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August 26, 2019, may go down as a day in infamy when the courts allowed a frivolous lawsuit to squeeze through the bench on its way to attack the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. This has been a long-standing battle for the right to “keep and bear arms” as written and so vehemently defended by our Founding Fathers. The Honorable Judge Thad Balkman of the Cleveland County District Court just sent a volley of serious attacks against our freedoms that will forever change history.

Background

The Cleveland County District Court was destined to hear the case on Oklahoma’s opioid crisis, between the Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter (R) and the Conglomerate Johnson’s & Johnson’s subsidiary Jenssen. This has been a long-running trial now for over two years. Evidence was heard on both sides, documents, and witnesses from parents and partners of deceased opioid users.

After some intense deliberation, the Honorable Judge Thad Balkman handed down a verdict citing that the Defendants’ “actions caused harm” (1) “because those actions annoyed, injured or endangered the comfort, repose, health or safety of Oklahomans” (1). He ruled that the “drugmaker Johnson & Johnson helped ignite the state’s opioid crisis” (2). The judge then ordered $572 million to be paid by the Defendants, stating from the bench, “The opioid crisis has ravaged the state of Oklahoma and must be abated immediately” (1).

From the Trial

Before the trial was even set, the Oklahoma Attorney General asked the manufacturer to pay huge sums of money to settle the case outside of court. This is customary for many cases, as 97% of all civil cases settle before trial. The Oklahoma Attorney General asked for a sum of $17.5 billion in his lawsuit, far greater than a reasonable settlement. In mediation, this tactic is called the extortion offer.

I, for one, was watching most of the trial unfold, and am alarmed at how this verdict was reached. Witnesses were crying and sobbing as they remembered their loved ones slipping away or recounting how their loved one “didn’t want to die.” Playing on every channel during the trial were commercials touting these same losses and heartbreaks. This is sad and extremely painful to watch, but even more so for those that live through this catastrophe.  

But is it Johnson & Johnson’s fault?

One individual recounted how their adult child started using pain killers (opioids) and continued even after they recovered. Another described how their loved one couldn’t get the opioids from the prescribing physician, so they resorted to stealing prescriptions and buying prescription medications illegally.

Every day, the trial showcased people who have suffered from the opioid epidemic, while also railing against the carelessness of Johnson & Johnson to allow people to become addicted to opioids.

One such commercial told a story of how their son started taking opioids after an injury and then continued to take the opioids afterward to get “high.” They go on further to say their son “didn’t want to die.”

Reality Check

How did the Honorable Judge Thad Balkman conclude that Johnson & Johnson was at fault for people unlawfully obtaining prescription medications and subsequently overdosing on them? Where was the prescribing physician? Was the physician still prescribing the opioid to the patients?

Where is the connection that led the Honorable Judge Thad Balkman to realize that Johnson & Johnson or its subsidiary Jenssen were in some manner giving out or prescribing a class 2 pharmaceutical?

When did a person “knowingly” allow their son to continue taking a high potent prescription medication to get “high” become the standard to penalize the manufacturer? This comes down to personal responsibility. If you eat MacDonald’s every day while not exercising, is it MacDonald’s fault for your potential health problems?

I have grave concerns that a Republican Attorney General and a Republican District Judge were moved by emotions rather than facts. Even if the manufacturer did not admit to the total addictiveness of the pharmaceutical, the facts do not link the manufacturer to the distribution, nor does they link the manufacturer to the prescription.

Opioids must be prescribed by an attending physician who is licensed and trained for years on the addictive nature of opioids. The medications can only be obtained by a prescription taken to a pharmacy to be dispensed. There have been more restrictive laws and double-checks in place for years to prevent unethical physicians from prescribing opioids. Removal of licensure, lawsuits and prison sentences have been handed down for medical physicians improperly prescribing high-level narcotics. Have we forgotten the Michael Jackson case?

Neither the unlawful purchase of someone else’s medication, the theft of another person’s prescription, nor the theft of personal property to sell or barter to obtain a class 2 pharmaceutical narcotic constitute a manufacturer’s liability to warn about addictiveness. It also doesn’t point to the manufacturer helping “ignite the state’s opioid crisis” (2).

The standard as stated by the Honorable Judge Thad Balkman, “actions annoyed, injured or endangered the comfort, repose, health or safety of Oklahoman’s” (1) is quite a slippery slope.

You can claim: the cashier was rude and this “annoyed” me — sue the produce manufacturer, the tire blowing out from a passing car “endangered my comfort” — sue the automotive manufacturer, or the steel manufacturer uses to produce the automotive, the smoke blown outside the door harmed my “health and safety” — smoke was from a jet flying above — sue the jet fuel manufacturer, and the alarm clock disturbed my “repose” — sue the plastics manufacturer who supplied the alarm clock housing.

The standard is too vague and broad, creating an umbrella law to attack anyone for anything, regardless of their connection to the “action.”

Our Court System

Our courts are made up of laws passed by the legislature for the betterment of society. They are made to uphold our Constitutions, both state and federal. The most noted of all laws are not cited; they are bench laws or precedent. Precedent is when a judge makes a ruling on a case.

These are our most dangerous and harmful laws we have in the country and why we are in such grave danger now. When a judge sets a precedent, every case coming afterward seeks to hold by that ruling. Once lawyers find a favorable precedent, they can appeal to the former judge’s findings and how they ruled. Now, that judge can choose to ignore the previous litigation, which will end up in an appeal for not following precedent; affirm the precedent and award in line with the former judge, which most commonly happens; or overrule the former judge’s ruling, creating the opportunity for further appeals to the superior court.

This is not easy as most litigants, present case excluded, do not have the tens for thousands of dollars to fight a case to the superior courts or all the way to the United States Supreme Court. People accept the ruling by precedent and are forced into servitude or bankruptcy.

