No wonder US citizens are appalled at the behavior of our (experienced) representatives!

Just watch this. Straight from C-Span. This is how the House will pass Obamacare.
(the video is very short and maddening). We are losing our nation and everything it stands for.

Remember what Stalin said – “It does not matter how you vote – it does matter who counts the vote.” – Frank

Great example of the lack of character, scruples and love of America!  Please pass it on.

Video submitted by Carter Speer.  The YouTube comments are quite entertaining.  See video below, if you’re an email subscriber click the headline link to watch the video:

I am writing today to update you on the latest health care news in the U.S. Senate.  Despite President Obama’s promised desire to work with Republicans on a bi-partisan reform bill, Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee are voting down common sense Republican amendments on a mostly partisan basis.

Yesterday Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee blocked proposals by Republicans to:

• Require that before the committee can vote on final passage of the health care bill the legislative language must be publicly available on the committee’s website for at least 72 hours
• Preserve the Medicare Advantage plans and benefits that millions of seniors currently enjoy and would lose under the Democrats’ plan
• Prohibit the establishment of a federal health care rationing board
• Include medical malpractice liability reform measures in the bill to reduce costs caused by the practice of defensive medicine

And that’s not all.  In Wednesday’s hearing we learned that the cost of increased taxes on businesses in the bill will be passed on to consumers.

“… we have analyzed this as largely falling on the consumer and it could happen in a couple of different ways.” – Thomas Barthold, Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff

We also learned that this legislation will raise insurance premiums.

“… our judgment is that that piece of the legislation would raise insurance premiums by roughly the amount of the money collected.”  — Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf

Read more coverage of the Congressional health care debate and learn more details about action in the Senate Finance Committee at my Health Freedom Blog.  Share your views, and sign my petition opposing government-run health care.

We should not spend a trillion dollars of taxpayer money on a health care bill that is not going to lower costs for consumers.

Thanks for your support.

Sincerely,
John Thune
U.S. Senator

P.S.  Your contribution will help us continue to get the facts out about the Democrats’ health care bill and the fight for common sense reform that will not cost taxpayers trillions of dollars in new spending.

In recent years, there has been a growing shortage of nurses across the country. Many expect this shortage to grow in the approaching years as baby boomers grow older and the demand for health care increases. Other reasons for a nurse shortage include: a minimum number of openings in nursing schools, an increase in the number of nurses retiring, and many nurses leaving the healthcare field.

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing and other medical professionals have become concerned about the impact the nursing shortage will have on society. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (2000), “the U.S. will experience a 20% shortage in the number of nurses needed in our nation’s health care system by the year 2020.” The American Hospital Association reports “that 75% of all current hospital vacancies are for registered nurses.” As well, projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics “reveal the need for more than one million new nurses by the year 2010.”

The medical community has concerns about the impact on the public such as: the public will have limited access to health care services, waiting times will significantly increase, increased nurse patient loads, increased risk for medical mistakes, higher risk of spreading infections and disease to patients and staff, increased risk of injury on the job, increased patient deaths, increase in nursing turnover due to stress and nurse burnout, and an increased need for therapy for nurses because of the increased stress.

Today’s nursing shortage is different from any nursing shortage in the previous years. The nursing shortage has put a spotlight on how important nurses are in the health care industry. Nursing school leaders, politicians, and health care administrators, are working very hard to find a fix to the nursing shortage. Providing incentives to increase enrollment in entry level nursing degrees is a key part of countering the nurse shortage. Nursing schools require assistance in making more room to increase student enrollment. Legislation is being proposed to combat the nursing shortage by providing capitulation grants to nursing schools in order to boost the number of students and faculty.

There are now more online schools that offer nursing programs and more healthcare managers are recognizing these schools as beneficial to helping curb the nurse shortage, Increasing salaries and improving work conditions are also essential to attracting people to the nursing field. As well, there are a number of states that are collaborating with sponsors from the private sector which provides nursing students more choices when they enter the health care field. The increase in funding will help attract and retain more nurses.

