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Long before Obamacare, and long before Hillarycare, the Democrats tried several times to enact universal healthcare. Franklin D. Roosevelt tried three times. In 1935, FDR tried to fold a national healthcare provision into the Social Security Act. Because the American Medical Association opposed socialized medicine, his Committee on Economic Security advised FDR that if he persisted in trying to make healthcare part of Social Security, he would very likely torpedo the entire measure and lose Social Security as well. Roosevelt pulled the healthcare measure from the Social Security Act of 1935. In 1939 he tried again. The House and Senate-held hearing began in July, 1938 through the Fall on what would become the Wagner National Health Act. The socialist New Dealers in Congress were determined to enact "door-opener" healthcare reform in 1939. The Wagner Act proposed covering only the needy and the elderly. It was a non-threatening approach to healthcare. Who could object to providing healthcare for children and grandma? Even back in 1939 the politicians knew that once you got your foot in the door, the rest of the body would naturally follow. Health coverage for kids and the elderly today, compulsory insurance for everyone tomorrow.
When the socialists overwhelmed the republican form of government of the United States in 1933, they had a super majority in the House and a filibuster-proof Senate. With 333 House members, the 89 Republicans were pretty much relegated to third party status. Like the Republicans in the 111th Congress, the Republicans in the 73rd Congress, entered their floor arguments against the New Deal legislation into the Congressional Record speaking to an empty House or Senate chamber. Since the left did not need their vote for anything, the arrogant socialists saw no need to listen to Republicans rant about their opposition to measures they could not stop. Once the American people saw that the catastrophic collapse of the nation predicted by Roosevelt and the far left did not happen, and when the economy continued to worsen under Roosevelt, the Peoplewho in 1933 were willing to surrender a small measure of liberty for a job and food on the table for their childrenrealized that the socialist New Dealers were legislatively redefining the basic freedoms provided by the Bill of Rights without amending the Constitution. The left was legislating the Bill of Rights out of existence, and there weren't enough Republicans in either house to question them, let alone to stop them. The Democrats began to frighten the voters. And, conversely, at the same time, the socialists also feared the voters. Dictatorial control over the people would solve that. When you possess the power to take everything from the Peopleincluding their liveseven the most bellicose man becomes polite. The Wagner Act resurfaced
in 1943 as the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill (for Robert Wagner
[D-NY], James Murray [D-WA] and John Dingell [D-MI]). The
Left simply dusted it off, renamed it and sent it to committee. This act
called for compulsory national care paid for with a payroll tax. The impetus
to "try it again" came from a medical ally who joined the Roosevelt
Administration as an adviser. Where Roosevelt intended to backdoor the American people in 1939 with a single payer system controlled by him, President Harry S. Truman was content to simply modify Wagner-Murray-Dingell into a more progressive, egalitarian system. Truman wanted a completely voluntary plan that would give the people the choice to keep their private insurance or accept a public option. (Note: an article posted to the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum website claims that the national healthcare plan Truman proposed would have been open to all people, but that it would be optional. That may have been what Truman wanted, but Congress had other ideas. The New Deal Congress, which was still having trouble accepting the haberdasher from Missouri as the head of the ship of state, was still churning around in circles like a ship without a rudder since the death of Roosevelt. They had a slightly different version of healthcare in mind. When Wagner-Murray-Dingell finally showed up in Congress, it was an Obamaesque compulsory plan.) What Truman proposed to Congress on Nov. 19, 1945 was simply too ambitious a piece of legislation to be enacted. It would have not only provided health insurance (as a supplement to Social Security), it would also have provided funds to build and staff hospitals in many of the 1,200 counties across the nation which had no local access to doctors or hospitals. The 79th Congress didn't let Truman's vision get in the way of a bill they thought they could get enactedthe Wagner-Murray-Dingell Act. Keep in mind that the Democrats did not have the extreme control of Congress in 1945 that they had in 1933. Republicans regained 102 House seats and 11 Senate seats. The Democrats could still enact any piece of legislation they wanted, but over the previous decade they learned that arrogance had a price. The Obama Raw Deal Congress hasn't learned that lesson yet. (Let's hope the Christian Right in America learned from the lessons of 2006 and 2008. You can't elect third party candidates in a two party system. Conservatives need to get proactive during the primaries since that is the time they can unseat an incumbent without giving his seat to the opposition party.)
