Health Care Reform Pushed Ahead Despite Opposition

By Tom McGillvray, Cary Smith, and Gary MacLaren

As state legislators, we are used to the federal government treating the states like its red-headed stepchild. Washington dictates, and we are expected to follow. Whether it’s transportation, health care, or education, federal money comes with federal strings—and more often than not, the strings outlast the money and the states end up picking up the tab. And the current debate over health care reform is no exception.

We were willing to give President Obama the benefit of the doubt when he called for more discussion and debate. He certainly seemed willing to reach across the aisle to include his political opponents in his recent health care summit. But, given just how much of any health care reform bill is bound to fall on the shoulders of the states to implement and fund, he should have included us—a point which House Minority Leader John Boehner made in a letter to Rahm Emanuel.

But this new era of “bipartisanship” was short lived indeed. Just ask Congressional leaders like Jon Tester and Max Baucus if they support the so-called nuclear option of passing a health care bill Americans don’t want through a questionable legislative maneuver. If Congress does manage to pass the President’s health care reform proposal it is sure to include a mandate for individuals to purchase health insurance.

However, being forced to buy health insurance, or being forced to buy a particular health plan, just doesn’t sit right with independent-minded Montanans, or the rest of Americans judging by recent polls. This is why we plan to introduce the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act, a state constitutional amendment that protects individuals, employers, and health care providers from being forced to participate in any health care system and preserves individuals’ right to pay directly for care.

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Tags: ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Barack Obama, Cary Smith, federal mandates
Posted Mar 6th 2010 at 4:20 pm in Healthcare, Obama, Politics, Special, State Politics | 85438100 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/03/06/health-care-reform-pushed-ahead-despite-opposition/Health+Care+Reform+Pushed+Ahead+Despite+Opposition2010-03-07+00%3A20%3A23Publius

Freedom is a Right, and Any Health Care Bill That Takes Away Americans’ Freedom is Wrong

After the conclusion of yesterday’s nationally-televised health care “summit” hosted by President Obama, in a video for YouTube’s Citizen Tube I answered five health care questions submitted and voted on by the You Tube community.  The questions posed on You Tube are the same questions and concerns I hear from Americans across the country.  They want to us scrap the current bill and start over with common-sense, step-by-step measures that lower health care costs.  And they want to know why Congress insists on passing massive bills that no one in America has time to read or understand.  My Republican colleagues and I agree a different approach is needed – not just to health care reform, but to the way Congress works on every issue.

In the video, I respond to citizens’ questions about health care reform.  On one question, for example, about whether I believe that health care is a right, I said that, “I believe that freedom is a right, and that any health care bill that takes away Americans’ freedom is wrong.” I also answered questions about my support for health care reforms aimed at lowering Americans’ health care costs, such as medical liability reform and allowing Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines, and pledged I will insist on smaller, simpler bills and implement a mandatory 72-hour online reading period for all bills if Republicans are entrusted with the majority.

Over the past year, Republicans have used new media tools to interact directly with the American people.  Whether on Twitter, where House Republicans outnumber their Democratic counterparts two-to-one, or YouTube, where eight of the top 10 most-viewed and most-subscribed YouTube channels in Congress are from the GOP, House Republicans are listening to and learning from the American people.  Below is full text of my answers to You Tube:

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Tags: blair house summit, government health care, health care reform, health care summit, individual mandate
Posted Feb 26th 2010 at 11:29 am in Congress, Healthcare, News, Obama, Politics, federal spending | 81222262 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jboehner/2010/02/26/81222/+Freedom+is+a+Right%2C+and+Any+Health+Care+Bill+That+Takes+Away+Americans%E2%80%99+Freedom+is+Wrong2010-02-26+19%3A29%3A04Rep.+John+Boehner

Now Obama Discovers GOP Health Care Proposals?

Oh, the President must be really desperate

After repeating for months that Republicans have no solutions when it comes to health care reform, he now wants to discuss the very ideas he denied existed and has invited Republican leaders to the White House to find a “bipartisan” health care solution. How gracious of him.

You’ll have to excuse us for questioning the sincerity of the President’s newfound desire to work together. As Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, virtually every week in 2009, we requested to meet with the President to discuss health care and other central issues. Each time, a polite “thank you” email from the White House was the extent of our bipartisan discussions.  It’s interesting that only now – once his big-government dream is on political life support – does the President see a use for Republicans.  And it appears that use may be more political than rooted in policy goals.

