Place ObamaCare On Hold!

America needs your vote on the "Time Out on ObamaCare" Act, bill number S.281, authored by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX).

This amendment would COMPLETELY halt the ObamaCare health care nightmare from being implemented pending a final judicial ruling on its constitutionality.

ObamaCare is bad medicine for America because it kills jobs, bankrupts the government, drives up everyone's health insurance costs, puts bureaucratic “boards” in charge of rationing care, and ruins the world's best health care system – NOT A PERFECT SYSTEM, BUT THE WORLD'S BEST!  The 2800+ page ObamaCare bill was INTENTIONALLY set up with hidden agendas and “costs” which were not to be revealed to the public until AFTER the November 2012 elections.  There are currently 26 states in court to repeal this bill, and currently the number of waivers granted stands at 1400+ including seven entire states.  Most of these waivers have gone to Obama constituents who SUPPORTED ObamaCare, but do not want to suffer under its oppression.  More than 1400 waivers have already been issued to businesses and unions, AARP, more than 50% of all waivers have gone to unions, 20% of all waivers have gone to Ms. Pelosi’s district, and Mr. Reid’s whole state has been waivered, ALL supporters of ObamaCare.  This is CRONYISM in it’s ugliest form!  The sheer numbers of waiver requests has been so large that the House and Human Services (HHS) announced they were shutting down all waiver requests as of September, 2011, but appears to still be issuing waivers because of public outcry.  HHS has still refused to release details or criteria on how waivers are granted and refused.  Selective implementation and enforcement of ObamaCare OR ANY LAW is the first sign of tyranny.  A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law inevitably leads to corruption, ultimately resulting in tyranny.

Polls have consistently shown that a solid majority of Americans want Washington to reverse the GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER of health care and adopt a patient-centered approach.  The Obama Administration is rushing to implement this unpopular law in the face of the opposition of a majority of the American public, a majority of the House, a near-majority of the Senate, and a majority of the states, which latter are suing to have the law stayed on constitutional grounds.  Obama’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found that Obama’s promise of 4 MILLION new jobs is false, and CBO estimates that ObamaCare will ACTUALLY destroy more than 800,000 EXISTING jobs.  Before casting his vote in favor of ObamaCare, Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat, described it as "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of"(sic).

Since December, 2010, two federal district judges, in Virginia and Florida, have declared unconstitutional ObamaCare's "individual mandate" requiring all U.S. residents to purchase health insurance (the linch-pin of the entire, 2801-page law).  The rulings in these and other cases are being appealed by the Obama Administration's lawyers. The judge in the Florida case made clear that he is effectively ordering the government to stop enforcing the law on the 26 states who are parties to the lawsuit; yet the Obama administration has indicated it WILL NOT halt implementation.

To avoid wasting more time and money imposing costly burdens on individuals and employers that may eventually be ruled null and void by a decision of the Supreme Court, Congress MUST vote on and ultimately adopt Sen. Hutchison's "Time Out on ObamaCare" Act, bold legislation that would impose a moratorium on further implementation of ObamaCare the until the courts render a final judicial decision of its constitutionality.

WE THE PEOPLE ARE REQUIRING YOU TO SUPPORT THE CONGRESSIONAL OATH YOU TOOK WHEN YOU ACCEPTED OFFICE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS, TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GOD BLESS AMERICA

This fax was sent to POTUS, Gov. Perry, GOP Candidates Romney, West, Senators Cornyn, Hutchinson, Rubio, Snowe, McConnell, Reid, Feinstein, Reed, Murray, Boxer, Tester, Kyl, Representatives Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, DeMint, Poe, Rand Paul, Levin, Pelosi, New first-term House Republicans Berg, Noem, Crawford, Gosar, Benishek, Nunnelee, Guinta, McKinley, Griffin, Huizenga, Ellmers, Rigell, Womack, Runyan, Heck, Kelly, Herrera, Gardner, Palazzo, Nugent, Lankford, McCarthy, and various Conservative and Liberal media outlets.

Think You Would Prefer Socialized Medicine? THINK AGAIN!

Migraines, ‘Magic Shots’ And Lies Perpetrated By Conventional Medicine

Posted Aug 3, 2011 by Bob Livingston on Personal Liberty Digest

"I have a friend who suffers from migraines (not Rep. Michele Bachmann, though I’m sure she’s a delightful person).  The young lady of whom I speak has suffered from this condition for most of her life.  Unlike the afore mentioned Presidential candidate from Minnesota, my friend’s migraines are often debilitating.  For years, she sought answers from Conventional Medicine, until she got some unusual advice in an emergency room.

