OBAMA-CARE 101: LONG WAITS, LOW QUALITY, RATIONING, CONTROL…

Updated by FactReal on October 30, 2009 (scroll for updates)

ACTION BOX: ● Call your elected officials, Legislative Alert Center ASAP!!! Call your legislators: 202-224-3121 and stop this madness!!! ● Join a Tea Party group (It’s time to work for the 2010 elections) NEWS 10/30/08 Link to HR3962 the new Health Care bill from the House, PDF, or here (1,990 pages) –>Reading Guide: the Pelosi Health Care Reform Bill –>Taxes: Comprehensive List of Taxes In House Democrat Health Bill 10/13/09 Senate Finance Committe passes Baucus healthcare bill: vote 14-9 TOWN HALLS: PROTESTS AGAINST OBAMACARE (videos, facts) 8/06/09 White House to Dems on town halls: “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard” 8/04/09 White House wants informants to spy on those who oppose ObamaCare 7/29/09 Blue Dogs caved in & agree on a deal, Who are the Blue Dogs: They don’t bite, They vote with the liberals 7/28/09 Pelosi Rallies for a Vote on Health Care this Week! 7/20/09 Why oppose ObamaCare 7/15/09 Senate committee passes health care takeover: vote 13-10

READ THE HEALTH CARE BILLS Congress: H.R.3200, Senate: Affordable Health Choices Act (Kennedy Bill) HR3200: ● EUTHANASIA: -Government to mandate End of Life counseling & treatment (aka “Advance Care Planning Consultation”) on “the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration” (H.R.3200, Section 1233, page 424) -Government order for end of life plans (p. 429) ● GOVERNMENT INTRUSION: -Government will have real-time access to individual’s finances, if elegible for specific medical service. National health care ID card (p.58) -Government-established National Medical Device Registry (p. 1001) -Government Marriage & Family therapy sessions (p. 489) -Government will design and implement the Home Visitation Program for families with young children and families expecting children, parenting counseling is included (p. 838-p. 845) ● LEFTISTS TO REGISTER INDIVIDUALS: Government use of left-wing community groups, such as ACORN and AmeriCorps, to register individuals for the government health care plan (p. 95) ● CAN’T SUE THE GOVERNMENT: No company or business can sue the federal government for price fixing, which means that there will be no judicial review against a government monopoly of the health care industry (p. 124) ● ILEGALS EXEMPT FROM TAXES & FINES: Any nonresident alien is exempt from the individual taxes, insurance purchasing mandates, and fines which are required of every legal, U.S. citizens (p. 170). ● RESTRICT ENROLLMENT: Government will restrict the enrollment of special needs people (p. 354) MORE: ● More items of concern in HR3200, here, and here (Ht: Babalu) ● What’s wrong his HR3200 by Duke University Professor John David Lewis ● Government into homes to usurp parental rights (sections 440 & 1904 (Page 838)) ● End of life plan ● DEADLY DOCTORS: How Obama’s Advisors want to ration care (Meet Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) ● Manufactured Healthcare Crisis

FACTS
● BIG BUSINESS GOES BIG FOR OBAMACARE (most health-insurance companies, Big Pharma/the drug industry)
● OBAMA IS LYING…CHECK THE OBAMACARE AMENDMENTS
● MANUFACTURED HEALTHCARE CRISIS
● Seniors Will Have to Give Up Some Medicare Benefits For Obamacare said Democrat Betsy Markey,
Is Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO) spreading malicious myths about ObamaCare?

OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS
OBAMA: Better Off Taking Painkillers than having Surgery Do you want government making that decision for you? Will ObamaCare limit health care for the elderly?		OBAMA: I’m Not Familiar With Health Care Bill Report: Obama admits to blogger he is not familiar with his healthcare bill But continues pushing & marketing his healthcare	OBAMA: My plan will ELIMINATE private insurance H/t: NakedEmperorNews, MichelleMalkin

OBAMA SAID THE TERMINALLY ILL SHOULD NOT GET ADDITIONAL HEALTH CARE Obama: “You just get into some very difficult moral issues” whether “society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they are terminally ill… The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care.” (Obama interview with David Leonhardt of the New York Times magazine on 4/28/09, whole interview)

