Preexisting Conditions

The health care takeover is on life support and all the socialist medicine in the world might not be able to save it. This has not stopped Barack Obama from campaigning around the country and it has not stopped those who think they have a right to government paid health care from holding rallies.

At a recent rally those with the microphone led crowds in chants about free health care for all.

Many young people do not understand that they will be required to buy their own health insurance. They complain that health insurance is too expensive but they will be forced to buy health insurance and there is no way the cost will go down.

The mandate to buy health insurance is needed to cover people with preexisting conditions. Insurance companies routinely refuse to cover people with preexisting conditions. I think there should be reform to require them to cover the preexisting conditions but also allows them to charge more for the insurance. Why should people, many of them young and healthy, be required to pay huge amounts of money in order to cover the elderly and those with preexisting conditions?

The left likes to tell us that since government can force you to have car insurance it is legal for it to force you to have health insurance. This is untrue because you have a choice NOT to drive. Since they use that analogy, let’s go with it a bit further. Car insurance companies require bad drivers to pay more money for car insurance. If this is allowed then why not require those with preexisting conditions to pay more for health care coverage?

The funny thing is that the same liberals who applaud employers who refuse to cover their workers who smoke (to keep costs down) demand that government require insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions which are not covered to, wait for it…

Keep costs down.

The health care takeover bill is losing Democrats and the trust issues and parliamentary manipulation might just well bury this thing in the graveyard of bad legislation.

Right where it belongs.

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I’ll Make You Fishers Of Men…

It looks like the left’s messiah, Barack Obama, is not much of a fan of fishing. A panel working on this issue is set to make recommendations by the end of March and the recommendations are likely to involve ending fishing in “…the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.”

About 60 million people fish in this country but now that might end if the environmental groups involved in this process get their way. If they make recommendations to end fishing, Mr. Transparent, is expected to implement the recommendations by issuing an Executive Order.

Many people in this country earn an honest living by fishing and millions more enjoy the sport as a past time. Obama can eliminate many jobs and end this past time with the stroke of his pen. The indications are all there that this will happen and happen soon. The government has cut off public comment on the issue which means that the people will no longer be heard on the subject.

Complaining to members of Congress, while therapeutic, will be of no avail because Obama will bypass Congress and enact this via EO.

What will happen next? Will Obama convene a panel to look at hunting? If the environmentalist wackos decide (and they will) that hunting should not be allowed in this country will Obama enact that via EO?

Will he convene a panel of Brady gun control freaks to decide if guns should be allowed in America and then enact gun control via EO?

This might sound unrealistic but who would have ever thought a US leader would ban fishing in this country?

Barack Obama won the last election with 69.5 million votes. I am willing to bet that with 60 million anglers in this country he will not get that many the next time.

Is there any person in this country who has this much disdain for the American way of life, our values and traditions?

It is time for the states to step up and tell this anti American zealot that any waterways belonging to the states will not have fishing banned and if the feds do not like it they can pound sand. It is time for those who fish to let Obama know they will not obey his EO.

Obama will make fishers of men and those men will be fishing for a new leader.

Source:
ESPN

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Evil Insurance Will Get $336 Billion From Obamacare

In order to cover most people with insurance, including those with preexisting conditions, the government will try to impose an unconstitutional law forcing everyone to purchase insurance. The only way for those evil insurance companies to make money insuring everyone no matter what, is to force everyone to buy insurance. This will place millions of young, healthy people in the mix paying more so that everyone can be covered.

But to help the poor purchase insurance the government will kick in $336 billion which will go right to the very evil insurance companies that Obama complains about.

To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance – $336 billion over the next ten years. That money, ultimately, would have to go to… drum roll… insurance companies. ABC

Complaining that insurance companies are evil and make too much money and then paying them to insure people makes as much sense as spending money when you are broke in order to fix the economy.

The real evil here is the government. It will take away our right to choose (where have we heard that) and force us to buy health care insurance. Funny how the right to choose when it is abortion is sacrosanct but having the right to choose whether to buy insurance or not is not.

