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Reviewing the details of what would become the House version of reform legislation, he asked on the House floor: “Is this the best we can do? Forcing people to buy private health insurance, guaranteeing at least $50 billion in new business for the insurance companies?

Kucinich continued:

Is this the best we can do? Government negotiates rates which will drive up insurance costs, but the government won’t negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies which will drive up pharmaceutical costs…Is this the best we can do? Eliminating the state single payer option, while forcing most people to buy private insurance.

If this is the best we can do? Then our best isn’t good enough and we have to ask some hard questions about our political system: such as Health Care or Insurance Care? Government of the people or a government of the corporations.

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans — along with some Democrats — defeated a measure to provide $1.3 billion for summer jobs for young people this year and a $1.3 billion extension of enhanced subsidies for poor families with children.

And yet these same elected officials don’t bat an eye when it comes to voting yea on Farm subsidies EVERY SINGLE YEAR, YEAR IN YEAR OUT,  $19 billion that goes to support Corporate Agribusiness crooks like Archer Daniel Midland (ADM). And yes ADM are convicted criminals.  In 1996 they were convicted of price fixing.  They got off the hook by turning stool pigeon against the people they were approaching to fix prices with.

Only $350 million of this $19 billion that taxpayers fork over for corporate welfare goes to support small farmers who live on their farms as was the original intent of this bill.

ONE WORD:  FORGET PARTY.  VOTE INDEPENDENT AND GET THESE CROOKS OUT OF DC.

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From: http://emmaberry.org

Here is part of an announcement that I just received from Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director White House Office of Health Reform:

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FIRST HALF OF THE MESSAGE IS THE TRUTH:

$1,115 — that’s the average monthly premium for employer-sponsored family coverage in 2009.  Annually, that amounts to $13,375, or roughly the yearly income of someone working a minimum wage job.

It gets worse: a recent survey found that if we do nothing, over the next ten years, out-of-pocket expenses for Americans with health insurance could increase 35 percent in every state in the country.

Indeed, this is all true.  It will get worse if we do nothing. The Wall Street Health Insurance predators have already shown us that.

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THE SECOND HALF IMPLIES THAT THE CURRENT HEALTH CARE BILL IS THE SOLUTION AND THAT PART IS THE LIE.

Most of the “health care” bill that the Obama administration is advocating won’t even be in effect until 2016–two years after he even has the possibility to serve as the President.  Why?  Why should it take that long to implement?  Lyndon Johnson handed out the first medicare card to Harry Truman just 9 months after that bill was signed in to law.

But what is REALLY wrong with the current bill is that it has no public option–and thus no real competition to keep the health care insurance monopolies in check.

All the bill that the Senate and the Obama Administration does is to force Americans to become customers of the very Wall Street predators who are currently ripping us off.  This is more than unacceptable to me.  It is downright obscene.

Not only does the proposed health care bill have no public option, it  forbids states from providing their residents with healthcare. An amendment correcting that problem was passed in committee last July and then quietly removed.

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO PRESIDENT OBAMA’S PROMISE OF TRANSPARENCY?

NO PUBIC OPTION, THEN NO HEALTH CARE BILL.

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What the Obama Administration is trying to do in jamming this health care bill reminds me of what Henry Paulson did during the final days of the Bush Administration when he came crying to Congress with his Chicken Little story about too big to fail Wall Street banks and Congress forked over $800 billion dollars of our taxpayer dollars.

Now the Obama Administration is asking 50 million Americans to fork over $13,375 a year to Wall Street crooks or be fined up to $2,275 a year.

THIS IS NO SOLUTION.  THIS IS  JUST ANOTHER ROBBERY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE COMMITTED BY THE PEOPLE THAT WE ELECTED TO REPRESENT US.

Democrat or Republican, they do they same thing–rob the American people to line their own pockets.

In one of my videos on Emma Berry I speak about the sheer lack of moral responsibility and utter mendacity of Senator Chuck Grassley who went  back to his constituents and knowingly lied to them about the contents of the Senate Health Care Bill.  Grassley knew what was in that bill because he is a member of the Senate Finance Committee who wrote it.  He knew that the bill had no death panels in it.  Yet he is the one who started AND continued to fuel  the rumors in Iowa regarding “pull the plug on Grandma”.

Senator Grassley knowingly lied to his constitutents He is supposed to be a trusted elected official and yet he intentionally spread lies and misinformation to his voters–the people who gave him the trust of their votes.  Then after almost three weeks of repeating the same lie again and again and again, Grassley admitted that he was “mistaken”.  He was not “mistaken”  he knowingly lied.  As far as I’m concerned, he should be impeached from his public office for this.

If  you want to know how the people of Iowa feel about Chuck Grassley, look at this angry Republican Iowa farmer:

The Treasury Department is vigorously opposed to a House-passed measure that would open the Federal Reserve to an audit by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a senior Treasury official said Monday. Instead, the official said, the Treasury prefers a substitute offered by Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.), and would like to see it enacted as part of the Senate bill.

The Watt measure, however, while claiming to increase transparency, actually puts new restrictions on the GAO’s ability to perform an audit.

From http://emmaberry.org

Where do I stand on health care reform?  I stand with most Americans–in confusion and suspicion.