The young lady in question recently visited her local emergency room twice in the space of five days for two separate migraines.  On the first visit she was given a shot, often referred to as the “magic shot,” which consisted of Phenergan and “enough Demerol to bring down a bull elephant” — the words of the on-call physician.  The shot made her fall asleep for about three hours, after which she awoke and suffered for an additional 26 hours before the migraine abated.   All told, that migraine lasted for 72 hours.

On the second visit, she was attended by a nurse practitioner (NP).  This man, she told me, was different.   After she explained her current symptoms and related her experience during the first visit, the NP closed the door to her room.

“Do you want to have the shot,” he asked, “or do you want to get better?”

Taken aback, my friend replied that she wanted a treatment that worked.  The NP then explained that, in the fast-paced world of emergency rooms, most medical professionals assume the people who come in complaining of migraines just want the “magic shot.”

“If they’re drug seeking, it’s faster to just give them the drugs,” he explained.   “I never prescribe opioids for real migraines.”

In all the years my friend had been visiting emergency rooms, she had always received a shot.  Sometimes it worked, sometimes not.  Never, not once, had she been told that she was being treated like a mere drug addict.

It turns out, Demerol (chemical name meperidine) does not cure migraines, and hospitals know this.

“Despite guidelines recommending against opioids as first line treatment for acute migraine, meperidine is the agent used most commonly in North American emergency departments,” read a study reported in Annals of Emergency Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal.

The study concluded that: “Meperidine is less efficacious and associated with more side effects than DHE regimens in acute migraine headache.  There was also a trend towards decreased efficacy of meperidine compared to anti-emetics.  Clinicians should consider alternatives to meperidine when treating acute migraine with injectable agents.”

The NP instead prescribed for my friend what he called “the migraine cocktail” — Benadryl, Compazine and Toradol, given intravenously with a liter of fluids. This remedy contained no narcotics and was relatively mild as far as prescription drugs go (although prescription drugs should be avoided, of course).  Because this treatment takes an hour to administer, emergency rooms rarely offer it, choosing to just give migraine sufferers the shot.  While I applaud the NP’s non-use of opioids, I would add that at least one study has found that a popular supplement, coenzyme Q10, may be successful in preventing migraines.

A 2004 study reported at the American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting found that migraine patients who took 100 mg three times a day of CoQ10 — which acts as the body’s energy producer — had fewer attacks in three months than those who took a placebo.  The participants taking CoQ10 also had fewer days with a headache and fewer days with nausea.

My friend’s migraine was gone within half an hour of being treated with the “migraine cocktail,” but when she spoke to me she felt sick — over the way she had been treated by the medical community through the years."

I agree with, and thank the author for the article.  My only disagreement is with the title, specifically “…Lies Perpetrated By Conventional Medicine.”  I think a more correct accusation would be “…Inefficient Medical Care Perpetrated by Cost Considerations Pressure from Hospital Administrators and federal Government Intrusions.”  This is what ALWAYS happens when any “non medical administration” takes control of the details of medical treatment.  Treatment effectiveness drops immediately and precipitously, as we see now, and as we will REALLY see if ObamaCare is not repealed.  Most physicians apply their oath “First do no harm” to their medical practice whereas non-medical adminstrators and government promote “First show me the money”.  

And if ObamaCare is instituted we will see “Only BIG MONEY will receive the best medical treatment”.  That is why the wealthiest of the sick drive to America from Canada for their medical treatment.  Wealthy Brits would also drive here if there was a highway, but the wealthy Brits are forced to fly here.  Muslim oil potentates, and the ultra rich jet set come to America in droves to take advantage of the best medical care in the world.  What an American citizen advantage – to receive the best medical care in the world, without having to travel to another country to get it!  Have you ever read of anyone going to any country with socialized medicine to get their medical care, other than cheap, contaminated cosmetic botox injections in Tjuana, which then usually require American medical care to resolve the infections?  The next time you have a doctor's appointment, ask him/her what their opinion is of ObamaCare or Socialized medicine.

Why are Obama and Congress exempted from ObamaCare?  Why has the federal government handed out THOUSANDS of ObamaCare waivers to states, unions, McDonalds, federal employees and other major backers and major supporters of Obamacare, like AARP, the whole State of Maine (Obama payback for support), the whole state of Nevada (Harry Reid's state), waivers are pending from the whole states Kentucky, New Hampshire,  and EVERY constituent of Nancy Pelosi in the state California?  

In September, 2010, Obamacare promoter and democrat Rep Ron Wyden applied for a special oregon waiver from the very federal mandate he supported and advocated for everyone else!

Oh yes, and by the way, ALL Muslims are exempted from suffering ObamaCare!

Looks like Obama has paid back most of his major Obamacare supporters?  As of June 2011 there have been 1,471 waivers approved, covering 3.2 million citizens.  Waivers are so sought after, that the federal government is ending their waiver program on September 22, 2011.  See Michelle Malkin's waiver post here.

