Rationing. It is all a government can do when consumers are not allowed to self-ration based on disposable income and evaluations of actual need.
Headline: NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7908742/Axe-falls-on-NHS-services.html
Privatize or die. Literally.
Showing posts with label socialized medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socialized medicine. Show all posts
Monday, July 26, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
The Gift That Keeps on Taking
National Socialist Party member Bart Stupak's retirement gift to Obama: socialized medicine with abortion on demand. http://tinyurl.com/y9b5rjf
Bart Stupak is a prime example of precisely what is wrong with American politics. He is a gutless, spineless, unprincipled coward. Voluntary retirement is too good for him.
Bart Stupak is a prime example of precisely what is wrong with American politics. He is a gutless, spineless, unprincipled coward. Voluntary retirement is too good for him.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Epic Threat Weekend
This weekend is a huge pivot point for the future of the United States and the Obama-Reid-Pelosi government takeover plan for 17% of the economy.
In their typically deceptive way, the Democrats have pointed to the crushing amount of unfunded future "obligations" imposed on the projected Federal budgets by the socialist Medicare program, and then said they needed to tackle the cause of this burden: private health insurance. Talk about kicking the dog because the cat made a mess.
Certainly the only completely wrong way to reduce the future costs of socialized medicine is to create more socialized medicine.
I am left to ponder the question: Do we need health care insurance reform, or do we really need government reformed?
In their typically deceptive way, the Democrats have pointed to the crushing amount of unfunded future "obligations" imposed on the projected Federal budgets by the socialist Medicare program, and then said they needed to tackle the cause of this burden: private health insurance. Talk about kicking the dog because the cat made a mess.
Certainly the only completely wrong way to reduce the future costs of socialized medicine is to create more socialized medicine.
I am left to ponder the question: Do we need health care insurance reform, or do we really need government reformed?
Monday, February 22, 2010
Obama to Double Down on Socialism
For nearly half a year, the American people have pointed out the most outrageous and costly elements of the Democrat's socialist health care nationalization plan. And for half a year, Obama's lackeys have claimed "that's not the President's plan."
This week, B. Hussein Obama is set to reveal his plan. It turns out that the Reid-Pelosi plan was not costly or socialist enough for a true Statist like the Anointed One.
To the extent the Federal government should be involved in health care "reform", it must be to reduce the Federal role in health care -- after all, everyone agrees that the existing health care projections and expenditures in the Federal budget are unsustainable. But only in a Statist's wildest Socialistic dreams could an exercise in cost reduction result in the quintupling of the size of the program and budget.
Unlike most of the Conservative commentators, I hope the GOP does meet with B. Hussein Obama on television this week, and they should launch a principled and unrelenting critique of the Anointed One's plan, destroying it element by element. The American people do not want Socialized medicine, do not want a Federal takeover of health care, and do not want Washington DC running their lives.
The GOP does not need to propose an alternative plan to win this. Doing nothing is better than enacting any Democrat's plan. It is appropriate and instructive to recall the first principle of the Hippocratic oath -- first do no harm.
Update: As more details come out, the Anointed One's plan has all the tried and failed socialist remedies: higher taxes, higher government spending, higher deficits, more government control over citizen lives and medical decisions, prices controls, a huge new bureaucracy, and illogical reasoning: we're spending your money to save it.
Additional Update: Follow this media talking point: "Mandating insurance coverage for all Americans will mean that the insured will stop paying for the medical expenses of the uninsured. And there are government insurance vouchers to pay for insurance for those who can't afford it."
This week, B. Hussein Obama is set to reveal his plan. It turns out that the Reid-Pelosi plan was not costly or socialist enough for a true Statist like the Anointed One.
To the extent the Federal government should be involved in health care "reform", it must be to reduce the Federal role in health care -- after all, everyone agrees that the existing health care projections and expenditures in the Federal budget are unsustainable. But only in a Statist's wildest Socialistic dreams could an exercise in cost reduction result in the quintupling of the size of the program and budget.
Unlike most of the Conservative commentators, I hope the GOP does meet with B. Hussein Obama on television this week, and they should launch a principled and unrelenting critique of the Anointed One's plan, destroying it element by element. The American people do not want Socialized medicine, do not want a Federal takeover of health care, and do not want Washington DC running their lives.
The GOP does not need to propose an alternative plan to win this. Doing nothing is better than enacting any Democrat's plan. It is appropriate and instructive to recall the first principle of the Hippocratic oath -- first do no harm.