In fact, the President’s invite to Republicans has come pre-packaged with some pretty audacious spin. For starters, this week the President has aggressively tried to frame Republicans as the obstructers to health care passage, unwilling to participate in the process.  That’s a pretty tough sell for a President with a 77-seat majority in the House and 59 Democrat Senators in the other chamber. And before taking that line, the President might want to check with his partisan partner, Speaker Pelosi, who famously told House Democrats they would be shut out themselves if they attempted to work with Republicans on health care.

That brings us to the second, more laughable, new claim from the White House: that the bill already contains Republican ideas and concessions from Democrats. Right.

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Tags: bipartisan negotiations, government health care, health care rationing, hr 3400, insurance mandate
Posted Feb 12th 2010 at 8:33 am in Congress, Healthcare, News, Obama, Politics | 74162163 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/tprice/2010/02/12/oh-the-president-must-be-really-desperate/Now+Obama+Discovers+GOP+Health+Care+Proposals%3F2010-02-12+16%3A33%3A00Rep.+Tom+Price+%28R-GA%29

Mandated Health Insurance – Candidate Obama Attacks President Obama?

Over the years I’ve come to think of organizations as living beings – with an amorphous body, ideas as its defense mechanism, and an insatiable appetite for growth. A virtual organism if you will. And as we know with any organism, when cornered it will do (or say) just about anything to survive.

In its quest to pass health care reform, being cornered is the plight of the virtual organism we call The Administration.

We don’t know the intricacies of the current Senate bill being drafted behind closed doors. But what we do know is that one of its cornerstones is government imposed, individual mandates for health insurance. If this element is left in the bill, our government will be given the power to force individuals into purchasing health insurance, or else be fined – giving new meaning to the term cost of living.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Democrat Primary 2008, Hillary Clinton, individual mandate, insurance mandate
Posted Dec 18th 2009 at 10:55 am in Healthcare, Obama, Politics | 4903440 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pcourrielche/2009/12/18/mandated-health-insurance-candidate-obama-attacks-president-obama/Mandated+Health+Insurance+%E2%80%93+Candidate+Obama+Attacks+President+Obama%3F2009-12-18+18%3A55%3A40Patrick+Courrielche

The Senate Healthcare Bill: Throw It Up On A Wall And See If It Sticks

In a recent article published in The Atlantic Jonathan Gruber, an economist from MIT was enthused over the Senate’s healthcare bill because of its kitchen sink approach to the problem of rising healthcare costs. “I can’t think of a thing to try that they didn’t try. They really make the best effort anyone has ever made. Everything is in here….I can’t think of anything I’d do that they are not doing in the bill.” This quote is a distillation of the problem I have with the whole healthcare reform effort. It seems like a case of throw it up on a wall and see if it sticks.

From the beginning of the debate and the resultant bills in Congress there has been no thought put into the root cause of the high cost of healthcare. As usual the players who were allowed to sit at the table were the ones who had the most to lose if the status quo really changed. Special interest groups (i.e., unions, hospitals corporation, medical insurance industry, pharmaceutical industry, and the AMA) each flooded Washington with money and controlled both the argument, and the perceived solutions for the mess that has become our healthcare system. At no point were physicians on the front line who deliver patient care or patients who are victims of the health insurance maze given a voice in the process let alone a seat at the table.

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Tags: bending the cost curve, healthcare reform, insurance mandate, Medicaid, Medicare
Posted Dec 16th 2009 at 12:19 pm in Congress, Economics, Healthcare, Politics | 4743836 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/egeorge/2009/12/16/the-senate-healthcare-bill-throw-it-up-on-a-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks/The+Senate+Healthcare+Bill%3A+Throw+It+Up+On+A+Wall+And+See+If+It+Sticks2009-12-16+20%3A19%3A51Dr.+Elaina+++George

Wednesday Funnies: Health Care Edition

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Tags: health care reform, insurance mandate, ObamaCare, Pelosicare, public option
Posted Dec 16th 2009 at 6:41 am in Healthcare, Obama | 4698242 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/sgor/2009/12/16/wednesday-funnies-health-care-edition/Wednesday+Funnies%3A+Health+Care+Edition+2009-12-16+14%3A41%3A21Sergio+Gor

Obama’s Individual Health Care Mandate is Unconstitutional

The Senate is debating the future of American health care, yet one very important issue has yet to get a full and fair debate.  Is the individual mandate that forces citizens to purchase health care insurance a constitutional power of the federal government?  When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) was asked this question, she answered with the non sequitur “are you serious?”  Conservatives who respect the idea that the constitution maps out a federal government with limited powers would answer with a loud — “Hell No.”