For all the money they want to spend to takeover our health care they could just buy policies for those who are uninsured and save billions upon billions.

Only in America can a politician deride a business while giving it money.

And while taking its money as well…

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Health Care Sob Stories More Common Than Actual Events

Barack Obama says he reads letters that are sent to him and it is true that he has used some of them for political advantage. He walked into a meeting this past week and read a letter from some person regarding the increase in insurance premiums. He has used these kinds of letters to garner support for his health care takeover.

One thing we will never know is how many letters he gets telling him that the writer is happy with his health care. I bet Obama gets more letters of this nature than the ones where some poor schmo was wronged by an insurance company. Those letters always see the light of day. The other kind never will.

Interestingly, we are supposed to think about how bad our system is when Obama and his Democrats read these kinds of letters (the summit had letter after letter) but we are supposed to dismiss as unusual any story that shows the horrors of government run health care. Medicare denies services at a greater rate than the private companies, ignore it, not important. People dying in the UK under the health care system, ignore it because these examples are little stories and do not mean anything. Canadian politicians coming to the US for health care that is the best available, forget it, not worth mentioning.

Some old lady has to use her dead sister’s teeth, read the letter and make it the norm.

American Thinker has a great article describing the politics of the sad sack letter.

Doug Ross highlights the wonderful medical care in the UK and Canada where people lie in filth and are left to die and politicians come to America for the best care available, respectively.

The sob stories only seem common because that is all we hear. The same people who tell us how wonderful socialized medicine is and that these stories are rare expect us to believe that the letters read by politicians are representative of the system of health care as a whole.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Continually saying our health care is bad does not make the statement more true any more than continually continually saying attacks by Democrats were done by right wingers makes that claim true.

As an aside, Obama says not to worry because his plan will save us money. Of course this is absolutely untrue. Once again, saying something is so does not make it so. But, even if it did save money any potential savings would be offset by the 9.7 TRILLION DOLLARS Obama will add to the debt in the next decade. Even if his health care saved money (it does not), it will not be anywhere near 9.7 TRILLION DOLLARS.

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Obama’s Fake Birth Certificate

The Free Republic website was shut down today and remains down after a posting about Barack Obama’s birth certificate. I am unclear as to whether the website went down due to a huge amount of traffic or if it went down due to other reasons.

In any event, Gateway Pundit and Citizen Wells are reporting why this happened. Evidently, someone claims to have helped Devorah Adler, a political consultant and opposition research specialist for the Democratic National Committee in the United States, forge a birth certificate for Barack Obama. It is the forged certificate that was used by Fact Check.

“HUGE NEWS AT FREEREPUBLIC!!!
“My name is Chanise Foxx. I work at a office supply store in Kenwood, IL. After nearly 3 years of silence and death threats to me and my family to stay quiet, I am compelled to come forward and tell the world my secret.

“I helped Obama campaign staffer Divorah Adler create a fake birth certificate for use in the famous Fact Check story to prove the world of Obama’s birth in the 2008 election. Divorah approached me in early 2007 and held onto the birth certificate until she released it in August 2008.

“As I’ve been making fake IDs part-time for local college students for about eight years now, faking a birth certificate was actually quite easy. Our first step was to get our hands on someone else’s birth certificate from Hawaii. We then created the stationary to match.

“Next, we had to create an embossed stamp and rubber signature stamp for Hawaiian officials. With the help of a high-resolution scanner at the store, I did most of my work at night when the place was vacant…””

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. If Chanise Foxx is a real person (and remains alive) it would be interesting to see her explain how (and why) she did what she claims and to see if she has any proof that she did it and of Adler’s involvement.

If any of this pans out it would make for some interesting drama in the weeks ahead.

Of course, this could be more Obama subterfuge to make people look like they are crazy.

He could clear it all up with $10 but he is too busy working on the health care takeover.

Let’s see how this plays out. Pop the popcorn and sit back.

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