Congress is back in session, the fiscal year ends September 30, and still no budget. Nothing new there, since Obama has been President, there has never been a budget. They are still working on FY2009, which Pelosi and Reid pinned on Bush in the 2009 Omnibus Bill. Yet another CR (Continuing Resolution) Showdown is developing since the House soundly passed a CR which fully funds the government except for Obamacare, which is not now, nor will ever be ready for PrimeTime.
It is time to call both of your Senators now and tell them to
involving Kathleen Sebelius’ HHS Mandate, which requires employers to provide abortion-related insurance coverage, even if those employers have a religious objection to abortion.Hobby Lobby won their appeal, which has not been challenged by DOJ.
But first, here is a message from the Heritage Foundation on the effects of defunding Obamacare:
(as always, my comments appear in cayenne)
from the article:
…Now on to the second issue of how we could improve health care if we are lucky enough to stop this abomination called Obamacare. Here are some suggestions.
1. Implement tort reform: Cut down on frivolous lawsuits and defensive medicine, and you reduce the cost of health care by 10 percent instantly. While we’re at it, let’s go back to the time when lawyers were not allowed to advertise on TV. We don’t need lawyers on TV talking lazy, unemployed bums into claiming brain damage from a phony medical error.
>> We can do tort reform while recognizing that genuine malpractice should have consequences. I would also like to see an end to ambulance chasers gathering class actions via TV ads (like mesotheleoma, several IUDs, and other such groups) but this seems to conflict with the first amendment. <<
2. End state government-run health insurance monopolies: Allow insurance companies to sell across state lines. Allow anyone from any place to buy the best coverage for the money, regardless of the state. Instead of only having a few choices, you would have more than 1,300. Competition lowers cost — just look at your cellphone bill now compared with 10 years ago.
>>The People or employers should be free to decide what coverage they require, instead of the states. The prohibition against selling health insurance across state lines dates back to the New Deal, and only serves to drive up costs and limit choices. We can optionally buy car insurance (okay, this is not an option if you plan on driving a car), life insurance, disability insurance and more across state lines, and in some cases, worldwide. You don’t want to buy coverage that includes happy pills, hysterectomies or vasectomies? If you’re gay, should you be paying for well-child and pregnancy coverage? You should have that choice. You should also be free to not purchase health insurance at all. You should also be free to buy high deductible insurance, which used to be known as “major medical”. See bullet point 4.<<
3. Reduce drug-addicted newborn babies: There is a drug-addicted baby born every hour in America, at a cost of $1 million per child. This needs to stop. Make having crack babies child abuse punishable by a minimum of five years in prison. When people know there is a tough consequence for their actions, many will change their ways. At least those who break the law won’t be making more drug-addicted babies for five years.
<< I hadn’t considered this before, but it’s hard to argue that having drug-addicted babies is not child abuse. >>
4. Create health saving accounts: Allow people to buy low-cost catastrophic health coverage, and then put money into a savings account for their everyday health care. Watch how prices drop when consumers start asking how much a certain treatment or procedure costs before getting it. Americans know how to shop, so let them.
<< Going back to the cash plan will save everybody more, including the health care providers who suddenly won’t need to hire three employees to wade through mountains of paperwork to get paid, to say nothing about the claims adjusters the insurance companies will no longer need. We have had limited HSAs for decades, but they have been mostly pre-tax on an annual use it or lose it basis. Obamacare limits HSA contributions to $2500.00 beginning next month which won’t affect many of us, except for those who actually need it, such as those with autistic children or some other birth defect.
If I were to design a health plan for younger folks, I’d allow HSAs to roll-over and accumulate and set the deductible to increase according to use. For most of us, this account would accrue with interest over the years, and be available in the fifties or later when actual use begins to occur. Wider use of HSAs would also eliminate the need for dental or eye care coverage, just for starters. >>
“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)
What you are about to see might make you ill, or at least re-think your position on abortion. The abortion racket became a lucrative sales industry feeding off of the emotions of young girls at the point of sale, and procedures were often being performed using un-sterlized and sometimes rusty instruments. Emergency hospital trips due to botched abortions were often falsified by attending physicians. In any case, there comes a point in a woman’s life that she realizes that she was (is) a mother, and she consented to murder her own child. The mental anguish for the mother must be unimaginable.
This movie explains the riches and motivations involved for abortion providers at an abortion mill, churning out 20-30 abortions per HOUR! It also reveals how young women who may or may not actually be pregnant have been confronted with a sales pitch to do “the right thing”. As long as their money is green.
Carol Everett, former abortion provider and clinic operator, speaks about abortion in the film Blood Money. Pick up the film narrated by Ms. Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece at http://bloodmoneyfilm.com/
Margaret Sanger is widely regarded as the founder of Planned Parenthood, and she was a self acknowledged Eugenist. Read more after the jump.
(Editor’s note: we lost Kelly last week at the age of 51. She shared her experience which first appeared here two years ago.)
Kelly Motz
Ovarian Cancer
My name is Kelly Motz.
Three years ago, at the age of 45, I was diagnosed with stage III-C Ovarian Cancer.
What a shock to my world; how could this be? I ate right, exercised, and was in the best physical shape of my life. And, I really wasn’t “sick.” I had been experiencing some indigestion and noticed a little bloating about my waist.
I had my annual physical four months prior to my cancer diagnosis and received the “all clear.” My primary care physician thought I might have gall bladder problems or an ulcer. An ultrasound showed some ascites, which prompted a CT scan, which showed a large number of tumors throughout my abdomen.