View a side by side comparison of the three major health care reform proposal.  Go here to see the Kaiser Family Foundation’s assessment. Instead of a thousand pages, it is only 38. 

I read it and here are a few of the things that I still don’t like and/or understand about it.

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First of all just because we have President Obama’s plan–remember that he is not the one who writes the plan. Just because he says that is what he wants, President Obama is not in a much better position of getting what he wants from Congress than any other citizen.  Therefore, pay close attention to the Senate Bill Descriptions in the center column because that is most likely what we would end up with.

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Require U.S. citizens and legal residents to have qualifying health coverage. Those without coverage pay a tax penalty of the greater of $695 per year up to a maximum of three times that amount ($2,085) per faily of 2.5% of household income. Of course if you are single and earn less than $9, 350 or under $18,700 if you are a couple.

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President Obama’s comments on small business employers is such a mess of what appears to purposeful obfuscation* that I am not able to squeeze my brain around it long enough to fully comprehend exactly what he is saying. Here is the part that I do understand:  Small businesses under 50 employees would be exempt from penalties.  That much sounds good.  *(I make this accusation because I cannot believe that someone as intelligent as the President could not write plainer English.)

Employers with more than 200 employees will be required to automatically enroll employees into health insurance plans offered by the employer.  Employees may opt out of coverage. I have some problems with this one.  First of all there could be pressure brought to bear by the employer to have employees opt out of coverage–or perhaps pressure to choose their coverage.  Who knows?  Who is to say that the employer won’t make some crappy deal with some crappy Wall Street health insurance corporation and purchase a crummy plan for the employees–a plan that is cheaper than the fine the employer would pay if he did not comply with the law.  Then the employer tells the employees to take the company insurance or else.

There are plenty of employers even today who offer their employees crappy insurance and no better example than Wal Mart.  Wal Mart offers various levels of plans, but many opt out of the basic level which might even possibly be affordable to some of its minimum wage workers (the same ones who Sam Johnson voted against raising their wages in 2007).

Why do the opt out?  They opt out because their wages are so low that they qualify for Medicaid and thus better medical coverage than the WalMart solution.

And that’s another stick in the eye for the working poor: Even if you earn minimum wage and qualify for Medicaid under today’s law, under this new legislation, if your employer offers even the most pitiful excuse for health insurance coverage, you must take it.  You cannot get Medicaid. Democrat leaders and Congressmen often condemn Republicans for their harsh attitudes toward the poor but the Democrats, if there are kinder, it is only by virtue of the larger size of the crumbs that they toss to the poor.  The leadership of BOTH parties are so ingrained with the Beltway life that they are oblivious to the needs of the working poor.  Many of them would fit in quite well as members of  the  “Glenn Beck Church of the Unholy Sans Social Justice”.

There was no worse injustice done to the working poor of our nation than what Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress did with the passage of Clinton’s “Welfare Reform Act” which put a time limit of five years on poverty and the length of time that a poor family could receive assistance for its children.  This bill was passed a few years after they jerked the rug out from beneath the working poor in America with their globalization schemes and resulting trade agreement–NAFTA, a trade agreement that shipped over 2 million jobs out of our country.

DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN–THERE IS LITTLE DIFFERENCE.   VOTE INDEPENDENT.  VOTE  SOLUTIONS–NOT MORE CONVOLUTED PURPOSEFUL OBFUSCATION AND LEGISLATION FOR THOSE WHO DON’T LIVE ON MAIN STREET

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SO WHAT IS THE SOLUTION FOR HEALTH CARE INSURANCE?

A group of interested citizens need to disregard Congress and BOTH parties  and set up a national health insurance pool. Stop trying to get these people to stop playing their games.  You can expect them to continue to conduct themselves in their current manner until long after the cows have come home and died.

Call it “the national insurance pool”  whatever you want to call it to avoid all the purposeful entanglements and prohibitions that insurance lobbyists have put in place to prevent citizens from doing this.  Who knows?  Perhaps we will call it “Donations to Doctors”.  Perhaps the word “insurance” won’t even be allowed in our literature.

It can be done. We can do this. Stop arguing with Wall Street crooks and mealy mouthed politicians who only care about protecting their own Wall Street portfolios and who will never offer us anything more that the meanest of crumbs (bought and paid for with our own tax money).

Engage wealthy Americans who care about our nation to assist in setting up this national insurance pool.  It can be done.  It would be set up as private, employee owned company.  No person could own more than one share of stock and all stockholders would vote for the board and elect the officers of the company and vote/approve their annual salaries.

This is NOT socialized medicine.  It is democracy in action. We the people need to start taking charge of our own solutions because we can to a better job than Congress with their scarcity mentality.

from:  http://emmaberry.org

WHAT NEXT, GLENN?  IF PEOPLE WERE TO FOLLOW YOUR INSANE ADVICE, NO ONE WOULD GO TO CHURCH ANY MORE. – I googled “Jesus on Social Justice” and my search yielded 2,050,000 pages.  LOL  If you search on “God and Social Justice”  you will get 8,180,000 pages.

Unbelievable!  This man gets nuttier by the minute.   Now he is telling people to leave their churches if their churches preach social justice.  LOL

“I beg you, look for the words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!”

Mr. Beck may need to have the dosage of his medication adjusted.

Source:  Politics Daily