Once the State begins to sign their paychecks and assigns them a 35-hour work week, doctors are going to do what doctors in every socialist system dothey are going to work 35-hours a week because there will be no incentive for them to work longer. When that happens, the healthcare shortages and lack of quality care you find in Canada, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, and the balance of the 28 nations with socialized medicine systems, you will find the same type of mediocre, rationed healthcare here. That's a "given" because, when the medical professional can no longer generate a high six- or seven-digit income by working 16- to 20-hour days, they will work 35-hour weeks, take their government paycheck and spend their free time managing the investments they made during the heyday of medicine when the free enterprise system produced the best healthcare in the world. Want
a truly zero-cost national healthcare system? Keep the government out
of the healthcare business. Enact legislation that will allow any medical
care provider or facility to write offdollar for dollar100%
of all costs incurred by that provider or institution treating indigent
patients (who are, first and foremost, US citizens who lack the money
to buy coverage rather than simply wanting to spend their discretionary
income on life's extravagances rather than life's necessities). These
deductions would not be claimed at the top of the tax form where the taxpayer
adjusts his gross income and determines his tax liability, but at the
bottom of the form, after the tax liability is computed, and just before
the check to the IRS is written. Who should be eligible for this free healthcare? The elderly. Those who are disabled and can't work, and those who were gainfully employed but have lost their job and are, or were, drawing unemployment but have not yet reentered the workforce. Excluded from eligibility would be those who think Uncle Sam owes them a living, or those who have the financial wherewithal to buy medical insurance but simply choose not to. And, most of all, excluded would be both resident aliens and illegal aliens. You now have as close to a zero-cost health insurance system as you will ever get. Everyone wins. And, best of all, you have a free market, private enterprise universal healthcare system which the government does not control. As logical and simple as such a solution appears to be, neither the White House nor the socialists in Congress would let any Congressman or Senatorconservative or socialistpropose such a measure because it solves the healthcare problem without government interference or control. While the key objective of any healthcare plan theoretically is healthcare, the reality is when nations want to seize absolute, dictatorial control over a people, the easiest and swiftest way to seize control of a people through statism or socialism is to legislate population control mechanisms as regulations for some grand gratuity like healthcare. Once statism is disguised as a humanitarian project like healthcare, people generally do not oppose it because they can easily be made to look like villains for opposing medical care for the elderly, or for children. Yet, if you honestly outline the benefits and pitfalls of compulsory, single payer socialized medicine, and give the taxpayers (not the freeloaders) the option to choose, 100% of the time they will unflinchingly vote against it. Think not? Between 1933 and 1961 the Democrats tried 14 times to ram a government-controlled healthcare system through Congress. In each case (except during the 80th Congress when the Republicans seized both Houses for 2 years), the Democrats had enough of a majority in both Houses that they could have enacted healthcare without a single GOP vote. Yet, in every instance they failed to enact it. With the American people on record as not wanting socialized medicine, the Democrats knew if they passed the measure without bipartisan support from the Republicans, the American people would engage in the mass termination of Democrats during the next election. The American peoplethanks to Hillary Clintonnow have a more complex understanding of how, by design, universal healthcare puts into place the foundation of regulations that will allow government to control not only the lives of the people, but their mobility as well. Universal healthcare provides government with the platform that will surreptitiously allow them to, ever so slowly, steal the liberty of the People under the guise of taking care of them. A large faction of American people still
dislike Clinton because, as First Lady with no constitutional authority
to engage in the legislative process, she formed a healthcare task force
out of the public eye and created the most intrusive healthcare system
devised by any US public official to date. In 1961 the American Medical Association
[AMA] enlisted private citizen Ronald Reagan to speak out against
expanding Kerr-Mills (Medicare)a program they initially supported.