AMERICANS CONFRONTING OBAMACARE PUSHERS (For town hall videos – click here)
Philly crowd vs. Arlen Specter & HHS Kathleen Sebelius		“You can’t manage Cash4Clunkers, & you want to manage Health Care?		Austin vs. Rep. Lloyd Doggett
Report		Report		Report
..More videos of town hall meeting videos & protests – click here

Trojan horse: “Government Health Care Is More Efficient” FACT: STATE-RUN HEALTHCARE WILL CREATE A BUREAUCRATIC NIGHTMARE At least 31 new federal programs, agencies, commissions, and mandates will be in between patients and … their doctor
Bureaucratic nightmare of the House Democrats’ health care plan Top 10 Myths of the U.S. Health Care: 1. Government Health Care Is More Efficient 2. We’re Spending Too Much on Health Care 3. Forty-Six Million Americans Can’t Get Health Care 4. High Drug Prices Drive Up Health Care Costs 5. Importing Drugs Would Reduce Health Care Costs 6. Universal Coverage Can Be Achieved by Forcing Everyone to Buy Insurance 7. Government Prevention Programs Reduce Health Care Costs 8. We Need More Government to Insure Poor Americans 9. Health Information Technology Is a Silver Bullet for Reducing Costs 10. Government-Run Health Care Systems in Other Countries are Better and Cheaper than America’s
Trojan horse: “Universal Health Care will bring equality” FACT: STATE-RUN HEALTHCARE’S PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT
● Why is Congress exempt from the government-run health care option? If socialized medicine is good enough to force on all Americans, why are members of Congress exempt from the state-run health care option, keeping their existing health plans and services on Capitol Hill? Sign Petition: To require lawmakers in Washington to enroll in any government-run health plan they want to impose on the rest of us. ● Does Ted Kennedy deserve his extended cancer care? Why didn’t he go to Canada or Cuba for his treatment?
Trojan horse: “There are 47 million uninsured” FACT: 8.2 MILLION ARE UNINSURED
● 8.2 million Americans are uninsured NOT 46 million as repeated by Obamistas: ○ They fail to mention the 46 million includes illegal immigrants, people who temporarily do not have insurance (they might be between jobs), or do not want coverage. ○ The real number of uninsured is 8.2 million Americans who are without coverage for the long haul, because they are too poor to purchase health care but earn too much to qualify for government assistance., BlueCross Assoc.) ○ But these 8.2 million of Americans have access to care, because federal law forbids hospitals from denying treatment to patients who show up at the emergency rooms. ● 9.7 million of the uninsured are not U.S. citizens (Census 2007) click image to see 2007 Census report
● Some people say they were without insurance even if they only spent a portion of the year without coverage. (Census report, page 19) Leftists like to cite 46 million uninsured to make it sound that 25% of U.S. citizens never, ever, have insurance coverage. ● The Census report list the number of people who are uninsured at a SPECIFIC POINT IN TIME during the year than for the entire year. (Census report, page 19) The 47 Million Lie (cartoon by MichaelRamirez/IBD) ● Approx. 5.7 million uninsured adults are “short-term uninsured,” (because they’re between jobs or recent college graduates. (BlueCross Assoc.) ● 21 million to 31 million people were uninsured for the ENTIRE YEAR (CBO) ● 14 million of the uninsured were eligible (but chose not) to enroll in government-sponsored health programs like Medicaid and SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) (BlueCross Assoc.) These people would be signed up for government insurance if they ever made it to the emergency room. ● More than 13 million uninsured adults and families have incomes of more than $50,000, and many have access to affordable healthcare coverage (BlueCross Assoc.) ● In 2006, almost 18 million of the uninsured earned more than $50,000 a year. (Census, p.21) ● In 2006, almost 10 million of them have an income of more than $75,000 a year (Census, p.21) In other words, 38 percent of the U.S. uninsured population earn more than $50,000 per year. ● Those making more than $75,000 per year are part of the fastest growing segment of the uninsured population. (Top 10 Myths of the U.S. Health Care) ● 18.3 million of the uninsured were adults under 34 who think they are young and healthy and choose not to have coverage (Census 2007)

