36. AARP Dumps Seniors

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has come out in favor of nationalizing health care, after dancing around the issue for months [Blog 25].

AARP has betrayed their constituency, the sebiors.  AARP now supports:

--  A 20% cut in Medicare spending.

--  Rationing of care.

--  Discriminating against seniors [Blog 24].

--  Taxation of medical devices such as hearing aids.

--  Creation of 111 new government agencies.

--  Spending of trillions of dollars that don't exist, causing inflation.

--  Government control over doctors and hospitals.

For a beautifully written example of how government control of health care results in destruction of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness, read "Noble Vision", by Gen LaGreca [Blog 10]..

--  Government control over medical and surgical treatments.

--  Forced participation in government insurance.

AARP seems perfectly willing to sacrifice the interests of their members to such collectivist butchers as E. Emanuel [Blog 24] and the Great Polished Liar [Blog 1 and 2].  It is the pragmatic (unprincipled) thing to do [Blog 32].

AARP is a big business, in insurance (health, dental, auto, etc.) and publications with lots of advertising.

Hitler was able to get the cooperation of some business men for his national socialist (Nazi) regime.  For details, see "The Ominous Parallels", by Leonard Peikoff.

Full disclosure:  I am a member of AARP, solely in order to buy their Medicare-supplement insurance.  If any reader knows of a reasonable alternative, please tell me about it.

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AARP Embraces Statism

35. Omnubust

The Pelosi monsrosity bill for government takeover of health care, H.R. 3962, contains many, many new taxes, regulations, and requirements.

It also creates a huge new group of boards, bureaucracies, commissions, and programs.  111 have been counted to date.

Here are the first 25.  For the complete list, go to:

http://tinyurl.com/y8afee6

1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)

2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62)

3. Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, p. 72)

4. Program of administrative simplification (Section 115, p. 76)

5. Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)

6. Health Choices Administration (Section 241, p. 131)

7. Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 244, p. 138)

8. Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155)

9. Program for technical assistance to employees of small businesses buying Exchange coverage (Section 305(h), p. 191)

10. Mechanism for insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Commissioner (Section 306(b), p. 194)

11. Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 307, p. 195)

12. State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 308, p. 197)

13. Grant program for health insurance cooperatives (Section 310, p. 206)

14. “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 321, p. 211)

15. Ombudsman for “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 321(d), p. 213)

16. Account for receipts and disbursements for “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 322(b), p. 215)

17. Telehealth Advisory Committee (Section 1191 (b), p. 589)

18. Demonstration program providing reimbursement for “culturally and linguistically appropriate services” (Section 1222, p. 617)

19. Demonstration program for shared decision making using patient decision aids (Section 1236, p. 648)

20. Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicare (Section 1301, p. 653)

21. Independent patient-centered medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302, p. 672)

22. Community-based medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302(d), p. 681)

23. Independence at home demonstration program (Section 1312, p. 718)

24. Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (Section 1401(a), p. 734)

25. Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission (Section 1401(a), p. 738)

For the rest of the list of 111 new burocracies, go to:

http://tinyurl.com/y8afee6

Take along a barf bag.

33.  Helloween For Real

A friend sent me a PDF copy of the Pelosi health crime bill.  This is the 1990 page monstrosity that will destroy liberty in America.

Looking at the PDF in Foxit Reader, I felt as if the UPS guy had just delivered a huge crate into my front yard, and the crate contained Frankenstein's Monster.

Pelosi's Monster
1990 Pages Of Contrils And Taxes

The Pelosi monstrosity is 1990 pages of new taxes and controls.  Meanwhile, the Polished Liar is still going on TV, bleating that he won't increase taxes or limit choice.

Pelosi's bill is a burocratic nightmare comparable only to the IRS code in complexity, intrusiveness, and taxes imposed.  But the IRS code took 80 years to reach its present byzantine convolutions.

Aside from crushing liberty, a main effect of the bill will be to provide employment to thousands or millions of lawyers.

When you visit your ObamaCare doctor, the first thing he will have to do is consult the Pelosi Act to find out if it is legal for himn to treat you, and what treatments he is allowed, by the government rationers, to prescribe.

Pelosi's bill is a burcratic horror, evidently crafted by a building full of collectivist-minded hack lawyers, busily hacking away at the roots of the Tree Of Liberty, destroying the freedom of all Americans.

It is a scene that even Franz Kafka could not have imagined.

Nightmare Castle
Where Pelosi Concocts Her Horrors

"You can keep your doctor," croons the Polished Liar.  When your doctor considers this 1990 page recipe for serfdom, which he must consult to learn whether the collectivist rationers will permit him to treat you -- and  he might have to hire a roomful of lawyers to interpret the convoluted regulations -- he just might decide that it isn't worth it, and start planning to move to Australia or Timbuktoo.

Syonara, Doc.

How is Obama going to stop that?  Oh, yes, the Great Emancipator could simply enslave the doctors.  Just get Pelosi to add a few more pages to the bill.

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House Of Butchers Of Liberty

29. IRS Health Care

Pelosi has rolled out a second version of the House health care scheme.  The first version was 1200 pages.  This version is 200 pages.  The difference?  More regulations, more taxes.

The announcement came with the usual quota of lies:

-- It won't increase the deficit (it will cost trillions)

-- It will increase health care (reduce it by instituting rationing)

-- You can keep your insurance (private insurance will be driven out of business by the non-profit "public option")

-- It won't raise your taxes (the bill is full of new taxes)

-- More and cheaper health care (20% cut in Medicare means less care)

-- Won't impact private insurance companies (it will destroy them)

-- Etc., etc.

The IRS (the most feared agency in the government) is put in charge of enforcing compliance with the health rules, and collection of new taxes:

-- Taxes on employers

-- Taxes on those who don't buy insurance
(and prison sentences)

-- Taxes on those who buy insurance

-- Taxes on insurance companies

-- Taxes on rich people

-- Taxes on "medical devices", including tampons and condoms (Tax toilet paper in Version 3?)

The IRS will control and enforce government health care.

The aim and goal of this health scheme is the destruction of the capitalist economy. It is collectivism in action, enforced by the IRS.  It is what Obama meant by "change".

Welcome to fascist health care.

 

Obey Obama!  Obey Obama!