The Heritage Foundation and the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) recently released legal analysis calling into serious question the constitutionality of the Congress’s plan to force all citizens to purchase health insurance.  These conservative institutions argue that the unprecedented idea, a mandate that all Americans be forced into a contractual agreement with a private party for health insurance, is not a constitutionally permissible activity by the federal government.  My sources tell me that this issue will be raised during the Senate debate on ObamaCare very soon and may open another front in the war against ObamaCare.  (more…)

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Tags: auto insurance, Commerce Clause, constitutional authority, government insurance, health insurance mandate
Posted Dec 10th 2009 at 6:15 pm in Congress, Healthcare, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 43462124 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/12/10/obamas-individual-health-care-mandate-is-unconstitutional/Obama%27s+Individual+Health+Care+Mandate+is+Unconstitutional2009-12-11+02%3A15%3A51Brian+Darling

Is Medicare the Real Target of ‘Health Care Reform?’

Nobody outside the inner halls of Congress really knows what’s going on in the negotiations on health care “reform. Every now and then, someone emerges from the formerly smoke-filled rooms and throws another 2,000 or so page “bill” out into the public and then disappears to continue talks to carve up one-sixth of the nation’s economy.

But we do know some of the critical unforgiving numbers. And we have strong reason to suspect that radical changes to Medicare Part E (as in Medicare for Everybody) is the real endgame, whatever the interim steps are called: public option, cooperatives, or mandated Insurance Exchanges.

We have the unmentionable truth that Medicare is insolvent. And the common dogma that Medicare is efficient, popular, and impregnable. Is it a Hegelian thesis and antithesis? With the synthesis being to throw the whole rest of the system, which is also allegedly bankrupting the country, into Medicare?

Are our leaders stark, raving mad? Or diabolically clever?

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Tags: bernie madoff, complete lives system, cooperatives, david walker, ezekiel emanuel
Posted Nov 22nd 2009 at 8:31 am in Congress, Healthcare, Politics | 3487086 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jorient/2009/11/22/is-medicare-the-real-target-of-health-care-reform/Is+Medicare+the+Real+Target+of+%27Health+Care+Reform%3F%272009-11-22+15%3A31%3A46Dr.+Jane+Orient

Pelosi’s Healthcare Vision: Government Mandate or Jail

Failing to purchase “acceptable health insurance coverage” could result in a fine punishable “up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” Those are direct quotes from a letter of analysis done by the Joint Committee on Taxation, a non-partisan analysis committee in Congress.  While that policy may not be one of Nancy Pelosi’s main talking points about her healthcare takeover legislation, it is an undoubtedly destructive portion of her healthcare bill, part of the reason it passed with only two votes to spare.

For months now, we’ve heard about the merits of Nancy Pelosi’s healthcare overhaul. To hear it from Democrats, the healthcare overhaul would be all things to all people, forever solving America’s healthcare woes. So if the Speaker’s plan is so fantastic, why do Democrats need to criminalize Americans to coax them into this plan?

Americans struggle enough already with a historically weak economy, high taxes and the looming burden of having to pay off an enormous federal debt. In Illinois, unemployment is already 10.5%, and Chicago-area residents just endured property tax increases to the tune of 20% in some areas. With this sort of abuse to their bank accounts, the last thing folks need is more taxes – but Pelosi’s plan shovels them on.

The Pelosi healthcare overhaul is a mandate lockdown.

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Tags: high unemployment, insurance mandate, Joint Committee on Taxation, mandatory insurance, Obama Care
Posted Nov 18th 2009 at 4:49 pm in Congress, Healthcare, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 33270255 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/proskam/2009/11/18/pelosis-healthcare-vision-government-mandate-or-jail/Pelosi%E2%80%99s+Healthcare+Vision%3A+Government+Mandate+or+Jail2009-11-18+23%3A49%3A12Rep.+Peter+Roskam+%28R-IL%29

Truth and Consequences of Health Care Reform

The health care reform bill (HR 3962) that just passed the House of Representatives is bad on so many levels it is difficult explain. As it stands, it will destroy the doctor-patient relationship and change the practice of medicine as we know it.

We have one of the finest health care systems in the world. It has been built on a foundation of choice. Doctors were free to choose the care that they deem necessary to treat their patients, and patients were free to seek the medical care of their choice. Initially, the foundation was shaken by the rise of the managed care system with capitation. However, over the past 10 years, capitated plans which limit access to specialists have given way to the rise in power of insurance companies. They have used their anti-trust exemption to craft a system that has used monopoly to increase profits on the backs of both doctors and patients.

