Healthcare Negotiations, the Definition of CORRUPTION.

What is the rush to pass healthcare legislation? Perhaps it needs to be passed before people realize what "reform" means.

We were told before the election that healthcare reform was needed in order to reduce cost. Don't you think a 40% tax increases the cost of healthcare insurance? Sure does, by 40%.

If medicare spending is reduced by $500 Billion and healthcare providers do not get enough from medicare to cover their cost, they will have to raise the price of service to everyone else. Healthcare costs will increase or else doctors and hospitals will go out of business. Not only that, but the effect will be magnified since "reform" promises to add millions more to medicare. So "healthcare reform" will greatly increase the cost of medical care for people who are not on medicare.


I read that negotiations took place this week between the President, Democrats and labor union leaders behind closed doors.

Why the secrecy? I can guess.

The White House announced a "deal" that exempts public union members from paying taxes on their health insurance. They probably don't even have to pay for their own insurance premiums. They are paid with taxpayer money.

The rest of the American people have to pay a new tax on healthcare premiums up to 40%.

The "labor union leaders" are not members of Congress. They cannot vote for or against the bill. They are lobbyists for a small group of people.

Why is it so important to get the "endorsement" of "union leaders?"

Why don't union members have to obey the same laws as everyone else?

Why don't members of Congress have to get the same health insurance, and follow the same rules as everyone else?

Here is what I call it: CORRUPTION.

The unions take money from members and use it to make campaign contributions. In turn, the politicians receiving campaign contributions spend taxpayer money that goes to public employees.

Not only that, the union members get special treatment under the law, such as being exempt from taxes on health insurance. Thanks to campaigning by the unions, union members vote for the politicians who provide all the largess.

It sounds like a win-win situation, but only for the unions and the politicians. The taxpayers who are paying for this are the losers.

What are they going to do when they run out of our money, carry a debt? You betcha!

It's a conflict of interest.

CORRUPTION.

Stay healthy. Comments are welcome.

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101 Freedoms and Rights the Progressive Left Doesn’t Want You to Have

Here's the first 50... see the original post (link at end) for the rest.

101 Freedoms and Rights the Progressive Left Doesn’t Want You to Have

This was inspired by an exchange on Moonbattery, although for quite a long time I’ve been thinking about this. Left-wing progressives seem to care only about the “freedom” to do whatever they want to whoever they want in the bedroom. Once you step outside the bedroom, most every aspect of your life should be subject to the iron hand of the progressive state:

1. The Freedom to keep what you earn and spend it as you please.
2. The Freedom to take risks, and live with the consequences.
3. The Right to participate in the political process by donating money to causes you support (like Proposition 8 in California) without being harassed by radicals
4. The Freedom to work in a shop without belonging to a union.
5. The Freedom to use a secret ballot when voting to unionize.
6. The Freedom to express conservative opinions on talk radio.
7. The Freedom to express conservative opinions as an invited speaker on a college campus.
8. The Freedom to express conservative opinion on the internet.
9. The Freedom to debate whether disparities in achievement among races and sexes is a product of genetics.
10. The Freedom to question whether Global Warming is really happening.
11. The Freedom to earn a market salary in the Financial Services industry.
12. The Freedom not to be pressed into involuntary service to the state.
13. The Freedom to purchase and drive an SUV or any other vehicle you choose.
14. The Freedom to own a pickup truck.
15. The Freedom to wear fur, leather, or other material made of a formerly living creature.
16. The Freedom to hire whoever you want to work for you.
17. The Freedom to fire an employee for any reason, or for no reason at all.
18. The Freedom to rent a property you own to the person or persons of your choice.
19. The Freedom to use your own property in whatever way that you may choose.
20. The Freedom to earn a living by logging, ranching, fishing, or any other activity they don’t approve of.
21. The Freedom to take risks with your own investments.
22. The Freedom to keep the profits of your investments.
23. The Freedom to join with others to criticize a politician within 30 days of an election.
24. The Right to own a firearm.
25. The Right to own a firearm arbitrarily designated as an “assault weapon.”
26. The Right to use a firearm in defense of your home and loved ones.
27. The Right to carry a firearm in public for your own defense.
28. The Right to purchase ammunition for your firearm.
29. The Freedom to discuss a military career with a recruiter at a public school or university, as well as the right to participate in ROTC.
30. The Freedom to eat food made with transfats.
31. The Freedom to smoke tobacco (but not marijuana, explain that to me.)
32. The Freedom of a business to decide for itself whether it wants to be smoke-free.
33. The Freedom for adults between the ages of 18 to 21 to consume alcoholic beverages
34. The Freedom to purchase health care in a free market.
35. The Freedom to publicly celebrate a Christian holiday.
36. The Freedom to lead others of your faith in voluntary public prayer.
37. The Freedom to hold a Bible study group in a public school.
38. The Freedom to discuss the relationship between terrorism and Islam.
39. The Freedom to choose a school for your child.
40. The Freedom to homeschool your child.
41. The Freedom for your home-schooled child to use public school facilities paid for with your tax dollars.
42. The Freedom for male athletes to compete in any sport they want, even if it means there are more male athletes than female athletes within a school system.
43. The Freedom for private schools to compete on an equal footing with public schools.
44. The Freedom to fire an incompetent public school teacher.
45. The Right not to have your legitimate vote canceled out by a fraudulent ACORN voter.
46. The Freedom not to have your property confiscated by the state and given to another entity for higher tax revenue.
47. The Freedom to develop domestic sources of energy.
48. The Freedom to use coal-powered electricity.
49. The Freedom to use nuclear-powered electricty.
50. The Freedom to set your thermostat at whatever temperature makes you comfortable.

Great post.

101 Freedoms and Rights the Progressive Left Doesn’t Want You to Have

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