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Posted on November 21 at 6:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)
GOP: Women's Health Recommendations Could Affect Care
by AP
"This is how rationing starts," declared Jon Kyl of Arizona, the party's second-in-command in the Senate, during a news conference. "This is what we're going to expect in the future."
Hope this answers your questions.
Posted on November 21 at 1:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Don't hold your breath GH20Repub. I would like to see the accomplishments of this congress. They have done more to ruin this country than any congress in history.
Posted on November 20 at 9:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Minnesota was better off before line-item veto was granted and before unallotment was used every year."
Biggest mistatement of the year.
These are much better statements.
Minnesota was better before income tax. Minnesota was better before government spending went up 8% a year (when there was no inflation). Minnesota was better when the politicans did not get paid. Minnesota was better before the direct election of Senators. Minnesota was better before tax and spend become a way to get elected. This list can go on and on....
Posted on November 20 at 9:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
So true. His action do not match his words. I can not agree more but why can't others see this? I just feel that we can take them to the water but we can't make them drink. I wasn't trying to say you attack him just because what I was trying to say is attacking him as a person isn't working. Attacking his policies, attacking his choices, attacking the idea that the government is the answer is where we need to put our energy. At some point people will wake up and wonder why their money is going to someone else. The people will need to do the media's job. We will need to keep bring to light the facts. We will be attacked. We will be called names but this is bigger than us. It is a fight for the soul of our country. We must look to that 17 page (the original is 4 pages) that is the blue print for freedom. It is a simple request. Show me where in the Constitution that healthcare is a right. When put to the light of that great document most of what this government does is shown to be illegal. Time to stand up for the Constitution.
Keep up the good work bornfree.
Posted on November 20 at 8:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Bornfree,
I think we need to rethink something. You and I attack Obama because we know what he is. He is liberal we knew it when he ran for office. I never bought the "moderate" idea. I listen to his words and studied his past and nothing in it told me he would be any different than what he is.
But attacking him will not work. He is popular. People like him. He is a rock star. Lets stop attacking him. Let's attack the policies. We can use the words Obamacare and such but attacking him is doing us no good. People would rather lose their freedom than admit they made a mistake. I am no different.
Follow the money. Who will benefit from this. Outoftownlandlord made a good point. This is all about scarcity. It is about tearing down the system to rebuild it. What the radicals figured out is that an armed revolution would not work. People believe they are free yet these are only words. Political correctness has made made us afraid to take a stand. To say Merry Christmas. To say it is ok to work and want to do better. It is ok to start a business. It is ok to be rich. It is time to give a hand up not a handout.
I read about this. Off the cost there is a place where vistors are taken out in flat bottom boats to look at the fish. To make sure the fish are there (and to make an extra buck) they encourage the people to feed the fish. Well they now have a problem. The fish will not go out and feed. They have become dependent on the tourist to live. With the way the economy is there is less tourist and these fish are dieing. This is what is happen to the American spirit. We have become so use to getting something for free (even though there is no such thing as a free lunch). People have quit looking for work or are working under the table why because they have lost the will to fight. I feel for anyone who has lost a job but the government is making it harder for them to get one. Time for a change lets do this for us not just to attack him. It is the only way to stop this.
Posted on November 19 at 8:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
part 2
The House bill has a $10 billion provision to bail out insolvent union health-care plans. It also creates a lucrative professional-development grant program for health-care workers that effectively blackballs nonunion medical facilities from participation. The training funds in this program must be administered jointly with a labor organization—a scenario not unlike the U.S. Department of Labor's grants for construction apprenticeship programs, which have turned into a cash cow for construction industry union officials on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
There's more. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has suggested that the federal government could pay for health-care reform by taxing American workers' existing health-care benefits—but he would exempt union-negotiated health-care plans. Under Mr. Baucus's scheme, the government could impose costs of up to $20,000 per employee on nonunion businesses already struggling to afford health care plans.
Mr. Baucus's proposal would give union officials another tool to pressure employers into turning over their employees to Big Labor. Rather than provide the lavish benefits required by Obamacare, employers could allow a union to come in and negotiate less costly benefits than would otherwise be required. Such plans could be continuously exempted.
Americans are unlikely to support granting unions more power than they already have in the health-care field. History shows union bosses could abuse their power to shut down medical facilities with sick-outs and strikes; force doctors, nurses and in-home care providers to abandon their patients; dictate terms and conditions of employment; and impose a failed, Detroit-style management model on the entire health-care field.
ObamaCare is a Trojan Horse for more forced unionization.
Posted on November 19 at 8:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
A little light reading for you.
In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions—or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care industry.
Tucked away in thousands of pages of complex new rules, regulations and mandates are special privileges and giveaways that could have devastating consequences for the health-care sector and the American economy at large.
The Senate version opens the door to implement forced unionization schemes pursued by former Govs. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois in 2005 and Gray Davis of California in 1999. Both men repaid tremendous political debts to Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union (SEIU) by reclassifying state-reimbursed in-home health-care (and child-care) contractors as state employees—and forcing them to pay union dues.
Following this playbook, the Senate bill creates a "personal care attendants workforce advisory panel" that will likely impose union affiliation to qualify for a newly created "community living assistance services and support (class)" reimbursement plan.
The current House version of ObamaCare (H.R. 3200) goes much further. Section 225(A) grants Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius tremendous discretionary authority to regulate health-care workers "under the public health insurance option." Monopoly bargaining and compulsory union dues may quickly become a required standard resulting in potentially hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses across the country being forced into unions.
Ms. Sebelius will be taking her marching orders from the numerous union officials who are guaranteed seats on the various federal panels (such as the personal care panel mentioned above) charged with recommending health-care policies. Big Labor will play a central role in directing federal health-care policy affecting hundreds of thousands of doctors, surgeons and nurses.
Consider Kaiser Permanente, the giant, managed-care organization that has since 1997 proudly touted its labor-management "partnership" in scores of workplaces. Union officials play an essentially co-equal role in running many Kaiser facilities. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney called the Kaiser plan "a framework for what every health care delivery system should do" at a July 24 health-care forum outside of Washington, D.C.
Posted on November 19 at 8:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Wonder how they feel about the new rules for mammograms? If you read them it is a blue print for rationing. Early screening has help everyone reduce their risk for cancer. This new government run healthcare will take it away. Here is the news story on it.
Posted on November 19 at 7:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)
You are right we all need to do what is best. I wish the guys in office would do what you and I are willing to do. Take a pay cut. If we want to force teachers and city workers to do this than so should our Reps and the Gov and everyone in public office. The reduction should be across the board. A 2% cut hurts the little guy a whole lot more than the Rep. or Gov. but we have to start somewhere.
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Posted on November 21 at 6:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Tonight we will see the death of liberty. I think this says it all.
"This is a vote about whether or not you want to fundamentally change the way health care is delivered in this country in a way which massively expands the size of government, the role of government and significantly increases the tax burden, especially for small businesses and cuts Medicare by a dramatic amount of money," Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., told Fox News before Saturday's session began.
This bill and this debate is not about healthcare. It is about contol. It is about overwhelming the system. It is about political pay back. It is about the Cloward/Piven Strategy. Don't know what that is well here is the highlights.
"The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change."
"Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation"
"If Congress were to allow a robust economy, parents would be able to provide for their children themselves by earning and keeping more of their own money. Democrats, quick to not waste a crisis, would consider that a lost opportunity."
Thus we have the healthcare crisis. This has nothing to do with what is best for all. It is about destroying our system. Take a stand.
On Affordable Health Care for America Act is fair