How Life is Valued in National Health Care legislation.

Anyone who is pro-life must know that all the current health care bills in Congress will allow taxpayer funded abortions. That is a fact that can't be denied. There have been amendments submitted to take this provision out of the health care bills, but these amendments were all voted down. There is no right to life for the unborn in national health care.

There are also provisions that will make life a "cost benefit commodity", especially for the very young and the old. While the bills don't say this specifically, the consequences of the implementation of the provisions will guarantee that medical care will be rationed, and, in some cases, denied. President Obama's key health care advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, is a proponent of the "complete lives" system. This system values stages of life differently and applies these values to decisions that should be made about health care given at different stages of life. The very young have less value because society has less invested in them. People over 65 have less value, because they now have less to contribute to society. These ideas may shock you, but they are in print authored by Dr. Emanuel!

How this legislation is implemented will be decided by the agendas of the people in authority. If those people don't value all life equally we can be sure of medical care being rationed or denied to those they value less.

READ HR3200 to know the Truth!

I don't have enough room in this blog to explain to you how dangerous this Health Care bill is! If you want to know what's in it, go to www.LC.org and look at their section by section review of HR3200. It will give you nightmares, especially if you are a senior citizen or have parents or grandparents that you care about!

Have you noticed how, when Democrats are asked about the health care bills, they all use specific words and phrases. These words and phrases are "talking points" that have been carefully selected to influence people to accept the Democratic arguments, regardless of their truthfulness.

One example is the liberals saying that the bills allow people to "keep" the coverage that they like, that the government coverage is just an "option", and that it doesn't mean that government will "take over" health insurance. Anyone who actually reads the bill realizes that these are not true statements.

Not only are there specifics in the bill but once the public option goes into effect, over time, private insurance will be forced out. Government will be making the regulations that will control the private insurance industry and private insurance will not be able to compete with the government "option". The government will be both the opposing team and the umpire in the private insurance industry! The devil is in the details and the President and congressional democrats hope that most people will NOT read the bill and will just accept what is said because it "sounds good" and it's what they want to hear!

This is NOT health care reform. They have not even addressed the real problems evident in our health care system. This is a blatant grab of government control over our lives. Once they have this control, our lives are in the hands of bureaucrats and politicians.

PLEASE go to LC.org and read the information. I guarantee you will NOT want this bill to pass!

HOW LEGISLATION IS IMPLEMENTED

Federal regulations are the actual enforceable laws authorized by major legislation enacted by Congress. The creation of the real laws and regulations that enforce acts of Congress, like health care reform bills, happen largely unnoticed in the offices of the government agencies rather than the halls of Congress.

There are at least 50 "regulatory" agencies that are empowered to create and enforce rules - regulations - that carry the full force of law. Acts such as the health care bills, literally enable the regulatory agencies to create the regulations required to administer and enforce them. Individuals, businesses, and private and public organizations can be fined, sanctioned, forced to close, and even jailed for violating federal regulations.

The final step requires either publication in the Federal Register for at least 30 days, and some require publication and hearings. Again, these publications and hearings often go unnoticed by the American people and the media.

The people who actually supervise these federal agencies, and their superiors, have great influence on the actual rules and regulations created, and the implementation of these regulations. Examining the resumes and the values of the people that President Obama has put in charge of these areas of government gives us reason to fear how national care could, in reality, be very different from what the American people intended! The provisions of HR 3200 and other national health care bills can easily result in rules and regulations that will make these health care bills an absolute nightmare for the health insurance industry, the medical providers, and the people who are subject to it.

So no matter how benign some of the provisions of HR3200 look, in the end they could be very threatening to the health and welfare of the American people. At least with private coverage you have choices about what health plan you want based on what they offer and what they cost. A government controlled plan takes away those choices, not only about insurance coverage, but about your own medical care!

Do you trust government agency bureaucrats with your medical care and your life?

President Obama named Cass Sunstein as his "Regulatory Czar" and named him head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Sunstein in a Radical with a capital "R"! He advocates animal rights (your dog should have the right to sue you!). Really! He says that the internet is "undemocratic" and is a proponent of the "Fairness Doctrine" which promotes the squelching of opposing viewpoints. He promotes the "cost benefit analysis" as a primary tool for assessing regulations. This cost benefit analysis is the theory that undervalues the lives of seniors. He is a nutcase of the highest order and he is in charge of writing regulations for government programs. God help us all!

