If I Hated the Bill Before...

I hate how the healthcare bill will cut off benefits for the elderly. See my sources below if you disagree, if you think that's a lie. Google "healthcare reform bill elderly" if you disagree.

It's despicable. It's awful. It's inhumane. It's one of those things that only sick, sick people would even dream of suggesting.

So... Once you hit a certain age, say... 70 or so, you're no longer considered a human being worth keeping alive, is that it?

"Every year, an estimated 2.1 million older Americans are victims of physical, psychological, or other forms of abuse and neglect. For every case of elder abuse and neglect reported to the authorities, experts estimate that there may be as many as five cases not reported. Research suggests elders who have been abused tend to die earlier than those not abused, even in the absence of chronic conditions or life threatening disease." http://karisable.com/elderabuse.htm

The message that this bill is sending is that we don't need to keep people alive if they can't do anything for us any more. Even if they've worked their heart out at their chosen proffesion, even if they've enriched the lives of so many around them, EVEN IF ALL THESE THINGS WERE TRUE FOR EVERY SINGLE ELDERLY PERSON, they can't do anything for us any more and so we have no use for them. Is that it?

The message that comes across to me is, "Once you hit a certain age, you're on your own. Die quietly so we don't have to deal with you."

2.1 million older Americans abused. What do you bet those numbers are just going to go up?


 http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908060009 I highly recommend you listen to the clip from Glenn Beck's radio program. It has a lot to do with what I'm talking about. Most of the comments on it are pointless name calling ("Glenn Beck isn't a true conservative!" "Librul!" etc.). In fact, in my quick scan, I haven't been able to see anything worth reading, but, hey, go ahead. Whatever floats your boat.

http://www.lifenews.com/bio2895.html Talks about what it'll do for the elderly.

The Role of Incentives

Esa:    Today, I was checking out drudgereport.com when I saw this headline: ROB THY NEIGHBOR: HALF OF HOUSEHOLDS PAY NO FED INCOME TAX


So I clicked on it to see what it was about.


         "About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions to eliminate their liability. That's according to projections by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research organization."     --finance.yahoo.com


So what does this have to do with anything to do with the health care bill? (Because there is a connection.)


Incentives. Incentive is defined as "something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.


Taxes are a DIS-incentive. That means that they encourage you to NOT make money. That means you don't want to put as much effort into making money that the government will just take away from you. That means that if 47 percent of America decides it's not worth the time and effort to make money, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!!!


What is so great about money anyways? I mean, it's just a piece of green paper.


It is an INCENTIVE!!! It has value (even if I'm sort of foggy on the details of how it has value). It gives you a reason to do something, in other words. Do you think that Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple, would've started the company that created the iPod if there hadn't been some serious money involved? Do you think coal miners would mine coal, risking life, limb, and disease, if they didn't get paid to do it? Do you think that Big Oil would even be big if no one wanted to pay them money for their oil?


Do you understand? Money is a reason for doing something, whether it's creating a new way of farming that is able to sustain more people (which is part of the reason there's about 6 to 9 billion people in the world; I really don't know the exact number), or it's writing a book that is thought provoking and shapes millions of people's way of thinking and living everyday. (Take Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rynd, for example. I highly recommend you read it if you haven't read it already.)


So once you take away money, you take away the reason for innovation, creative, improvement, or even simple thinking. Once you tax a nation so much that they actually avoid making money for fear of being taxed beyond what they can afford, you cripple that nation. You have destroyed it in a way that's more permanent and profound than a simple bomb can because you have taken away an incentive for recovery, for making it better. (Unless, of course, the nation rebells, but then there's no guarantee that the government established will be better then the one before it.)


What does this have to do with the healthcare bill/law/unconstitutional abomination?


Simple. The healthcare "reform" is taking away the incentive to specialize in one specific area. (Along with saddling us with a lot more taxes. But that's sort of beside the point at this point.) 


Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same. pg-241 (See earlier blog posts for a longer list of indignities that they'll force on us.)


Specializing takes several years longer and thousands of dollars more. I'm talking serious money here, not just lose change.

Student debt statistics

• $156,456 – According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the average educational debt of indebted graduates of the class of 2009.
• 79 percent of graduates have debt of at least $100,000.
• 58 percent of graduates have debt of at least $150,000.
• 87 percent of graduating medical students carry outstanding loans.

