Obama’s Last Ditch: Before He Hits The Road ?

Obama puts forward last-ditch health care plan

Making a last-ditch effort to save his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Monday put forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year compromise that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriated consumers.

First off, it’s NOT a compromise, it’s the same old bug government takeover of health care, complete with the giovernment option, rationing and abortion included.

The fact the AP calls it “last ditch” — does that mean it’s the last chance for the ditch? The Democrats will regret the day they pass something like this Obama-nation against the American people’s wishes. The whole “consent of the governed” thing and all.

The last time Democrats used their super majority for tyranny was the Kansas-Nebraska Act, of 1854 which in essence, legalized slavery. The outrage at the time was furious, much as it is today with health care.

In the United States during the pre-Civil War era, the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to create opportunities for a Mideastern Transcontinental Railroad. It was not problematic until popular sovereignty was written into the proposal. The act was designed by Democratic Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act established that settlers could vote to decide whether to not allow slavery, in the name of popular sovereignty or rule of the people. Douglas hoped it would ease relations between the North and the South, because the South could expand slavery to new territories but the North still had the right to abolish slavery in their states. Instead, opponents denounced the law as a concession to the slave power of the South. The new Republican Party, which was created in opposition to the act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant force throughout the North.

Abe Lincoln was elected President in 1860 — The Civil War soon followed, where the Democrats of the South promptly lost.

It really didn’t stop the Democrats, soon after the end of the Civil War in 1865, they formed their terror wing the KKK. It wasn’t until 1964, with Sen Byrd leading the filibuster, that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 finely put a stop to the Democrats Civil War era KKK terror and propaganda wing — A slot now occupied by ACORN in it’s various incantations.

Civil War detailed time line here:

The American people will not support Eugenics, in any form.

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Brief history of the filibuster:   In 1975 the Carter Democrats, with their majorities dwindling, changed the filibuster rule to allow a three-fifths vote, instead of the previous two-thirds to silence debate. Since 2006, filibuster use has skyrocketed as the Democrats began their quest for social justice at the expense of bankrupting America and transferring wealth in order to gain a super voting majority, ala Hugo Chavez.

Obamacare Down 21% in Latest Gallup Poll

CNSNews is reporting that the latest Gallup Poll finds that 58% of Americans OPPOSE ObamaCare while only 37% approve.

The Government Rationed Health Care Fraud

Note that the costs are still rising at year 14. Where it stops, levels out, no one knows. If you assumed the final figure, about $260 billion a year at the peak, you would have $25 trillion ten year costs, But the likely run rate will be over $400 billion a year, at about $4-5 trillion over ten years, how’s that for cost savings. And wasn’t that the point, bring down health care costs?

The only thing to call it is a scam of lies.

Like with the global warming fraud, fraud would also do.

Something Democrats seem particularly good at, defrauding the public.

Sarah Palin Posted This On Her Facebook Page: Quit Making Things Up: DNC

First read this — The Worst Bill Ever … so says the WSJ.

Lie cheat and steal, it’s all Democrats know. Taxes all over the place, $500 billion in medicare cuts, and more deficits that can never be repaid.

Death panels are back.

Illegals are back on the taxpayer dime.

Rationing is back.

And so is this strange thing, race preferences in the qualifications.

Add in about 111 new bureaucracies. That ought to help the GDP.

if you look at the CBO scoring, the tenth year the deficit goes to $260 billion plus. Multiply that by ten and you get the real costs of this abomination. About $3 trillion over ten years.

Tell Me Three Things

That you find in the Democrats government rationed healthcare which improves healthcare for regular working Americans. Surely you can do that….

As a matter of fact, tell me three things that are good for America in the Oba-Mao administration?

Is it time to admit we elected an evil person? Did we in the end elect the America hater and racist Rev Wright?

Government Rationed Healthcare

“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.” – John Adams

Truth, something Democrats cannot stand.

No one wants to explain what is ‘better’ about paying more, and getting less. Democrats government rationed healthcare, summary … Kill granny, save money, give money saved to Democrat constituencies, get elected for life. Ask trial lawyers and Hugo Chavez for details.

Sort of like generating electricity with windmills, or driving your car on ethanol. All cost more for less.

Pelosi Communist Nut’s Introduces Their Government Rationed Healthcare Plan

I forgot, didn’t they already do this?

So expect for using find and replace on the crap in your other bill, HR3200, how does this improve healthcare for Americans? Oh Government rationed Healthcare is changed to the “Consumer Option” … LOL. The Democrats think you are all fools.

It’s a Communist’s dream. Reuters reports:

Democrats in the House of Representatives finished work on Wednesday on a healthcare bill that includes a government-run insurance plan, requires individuals to buy health coverage and imposes a surtax on the wealthy to help pay for it.

The measure, the product of weeks of closed-door talks to merge three pending health bills, will be unveiled by party leaders on Thursday and submitted to the full House for debate as early as next week.