A History of Fruitless Attacks on the American Constitution

Everyone remembers the MacDonald’s case where the person was burned with a scorching cup of coffee. What people do not understand is the case was not about hot coffee but under-insulated cups and improper lids when handing out 120-degree beverages. All we remember is a person was burned by coffee, and they were awarded a huge sum of money. This case has been cited as precedent in many later cases to justify penalizing companies for actions that may or may not truly be the Defendant’s fault.

This same burger giant was targeted again years later for “making people fat.” This spawned videos and antics where healthy people who worked out daily, ran marathons, and ate a moderate green diet went on an eating binge to consume thousands of calories more than usual. This led to ignorant findings that were touted to prove that the fast-food chain was knowingly harming the citizens.

We have all heard of the attacks on the auto manufactures for a half-century. When the vehicle is made improperly or defectively, the manufacturer absolutely bears responsibility. When the manufacturer knows of a defect and chooses to ignore the danger, the manufacturer is certainly liable. But it has been ruled many times that the automobile manufacturer does not bear guilt for driver error and weather conditions that exceed the manufacturer’s intended purpose. This case now opens the door for lawsuits against automobile manufacturers when someone drives 200 miles on the doughnut spare, and it blows out.

Everyone remembers the lawsuit to sue the ammunition manufactures for causing death because someone was shot and killed by a bullet built for “one purpose, to kill.” Well folks, all bullets are made to kill, not just some.

Now, certain groups are looking to sue the gun manufactures for someone deciding to commit a deadly act with a firearm. It wasn’t until later we found out the weapon was, in fact, illegally obtained by a person and then was used in an illegal act. I do believe this case was dropped due to lack of, you guessed it, precedent.

How this Affects Our Freedom and Second Amendment

There has been an attempt to hold gun manufacturers liable for mass murders and open the door for Red Flag gun laws for decades. Until now, they have not had a precedent for the extermination of our Second Amendment rights. This precedent has far surpassed the previously discussed attempts from the left to seize and prosecute law-abiding American manufacturers for acts outside of their control.

This dangerous precedent places an independent fifth-party manufacturer as liable for the actions, whether legal or illegal, of people whom the manufacturer has zero control over. Further, the manufacturer has no oversight, supervisory control, prescribing directive, or ability to consult before a prescription for the manufacture’s product is dispensed. Not only this, but there are a second-party intermediary (physician) and a third-party intermediary (pharmacist) who prescribe and procure the product for the user under the direction of established fourth-party healthcare regulatory bodies which lie outside the direction, control, supervision or oversight of the manufacturer.

With this awful tragedy of justice, anyone injured or killed from a firearm, whether that be an accident, suicide, or murder, now has precedent for claiming the manufacturer, not the actor nor seller nor distributor, was at fault for the injury or death, whether or not the firearm was obtained lawfully or illegally nor was the obtainer of the gun legally allowed under law to be in possession of a deadly weapon. This puts in place the direct link to attack the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and our God-given right to keep and bear arms by extortion or trial.

Once someone is killed or injured, the prosecutor or litigating plaintiff will try to settle for millions or even billions of dollars from the manufacturer. This will be touted; “you see what happened to Johnson & Johnson.” This extortion is used in mediation cases every day as a bargaining chip.

 It’s a “do as I say or else” threat that has teeth when there is precedent. Once the Honorable Judge Thad Balkman’s gavel cracked, people started lining up to extort funds from all types of manufacturers. It is said there are 30 other states’ attorneys general waiting for the ruling on the Oklahoma opioid case. They now have precedent for extortion of millions of dollars or retry Oklahoma’s Attorney General Mike Hunter’s extortion of $17.5 billion. 

If extortion does not work, the legal team goes to work to set in place the precedent that “because those actions annoyed, injured or endangered the comfort, repose, health or safety” (1). This is a slippery slope that has devastating implications. You can now, theoretically, sue or extort money from an electric company because they manufactured the electricity that burned your hand off while you were stealing copper from a city transformer during a rainstorm.

We will see a surge in attacks to extort money from anyone and everyone in mediation and settlement conferences dealing with manufacturers from this date forward. Once they can attach a claim to the manufacturer for the production of a product, then they will have legal right to further restrict the purchase, use, access and carry of all weapons as a dangerous and harmful manufacturer is at fault for manufacturing (drugs, guns, ammo, cars, gasoline, etc.).

There have already been attacks on our gun manufacturers, especially Armalite, the manufacturer of the AR-style rifle. These attacks have waned even to get started because there was no precedent of a removed party manufacturer liability for the use or misuse of a product by an actor who obtained a firearm, whether legally or illegally, and acted with this firearm outside the manufacturer’s guidelines, but that has changed to society product. Once someone is injured or killed in a shooting, it will be open season. If you can claim the manufacturer was a fault for building the product, you can theoretically claim the school was at fault for being the place of the attack, the police were at fault for not stopping it, the parents were at fault for sending their children to school and the bus driver was liable because he transported the student with a weapon. These are all removed party unrelated uninvolved actors.

Conclusion

The first attack on our society, if this ruling is not quickly eviscerated, is the gun and ammunition manufacturers. They will extort billions for suicides to mass shootings touting this precedent. These cases are “bad law” and should not be upheld by the superior courts. This precedent has such a range of implications that we will see frivolous lawsuits and extorted mediation settlements for decades ranging into the billions on removed party product manufacturers whom will have no choice but to shut down due to liability or charge astronomical prices.

Our rights as citizens of the United States, especially here in Oklahoma, just took a back seat as we can no longer pursue happiness as entrepreneurs. We will forever be looking over our shoulder to see if the candle we made and sold to a distributor, who sold the candle to Walmart, bought by a person in another state, was left burning in a window with drapes when everyone left for ice cream and the wind blew the drapes over the flame and the stray cat under the porch died. This is the dangerous precedent that was set today in infamy.

