Keep Your Powder Dry
and other rebellious thoughts, like this on HEALTHCARE reform.

  • The Hospitals are now realizing serious problems with the new law. Here is a report.
  • President Obama bypassed Congress again, and it was a favorable committee he bypassed. So, who is Donald Berwick? Here is a report about him.
  • It seems the solution to providing universal healthcare coverage is rationing, just as some have claimed. News item.
  • So how is Canada's healthcare system doing these days. It has huge cost overruns. Big Changes Coming!
  • Another study used to promote the healthcare plan is found to be flawed and used improperly.
  • New information on the impact of the new healthcare law on small business.
  • And concerning the legality of the Healthcare law: A Virginia Lawsuit against it reveals a major legal flaw.
  • There may be many "legal flaws" in the law. See what this lawyer has to say about it.
  • Besides the legality, look and how many new federal agencies were created with this law. Video, give it a few seconds to load.
  • And this just in: a very important report was withheld from Congress until after the Healthcare vote. HHS own report!
  • Five more things we've learned about "Obamacare" after it became law!
  • This excellent summary of the Healthcare Reform Is an 8 page PDF file 313 kB, dated 21 March 2010. And you gotta see this video.
  • The Healthcare Law will have huge side effects, with disasters looming in the legislation. The IRS will enforce the new Healthcare Law! So this law is clearly about taxes, not about healthcare!!!
  • But wait; the new Healthcare Law exempts Congress and The President, and their staffs, from compliance.
  • More and more are waking up to the nightmare. The facts about the healcare bill are beginning to show up. We're on a safari in the taxcare jungle. Watch out for the snakes and briars.
  • Congressman Rogers explains the Healthcare Bill so we can all understand it, in this great video.

    • The healthcare (tax and power grab) bill (H.R. 3962), as passed by the U. S. House on 21 March 2010, is probably unconstitutional. In fact, the U. S. Constitution actually prohibits the U. S. Federal Government from running a healthcare program. And here are some last minute details. It is a TAX bill, with very little about healthcare. So much about this debate is confusing. Here is one source of truth about Obamacare.

  • If the new healthcare plan is so great, why are they having to sell it so hard? Have your say in the matter.
  • And here, at last, is the real reason why President Obama pushed so hard for Socialized Healthcare! It's just part of the socialism plan.
  • Speaker Pelosi wants to tax "Cadillac" Health insurance plans; Does she mean like the one Congress uses?
  • This new healthcare law is supposed to make the costs lower for everyone. Say What? That means I'll be paying for healthcare for someone who doesn't do healthy things, like not smoking. This is pure Pelosi!

    • The Louisiana Legislature is crafting a bill making Obamacare Illegal in that State
    Posted By: warner todd huston; 1/20/2010 1:00:45 PM: Publius Forum
    Original Article

    Louisiana State Senator A.G. Crowe (R, Slidell) is introducing a bill for the 2010 legislative session in Baton Rouge that would make Obamacare illegal if it violates state laws, effectively making Obamacare null and void in the Pelican State. Senator Crowe states that his bill "provides that no law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer or health care provider to participate in any health care system or health insurance."

    Basic rights are identified and recognized to be "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". They are recognized by the Declaration Of Independence. Basic rights are "unalienable". We all have them naturally. The U. S. Constitution protects them; no one has to provide them.

    Some think that "life" could be interpreted to include healthcare. But healthcare has to be provided by someone. Anyone certainly has the right to do healthy things, or choose not to. But you DON'T have the right to take someone else's property (as in time and effort) for your own healthcare!

    There is nothing in the U. S. Constitution that authorizes Congress to take some peoples money and give it to other people, for any purpose; and especially not for welfare and healthcare. Those jobs are specifically taken up by a vast array of charitable organizations.

    There is a middle class tax bomb written into the Senate's Healthcare Bill. Better plan ahead!

    Here is a BBC news story about England's healthcare ... is this where we're headed?

    Read this goofy sentence from the Healthcare bill: "An insurer or employment-based health plan shall be responsible for reimbursing the program under this section for the medical expenses incurred by the program for an individual, who based on criteria established by the Secretary, the Secretary finds was encouraged by the issuer to disenroll from health benefits prior to enrolling in coverage prior to the program." It is from HR3590, the healthcare bill in Congress. What does it mean? That healthcare bill has many sentences like that! [More]

    James Madison wrote in Federalist Paper No. 62" It will be of little avail to the people that the laws be made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.". Voluminous? That healthcare bill is more than 2000 pages!

    "America's founders intended the federal government to have limited powers and for the States to have an independent, sovereign place in our system of government. The Obama/Reid/Pelosi legislation to take control of the American health-care system is the most sweeping and intrusive federal program ever devised. If the federal government can do this, then it can do anything, and the limits on government power that our liberty requires, will be more myth than reality." --Wall Street Journal op-ed by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Liberty University School of Law professor Kenneth Blackwell and American Civil Rights Union senior legal analyst Kenneth Klukowski.

    And from another thought angle...

    ... Congress has passed aÊhealth care planÊwritten

    by a committee whoseÊchairman says he doesn't understand it,

    passedÊby a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts its members from it,

    signedÊby a president that also hasn't read it, and who smokes,

    withÊfundingÊadministered by a treasury chief who didn'tÊpay his taxes,

    all to beÊoverseenÊby a surgeon generalÊwhoÊis obese,

    and financedÊby a country that's nearly broke ...

    What couldÊpossiblyÊgo wrong?

  • The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775, they have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
  • Social Security was established in 1935, they have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
  • Fannie Mae was established in 1938, they have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
  • War on Poverty started in 1964, they have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
  • Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965, they have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
  • Freddie Mac was established in 1970, they have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
  • The Government can't even run a railroad correctly. Amtrak is broke.
  • The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. They had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

    • Every "government service" they have shoved down our throats, has failed. They spend our tax dollars AND THEY WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE THEY CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. So, what are YOU going to do about it?

    A final thought ... why do you expect your employer to provide healthcare coverage? It's your money, it would be in your salary if the company didn't have to pay the insurance company. Think the company gets it cheaper??? not necessarily: here's why. They buy a policy that covers lots of stuff, maybe stuff you'd not buy. Your choices are greatly reduced when you expect your employer to provide healthcare coverage. I'd rather be payed the differential, higher salary and get my own coverage. Are you going to argue that some employees would not get insurance. You bet! That's none of your concern! And those people will demand healthcare service from an emergency room. I have a name for them: moochers. Because you pay for their service.