Obama and the partisans progressive hack"journalists" in the MSM are promoting an utter falsehoold about the Individual Mandate – a complete revision of historical fact about the now-universally hated Individual Mandate:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3460142

“The lawsuit against the health care overhaul filed Tuesday by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is focused on a provision that has long been advocated by conservatives, big business and the insurance industry.

The lawsuit by McCollum, a candidate for governor, and 12 other attorneys general, focuses on the provision that virtually all Americans will need to have health insurance by 2014 or face penalties.

The lawsuit calls this an “unprecedented encroachment on the liberty of individuals.” It states the Constitution doesn’t authorize such a mandate, the proposed tax penalty is unlawful and is an “unprecedented encroachment on the sovereignty of the states.”

“The truth is this is a Republican idea,” said Linda Quick , president of the South Florida Hospital and Health care Association. She said she first heard the concept of the “individual mandate” in a Miami speech in the early 1990s by Sen. John McCain , a conservative Republican from Arizona , to counter the “Hillarycare” the Clintons were proposing.”

And more lefitst "Pravda" smears:

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100328/D9ENAG300.html

"Conservatives today say that's unacceptable. Not long ago, many of them saw a national mandate as a free-market route to guarantee coverage for all Americans - the answer to liberal ambitions for a government-run entitlement like Medicare.."

And this new "Big Lie" has gone viral in nearly every news outlet in the nation!

http://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTBlYzI5OTI0ZGE4MTc2ZTI1YjVkNmE3N2RiMzIyMDM=

"To be clear, I supported this alternative to President Clinton's massive federal takeover of the American health-care system, because my number-one priority was the defeat of yet another big-government assault on health care that the people of Utah overwhelmingly opposed. It's that simple.

In the intervening years, I went back and carefully examined, in close consultation with constitutional experts, the legal problems with many of the bills being supported at the time. This needed to be done, because of the hasty nature of the debate which was thrust upon us in 1994. It is simply a fact that Congress has never imposed this kind of mandate before. We concluded, as would any intelligent scholar of the Constitution, that this federal mandate requiring Americans to either purchase health insurance or face a punitive tax exceeds the authority the Constitution has given to Congress.

I have gone to great lengths on the Senate floor, in newspaper columns, and elsewhere to explain my conclusions, because I believe that this is a very important debate. Something, I might add, this administration has not even begun to do because they don't seem to care whether the proposals they support are Constitutional or not.....

It's regrettable that instead of examining the legality of their health-care monstrosity, the administration and its allies are simply going on a smear campaign."

Here is the truth about who originated the individual mandate - Hillary Clinton and radical leftist think-tanks (and its from a left-leaning site too):

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/July/Revisiting-HillaryCare--What-It-Proposed-and-Why-It-Failed.html

"The doomed plan’s signature component was universal coverage. An individual mandate required all eligible U.S. citizens to purchase health care, while an employer mandate compelled all businesses, of all sizes, to provide insurance for their workers."

Conservatives/Libertrians and Republicans had better counter this disinformation campaign and fast - its completely false and silly!

The left is trying to rewrite history to claim that this is yet another attempt by the Republicans to aid the "evil" insurance lobby when the fact of the matter it was Democrats and the progressive lefts that colluded with the insurance industry to settle on the Individual Mandate and a multitrillion dollar taxpayer subsidy scheme (2.5 trillion in taxes plus an estimated 5.5 trillion in higher premiums above predicted status quo cost increases) plus a government monopoly market during the notorius May 2008 White House hosted secret meetings.

http://wylieecoyote.blogtownhall.com/2009/10/07/gop_exposes_democrats_corrupt_deal_on_unconstitutional_individual_mandates_with_evil_big_health_insurance!.thtml

ObamaCare was simply HillaryCare warmed over - but with more socialism tacked on with the government option!

But the government option was always a mere bargining chip. It was used to bully the insurance industry into complicity with their takeover by the government (what choice did they have when face with a radical left that commanded 258 House and 60 Senate seats; accept their transition into quasi-governmental utilites or go bankrupt almost immediately), keep the radical left "fired" up and motivated to support the takeover plan, and too fool opponents, Republicans, and conservatives into thinking that it, and not the individual mandate, was the centerpiece of the plan.

Unfortunately for Obama and the progressives, their own indicipline (statements back in August 2008 by Obama and the HHS secretary stating the government option wasn't essential), and conservative/libertrian research that uncovered how Compulsary Insurance schemes really function as a de facto government takeover of health insurance in states like Maine and Massachusetts.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10576

The Individual Mandate is the singular most unpopular part of ObamaCare by far……and its the glue that holds the whole government run comand-and-control health care system together.