Unfortunately, the House does not address necessary changes that would lead to meaningful reform, such as breaking the monopoly strangle-hold that insurance companies enjoy, reigning in the enormous profits of the pharmaceutical industry, tort reform, or crafting a healthcare system based on wellness and prevention and not the management of disease. Instead HR 3962 creates a layer of government bureaucracy that inserts itself between the doctor and the patient by creating a national health commissioner and task forces that will evaluate and decide everything from what medications a physician is allowed to prescribe to a patient, to what surgery will be approved, to what outcomes will be expected for a particular medical condition.

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Posted Nov 15th 2009 at 4:37 pm in Congress, Healthcare, Obama, Politics | 3137064 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/egeorge/2009/11/15/truth-and-consequences-of-health-care-reform/Truth+and+Consequences+of+Health+Care+Reform2009-11-15+23%3A37%3A13Dr.+Elaina+++George

Report: ObamaCare Would Reduce Care For Seniors

From the Washington Post:

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.

The report, requested by House Republicans, found that Medicare cuts contained in the health package approved by the House on Nov. 7 are likely to prove so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.

Congress could intervene to avoid such an outcome, but “so doing would likely result in significantly smaller actual savings” than is currently projected, according to the analysis by the chief actuary for the agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid. That would wipe out a big chunk of the financing for the health-care reform package, which is projected to cost $1.05 trillion over the next decade.

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Tags: health care reform, health insurance, insurance mandate, Medicaid, Medicare
Posted Nov 15th 2009 at 11:06 am in Healthcare, News, Obama, Politics | 3133027 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/15/report-obamacare-would-reduce-care-for-seniors/Report%3A+ObamaCare+Would+Reduce+Care+For+Seniors2009-11-15+18%3A06%3A50Publius

New Daily Podcast Feature: Coffee and Markets

Welcome to Coffee and Markets, a daily podcast from The New Ledger on politics, policy and the marketplace with Francis Cianfrocca. Today we’d like to welcome first-time listeners at our new sponsor, BigGovernment.com.

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Tags: economic growth, Economy, employer coverage, health care reform, health care taxes
Posted Nov 13th 2009 at 2:04 pm in Economics, Healthcare, Obama | 3061411 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/newledger/2009/11/13/new-daily-podcast-feature-coffee-and-markets/New+Daily+Podcast+Feature%3A+Coffee+and+Markets2009-11-13+21%3A04%3A24The+New+Ledger

Historic PelosiCare Debate Starts Right Now

Today, a historic debate will commence on a bill that would impose big government health care on all Americans.  Nobody knows if this bill is going to pass and many questions about the bill remain unanswered.  All those who cherish the idea of limited government and a health care system driven by free market principles are hoping that good prevails over evil.

Yesterday, the House Rules Committee passed the rule to consider H.R. 3962 (PelosiCare), the Affordable Health Care for America Act, and this debate will be covered live on C-SPAN all day long.  Today, the American people can watch the debate in the House of Representatives on legislation that would dramatically change the way health care services are delivered.

Who is the Next Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky?

The vote on final passage of the bill is going to be close and people looking to the 2010 congressional election cycle are going to watch this vote to see which Blue Dog Democrats, Democrats from conservative leaning districts, are going to be forced to Walk the Plank and vote for an unpopular bill.  Dan Perrin of Red State has an excellent review of what happed to one term former Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky of Pennsylvania.  Perrin wrote “we are reminded of the case of Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (D-PA) who famously switched her vote to give then President Clinton his tax increase.”  She lost her re-election the next year and became the poster child for the 1994 Republican sweep of Congress.

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Posted Nov 7th 2009 at 8:39 am in Congress, Healthcare, Obama | 2686271 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/11/07/historic-pelosicare-debate-starts-right-now/Historic+PelosiCare+Debate+Starts+Right+Now2009-11-07+15%3A39%3A47Brian+Darling

Republicans Plan Second Rally To Defeat Health Care Bill

After holding the first successful “House Call” yesterday, Republican Congressmen Steve King (R-IA) and Michele Bachmann (R-MN) are pleased to announce a second rally in the nations capitol tomorrow.

Second “House Call” Event Planned For Tomorrow.

King Calls on American People to Come to Washington and Kill PelosiCare

Congressman Steve King today made the following statement urging American citizens to descend on Washington to kill ‘Pelosi Care’.

“Nancy Pelosi and Washington liberals cannot ignore what transpired yesterday in Washington. Americans from every state stormed Capitol Hill. They took over the Hill. And they loudly chanted ‘Kill this bill!’ “We can kill this bill and stop the government takeover of health care. We need the help of every American willing to stand up for freedom and liberty. I urge all Americans who oppose this bill to come to Washington tomorrow morning and join us to stop this bill.”

