The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear
I blogged about Michelle Obama’s role in creating a patient-dumping scheme for the University of Chicago Medical Center back in March. With her husband and the Democrats unleashing health care horror story anecdotes to gin up public fear and build support for the beleaguered Obamacare plan, my syndicated column today revisits the kind of “reform” the Obamas and their Chicago cronies champion — and who benefits.
Here’s a challenge to the ABC News Obamacare infomercial producers. I dare you to ask President Obama this question: What have you done for Dontae Adams, lately?
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The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
The White House, Democrats, and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there’s one health care policy nightmare you won’t hear the Obamas hyping. It’s a tale of poor, minority patient-dumping in Chicago — with First Lady Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over it.
Both Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Democrat Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago have raised red flags about the outsourcing program, run by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The hospital has non-profit status and receives lucrative tax breaks in exchange for providing charity care. Yet, it spent a measly $10 million on charity care for the poor in fiscal 2007 when Mrs. Obama was employed there—1.3 percent of its total hospital expenses, according to an analysis performed for The Washington Post by the non-partisan Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. The figure is below the 2.1 percent average for nonprofit hospitals in surrounding Cook County.
Rep. Rush called for a House investigation last week in response to months of patient-dumping complaints, noting: “Congress has a duty to expend its power to mitigate and prevent this despicable practice from continuing in centers that receive federal funds.”
Don’t expect the president to support a probe. While a top executive at the hospital, Mrs. Obama helped engineer the plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs. Under the Orwellian banner of an “Urban Health Initiative,” Mrs. Obama sold the scheme to outsource low-income care to other facilities as a way to “dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents.” The program guaranteed “free” shuttle rides to and from the outside clinics.
In truth, it was old-fashioned cost-cutting and favor-trading repackaged as minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients. If a Republican had proposed the very same program and recruited black civic leaders to front it, Michelle Obama and her grievance-mongering friends would be screaming “RAAAAAAAAACISM!” at the top of their lungs.
Joe Stephens of the Washington Post wrote: “To ensure community support, Michelle Obama and others in late 2006 recommended that the hospital hire the firm of David Axelrod, who a few months later became the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Axelrod’s firm recommended an aggressive promotional effort modeled on a political campaign—appoint a campaign manager, conduct focus groups, target messages to specific constituencies, then recruit religious leaders and other third-party ‘validators.’ They, in turn, would write and submit opinion pieces to Chicago publications.”
Some health care experts saw through Mrs. Obama and her public relations man, David Axelrod—yes, the same David Axelrod who is now Mr. Obama’s senior adviser at the White House. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired Axelrod’s public relations firm, ASK Public Strategies, to promote Mrs. Obama’s Urban Health Initiative. Axelrod had the blessing of Chicago political guru Valerie Jarrett – now White House senior adviser.
Axelrod’s great contribution: Re-branding! His firm recommended re-naming the initiative after “[i]nternal and external respondents expressed the opinion that the word ‘urban’ is code for ‘black’ or ‘black and poor’….Based on the research, consideration should be given to re-branding the initiative.” Axelrod and the Obama campaign refused to disclose how much his firm received for its genius re-branding services.
In February 2009, outrage in the Obamas’ community exploded after a young boy covered by Medicaid was turned away from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dontae Adams’ mother, Angela, had sought emergency treatment for him after a pit bull tore off his upper lip. Mrs. Obama’s hospital gave the boy a tetanus shot, antibiotics, and Tylenol and shoved him out the door. The mother and son took an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for surgery.
I’ll guarantee you this: You’ll never see the Adams family featured at an Obama policy summit or seated next to the First Lady at a joint session of Congress to illustrate the failures of the health care system.
Following the Adams incident, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blasted Mrs. Obama and Mr. Axelrod’s grand plan. The group released a statement expressing “grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s policy toward emergency patients is dangerously close to ‘patient dumping,’ a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act (EMTALA)” – signed by President Reagan, by the way – “and reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick’ wealthy patients over poor.”
Rewarding political cronies at the expense of the poor while posing as guardians of the downtrodden? Welcome to Obamacare.
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Related reading: David Catron on Michelle O’s “Urban Health Initiative” (now run by Obama longtime crony Dr. Eric Whitaker) and see also registered nurse Carol Peracchio on ACORN General Hospital.
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My my, Miss Michelle Hussein might not be as perfect as Tom Brokaw and the spin factory would have us believe. I an glad the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blasted Mrs. Obama and Mr. Axelrod’s grand plan-but with the media firmly in the Hussein Obma/Alexrod/Rahm Emanuel camp just how many people will hear about it?