(1)https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/johnson-and-johnson-is-responsible-for-fueling-oklahomas-opioid-crisis-judge-rules-in-landmark-case/2019/08/26/ed7bc6dc-c7fe-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html?noredirect=on

(2) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/26/754481268/judge-in-opioid-trial-rules-johnson-johnson-must-pay-oklahoma-572-million

(3)https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/26/health/oklahoma-opioid-judge-thad-balkman-profile/index.html 

(4)https://apple.news/AJ2adPgN0TRy6tOOlVEk8QQ

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June 24, 2017

By Oscar Y. Harward

This time around, Washington, DC HealthCare legislation is for the Republican Party to repeal and replace ObamaCare as promised in previous elections.  Enact a new family based HealthCare policy.

President Trump should insist GOP leaders to especially allow Capitol Hill Conservative Republicans, to have political input on a new HealthCare plan.  This HealthCare presentation is the equivalent of a national ‘Republican Primary’ election.

A national TV ‘PRIMETIME’ debate with Sen. Ted Cruz’s HealthCare plan v. the Senate and House versions of our Moderate Capito Hill GOP leaders should be debated.  Americans and specifically Conservative Republicans deserve to be allowed to see these plans.

Moderate Capitol Hill Republican Party leaders should not refuse Sen. Ted Cruz’s ‘Repeal and Replace’ of ObamaCare?  Why should or would a few leaders’ members of the Capitol Hill GOP disallow Conservative GOP leaders to participate in legislation of ‘Repeal and Replace’ of ObamaCare as promised to ‘We the People’?

President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan should offer a national TV ‘debate’ in ‘PRIMETIME’.  Allow Americans, and especially Conservative Republicans, to have input.  This new legislation may represent a ‘shining star’ for the GOP for generations to come.

A few Capitol Hill GOP Moderate leaders should not be making all decisions, behind closed doors, as to who may participate, and what will be allowed to vote on the floor of the Senate and House.

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Oh, I am totally with you!

Listen, to me! First of all I am totally with you. My money-order should reach you by the fifth of June. Second, I think I have a solution; first, we need to attack them where they attack us. Rush Limbaugh, has it right. We need to attack them in the media, we need to buy up every bit of radio airtime, every bit of television air-time, every internet advertising, we can get. Then, show the people the truth about what is really going on. Fill the air waves with our commercials, and the truth. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, oh Rush especially! They " philosophical", hate Rush. I realize that sometimes I say things that are kind-of out there. You should all understand that I'm trying to interpret my instructions as best as I can. Healthcare, the economy, border security, the thing is all these things are connected. You all just don't see it. Seen. Cruz, I was an only Ted Cruz for president. I said it before and I will say it again; if he needs money, time, or someone to watch his back, he has it. Here is what I can tell you now. I need you all to stop murdering, my crew. What? Yes, I am designing and engineering a space ship, the thing is it requires a crew of about twenty-five or thirty thousand to fly it. The good news is when all the testing is complete, it will take eight minutes for us to get to mars.Yes, we must repeal Obammacare, I am hoping for something with primary care provider, healthcare saving accounts, and co-op. Here is how, you and I, standing by while infants are murdered; is connected to the whole. I figure its going to take me about twenty-eight years to work it all out. Now by then we will be too old to go to mars. Obamacare supports planned parenthood. If we continue to murder babies; who will fly my ship. In twenty-eight years, those babies will be the right age to go to mars. I have tried to get various senators and representives, to get onboard and all get their together. Noo! They are not interested. So, one more time, repeal Obamacare, repeal, repeal, repeal! I hope the TEA party will mount a media-blitz to at least on the table.Yes, I am with you; I may have different reasons; but we are all pushing the same way. You may have a different approach; but, I think we should attack them on their field of choice. Then, hit hard, with the truth.
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The time is here!

People, we have won a battle; but the war rages on. Which war are you speaking of; you may ask. The war between conservatism and liberalism. We have gotten a president, who, by his actions, has convinced me, he has had an Epiphany. We still have establishment republicans, and rinos; that we have got to work out of the system. It is up to you to go where I can not. I need you to take over the republican party. They hate me; figuratively speaking. They will never let me in, and I'm glad. I know the leaders of this, this TEA party, are the best, bar-none, the best and the brightest out there. I would like to see in every election, at least three times as many TEA party candidates as any other. We must take the system over; why? President Trump is a great man. He is only one man, he is going to need our help to drain the swamp. We need to give him, a TEA party health-care proposal. We need a TEA party, tax reform package. Nazi Germany, happened; because, good men stood by and did nothing. Freedom is not free. We need action, and I mean now. People, I am begging you, wake-up. The TEA party should reach-out to the president, to see if their any position, our people can fill.Thanks for listening
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Just perused Sanford's HR 1072 and Rand Paul's S 222.

Almost identical bills in House and Senate, they totally repeal Obamacare.

They introduce:
HSA Health Savings Accounts

Small business associations for the purpose of obtaining healthcare group rates

Medicaid would be administered by the states

Some amendments should be added at last minute for women's issues like the Ryan plan

Freedom Caucus, the Republican conservative group who didn't like Ryan's bill, likes these. If Ryan's ego doesn't interfere, they are better plans. SPEAKER RYAN MUST IMMEDIATELY SCHEDULE THESE BILLS FOR VOTE. IF HE DOESN'T, THEN TRUMP HAS GIVEN HIM ENOUGH ROPE TO HANG HIMSELF.


Didn't see anything about defunding Planned Parenthood but Diane Black's HR 354 with 139 co-sponsors still has to be voted on.

