Ronald Reagan’s Inaugural Address.
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The Pelosi power-grab … I can’t reasonably call it health care reform .. is being pushed by the Democratic house leaders and the White House today. They hope to get a bill, any bill, as along as it takes over the economy, through the House this weekend.
For those in the United States, you MUST call your Congress member today and tell them this is not reform; it is a blatant power grab by Washington; tell them to vote NO.
Do you want some reasons why? How about over 1900 pages of them? Fortunately, Open Congress has summarized the bill in digestible form.
A few of the highlights:
- It requires all Americans to purchase comprehensive health insurance plans that provide more health benefits than most current health care plans.
- It requires the federal government to provide health insurance (public option) and long-term care insurance (CLASS program).
- It mandates price controls for health insurance, medical services, medical equipment, and prescription drugs.
- It provides unlimited funds to 30 grants and programs.
- It creates 74 new types grants. Each type may be granted multiple times by the Secretary of Health and Human Services at her discretion.
- It prevents states from receiving grant money if they enact tort reform.
- It creates federal insurance exchanges that are supported by national call centers to guide consumer choice, handle enrollment, process claims, and handle complaints. All communications must be supported in every language and culture in each state.
- It limits FSAs, MSAs, and HSAs only to prescription drugs and insulin. It eliminates the option to make pre-tax purchases of non-prescription drugs, eyeglasses, dental care, etc.
- It creates several new federal agencies. One is the “Health Choices Administration” (see p. 131), which oversees Health Insurance Exchanges. Another is the “Indian Health Services”, which oversees healthcare services to American Indians.
- It creates several new offices, such as the “Office of the ombudsman”, “Office on Women’s Health”, and “Office of Indian Men’s Health”.
- It creates a massive expansion of the Department of Heath and Human Services, which already runs Medicaid and Medicare. It assigns more than 1000 new responsibilities to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This includes giving away hundreds of grants worth billions of dollars, and overseeing a budget increased by hundreds of billions of dollars to support literally thousands of new regulations, penalties, sanctions, moratoriums, audits, investigations, oversights, surveillance, approvals, lawsuits, negotiations, services, awards, scholarships, loans, contracts, rebates, reimbursements, compensations, exemptions, waivers, reforms, offices, committees, task forces, centers, programs, standards, requirements, measures, methods, priorities, goals, rules, policies, processes, protocols, guidelines, plans, studies, surveys, reports, publications, web sites, call centers, data centers, facilities, training, and jobs. Almost every page in the bill gives new powers to the secretary.
- It gives the Secretary of HHS discretionary power to set prices, deny coverage, and ration health care.
- It requires the government to track personal information such as the hiring of nurses and doctors along with their wages, benefits, turnover, and tenure; the tracking of drugs prescribed by doctors, the personal financial transactions of doctors, and the personal investments made by doctors.
- It creates a new “Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research”, which is given unlimited access to all information from all federal departments and agencies.
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Now this is serious.
CALL YOUR SENATOR! Tell him or her to tell the President NOT to sign the Copenhagen treaty. That “treaty” dictates that we pay the world our carbon “debt”.
This is the new world order, led by THE LEFT.
We don’t want it; we don’t need it!
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As each month goes by, the serious business of socializing America becomes more evident.
Two-thirds of the American auto industry is taken over. In that process, unions have their pensions plans topped up by the taxpayers. Hundreds of years of case law is tossed out and pensioners living on GM bonds are told, “damn the law, unions voted us in. You’re screwed”.
Out banking system is a lap dog for the President. Hell, if you paid me a few Billion $$, I might too.
School children are taught to sing praises to our glorious President.
The health care takeover will break the economy, which is on its knees.
The silver lining in all this is the American people. The American people, from who the Government derives its “consent to govern”, smells a rat when they see one.
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The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor” and they only want more.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
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