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Here is a video, Liberals, and especially government-run healthcare advocates, would probably not like you to see.

When you watch this very short video, note Paul Krugman’s approach to the question of how Canadians feel about their healthcare plan. He assumes that the majority consider it “terrible”. As a supposedly disciplined academic, he could have been much less biased in how he posed the question.

In any case, Krugman stepped into a big pile of you know what.

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Much contradictory information circulating about the feasibility of various types of healthcare models, private free-market ( ie USA) versus GCH / Government Controlled Healthcare (Canada, France etc.)

Who can you believe these days?

Challenging to discriminate between real news reporting and propagandizing or opinionating.

New York Times article (relying on a Political Science Professor, Theodore R. Marmor, as source) promotes The Canadian system, and GCH / Government Controlled Healthcare.

However, in the news, today, (Courtesy of The Canadian Press) is a statement directly from Canada, and from the President of the Canadian Medical Association, a Medical Doctor, saying:

this country’s health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.

“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

Here is LINK to the Article

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GCH = Government Controlled Healthcare

LibertySpan salutes Mr. John Mackey, CEO and one of the founders of Whole Foods Market, as a Liberty Leader

Whole Foods Market is a great place to shop, and a great corporate citizen.

I heard John Mackey speak at a recent FreedomFest event, and I can attest that he is a true American Patriot.

An intelligent, creative thinking, liberal-minded, Libertarian!

Here is a great Wall Street Journal article penned by Mr. Mackey, which lays out much better alternatives to the ObamaCare Welfare State approach.

Apparently, Whole Foods Market employees have REAL Liberal health insurance. Lots of control for the people, and extra bucks to boot. Totally cool, by San Francisco standards!

I wonder how many of those Collectivists shopping in especially his San Francisco stores know what a smart avant garde businessperson Mackey is, or how happy WFM employees are with their excellent alternative to ObamaCare, namely a REAL CHOICE combination high-deductible indemnity plan, combined with employee-owned health savings assets (accounts).

Supposedly 100% of employee premiums paid, with $1800 of HSA bonus bucks, for employees to spend on healthcare, as they wish! Sounds like REAL liberal health insurance to me!

Of course, Whole Foods Market customers are generally smart, and have their own REAL Preventive Care Program, eating as healthily as they do. You would think they would want a plan similar type similar to excellent plan that the Whole Foods Team has voted in.

These progressive shoppers could save so much in premium and taxes, and they could invest in solar panels, or spend more at places like …. Whole Foods Market.

Now, that would be a great stimulus, including for local growers and food producers.

I would like to suggest that WFM shoppers who might be in favor of the English, French or Canadian system, consider asking WFM employees how they feel about their plan, including factors such as quality of care, freedom of choice, out-of-pocket costs,etc.

Already, a few adherents of Collectivist / “Other-Payer” / Welfarenomics are reacting to Mackey’s article, by urging a boycott. My suspicion is that this could only hurt Obama … because people tend to support those who help feed them, while doing it so well.

The proof might be in the pudding aisle? Talk (nicely) to the man or woman who restocks the goodies there.

MackeyCare? Why not give every citizen a Mackeycare type policy? Guaranteed issue. No major exclusions. Using premium savings to incentivize and reward preventive care and result outcomes( eg weight loss) ? What people don’t spend on healthcare, they can use to supplement social security, which could be extremely important.

I urge all Liberty Lovers to support John Mackey and WFM however they can.

And, WFM shoppers … perhaps talk to WFM Employees, nicely … about how they feel about their plan.

I am sure we can all agree that its good to be truly liberal-minded.

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Regarding America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 … where in the United States Constitution does it say that Congress has the right to regulate health insurance? And, why have states been regulating health insurance all this times?

Especially hardcore liberals (sponsors of this bill) are very good at mislabeling intentions and deeds.

This isn’t about “more choices”; obviously its about “fewer choices”. Much fewer.

And, its very easy to see (below) that the sponsors of (H.R. 3200) are enemies of liberty.

Major elements of the bill clearly reflect a desire by these politicians to oppress major segments of American society, including individuals and organizations.

