of surpassing arbitrariness and inefficiency.

via Kill the Bills. Do Health Reform Right – HUMAN EVENTS.

We seniors will not be able to keep our doctors! A careful read of the bill passed in the House of Representatives finds an attempt to remove the choices of Doctors and specialists for Senior Citizens. We have paid into the Medicare program since its inception with specific promises.

Now, in a rush to act before we have full understanding of the act, Speaker Pelosi broke her promise to let the final bill be on the Internet for 72 hours prior to a vote and they will break the promises that we have relied on concerning our Medicare program benefits.  If they will lie and break promises to “We the Senior Citizens” they cannot be trusted to tell anyone the truth or to keep their promises!

Eviscerating Medicare:In addition to reducing future Medicare funding by an estimated $500 billion, the bill fundamentally changes how Medicare pays doctors and hospitals, permitting the government to dictate treatment decisions.• Sec. 1302 pp. 672-692 moves Medicare from a fee-for-service payment system, in which patients choose which doctors to see and doctors are paid for each service they provide, toward what’s called a “medical home.”The medical home is this decade’s version of HMO-restrictions on care. A primary-care provider manages access to costly specialists and diagnostic tests for a flat monthly fee. The bill specifies that patients may have to settle for a nurse practitioner rather than a physician as the primary-care provider. Medical homes begin with demonstration projects, but the HHS secretary is authorized to “disseminate this approach rapidly on a national basis.”A December 2008 Congressional Budget Office report noted that “medical homes” were likely to resemble the unpopular gatekeepers of 20 years ago if cost control was a priority.• Sec. 1114 pp. 391-393 replaces physicians with physician assistants in overseeing care for hospice patients.• Secs. 1158-1160 pp. 499-520 initiates programs to reduce payments for patient care to what it costs in the lowest cost regions of the country. This will reduce payments for care and by implication the standard of care for hospital patients in higher cost areas such as New York and Florida.• Sec. 1161 pp. 520-545 cuts payments to Medicare Advantage plans used by 20% of seniors. Advantage plans have warned this will result in reductions in optional benefits such as vision and dental care.• Sec. 1402 p. 756 says that the results of comparative effectiveness research conducted by the government will be delivered to doctors electronically to guide their use of “medical items and services.”

Via Betsy McCaughey: What the Pelosi Health Care Bill Really Says – WSJ.com.

Any ‘representative’ guilty of voting for this denial of what we have been promised should be thrown out of office!

If you are  as confused as I am as I try to understand the President and his strange behaviour, perhaps this article by Herbert London will help.

Obama: A Man Apart

by Herbert London (more by this author)

Albert Camus was expert at describing a man apart, an existential man The Stranger, who didn’t belong in the society in which he found himself. He didn’t have emotional roots; in fact, this character was haunted by shadows — the real and the metaphorical. He is the quintessential rebel challenging normative standards.

At the risk of drawing literary comparisons, I am persuaded based on his performance that President Obama is a man apart. He seems to equate power with arrogance; pride with willfulness and exceptionalism with dominance. As a consequence, he has changed foreign policy perceptions. The America he leads is a nation like any other — no more, no less. In fact, as a Nobel laureate, he is considered by the Europeans as a man of the world, not merely a citizen of the United States.

When asked if the United States is exceptional, President Obama said America is exceptional and England is exceptional and Greece is exceptional. That the United States is sui generis didn’t cross his mind. How could it? He is pledged to a scenario in which America opts out of its traditional role as peace keeper, the balance wheel in maintaining international equilibrium. The war against terrorists is over along with the nation’s hegemonic role.

Unfortunately the war fatigue President Obama embodies is not embraced by our global enemies who see this shift in his policy attitude as a sign of weakness and retreat. I believe President Obama actually thinks that unilateral concessions to our real and putative enemies will result in reciprocal responses. But as his bizarre overtures to the Olympic Committee demonstrated, gestures directed at multilateralism and celebrity status do not result in favorable results. Real power as opposed to soft power still has meaning on the world stage.

A man with roots would know that wild policy swings of the kind that we’ve experienced with healthcare, cap and trade and education proposals cannot possibly fly, with the American people, even with those who voted for President Obama in the last election. Despite cultural shifts in the nation, the United States still fashions itself as a conservative nation. Only a man apart cannot sense that condition.

via Obama: A Man Apart – HUMAN EVENTS.

Yes, Obama does seem to be a man who is totally disconnected from mainstream Americans.  When almost 1 million Tea partiers and others descended on DC to tell him of their concerns, he made a hastily planned retreat to a friendly crowd of Democratic supporters in Minneapolis and pretended he did not know about the concerns of us Americans and had his spkesmen out calling the peaceful, orderly protesters an angry mob and racists.

We never dreamed we would be seeing someone so far apart from our values and our culture in the White House! We need our elected legislators to stand up and tell him what we are saying! And if they do not we need to replace them with people who will!

White House Communication Director explains to the people in The Dominican Republic how they controlled the media during the campaign.  Note that this is parallel to what she is doing now that he was elected! The press is the key to taking total control!

It is time for all Americans to find out what is planned for Copenhagen and to let our government know we do not want to ceded sovereignty to a world government.  Is the Healthcare debate clouding the issue to prevent us from learning about this treaty until it is too late? The text for the treaty is found at: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/ngo-copenhagen-treaty-legal

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