Patient-dumping is illegal, why didn’t the Bush administration investigate? But Obama care is about much more: be a pain the the butt to the Democrats, register as a Republican or such and watch their rationing committee deny you care. One they digitize our medical records privacy is toast.
The Obma/Alexrod/Rahm Emanuel camp is NOT stupid or naive- they are clever, dedicated marxist/fascist. Be prepared. You childrens’ very lives depend on your vigilance.
Under Obamacare the first discriminator for triage in the Emergency Room will be what’s entered on your voter registration card.
Because the latest Bush was heavily mezmerized by Obama and liberalism, and he couldn’t even be found willing to defend himself while he was in office, for he so wanted the democrats’ love.
BushII=McCain….the equation of the night!
Keep in mind that one of the few smart things John McCain DID do was co-sponsor legislation to re-tighten home lending regulations in 2005-06…but when he beheld THE ONE he, like BushII, found that doing the right thing (and use this info plus Obama’s own intransigence against the needed reform) was not worthy of the utter glory of putting in the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT regardless of qualification into the white house…
You Betcha!
I need an Obambulance!
Good luck, you’ll probably need a MichellO’hearse first.
Is 4 years up yet? ugh.
What a nightmare.
Number one medical reason in Odopeycare is going to be Buyers Remorse and they will just give you a Kool-Aid IV.
Dumba$$ Voters 08′
man were you stupid
You can always go to Great Britain and declare yourself a traveller.
http://pcwatch.blogspot.com/
Over there, gypies and travellers get 1st care, regardless of triaging. Shades of things to come under Obamacare?
Obamacare told me to be patient…..
I held out as long as I could…..
The last message on my machine was…..
The Doctor can see you now…..
Hello? Hello? Hello, sir, are you there?……..
Obamacare be patient.
Is anyone really surprised by any of this? I expect ABC to ask this question when donkeys fly.
ABC Presents!
Absolutely awful.
Thank you Michelle, for the digging and reporting on this.
Does anyone else feel like they want to get off of the Bus before it runs over you?
According to the OECD, the US citizen spends the most for health care, but we are not the most healthy.
Good thing I have my Merck Manual, PDR and FM for Emergency War Surgery. I can take care of myself and my family because no one else is going to.
Maybe I should hope my daughter marries a Doctor for backup?
It’s always amazed me that whether it be socialism, fascism, or coummunism – you know, equality for all, everyone is the same – dear leaders are never part of the common masses. They always find room to place themselves above everyone else with luxuries and power only they are afforded.
Another way to gauge liberals like the Obama’s is to check their charitable giving. I would suggest that since it is a pittance of their overall income, their “giving” to the poor with taxpayer dollars will be a pittance also. Most of the money from whatever source will end up in their pockets or the pockets of their cronies. Profit or non-profit.
And don’t forget, Michele Obama’s salary went up considerably when Obama was elected to the Senate – what magic. The hospital had to pay her somehow. Can’t squander it on the truly poor.
This inside workings of thug politics.
I agree with CW4, just don’t forget to add copious amounts of firearms and ammunitions to your medical library to fight off the welfare recipients for what little you have left after “Obamacare”.
GSP
“Dissent is Patriotic-hrc”
The Democrats are the big-time fear mongers. And then they have the audacity to accuse Republicans of fear mongering. Classic projection.
GOP strategy = head + in + sand
Michelle Malkin,
Today’s journalism students should be studying you as a model of investigative journalism. You deserve multiple Pulitzer Prizes for all of the excellent work you have done through the years. But I suspect that you care less about recognition than you do about affecting positive change.
Another excellent example of old school journalism, mixed with your cutting edge tech savvy, Michelle. Just super!
ShellieO is as mean as a snake, based on my gut. I know that is subjective, but I trust it, and think time and acquaintance will reveal her to be the more dangerous of the two of them.
How can people like this pretend to care for Americans?
Michelle Malkin,
Please investigate the corruption between board members of the
Chicago Council on Global Affairs. One example:
Northern Trust Corporation was involved in the Tony Rezko – assisted purchase of the Obama homestead in Chicago.
On June 19th, 2009 at 8:38 am, Ragspierre said:
It will be the same for all us old geezers. “Sorry Babs you are just too darn old for such expensive care, we could be saving an illegal who woudl vote for us as soon as Acorn gets them signed up”.
On June 19th, 2009 at 4:02 am, love2rumba said:
Ditto.