Trojan horse: “ObamaCare will provide PROPER healthcare to all Americans” FACT: HORRORS OF GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE
CANADA “You Have Not Yet Suffered Long Enough”	CANADA, UK (video removed by YouTube) Try here, or here
CANADA	BRITAIN	CUBA
		June 09, Cuba: 11 cancer patients were killed after being treated with expired cancer serum (Original report in Spanish)

● ENGLAND
○ British National Health System – Man collapses with ruptured appendix… three weeks after NHS doctors ‘took it out’
○ British National Health System – The babies born in hospital corridors: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets.
○ England’s Taxes: Facing a new 50% Tax rate, Americans Flee England

● CANADA’s Government-run healthcare: Dirty hospitals: ○ Floors littered with plastic seals that nurses take off IV packs & toss to the floor. ○ Bloody bandages are tossed into a corner to stay there for days. ○ Spilled food and drinks are left to be ground into the floors. ○ Bed linens are changed only after the patient is discharged. ○ Hospital staff ignore the filth on nearly every hospital surface. High costs, poor quality: ○ Costs have escalated with little or no improvement since the Canada Health Act was first passed back in 1984. ○ 25% of Canadians (over 7 million) do not have access to a primary care physician. ○ More than 2 years wait times for routine life-saving procedures. ○ 3rd highest in costs out of 30 countries, while healthcare outcomes are a dismal 28th. ○ Half of Canada’s government budget is spent on healthcare with little improvement but unions want more spending. ○ The problem isn’t lack of money but lack of physicians. ○ Most individuals working within the Canadian healthcare system are demoralized to near catatonia. ○ Waste and bureaucratic gridlock currently plague the Canadian system. ● ObamaCare will hurt your family: ○ Undermines Parental Authority ○ Puts Federal Bureaucrats in Control of Health Care Decisions ○ Shackles Families with Unknown Costs ○ Dumps Families into a Government-Run Health Plan (Employers would be incentivized to drop private coverage) ○ Disregards Convictions of Patients and Providers ○ Makes Bureaucrats Moral Decision-makers (end-of-life decisions, prenatal care, abortions) ● Government-Run Health Care Will Harm Both Patients and Doctors ● Government will be in charge of your health data… goodbye privacy			● CUBA’s Healthcare, more …Is this what Democrat Rep. Diane Watson praises so much? Is this what she wants for America? CUBA'S SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE - click image for report

Trojan horse: “ObamaCare will allow choice” FACT: OBAMACARE WILL DESTROY COMPETITION
● ObamaCare masterminds said how they wanted to destroy private insurance Their goal: Private insurance will not be able to compete against government: Their tactic: “to crowd out the private insurers by undercutting them on price. After all, the government can take losses on the plan for as long as they need to drive everyone else out of the market. Once that process completes, voila! Single-payer remains as the only option.” (Hat tip: Mark Levin)
● Democrat Admits Obama Healthcare Plan Will Destroy Insurance Industry Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) Admits Obama Healthcare Plan Will Destroy Insurance Industry: “I know many of you here today are single payer advocates and so am I … and those of us who are pushing for a public health insurance don’t disagree with this goal. This is not a principled fight. This is a fight about strategy for getting there and I believe we will.” Liberals don’t want you to see this video She said the public option is not a compromise, but a strategic step toward the single-payer system and the elimination of the private insurance industry…more
● ObamaCare will force every American to buy health insurance OR face fines/punishment ● A public plan will leave workers with no private insurance & less freedom: ○ Many employers will have to drop private health coverage for their workers and dump them into the public plan. ○ Congress will be both the “umpire” who sets the rules and the “team owner” of the public plan. ○ Government will control what your doctor can do and how much he will be paid.