Kennedy's admonishment

I remember, as a young person, listening to the inauguration of the Democratic President John F. Kennedy. Recently I heard again the words stated by him in his inaugural address. "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." I thought about how far our nation has strayed from that principle espoused by President Kennedy.

For many people it IS about what their country can do for them! People seem to have the idea that everyone in this country has a "right" to jobs, housing, food, education, health care and even new cars and it is the job of government to provide them. Many think that government should take away from those who have earned wealth and give it to those who haven't!

This idea of government dependency makes us weak as a people. People who can't stand on their own two feet are easily knocked down! Strength comes from taking responsibility for ourselves, facing challenges, overcoming adversity, working hard, sacrificing present wants for future rewards.

The wisdom of our founding fathers is evidenced by our Constitution which calls for limited government. The colonists weren't people who expected government to take care of them. They risked everything to make good lives for themselves and obtain their freedom from tyranny. That is the legacy they gave us and that principle has made our country and our people strong.

We will only stay strong if we follow the admonition of President Kennedy. If we continue to expect government to do for US and allow them to take greater and greater responsibility for our personal lives, we will soon lose the freedom to succeed or fail. Our strength as a nation will erode. We will become a nation of sheep who are easily herded and sheared.

We serve our country when we are good citizens; when we vote; when we serve in the military, when we give of ourselves to help those in need. But most of all, we serve our country when we stand up and take responsibility for our own lives.

It's Bush's Fault!

We are still hearing about all the horrible things that happened to us during the "last 8 years" as an excuse when someone cannot give a reasonable answer to a question about President Obama's agenda! According to them, it's still now (and somehow always will be) Bush's fault!

The liberals love to create villains! President Bush was their first major villain. Wall street, CEO's, banks, insurance companies, republicans, talk radio hosts, doctors, are just a few of the many "villains" the liberals love to have us hate! These days even the American people who disagree with the Health Care agenda are labeled "villians"!

Many Democratics in congress still blame Bush for a war that most of them voted for! They blame him for the housing market downturn that was primarily the effect of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac's democratic governmental interference in the housing market.

Democratic handlers use the strategy that "if you repeatedly say an untruth long enough, people will start to accept it as truth"! The "8 years" excuse is a prime example. I remember living through at least 7 years of prosperity! When the Democrats took over control of congress in the last 2 years of Bush's term, the economy started to feel the effects of liberal fiscal irresponsibility, such as the fiasco with government regulation over mortgages with Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac.

In the last 7 months, President Obama has spent more taxpayer money than any other President, under the guise of a "stimulus package" that has done very little except bring taxpayer funded pork projects into various states. In 7 months, he has increased our national debt more than any other President. He has grabbed government control over private financial institutions and major industries. He proposed government controlled health care that will not only put our country into further debt, but will reduce the quality of health care and take away our freedom of choice over our own health.

Instead of using the excuse "the last 8 years", I wish people would apply some common sense to what has happened in the last 7 months! This is Obama's economy now, not Bush's! The Obama administration has made wrong economic moves that have slowed our economy even more during the last 6 months, and have caused unemployment to rise even more. They do these things as quickly as they can so that the American people are overwhelmed and can't monitor all that is happening, allowing them to push their legislation through "under the radar" of the American people.

But, for the administration, it's more about control and power than it is about the American people. President Obama has radical ideas of what this country should be, and it's not the principles which our Founding Fathers valued. He is creating of structure of Czars in our government who answer only to the President, and bypass Congressional oversight. Unelected Czars are controlling major aspects of our government and our economy. He is doing everything in his power to bring our nation into submission, while, at the same time, telling us how much he wants prosperity for all the people!

The more economically needy we are, the more control the government has over us! When they control our finances, our energy supply, and even our health care, they control US! When we have lost all of our savings and 401K's and IRA's and we have nothing left, we will have to go to the government for help. When we are so heavily taxed that we can't make ends meet with what's left of our paychecks, then they have us where they want us!

Wake up, people! The Obama administration knows exactly what they are doing! They are trying to create a "middle class society" (Rahm Emanuel's book) where the elite group (government) controls our lives and our money, and thus, our freedom! You can be sure that President Obama and his friends, and Congress and their friends, won't be "middle class". They consider themselves the "elites". That's the reason that they are arrogant and dismissive of the opinions of their constituents, because they think they know better than we do about what we need and what will keep us "in our place".

Wake up, America! Put the blame where it belongs, with President Obama and the Democratic controlled Congress. Demand fiscal responsibility from President Obama and Congress. Tell them we can't afford National Health Care! Take back our nation before we lose our quality of life and our freedom!