Tell Kasich to Stop Expansion of Government Healthcare

Dear Governor Kasich, 

We the undersigned residents of Ohio stand firmly and strongly against the expansion of Medicaid in Ohio under the Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

In the current structure, Medicaid spending in Ohio is already an unsustainable fiscal liability to our state.  The fiscal liability of expanding Medicaid in Ohio will compound this burden and will quickly outgrow any promised funds from the Federal Government.  

Any expansion of Medicaid in Ohio will further increase the financial burden for future generations of Ohio residents. 

We strongly believe that continuing the proposed expansion of Medicaid is not only fiscally irresponsible, but does not solve the issue of quality, affordable care through a balanced free market approach. 

Please be advised that the undersigned Ohio residents will remain engaged and active in the legislative process to do our part to stop any expansion of Medicaid in Ohio under, or in conjunction with, the Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 

We request that you please reconsider your proposed expansion of Medicaid so we can all concentrate our efforts in moving our state forward rather than saddling us with further financially unsustainable entitlements.

Sign this petition at:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-medicaid-expansion-in-ohio

ObamaCare: In Concise Terms

Obamacare Summed Up in One Sentence

Here is one of the best synopses of the tragic and terribly costly ObamaCare Act that I have ever seen or heard. Apparently it is part of a speech given by a candidate running for office in the liberal state of Illinois which, I might add, desperately needs more legislators on both the state and Federal level like her!  A transcript of the video follows the YouTube video. The emphasis is mine. 

“So let me get this straight (about President Obama and the Democrats' Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare), it’s a long sentence.

“We are going to be gifted with a health care plan that we are forced to purchase, and fined if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee, whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that did not read it, but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a Treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.

“So what the BLANK could possibly go wrong?”

---- Dr Barbara Bellar, Candidate for the Illinois State Senate       www.electBellar.com

Radiologist Plans to Defy Obama Mandate

Obama's Dishonest Propaganda

Obama said, “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress…judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint — that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.”

It is not at all “unprecedented” that the Supreme Court has struck down Federal laws on the basis that they are unconstitutional.  It has happened over a hundred times.  Obama later said that he was only talking about overturning laws on the basis that the Commerce Clause does not grant Congress the authority to pass a certain law since Wickard v. Filburn.  Again, this is not unprecedented, nor should it be.  Obama is basically saying that 10^th Amendment should have no application whatsoever. 

He is not saying that other parts of the constitution can’t be used as basis for striking down laws, just the linchpin of the entire Constitution.  For example, he is perfectly fine with allowing the courts to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, as evidenced by his recent decision to order the DOJ to stop defending its constitutionality in court.

Whether or not judges should be allowed to “strike down” laws is another matter, but certainly judges should not take part in enforcing a blatantly unconstitutional law.

Notice Obama says that it is overturning a law passed by Congress which is so unprecedented.  This is despite that the 10^th Amendment which ensures that the majority of powers belong to the states and despite that it is usually when state or local laws are overturned that there is the most outcry from the religious right, and usually justifiably so.  The only problem with the religious right is that, not knowing the Constitution (or not caring about what it says) often unwittingly advocate unconstitutional centralization of power in Washington because of some position on a moral issue which they want to be enforced.  Furthermore the religious right is often very complacent about unconstitutional laws which were passed by the left a long time ago.  They either think that it is unreasonable that these should be overturned because they don’t think of them as being leftist policies or they themselves are really somewhat leftist.  For example, if it is unconstitutional for the federal government to force us to buy Obama-approved health insurance, how can it not also be unconstitutional for them to force us to pay into Medicare or Socialist Security?  People just don’t think critically and/or are ignorant of the Constitution.  But Obama clearly wants both the left and the right to remain ignorant of the Constitution and especially the 10^th Amendment.

Medicare Fraud is Investigated

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/health/policy/04medicare.html?_r=1

The Government Accountability Office did not have to tell me that taxpayer's money is being used to support drug addictions.  Anytime you have a government giveaway program, fraud, theft, and waste will always accompany it.  Any wicked thing that you can imagine is being supported with taxpayer's money through Medicare including sexual immorality, baby murder, and now drug addiction.  What kind of idiot would allow taxpayer's money to be used to pay for Vicatin and Oxycontin, drugs that are far more addictive than marijuana?   When are people going to wake up and realize that it isn't just Obamacare that is the problem, its the whole corrupt system!  Governments were established by God to punish the wicked, not to be a health insurance company or to redistribute wealth!

So You Want to Reform Healthcare?

ObamaCare is a ticking time bomb

“If there is a bomb under the foundation of your house, you do not propose “tweaking” it. You want it disarmed, removed, and dismantled … (“ObamaCare”) is designed to radically alter both the financing mechanism and the practice of medicine itself. It is a destructive mechanism, the equivalent of a bomb, and it must be wholly repealed …

“Genuine, much-needed reform is the opposite of ObamaCare. Instead of putting a government-directed managed-care cartel in charge of micromanaging every detail, we need to evict them form the medical office. Both patients and physicians who have become addicted to the third-party money will find this difficult. It is hard to trun down the government subsidy, to refuse to sign the contracts, and to trust Providence and each other rather than Washington, D.C. …”

--- Jane M. Orient, M.D, “What must be done on ObamaCare,”  TEA PARTY REVIEW,  March 2011, Vol. 1, No. 1

ObamaCare is not about health care. It is about controlling health care. It has everything to do with central planning. It is about a socialized, government-run and controlled health  care system. It needs to be repealed, or at least defunded. Otherwise, it will lead to higher deficits and overall debt. Furthermore, implementing ObamaCare will lead to a drop in the overall quality of care, a reduction of the health care options available to Americans, and it will create death panels. We need to look past the rhetoric and the lies of the Administration and the Democrats in Congress.

The Conservatives in Congress need to do all they can to stop ObamaCare at the very least by cutting off its lifeblood, funding. The Continuing Resolution passed by the House was a good start, however, they need to stand strong in the looming fights ahead. It would be worth shutting down government for as long as it takes in order to insure the current spending cuts, including and especially Obama-care related cuts, take place for fiscal year 2011!