If the Individual Mandate goes, then Obamacare collapses like a house of cards - thats why the Democrats and the left are defending it so tenaciously and trying to pin it on the GOP.

Obama and the radical left knows that the Consitutional issues are real with the Individual Mandate are real and its also very likely to be repealed as its so unpopular - and that a dagger at the heart of their whole stealth takeover scheme!

This is clearly a bad attemempt by the Democrats/progressives to muddy the waters, rewrite history, and change the narrative – lets ensure that the truth gets out on this.

The Individual Mandate was never a "Conservative" or GOP idea!

Even excepting that some in the GOP (like Romney, Bob Bennett, etc) were fooled by leftsist as they simply didnt understand how the Individual Mandate was a ruse for de facto government run health care or were simply wrong in supporting it, the clear consensus among Conservatives and the GOP today is against it.

Opposing it now for Constituional and economic reasons is clearly the correct position - and one that is much better then "flip-flopping" to the wrong side of the issue as did Obama!

Obama villified Hillary throughout the 2008 primary campaign for supporting the Individual Mandate - guess what? He was right at the time!

http://wylieecoyote.blogtownhall.com/2009/09/28/obama_on_video_attacking_his_own_plan!_he_is_a_flip-flopper!.thtml

But now that he needs in to cement his de facto government takeover of health care and thus creating the dependecy needed to cement leftist politcal majorities for generations, he is off course all for it!

The GOP and Conservatives had better get out front of this "Revisionist History" propaganda campaign before it snowballs into the new conventional wisdom!

The Individual Mandate is clearly Unconstitutional!

The Individual Mandate attempts to regulate INACTIVITY!

The federal government is attempting to force individual who are NOT engaging in commerce to do so! These individual who freely choose to pay their own HC bills are not harming anyone nor can be said to be disrupting commerce! And they are being dictated to buy a specific private product from another private entity by use of government power!

In short, the Federal government is attempting to force you to Contract with another private party!

Yes, the Individual Mandate is a huge and unprecidented danger to personal freedom and Individual Rights!

Anything less the its abolishement by the courts essentially sets us up for Unlimted governmental powers – this is a tremendous threat to freedom and Individual Rights!

This transfer of unchecked power from the citizen to the state is essentially an attempt by a small cabal of leftist radicals to overturn the American Revolution itself!

The power that this would give the Federal government is so vast that it we cannot in any creditable way to that we would truly be free and independent people in any meaningful way!

Underestimating this or saying its not cause for alarm is truely a severe underestimation of the threat to our Liberty!

The GOP & Conservatives needs to strongly advocate for the cause of Human Freedom – if its lost here, where will  it ever be regained?

The radical left has caught on BIG TIME that freedom, liberty, and Constiutional government are politcal winners!

They are going to go on the offensive in a HUGE way to try to co-opt the very meaning of the Constitution and Freedom in an Orwellian way!

Just like how ObamaCare was sold by marketing government interventionist concept using free market terminology like “choice” and “cost reduction” etc

Look for the same stealing of the language to occur on other upcoming issues!

Here is an example from what Pelosi said today when gloating about ObamaCare in her house speech:

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This legislation will lead to healthier lives, more liberty to pursue hopes.…This is the best action we can take on behalf of America’s family budget, and on behalf of the federal budget.”

 Here is great article about how the enablers of the Radical left in the MSM are now pushing this perversion of reality and language:

“The proponents of the most regressive idea of government on the planet (Centralized control by a small group of elites who rule “for the people’s own good”) are now relabeling themselves as “Today’s Defender’s of the Constitution":

The article goes on to equate “Progressivism” with all that is good and American – programs to help the poor, unemployed, etc. The author clearly implies that such programs are within the scope of the Constitutional authority when they in fact are not.”

We CANNOT LET THE LIE be told that these people are "the Defenders of the Constitution" when in fact they are sickening destroyers of this!

This is a frightening thing - TRULY ORWELLIAN in scope!

War is peace - hate is love - slavery is freedom - tyranny is rights?

WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!!!!

Spread the word NOW that the MSM and Radical Left is spreading this disinformantion!