With the current economic conditions in such a poor state, as well as massive layoffs taking place across the country, a career in nursing may be the right solution for those seeking a respected and lucrative career helping people. The need for nursing care and the demand for nurses are increasing. It is a great time to be a nurse.

Since we are moving toward socialism with ObamaCare, the time has come to do the same with other professions—especially lawyers. Physician committees can decide whether lawyers are necessary in any given situation.

At a town-hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., last month, our uninformed lawyer in chief suggested that we physicians would rather chop off a foot than manage diabetes since we would make more money doing surgery. Then President Obama compounded his attack by claiming a doctor’s reimbursement is between “$30,000″ and “$50,000″ for such amputations! (Actually, such surgery costs only about $1,500.)

Physicians have never been so insulted. Because of these affronts, I will gladly volunteer for the important duty of controlling and regulating lawyers. Since most of what lawyers do is repetitive boilerplate or pushing paper, physicians would have no problem dictating what is appropriate for attorneys. We physicians know much more about legal practice than lawyers do about medicine.

Following are highlights of a proposed bill authorizing the dismantling of the current framework of law practice and instituting socialized legal care:

• Contingency fees will be discouraged, and eventually outlawed, over a five-year period. This will put legal rewards back into the pockets of the deserving—the public and the aggrieved parties. Slick lawyers taking their “cut” smacks of a bookie operation. Attorneys will be permitted to keep up to 3% in contingency cases, the remainder going into a pool for poor people.

• Legal “DRGs.” Each potential legal situation will be assigned a relative value, and charges limited to this amount. Program participation and acceptance of this amount is mandatory, regardless of the number of hours spent on the matter. Government schedules of flat fees for each service, analogous to medicine’s Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), will be issued. For example, any divorce will have a set fee of, say, $1,000, regardless of its simplicity or complexity. This will eliminate shady hourly billing. Niggling fees such as $2 per page photocopied or faxed would disappear. Who else nickels-and-dimes you while at the same time charging hundreds of dollars per hour? I’m surprised lawyers don’t tack shipping and handling onto their bills.

• Legal “death panels.” Over 75? You will not be entitled to legal care for any matter. Why waste money on those who are only going to die soon? We can decrease utilization, save money and unclog the courts simultaneously. Grandma, you’re on your own.

• Ration legal care. One may need to wait months to consult an attorney. Despite a perceived legal need, physician review panels or government bureaucrats may deem advice unnecessary. Possibly one may not get representation before court dates or deadlines. But that’ s tough: What do you want for “free”?

• Physician controlled legal review. This is potentially the most exciting reform, with doctors leading committees for determining the necessity of all legal procedures and the fairness of attorney fees. What a wonderful way for doctors to get even with the sharks attempting to eviscerate the practice of medicine.

• Discourage/eliminate specialization. Legal specialists with extra training and experience charge more money, contributing to increased costs of legal care, making it unaffordable for many. This reform will guarantee a selection of mediocre, unmotivated attorneys but should help slow rising legal costs. Big shot under indictment? Classified National Archives documents down your pants? Sitting president defending against impeachment? Have FBI agents found $90,000 in your freezer? Too bad. Under reform you too may have to go to the government legal shop for advice.

• Electronic legal records. We should enter the digital age and computerize and centralize legal records nationwide. All files must be in a standard, preferably inconvenient, format and must be available to government agencies. A single database of judgments, court records, client files, etc. will decrease legal expenses. Anyone with Internet access will be able to search the database, eliminating unjustifiable fees charged by law firms for supposedly proprietary information, while fostering transparency. It will enable consumers to dump their clunker attorneys and transfer records easily.

• Ban legal advertisements. Catchy phone numbers such as 1-800-LAWYERS would be seized by the government and repurposed for reporting unscrupulous attorneys.

• New government oversight. Government overhead to manage the legal system will include a cabinet secretary, commissioners, ombudsmen, auditors, assistants, czars and departments.