I responded to an earlier post inviting us to contact ABC News about their upcoming free promotion for Obamacare. I authored a “question” that will never see the light of day, since they will all be screened by ABC News and, most likely, the White House staff, before they ever get posed to His Highness. It focused on rationing, and the failings in the Canadian health care system. I have personal experience. My brother-in-law waited the better part of a year to get a heart bypass and suffered two heart attacks while on the waiting list. But his heart surgery didn’t start out as a bypass; at first, it was to be angioplasty and a stint. But by the time he got to the head of that waiting list, it had progressed to the need for a two-way bypass. And of course, he went to the bottom of another “queue”. He suffered two heart attacks, and had to be hospitalized full-time after the second one. My sister-in-law was informed that his condition “wouldn’t change his position in line” for the actual bypass surgery. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. (Oh, and by the time he got operated on, it was a four-way bypass.) How many hospitals do you suppose perform bypass surgery there, a major city? How about one. Let’s hear that horror story, Mr. President. As it happens, I visited my doctor this week. Last year, another of his patients called him (Feb. 2008) asking if he could see a relative. The relative was from Toronto. He was suffering from seizures, but couldn’t get medicine for them until a CAT scan. The earliest he could get the CAT scan was Oct. 2008. He flew to Texas the next day, saw my doctor, got a CAT scan in the afternoon, had a seizure in the process but was placed on medicine, and went home to Toronto the day after. You want that care for yourself and your family?
Good job MM. I don’t think this will pass in any meaningful way. They’ll do ‘something’ and call it ‘health care reform’.
But the real problem is when they compare our system to other systems. The Canadian system covers 1/10th of our population. The UK system is similarly small.
Also, when you look at America in comparison with the other countries, our diversity causes our health care costs as a whole to go up. ie diseases that are common among on ethnic group are not included in Universal health programs of other countries.
Include our sedentary lifestyle and obesity epidemic that other nations don’t have and we can’t compare our situation in America to any other country that has a universal plan.
Again, this is very involved, very intricate. . . and it won’t work if the government gets involved. Thanks for your good work MM. Keep up the pressure and we’ll stop this boondoggle from killing the system that most Americans are satisfied with.
On June 19th, 2009 at 4:06 am, ajmontana said:
You know, the people who drank the Kool-Aid were followers of “Liberation Theology”.
Now we have the Obamas, who spent 20+ years studying “Liberation Theology” under “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright.
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid, and don’t allow them to give you a Kool-Aid IV.
Excellent column, Michelle.
EMTALA Law should have prevented Dontae Adams from such a long wait for surgery. Actually, pure compassion by health care workers, and a mission to help the sick and injured, should have been enough.
This is a shocking story of medical neglect for this little boy. He was screened but not treated for the wound at U of C Med Center.
It does not appear that Obama Care will benefit the poor or the insured (he did have Medicaid, so he was not uninsured). This was a severe injury. What kind of emergencies do they treat?
To simplify, the fewer people in a system, the easier it is to provide universal health care. The more homogeneous the ethnicity of the population, the less expensive health care is.
America can’t be compared to other countries with universal health care even if we liked their programs. American health care is not in a crisis.
I have been saying this for years but the idiots on the left will not listen to example after example I could quote FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
Now they are going to drag us all down with them.
Boy, you talk about clear patterns.
Fraud, PR-driven, and focus-grouped to see what to call it so the people will think getting raped is romance.
The tax breaks for the hospital’s charity status were five times what they spent on rendering charity medical care.
ShellieO left behind her a staff of 20 people who learned their craft from her.
What an amazing tale of graft, fraud, and contempt for the common people…
The people of Chicago got Obamaed.
Not without a hell of a fight.
This is OT but important from the Washington Times:
and same here!
Patient dumping is nothing new. With nationalized health care we can all look forward to being dumped.
Ditto Rags, it’s time to start pushing back.
Can’t agree more.
This needs to be repeated over and over again!!!
In comment #20, I said
Others have noted how Michelle Obama’s salary increased dramatically when Barack was elected Senator.
Both Michelle and her boss were/are on board members of the
Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Michelle’s former job description (before becoming first lady):
… and her boss…
Agreed. And the climate is not in a crisis, either.
Democratic Socialists like to manufacture crisis, as a means to their Socialist/Communist ends.
sooo…let’s just make up a bunch!
I read a fascinating excerpt from a Krugman piece written in 2002 wherein he called for a HOUSING BUBBLE. He used the term. He explicitly called on Greenspan to kick open the money supply.