Clearly, pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak has lied to Americans in his opposition to the current health care bill and saying that he would not vote for the bill because it supported federal funding of abortion. He never intended to vote against the legislation when it came down to final vote, in the first place. Just listen to this video of Bart Stupak recorded last year, when he was unaware he was being recorded, and you learn the truth.”

http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2010/03/video_proof_stu.php

Send this out to the GOP guy who quadruppled his facebook following in 1 hour after Stupak’s sell out to the statists!

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=597873844

Must see video of Paul Ryan's address:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=597873844

'America Is Not Just a Mass of Land ... America Is the Most-Human Idea Ever Designed By Mankind'  Congressman Paul Ryan

This is EXACTLY correct!

We must NOT give up this fight or the flame of Human Liberty will be snuffed out around the world for a millenium!

 

Excellent article on RedState that strikes at the real DESRTUTIVE ELEMENT OF CRAPPYCARE - the Individual Mandate!:

http://www.redstate.com/fmaidment/2010/03/17/almost-forgotten-the-insurance-mandate-lie/

"This, I think, is the real reason for the mandate: It has nothing to do with covering more people, or ensuring that people don’t game the system when pre-existing conditions are no longer an obstacle to obtaining insurance (that’s a whole other diatribe). In fact, the mandate is intended to break the system. When the mandate is enacted it will, after a fashion, cause the price of health insurance to skyrocket making health insurance affordable to fewer people. These skyrocketing prices will be blamed on those uncaring, inhuman insurance companies and their evil, greedy, profit-hungry corporate managers. We are already being conditioned to think this way about insurance companies by the media and the Democrats. Then, when Americans demand a solution, the Democrats can step in with their Public Option™, explaining how it “works” so well in Europe, Canada and elsewhere (as they have tried to do each time they propose it here).

The Democrats have taken the long-term view on this: They understand that once this legislation is enacted, it will be virtually impossible to repeal or even curtail. They take pieces out of their legislation but never consider adding free-market alternatives, because they know each piece added from their agenda inexorably leads to higher costs and greater demands that the government “DO SOMETHING!” about those costs. They want to break the system so that they can take it over, and they know that once they control our health care, they control us.

This bill has to be stopped. It has to be stopped now. Not in November. Not in 2012. Now. Today."

 

 

If you go to Hugh Hewitt’s website

http://www.hughhewitt.com/blog

He has set up an easy way for us to send one email to a whole bunch of Dems at once:

http://www.capitolconnect.com/freeourhealthcarenow/

This site send an e-mail to your congressman as well as 58 Blue Dog Democrats.

Will save you ALOT of time and hit ALL 58 Blue Dogs up with emails!

At the end, there is also an email message to forward to all of your freinds too….

NOW IS THE CRITICAL TIME TO ACT IF WE ARE TO PREVENT A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR MEDICAL SYSTEM!

You familes health, properity, and freedom are at statke!

ACT BOLDLY WHILE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO STOP THIS TRAGEDY!

Here is an excellent Plan of Action from Amy Kramer at Tea Party Express - support any and all event if you can - ITS TIME TO SAVE OUR LIBERTY!!!

In particular, LETS RALLY ONE MORE TIME IN DC ON THE 16th TO SAVE OUR NATION!!!!

I am making plans now to take more time from work and spend more personal funds to be there - I understand will all dont have this option but if you can consider it please do!

Any and all efforts are SIGNIFICANT AND IMPORTANT!

Your continuing efforts and courage are a tribute to your commit to preserve freedom and prosperity for generations to come!

WE MUST AND WILL WIN!!!!

"Friends:

We have stopped this government takeover of health care so far.  We are now in overtime and our opponent has the ball on the goal line ready to score!  Are you going to walk away now or are you going to stand strong and defend your position so we can win this game?  It is our game to win, but it is going to take all of us standing shoulder to shoulder.  The time is now or never!  We will never have this opportunity again. 

Next Tuesday, on March 16th, the people of this country will once again flood Washington, D.C. to have their voices heard.  There is more information about that visit below.  You can also visit American Grassroots Coalition for additional information on making travel arrangements to Washington, D.C.

If you are mad as hell and want to win this game, then this is what you can do to help the rest of the team.  This is a two week plan and we will be adding more information as we progress through the next week.  Remember, we must take action every single day!  There is no time for rest right now.

Monday, March 8th: Make calls.  Send Faxes. Send Emails.  You can do all of these things after hours.  You can check American Grassroots Coalition for up to the minute target lists and contact information.

Tuesday, March 9th: Moms & Seniors go to local district offices. Take a senior citizen with you.  Let them have their voices heard.  Moms, tell these staffers at the offices how you feel, and how concerned you are for your family!

