Study: Obamacare Will Lead To Gov't-Run System Like Canada
Health-care legislation moving through Congress will create nothing less than a government-run system like that in Canada, according to a study released yesterday.
"Regardless of whether a public option is included, the reforms under consideration in Congress would impose such rigid control on private health plans that it amounts to a government-run health-care system -- even if the insurance companies remain technically under private ownership," concludes the report by scholar Robert A. Book of the conservative-oriented Heritage Foundation.
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You WISH you had a system like Canada. Aside from all the lies about our healthcare system - I would defy you to find a single Canadian willing to trade our healthcare system for yours!
Authentic Conservative
Sen. Ben Nelson: ‘I’m Not Going to Be Able to Answer That Question’ of Where Constitution Authorizes Congress to Force Americans to Buy Health Insurance
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/57007
Authentic Conservative
by Andrew Napolitano
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We Can't Sit Back and Allow the Loss of Our Freedoms
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We elect the government. It works for us. As we watch the Democrats' plans for health care take shape, we can only ask how did our government get so removed, so unbridled, so arrogant that it can tell us how to live our personal lives?
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Last Saturday, at 11 o’clock in the evening, the House of Representatives voted by a five vote margin to have the federal government manage the health care of every American at a cost of $1 trillion dollars over the next ten years.
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For the first time in American history, if this bill becomes law, the Feds will force you to buy insurance you might not want, or may not need, or cannot afford. If you don’t purchase what the government tells you to buy, if you don’t do so when they tell you to do it, and if you don’t buy just what they say is right for you, the government may fine you, prosecute you, and even put you in jail. Freedom of choice and control over your own body will be lost. The privacy of your communications and medical decision making with your physician will be gone. More of your hard earned dollars will be at the disposal of federal bureaucrats.
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It was not supposed to be this way. We elect the government. It works for us. How did it get so removed, so unbridled, so arrogant that it can tell us how to live our personal lives? Evil rarely comes upon us all at once, and liberty is rarely lost in one stroke. It happens gradually, over the years and decades and even centuries. A little stretch here, a cave in there, powers are slowly taken from the states and the people and before you know it, we have one big monster government that recognizes no restraint on its ability to tell us how to live. It claims the power to regulate any activity, tax any behavior, and demand conformity to any standard it chooses.
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The Founders did not give us a government like the one we have today. The government they gave us was strictly limited in its scope, guaranteed individual liberty, preserved the free market, and on matters that pertain to our private behavior was supposed to leave us alone.
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In the Constitution, the Founders built in checks and balances. If the Congress got out of hand, the states would restrain it. If the states stole liberty or property, the Congress would cure it. If the President tried to become a king, the courts would prevent it.
Jimmy Jon (Oat Keeper)
"concludes the report by scholar Robert A. Book of the conservative-oriented Heritage Foundation."
Again - this is so Chicken Little of the Nation. They give you propoganda from the far right, and you believe it all. So sad not to be able to think on your own. This study is from a far right organization. That would be like saying "Beck the greatest ever" from a study conducted by Beck....tools.
steve.c.
From the Blaylock Wellness Report
Dear friend,
If you think we've got problems with our healthcare system now, just wait until you see what your government has in store for you . . .
President Obama is pushing nationalized health insurance via the so-called public option, which is the first step toward socialized medicine.
All Republicans and at least a few Senate Democrats will vote against this now. But the compromise legislation will almost certainly include a "trigger" to adopt the public option in just a few years!
This is a sneaky backdoor way into socialized medicine.
This "trigger" will force the establishment of a government-run plan after the insurance companies fail to meet impossibly high standards for expanded coverage and reduced costs.
And that opens the door for the government takeover!
The loons behind this scheme actually believe a government takeover of healthcare will lower costs, even as it improves quality and expands coverage to all!
Of course that's impossible, and Medicare should be the obvious proof of that!
Dinosjbe
All you 10thers let's hear your outrage over this AFF BS trying to over rule States Rights:
http://minnesotaindependent.com/49435/conservative-pac-wants-to-trump-st...
110pct
Good, the way it should be...healthcare for all, not most...WWJD?
Patrick Henri
Jesus would NOT crush people with taxes.
Jesus would NOT fine or jail uninsured people.