There's cancer specialists, eye doctors (thank goodness for these guys or else I would be totally blind), dentists (I'm equally thankful for these guys), feet doctors, plastic surgeons (in case you get horribly disfigured), back doctors, MS doctors (who are miracle workers), embryo specialists, etc. (Thanks to Kip for some of this information.)


So why do we have so many specialists going around? Because these doctors make so much more money.


Think about it. If you were a specialist in cancer, you'd be around people dying of cancer who probably don't want to die. They'd pay lots of money to not die and so therefore you'd make more money treating cancer patients than doing the general, everyday stuff that is everyday non-fatal.


So when you get rid of the reason someone becomes a specialist, you make it so people, who would've otherwise happily gone along and become a specialist, don't become specialists. And with them goes that valuable experience that comes when somebody knows their stuff, their highly specialized, practiced for a whole bunch of years before they're even allowed to do an operation on their own without supervision stuff.


And once that time has come, well, I really, really, REALLY hope I don't need surgery. And by really, I mean REALLY.


So now I hope you can see what taxes, doctors, the healthcare... "reform," and incentives have to do with each other.


And I also really hope you're not a communist.


Sources:


This is where I got the statistics for student debts.



ROB THY NEIGHBOR: NEARLY HALF OF HOUSEHOLDS PAY NO FED INCOME TAX



Here is the definition of incentive, if you don't believe me.

I Know This Is Straying From Topic A Little Bit...

But has anyone noticed how Obama plays the race card just a little too much?


Fact: Racist is defined as a "hatred or intolerance of another race or other races." It doesn't say anything about what color of skin those people have to be.


Fact: If you play the race card, you are racist. You cannot expect to receive special treatment for something that you, me, or anything except maybe tanning beds have control over. You say that blacks used to be slaves? You say that they were discriminated against fifty years ago? Forty years? Ten years? Just yesterday?


Well, okay, go whine about it. It really helps your cause.


OR... you could say that people are ignorant, pick up your stuff, and go somewhere else. If people judge you by the color of your skin, then you have to right to ignore them because really, do you need to listen to idiots?


BUT... you play the race card and you lose all right to that moral high ground. You play the race card and even if you get the job, win the law suit, whatever, you are being racist.


NOW. If Obama has played the race card once, twice, maybe three times, I probably wouldn't hold it against him. No, wait, I still would. But at least I wouldn't write a blog post about it. Remember the Gates incident? Henry Gates, a professor at Harvard, was arrested outside his house by a white cop.


And Obama, genius that he is, said, "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played," but regardless, he also said that the police officer "acted stupidly."


So basically, he said, "I have NO CLUE what happened and what was actually involved and whether or not this had ANYTHING to do with race, but the officer was white and the person arrested was black, and so I'm automatically siding with the black guy."


That ain't racist? Next you'll be saying I'm not a girl. And I take lots of offense at that.


These are my references:


This website really doesn't give any evidence to anything, but I just thought I'd show it because then I can pretend I'm not TOTALLY biased.


I HIGHLY recommend that you read this article; it's good.


I got the quotes from here.

Obama says, "Before we find out if people like health care reform, maybe we should wait until it actually happens."

Esa: I say, "Dear President Obama. I am left wondering how you cannot know how people feel about this health care reform. Some people literally want to kill you because you've tried so hard to pass it. That's sort of a major thing to be unaware of. Almost everyone hates it. Doctors, patients, the insured, the uninsured, and people coming to here from Canada hoping to get treatment for cancer or whatever. And by the way, we already know what will happen to us under it. Look at Europe. Look at Canada. Look at almost every other country in the world. They've made their health care system government controlled and now it all sucks. Why do you think people like living in America?"

And of course, Obama neglected to reply. (Well, I didn't exactly contact him on this, but you know what I mean.)

Another thing. Congress, the President, Washington, THEY AREN'T COVERED BY IT! That is the most telling thing in this entire mess of corruption that I've heard about.

Think: If it's good (whatever "it" is; this is just in general), you want it. You want to be using it. You want to be part of it. You want to brag about it. You want to tout the fact around that you're smart enough to be part of it. You want to say, "Ha, ha, suckers!" and rub it in other people's faces.You want it and you want everyone to know that you have it.

So why is Washington exempt from this? I'll tell you why, though you could probably figure it out on your own easily enough: It sucks and they all know it.