Update: As more details come out, the Anointed One's plan has all the tried and failed socialist remedies: higher taxes, higher government spending, higher deficits, more government control over citizen lives and medical decisions, prices controls, a huge new bureaucracy, and illogical reasoning: we're spending your money to save it.
Additional Update: Follow this media talking point: "Mandating insurance coverage for all Americans will mean that the insured will stop paying for the medical expenses of the uninsured. And there are government insurance vouchers to pay for insurance for those who can't afford it."
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Socialism's BIG Lie of the Day
"I have not said that I am a supporter of a single payer system." - Barak Hussein Obama, August 12, 2009
"I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program." - Barak Hussein Obama, June 30, 2003
"I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately." - Barak Hussein Obama, May 2007
The Price of Freedom
Thomas Jefferson opined that "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." This was uttered in a different place and time, before the advent of National Socialism, Communism, and the nanny state.
Today, I suggest that the price of freedom is self-reliance, for it is only with a national belief of self-reliance that a nation may keep its freedom from a dictatorial government.
The modern American Democrat has long known that their power is based upon expanding the class of people who are dependent on the government for their way of life. The larger the dependency class, the greater the power the Democrats will possess.
Controlling the nation's health care is the ultimate power grab. Not just because controlling health care means providing Democrat-appointed bureaucrats the power of life and death over everyone, but also because it creates a dependent class of all citizens who cannot afford to leave the country for appropriate medical treatment.
Furthermore, it will create a direct dependency class of those citizens who are directly employed by a nationalized health service. Currently, the third largest single employer in the world is the National Health Service in England, behind only the PRC Army and Indian Rail (the employment numbers for the entire UK would be higher, as you add the numbers servicing Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). The English National Health Service has more than 1.2 Million employees, less than half of which are actual care-givers, and only 109,000 of which are English doctors.
Applying this ratio of NHS employees to the English working age population, it would be extrapolated that in the United States, a government run health care system would employ Eight Million Americans, over Four Million of which would be administrative employees. The Democrats know that there would be Eight Million citizens whose livelihood would be dependent upon the preservation of that nationalized health system, and Eight Million votes to preserve such a system once it was put into place.
I had the pleasure of speaking with several English doctors on holiday a couple of years ago. What we should understand is that NHS doctors are not college and medical school trained doctors at all, but identified during high school as having a competence for medical learning, and diverted to medical training in what Americans would call a trade school. At best, the standard NHS doctor would be a physician assistant in the United States. This mirrors my experience in the other government-provided health care service I have experienced first hand, the United States Army.
Today, I suggest that the price of freedom is self-reliance, for it is only with a national belief of self-reliance that a nation may keep its freedom from a dictatorial government.
The modern American Democrat has long known that their power is based upon expanding the class of people who are dependent on the government for their way of life. The larger the dependency class, the greater the power the Democrats will possess.
Controlling the nation's health care is the ultimate power grab. Not just because controlling health care means providing Democrat-appointed bureaucrats the power of life and death over everyone, but also because it creates a dependent class of all citizens who cannot afford to leave the country for appropriate medical treatment.
Furthermore, it will create a direct dependency class of those citizens who are directly employed by a nationalized health service. Currently, the third largest single employer in the world is the National Health Service in England, behind only the PRC Army and Indian Rail (the employment numbers for the entire UK would be higher, as you add the numbers servicing Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). The English National Health Service has more than 1.2 Million employees, less than half of which are actual care-givers, and only 109,000 of which are English doctors.
Applying this ratio of NHS employees to the English working age population, it would be extrapolated that in the United States, a government run health care system would employ Eight Million Americans, over Four Million of which would be administrative employees. The Democrats know that there would be Eight Million citizens whose livelihood would be dependent upon the preservation of that nationalized health system, and Eight Million votes to preserve such a system once it was put into place.
I had the pleasure of speaking with several English doctors on holiday a couple of years ago. What we should understand is that NHS doctors are not college and medical school trained doctors at all, but identified during high school as having a competence for medical learning, and diverted to medical training in what Americans would call a trade school. At best, the standard NHS doctor would be a physician assistant in the United States. This mirrors my experience in the other government-provided health care service I have experienced first hand, the United States Army.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
How Participatory Democracy Scares Democrats
As more and more people come to read the liberty destroying portions of the House version of the Obamacare Health Reform bill, the members of the Democrat party are becoming uncomfortable with hearing from their constituents. The whole thing reminds me of an interchange between Count de Monet and King Louis XVI in the Mel Brooks film History of the World Part 1:
Count de Monet: It is said that the people are revolting.