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Tags: government health care, health reform, insurance mandate, Nancy Pelosi, ObamaCare
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 3:35 pm in Congress, Healthcare, Politics | 26806129 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/sgor/2009/11/06/republicans-plan-second-rally-to-defeat-health-care-bill/Republicans+Plan+Second+Rally+To+Defeat+Health+Care+Bill2009-11-06+22%3A35%3A36Sergio+Gor

Committee Confirms: Comply With Pelosi-Care Or Go To Jail

From the House Ways and Means Republicans:

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.  The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

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Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 1:36 pm in Congress, Healthcare, Politics | 26766475 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/06/committee-confirms-comply-with-pelosi-care-or-go-to-jail/Committee+Confirms%3A+Comply+With+Pelosi-Care+Or+Go+To+Jail2009-11-06+20%3A36%3A27Publius

Pelosi Health Care Bill: The Worst Bill Ever

From Wall Street Journal:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she’s prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that’s what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a “critical milestone,” may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.

In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.
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Posted Nov 2nd 2009 at 9:27 am in Congress, Healthcare, Obama, Politics | 24110204 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/02/pelosi-health-care-bill-the-worst-bill-ever/Pelosi+Health+Care+Bill%3A+The+Worst+Bill+Ever2009-11-02+16%3A27%3A26Publius

How the Media Has Failed America on Healthcare Reform–Part I

Most casual followers of politics did not pick up on the debate over healthcare reform until some time this past summer. They mostly ignored the umpteen news conferences held by the President since the spring, but they couldn’t miss the broader media coverage of town hall outrage. But for a small number of media experts on health policy, and an only slightly larger number of interested followers, the healthcare debate actually began much earlier. In fact, even prior to this year, when the initial policy formulation and political posturing took place during the Democratic primary campaign.

All three leading Democratic candidates for President – Obama, Clinton, and yes, John Edwards – proposed virtually identical plans for healthcare reform. The only real substantive difference being that the Clinton and Edwards plans included an individual mandate for insurance, whereas Obama’s plan did not. (Obama has since come around to supporting this mandate.) But importantly, all the Democratic plans included the creation of a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers. What is now called, the “public option”.

Although he was destined to be a marginal candidate, Edwards played an important role in the healthcare debate. He was the first candidate to announce the details of his plan, and really put down a marker for liberal ambition on this issue leading into the election. Especially with the inclusion of the public option. And ultimately the other candidates largely followed his blueprint, even if they failed to credit him for his leadership on this issue.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Health Affairs, health care reform, health insurance reform, Hillary Clinton
Posted Oct 27th 2009 at 12:40 pm in Featured Story, Healthcare, Media Criticism | 2162218 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mrichmond/2009/10/27/how-the-media-has-failed-america-on-healthcare-reform-part-i/How+the+Media+Has+Failed+America+on+Healthcare+Reform--Part+I2009-10-27+19%3A40%3A02Morgen++Richmond

ObamaCare Debate: Freedom vs. Oppression

On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation: 

“That on the 1^st day of January, in the year of our Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. . . And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.”

With these words President Lincoln ended slavery – a  flagrant violation of the institutions of the United States of America, “a government of, by and for all the people.”

The institution of slavery denied essential freedoms to fellow Americans. Today, in 2009, another freedom is being denied to every man, woman and child — freedom of health care. Some in the HMO industry, many in the insurance industry, and many federal “Big Government” bureaucrats are denying Americans their freedom of health care.  The Obama Health Care Plan is the instruction manual and play book for this mandate.

 These “Masters” of  Health Care are trying to deny individuals the freedom to choose what doctor you can see, what medicine you can take, what hospital you can go to, and how you spend your health care dollars.  They even take it a step further in the Obama Health Care Plan, determining – IF – yes, IF you can be treated.  These “Masters” of Health Care are driving us to unnecessary pain, suffering, and, in some cases, death.

 We can all agree that the US health care system needs drastic reform, but not at the cost of destroying the entire system.  We face a defining crossroads, as we as a nation decide the face of this reform. If we really want to improve the system, reform must be based upon the bedrock of providing each person, family and business fundamental healthcare freedom.  

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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Harry Reid, health care reform, health insurance, health rationing
Posted Oct 18th 2009 at 9:09 am in Congress, Healthcare, Politics | 1744683 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/djanda/2009/10/18/obamacare-debate-freedom-vs-oppression/ObamaCare+Debate%3A+Freedom+vs.+Oppression2009-10-18+16%3A09%3A31Dr.+David+Janda