So why does Obama want this so badly? Government take over. Government control. Big government. It really doesn't matter what it is called so long as you know what it is: Government forcing itself into your life where it has absolutely no right--Constitutional or otherwise--to go.

So why are we letting them, Obama, Polosky, Biden (the gaff-machine), etc., get away with this?

Don't look at me. I don't know.

(Want to read the article I got that quote from? Click here.)

Why Don't I Like This "Reform"?

Esa: A really good friend of mine just barely asked why I don't like it. (She doesn't like it either, but she was just wondering what I thought of it. I do that too sometimes.)

The reasons I don't like it are...

1. BIG GOVERNMENT. Government is slow, ineffective, and can go on forever as long as it has money (tax dollars), military, and some degree of control over its people. It doesn't have to compete with private enterprise, it doesn't have to behave like private enterprise, and long after ineffective private enterprise has faded away, ineffective government is still there.
2. BIG GOVERNMENT GETTING BIGGER. Fact is, our government was already big. This bill makes it bigger. The bigger government becomes, the more wasteful, the more controlling, the more crazy bloggers start angry blogs.
3. BIG GOVERNMENT GETTING INVOLVED WITH COMMUNISM. Communism is evil. Evil is bad. Bad is trouble. Trouble is no fun.No fun sucks. And it sucks to be in a country getting more and more involved in communism and socialism. See, the reason communism and socialism is evil is because they aren't worried about making things, they're worried about getting things that are already made to be distributed. And fact is, things have to be made before they can be distributed. When you stop making stuff, you start losing stuff. You start slowly going down hill until you start going downhill quickly. And when it gets to that point, well, I think I'll go start my own country. Or move to the moon. Either one is a better idea than communism.
4. WE HAVE TOLD WASHINGTON OVER AND OVER THAT WE HATE THIS BILL, BUT ARE THEY LISTENING? When government no longer listens to its people, when the people no longer have a say in how things are run, then that is evil. It is a sign of dictators, of kings, of people who are driving their country into the ground and they don't seem to care enough to do anything but make it worse. So when Obama and Polosky say we're going to love this, THEY ARE DEAD WRONG!!!
5. ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES ARE BEING TOTALLY DISREGARDED. When people don't have money to spend on healthcare insurance, such as collage students, and they don't really need it, they're going to be forced to buy it anyways. That means taking money away from their budget for clothes, food, and books, and putting it into something outrageously expensive that they can't afford. (College students aren't known for being rich, after all.) And when insurance companies can't deny coverage for a preexisting condition, then the insurance premiums are going to have to go up, due to the increased risk.
6. WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU NEED BETTER: CONGRESS--OR YOU? The thing that really irks me is the incredible arrogance behind it. This is congress saying, "We know what you need better than you know yourself." This is Obama saying, "I know what you want better than you do." This is Polosky saying, "When it's your life, your opinion really doesn't matter." This is me saying, "Are you really dumb enough to believe this? Are you really letting them shove this down your throat?" Think of you, your kids, your grandkids, and your great-grandkids. They'll be stuck with this even more than you are. You should say what you think. You should tell congressmen and senators what you think. You should say you're not going to vote for them if they voted for the bill. You should say that you will never agree to this. You should protect what rights are still left to you with your life. YOU SHOULD NEVER LET ANYONE DECIDE WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU AS LONG AS YOU ARE STILL CAPABLE OF MAKING DECISIONS FOR YOURSELF!

Those are just a few of the reasons I despise the bill, which is now a law, I suppose. I only hope the law is repealed before it does too much damage. I can only hope 2012 comes before Obama totally ruins this country.

Which reminds me. Maybe the Mayans were right. Maybe they could see the future and tell that Obama was going to annihilate the greatest country on earth.

The Bill That Has Been Signed

    Kip: Painful news is here. President Obama has signed his new healthcare bill. This is not surprising, but most definately grievous news. The new bill is only to spoon feed pathetic people living on welfare, and illegal immigrants. While doing that, it is heaping loads of taxes onto the hard-working people of America. So many of our rights were just stripped away from us! This new bill is giving incredible amouts of power to the federal government, by taking it away from the people!! And yet... people want to celebrate?