King Louis XVI: You said it! They stink on ice!
Watch the clip on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpYs9GBXwY
Democrats have been participating in rent-a-mob politics for so long they believe any group of people that show up at a political meeting focused on a single issue MUST be organized by some puppet master, just as they play puppet master to their “constituents.” To a Washington liberal, it is beyond the realm of the possible that citizens – of their own volition -- might come to a town hall meeting or other public forum to challenge the permanent political class. The voting/tax-paying class is clearly not politically savvy enough to behave in such an effective manner! Don’t we have our willing sycophants in the mainstream media telling them that this “reform” is good for the children?!?
The reaction of the Democrat political class is at once laughable, predictable, and hypocritical. When a Bush was president, it was “patriotic” to “speak truth to power.” Now that Obama is in the White House, Senator Boxer says that “organized groups" are planning to "harm our President!” With AIG execs were being paid pursuant to their contract, liberals bussed agitators into the neighborhoods to stand on their front lawns. When Conservatives show up to voice opposition to an unconstitutional Federal power-grab, they are called “well-dressed Nazis” or “racists”, or more likely, both.
Even the White House is behaving like a Chicago thug, issuing a video clip calling accurate quotes from Barak Obama about ridding the nation of private insurance “fishy” and a “distortion.”
The direct quote from Barak Obama was as follows: ““I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”
Clearly, this is at odds with both what Obama is saying about “choosing” your insurance, and at odds with the terms of the House bill Obama is pushing. But, apparently believing Obama means what he says and says what he means is a “distortion.”
Additionally, the White House, through Macon Phillips, the director of new media for Mr. Obama, also issued the following request for snitches: “Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an e-mail or see something on the Web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
Most hypercritical of all is that while Obama’s political allies are accusing some shadowy group of Republicans and evil insurance companies of paying people to show up to voice their displeasure at the unconstitutional Federal healthcare power grab, Obama is sending out emails to his ACORN buddies to get ready to mobilize to support Socialism.
What follows is an email to his activists sent by Barak Obama. I’ve included the whole thing so I cannot be accused of a distortion.
from President Barack Obama info@barackobama.com
reply-to info@barackobama.com
date Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM
subject This is the moment
mailed-by bounce.bluestatedigital.com
This is the moment our movement was built for.
For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across America. Throughout August, members of Congress are back home, where the hands they shake and the voices they hear will not belong to lobbyists, but to people like you.
Home is where we’re strongest. We didn’t win last year’s election together at a committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at the softball games and the town meetings, and in every part of this great country where people gather to talk about what matters most. And if you’re willing to step up once again, that’s exactly where we’re going to win this historic campaign for the guaranteed, affordable health insurance that every American deserves.
There are those who profit from the status quo, or see this debate as a political game, and they will stop at nothing to block reform. They are filling the airwaves and the internet with outrageous falsehoods to scare people into opposing change. And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous. So we’ve got to get out there, fight lies with truth, and set the record straight.
That’s why Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you’re counting on them to act.
But these canvasses, town halls, and gatherings only make a difference if you turn up to knock on doors, share your views, and show your support. So here’s what I need from you:
Can you commit to join at least one event in your community this month?
In politics, there’s a rule that says when you ask people to get involved, always tell them it’ll be easy. Well, let’s be honest here: Passing comprehensive health insurance reform will not be easy. Every President since Harry Truman has talked about it, and the most powerful and experienced lobbyists in Washington stand in the way.
But every day we don’t act, Americans watch their premiums rise three times faster than wages, small businesses and families are pushed towards bankruptcy, and 14,000 people lose their coverage entirely. The cost of inaction is simply too much for the people of this nation to bear.
So yes, fixing this crisis will not be easy. Our opponents will attack us every day for daring to try. It will require time, and hard work, and there will be days when we don’t know if we have anything more to give. But there comes a moment when we all have to choose between doing what’s easy, and doing what’s right.
This is one of those times. And moments like this are what this movement was built for. So, are you ready?
Please commit now to taking at least one action in your community this month to build support for health insurance reform.
Let’s seize this moment and win this historic victory for our economy, our health and our families.
Thank you,
President Barack Obama
-end-
You know, this email from President Barak Obama looks fishy to me. I think I will send this on to the White House.
