End Obamacare - Health Care Reform Needed Now More Than Ever

Dec. 6, 2011

The ugly spectre of Obamacare filled me with terror at my local Walmart this week. I know I’m lucky to have a job in President Obama's disastrous economy, and fortunate to have a private health care plan – for now. Under my plan (not Obamacare), my doctor prescribed medication for me and called it in to Walmart’s Pharmacy. The doctor’s office told me to wait about 45 minutes and it would be ready, but busy is my way of life, so I took about an extra half hour or so before calling the pharmacy. You see, I’ve gone to my Walmart before, only to hear that my doctor accidentally called the prescription in to a different Walmart. However, this time my prescription would be ready there in yet another 45 minutes. Relaxed, I took my time to get ready, and headed out in my trusty old truck.

Upon arriving at the pharmacy, I took my place as fourth in line, but waited another 15 minutes to reach the point of service. A clerk opened a new register and he moved me about from place to place before – and after – his computer booted up. My name is an issue for some (it’s only five letters, but is misheard frequently), and paying took longer than expected. I’m not complaining about the Walmart folks – they try their best. However, the rules state that you must be paired with a pharmacist if your prescription is new – even if you have been prescribed the same medication in the past! I have a problem with this rule. I paid and wanted to leave, but I didn’t have the right.

President Clinton (D-AR), a liberal, initiated the HIPPA (Health Information Privacy) rules. Read all about the HIPPA Rules here. The idea is that no one has the right to use your electronic health information without your consent. This is why we must sign a form for treatment by each doctor, and for every prescription. HIPPA sprung from early paranoia over the Internet, but with billions of people online and with modern security measures, does it truly protect us? Is it worth the extra time it takes to sign on the dotted line – every time? I doubt it, and would appreciate a one-time waiver. Out of billions, why would anyone want my information? Why must we consult with a pharmacist if we have taken the very same medication before? I’d like another waiver, please, where do I sign? Uh, sorry, we don’t have that freedom.

Does anyone like filling out forms, more paperwork, more governmental rigidity slowing things down, who wants less efficiency? I know I don’t. Why do many desire regulation, tough control over people, and less personal freedom? What a bureaucracy, but Obamacare, a control-freak’s dream, The Post Office on steroids, promises so much more pain! Just imagine what the 2,400+ page bill (in bill form) will mandate. It will empower government beyond our wildest nightmares. They’ll be able to take funds out of your bank account, and consultations will more about them telling you what they and you cannot do, how nice. Other horrors await us. Think about how long you might wait ten years from now at Walmart if this monstrosity is not repealed. I told the pharmacist how I felt about the silliness of the consultation rule. Of course, all she could do was smile!

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The Real Enemy

Written : Dec. 29, 2009

This week I was planning to write about the Institute for Policy Studies, but instead the world’s security infrastructure broke down and someone came close to blowing up another jet plane. Oh, well!

Yet another young man managed to smuggle explosive components aboard an aircraft on an international flight. This time the individual was able to mix his chemicals together but was unable to make his compound explode. Fortunately, there was “only” a fire. Only two people were burned, the perpetrator and the hero who stopped the plane from burning up and falling out of the sky.

Janet Napolitano, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, gave us the wrong message about the attempted bombing. Reminiscent of Alexander Haig’s idiotic publicity blunder in the ‘80’s, she praised the security system by stating, “it worked”. Riiiiiiight! I understand what she was trying to do. Calm the nation, but we didn’t need calming. It’s the typical political response from someone who’s fairly new to his or her position and doesn’t have confidence. The first thing they do is praise their group, say nothing’s wrong, and maybe mention they’ll fix what’s broken. The last thing they do is blame themselves. She and President Obama both mentioned in their first statements about the incident that the “no-fly” lists for perpetrators of manmade disasters (God forbid we say “terrorists”) had been in place for many years – of course that’s yet another slap at President Bush. How tedious!

