The politcal class and Health Care Reform

Health Reform: If Democrats in Washington think their health care reform with a public option is a good thing, why have they exempted themselves from it? Why isn't what's good for their constituents good for them? Remember George Orwell's "1984" when Napoleon comments that "all pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others".

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=333327285894028

Obama Wants to Redistribute Health, Too

http://townhall.com/content/acecb27e-5ab0-4084-8c15-cd94d0bb4e2f

Take Two Aspirin and Call Me When Your Cancer is Stage 4
http://townhall.com/content/3915763c-3c4e-4c90-a460-ea8d4969459c

Health Care Reform and the American Character

While it's important to analyze the relative financial costs and benefits of health care proposals which Congress is considering, our greatest challenge cannot be limited to the economics of the issue. Our transcending concerns are moral and political. The American character itself and the principles of free market democracy which protect and preserve it may be lost beyond recovery if Congress chooses the wrong path to health care reform -- the path down which the Obama Administration seems determined to lead our country. Read on to appreciate the insights of Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/23/health-care-reform-and-the-ame

The Matter with Myths

This is a must read. Share it with your friends and family. The biggest obstacle conservatives face is that for decades we have allowed many myths and misleading facts about health care to permeate the national consciousness and rig the debate in the favor of those who want to expand the role of government. While there is a lot of misinformation to parse, The American Spectator has compiled a list of some of the most pernicious myths in need of debunking.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/21/the-matter-with-myths

Obama and the Communist Party USA

Before you roll your eyes, take the time and read what Sam Webb, National Chair of the Communist Party USA has to say about the first 6 months of the Obama Administration. He made these remarks at the National Committee meeting on June 20, 2009. This is instructive. Go back and read the 10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. Remember Santayana's Law of Repetitive Consequences:"Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obama_and_the_cpusa.html

The Freedom Index

"The Freedom Index: A Congressional Scorecard Based on the U.S. Constitution" rates congressmen based on their adherence to constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national sovereignty, and a traditional foreign policy of avoiding foreign entanglements. To learn how any representative or senator voted on the key measures described herein, look him or her up in the vote charts. The scores are derived by dividing a congressman's constitutional votes (pluses) by the total number he cast (pluses and minuses) and multiplying by 100.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/congress/424

Some great miscellaneous editorials:

A 10-member Massachusetts state healthcare advisory board unanimously recommended that the state begin rationing healthcare to keep the state’s marquee universal health care program afloat financially.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/1445

Thoughts from the Wall Street Journal:

Senators prefer their own health care plan as opposed to the one they propose for everyone else

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB124786946165760369-lMyQjAxMDI5NDE3OTgxNjk5Wj.html

How to stop socialized medicine

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB124467554761003983-lMyQjAxMDI5NDE0OTYxNzk1Wj.html

Government Care Costs More

THE testimony by Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Elmendorf that the health-care legislation in Congress "significantly expands" costs shocked Capitol Hill. Yet the evidence shows that government-run care has always been more costly than private-sector care.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07182009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/govt_care_costs_more_179841.htm

Runaway Train To Less Freedom, Higher Taxes And Rationed Care

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332725027738512

Does the Democratic health care plan ban private insurance?

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/07/024073.php

Organizational Chart of house democrats' health plan

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS TO BELIEVE IT!

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/8519595/Organizational-Chart-of-House-Democrats-Health-Plan

CBO extinguishes thought of cost savings with Obamacare

Here’s a blow to President Obama and Democrats pressing health care reform.

One of the main arguments made by the President and others for investing in health reform now is that it will save the federal government money in the long run by containing costs.

Turns out that may not be the case, according to Doug Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Answering questions from Democrat Kent Conrad of North Dakota at a hearing of the Senate Budget Committee today, Elmendorf said CBO does not see health care cost savings in either of the partisan Democratic bills currently in Congress.

Conrad: Dr. Elmendorf, I am going to really put you on the spot because we are in the middle of this health care debate, but it is critically important that we get this right. Everyone has said, virtually everyone, that bending the cost curve over time is critically...

http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/07/17/cbo-pours-cold-water-on-obama-admins-claims-about-savings-from-obamacare/

Additional Thoughts on Health Care

The link below is an IBD editorial from representative Ed Royce from California. If you think government run health care is superior to the free market alternatives, look no further than the VA and Indian Health systems.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=3323757358

PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian Health Care's victims

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090615/ap_on_go_ot/us_health_care_s_forgotten

Novel Ideas

Honesty: Lawmakers voted on the stimulus and global warming bills without having read either. Eventually they'll vote on health care legislation that could fund unrelated items. Time to end this systemic fraud.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332121205046319

Ration Trial Lawyers, Not Services, To Lower The Cost Of Health Care

By GEORGE F. BALL | Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 4:20 PM PT

As a lawyer who has spent many years defending frivolous lawsuits, both as an in-house general counsel and outside counsel, and as a former member of the McCain-Palin civil justice reform advisory committee, it is clear to me that we do need rationing to contain health care costs — lawyer rationing.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=331769697378611