OBAMACARE: POINT AND COUNTERPOINT #3

This article is the third of a point / counterpoint series on Mr. Obama's healthcare plan.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT HEALTHCARE REFORM

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OBAMACARE: THE CULMINATION OF LIBERAL INCREMENTALISM

The opening words of H.R. 3200, Mr. Obama's solution to the manufactured health care "crisis" in the United States reads: "A Bill to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and...
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MORE TALES FROM SINGLE-PAYER HELL

It's just anecdotal. But it's rich. Learned over the weekend from the local [rural Newfoundland] anaesthetist:

A certain town in southern Newfoundland is home to one of the handful of good small regional hospitals in the province. However, the nearest CT scanner is in St. John's, at the province's only major-league hospital -- a four-hour drive away. So you come to the regional hospital with chest pains, and the attending physician wants to give you a CT scan to check out your heart. You'll have to get an appointment in St. John's, and then travel. If they send you home from the hospital to wait your turn, you'll wait three weeks or more. But if you've been admitted to the hospital, the wait is only a matter of days. So what should the doctor do?

Of course: the doctor admits the patient, for no other reason than to move him ahead in the queue. He spends the better part of a week trundling aimlessly up and down the hospital hallways in his bathrobe, taking up a bed and using hospital supplies and services on the public dollar -- all to game the system into cutting down his wait-time for a necessary diagnostic procedure.

But hey -- it's FREE!

Not long ago, over at the Mother Blog, I sounded off about medical care in Canada, to this effect:

MY TWO-CENTS' WORTH ON HEALTH CARE:

There are many comments and criticisms one could make about any single-payer [government] health insurance system, such as Canada's. But on that subject, I am fond of making this factual (not critical) observation:

The Canadian Health Care System is a gift from the American taxpayer and their national military.

Why? Because if Canada invested in its own defense to the extent required to genuinely protect its people and territory without dependence upon the United States, the country wouldn't have a hope in Hades of affording socialized medicine.

The U.S. military is 2,300,000 strong (regular plus reserves), with plans for another 750,000 to be added within the next three years.

The Canadian military is less than 100,000 strong (regular plus reserves), with no plans for increase. The number has already increased from its nadir in 2001 [having fallen by one third in the decade since 1991].

Canada's population is approximately one tenth [10%] that of the U.S., and its land mass is larger.

Canada's military population is less than one half of 1% [.043] of that of the U.S. [Feel free to help me with the math if I've screwed this up.]

Canada is essentially defended at the expense of the United States, with Canadians secure in their knowledge that the U.S. would never permit any military threat to their northern neighbour, because it's just too close to home and would leave America vulnerable.

So Canada's far (FAR) from perfect health care system is even more expensive than anybody is letting on. In at least one sense, it has cost Canadians their sovereignty.

I would only amend these remarks by emphasizing, because it needs to be said, that in the Good Old Days before Trudeaupia infected the land, Canada had a proud tradition of punching WAY above its weight in joining the community of nations for the preservation of the civilized world.

Proportionately to its population, Canada's military contribution to both World Wars was substantial -- almost staggering. KIA's ran at 10%, if memory serves. Another member of the British Commonwealth, the then-independent mini-country of Newfoundland, made an even larger proportional contribution: for example, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in the Great War, Newfoundland casualties came to 90% -- but they stayed in, kept joining up, and felt themselves born as a nation.

Today's Canadian Forces, ridiculously undersupplied and undersupported, and ever at the mercy of political winds, has acquitted itself with honour in Afghanistan, its ranks still heavily populated with the sons and daughters of the Maritime provinces -- as well as Québèc, amazingly enough [their storied Royal 22nd Regiment called "The Vandoos", for vingt-deux].

Historically, Canadian support for the military cratered in an inverse ratio to the rise of the statism and universal entitlements of Trudeaupian socialism (under which the military branches were forcibly amalgamated in 1968, into the generic "forces", sporting a dull airline-pilot-style service dress). The numerical nadir of the forces was reached around 2001, but has crept upward since then (with distinctive uniform restoration too).

As a percentage of GDP, Canada's military budget ranks one-hundred-and-eleventh in the world.

So, despite their valiant character and record, today's Canadian Forces lack sufficient numbers [IMHO] to single-handedly beat back a serious invasion of even their youngest province [that would be Newfoundland], much less the whole country [the second largest national land-mass in the world].

But it's a small price to pay for universal health-care.

Right?

JOHN STOSSEL DEBUNKS OBAMA HEALTCARE PLAN

OBAMACARE: POINT AND COUNTERPOINT #2

This article is the second of a point / counterpoint series on Mr. Obama's health care plan.
*ObamaCare will not promote abortions.
*It is true that there are no provisions in the current plan specifically providing for abortions. However, there are provisions in the plan for "family planning." Given his record, many conservatives rightly suspect that to Mr. Obama family-planning means a lot of planning, and fewer people in order to reduce the amount of carbon producing biological units. This health care plan gives the Commissioner of Health Choices the power to determine future benefits within the plan. The promotion of abortion can be easily added once the bill is passed. This is another example of liberal incrementalism at its finest.

GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE FLAWED BUT SOLUTIONS EXIST

Healthcare is about protecting human life of every race amid attempts by the proponents of the culture of death, led by our president, to demean the lives of the pre-born, the infirm and the elderly. Our system of payment for healthcare needs to be improved and costs should be contained. However, our healthcare delivery system is the best in the world. It is not the free market that is the problem, but government manipulation of the free market. (Click on title above to read entire article)

OBAMA SUPPORTS GENOCIDE OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at the 2009 Planned Parenthood awards gala in Houston, where she received that organization’s highest honor, The Margaret Sanger Award. Clinton said of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood: “I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision’, and “I am in awe of her.” Further she said: “It’s the lesson that women’s empowerment is always, always about more than bettering the lives of individual women. It is part of a movement. It’s about economic and political progress for all women and girls”. Clinton’s boss, President Obama, has been a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood as well.
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NOT OK TO SMOKE POT PREGNANT, BUT OK TO KILL

A good friend of mine has a daughter who is in her early 20’s, who has been in and out of addiction. This year the daughter got pregnant and really wanted the baby. She wanted to be a mom. The baby was born healthy. But they discovered trace levels of THC and another downer in the baby’s bloodstream. The doctors said the THC (Pot) could have been smoked up to a month prior to the birth because THC was not in the mom’s system.

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JUST ANOTHER CANADACARE ANECDOTE THAT PROVES NOTHING......

Or "Arnie's Mom Survives a Trip to Toronto General Hospital"

Over at the popular Canadian blog "Blazing Cat Fur", Arnie* tells the story of his 84-year-old mother's encounter with medical care in Canada's principle city ["New York run by the Swiss," as Peter Ustinov called it], consisting of 18 hours, most of it spent in a corridor, which is a great place to meet people when you're half naked and they're looking for a place to dump their adult diapers.

Read it -- it's better than a crystal ball.


*[a nice man married to blogress Kathy Shaidle , well-known victim of Canada's Human Rights Commissions, in the dock with Ezra Levant -- I've met both Kathy and Arnie -- she's not nice, and proud of it]

Ronald Reagan On Socialized Medicine

Article on Health Care-Speech at Republican U-Choose Event

Good evening and thank you for coming. I am honored to have the opportunity to speak with you in support of liberty and the Constitution of the United States.

First, I want to say a word about race and our president. I am strongly in favor of a black president, but I am against the policies and political ideology of this particular president, as I am against those of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. These are not issues of race, and I resent opposition to Mr. Obama being construed as racism. Mr. Obama is a supporter of Planned Parenthood, an organization responsible for the extermination of 75,000 African American babies yearly and therefore is supportive of genocide against his own race.

OBAMACARE: POINT AND COUNTER POINT

ONCE OBAMA TIME

The following takes place in the year 2934 BCE in the Alpine highlands, present day France. Evening was coming on, a slight chill in the air. The summer camp of the Fleece People, a portable village really, was bustling with activity. The past five months had been spent here, just like it had in every year past as long as tribal memory could reach. Click on title to read full article...
Bart Willruth-Fresh Conservative

Global Warming Warrants Cool Reception

As cap-and-trade advocates tie their knickers in knots over so-called "global warming," Mother Nature refuses to cooperate. Earth's temperatures continue a chill that began 11 years ago. As global cooling accelerates, global-warmists kick, scream and push their pet theory – just like little kids who cover their ears and stomp their feet when older children tell them not to bother waiting up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.

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ICE CLOSING THE NW PASSAGE IN SUMMER

Global warming proponents would be surprised to find that the ice is not co-operating. Click on title to read article.

DISSENT USED TO BE THE GREATEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM

As contemptuous Democrat elites raise their noses towards the American people attending townhall meetings across the country, accusing them of being part of a vast Republican machine to shout down socialist voices, the American people grow more angry by the minute. (Click title to read full article)

By Brett Tatman

ATUNA THE HUN WANTS FISHY THINGS REPORTED

I never thought I would live to see the day, at least not until the election last year of a communist to the presidency. The following statement appears on the Kremlin, I mean, White House website.

"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. 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 email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov." (Click title to read entire article)

HEALTH CARE BY 'CASH FOR CLUNKERS'

The much vaunted “Cash for Clunkers” program, brought to you by president Obama and the Democratic Congress, has run into a bit of trouble. It was envisioned that the $1 billion allotted to the program would fund approximately 250,000 automobile purchases. Yet, within a week of starting the program has already run out of money and over 25,000 “deals” were awaiting approval by the federal government. The House approved $2 billion in additional funding for the program last Friday, an increase that would bring the cost of the program to 300% of its projected cost within one week. (Click on title to read entire article)

OBAMA: A MODERN DAY PLEBEIAN TYRANNICAL POLITICIAN

Many comparisons have been made between the Roman Empire and the United States. The Roman Empire was the most powerful civilization on Earth. Similarly, the United States, for now, is the sole remaining superpower. However, with the good comes the bad and the decline and fall of the Roman Empire has been compared to the decline and pending fall of the United States. We often forget the fact that the Roman Empire was preceded for 450 years by the Roman Republic, which arose in 509 B.C. with the overthrow of the Roman monarchy.
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