I do not believe in conspiracy theories. I do believe in cause and effect, and that statists have common goals toward which they work inexorably. Distort the market, then blame the market for its “failure”.
From you 1/3 of a million dollar per year (over the table) sinecure, devise a plan to kick poor people out of your ER, take tax breaks as a charity, then point to the awful failure of our health-care system to deliver flawless care to poor Americans.
i am shocked, shocked that there is corruption going on here in chicago.
Ron, that’s the kind of stories that I also hear from a number of friends that I have in Canada. It’s a disgraceful situation.
Back here in the states, my dad had a heart attack and was in surgery the next day. That was 1991. He’s doing pretty good these days, for a guy in his 80′s. The reason he’s with us is that we DID NOT have socialized medicine at the time. Had he been put in a Canadian style line, I fear he would not be with us today and would never have been able to share his stories of being in the Marine Corps in WWII and so many other stories, with his grandchildren.
ObamaCare can never see the light of day…. its a matter of survival.
Great article Michelle. Keep spreading the word about the Obama & Co. hypocrisy.
We need someone to confront both Obama’s with question about this child and the others we’ll never hear about but surely were turned away as well.
the fashion minded (joke) beast has dirty hands and with the help of the idiot human fly swatter is pushing the crap they consider health care reform.
Not withstanding all of these gory details with obamacare, there is a truly convoluded position our dysfunctional government is taking with regard to their so-called “law making”.
I just heard on Fox that congress has PASSED the “cash for clunkers” bill… the sheer stupidity defies all common sense.
Now, the very government that wants to tax health insurance benefits has decided to pay even more to prop up the unions and fund car sales…
Unfrigginbelievable!
Why not? She looks like one.
…and in other news…just when you thought you had enough on your plate…apologies!
And in other news……. AARP is as silent as a Church mouse
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Oh, HELL NO…!!!!!
I think 600,000 dead Americans is quite enough.
I enjoy haring the idiocy comparing other countries to ours regarding healthcare. No one seems to take into account our size and the fact that we take in 1 million new immigrants a year, and that doesn’t include the illegal aliens.
Since we’re not allowed to ask for anyone’s legal status, it’s ridiculous to keep estimating the number at 12 million, when we know that this number is just used to purpetuate the ethnocentric interests advocating amnesty.
haring=hearing
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/06/18/a-republican-platform-for-2010-emerges/
This is worth a read. A conservative platform. What a concept.
That’s the truth, libs can’t live in the truth.
Libs can’t exist without a crisis or victims.
ever wonder what miserable lives these liberal people must have, to always be looking for the worst in a situation, made up or real, their not happy unless they are miserable or can make someone miserable or at least appear to be miserable…there is nothing positive about them.
Rags–I think the Dhimmicrats should apologize. You know, since it’s simply their fault ‘n all…
They don’t speak for me. I have never owned a slave. So don’t blame me for YOUR hangups.
The reparations hustlers are in full throat today, too. A-freaking-mazing….
On the subject of Obama fraud, lies, and corruption…
Sorry this is off topic, but there is no thread for this that I know of. Link to this is on Drudge.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/17/exclusive-minn-lawmaker-fears-census-abuse/
I’m sure some of you must be attorneys or have research capabilities far above mine. So I ask this question of you..
What are the laws exactly regarding the census. How much are we required, by law, to report on the census? I, too, have many qualms about giving ACORN personal information. Can we get away with just giving them how many live in the house?
They’re Democrats – it’s their M.O!
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
sooo…let’s just make up a bunch!
Can We? You mean will Obama and his thugs hurt us if we don’t?
Snowfire, read post #32
I plan one just stating the number of people in my house as well as including my dogs as – they are part of the family also.
For me, this is the scariest government healthcare horror story I have heard and I don’t know why it isn’t told over and over again by the people trying to save us from this menace:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392962,00.html
“Since the spread of his prostate cancer, 53-year-old Randy Stroup of Dexter, Ore., has been in a fight for his life. Uninsured and unable to pay for expensive chemotherapy, he applied to Oregon’s state-run health plan for help.
Lane Individual Practice Association (LIPA), which administers the Oregon Health Plan in Lane County, responded to Stroup’s request with a letter saying the state would not cover Stroup’s pricey treatment, but would pay for the cost of physician-assisted suicide.”
My uncle’s urologist said there are times he’d just as soon donate his services than endure the agony of accounting delays, time consuming paperwork and needless back-and-forth communications involved in trying to collect on billing to Medicare and Medicaid.