When a community organizer objects when a community organizes in opposition to his policies, that is pure, naked, unadulterated liberal hypocrisy --particularly when he is in fact organizing to support himself.
Obama has given marching orders to his ACORN minions and his Ministry of Truth lackeys Linda Douglass and Macon Phillips. Contrast that with Conservatives, who are independent, self-motivated, and aware. Conservatives do not need marching orders, trinkets, or payments to make their voices heard. The Tea Party Movement lives on. Liberty may yet be rescued. If not, the nation will surely fail.
Count de Monet: It is said that the people are revolting.
King Louis XVI: You said it! They stink on ice!
Watch the clip on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpYs9GBXwY
Democrats have been participating in rent-a-mob politics for so long they believe any group of people that show up at a political meeting focused on a single issue MUST be organized by some puppet master, just as they play puppet master to their “constituents.” To a Washington liberal, it is beyond the realm of the possible that citizens – of their own volition -- might come to a town hall meeting or other public forum to challenge the permanent political class. The voting/tax-paying class is clearly not politically savvy enough to behave in such an effective manner! Don’t we have our willing sycophants in the mainstream media telling them that this “reform” is good for the children?!?
The reaction of the Democrat political class is at once laughable, predictable, and hypocritical. When a Bush was president, it was “patriotic” to “speak truth to power.” Now that Obama is in the White House, Senator Boxer says that “organized groups" are planning to "harm our President!” With AIG execs were being paid pursuant to their contract, liberals bussed agitators into the neighborhoods to stand on their front lawns. When Conservatives show up to voice opposition to an unconstitutional Federal power-grab, they are called “well-dressed Nazis” or “racists”, or more likely, both.
Even the White House is behaving like a Chicago thug, issuing a video clip calling accurate quotes from Barak Obama about ridding the nation of private insurance “fishy” and a “distortion.”
The direct quote from Barak Obama was as follows: ““I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”
Clearly, this is at odds with both what Obama is saying about “choosing” your insurance, and at odds with the terms of the House bill Obama is pushing. But, apparently believing Obama means what he says and says what he means is a “distortion.”
Additionally, the White House, through Macon Phillips, the director of new media for Mr. Obama, also issued the following request for snitches: “Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an e-mail or see something on the Web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
Most hypercritical of all is that while Obama’s political allies are accusing some shadowy group of Republicans and evil insurance companies of paying people to show up to voice their displeasure at the unconstitutional Federal healthcare power grab, Obama is sending out emails to his ACORN buddies to get ready to mobilize to support Socialism.
What follows is an email to his activists sent by Barak Obama. I’ve included the whole thing so I cannot be accused of a distortion.
from President Barack Obama info@barackobama.com
reply-to info@barackobama.com
date Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM
subject This is the moment
mailed-by bounce.bluestatedigital.com
This is the moment our movement was built for.
For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across America. Throughout August, members of Congress are back home, where the hands they shake and the voices they hear will not belong to lobbyists, but to people like you.
Home is where we’re strongest. We didn’t win last year’s election together at a committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at the softball games and the town meetings, and in every part of this great country where people gather to talk about what matters most. And if you’re willing to step up once again, that’s exactly where we’re going to win this historic campaign for the guaranteed, affordable health insurance that every American deserves.
There are those who profit from the status quo, or see this debate as a political game, and they will stop at nothing to block reform. They are filling the airwaves and the internet with outrageous falsehoods to scare people into opposing change. And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous. So we’ve got to get out there, fight lies with truth, and set the record straight.
That’s why Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you’re counting on them to act.
But these canvasses, town halls, and gatherings only make a difference if you turn up to knock on doors, share your views, and show your support. So here’s what I need from you:
Can you commit to join at least one event in your community this month?
In politics, there’s a rule that says when you ask people to get involved, always tell them it’ll be easy. Well, let’s be honest here: Passing comprehensive health insurance reform will not be easy. Every President since Harry Truman has talked about it, and the most powerful and experienced lobbyists in Washington stand in the way.
But every day we don’t act, Americans watch their premiums rise three times faster than wages, small businesses and families are pushed towards bankruptcy, and 14,000 people lose their coverage entirely. The cost of inaction is simply too much for the people of this nation to bear.
So yes, fixing this crisis will not be easy. Our opponents will attack us every day for daring to try. It will require time, and hard work, and there will be days when we don’t know if we have anything more to give. But there comes a moment when we all have to choose between doing what’s easy, and doing what’s right.