    "Republicans warned, this health care bill would harm the U.S. economy because it requires huge funds. This bill also would create new taxes for the rich peoples and health care providers. In addition, this bill also will lead to government intervention in private health care sector." --newsgone.com

         Is this really what you want??
Let's talk about what his bill is doing and what is wrong with it.

   First, the bill is going to impose rich, standard packages of benefits, with low deductibles, for all Americans. Those policies, typically containing everything from in-vitro fertilization to mental health benefits, which are usually far more expensive than anything most people would pay for with their own money.
   Second, the plans are going to use a "community rating", in which all customers have to be offered the same rates, regardless of their health risks. Community rating forces young people to pay far more than their actual cost, a main reason for today's 46 million uninsured, while it subsidizes older patients and people who choose to live an unhealthy lifestyle.
   Third, Obama is making it impossible to buy insurance from other states. By doing this, people have less options and can't get as low prices. This will raise prices, making it easier for the government to raise prices or be less expensive than some companies. Thus eliminating much of the needed competition.
   Fourth, both plans propose what's known as a "public option," that would compete with the private offerings. The previous three proposals are making it so expensive. With the same subsidies, the Medicare-style plan could put them out of business. Since when was it okay for the government to compete with private businesses??



Also, something to know is that Obama's health-care plan is not included in his 2010 budget. The administration pledges that his health-care plan won't expand the deficit because it will be entirely paid for by tax increases. But even if the deficit stays the same, spending and taxes will be far from the same. The bill is taking money from the hardworking people by raising taxes and putting it into a system where people can benifit without putting their part into it. Some more bad news is that by most estimates, Obama's plan will cost more than $200 billion a year by 2019.

Obama's Heathcare Bill (continued)

  Kip: We've got some more information... All of it as disturbing as before. Here are some more things the healthcare bill is enforcing:

• Any individual who doesn't have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income. pg- 167
• Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
  pg-170
• Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.  pg-195
• "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that. pg-203
• Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same. pg-241
• Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc. pg-253
• Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries. pg-265
• Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!  pg-272
• Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions. pg-280
• Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government. pg-298
• Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies! pg-317
• Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval. pg-318
• Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing. pg-335
• Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc. pg-341
• Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals. pg-354
• Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time. pg-425
• Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends. pg-427
• Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.  pg-429
• Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.  pg-430
• Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage. pg-489
• Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services. pg- 494

Mike Adams
naturalnews.com
(http://www.naturalnews.com/026733_health_health_care_healthcare.html)



Esa:   I am literally speechless. This... this thing will kill us all. It rewards illegal immigrants. It actually encourages them to break the law in coming here. It punishes doctors. It forces you to buy insurance. It is government take over!

It says that the tax imposed under this section will not be treated as a tax. That right there allows them to say the lie, "It won't raise taxes", admit they're lying, and get away with it all the same.

The government is taking over healthcare. Isn't that something like one sixth of the private sector? The only thing more important than that for our survival would likely be the food industry.

Is government going to try to take over that next? Here's an idea: Stock up on food storage. With people like Obama in charge, you never know when your rights will be violated.

This reminds me of the Soviet Union. Government trying to control everything, even things that simply cannot be controlled. It was doomed. If we try to follow their example, we're doomed.

We've accomplished more in the 200-odd years we've been a country than any other group of people. We created the Internet, the iPod, the Constitution, the lightbulb, the TV! Our houses are huge compared to any other country's. We live longer, we're healthier, we have freedom of speech, of press, of thought, of song, of meeting with whomever we want to, and we are blessed so much.

Name one other country that has what we have. We have freedom! We have success and failure. We have choice. We have so many options, so many chances! We have millionares who earn what they have and don't steal it (usually). We have happy people, we have sad people, we have people who love their country and are willing to die for it over and over again.

Do you understand what this means? We giving up what it means to be American. We're copying the other countries of the world like the Soviet Union who've given in to socialism and who are paying the price. We, the epitomy of success, are copying failures. We're getting rid of success by refusing to allow failure. We're becoming a welfare state, where government "knows best." We're saying responsiblity is "old fashioned" and "we don't need it any more! We've got government to take care of us!" We're killing our souls by refusing to think. We're refusing to think by allowing this monstrosity of a bill to be passed.

You say that there is nothing we can do? There's always!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! something we can do! Even if the government says, "You don't do this, you go to jail," which it says several times, you still have the choice. You can live in a country where all you have is an illusion of freedom or you can fight for the real stuff.