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4064276155?profile=originalThe Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare will go down in history as one of the most poorly designed and miserably failed U.S. social policies ever created. It was passed entirely and unconstitutionally by Democrats by a continuing resolution. Like Social Security it was designed to buy the votes of a poor, ill-informed constituency.  Democrats robbed over half a trillion dollars from Medicaid to finance their sponsors in the insurance industry while expanding the number of employees to run their newly created bureaucracy.  Americans were shamed by Obama and his leftist handlers by spewing data from the one world Euro socialists at W.H.O., rating the U.S. Healthcare System 37th in the world.  Unfortunately they left out the fact that we were also rated just two steps above Cuba with France, Greece, Italy and other collapsing socialist countries rated in the top ten. Democrats and their media lapdogs were telling Americans in 2009 that U.S. healthcare was the worst in the world while liberal Economists, leftist politicians, insurers and academics were screaming for nanny state government control of U.S. health care.  Obama told us that 50 million Americans were suffering because they did not have health insurance.  What he forgot to tell us was that 8 million of those sampled were not even U.S. citizens. He also forgot to mention that another 20 million of those interviewed had incomes greater than $50,000 per year and could afford to pay for insurance. Also, another 4 million Americans who did not have health insurance were either legally disabled or 65 years old or greater and qualified for Medicare or Medicaid.  Do the math and you will find that there were actually only 18 million Americans who either could not afford Health Insurance or for some other reason chose not to purchase it in 2009.

4064276176?profile=originalThe 2011 Annual Social and Economic Supplement from the census said that 4 million non-American citizens had received government funded healthcare. Yes, with three quarters of them on Medicaid. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform the federal government spent almost $6 billion on medical care for illegal aliens in 2011. If you read a little further you will find that the states by themselves spent over $10.8 billion on healthcare for illegal aliens during that same time.  A total of $16.8 billion was spent on healthcare for non-Americans. So the federal government and states paid the equivalent of $1732 annually per illegal alien in medical costs.

According to the government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report National Health Expenditures, by Sponsor: 2009, our federal, state and local governments spent $1.08 trillion on healthcare and that does not include the $1.4 trillion dollars spent by private businesses and households.  So let’s say that approximately that $2.5 trillion was spent by government and the private sector on Healthcare for Americans in 2009. Divide that number by 305 million Americans at that time and you have almost $8200 per American spent annually on healthcare in the U.S. And that does not even include the $843 billion from donors and grants given to Hospital Charities that year according to the Internal Revenue.

Am I missing something? Where is all this money going?  The facts are that the U.S. has one of the greatest health care systems in the world. According to the NCPA (National Center for Policy Analysis) there are ten reasons why Healthcare in the U.S. is the best in the world.  

 4064276254?profile=originalFact No. 1:  Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.  Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom.  Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the U.K. and 457 percent higher in Norway.  The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

Fact No. 2:  Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.  Breast cancer mortality is 9 percent higher, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher and colon cancer mortality among men is about 10 percent higher than in the United States.

Fact No. 3:  Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit are taking statins, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease.  By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

Fact No. 4:  Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.  Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate and colon cancer:

•Nine of 10 middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to less than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).

•Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a pap smear, compared to less than 90 percent of Canadians.

•More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a PSA test, compared to less than 1 in 6 Canadians (16 percent).

•Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with less than 1 in 20 Canadians (5 percent).

Fact No. 5:  Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.  Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report "excellent" health compared to Canadian seniors (11.7 percent versus 5.8 percent).  Conversely, white Canadian young adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower income Americans to describe their health as "fair or poor."

Fact No. 6:  Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K.  Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long - sometimes more than a year - to see a specialist, to have elective surgery like hip replacements or to get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In England, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.

Fact No. 7:  People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.   More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British adults say their health system needs either "fundamental change" or "complete rebuilding."

Fact No. 8:  Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.  When asked about their own health care instead of the "health care system," more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared to only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).

Fact No. 9:  Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K.  Maligned as a waste by economists and policymakers naïve to actual medical practice, an overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identified computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade. The United States has 34 CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12 in Canada and eight in Britain.  The United States has nearly 27 MRI machines per million compared to about 6 per million in Canada and Britain.

Fact No. 10:  Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other single developed country. Since the mid-1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to American residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. 

Let’s face it the GOP now has a chance to make things right. They need to take the time to make health insurance more affordable to all Americans without excessive government intervention and the reduction of quality and accessibility to services. It’s time to allow health insurance companies to compete across state lines while allowing Doctors to do their jobs more effectively without the worry of malpractice lawsuits and high cost premiums.  It’s time to allow the pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies to bring their products to market more rapidly and at less cost.  Only then will we all be able to say truly that access to the best Healthcare in the world is a right guaranteed to all Americans.  

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By Oscar Y. Harward

 

It is time for Capitol Hill legislators to introduce and pass legislation merging our Veterans Administration HealthCare into our ‘private sector’ HealthCare system; allowing Veterans to select their HealthCare by choice with the VA or any other ‘Medicare approved’ HealthCare system.

 

Many Veterans are receiving excellent service from the VA while other Veterans are being delayed, rejected, etc.; failing to receive their promised and earned HealthCare.  Veterans are falling through the cracks; even dying for lack of needed, adequate, and expedited HealthCare.  Each loss is disgraceful.

 

Merging HealthCare may be as simple as combining Veterans’ records, and/or their dependents, and issue a Veteran’s ID card merged into the Medicare card system; including and/or excluding limitations as applicable.

 

Whenever Veterans and their dependent(s) suffer mistreatment(s) by the VA, it tears my heart to see so many Veterans within the VA bureaucracy who treat their fellow Veterans as if the patients are old wrecked cars; with little desire for making repairs.

 

I know because I have and am currently there; also mistreated by the VA.

 

We owe our Veterans the best.  When our men and women accept an assignment, he and/or she are offering to give their lives in protecting our USA, our Constitution, and our American flag.

 

Let’s give back; at least the timely, earned, decent, and promised HealthCare, etc. to our Veterans and their dependents.