Wednesday, March 10th: Medical Professionals (you do not have to be a physician) visit local district offices. Be sure to wear your medical attire. Let these offices know that you are not going to sit back and let the government takeover our health care system!

Thursday, March 11th: Veterans go to local district offices. Our veterans are so special. They have a voice like no one else.  Veterans, let these offices know that you fought for her once and you are fighting for her again!

Friday, March 12th: Nationwide rallies at local district offices for 1 hour at 12 noon local. Let's make it a special point for all of us to go during our lunch hour if at all possible.

 

Monday, March 15th: Make calls.  Send Faxes.  Send Emails.  You can do all of these things during the day and after business hours.

Tuesday, March 16th: Rally in DC and Nationwide at local district offices. Americans For Prosperity also has sent out an alert to honk at 12 noon that day while you are driving in your car.

If you can't go to DC on March 16th, please visit your local district offices to have your voices heard and show solidarity with those in DC. Our sources from the Hill tell us that the vote is likely to happen between March 16th and March 18th. If you are able to go to DC, please RSVP here.

If you are doing a rally at your local office please RSVP here, so we can let others know. This is a team effort, and we are part of your team. Whatever you need, please let us know!

Wednesday, March 17th - Friday, March 19th: If you are in D.C., please visit your Representatives and Senators.  If you are not in D.C., please continue to visit local district offices! Make calls.  Send Faxes.  Send Emails.  The calls, faxes, and emails can all be done during the day and after business hours.

Saturday & Sunday, March 20th & 21st: Town Halls for March Madness! In August we had some amazing town halls! They really made people and lawmakers stop and think about this health care legislation. Let's do it again! Host a town hall in your community and invite your Senator and Congressman. "

Here is an update on the potential turncoat, Judd Gregg:

He was on Fox with Greta's "On the Record" show tonight pushing his ObamaCare-clone "compromise" plan:

http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/senator-judd-gregg-and-health-care/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogs%2FGretawire+%28Blogs+-+Gretawire%29

Gregg calls his plan "comprehensive" - thats code for massive government involvement....

Gregg states his plan "give access to afforadable insurance for catestrophic care"......but does not mention that his specific proposal is for an Indvidual Mandate and massive government subsidies!

Gregg states that it "promotes prevention"......again, another liberal myth designed to support government intervention in the form of coverage mandates and rationing!

Finally, he states that it has "creative pricing that pays for quality of care not for procedures".......this is leftist code for government rationing and price control schemes!

Gregg called his solution "free market based" - thats complete hogwash!

He clearly is spinning his verison of GOVT HC or else has not even fact-checked his own plan versus the reality of Compulsary Insurance/Individual Mandates in MA, ME, HI as to how they work in practice.

Its basically a 100% ObamaCare plan that gives the left the key items it desires right now (ie the individual mandate and government control of HC). Essentially, it just tinkers a bit with the amount of government-dictated insurance that people will be forced to buy and how many citizens will become government welfare cases thru subsidies:

http://gregg.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/CPR-Exec%20Summary-June%201-FINAL.pdf

These are the key quotes right from his posted plan!:

“ENSURING ACCESS FOR ALL AMERICANS: In order to ensure that every American has quality, affordable coverage, the proposal requires proof of health insurance for every American over age 18 and requires insurers to offer coverage to all applicants, regardless of health status.

TARGETED SUBSIDIES FOR THOSE MOST IN NEED: The proposal includes direct subsidies for low-income individuals for the purchase of a low-premium major medical health insurance plan – subsidies for both the premium and deductible on a sliding scale up to 300% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).”

Yep, this is handing the left and Obama everything they want. ALL compulsary insurance plans are government run HC with a "private" facade - ReidCare, NancyCare, RomneyCare, DringoCare, and ObamaCare are centered around forcing individuals to buy Health Insurance thats essentially dictated by politicans and technocrats.

When we are this close to victory, lets not allow the same old "inside the beltway" establishment Politicans sell us out!

Finally, I have heard waves of paid ACORN types flooding the talk radio shows promoting the Individual Mandate (two on Hannity alone today!) with standard DNC talking points about "free riders" and "forcing responsibility".....

Again, any unpaid care is less then 2% of our total HC costs annually - the leftist "fix" of Compulsary Govt run insurance will cost us a HUNDRED TIMES more in higher premiums, new taxes, expanded medical welfare, and new subsidy payments!

