The Bill Passed the Fight Goes On!

Judas went out "and it was night." The Judases on the hill passed the massive trillion dollar government takeover of health care yesterday near midnight. Perhaps a better comparison would be to the pagan witching hour, when vampires, werewolves, ghouls, goblins, and witches cast spells and roam the earth doing evil. The Stupak amendment that instills the former Hyde amendment was added to the bill (roll call vote here, a yes vote is pro-life), but that doesn't make this massive takeover of health care by the government acceptable. And there is no guarantee that the pro-life limits will remain. The pro-aborts are already lobbying to remove it. Continue to fight to KILL THE BILL. The government has no right under the Constitution to regulate health care. Here is the final roll call vote on H.R. 3962. If your representative voted no, say thank you. If your representative voted yes, work to put him on the unemployment rolls.

Health Care Bill Gets House Approval, Abortion Funding Battle Shifts to Senate

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The Madness of Queen Nancy

When the queen wants something done she does it, don't you know? It will be interesting to see, however, whether a mad queen can get all her subjects to fall on their swords for her.

Pray that Nancy and her court jesters fail in their bid to turn health care into another government program. A group plans to be praying the rosary at the Capitol on Saturday evening. Please join in spirit.

A "Government Commissioner" may decide your health care!

Another little-noticed provision of the health care behemoth gives Big Brother sweeping new authority under the guise of a "Health Care Commissioner." Read the complete article.

The Health Choices Commissioner would establish “the benefits to be made available under Exchange-participating health benefit plans during each plan year,” according to page 84 of the 1,018-page bill. That means the commissioner would determine what benefits the participating insurance companies must offer participating customers in the exchange

The commissioner would also set rules for insurance companies to participate in the health insurance exchange, and establish criteria for individuals to receive federal subsidies to purchase insurance in the exchange, according to section 142 on page 42 of the legislation.

Further, the commissioner would have the authority to establish “automatic enrollment” of individuals who qualify for the health insurance exchange....

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) believes giving one bureaucrat this much power over the health insurance of Americans is among the least noticed provisions of the legislation.

“The American people want two things from health care reform: lower costs and more choices,” Boehner said in a statement. “Yet Democrats have done exactly the opposite coming up with a bill that actually raises costs--increasing the deficit by $240 billion--and letting a new federal bureaucrat make health care decisions that should be left to patients and their doctors.”

The legislation also gives the commissioner power to determine who can participate and under what conditions.

“The commissioner shall have the authority to establish such rules as may be necessary to deal with special situations with regard to uninsured individuals and employers participating as Exchange-eligible individuals and employers,” the bill says on page 82, “such as transitions periods for individuals and employers who gain or lose, Exchange-eligible participation status, and to establish grace periods for premium payment”

Tell Congress to Use Government-run Health Care if they Inflict it on us.

Congressman John Fleming, a medical doctor from northern Louisiana, has introduced a bill calling on members of Congress to use the same health no-care they plan to inflict on the citizens of America. Unfortunately, the bill does not make it a requirement. For more information about Congressman Fleming's bill and to express your opinion to Congress go here.

Separate the Facts from the Myths and Lies on Obama Care

Investor's Business Daily has a great series of articles on Obama's health care fiasco filled with eye-opening facts that may send you into cardiac arrest. (Have your attack quick before rationing kicks in!) I'll post a few quotes to give you a small taste of what's there. Pass the information on to those who have swallowed Obama's rotten fish whole.

We have a health care crisis.

"No, we don't....85% of the population, or 258 million people, polls show high satisfaction with the current coverage. Indeed, a 2006 poll by ABC News, the Kaiser Family Foundation and USA Today found 89% of Americans were happy with their own health care.As for the estimated 47 million not covered by health insurance, 20 million can afford to buy it, according to a study by former CBO Director June O'Neill. Most of the other 27 million are single and under 35, with as many as a third illegal aliens. When it's all whittled down, as few as 12 million are unable to buy insurance — less than 4% of a population of 305 million. For this we need to nationalize 17% of our nation's $14 trillion economy and change the current care that 89% like?"

It's been tried and it doesn't work!

"Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted a law that required every resident to have medical insurance. Commonwealth Care was created to subsidize those who couldn't afford to buy their own. It didn't take long for the program, which never achieved coverage for everyone, to run into trouble.

"Costs soared from $158 million in the first year to $630 million in 2007, then doubled in 2009 to $1.3 billion. Enrollment in the program has also surged. It stands at roughly 181,000, up from 165,000 in the early spring, and is projected to reach 212,000 next year."