Per Wikipedia, the bill was sponsored by:

*Rep. John Dingell (D), Hardcore Liberal
*Rep. Charles Rangel (D), Moderate Liberal
*Rep. Henry Waxman (D), Hardcore Liberal
*Rep. George Miller (D), Hardcore Liberal
*Rep. “Pete” Stark, Jr (D), Hardcore Liberal
*Rep. Frank Pallone (D), Hardcore Liberal
*Rep. Robert Andrews (D). Populist-Leaning Liberal

Note: Political records of these enemies of liberty are courtesy of OnTheIssues.org. (Rating are at the bottom of the page.)

Elements of the bill

(Per wikipedia) The summary of the bill includes the following elements, among others:

1. Establishes a mandate to purchase health insurance for most legal United States residents with an income above poverty level.[5]
2. Prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions.
3. Prohibits premium variances, except for age, geographic area, or family (vs. individual) enrollment.
4. Prohibits cancellation of coverage except for evidence of fraud.
5. Limits annual out-of-pocket expenses to $5,000 for an individual and $10,000 for a family.
6. Includes a public health insurance option to compete with private insurance.
7. Establishes a Health Insurance Exchange (HIE) within a proposed Health Choices Administration, to provide individuals and employers access to health insurance coverage choices. The HIE would contract with various insurers to offer benefit plans at competitive prices, by establishing a risk-pooling mechanism. This will allow individuals and small companies to band together to bargain for lower rates.
8. Provides a tax credit for low-income individuals and families to help pay insurance premiums.
9. Requires employers with payroll costs over $250,000 that are using the HIE to provide health insurance.
10. Provides for a tax on individuals without health insurance and employers that do not provide the required health insurance.
11. Provides for a tax on individuals with adjusted gross income exceeding $350,000.
12. Reduces Medicare payments to hospitals with excessive re-admissions.
13. Establishes a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research, which would analyze cost variances for similar treatments across the country.
14. Further expands Medicaid eligibility and scope of covered preventive services, for lower-income individuals and families.
15. Increases Medicaid payments to physicians for primary care.
16. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop quality measures for the delivery of health care services in the United States.
17. Establishes the Health Benefits Advisory Committee chaired by the Surgeon General.

Russia, here we come?

Americans need to start paying more attention to what’s going on the world. China (you know, “Red China”), like other former Socialist / “Central Control” governments, has been moving aggressively toward more economic liberty.

Don’t believe me.

Just “google” on searches like “China versus USA economic growth”

And, don’t forget to ask yourself if any particular politician is “pro-business” or “anti-business”.

Can you think of any particular politician, today, who is bashing insurance companies, for the purpose of diminishing the role of private industry, and replacing it with government?

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“You make the votes happen!”

Make the votes happen?

Huh? Seems so undemocratic. Dictatorial. Machiavellian. Contradictory. Egotistical. Not very civilized.

Quite insightful video blog. We need more Liberal Realty TV like this, to gain more real insight about the “Ivory Tower Liberal Professors” we hear The Right complain about. Notice the indignation of this Lib.

Aside: Obviously, worth noting that Waxman does admits that Government Financed healthcare (Liberal Speak = “Singe Player Plan) would be “radical“.

Also, note how angry this Lib is about conservatives fighting back against the collectivist fight for collectivist healthcare.

Conservatives don’t have a right to fight for what they want?

Collectivists aren’t working overtime to achieve government takeover of healthcare finance and healthcare?

I’d hate to run into this obnoxious and arrogant, hypocritical loon at a cocktail party.

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Of course, if they are opposing Obama and Pelosi and all of the other hard-core Liberals running Washington, the Conservative protesters must be fake. Obviously, this is absurd.

Mannow criticizes the organizations associated with these protestors, as if nobody has heard of MoveOn or ACORN, or ??

The problem is that the same internet that helped get Obama elected, might also be a contributing factor to the halt of healthcare “reform”, and to an earlier-than-expected demise of Democratic power.

One of the benefits of being truthful, is that you don’t have to keep trying to remember what you said in other situations, possibly when talking to another group.

The fact is that, thanks to the internet and the proliferation of video, Obama has been busted. Obama is not a centrist. Not even close.

Enough Americans now know that Obama wants the government to take over healthcare and not just health insurance. Obviously, controlling purse strings is power enough.

And, many-to-most Americans are vehemently opposed to this.

Check out this this video, where Mannow alleges “Fake protest”

And, then check out this video, created by someone alleging Obama to be a fake, at least with regard to his real agenda for healthcare.

Who’s your nanny?

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When socialist radicals take to the streets to protest anything, you rarely hear media complain.