 

Merging Veterans HealthCare into the ‘private sector’ will give the Veterans and their dependents an opportunity to make a choice for their own preferred HealthCare.

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4063939387?profile=original      It doesn't matter if your a Man, Women, Adult, Teen, Child, Straight, Gay, Bi, Black, White, Brown, Pink, Yellow, Purple, Spanish, American, Indian, Mexican, European,Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, Baptist, Atheist, Republican, Democrat, or Independent. We all have Constitutional Law to Protect our Rights and for the Man or Women to head this Country and break the Laws of our Constitution is a Total reason for Impeachment. How can a President and his Cabinet break the Laws of the United States of America and Americans just standby and watch it happen and feel it's okay ? We the People can make a difference on what Americans died for to keep us Constitutionally Free and put the Law Breakers behind Bars where Law Breakers belong. Impeach Obama and his Cabinet of Law Breakers. Lets take our Country BACK for all the People !

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obamacare

More than one million Americans may be receiving the wrong Obamacare subsidies and the government has not been able to solve the issue yet — meaning people who inadvertently got too much money could face crippling tax bills in upcoming years.

According to internal documents and people familiar with the situation, Americans who listed incomes on their insurance applications that differ significantly with what is on file with the Internal Revenue Service are likely receiving too much money, reports The Washington Post.


"I have this sick feeling that there are these people out there who have made unintentional errors, and in a few years will be subject to massive tax bills,” said Jessica Waltman, senior vice president for government affairs at the National Association of Health Underwriters, a lobbying group for health insurance brokers.

Normally, customers are notified if there is a problem with their applications and told to upload or mail in their proof of income. But only a few have done that, say IRS documents, and even for those who have, the federal computer system for the marketplace isn't able to match the proof with the application because the capability to do that hasn't been built.

The unprocessed documents are being stored at federal contractor Serco's Kentucky office as the improper subsidies keep being paid, and under current rules, people who get the subsidies will be required to return the extra money next year.

Federal health officials and Serco, facing pressure from the White House, are starting this weekend to resolve the inconsistencies. Serco, however, is facing its own issues, with dozens of workers complaining this past week that they're sitting idle,  playing games, or looking busy punching a computer button every 10 minutes because they're not being given enough work to fill their days.

The subsidy issue is one of the computer problems that have been going on since the Obamacare marketplace website, HealthCare.gov, floundered when it was launched last October. 

And although contractors have corrected many of the problems that made it difficult for Americans to choose a health plan, many parts of the website are still defective or not finished.  

Since the operational system isn't complete, it is impossible for federal officials to know how many of the 8 million people who have signed up for healthcare coverage have paid their premiums, or how many enrollments were attempted but never completed.

Members of the Obama administration, however, promised congressional Republicans last year that an income-verification system would be in place.

Since the computer system isn't capable of doing the income comparisons, Serco workers will have to do the work by hand. But at first, sources told The Post, the work will focus on the approximately one million cases in which people enrolled or tried to enroll faced questions about their citizenship status.

Immigration documents, like the income information, are also caught in the backlog, meaning that sorting out the income issue and the improper subsidies will not start until summer, likely causing recipients to receive even higher tax repayment bills next year.

Read more at:  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/subsidy-overpay-tax-bill/2014/05/17/id/571897#ixzz324c6j2nQ 

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Quick Rant: Obamacare a shysters dream con.

In all of Obama's speeches prior to becoming president, he told the world, that he believed in redistribution of wealth. He went on all the talk shows and said it, time after time. When he realized that Americans weren't to keen on the idea of taking from one person to give to another, he changed his tone.He began to target the rich, and say they need to, "pay their fare share". So no more outwardly saying "redistribution" but instead, he created class warfare.Many Americans initially fell for this rhetoric, but soon began to realize, that the so called "rich" oBama targeted, was the middle class. Yes, it was the middle class that would ultimately suffer from the dreaded "pay your fair share" scheme. No way would oBama target his rich friends, who controlled the most powerful unions or his friends on wall street and in congress. The "pay your fare share" scheme, lost steam, so it was time for a new con. Obamacare!!Obamacare has little to do with healthcare. It is a redistribution of wealth scam. Think about it, it forces, every American to purchase insurance. Now if you can not afford the insurance, don't worry, your neighbor will pay for you. If you make the minimum amount of money to buy your own insurance, that's great, even though you may have to miss a few meals or go cold during the winter. But as long as you make those monthly payments for something you can't afford or don't want, you will be safe.If your a small business, you better offer insurance to your employees, and by the way, it has to be comparable to what your employees would get if they were on Obamacare. So what if you can't afford it, and it may put you out of business. Hell maybe you should not have been in business in the first place. One more thing, if you don't provide your employees with compatible insurance, the government will fine you $2000 per employee, oops, did I say fine? I meant to say tax.Wait, that doesn't seem fair. What happen to targeting the rich? What about Wall Street, the powerful unions and the government? Oh that's right they're exempt.As I stated above, Obamacare has little to do with healthcare, and more to do with redistribution of wealth. It was never meant to work. It was created to drive cost up for the middle class(working class), but will not stop there. It is just the first step toward a single payer health care system.
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http://reframingresources.com/category/hhs-employee-directory-site-and-direct-emails/

  • Educating/Connecting with new mothers/even grandmothers that need resources or place to turn to when facing the charge of preparing/caring for a special needs blessing child and maybe also sandwiched with the responsibility of primary care giver to a parent.
  • Health Literacy %%%%%%There is plenty I can work with here.

  I will do it in the way of a newsletter and website.  I want to be a success so my date to launch is set for 1/1/2014.

Here is the web page address to the employee directory of Health and Human Services.  This includes the CDC, NIH, SAMSA, FDA, Institutes of Health and all the rest.  It took me a long time to find this.  I cannot reconstruct the path.  I am quite sure it was an accident that I stumbled across it.  