Congress was attempting to piggyback a new piece of legislation, a measure
John F. Kennedy wanted enacted as King-Anderson (HR 4222,
S.909) on top of Kerr-Mills in order to expand Medicare into a
universal healthcare system for the elderly. Reagan began by detailing
the many attempts by the Democratically-controlled Congress to enact a
compulsory health insurance program in the United States. The American
people, he noted, unhesitatingly rejected each attempt by the government
to seize the healthcare industry. Fearful of losing their jobs, Congress
backed down. Momentarily. Reagan was right about one thing. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Kerr-Mills Medicare bill into law in September, 1960, the socialists had their foot in the door. Reagan noted in his 1961 advocacy message that the Truman Era Wagner-Murray-Dingell Act would have forced all Americans to partake in a program of socialized medicine. The American people rejected socialized medicine. With the American people on the record about not wanting socialized medicine, Congressman Aime Forand introduced HR 4700. Forand's bill would have amended Medicare, forcing all people of Social Security age to be brought under a program of compulsory health insurance. This included not only senior citizens, it would include their dependents and all disabled people regardless of age, and children if they were dependents of someone who was eligible for either old age or disability insurance. Forand argued that he was sponsoring the bill only for that specific group of people. Forand was a subscriber to the "foot-in-the-door" philosophy because, he said, "If we can get this bill through and get our foot inside the door, then we can expand the program after that." That is precisely what Barack Obama is doing today. And that is why he was willing to jettison his "public option" to get his foot in the door. Politicians have come to realize that once they get the correct framework passed, they can modify the plan within the bureaucracy by codifying whatever regulations they need to slowly convert the plan into whatever they want it to become. Reagan also quoted Walter Reuther who said: "It's no secret that the United Automobile Workers is officially on record backing a program of national health insurance." Reagan noted that "...by national health insurance he meant socialized medicine for every American. The socialists themselves say, 'Once the Forand bill is passed, the nation will be provided with a mechanism for socialized medicine capable of indefinite expansion in every direction until it includes the entire population.'"
According to the protocol of the Clinton White House meeting that took place on Nov. 12, 1993, "...[t]he President..." meeting with senior aide Gene Sperling and two other Clinton aides identified in the protocol only as as JFS and DG "...gives an overview of the AIDS situation and its relationship to the Health Security Act. Based on position papers submitted to the President from various organizations [that] include the WHO and the CDC, it is evident that AIDS is an epidemic in the United States. Juggling figures to show [only those with active AIDS] has kept the figures artificially low...The President now believes that it would be impossible to include any...AIDS patients with those citizens to be covered by the Health Security Act." Clinton was so concerned about AIDS that on Nov. 12, 1993 as the Health Security Act was in its death throes, he suggested that a provision be added to the bill mandating a one-time screening for AIDS be done on all US citizens. Clinton also proposed having the CDC require every citizen with full-blown AIDS to be confined to AIDS sanatoriums until they were no longer contagious, or until they died. The sanatoriums were to be situated in sparsely-populated areas of the country. Upon admission, patients would be required to sign living wills with euthanasia previsions that could be triggered by proxy when their healthcare providers deemed them to be "terminal." The AIDS provision Clinton wanted to add to Hillarycare does not appear to be in Obamacare. However, the same federal Health Board that will be charged with the responsibility of doing the cost analysis on the merits of keeping the elderly alive versus denying them lifesaving procedures will also be responsible for preparing a cost analysis on the value of keeping terminally-ill AIDS victims alive on the public dime. It's interesting to note that the gay and
lesbian population actively campaigned for Clinton in 1992 and
1996 just as the elderlythe primary target of the Obamacare
Health Boardactively campaigned, and voted, for Barack Obama
in 2008. Make no mistake about it. The Obama Health Board, or as it is legislatively known, the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Research, headed by death merchants the likes of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, based on the vision of Dr. Robert Pearlman, the Chief of Ethics Evaluation for the Veteran's Administration National Center for Ethics in Health Care, who was the visionary behind the notion that disabled veterans who do not want to be a burden to their families or to society, have the right to death with dignity through assisted suicide.
No right-minded person should ever sign a
living will unless they have a penchant to prematurely expedite their
exodus from this world. When you sign a living will, you are actually
signing your own death warrantand you are giving someone you don't
know the right to end your life when they see fit to do so. The argument
of the pro-euthanasia crowd (whose
primary goal is population reduction at both ends of the age corridor)
is that people have a right to death with dignity. Here's just one of a thousand examples of "death with dignity." On February 20, 1998 when Mary Helmueller, a RN from Minneapolis, was visiting friends in Mexico City, her grandmother fractured her left knee and was admitted to a local hospital. When Helmueller returned, she learned that her grandmother had died. According to the hospital records concerning her grandmother's demise which Helmueller personally examined, her grandmother was alert and oriented upon admission but, within 48 hours, she went into a coma. The "coma" was in fact, unconsciousness induced by morphine. According to nurses at the local hospital who attended her, she would awaken between pain medications saying: "I don't want to die. I want to live to see Johnny ordained. I want to see Greta walk." (Johnny was her grandson who was studying for the priesthood in Rome. Greta was her new great-granddaughter.) She was transferred to a hospice where she died a day or so later. Her medical charts said she had a stroke and was in renal failure.