However, when Texans show to up protest the federal government’s healthcare”public option” (Socialist Trojan horse health-care takeover), Socialists Mannow and Doggett call it “silly” and ’staged”.

Note that in this video Socialist Doggett refers to “the strong public plan” while also refering to only 4% using the “public option”. Quite contradictory, would’nt you say?

Then delusional Maddow takes it on herself to say “on behalf of the country, I am sorry about what happened to you; it was very “rude”.

Speaking for the country? Whoa!!

Another sarcastic and arrogant — continually frowning — teleprompter newsreader?

And, I am imagining it, or does Maddow seem to almost laugh at her own “jokes”?

Quite scary.

Maddow sure is .

And, doesn’t MSNBC have any normal females?

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In general, for Socialist Statists, like Hugo Chavez, to control economic outcomes, they need to control much, including people, and the free exchange of information.

However, to be fair, to try to get a more accurate and less biased view of how free the media is in Venezuela, check out what the Press says about Venezuela at Press Reference

Keeping in mind, that political environments change, here a few excerpts I found valuable:

“In October 2000, the International Press Institute included Venezuela on their “Watch List” of nations in which the freedom of the press stood at risk due to the repressive actions of the government. At that time, the same organization accused President Chávez of failing to oppose hostile actions directed at the press.

…

The press situation in Venezuela has two faces. On the exterior, freedom of expression exists, at least legally. However, on the interior, journalists constantly suffer from government repression aimed at eliminating all reporting critical of the official positions. The publication Press Freedom Survey 2000, created by Freedom House, concluded that the press in Venezuela was only partially free. Their criticism took particular exception with the October 1999 passage of constitutional article 59, which most in the press saw as a license for government censorship. The survey also notes that in November 1999, after reporters at Radio Guadalupana broadcast an editorial that criticized the policies and leadership of President Chávez, government intelligence officers appeared at the station and warned the staff that its further broadcasts would be monitored. That same December, explosive devices were discovered in the building that houses offices for several press organizations including the Associated Press, Agence France Presse, and the daily newspaper El Universal.

As critical as the Press Freedom Survey 2000 and other press watchdog groups have been toward Chávez, the situation must be viewed in perspective. The 2000 survey awarded Venezuela a score of 34 out of a possible 100. Nations scoring below 30 are considered to have a free press. Therefore, it was fair to assert at that time that the situation in Venezuela, while not as free as in previous years, was not as yet grave.”

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Venezuela Socialists, lead by the Hugo Chavez, have taken a significant measure to constrict and oppress public information and opinion in Venezuela.

So, exactly how can you have a real democracy when the government is controlling the news and information people receive?

Is this not an insult to the Venzuelean people?

New York Times headline

200 Venezuelans Protest Radio Station Shutdowns

Fox News Headline

Hugo Chavez Pulls 34 Radio Stations Off the Air

Notice any difference in the above?

Does Socialist American Media complain when things like this happen? And, who do they favor?

You decide.

Democracy Now

Any reporting?

Daily Kos

Any reporting?

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Thus far, I have not had much experience, or interest, in following “think tank” types.

But, came across The New America Foundation, due to a link at MSN Money, regarding better ways to save money.

Quite scary. I have known a few people who really wanted to change the world in a radical way. But, they have mostly been fairly eccentric.

The fellows at this liberal (aka Progressive) “think tank” are obviously smart, at least based on their educational successes and publications, etc.

Regarding healthcare finance agenda of The Left, according to Michael Lind:

Progressives hope, and conservatives fear, that the public plan over time will absorb more and more American workers, eventually becoming a de facto single-payer system.

Something else about this article.

I have difficulty with this Collectivist’s use of the term “social contract“. Is that like a legal contract, which people are supposed to be able to enter into voluntarily? I doubt it. Why not instead use “enforced social scheme”? Obviously, that what he is describing, right? Let’s be honest.

I get nauseous thinking about “social engineering” types, who want to make radical, or just very significant, changes in the world, impacting large groups of people. WTF!

Its apparent that they believe that they are qualified to create these new schemes; and the tone of this article seems like one of confidence of success. (Why do I sense this fellow might not even know how to change his own oil?)

I just have to say the the implied sense of entitlement and grandiosity is quite nauseating.

I suppose if you have lots of schooling, and a giant ego, and maybe want to be respected as an egghead, and need to make a living, this is what these people do.

I thank this gentleman for his honesty.

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