Trojan horse: “ObamaCare will reduce health care costs” FACT: OBAMACARE WILL SPEND TRILLION DOLLARS TO “CONTROL COSTS” (oxymoron) ● Estimated $245 Billion a year will cost the House health plan by 2019: At $1.3 trillion dollars over ten years, most Americans will think the House plan will cost about $130 billion a year. They have been mislead. In reality, by 2019 the House health plan will cost $245 billion a year. ● How the CBO’s 10-Year time frame obscures the full cost of Obamacare (Hat tip: MichelleMalkin) ● Obama to spend a trillion dollars to “control costs” (bet you it will be more) ● CBO: ObamaCare cost in the trillion dollars & leave millions uninsured: ○ Deficits would increase by at least $1 trillion over the 2010-2019 period (doesn’t include major provisions of the bill) ○ Number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million, so the net decrease in the number of people uninsured would be about 16 million or 17 million. (Hat tip: Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Preliminary Analysis, American Spectator) ● Future tax increases will be required to pay for entitlement programs	OBAMACARE COST= $245 Billion per year by 2019
	This will worsen Obama’s record deficit (graph & video)

Trojan horse: “Obama says 100,000 deaths a year in U.S. hospitals” FACT: NOT TRUE 100,000 DEATHS PER YEAR IN U.S. HOSPITALS About 9,800 preventable deaths occur each year in U.S. hospitals – according to the re-evaluation done by some researchers of the original study which used fuzzy math. Obama cited the figures of the erroneous original study. (Hat tip: PointOfLaw, Michelle Malkin)

Trojan horse: “Government knows best” FACT: GOVERNMENT FAILURES ● Medicare is Broken ● Katrina ● War on poverty ● Public education ● Bailouts, “stimulus” ● Sub-prime mortgage ● Government incests: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, General Motors/Government Motors ● Affirmative Action etc., etc. Trojan horse: “Government is here to help” FACT: KNOW THY OBAMISTA ● OBAMACARE OBJECTIVE: To control Americans ● REALITY OF GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE: Control, rationing, long waits, poor service… ● TACTICS: Trojan horses, demagoguery, bullying, demonizing the opposition ○ Obamistas using same tactics that advocates of universal healthcare used in Canada to push their agenda: – Vilifying doctors: to the point that many skilled physicians said “no thanks” and left for greener pastures (i.e., to the US) – False promises: of containment of costs and improvement of quality, none of which anyone would argue against. Canadians warn us: Government healthcare too good to be true “Obamacare may sound like a good deal to someone who currently isn’t covered under any health insurance in the US. But in terms of an overall improvement in outcome vs. expenditure, it could prove to be one of the single most disastrous decisions ever made on behalf of Americans. In this case, the admonition that you should be careful what you wish for because you just might get it, is a warning that can’t be made strongly enough.” ○ Demagoguery via the airwaves: Obama’s Infomercial: Low ratings for Obama Infomercial Mainstream Media (MSM): All Three Nets To Interview Obama About Healthcare Wednesday 7/15/2009 Lowest rated press conference yet 7/22/2009 SOLUTIONS Stop frivolous lawsuits (tort reform), Markets, Consumer Choice, and Innovation, portability… RELATED ● 87% of the revenue in the original Baucus proposal would come from those earning less than $200,000 (Hat tip: GatewayPundit) ● The illustrated guide to Obamacare human props ● Spin doctors for Obamacare: big Democrats donors ● White House to Dems on town halls: “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard” ● Healthcare poster ideas ● “Listening session” hosted by Rep. Steve Kagen in Green Bay, WI ● Grass-roots revolt in Austin & Philadelphia ● Tea Party: Bristol Style! ● Local Deaf Student Asks Dem Officials: Will Disabled People Like Me Get Shut Out Under Obamacare? (Video) ● OBAMA & PELOSI Begin Campaign to Demonize Private Insurance Industry ● Former CBO director says ObamaCare numbers don’t add up ● Healthcare series ● Nationwide protest against socialized medicine & cap-and-tax ● Tea-party-hating superhack out at CNN ● St. Louis Rally Against Obamacare–Saturday 11 AM in Clayton ● Statist health care, by the numbers ● The Failed Promises of Government Funded Health Care ● Miami protest against ObamaCare, Cap & Tax, Bailout & government waste & expansion… ● TEA PARTY DIRECTORIES ALL-IN-ONE…& FACTS ● Time to protest: Find An Independence Day Tea Party …..please re-visit this page since it will be updated as more facts come in…. « NEXT MIAMI TEA PARTY – July 2, 2009 MIAMI TEA PARTY – JULY 2, 2009 »   Blog at WordPress.com. | Theme: Andreas09 by Andreas Viklund.