I got some eyes and ears in another state and I got a phonecall today. Fema's Trucks are rolling. Its gotta have something to do with the shutdown. The main thing is Obama is still getting paid while the majority of the workers aren't. Congress cant do their job. They refuse to do their job. Why aren't we allowed to fire them before their term ends? I've told you guys I'm all for health care but Obamacare is the biggest bucket of sh!t ever placed on this planet. When the ones who wrote it are trying to refuse it that should tell Forrest Gump it aint worth a dam.

For what it's worth...

The fundamental difference between the US Health System and (most) European Health Systems, lies in the repsctive origins:

- in Europe, the very first hospitals were established by priests, more or less adjacent to their temples.
See Hyppocrates, but also Pythagoras. See any Order of Monks or Knights Hospitalliers.
Hence, the lay (civilian) hospitals were established by the local rulers on very similar principles.
You check in, do/get done what is affordable, check out.

- in the USA, it sems everything was provate, essentially hospitals were run like businesses, very much like "medical hotels".
You check in, do/get done what you can afford, check out.

Now, I will copy & paste, one over the other.

You check in, do/get done what is affordable, check out.
You check in, do/get done what you can afford, check out.

Hence, even the most aggressive form of Obamacare will never be comparable to the simplest form of EU Health Care, unless one relies strictly on County/State hospitals.

In other words... "Cedars of Lebanon" or "Knights of Malta" may sound like very nice and suave names for a health care facility,
but they are diametrically opposed to "Sanctus Spiritus", "Policlinico" or  "Fatebenefratelli", just three names from hospitals in Rome.





http://blog.bt-store.com/hospital-in-italy

Please take your time and read this Mother's story to the end.   From a parent's perspective, I find it comforting.
PS My wife is a doctor and we live in Rome; I know what it means to sit in the ER lounge for hours...  

The Truth About the Health Care Bills
Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200:
The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009.

I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business, and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the government.

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing  to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people, and the businesses they own.

The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the Obama administration, in direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a protecting against unreasonable searches and  seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you have private insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a tax instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However , that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of law.

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn't stop there though.

The 9th Amendment that provides: The  enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;

The 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution." If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without feeling I was violating  that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I suggest they consult the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton , Texas

AFTER HAVING READ THIS, PLEASE FORWARD....

If you don't care about our constitution, or your rights under it, just do nothing.

WE MUST HOLD CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

It's over, we're done. So much for freedom and rule of law. I am just surprised that it happened in my lifetime, I knew with the nature of evil and all that this couldn't last for long but to go out like this.  

The golf course at Andrews Air Force Base is still open, that's the main thing!