Lets not let them get away with suckering us into accepting Govt run HC in a phoney attempt to reduce a minor costs when there true intentions are to cause costs to soar and for honest working people to pay more!

Here is an article that states the facts on the "free rider" issue:

http://wylieecoyote.blogtownhall.com/2010/02/25/the_left_is_back_out_in_force_on_radio,_tv,_etc_pushing_the_individual_mandate_-_dont_be_fooled!_compulsary_insurance_is_govt_run_hc!.thtml

he "huge problem" of "uncompesated ER care", while true to a degree, has simply been overblown way out of proportion to its actual impact on costs. It is a very minor issue at best and some of the assumptions about the problem are simply false and rooted in myth and not facts.

Its now a boiler plate talking point used by the left as an appeal to envy/resentment against our fellow humans to push Compulsary Government run schemes like ObamaCare, RomneyCare etc because such mandatory coverage schemes allow government to takeover the health care system. In the realm of issues with the health care system,

First, its a myth that everyone without insurance does not pay for their medical care or go to the ER to get it. This is false - a majority can and do pay all, most, or at least some of their billed costs (Kaiser states that the uninsured pay 85% of the costs). Please have more faith in your fellow American Citizen!
 
Second, the so-called "free rider" issue you cite is a very, very small cost and not at all out of line with the "cost shifting" that occurs in every other industry and service in America from government mandates and/or simple theft/fraud. According to the Kaiser Foundation's 2008 study on Uncompensated care, the cost passed on to the privately insured individual is 8 Billion dollars or less than $200 annually per privately insured household which is peanuts compared to the Trillions that Democrats are proposing to hit us with in new taxes, fees, premium hikes so that you can turn around and spend it to provide subsidies for the citizens your are forcing to buy private health coverage. So to "solve" the problem of "free riders" we would end up paying much much more in higher premiums and taxes! The "solution" of mandated insurance costs the average American much more the the current minor issue.

"The remainder of uncompensated care left to be covered by private dollars is relatively small compared to the $830 billion that will be spent by the privately insured this year (< 2%)"

Here is the kaiser study with the details:
 
(http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/7810.pdf).

Third, essentially this so-called "cost" of ER care or other uncompensated care has always and will always be there. Medical charity care has and will always be their. Studies have shown that prior to the 1986 EMTA law that mandated ER care, roughly the same amount of money was given by hospitals/providers as charity care. Essentially, this supposed "uncompesated care" was likely to be given away anyways so its a wash in terms of cost.

Forth, Mandatory Insurance schemes (like the one Senator Gregg is now pushing) dont fix this problem at all. People still find ways to avoid the mandate and get fire or subsidied care. Due to the "preexsisting" conditions clause that goes with mandatory insurance schemes, many people determine thats its to their monetary advatange to wait until sick to buy insurance (ie its cheaper for them to pay the fine/tax and then buy insurance)  and then cancel it as soon as their bills are paid. Insurnance firms in MA that has the exact same ObamaCare compulsary insurance schemes report that up to 75% of their claims paid are for "customers" who are enrolled for 6 months or less. This opens a whole new and larger "free rider" cost issues then ER care. Moreover, Compulsary Insurance effectively expands and places more of the population onto medical welfare programs like medicade - the ultimate cost shifting to tax payers and private insurnace (since govt underpays providers, the cost is always shifted to private payers). Applying force to the problem simply doesnt work.

Here are the real results from MA:

•Official estimates overstate the coverage gains under the Massachusetts law by roughly 50 percent.
•The actual coverage gains may be lower still, because uninsured Massachusetts residents appear to be concealing their lack of insurance rather than admit to breaking the law.
•Public programs crowded out private insurance among low-income children and adults.
•Self-reported health improved for some, but fell for others.
•Young adults appear to be avoiding Massachusetts as a result of the law.
•Leading estimates understate the cost of the Massachusetts law by at least one third.

Thats a whole lot of new "costs" to make a failed attempt to make those "freeloaders" pay, eh?

Here is how Health Policy expert Michael Cannon at the CATO Institute puts it: “The left’s most powerful argument in favor of an Individual Mandate - that the Uninsured sometimes end up in the ER, and unable to pay their bills - isn’t powerful enough. The appropriate response to this problem is not to take away the freedom of the non-free riders. The appropriate response is to leave the non-free riders alone, to place the cost of the “uncompensated” care on the would-be free riders, and to write off any remaining uncompensated care as the price of living in a free and decent society.”

