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Let’s review before the final test
I have done many articles on Universal Health care and I wanted to re visit some of them. It seems we have forgotten the evidence of what our nation is about to become.
All of this government health care nonsense started because of the many lies of the left when it came to the uninsured. I reported on the truth in July 2009. There are approximately 5.6 million uninsured. This is after you remove the 17% of people who make 300% above poverty level, the 18% that are eligible for Medicaid but don’t sign up, the 30% that decline their employers insurance, and the 60% that have access to government programs but don’t use it. (Some people even fell into more than one category.) Also, the 5.6 million uninsured is before we take out the 10 million illegal aliens. Oh – I almost forgot – 45% of the uninsured were able to obtain insurance w/in 4 months and 26% obtained insurance w/in 4-12 months. So, the whole uninsured cry of the left is BS. All they want is socialism.
What should pro-life democrats do?
How many times do we hear that the democratic party isn’t the party of death? They falsely claim they are the party of choice. Well, once again we can show that they are only for the choice as long as they agree with that choice.
Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”
Mammie Grams
I just thought I should update everyone on the governments want to change when women should get mammograms.
From the Wall Street Journal “A Breast Cancer Preview – The mammogram decision is a sign of cost control to come.” 11/19/2009 page A20
As recently as 2002, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force affirmed its
recommendation that women 40 and older undergo annual mammograms to check for breast cancer. Since regular mammography became standard practice in the early 1990s, mortality from breast cancer—the second leading cause of cancer death among American women—has dropped by about 30%, after remaining constant for the prior half-century. But this week the 16-member task force ruled that patients under 50 or over 75 without special risk factors no longer need screening.
So what changed? Nothing substantial in the clinical evidence. But the panel—which includes no oncologists and radiologists, who best know the medical literature—did decide to re-analyze the data with health-care spending as a core concern.
Single Payer Health Care…In HIS own Words
And just for fun…
Let it Begin
The government is showing us some signs of what life would be like when they are in control of our healthcare:
A government task force said Monday that most women don’t need mammograms in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50 — a stunning reversal and a break with the American Cancer Society’s long-standing position.
What’s more, the panel said breast self-exams do no good, and women shouldn’t be taught to do them…….
For most of the past two decades, the American Cancer Society has been recommending annual mammograms beginning at 40, and it reiterated that position on Monday. “This is one screening test I recommend unequivocally, and would recommend to any woman 40 and over,” the society’s chief medical officer, Dr. Otis Brawley, said in a statement.
Speaking of Frothing at the Mouth……
The Liberal blogs are all a fluster. I love it! This has nothing to do with Obama – because they are probably still hung over from the “he got a prize for doing nothing” party. What I’m talking about is the American Medical Associations report card on Insurance companies. Ya know, those big baddies that don’t pay for squat! Wanna know which insurance company denied the most coverage? Medicare. The government.
Now I know everyone, even the conservative news, wants everyone to think that the big bad insurance companies are allowed to deny pre-existing conditions willy nilly with no thought to the person and that Medicare must cover all who are eligible, as suggested by the Daily Kos. Well, that is simply untrue. Guess what? There is a federal law (federal law trumps state laws) that mandates that insurance companies must have legitimate reasons and can only withhold coverage for pre-existing conditions for a specific amount of time. That little law is something that is well known but this section doesn’t seem to see much public light. It is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It can be found in Title 29 U.S.C. 1181.
What does it all mean?
I’m going back to the Universal Healthcare Reform bill that is in Congress right now because I’ve been informed that I haven’t been getting to the facts as I usually do. Until now the Conservatives groups have been screaming that it will harm us and the Liberal groups have been saying it will not harm and that we need it. So which one is it? In order not to disappoint the readers that know me, I went straight to the source. The bill itself.
One complaint that I’ve been hearing and complaining about is the legalization of euthanasia or “physician assisted suicide” (which is the PC term for euthanasia). Is it really in there and is it mandated? My first 
reaction to these questions is who the heck knows? It is all in legalese so I’ve had to read, reread, and reread some more to try to figure it out. So here is what I’ve got on that:
The truth about the uninsured
I saw these statistics this morning on the Fox News program Fox and Friends and have spent most of the morning verifying their numbers. I verified this information at the National Center for Policy Analysis(NCPA), Business and Media Institute, The Census Bureau, Employment Policies Institute, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Whew. 
So here it is:
We hear it all the time, that there are approximately 47 Million people uninsured. This number is true, but extremely misleading. The problem is they don’t tell you what qualifies as an uninsured person. The CBO report has the definition of uninsured as “uninsured at some point in time”. This is how long a person actually goes without insurance. If a person switches jobs and there is a 1 week gap between the Cobra insurance ending and the new jobs insurance beginning, that counts as one of the millions of uninsured.
Government healthcare means death
I’ve been talking about how Governmental healthcare is really pro-death healthcare. Months ago, I argued my position repeatedly on here UNTIL now. Now that it is close to a reality, no comments in support of government healthcare are anywhere to be found. I have to admit, I’ve been curious about that.
So, what brought this up? Well, a Wall Street Journal article has got me seriously thinking how dangerously close we are to this being a reality, and how dangerously close we are to the ultimate pro-death society.
Wall Street Journal, 7/23/2009 by Betsy McCaughey who is chairman of the 
committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former lieutenant governor of New York state.
Since Medicare was established in 1965, access to care has enabled older Americans to avoid becoming disabled and to travel and live independently instead of languishing in nursing homes. But legislation now being rushed through Congress—H.R. 3200 and the Senate Health Committee Bill—will reduce access to care, pressure the elderly to end their lives prematurely, and doom baby boomers to painful later years.
Another lie is not hope and change
There was a young man from Chicago
Whose politics were a lot like the lotto
He pushes the bills through
Which helps just a few
and “I didn’t read it” is his Motto
Let me give you two recent quotes from President Obama:
“If you have health insurance, and you like it, and you have a doctor that you like, then you can keep it. Period.’"
Yet, here is his response to the question – "Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?"
"You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about."
And guess what? He said both of these statements during a conference call he had with left leaning bloggers! The same interview on the same day.
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