LOOKS LIKE MOST CITIZENS, INCLUDING OBAMA AND ALL HIS SUPPORTERS ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO GET OUT FROM UNDER THE 2000+ PAGE OBAMACARE BILL - LOTS OF PLACES TO HIDE STUFF IN THERE?

Think anything is hiding in there?

If ObamaCare is not repealed there will be an age limit to qualify for many high cost medical treatments which are available to ANYONE without consideration of age, now.  Remember that in the absence of premature death, EVERYONE will at some point in their life reach the “old age” category.

ObamaCare "Family" Fracas?

This article was written by Dr. Milton R. Wolf, a Washington Times columnist, a board-certified diagnostic radiologist in Kansas, and President Obama’s second cousin once removed.  President Obama’s great-great grandfather, Thomas Creekmore McCurry, is Dr. Wolf’s great-grandfather.  Dr. Wolf’s mother, Anna Margaret McCurry, was five years older than Mr. Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.  The two were childhood friends until the Dunhams moved from Kansas to Seattle in 1955.
Dr. Wolf blogs at http://wolffiles.blogspot.com/

"Selective enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny. A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and those with the best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably leads to corruption, and corruption invites extortion. Ultimately, the rule of law ceases to exist in any recognizable form, and what is left is tyranny.

America’s founders rejected that road to tyranny when they boldly declared that all men are created equal. They wrote a Constitution meant to secure the promise of equal protection under the law.

President Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrats all, in their rush to take over America’s health care system, made all sorts of outlandish, unkeepable promises. Among the most egregious: Obamacare would allow you to keep your current health insurance and your doctor. Mr. Obama’s own Medicare chief actuary now acknowledges that Obamacare may cause up to 20 million Americans to lose their current health insurance policies, and doctors are increasingly leaving Medicare, Medicaid and the practice of medicine altogether. Good luck keeping them. Another unkeepable promise: Obamacare will create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately.  The Congressional Budget Office’s budget director estimates the law actually will destroy 800,000 jobs.

Obamacare’s chickens, to borrow a phrase our president may have heard somewhere before, are coming home to roost. The law, as currently adjudicated, has been ruled unconstitutional. The president’s own secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius, has admitted a major section of the Obamacare law is "totally unsustainable".  Before casting his vote in favor of Obamacare, Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat, described it as "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of".  Well, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Madoff certainly would be proud of you and your colleagues.

The now-familiar monthly trickling down of new waivers is, at best, a tacit admission that Obamacare is a failure. So far, seven entire states and 1,372 businesses, unions and other institutions have received waivers from the law. The list includes the administration’s friends and allies and, of course, those who have the best lobbyists.

More than 50 percent of the Obamacare waiver beneficiaries are union members, which is striking because union members account for less than 12 percent of the American work force. The same unions that provided more than $120 million to Democrats in the last two elections and, in many cases, openly campaigned in favor of the government takeover of your health care, now celebrate that Obamacare is not their problem.

But the political payoffs don’t stop there. The Obama administration didn't forget its closest friends in the latest round of waivers. Although there are 435 congressional districts across America, nearly 20 percent of the new waivers, amazingly, found their way to a single district - Mrs. Pelosi's.  As for Mr. Reid, well, the entire state of Nevada found an early waiver in its Christmas stocking.  After all, what kind of a political crony would the president be if he couldn’t pull a few strings?

The priorities of the Obama administration and its Democratic allies are on display with every waiver granted. The list of beneficiaries in Mrs. Pelosi’s district, for example, belongs in an episode of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".  Mrs. Pelosi, champion of the unions and no stranger to hypocrisy, has amassed a fortune as part owner of Napa Valley Auberge du Soleil resort - a luxurious non-union shop.  Now her luxury boutique colleagues also can benefit from her "do as I say" politics.  The "four-diamond luxury" hotel Campton Place, Tru Spa, Allure magazine’s "best day spa in San Fransisco”; Boboquivari’s and its $59 porterhouse steaks; and Cafe des Amis, "a timeless Parisian style brasserie", are among her beneficiaries.

As American families are being squeezed by increasing health insurance premiums as well as rising gasoline and grocery prices, I'm sure they'll be relieved to know that San Francisco's down-and-out millionaires will be protected from paying Obamacare’s bills.  Mercifully, Mrs. Pelosi’s limousine liberals will no longer be forced to beg for Grey Poupon from every Rolls-Royce passing by.

Why did these particular businesses receive waivers? The administration that calls itself the most transparent in history won’t say.  Nor will it explain why it has denied at least 79 requests from others.  Worse still, Health and Human Services has decreed that it will not even accept waiver requests from individuals, so if you choose to purchase your insurance directly, you have no recourse.