Not enough incubators or beds under Canada's socialized program.

"In 2007, a Canadian woman gave birth to extremely rare identical quadruplets — Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia Jepps. They were born in the United States to Canadian parents because there was again no space available at any Canadian neonatal care unit....In 2007, there were at least 40 mothers and their babies who were airlifted from British Columbia alone to the U.S. because Canadian hospitals didn't have room. It's worth noting that since 2000, 42 of the world's 52 surviving babies weighing less than 400g (0.9 pounds) were born in the U.S....in Canada roughly 900,000 patients of all ages are waiting for beds, according to the Fraser Institute."

If you needed the best health care in the world, where would you go to get it? The facts say:

• "Survival rates in the U.S. for common cancers are higher, and in some cases much higher, than in Europe and Canada.

• "Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed nations and spend less time waiting for care than Canadians and Britons.

• "Americans have more access to new medical technologies than Canadians and United Kingdom residents, and are responsible for most health care innovations.

• "Americans are more satisfied with their care than their counterparts in nations with socialized medicine."

Get Ready for a Middle Class Tax Hike!

"Read the bill's fine print. Those earning less than $250,000 will be hit with new taxes, too. Those who don't sign up for health care, for instance, will be taxed up to 2.5% of their income. Small businesses that don't have health plans will have to pay up to 8% of their payroll as a 'fee.' These new taxes will have a devastating effect on the economy. According to the National Tax Foundation, the top total tax rate on Americans — that is, state, local and federal taxes — will top 50% in 39 states.

"Will entrepreneurs and small businesses expand and create new jobs if they know more than half what they earn will be taken by government? Not likely.

"Two million jobs have been lost this year. If you think that, and 9.5% unemployment, is bad, wait till health reform passes."

And finally -- Why the Rush?

"A pattern is emerging for this new presidency. The more radical and far-reaching the plan, the less time the public gets to debate it. Is this due to ambition or fear of push-back?...Where is Ross Perot when we need him? The eccentric Texan got a few things wrong in his political career, but he got at least one thing right with one of his favorite sayings: Measure twice, cut once. This is wisdom that the Obama administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress seem totally to have forgotten."

Take a look at this great series of articles. When you finish, you'll have the facts at your fingertips to refute the myths and outright lies coming out of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid spin machine.

The Rotten Health Care Bill Will Make You Sick!

The Democratic socialists are working fast and furiously to make sure their agenda is imposed on the American people before we can blink and say, "Wait a minute!" The latest Obamanation is the health care bill -- a thousand pages that no one has read and studied that absolutely must be signed immediately before it's too late.

And what's in the bill? Who knows? Have any of our representatives read it? Darn few, if any. But that won't stop these totalitarians from voting to impose it on us. (There are no doubt exceptions for them; there always are.)

But a "bombshell" is being reported that hopefully will sink the bill. On page 16, it carries a clear statement that private insurance will become illegal. This is what Hillarycare wanted to implement and the American people rejected it resoundingly during the Clinton years. Can Obama push it through? He seems pretty successful at promoting his socialist agenda so far.

Investors Business Daily ran an editorial July 15th describing the "uh oh moment" in the bill.

Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington's coverage....

What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law.

Whatever happened to "choice?" And what other choices will be denied? Once the government is running things, will consumers be allowed to choose their own doctors, hospitals, treatment options, etc.? If we can't choose our own health plans, why would we expect other "choices" to be allowed. After all, the bureaucrats will be working hard to control costs. We've already heard the rhetoric about cost/benefit analysis and health care rationing for the elderly. Under Obama we are seeing an unprecendented assault against freedom and individual liberties on all fronts, but destruction of the best health care system in the world should terrify Americans. Is this the "change" the electorate wanted when they engaged in a lovefest with this political gigolo?

The hardball tactics instituted by the White House caused Republican Senator Judd Gregg (NH) to accuse White House operatives of practicing “the Chicago approach to governing.” He went on to say, “You’re talking about running over the minority, putting them in cement, and throwing them in the Chicago River.” Obama wants a vote on the health care bill before Congress recesses in August and the velvet gloves have been replaced with the brass knuckles. Why the hurry? Simple -- When you're trying to pass off a rotten piece of meat as a gourmet steak, the quicker you get the consumer to gulp it down, the less likely he is to notice it stinks and will make him sick!