And

"Most uninsured people don’t end up in an emergency room.  As for those who do, research shows that the uninsured as a group more than pay their own way. Many simply pay their bills without imposing costs on anyone. And because they typically pay premium prices for medical care — far more than is ordinarily reimbursed by public or private insurance — they more than offset the cost of uncompensated care to the uninsured overall, according to MIT economist Jonathan Gruber and others.

Even if we ignore that evidence, uncompensated care to the uninsured accounts for about 2.2 percent of national health expenditures.  The left-leaning Urban Institute writes, “Private insurance premiums are at most 1.7 percent higher because of the shifting of the costs of the uninsured to private insurers in the form of higher charges.”  That’s hardly a crisis.

And think about it: an uninsured person is wheeled into an emergency room, unconscious and bleeding.  Is this person able to harm anyone?  Is this person in a position to impose costs on you?  Of course not.

What imposes costs on you are the laws that require the doctors and hospitals to treat those patients without regard to ability to pay — and the ethical codes that would impel doctors to treat them even if there were no such laws.  If you have a problem with those laws/codes, make them the focus of your ire.  If you support them, surely you can’t be upset that they increase your premiums by 1.7 percent.  Isn’t that a small price to pay to live in a compassionate society?

But if you’re still angry about that 1.7 percent, bear in mind that the Reid individual mandate — which is essentially a bailout for private health insurance companies — would increase the cost of insurance for some people by 30 percent and would require additional taxes on top of that."

Here is a Mr. Cannon's analysis that debunks the "free rider" cost myth:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/12/11/the-reid-individual-mandate-an-affront-to-the-constitution/
 
Here is an article that debunks that fully outlines this simplic appeal to envy:
 
http://townhall.com/columnists/JacobSullum/2009/09/23/does_cost_of_uncompensated_care_justify_forcing_people_to_buy_insurance
 
Contrary to popular opinion in the media, the Individual Mandate, not the so-called public option is the key provision in Obamcare and this is why the left will push just about any myth possible to get people to accept it as its the gateway to governmental control.
 
This is a very dangerous period because Nationalization will still occur even without an overt government run insurance plan like this "public option" provision everyone keeps fixating on - RomenyCare, Wyden/Bennett and the Bacus bill are prime examples of this. Here are the core elements what will be contained in the “health care reform compromise” after the so-called “public option” is in all likelihood dropped:
 
(a) Federal Regulation aka HEALTH CZAR/DEATH PANELS
 
(b) Employer/Individual Mandates aka NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE
 
 (c) Government Subsidies aka MIDDLE CLASS MEDICAL WELFARE
 
With the Federal Government setting the rules, forcing everyone to participate, and is paying the bills for most of the middle class through subsidies how is this anything other than Nationalization?
 
Again, the use of false information is part and parcel to the left's push for government run health care....

The appeal to envy with the "ER problem" is dangerous because it plays on people's sense of fair play and honesty. However, its an overblown problem propped up by myth and emotion not facts. And its a "problem" solely created by past bad government interverntion. The "solution" is to remove the previous bad government interventions NOT to add more costly government intervention in the form of Compulsary insurnace.

This article is a MUST READ – it explains how respect for personal freedom/individual rights lead to a properous economy and a robust society whereas the acceptance of the docctrie that government intervention/force can “fix” things or engineer utopia on earth leads to ruin:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/the_economic_crisis_is_only_a.html

“Our serious economic crisis can be attributed to the abandonment of constitutional principles that began long ago. Establishment of a central bank was anathema to our Founding Fathers. Arguably, the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913 was unconstitutional.
No serious economist can overlook the key role played by the Federal Reserve in causing the current crisis. Nor can one overlook its debauch of the currency, though one of its founding purposes was to protect the value of the currency. Since the Federal Reserve’s formation, the purchasing power of the dollar has fallen by 96 percent. Most of that occurred after 1971, when the country left the gold standard and the Fed was without limitations.

Government is generally precluded from entering the realm of economic matters by the Constitution. Once that restriction was ignored, there was no limit to the harm that could be inflicted. Economics itself is a self-correcting system under most circumstances. However, in a world where government is unconstrained, politicians see every minor discomfort as an opportunity for an intervention and a means to gain more power.

All intervention contravenes the corrective mechanism of markets, generally worsening the original problem. This leads to demands for additional political intervention. Each one worsens the problem and weakens the economy’s ability to self-correct. Interventionism is not self-sustaining, as explained by Ludwig von Mises:

http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/02/17/education_too_important_for_a_government_monopoly