• Collect data about the supply of and demand for attorneys.Create a commission to study the diversity and geographic distribution of attorneys, with power to stipulate and enforce corrective actions to right imbalances. The more bureaucracy the better. One can never have too many eyes watching these sleazy sneaks.

• Lawyer Reduction Act (H.R. -3200). A self-explanatory bill that not only decreases the number of law students, but also arbitrarily removes 3,200 attorneys from practice each year. Textbook addition by subtraction.

Enthusiastically embracing the above legal changes can serve as a “teachable moment” and will go a long way toward giving the lawyers who run Congress a taste of their own medicine.

Dr. Rafal is a radiologist in New York City.

As we end summer and many people head back to school this fall, with that comes the reality of flu season and how easily it can spread.  Unlike last fall, this year there is a heightened sense of awareness with the Swine Flu.  News reports indicate scientists have been working hard to develop a swine flu vaccine just in time for this year’s flu season.  This raises a few questions: Will there be enough vaccines? Who should get them first? (It’s been rumored if there is a shortage the elderly and pregnant women should get them first). But perhaps the most important question one should ask is;  Will the vaccine be safe? The Swine Flu Epidemic of 1976 inspired the vaccination of 40 Million people, but a little known fact was that those vaccinations caused devastating side effects to over 4,000 victims. The frightening revelations about this event may be similar to what we are experiencing today. In this 1976 documentary on 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace , he uncovers the terrifying truth behind the testing of the vaccine that was administered that year. You will want to watch this before considering a vaccine for yourself and/or loved ones.

It is truly frightening that the President of the United States is pressuring Congress to pass legislation he admits has not read and is not familiar with.  Perhaps, it has been overlooked America is a democracy with elected officials by the people and for the people. The time has never been greater to contact your local representatives
over the next two weeks to show the U.S.House and Senate that Americans stand against the government take over of our health care system. We need to not only let them know that we want them to vote NO to government run health care, we also need to let them know that if they vote YES it will affect their congressional seat. It will only take a minute of your time to say, 

If Representative ___(name___) votes YES on government health care, I will NOT vote for him/her in the next election.

Every single member of the U.S. House is up for re-election next year. One- third of the U.S. Senate is also in the election cycle next year. This is the time when they start paying attention to the voters – when the voters are paying attention to them and deciding how they will vote.

Now is the time to make your voice and your choice heard. To look up your U.S. House of Representatives district office, go to the web site http://www.house.gov/ and you can look them up by zip code (upper left corner of the web page). To look up your U.S. Senator, http://www.senate.gov/ and search by state.

FINALLY…THE $50,000 QUESTION WAS ASKED!!!!!…..LAST WEEK ON THE “ABC..OBAMA SPECIAL ON HEALTH CARE”……
OBAMA WAS ASKED, “MR. PRESIDENT WILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GIVE UP YOUR CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AND JOIN THE NEW “UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM” THAT THE REST OF US WILL BE ON ????

OBAMA IGNORED THE QUESTION AND DIDN’T ANSWER IT!!!…..
A NUMBER OF SENATORS WERE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION AND THEIR RESPONSE WAS… WE WILL THINK ABOUT IT!!!!

IT WAS ALSO ANNOUNCED TODAY ON THE NEWS THAT THE “KENNEDY HEALTH CARE BILL”….HAS WRITTEN INTO IT THAT CONGRESS WILL BE (FROM THIS GREAT HEALTH CARE PLAN)….EXEMPT!!!!!

HOW ABOUT THOSE APPLES…..NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR OBAMA OR CONGRESS…..
BUT “OK” FOR THE REST OF US????????

WE….THE AMERICANS NEED TO STOP THIS …ASAP!!!!….AND REVOLT…THIS IS WRONG!!!!!

IF YOU AGREE PLEASE PASS THIS ON….AND “REVOLT”!!!

IF NOT PLAN TO SUFFER (WITH THE OBAMA HEALTH CARE PLAN) WHILE OUR POLITICIANS TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES………………