Americans deserve and, in fact, are guaranteed by our Constitution a level playing field. We were never promised equality in results, but we do deserve to play by the same rules and to be judged by the same standards. When a new law like Obamacare is so deeply flawed that its supporters openly violate these American bedrock principles to sustain it, it’s time to repeal that law.

I will repeat the same question I’ve been asking since the first health care waiver was granted: If Obamacare is such a great law, why does the White House keep exempting its best friends from it?”

Here is another Obamacare opinion from Obama’s cousin, Dr. Wolfe:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/11/obama-family-health-care-fracas/?page=all#pagebreak

Michele Malkin is not an Obama family member, but seems to have similar doubts as Obama cousin Dr. Wolfe, as expressed in her post from several months ago:

"Obamacare refugees first began beating down the exit doors in October 2010. It started with McDonald's and Jack in the Box; spread to Dish Networks, hair salon chain Regis Corp and resort giant Universal Orlando; took hold among every major Big Labor organization from the AFL-CIO to the CWA to the SEIU; roped in the nationalized health care promoters at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (whose board of trustees includes health care czar Nancy Ann DeParle); and is now gripping entire states (Florida, Tennesee, Ohio, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire and Nevada all recently received their waivers).
Now the west coast liberals seemed troubled about ObamaCare.  In the middle of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's congressional district, a cluster of San Francisco small businesses is among the latest recipients of get-out-of-Obamacare free passes. As Jamie Dupree of Cox Media Group and Matthew Boyle of The Daily Caller pointed out this week, there are at least two dozen Bay Area companies -- including bars, restaurants, hotels, tourist shops, real estate and auto firms -- that have secured temporary, one-year reprieves from the federal law. It's the San Francisco Treat that voters didn't foresee until after the bill was rammed down their throats.

Another noteworthy waiver winner: Seattle-based REI. The trendy Pacific Northwest outdoor equipment retailer's progressive CEO and Democratic campaign donor, Sally Jewell, appeared with President Obama in 2009 to tout White House health care reform initiatives. Two years later, REI received a waiver to protect the health benefits of a whopping 1,180 workers from the very tentacles of the big government bureaucrats that Jewell had embraced at Obama's roundtable.

To date, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has granted federal health care law exemptions to more than three million American workers covered by more than 1,300 unions, companies and insurers who had voluntarily offered low-cost health plans with annual benefits limits. Meddling Obamacare architects outlawed those private plans -- nicknamed "mini med" plans -- in the name of "patients' rights." But without special waivers, the escapees would have been forced to hike premiums or drop insurance coverage altogether for mostly low-wage, seasonal and part-time workers."

UPDATE: As of June 18,2011 exemptions to Obamacare now apply to over 3 million American workers, 1,372 companies and labor unions, and seven states because it is too expensive and unmanageable.

Read More:

 http://www.journaltimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_dd6000d6-99fb-11e0-9484-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1Q2nSYU9Z

"Among the most recent union affiliates to secure pardons from the one-size-fits-all ObamaCare health policy that their bosses spent hundreds of millions of dollars of worker dues lobbying for:

- Teamsters Local 485 Health and Welfare Fund in Brooklyn, N.Y.

- Detroit and Vicinity Trowel Trades Health and Welfare Fund_

- Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1182 Security Benefits Fund_

- CWA Local 1183 Health and Welfare Fund

- Bakers Union and Food Employees Labor Relations Association Health and Welfare Fund

- Service Employees International Union Healthcare Illinois Home Care and Child Care Fund

- United Food and Commercial Workers San Diego Employers Health and Welfare Trust

- Welfare Fund of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15, 15A, 15C, 15D AFL-CIO

- United Steelworkers Local 1-0318 Health and Welfare Trust Fund

- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices Local 198 AFL-CIO Health and Welfare Trust

- Teamsters Local 617 Welfare Fund in Ridgefield, N.J.

- Teamsters Local 734 Welfare Fund in Chicago

- Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 60 Health and Welfare Fund

- New York State Nurses Welfare Plan for New York City Employed Registered Professional Nurses

The ultimate goal, it bears repeating, is to force a massive, revolutionary and irreversible shift from private to public insurance designed by government-knows-best bureaucrats.

Pelosi and the Golden Ticket Administrators in Washington deny preferential treatment for waiver beneficiaries. But the stench of waivers-for-favors won't be dispelled until and unless the Obama administration releases a full list not only of those who won exemptions, but also of those who applied and were denied.

With San Francisco businesses caught with their hands in the waiver jar, Pelosi's office could do nothing else but pout: "It is pathetic," said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill, "that there are those who would be cheering for Americans to lose their minimum health coverage or see their premiums increase for political purposes."

It is far more pathetic to have cheered, as Pelosi did on the one-year anniversary of Obamacare, the law's onerous benefits limits from which thousands of her own constituents have now been exempted.

Once again, the rest of America wants to know: Dude, where's my waiver?"

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Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2010).