A real leader will not ask his people do do anything he wouldn’t do.
Rep. John Fleming has requested that Congress make any national health plan apply to members of Congress also. For some strange reason, not many in Congress are willing to take him up on it.
I think everyone ought to tell their Representative that if a law isn’t good enough to apply to Congress, then it isn’t good enough to apply to the rest of us.
President Obama has been arguing for his heath care plans by saying that “We are our Brother’s Keeper!”
He is showing his lack of Bible knowledge (or a distorted knowledge of what the Bible teaches). The question “Am I my brother’s keeper?” in Genesis 4:9 is the response Cain gave when “Then the LORD said to Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’”
Cain was not asking if he was responsible for this brother’s welfare. He was dodging the question about his whereabouts, because Cain had murdered and buried him. If God asks a question, it is not because He does not know the answer. Verse 10 provides the answer: “The LORD said, ‘What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.’”
This passage only teaches that we are “our brother’s keeper”, if our evil actions put our brother in their current condition.
Saying Scripture says something it doesn’t, reminds me of Revelation 22:19
“And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.”
Under our current system, the poor and uninsured are not denied life saving health care, just because they cannot pay.
Under reform, cost guidelines will limit what care is available.
Reform will set standards for insurance that will eliminate Health Savings Accounts (limiting people’s ability to pay their own bills).
Reform will shut down organizations like Medi-Share, where people join together to to pay each other’s medical bills.
Reform will force insurance companies to offer the same coverage as the government insurance. Sounds good, until you think about it. The government program doesn’t have to show a profit to stay in business. Other companies won’t be able to compete. Then the government insurance will end up costing to much, leading to rationing (either through rationing policies or by delays in getting service). It has happened in every country that it has been tried. Isn’t insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?
The Democrats seem to have misinterpreted the change that we voted for last November.
During the campaign, when did Obama pass McCain in the polls?
It was in June, when the first big bailout went through Congress and McCain was more closely associated with it than Obama. There was no mandate to change the basic underpinnings of our economy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kxaGfClPws
It reminds me of the Nazi Brownshirts pushing out Hilter’s opponents.
The White House says “Facts Are Stubborn Things” and then gives generalizations about about people who who oppose the “the President’s health insurance reform positions”.
The problem is President Obama has not come out lately and clearly explained his health insurance reform positions. So conservative media play old recordings Obama saying that he wants to get to “single payer system” or recent recording of him saying that old people should be given a pain pill rather than surgery.
Then the House bill comes out and people read it (even though their Representatives don’t) and they find things they find abhorrent: rationing of heath care, death counseling for the elderly, taxpayer funding for abortions, etc.
“For the record, the President has consistently said that if you like your insurance plan, your doctor, or both, you will be able to keep them. He has even proposed eight consumer protections relating specifically to the health insurance industry.”
If you look at Obama’s “consumer protections” and think about them, they will raise costs of private insurance companies so they will have to raise everyone’s rates, probably high enough that they will be unable to compete with the government plan.
“There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
If someone opposes the President’s plans, report them to the White House! Can you imagine the outcry if President Bush had done the same thing?
Yes, facts are stubborn things.
What does this picture tell you?