He claims to often lose money in treating Medicare patients because – as opposed to private insurance – the program has such drastic limits on billable charges, that either he and/or the hospital have no choice but to absorb some part of the cost in diagnosing some low-income retirees.
I can’t imagine how adversely nationalized medicine will affect our health and health care.
Gee, wasn’t M’chelle in charge of patient dumping at her Chicago hospital? The one that gave her that big, juicy raise?
“My uncle’s urologist said….”
Isn’t there a joke that starts out that way?
would pay for the cost of physician-assisted suicide.”
As sick as this sounds, I work for a hospice agency. We are hiring.
Misscheryl #61
Not worried about his thugs hurting me; I have a Remington 12 gauge shotgun for that. I’m in Texas. If they are in my house, they are fair game if they threaten me. I am concerned about getting arrested and/or fined. That’s what my worries are.
But they are just looking out for the folks, doncha know. What a sleezy pair of amoral humanoids those two are.
Sad and shocking story. If they had done something like that to my daughter, she may have lost her eye after a dog bite, or at best, been scarred for life. As it is, she got in immediately, had expert surgery, and you can’t even see the scar, which is frighteningly close to her eye.
As a genealogist, I know for a fact that the census information in the past consisted of names, ages, occupations, address, race and number of people living in the household. I don’t know if any laws have been passed in the last 20 years or so that have changed the rules. I’m with Michele Backmann…I will not answer any questions but those basic ones. They may claim to have valid reasons for those questions, but they don’t.
Snowfire – I know what you’re worried about, but when is enough, enough and we ban together and stand up. If he continues, at what point will WE be carted off? I guess my point is, there will be repercussions to stepping up..
Ladies, you simply and politely refuse to answer any questions you don’t care to answer.
I NEVER answer all they request. There has never been any repercussion to me. I have been threatened by a census-taker, but I merely smiled pleasantly at them and wished them a good day.
Happyscrapper, you are absolutely right about stepping up and standing up for what is right. I just don’t want to be “carted off” too early in the process. I want to be able to help first.
However, I am ready to do something; I just don’t really know what to do. Our Senators won’t stand up and stop him. Our law enforcement won’t stand up and stop him. I don’t think I can approach him and yell (like Gomer from the old Andy Griffith Show), “Citizen’s arrest, citizen’s arrest.” I am just at a loss.
I am so sad that I have lived to see the day that “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave” has turned into this. I consider it to be potentially so bad that I am actually glad that I’m getting old and likely won’t live to see it get as bad as it is going to get.
Ragspierre, thanks for that comment. I have enjoyed ready your comments for along time. I have found them to be interesting and educational.
I think we should all just answer the basics on the census and leave any new questions blank. There is strength in numbers and maybe they can’t come for us all.
There would probably be a fine, but they would not put us in jail! Seriously, if they started putting people in jail for not answering intrusive questions from the Big Brother, there would be he11 to pay! They don’t want the reprecussions of that! Believe me, they do not want to open that can of worms. Big mistake.
These cockroaches need to be exposed to the light of day. Only by standing up to the corruption can we defeat them. As soon as truth comes out, they scamper under their rocks. Soon, there will be nowhere for them to hide and it will be over.
Yes, indeed. That fact plays into the mix here in a direct and measurable way.
If you read the Census Bureau’s own assessment of their methodology, they all but admit they undercount with respect to the illegal portion of the ‘population’. There’s almost no way the 12 million estimate is accurate.
Most Americans I’ve spoken to aren’t privy to it, but are surprised to learn that the ‘US’ Population (adding the quotes to differentiate bodies vs. citizens/legal residents, etc. and problems in counting methodology) grows by about 2.5 million per year lately. While a 1.0%-1.5% absolute growth rate might not sound like a lot, most people would probably agree that 3 million persons IS (the addition of the state of
Iowa each year). ..And that, of course, is the *official* estimate.
Many also are unaware that the current US population is…(drum roll….):
306,700,000+ …and growing faster – not slowing, as most other industrial ‘advanced’ countries.
…And all that pitched against a backdrop of a faltering economy and near-historic job losses… Hmmmm.
When there was the 2000 census, a bunch of people were hired to come into the resort areas and take a head count.
For some reason, our “household” was singled out for further questioning. They were very persistent, coming back and asking more in-depth questions that we refused to answer.
The census-taker could not give us a valid reason why we had been singled out and could not go back empty-handed. The questions were very personal. We stood our ground. She returned 3 times. She finally gave up.
