The Problems With Socialized Government Healthcare

Check out this very good video from The Acton Institute:

Artificial scarcity and the anatomy of the 2009 swine flu pandemic

Thanks to the good folks at the Ohio Freedom Alliance.

Here’s a small snippet from the Live Leaks site:

This video exposes how the corporate health industry met at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and expressed concern that Americans are refusing the unpopular H1N1 swine flu vaccines.

This video also documents the strong case that the media is hyping an artificial scarcity of the vaccine to trick concerned parents into lining up like cattle for the flu shot.

Five minutes into this recording a participant recommends lying to the public to get them to take the shot. (Are you getting the picture?)

Note: I had trouble embedding the video; go to this link to listen to the conference.

Kucinich: Health reform legislation ‘a bailout for insurance companies’

Thanks to the folks at The Raw Story.

The one thing I respect Rep. Kucinich for is his truthfulness; case in point is the health care reform, which he accurately describes as a bailout for insurance companies. He couldn’t be more right.

According to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Democrats’ health reform legislation is basically a sham.

Appearing on MSNBC’s The Ed Show on Friday night, the House’s most unabashed progressive condemned Democratic leadership for removing his amendment that would allow states to create their own single-payer systems. Then he called the entire legislative package “a bailout for insurance companies.”

Under a single-payer system, like those in Canada and the United Kingdom, the government pools taxpayer funds to pay for citizens’ health care and fees are not collected by health care providers. The Kucinich amendment would allow individual states an opt-in to such a system.

“The removal of the Kucinich amendment constitutes yet another capitulation to the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries who are already reaping billions of dollars from the bill,” reads a statement from the congressman’s office on Thursday.

“Maybe instead of a sellout it’s a bailout,” Kucinich responded. “Maybe what we’re looking at here is another way that Wall Street’s speculative engine can be fueled, this time with the help of the premiums of tens of millions of Americans.”

On his Web site, Kucinich took his point further, calling the legislation “a bailout for insurance companies” that must be altered.

“The Kucinich [single payer] amendment has been added to H.R. 3200 in the Education and Labor Committee, the amendment would permit states to enact a single-payer health care system,” the congressman’s Web site claimed.

If I was in his district I might never vote for the man, but I have to admire him. He’s an unabashed socialist, but out of nowhere the man stands up for liberty and sovereignty at the oddest moments. I only wish republicans from Ohio were as honest and true their “said” convictions as Rep. Kucinich. But I don’t worry about that any longer, because I’ve moved from being a right side republican to a leftist libertarian.

Be that as it may, one more bailout at the taxpayers expense. This is our current political legacy in our country. I wonder though how long the ship can stay a float as Congress keeps drilling new holes in the hull?

Unplugged: H1N1 Cases Overestimated?

Ron Paul “No One Has A Right To Medical Care!”

Judge Napolitano on Forced Vaccinations in Massachusetts

Stealth Agencies for Gun Control

Karen DeCoster wrote a worrisome article detailing heath studies conducted by various US government heath organizations who focused on solely gun “safety,” which are meant to provide a justification for abolishing our right to have firearms. While these studies continue to fall flat, and have actually proved guns save lives and protect property, Congress continues fund these organizations and spending millions of dollars time and time again all to abolish our right.

Still, the CDC has not been able to make its research work in favor of its agenda. Its own studies have not been able to link gun control laws to the reduction of crime. Nevertheless, any time the government studies “gun safety,” you know that in spite of the fact that all the research in the world will not support its end goal of affirming the necessity of disarmament, the aim is to produce enough information and “expert” opinions to influence the public against gun ownership and persuade them to internalize the emotional aspect of the issue, thereby leading people to despise guns, distrust gun owners, and desire more government intervention to make gun ownership more difficult. The anti-gun movement is built on pure emotion — hating guns and being afraid of guns — so crafting a false perception among the masses through fear mongering and emotional coercion is much more crucial, and uncomplicated, than presenting a clear-cut, scientific case through the use of bona fide research studies.

For the most part, the establishment of gun safety as a public health issue is a very purposeful strategy aimed at avoiding the political reality of individual liberty and the right to defend oneself. Thus gun ownership can be viewed as a “problem” that is looked at in a collective sense, by determining the costs and benefits to the public at large, as if these considerations can possibly trump an individual’s natural right to bear arms and defend his own life.

Understand, the left will not stop until the entire country is brought under total government control, and for that matter the world, and the greatest measure in achieving this goal is to take away our right to defend ourselves, the 2nd Amendment.

On another point, Karen DeCoster has become one of my favorite writers. She provides a great commonsensical libertarian perspective that’s clear and concise, and easy to understand.

Swine flu vaccine could have major medical side effects

New York Suspends Mandatory Flu Shots for Health Workers

It looks like the health care workers in New York know something we don’t when it comes to Swine Flu shots. That’s probably why the Public Employees Federation, New York’s second-largest state employees union, has sued the State of New York for mandating that all health workers take the shot. Since the shot was in short supply State officials used the circumstance as an opportunity to revoke the decision. However, the union will go forward with the lawsuit, as they should.

Well, the decision is yours, and this we all need to remember, not some government bureaucrat in Washington City. Get the facts before you let someone put something into your body!

Is it H1N1, just regular flu or a cold?

Norma, Collecting my Thoughts, has this to say about the mania surrounding the Swine Flu:

There are reports that any flu patient seen by a hospital or doctor is being reported as having H1N1, which could account for the numbers in the latest crisis the government is promoting. A few days ago CBS reported in a month’s long investigation, state-by-state results of tests for H1N1 found that most cases were negative.

I’m with my fellow SOB blogger. We are being pushed by the oligarchs in Washington City to accept a fascist socialized government run health care system amidst a non existent pandemic…can anyone say Gulf of Tonkin and LBJ?