Category Archives: Health Care

September 11th Radio Commentary

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Conference Committee Would Write Final Bill

Radio Commentary, WMVV 90.7 New Life FM, September 11, 2009
By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Good morning, Jim. We’ve discussed the healthcare bill for months and we’ve learned what’s in it and what’s not. We were told there’s no end-of-life counseling to encourage senior citizens toward assisted suicide. But after it was called a “death panel”, they said they’d take it out. Then, we were told the “public option” is not REALLY a government plan to get rid of private insurance and when so many people opposed it, they decided to drop it and create a co-op instead. But they never explained that a co-op is a public option in disguise.
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September 2009 Newsletter

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Health Care: Pelosi Rejects Republicans’
“Reach across the Aisle”

On May 13, 2009, Representative John Boehner (R-OH) and eight of his colleagues sent a letter to President Obama that began with this sentence: “We write to you today to express our sincere desire to work with you and find common ground on the issue of health care reform.” The letter outlined three principles on which the White House seemed to agree with them.

The letter was sent, but defeat came in July. House committees – Ways & Means, Energy & Commerce and Education & Labor – considering H.R. 3200, swiftly and concisely rejected the 31 amendments Republicans offered to protect, preserve and improve the world’s best medical care, retain individual freedoms to make personal medical decisions, and limit the inevitable tax increases. Also rejected were amendments protecting the sovereign rights of states and the free enterprise system for employers, individuals, physicians and the private insurance business.

Perhaps the most astonishing section of H.R. 3200 was its obvious disdain for senior citizens. Medicare funding will be drastically cut, while enrollment increases. The result will be rationed care, especially for senior citizens. In addition, every five years (for the unhealthy, every 2 ½ years) senior citizens would submit to mandatory end-of-life counseling, an example of which is, currently, forced on military personnel served by Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals.

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September 4th Radio Commentary

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Health Care Co-Ops: NOT the Way to Go

Radio Commentary, WMVV 90.7 New Life FM, September 4, 2009
By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Good morning, Jim. We’ve heard a lot about government controlled healthcare, but do you know the difference between a public option and a co-op? As used in the healthcare plan, the “Co-Op Compromise” is, simply, the public option in disguise. Eagle Forum’s August 17th press release says, “Make no mistake, any Democrat health care bill will include both mandates and subsidies for ‘eligible’ or ‘qualified’ health insurance [meaning] Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel and the like, will have the power to decide who gets what medical care. …Any attempt to rename or rebrand the public option as a ‘co-op’ or something other than government-run is [just a sneaky way] to lessen grassroots opposition.”
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Eagle Forum Urgent Alert

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Eagle Forum Urges Grassroots Not to Fall
for Co-Op Compromise

Washington, D.C. — Eagle Forum, a conservative public policy organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, urges grassroots Americans not to fall for the Obama Administration’s recent hints that they may drop the public option from the health care bill and replace it with a “co-op compromise” that is more popular with some House Blue Dog Democrats and moderate Senate Democrats.

“Make no mistake, any Democrat health care bill will include both mandates and subsidies for ‘eligible’ or ‘qualified’ health insurance,” said Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly. “The words eligible and qualified mean that Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel and the like, will have the power to decide who gets what medical care.”
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