A census taker once tried to test me; I ate his liver with some fava beans, and a nice Chianti…
Spaceycakes, I like you.
Spacey,
A pleasant Arugula salad with a nice raspberry-walnut vinaigrette would have topped off the experience…
I love saying Arugula…it always reminds me of a Model T…
Ragspierre, I never thought of that. It does sound like one.
Heh-heh – after I realized who Carla was looking at, the picture really made me laugh….
But really Michelle, the Obamas wouldn’t hurt a fly…
What bothers me also is the fact not only will these people ask intrusive questions, which I will answer none of the above but they also will be taking GPS co-ordinates of your home for their data base. Myself, I have a nice little ole GPS jemmer I fully intend to use.
off topic question for everyone…
Anybody know if when using Photoshop to scan a photo does it place any kind of tag in the photo??…I’ve seen some photos when you open them up with notepad that you can read an Adobe/Photoshop tag in it….
tiredofit08 #86
I’ve used Photoshop a little to make posters for events at work and have, so far, not seen a tag on it. However, I haven’t opened anything with Notepad.
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David Whelan, 06.18.09, 05:08 PM EDT
Dr. David Scheiner took care of Obama for 22 years. But they don’t see eye-to-eye on how to fix the health care system
I sometimes wear L’air du Temps
…but not today.
Has anyone mentioned that Congress is exempt from this healthcare plan? It was reported on Fox News this morning.
If it’s such an all fire good plan, why in the heck is Congress exempt????
Sort of the way, if I remember correctly, that the Congressclowns are exempt from Social Security.
Send a message to your Sens & Cons!
Dear ___:
Unless you want to be known as one of those in DC that helped push the nation out of the 2009 Recession and into a full-blown Depression in 2010, I strongly urge you to oppose any “Public Option”, “Single-payer”, “Universal”, “Government”, “National”, and/or Kennedy/Dodd Healthcare “Reform” bill! As the old song says, “we’re knee deep in the big muddy but the damn fool says to push on!” Just SLOW Down, already!
The idea of National Socialist style Health care scares me to death!
Why National Health Care Should Scare You –
As I was reminded by Matt Lewis recently, the scheme to nationalize health care is really frightening. While Americans should all oppose it on principle – there are also self-preservation reasons, as well.
It is clear that countries which have socialized health care require long waiting periods for treatment (no matter how much you are willing to pay), e.g. – Let’s say you have cancer, and it will cost you tens of thousands of dollars for treatment. And, you don’t have insurance; while this is certainly a bad predicament, it is not an impossible situation. While you might have to borrow or ask in order to be treated, a person can find a way in the USA to receive treatment – regardless of his or her AGE!
But if the government tells you that it’s too expensive, or that you’re too sick, or that you’re too old to be treated, or that you brought it upon yourself – then where do you go? Well in the Orwellian/Obaman World of National Socialist Health care – the Government bureaucracy will deny or postpone treatment!
And please pass the message on!
Links to the Senate and House -
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
Rest assured that if the Obamas get their way, we will ALL be receiving the SAME level of medical care, viz. 17th century medical care.
My collie says:
I see illegal aliens get better health care than urbans, or anyone elce.
Come on in. Where is your anchor baby? You need a CT for a tooth abcess? No problem.
this is what I got when I opened up a BO kindergarten photo on WND with notepad…
It’s got to be tough being a politican in D.C., these days, torn between “looking good to the voters” and “what’s in it for me, politically and financially”. It’s a job I wouldn’t want; sacrificing my morals and ethics for power. I doubt many congressmen have any idea on what they’re doing. If it looks good, pass it, and hope for the best. Obama has been doing this since taking office.
HT Commentary magazine…
All we needed to know…
One thing that’s been nagging at me was recalling Tom Daschle’s role in all of this. I finally looked it up this AM, and found this story re: Daschle’s plans for when he would have become the Health Czar.
Link here to article: http://www.reason.com/news/show/130726.html
The basic premise is based on Daschle’s book, “Critical: What We Can Do about the Health Crisis,” while the article questions somewhat its veracity. (From the article):
Folks, these people have been planning this for a long, long time, for when the liberals thought that the time was right…when they thought that conservative voices would be drowned out by the overwhelming b.s. thrown at the populace. I am afraid we are at the tipping point. We need to act now.
OT but AP finally admits a problem !
Drug gangs just selling drugs americans won’t ?
Jeff said: Drug gangs just selling drugs americans won’t?
Remember Shrillery in Mexico:
It’s the drug and gun running, dontcha know, that all americans are guilty of. It’s our fault.