This is one of those times. And moments like this are what this movement was built for. So, are you ready?
Please commit now to taking at least one action in your community this month to build support for health insurance reform.
Let’s seize this moment and win this historic victory for our economy, our health and our families.
Thank you,
President Barack Obama
-end-
You know, this email from President Barak Obama looks fishy to me. I think I will send this on to the White House.
When a community organizer objects when a community organizes in opposition to his policies, that is pure, naked, unadulterated liberal hypocrisy --particularly when he is in fact organizing to support himself.
Obama has given marching orders to his ACORN minions and his Ministry of Truth lackeys Linda Douglass and Macon Phillips. Contrast that with Conservatives, who are independent, self-motivated, and aware. Conservatives do not need marching orders, trinkets, or payments to make their voices heard. The Tea Party Movement lives on. Liberty may yet be rescued. If not, the nation will surely fail.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
"Compassionate" Cannibalism
Previously, this blog reported that after the bank grab, B. Hussein Obama would set his sights on taking over the health care industry -- here is the link.
http://redwarning.blogspot.com/2009/04/capitalisms-destruction-imminent.html
Yesterday, several medical associations tried to throw a virgin into the volcano and stave off their destruction. They promised to reduce the rate of growth of health care costs by 1.5% a year. Their pathetic attempt to co-opt a committed Socialist Statist like Obama reflects their complete underestimation of B.O. and his ilk. These medical industry "leaders" will soon find themselves tied up over a cooking fire while the cannibals sharpen their eating utensils.
http://redwarning.blogspot.com/2009/04/capitalisms-destruction-imminent.html
Yesterday, several medical associations tried to throw a virgin into the volcano and stave off their destruction. They promised to reduce the rate of growth of health care costs by 1.5% a year. Their pathetic attempt to co-opt a committed Socialist Statist like Obama reflects their complete underestimation of B.O. and his ilk. These medical industry "leaders" will soon find themselves tied up over a cooking fire while the cannibals sharpen their eating utensils.
Even today, the Senate Finance Committee will be holding hearings on how it can increase taxes to pay for Obama's "health care" plan. The Statists have not detailed their legislative proposals yet, but they know already they need to raise taxes!
You can bet the nanny state Nazis will be out in full force to propose adding punitive taxes to anything they consider unhealthy -- sodas and beverages, fast food, meat, cheese, milk, etc. Naturally, all these proposals would violate B.O.'s promise to not raise taxes on those making less than $250k per year, but what is a promise to a Democrat other than something to be broken?
The continued "compassionate cannibalism" of the economy proposed by the Obama administration will have the same result as any other form of cannibalism -- the unwary are cooked, killed, and eaten.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Why this blog?
The year is 2008. It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that the combined forces of socialism in all its strains -- socialists, communists, environmentalists, anarchists, Democrats, "moderate" Republicans, RINOs, progressives, one-world advocates, regulators, single-payer medical plan advocates, newspaper conglomerates, elitists, Marxists, and empty-headed do-gooders of all stripes -- have reached a level of power in the United States that threatens the very fabric of this nation and the God-given liberties of its people.
These forces are no longer having the nation slouch towards more government control of our lives and the economy. These forces are now convinced that they can cause the nation to sprint towards the implementation of socialism in the United States.
The evidence of this is plain for all to see. This blog is to try to get all the evidence into one place so that citizens will be aware of the threat the forces of socialism pose to our nation. This nation defeated Communism in Europe, and now seems willing to impose it on ourselves.
But, Socialism cannot be imposed in the United States -- it is chosen. Most often, it is chosen because citizens are too concerned with other matters than to defeat socialists at the ballot box. Hopefully, Red Warning will be the alarm that wakes a sleeping citizenry into action.
We are past needing a Red Alert. This is a Red Warning.
These forces are no longer having the nation slouch towards more government control of our lives and the economy. These forces are now convinced that they can cause the nation to sprint towards the implementation of socialism in the United States.
The evidence of this is plain for all to see. This blog is to try to get all the evidence into one place so that citizens will be aware of the threat the forces of socialism pose to our nation. This nation defeated Communism in Europe, and now seems willing to impose it on ourselves.
But, Socialism cannot be imposed in the United States -- it is chosen. Most often, it is chosen because citizens are too concerned with other matters than to defeat socialists at the ballot box. Hopefully, Red Warning will be the alarm that wakes a sleeping citizenry into action.
We are past needing a Red Alert. This is a Red Warning.
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