This sickness is going to get worse until people with common sense start electing people with common sense.  The Obama administration is now requiring FBI agents to read Miranda rights to captured terrorists.  This is a complete 180-degree turn from previous statements made by the president recently on 60 Minutes, but what else is new…  He says he doesn't want to own GM or Banks...  but he does...

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Not to be out done making life difficult for and increasing the risk to our fighting men and women deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the world keeping us safe from Islamic extremists, there’s princess Pelosi and her politburo.

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Call, write, fax, and email your Congressmen…  Advise them to seek employment elsewhere come reelection time if they continue to support idiots who do things like this or vote for progressive legislation like universal healthcare patterned after Medicare.

Remember…  Medicare does not cover oxygen therapy for cluster headaches…  Do not count on coverage if Obama gets his way with universal healthcare.

A good question to ask you Congressmen is this:  “Are you willing to give up your free medical care for life at military hospitals and facilities and accept universal healthcare?”

Now Obama is reverting back to his Chicago thug tactics... 

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him from the position.

Obama's move follows an investigation by IG Gerald Walpin of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star, into the misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group that Johnson headed.

The IG's investigation must have had some merit in spilling the beans on Johnson's activities as Johnson returned over $800,000 in Federal grants...

Take care and BOHICA…

V/R, Batch

Good people of clusterville,

I wasn't kidding when I said BOHICA...

June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.

Barbara, if you thought Medicare was good...  Don't hold your breath...  It looks like it's going to take a hit.  I've got it too and this is BAD NEWS!

Please keep sending your cards, letters, faxes, and email to your idiot congressmen who are voting for this piece of crap!  Advise them to seek employment elsewhere come reelection time if not before...

Take care and...  BOHICA

V/R, Batch

Interesting posts kids. Steven King couldn't come up with a horror story more bizarre than our health care system.  It's stunning.

Wall Street (you know how well they do things lately) loves our present system. For profit hospitals...something fairly new as a rule, clinics, and health care system manufacturers have been making billions since medicine has become more and more market oriented. A whole new volcabulary has had to be developed. Patients are now "consumers," and doctors are now "providers."

Thanks to a lobbying culture that's dwarfs any other, it's not politically feasible for Congress to vote for a single payer system. Naturally the GOP is using the old socialized medicine tactic. It's not of course. No one will be forced to use only approved doctors or stand in line. That's a fear tactic. You can use your current insurance if you like. The only thing that is socialistic is that the  government handles payment to them. It's a huge battle that is exists because of the mountains of cash from drug and medical lobbyists for anyone who will vote against reform.

Just an aside: As of 2004 less than 29% of doctors are members of the AMA. It's purpose has changed and gets paid by drug companies and the like to oppose any change in the status quo.

Charlie

Good people of Clusterville,

Here’s a little light reading from the proposed US NATIONAL HEALTH CARE (USNHC) PROGRAM legislation you might just find a lot more than just interesting.

TITLE I--ELIGIBILITY AND BENEFITS

SEC. 101. ELIGIBILITY AND REGISTRATION.

(a) In General- All individuals residing in the United States (including any territory of the United States) are covered under the USNHC Program entitling them to a universal, best quality standard of care. Each such individual shall receive a card with a unique number in the mail. An individual’s social security number shall not be used for purposes of registration under this section.


(b) Registration- Individuals and families shall receive a United States National Health Insurance Card in the mail, after filling out a United States National Health Insurance application form at a health care provider. Such application form shall be no more than 2 pages long.


(c) Presumption- Individuals who present themselves for covered services from a participating provider shall be presumed to be eligible for benefits under this Act, but shall complete an application for benefits in order to receive a United States National Health Insurance Card and have payment made for such benefits.


(d) Residency Criteria- The Secretary shall promulgate a rule that provides criteria for determining residency for eligibility purposes under the USNHC Program.



(e) Coverage for Visitors- The Secretary shall promulgate a rule regarding visitors from other countries who seek premeditated non-emergency surgical procedures. Such a rule should facilitate the establishment of country-to-country reimbursement arrangements or self pay arrangements between the visitor and the provider of care.




SEC. 211. OVERVIEW: FUNDING THE US NATIONAL HEALTH CARE (USNHC) PROGRAM

(a) IN GENERAL.—The USNHC Program is to be funded as provided in subsection (c)(1).

(b) USNHC TRUST FUND.—There shall be established a USNHC Trust Fund in which funds provided under this section are deposited and from which expenditures under this Act are made.

(c) FUNDING.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are appropriated to the USNHC Trust Fund amounts sufficient to carry out this Act from the following sources:

(A) Existing sources of Federal Government revenues for health care.

(B) Increasing personal income taxes on the top 5 percent income earners.  