Carefully tracing the events that led up to her grandmother's "coma," Helmueller discovered that her grandmother became increasingly unresponsive after each morphine treatment. It appeared to Helmueller that her grandmother's coma was caused by a morphine overdose. However, the admitting records at the hospice affirm the statements of two hospice doctors who swore, by their signatures, that she was terminally ill. However, the first doctor, the director of the hospice, never examined or evaluated hernor did he so much as review her chart which, by the way, listed her as a "No Code" patient. The second doctor was on vacation when Helmueller's grandmother arrived via ambulance from the hospital. He returned from vacation three days after her death. Yet, in the expert medical opinions of both doctorsneither of whom ever saw her while she was livingshe was terminal when she was admitted. The medical-legal community now defines terminal illness as any incurable or irreversible illness or chronic medical problem that will, or could, result in death in six months without medication or medical intervention. What that means is, if you suffer from heart disease that is under control with medication, but you are nearing retirement age, under Obamacare, you could be construed to be terminally-ill by the federal guidelnes mandated by the Death Squad. Therefore, if youy've signed a living will, and you have a chronic illnesses or catastropic disability, you can be denied medical treatment or suddenly find yourself in a morphine-induced "coma,"and euthanized. If you recall the tragic death of Terri Schindler Schiavo, Pinellas County, Florida Circuit Court Judge George S. Geer ordered her to be denied liquid nourishment and life-sustaining watersentencing an innocent woman to be executed in an extremely painful manner. No judge in the United States of America has a constitutional right to sentence an unconvicted, innocent person to death. No judge in the United States could pronounce a death sentence on even the most notorious mass murderer that entailed starving them to death to the extent of even denying them water and have it stand up under judicial scrutiny. Yet, that's what Geer did to Schiavo. No court overruled him, and no governor "pardoned her." The death sentence stood, and Terri Schiavo was executed by the State of Florida.. The 15-member Obama Health Board was created under HR 1, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The board will gain its authority from HR 3200, The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. The board, which the legislation purports to be an advisory panel created to perform cost analysis of all phases of the stimulus plan is, in reality, a panel of physicians and healthcare providers whose role it will be to determine at what point it is no longer cost productive to sanction the use of taxpayer dollars to save the life of a patient who requires a surgical procedure, medical procedure or lifesaving medications to correct a medical malady that threatens the life of an elderly patient or someone with a catastrophic illness. The specific language that deals with the rationing of healthcare to the elderly found in The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (which was drafted in part by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel), an advocate of assisted suicide, with considerable input from Dr. Pearlman, the author of Your Life, Your Choices" the head of ethics evaluation for the Center for Ethics in Health Care in the VA. On Sun., Aug. 23, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday questioned Tammy Duckworth, an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs about the "death book" that suggests to all disable veterans that their lives aren't worth living and that they should consider "end-of-life" options. Duckworth, herself a paraplegic who lost both legs as a helicopter pilot in Iraq, told Wallace that the Obama Administration was not using Pearlman's death book. She then noted that it was used during the Bush Administration. Wallace corrected her by reading a July 9, 2009 VA memo which clearly indicates an Obama mandate that Your Life, Your Choices, be supplied to every veterannot just those who are traumatically disabled. Duckworth told Wallace that, as the copilot of a Blackhawk helicopter, when she was shot down over Iraq, she had both a living will and a power of attorney that allowed her husband to execute her wishes. Duckworth was wounded on Bush's watch, not Obama's. Had Duckworth been wounded in Afghanistan or Iraq on Obama's watch, in a post-passage Obamacare world, under Obama's federal Health Board guidelines that weighs not only the monetary cost to save and rehabilitate the wounded warrior, but also the post-medical care cost in terms of the disability income, the government would be obligated to pay to that wounded warrior for the rest of his or her life. When President George W. Bush learned that the Veteran's Administration was using Pearlman's death book in 2007, he asked that a copy of the booklet be sent to the White House. After reading the worksheet on page 21 that poised various negative life scenarios and then asks the reader to decide whether or not his or her own life is actually worth living. One of the most tasteless scenarios is this one: "Have you ever heard anyone say, 'if I'm a vegetable, pull the plug.'?"