The bill includes a government-run “public” insurance option that uses reimbursement rates negotiated with healthcare providers, Democrats said, a setback for House liberals led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi who favored a more “robust” version to compete with private insurers.

Pelosi failed to gain the 218 votes needed to pass a version of the government-run plan using lower rates pegged to Medicare, the health plan for the elderly.

The healthcare measure being prepared for debate in the Senate also includes a public insurance option based on negotiated reimbursement rates but, unlike the House bill, it would allow states to decline to participate.

The House’s version of a sweeping healthcare overhaul, President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority, would require individuals to buy insurance and all but the smallest employers to offer health coverage to workers, Democrats said.

It would offer subsidies to help the uninsured buy insurance through newly created exchanges and would expand eligibility for the Medicaid program to those with incomes up to 150 percent of the poverty level.

Of course it’s Reuters, not known for getting it right, so take your chances for now. The state-run media insists that the majority of Americans want government to takeover the health care industry with a public option plan.

AP Finally Reports The Truth

Congress gets bigger raise than average health care insurance companies get profit …

Stand for the truth, hold to the truth, question with confidence and boldness. The AP finally got around to it today … on a Sunday, where it’s likely to be buried:

Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They’re all more profitable than the health insurance industry. In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making “immoral” and “obscene” returns while “the bodies pile up.”

Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That’s anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.

Profits barely exceeded 2 percent of revenues in the latest annual measure. This partly explains why the credit ratings of some of the largest insurers were downgraded to negative from stable heading into this year, as investors were warned of a stagnant if not shrinking market for private plans.

Congress just awarded themselves a 2.6% pay increase for the 21% approval rating they have achieved — More than the average profits of health insurance companies in 2008.

The average profit margin for health insurers last year clocked in at an anemic 2.2%.  What does that mean from the investor position?  They would have done better to put their money into FDIC-insured savings accounts at their local bank, let alone a CD or other guaranteed investment device.  A 2.2% profit margin would normally trigger a stockholder revolt.

Government Rationed Healthcare – Preview

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel posted this photo essay showing the HUGE lines of people being forced to wait outside in the rain for flu shots.

See how funny it looks in action? Click the link to see how the clinic looks … LOL.

What Authority ?

I notice that when Bush was snooping on people’s library cards to try and stop more terror attacks, the lamestream media, and the liberals in particular, went nuts. Now we are supposed to believe that the federal government can just force doctors to just turn over every citizens medical records for perusal? Ever herd of the 4th Amendment?

As a condition of citizenship, buy insurance from the federal government — Or eles you get penalized? How does this individual mandate work, within the framework of the US Constitution, it does not. All these government rationed healthcare plans have the same characteristics — First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government.

There is no Constitutional authority to do what these liberals want done. None.

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Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) could not explain what part of the Constitution grants Congress the power to force every American to buy health insurance – as all of the health care overhaul bills currently do.

Leahy, whose committee is responsible for vetting Supreme Court nominees, was asked by CNSNews.com where in the Constitution Congress is specifically granted the authority to require every American purchase health insurance. Leahy answered by saying that “nobody questions” Congress’ authority for such an action.

CNSNews.com: Where, in your opinion, does the Constitution give specific authority for Congress to give an individual mandate for health insurance?

Sen. Leahy: We have plenty of authority. Are you saying there is no authority?

CNSNews.com: I’m asking –

Sen. Leahy: Why would you say there is no authority? I mean, there’s no question there’s authority, nobody questions that.

When CNSNews.com again attempted to ask which provision of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to force Americans to purchase health insurance, Leahy compared the mandate to the government’s ability to set speed limits on interstate highways – before turning and walking away.

CNSNews.com: But, which provision –

Sen. Leahy: Where do we have the authority to set speed limits on an interstate highway? The federal government does that on federal highways.

Prior to 1995, the federal government mandated a speed limit of 55 miles an hour on all four-lane highways. The limit was repealed in 1995 and the authority to set speed limits reverted back to the states.

Technically, the law that established the 55 mile-an-hour limit – the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act of 1974 – withheld federal highway funds from states that did not comply with it. The law rested on Congress’ constitutional authority to dole out federal tax revenue.

The individual health insurance mandate contained in all five health overhaul bills currently being considered in Congress would levy a tax on any American adult who does not have one of three government-defined health insurance policies, purchased either through an employer or individually in government-run exchanges.

This is not the first time Congress has tried to force Americans to buy insurance. An individual mandate was a key component of then-President Bill Clinton’s government-led health care overhaul.

Of that Clinton-era mandate, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said that such a proposal would be “unprecedented,” adding that the government had “never required” Americans to purchase anything. “A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action,” CBO found.

CBO also noted that an individual mandate would carry with it something never before done in the history of America: it would impose a legal duty on American citizenship. In other words, all American citizens – and anyone wanting to become one – would be forced by the government to do something, even if they didn’t want to or chose not to.

“The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States,” CBO said at the time.

“An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government.”

Source: CNSNews.com