Friday, July 31, 2009
Posted by: Michele Bachmann at 9:25 AM
There's no way around it - support for the so-called "public option" in health care is flat lining. So now we're hearing from the Senate about a "consumer cooperative" or "co-op" as an alternative to the government plan.

However as the Heritage Foundation notes, if this “co-op” is not run and controlled directly by consumers, then it's simply a government-plan under a different name.

"If by health care 'co-op' Congress means allowing private associations to collectively buy health insurance for their members or operate a health insurance exchange, or allowing people to buy health insurance from a non-profit, member-owned private insurer, then those would be positive, pro-consumer developments.

"However, simply slapping the word 'cooperative' onto a new 'insurer,' but then specifying that the government — not the policyholders — picks the board of directors (as Sen. Schumer wants), or that taxpayers will subsidize it, or that it has to pay doctors and hospitals at Medicare rates, would just be an exercise in trying to disguise a 'public plan.'"

The American people won't be sold by smoke and mirrors. There's too much at stake here. And while it's not clear that the President and many Members of Congress are reading the bills, the people are.



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j black writes: Friday, July, 31, 2009 9:35 AM
Here are few things in the bill
this is a disaster

Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure.

• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed.

• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike with an insurer, there will be no appeals process)\

• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.

• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.

• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.

• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)

• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens

• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.

• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.

• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly.

Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.

• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.

• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.

• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
call your congressman
Exeye writes: Friday, July, 31, 2009 10:55 AM
Is that like a food co-op?
Better get there early, before they run out of peanut butter.
SJA writes: Friday, July, 31, 2009 11:12 AM
Exeye
Better be careful. If the government has a hand in it could be that peanut butter is part of the salmonella batch they confiscated.
Royinoslo writes: Friday, July, 31, 2009 11:32 AM
11-4-08 is the poll worth considering
The most important poll numbers were recorded last November when voters elected a Congress and a president to deliver sweeping health care reforms. Today's surveys of poorly informed, scare-mongered public swayed by massive lobbying efforts of a greedy, vulture-like industry, to the tune of 1.4 million bucks a day, are as meaningful as the polls in 2004 showing huge numbers of GOP voters believing Saddam had WMD and led the attack on 9-11.

The health care lobby is flooding reps like Bachman with tons of cash to do their bidding. Bachman, representing a Republican district, should be a slam dunk to win reelection, but because she's such a nitwit she needs all this extra loot to shore up her campaign coffers.

Sally writes: Friday, July, 31, 2009 11:48 AM
LOL@Royinoslo
"nitwit" that's deep.

I thank God we have Congresswoman Bauchmann to be a voice for those of us who did not drink the koolaid. She's got the guts in congress we need.
Thank you!

As far as Government Run Co-ops < LOL
Same crap different cover.
James writes: Friday, July, 31, 2009 12:51 PM
Some of the your statements
Tell me, Congresswoman, exactly how is the Lewin Group, which is where you're getting your information on the subject of health care, nonpartisan if they are a subsidary of Ingenix Corp..which in turn is a subsidary of United Health?

What? You don't think that United Health has a very good reason in maintaining the status quo?

And your apparent position is that we Americans should pay more to protect the Health Insurance industry. After all..that is what you said on the floor of the US House isn't it? That under the proposed plan we Americans would be paying 30 to 40% less then we do right now? Tell me, Congresswoma, who are you representing? Those of us who live in your district..or the health insurance industry which is one of your biggest political contributors?
Kevin writes: Monday, August, 10, 2009 1:54 AM
Yes! Michele has sanity and clarity
Thanks so much for actually looking at the pie-in-the sky health care programs the government is trying to shove down our throats. We do not want or need this, nor can we afford the projected cost of these program. At some point the government has to stop spending money they don't have!
Don't Tread On Me writes: Monday, August, 10, 2009 3:03 AM
Obama is the WORST President EVER
Yes, I do believe he is THE WORST President we will EVER have.

I look forward to the ousting of Dems in 2010, and the start of many investigations into fraud, intimidation and illegal fund-raising. We can start with Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi, and work towards the Obamas. Heck, maybe we can just investigate all of them simultaneously.

Criminals, all of them.
B2slim writes: Monday, August, 10, 2009 3:25 AM
WHERE in the constitution does it say

that EMPLOYERS, BUSINESS large or small,are required to provide HC for employees, including part time, illegal, migrant workers, visa holders and their extended families

Every BUSINESS owner, public, private, small, large MUST file an injunction against the congress or take some legal means to stop these corrupt criminals from NOT abiding by the constiution, take it to the supreme courts if need be.

THIS IS JUST sinister, criminal, sevil, chilling

These corrupt criminals must be stopped
thrown out of office every single last one of them.
B2slim writes: Monday, August, 10, 2009 3:33 AM
WE WOULD be in line to sign up

BUYER BEWARE!

REMEMBER the RULE OF PRUDENCE ( being smart, intelligent is a simple test ):

this scam, so called HC Reform or INS Reform is the scam of the century. It beats the Madoff scam, the "YOU ARE THE ONLY HEIR TO an incredible fortune" etc.

If this bill is so "HOT" or "to die for" or "the best thing since TP and SLICED BREAD, we would all be standing in line to sign up: that is the only test for buying any product or service:

ONLY 33% of this nation, the parasites, the leeches, etc. are illiterate, the rest of us can read, comprehend, and know the difference between Facts and Fantasy:

B2slim writes: Monday, August, 10, 2009 3:40 AM
GEESH ROYLINSKI, and OBOTS

NOW exactly what group is the biggest LOBBY !

every day you have a new PHANTOM DEMON
you just make it all up! AND WE KNOW IT.

LOBBY: HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM::: NEVER a DEMOCRAT
you think ? like:

ACORN
SOROS and his 1,000 PLUS shadow companies around the world
THE MSM or OBAMA state MEDIA
UNIONS
Apollo
code pink panties
MOVE ON
the "GREENIES"
The TRIAL LIARS
THE UN
the terrorists
THE COMMUNIST LEADERS, pals of OBAMA's
Wall STREET
and so on:
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
B2slim writes: Monday, August, 10, 2009 3:46 AM
CLAY you missed a dozen big ones;

LIKE is everyone going to be a senior one day:

PAGE 425, is so sinister, so evil, so chilling.
it is a population control plan,

eliminate the seniors, especially in time to eliminate the baby boomers,

PERHAPS their new plan "HOW TO SAVE SS"

ration HC to Seniors and then con them into killing themselves:

the unlimited free abortions another population control plan.

JUST READ the HISTORY of CZAR JOHN HOLDEREN
who will be the decider of who will live and who will die:
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