Political Correctness (PC) is killing us. On Dec. 28, President Obama referred to the madman as a “suspect” and also said, “ a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on his body”. Why “allegedly”? The very next day he toughened his language by calling it, “the attempted terrorist attack”. Good! Perhaps he’s coming around to the realization we can’t ignore the word “terrorist” and we have to address these matters seriously. We must not treat these attacks as criminal matters – we must use the courts of military justice instead. As Yoda might say, “Acts of war, they are!” Typically criminals have rights because they are treated as citizens, even though some of them aren’t. War criminals have few, if any rights, and – for the uneducated - there is a difference.

Political correctness is the real enemy. For example, if none of the terrorists have ever been female Caucasians, Asians, or old people, we could be a little more lenient with those groups, right? That doesn’t mean there won’t ever be a terrorist with those characteristics, but we can relax a little with them, no? The goal is to find the terrorist before he can do us harm, the goal is not to be afraid of insulting anyone. Just because all the recent terrorists have been Muslim doesn’t mean every Muslim is a terrorist, but we do have to stop ignoring reality. And, this does not mean we are being racists or “Islamo-phobes, we can be realists!

Another aspect of PC is the irrational fear of magnetometers. They show nearly everything under a person’s clothes, and that’s a good thing with regard to discovering hidden explosives destined for detonation aboard an airplane. The folks who scream about privacy are just “magnetometer-o-phobes”! The heck with privacy, just keep us safe, why don-cha?

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Written : Dec. 22, 2009

The following was available from the Obama Administration's web site on Dec. 22, 2009: ( Obama on Transparency ) :

"My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government."

I urge you to read the aforementioned and stunning web page. Which system of transparency is our president talking about? This administration has gone from saying it would be the most transparent in history to being the most secretive ever. From the drafting of the health care monstrosity bill in private (what collaboration?) to the arm-twisting which went on behind closed-doors in Democrats-only meetings, we've been shown a level of back-room dealing not seen since the early 20th century. What public participation? This administration and our Congress, which consists mostly of Democrats, has repeatedly belittled the Tea Party Movement - and its members - all of whom belong to "the public". What happened to your C-SPAN promise to televise the entire health care debate, Mr. President?

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) should be ashamed of themselves. To obtain their support of the healthcare debacle, Sen. Landrieu was given $300 million of our tax dollars for her state and Sen Nelson copped a permanent exemption from Medicaid payments required by this bill for his state. Astounding! You and I will pay dearly for each bribe.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (and then other Democrats) complained of a "culture of corruption" over and over again (mostly over nothing) when President Bush was in office. Now is the appropriate time to call out our representatives on partisanship and deal-making. They act with impunity as the country suffers. They don't seem to care, they just make deals in smoke-free back rooms, where Republicans are not welcome to tread. Is it fair? No! But we'll remember what harm they've done to America.

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Scrap It

Written : Dec. 15, 2009

A couple of hours ago CNN reported the current health care reform bill may be passed without a “public option”. Their web site quoted former Governor Howard Dean’s complaint in an interview with VPR (Vermont Public Radio), "…the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill and go back to the House."

Governor Dean (D-VT) is correct. What’s required is to dump the current bill and rewrite it because only Democrats were involved in drafting it. The Republicans were left out of the original debate and bill-writing process, so how can anyone consider it a bi-partisan bill? Some of my liberal friends refuse to believe Republicans were ignored, but if you listen carefully - and with an open mind - to what Republican Representatives and Senators have all said, they really were.

The right way to consider legislation which lasts and stands the test of time is to invite members of both parties to participate in the process, so a majority will support a bill coming out of the House committee. President Obama even promised a public debate on C-SPAN during his campaign, remember? Do you recall ever hearing about or seeing such an inclusive event? It would have been unprecedented and wonderful, but it never happened. A solid reform bill would have certainly passed by last summer if a valid process were followed in the beginning. A good bill - which we all want by the way - and which takes the best ideas of both sides, still can be.

If the Democrats force this bill through, and it does pass by a slim margin, it will spell a Republican revival in upcoming elections. Hooray for our side, but the country would not have been served. America will be hurt deeply if it passes, and conservatives will be worried. Eventually, when they realize they have been betrayed, the rest of the country will be angered. What I feel we need to learn from this is that when politicians ignore their constituents, everyone loses. The first American revolutionaries had it right when they said, “taxation without representation is tyranny”.

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