At the start of his second term, in 2005, Bush-43 began frantically waving a large warning flags that Social Security was very literallynot theoreticallybankrupt. Bush warned that if something was not done very quickly, within 10 years, the system would collapse and the federal government would no longer be able to meet its financial obligations under Social Security. In order to devise a system that would prevent the bureaucracy from putting Social Security receipts into the general treasury and spending it instead of placing it in a trust fund as required by law, Bush proposed privatizing Social Security. Under Bush's idea, the money would go into investment accounts that Congress could not touch. The bureaucracy didn't like that idea. As Bush-43 scurried around looking for 45 million brand new US taxpayers earning middle class incomes to replace the Baby Boomers who began to retire in 2005 through an amnesty plan the make citizens out of approximately 25 million illegal aliens, the left accused him of fearmongering while they assured America's retirement age seniors and the soon-to-be retirement age seniors that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the Social Security system. Adding their voice to calm America was the AARP, the advocacy group of the elderlywhich receives millions of dollars in federal grants each year to advocate to seniors on the behalf of the federal government. The bureaucracy knew there was a major problemtoo many old people and not even retirement revenue. The problem existed for over a decade before George W. Bush stumbled across it in 2005. Twenty years of unrestricted abortion in the United States between Jan. 22, 1973 and Jan. 20, 1993 (when the Clintons came to the White House) eliminated approximately 32 million future taxpayers. Adding the children these aborted babies did not grow up to have, we actually lost 49.6 million future taxpayers and consumers between 1973 and 1993. Today, after a quarter century of killing the unborn in the United States, that number has reach just a hair under 70 million. From 1973 to 2009, the age demographics of the nation radically shifted as the population of the United States began to age. The problem wasn't that there were too many elderly people. The problem was that there weren't enough young people paying into the Social Security system. The Ponzi Scheme we call Social Security is underfunded thanks to Lyndon Johnson's Great Welfare Society. During that era, the far left changed the Trust Fund law and stole the Social Security Trust receipts. They replaced the money with worthless IOUs. Today, there is no trust fund. Tax receipts earn 1% interest, but the money is virtually spent as soon as it's received, so it doesn't matter. The money deducted from your paycheck this month covers someone else's Social Security check next month. Social Security has become a pyramid scheme. Violating the Ponzi law is what Bernie Madoff went to prison for. Like every pyramid scheme, ultimately there will be more recipients demanding benefits than there will be workers to fund those payments. When that happens, Uncle Sam's Ponzi scheme will collapse. Before that happens, government has to find a way to restore the age balance in the taxpayer pool needed to keep the fund solvent. Sadly, Hillary Clinton's failed Health Security Act of 1993 offered a bureaucratic solution: rationed healthcare. Hillarycare, like Obamacare, gave government the right to decide at what point it could no longer afford to keep its seniors alive in a desperate political system that sees an imperative urgency to jettison the old. Under Hillarycare and Obamacare, once the decision was made to deny lifesaving procedures to the old, that rejected recipient cannot be allowed to pay for the denied procedure from his or her own pocket. That radical decision makes sense only when you look beyond healthcare at the need to greatly reduce the number of Social Security recipients who are currently receiving either retirement or disability benefits from Uncle Sam.
Obama's 15-member Health Board, officially branded as the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Research, is authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Its mandate is to "...assist the agencies of the federal government, including HHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs...to coordinate comparative effectiveness and related health service research...The Council will consider the needs of the population served by federal programs." The verbiage in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. makes it appear that the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Research was legislated as an advisory panel to do cost analysis on all facets of the stimulus package as though to suggest their job is to make sure stimulus money is properly disbursed and that councilfunded with $1.1 billion annuallywill address the impact of the stimulus bill on subpopulations in the United States. Its deliberations, according to the legislation, will be public and transparent based, the government's memo said, on the [Resident's] commitment to open government. The Council will be headed by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. From the HHS are Anne C. Haddox, Chief Policy Officer; Dr. Thomas B. Valuck, MD, Senior Advisor in the Center of Medicare Management; Peter Delaney, Director of the Office of Applied Studies; Dr. Carolyn Clancy, MD; Deborah Hopson, Ph.D, RN, Associate Administrator, HIV/AIDS Bureau; Dr. David Hunt, MD; James Scanlon, Acting Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, MD, National Institute of Health; Dr. Garth Graham, MD, Office of Minority Health; Dr. Jesse Goodman, MD, Acting Chief Medical Officer for the FDA; Dr. Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo, MD, Acting Deputy for Office on Disability, HHS; Neera Tanden, attorney for Health Reform at HHS; Dr. Joel Kupersmith, MD, Veteran's Administration; and Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, MD, Department of Defense.
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