Directory of Health and Human Services 

http://directory.psc.gov/employee.htm  

         Here is a trick. When you are trying to track down an employee put only 3 or 4 letters of the first name and last name.  You may have to play around with it a little but I promise you can find the email address and more. 

Power that is brokered by the agencies through rules and regulations is staggering.  Change is never fast because of all the firewalls, roadblocks and hiding that go on.  Part of my mission is to break this process down.  Call it an informational enzymatic digestive action working on cyberspace at trans-dimensional warp speed and Scottie in heaven is working on the engines to help us in the endeavor.   So pass it on and let’s take back what so many, including my father, brothers and more have fought to preserve in the form of freedom; even those that are warped with no sense of duty, respect, courtesy or moral aptitude have a right to it.

Use it when lobbying for healthcare change.  I promise the regulations they enact under the power given to them by the government is tremendous.  You have no idea how thankful I am to my parents right now and over the last four and a half years.

This will be long but I have already looked these up.  I am not going to do anything until after the election with respect to some personal issues I want to work on due to the fact that I am lazy and don’t want to do the same thing twice.

Head of Health Human: email – Kathleen.Sebelius@hhs.gov   Sibelius, Kathleen Agency OS Organization HHS/OS/IOS Job title Secretary HHS Room 120F Duty station Washington District of Columbia – Mail stop 200 Independence Ave. SW.

Asst sec HHS Howard K. Koh, M.D., M.P.H. Phone: (202) 690-7694 email Howard.Koh@hhs.gov

E.J. Holland, Jr. Assistant Sec.for Administration (ASA) Ned.Holland@hhs.gov Agency OS Organization HHS/ASA Job title ASA Rm 309F Duty station Washington District of Columbia Mail stop 200 Independence Ave SW Phone(202) 690-7431

Surgeon General -  email  Regina.Benjamin@hhs.gov  Benjamin, Regina M. Agency OS OrganizationHHS/OS/OASH/OSG Job title Surgeon General  United States Room 701-H station Washington District of Columbia Mail 200 Independence Ave SW Ph(202)401-8073

EMAIL – Jim.Esquea@hhs.gov  Esquea, Jim Agency OS Organization HHS/OS/ASL Rm 416-G station Washington District of Columbia Mail  200 Independence Ave. SW Ph(202) 690-7627

Acting Ast Sec public affairs  email  Dori.Salcido@hhs.gov  Salcido,Dori Agency OSOrganization  HHS/OS/ASPA Job Acting Assistant Secretary Public Affairs Rm 647-D Duty Washington District Columbia Mail 200 Independence Avenue SW Phone (202 690-7850

Ass. Sec. planning &evaluation email Sherry.Glied@hhs.gov  Glied,Sherry AgencyOS Organization HHS/OS/ASPE Rm 415-F station Washington District of Columbia Mail 200 Independence Ave. SW Phone (202) 690-7858

Lurie, Nicole email – Nicole.Lurie@hhs.gov AgencyOS Organization HHS/ASPR/IO Job Ass Sec Preparedness Response Rm. 6-638G station Washington District of Columbia Mail 200 Independence Ave. S.W Phone (202) 205-2882

Kelley, Alexia AgencyOS Organization OS/CFBNP Job Director Center Faith-Based Neighborhood Partner Rm747D station Washington District Columbia Mail 200 Independence Ave. S.W. Phone (202) 205-5597 Alexia.Kelley@hhs.gov

Tobias, Constance in charge of Departmental Appeals Board (DAB) of Agency OS Organization HHS/OS/IOS/DAB Job Chair Departmental Appeals Board Rm 6001 Duty Washington District Columbia Mail 800 N Capitol St. NW Phone (202)565-0200 email Constance.Tobias@hhs.gov

HHS Employee Details Head of Intergovernmental External Affairs (IEA) ad of Dioguardi, Paul AgencyOS Organization HHS/OS/IEA Job Director IEA Room 610E Duty station Washington District Columbia Mail 200 Independence Ave. SW Phone (202)690-6060 email Paul.Dioguardi@hhs.gov

HHS Employee Details National Coordinator Health Information Technology Mostashari, Farzad AgencyOS Organization HHS/OS/ONC Rm.729HstationWashington District Columbia Mail 200 Independence Ave. SW Ph202) 401-5197 email Farzad.Mostashari@hhs.gov

Head Adm. Children & Families Title is Acting Ass Sec head  hhs is sec…so all under may be assistant secretary

Murray, Ellen  Assistant Secretary Financial Resources (ASFR) ellen.murray@hhs.gov Phone: (202) 690-6396

Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Office of Medicare Hearings & Appeals (OMHA) Griswold, Nancy J. Nancy.Griswold@hhs.gov AgencyOS Organization HHS/OS/OMHA HQ Job Chief Administrative Law Judge Rm 1800-17 Duty Arlington Virginia Mail 1700 N Moore St Suite 1000  Phone (703) 235-0711

Inspector General, Office of Inspector General (OIG) Levinson, Daniel R. AgencyOIG Organization HHS/OIG/IO Job Inspector General Phone 202-619-3148

Rodriguez, Leon AgencyOS Organization HHS/OCR Job Director Office of Civil Rights Rm 5FL- 15 Duty Washington DC Mail 200 Independence Ave SW Phone(202) 619-0403 Leon.Rodriguez@hhs.gov

William.Schultz@hhs.gov Schultz, William B AgencyOS Organization HHS/OS/OGC Job Principal Deputy General Counsel Rm 7-713F Duty Washington DC Mail 200 Independence Avenue SW Phone(202)690-7741

Daulaire, Nils AgencyOS Organization HHS/OS/OGA Job Director Office of Global Health Affairs Rm 639H Duty Washington District Columbia Mail 200 Independence Ave SW Ph(202)690-6174 Fax(202)690-7127 Nils.Daulaire@hhs.gov

Head Samhsa Pam.Hyde@SAMHSA.hhs.gov Hyde, Pam AgencySAMHSA Orz HHS/SAMHSA/IOA Job Adm Rm 8-1065 Duty Rockville Maryland Mail 1 Choke Cherry Rd Phone(240)276-2000

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http://ollamok.empowernetwork.com/

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The Character of our politicians

This is likely one of the most redundant BLOGS available.