Jesus would not ration seniors or bankrupt the young.
jesus would not ignore the Hippocratic Oath.
Jesus would not euthanize through denied care.
Jesus would NOT lie to the public.
Jesus would not call taxpayers bad names.
Jesus heals for free.
Dinosjbe
HaHa LOL good one.
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Dems Rejected 11 Amendments Requiring Congress to Enroll in Gov’t-Run Health Plan
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Major Tom
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study must have been done by the team of monkeys at the heritage foundation.... otherwise known as the hitler youth club.
Authentic Conservative
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.Fourty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10
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Total Disapprove 52%
NC Centrist
ABC poll shows most Americans want a public option for health care insurance.
FAILURE-IN-CHIEF
The 111th Congress is a perfect illustration of how much damage a bunch of self-interested fatuous frauds with power can do.
FAILURE-IN-CHIEF
Congress attempting to run the nation's health-care system is analogous to a bunch of drunks attempting to run the Star Ship Enterprise.
NC Centrist
Since nobody is proposing that Congress administer the nation's health care, your post is irrelevant. Thank you.
FAILURE-IN-CHIEF
If another country tried to do to America what the current Congress is doing, we would declare war on them.
FAILURE-IN-CHIEF
If another country tried to do to America what the current Congress is doing, we would declare war on them.
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Who in the Sam Hell Doesn't Know This???
A. Capone
Does the Canadian system now have pre existing condition clauses?
NC Centrist
No it doesn't. People in Canada don't go without health care. They have to wait for elective care, but citizens there are happy with their system. The liars will tell you that Canadians come to the U.S. in droves to get better true; with few exceptions, this is untrue.
A. Capone
Thanks NC. So the liars would be the uninformed, special interest and insurance company lobbys.....great- good for the American citizen....lies.
Fox News Blogger
Actually, you may or may not be suprised to hear this, but many Americans go to Canada for health care; there was a huge problem with Canadians selling their healthcare cards to Americans.
Authentic Conservative
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.Fourty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10
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Total Disapprove 52%
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polly
They needed a study to find this out?? Of course it will and everybody knows it. That is just what the liberal Democrats want.
Ernie from Michigan
The penalties for NOT buying health insurance are ridiculous: Read sections
7201 and 7203 in HR 3962. This is unconstitutional. Lets' burn up the phone
lines to our senators.
KC Mob Member
Duh...it's just a matter of time folks before you will be living in what will be known as the U.S.S.A. If you want to know what's to come and the governments game plan...go here, you will see what's going to happen:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977
shawn boles
The most incredible aspect of all: These totalitarian elements will not be forced upon the people, the people will demand them, for the social manipulation of society through the generation of fear and division has completely detached human from their sense of power and reality. A process, which has been going on for centuries if not millennia…
Religion- Patriotism- Race – Wealth – Class… and every other form of arbitrary separatist identification and thus conceit, has served to create a controlled population, utterly malleable in the hands of the few.
[Divide and Conquer] is the motto, and as long as people continue to see themselves as separate from everything else, they lend themselves to being completely enslaved.
Americans are fed up!
The Lone Conspirator
Impeach him now.
The ConstitutionaIist
I buy my pills in Canada, theyre 1/3rd price there.
Jim in JAX
And the payoff Obama gave to the pharmaceutical industry is that he will ban importing cheaper Canadian drugs. Like he really has our best interests in mind. Yeah, right.
Batters56
OH NO! er how many Americans in Northern states go over the border for healthcare already? Quite a few isn't it? If the USAs healthcare was that good wouldn't it be the other way around?
Diann
Don't you have that backwards???? It is the Canadians that are comming here for medical treatments they have to wait years for in Canada.
Fox News Blogger
That is false; no Canadian waits for years for treatment. My wife is Canadian and wasn't well; her doctor sent her out for an MRI which she received the next day. Many Americans come to Canada for health care, however.
rcaamo
Is there any doubt that it has been heading in that direction from the start.
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This and the people that brought it this far have got to go, one way or another.
Rummy
There is a way to stop Obama Care in it's tracks. Make it mandatory that the members of the house and senate belong to the same health plan that they are pushing on the public. They wouldn't like that at all and there must be a way this could be accomplished. Any ideas?