(C) Instituting a modest and progressive excise tax on payroll and self-employment in come.  

(D) Instituting a small tax on stock and bond transactions.  

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If the idiots in Congress want to tax something that desperately needs taxing, they can start by taxing the flow of capital out of the US by non-US Citizens and foreign nationals to their homelands.

A 2003 report found the following annual transfers of funds out of the United States:

Regionally, Latin America and the Caribbean received the lion share of remittances in nominal terms with $25 billion followed by South Asia with $16 billion (2002). Relative to GDP, however, South Asia was the largest recipient with remittance receipts amounting to 2.5% of GDP.

Flows of US dollars to East Asia and Pacific with 14% of global remittance receipts and Sub-Saharan Africa with 5% are dwarfed by those to the other regions.  Especially for Africa, however, this picture is heavily skewed by underreporting or complete lack of data; close to two thirds of Sub-Saharan African countries lack data.

COMMENT:  If the idiots in Congress are willing to tax employer provided health care benefits, they could surely tax the flow of money leaving the United States to other foreign countries

Take care and don’t let a day go by without sending your Congressmen a call, fax, or email...  Advise them to seek employment elsewhere if they keep up this stupidity.  They swore to protect us from enemies both foreign and domestic...

V/R, Batch

Charlie,

For your sake, mine, and anyone else on Medicare or Medicaid, I pray this most recent attempt at a single payer National Health Care plan meets the same fate as HillaryCare going down in defeat.  

If the more than $1.2 Trillion dollar price tag isn't enough to gag a maggot, the over $313 Billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid coverage to offset the expense of the present National Health Care legislation will be very painful.  If that's not bad enough, if they pass the carbon tax to pay for universal health care and other socialist agenda programs thanks to the Cap in Trade legislation, that will increase your energy bill by well over the increase in co-pay required by the cuts in Medicare and Medicaid...

But...  It's not all bad news...  If universal health care is passed, well over 10 million undocumented and illegal aliens (read non-US citizens residing here in the United States) will still be eligible for free health care under this legislation...

Take care,

V/R, Batch

Spot On Deltadarlin!!!

Charlie,

You're right... Medical insurance costs are too high and that's hurting not only hospitals but everyone else up and down the medical food chain including us. Unfortunately you're pointing at the wrong culprit in singling out the evil medical insurance companies.  

The real problem is Mandated Benefits levied by the States and the Federal Government...  In 1965 there were 7 medical insurance mandates...  today there are over a thousand.

So, if you want to point at the culprits, first look in a mirror and point at yourself for electing a bunch of social progressive idiots on both sides of the isle, then turn your attention to the idiots presently in your State Assembly and the bigger idiots in the US Congress...  

These are the same lawyer idiots that have stonewalled medical tort reform and who have failed to uphold public law dealing with the capture and deportation of illegal aliens. They've also allowed over 13 million illegal aliens to suck up free health care at our expense from it's most expensive source, the ER... and... drop anchor babies along the way that cost us hundreds of millions to boot...

What is just as disturbing is these idiots have levied mandates on all private medical insurance companies to cover nonmedical expenses such as hairpieces and humarounds.  Then there's mandates covering treatments for drug and alcohol abuse, pastoral and marriage counseling, infertility treatment, mental health parity, which requires insurers to treat mental illnesses like physical illnesses and many more...  

Of course you can argue some of these are valid things a medical insurance company should cover in your policy...  and you could ask for them with a commensurate increase in your policy premiums.  Unfortunately these mandates apply to all medical insurance policies like'm or not!

Assuming that a mandate-free, basic health insurance policy costs a family about $3,500 a year, the latest 12 mandates about to hit the street will add 15% to 30% or $525 to $1,050 more a year...  That's if they stay in business after Obama's massive health care black hole passes.

The private medial insurance companies have no choice...  They are required by law to include these mandates and that drives up the cost of the medical insurance premiums...  for all of us...

People should have a choice... but the idiots in Congress think we're dumb and they know better how to spend our medical insurance dollars... and voters have let them do it.

Soooo...  You can thank the idiots in government for this very expensive crap sandwich...  Not the insurance companies...

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Speaking of choice... please choose to elect people with common sense and tell your existing idiot congressmen to seek employment elsewhere come election time.  

These idiots have already let the Apologist in Chief cut over a $1 Billion out of our strategic defense systems just when the DPRK lights off another underground nuclear weapon and launches ballistic missiles that will soon have the range to reach us here in the States, then turns around, pulls the ban on the GITMO photos and on top of that, tonight they just voted to give away $5 Billion to the IMF when we don't have it to give away...  They're insane and they're spending us into generational debt.

Take care, that may be one of your few remaining freedoms...

V/R, Batch