Little needs to be said about their Character....

But somebody suggested that I post questions I posed to then candidate Mark Sanford.

The questions were originally sent via email, with no reply.

Later I went to a campaign event where sANFORD was THE speaker.

I asked, in public, why I got no reply to my questions.

He said... must have slipped through the cracks.

I then asked if he would accept a written copy of my questions and provide answers to them.

He said, in public, sure.

I then handed my questions to him.

THAT was the END. I never got a reply nor did I get even a courtesy "beg-off".

I leave the rating of his Character to you.

...and you can apply your rating to others as you see fit.

Here are my questions..... were they reasonable?....

Have you been "stiffed" by your servant?.... Put some sunshine on them.

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To: M Sanford, E Busch

 Gentlemen:

 

I assume you would like me to vote for you on May 7.

In order to make an informed decision, I need to know your position on a number of issues.

 

If you would kindly help me by answering these questions and returning your reply to me either via email to my911@aol.com or via FAX to[REDACTED TO SAVE TREES], I can proceed

 

  • Do you agree that Debt/Deficit is our most important /urgent problem?
    • What do you propose to do about it?
  • Do you support the Gang of 8 Immigration bill?
    • If NO, what specifically do you disagree with; will NOT support
    • What is YOUR program?
  • Do you support Gun Control bills being pushed by Fienstein, Bloomberg, Schumer, Obama?

    • What are your intended actions?

  • Do you support Obama’s budget?
    • If NOT, what explicitly, do you support
  • Do you reject Obamacare?
    • If YES, what will you do as my Congressman to assure de-funding of Obamacare?
  • Do you reject Obama, Clinton. et al on Benghazi-Gate

    • What specifically will you do about Benghazi-Gate

  • What is your position on the FBI bumbling of the Boston Marathon Bombers
    • What will you do as my Congressman to pour Sunshine on this disastrous failure

 

There are other issues for sure, such as your “baggage”. But I am more interested in going forward.

 

Please respond by May 1,2013.

I’m looking forward to your response

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I would also suggest those NOT in favor of the Act AKA "Obamacare" go to every single you can think of and report the site as SCAM! I mean every single site that is for signing up, doing a cost analysis or talking about the WONDERFUL things this SCAM will do you in for! We need to bring the truth forward before too many get hurt really bad! I support Health reform but NOT as Socialized Medicine!

There are people from all sides of the cube that realize this is the WORST SCAM this country has seen in a VERY long long time!  We need to FLOOD these sites with protests....We have an opportunity to get our message out yet another way but we need to act FAST..  make a word doc of your verbiage then save to cut and copy so this be easy and fast for all...I suggest we blast this suggestion via your e-mail and facebook contacts too! 

We can participate in all the DC protests without leaving our homes!  ROCK AND ROLL!

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Boycott Las Vegas ?

Las Vegas, Nevada . . . America's playground and a city that promises "Whatever Happens There, Stays There."  With attractions such as these, it's no wonder why Vegas holds a special place in American's hearts, as well as their wallets . . .

Yet . . . as much as American's have earned a "well deserved getaway," they also understand that our country is undergoing a transformation to the likes and speed it has "never" experienced before . . . and sadly, not for the better.  No doubt, there's plenty of blame to go around in both the Republican and Democrat parties but there is no disputing that Harry Reid and a majority of Democrats "want total control over our country" rather than "humbling themselves" to the requests of their EMPLOYER'S . . . the American people !  This arrogant and authoritative attitude has been blatant and unyielding, revealing there is no plan to act on behalf of those they're there to serve because Harry Reid and minions know better than the American people.  Of course, the latest example of this is Mr. Reid's tirade in the Senate, unwilling to compromise on any of the issues, American's backed "post ponement" of Obamacare and last but not least, blaming The Tea Party for the gridlock and government shutdown.  All the while the Dems. have forced a government shutdown, not one scandal has been addressed, terrorist are increasing their attacks across the world but of utmost urgency, their attacks here at home !  As I write this post, the news announces that a Bosnian immigrant brought a bomb into the Jacksonville, Florida airport, to which it has been evacuated . . .

How many more attacks, shutdowns, sequestrations, scandals, etc... etc... etc...  can go unaddressed before America implodes ?  I believe we are witnessing that the "majority of Americans" don't want to wait around to find out but rather are desperately seeking immediate ways to change course - hence, boycotting the city that got Harry Reid elected ?  When voices of reason go unheard . . . THE POCKETBOOK SPEAKS VOLUMES !

Let me know your thoughts . . . for I am one who actually appreciates the input of my fellow Americans !

 

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Hobby shop chain faces backlash for stance against ObamaCare

Support Hobby Lobby. Destroy the liberal boycott. Lets do a Chick-fil-A at Hobby Lobby. Spread the word. We need a Hobby Lobby day. Lets end this nonsense once and for all. Our power greatly exceeds their power, but we must exercise it. Go forth and BUY!

By Perry Chiaramonte

Published September 20, 2012

FoxNews.com

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National arts and crafts retail chain Hobby Lobby is facing backlash after filing a lawsuit opposing the HeathCare Mandate, with the owners claiming that it goes against their Christian Values. (AP)

A Christian-owned chain of hobby shops is facing a bitter backlash after suing the Obama administration over new requirements to provide insured employees with contraceptive and abortion coverage.

Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby filed the suit Sept. 12 in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City, alleging that the ObamaCare mandate violates the religious beliefs of the company's owners. The suit followed similar suits by Catholic colleges and a Denver-based company whose owners also objected to the mandate on religious grounds. While a judge has not yet ruled on Hobby Lobby's suit, a Facebook page calling for a boycott of the company, which operates 500 stores in 41 states, has appeared online, and several other forums have featured posts urging customers to steer clear of Hobby Lobby.

“I’m boycotting Hobby Lobby!” reads the heading of one posting on image posting site Flickr. “Even if you're pro-life this kind of action stinks to high heaven! If things like this can be allowed then what's next?!,” the user added.

“They’re being told they have two choices. Either follow their faith and pay the government half-a-billion dollars or give up their beliefs."

- Lori Windham, attorney for Hobby Lobby

Others have taken to social media to protest against Hobby Lobby, with a “Boycott Hobby Lobby” page on Facebook.

“I've been to two Hobby Lobby parking lots today and they were fairly empty. I used to have trouble finding a parking spot!” read one posting from the administrator of the Boycott page. “I think the boycott is catching on! I do not think they are getting the reaction they hoped for.”

Hobby Lobby owner David Green is a devout Baptist who owns one of the world's largest collections of Biblical artifacts. The Barret Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents Green in his suit, argued that compliance with the offending portion of the health care law that the nature of their suit is “would force religiously-motivated business owners like plaintiffs to violate their faith under the threats of millions of dollars in fines.”

Lawyers argued that company employees are well aware of Green's views and their bearing on the company.

“The Green family’s business practices ... reflect their Christian faith in unmistakable and concrete ways,” the complaint states. The company employs full-time chaplains; close all store locations on Sundays and monitors all marketing and operations to make sure that it is consistent with their beliefs.

Failure to comply with the mandate could subject the company to as much as $1.3 million in daily fines, according to Barret Fund attorneys.

"They’re being told they have two choices: Either follow their faith and pay the government half a billion dollars or give up their beliefs," Lori Windham, an attorney from theBarret Fund, told Foxnews.com. "We believe that’s a choice no one should have to make.”

David Green could not be reached for comment, but in a recent USA Today Op-Ed, he blasted the Obama administration for imposing mandates he believes he cannot comply with.

“Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy," Green wrote. "Our government threatens to fine a company that’s raised wages four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business according to its beliefs. It’s not right.”

The company does not object to providing coverage that includes birth control pills, but refuses to provide or pay for two specific abortion-inducing drugs such as the so-called "morning after" pill, because Green's "most deeply held religious belief" is that life beginning at conception, the family said in a statement released through its attorneys.

As for the boycott, the company's founders believe customers have the right to vote with their feet.

"The Green family respects every individual's right to free speech and hopes that others will respect their rights also, including the right to live and do business according to their religious beliefs.," the statement said.

Hobby Lobby is believed to be the first non-Catholic company to file an objection to the healthcare mandate. The Newland family, the devoutly Catholic owners of Denver-based Hercules Industries filed a similar suit this past summer and won a court injunction that ruled that they are not obligated to follow the mandate.

“I think the law and precedent set by this case is very strong for Hobby Lobby and the Green Family,” Windham said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/20/growing-boycott-against-retail-chain-hobby-lobby-after-lawsuit-against-health/?test=latestnews#ixzz272eUxZ8N

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Kissing Obamacare Goodbye

Kissing Obamacare Goodbye

http://noisyroom.net/blog/2012/07/11/kissing-obamacare-goodbye/

By: AJ
Hat Tip: MJ

We are going to end Obamacare at the state level by using the KISS principle – Keep It Simple, Stupid, so let’s get it started!

Using simplicity and common sense, we Americans can take this into our own hands and do what we need to do to prove that Obamacare is irrelevant and unnecessary at the state level.  All we need is a simple solution, which this article provides, and one state that will pursue this by doing a little homework.

Let me start by telling you what this is NOT… this solution is not reliant on the politicians who foisted this upon us or the spineless politicians doing nothing to end it.  It is not dependent upon repeal, courts, nullification, state-wide voting, Constitutional amendments, petitions or polls.

Now let me tell you what this is… it is about picking one or more states that will do some simple homework to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Obamacare law is not applicable in their state.  If we do this, we can proactively take control of the narrative to announce that Obamacare is irrelevant because the state is already compliant.

BACKGROUND:

First, Obama and his comrades established that the fundamental basis of Obamacare is to ensure that everyone has healthcare.  They claimed that 12 to 30 million people are going without healthcare and these people have a right to it.  Has anyone challenged this with actual data that shows who these people really are?  Read on and you will find out.

Second, Obama and his comrades claim that the 12 to 30 million phantom people are our poor and disadvantaged.  This enables a powerful narrative that the media and left-wing talking heads can push onto the uninformed and ignorant 26% who support Obamacare.  Is anyone challenging this narrative with actual truth?  Not yet.  That’s why, when we convey facts and even show sections of the actual legislation to uninformed people, their bottom line response is, “Well I think everyone should have healthcare.”  Again, the false narrative wins the day, the uninformed remain ignorant and they actually believe that these phantom people who want healthcare cannot get it.

Third, the Obama narrative has now advanced to “States need to expand the Medicaid rolls” and some GOP Governors are flatly saying “No.”  What these Governors fail to see is where this narrative is going.  Medicaid is for the poor and disabled, so the spin masters are setting the stage for their next assertion; “Republicans won’t expand the Medicaid rolls because they want poor and disabled people to die.”  When are these GOP Governors going to flatly say that the poor and disabled are ALREADY covered by Medicaid?  And tell the truth that expanding the Medicaid rolls is a false narrative.

GOP Governors are playing checkers while Obama and his comrades are playing chess and are a few moves away from checkmate.  Instead of responding to Obama’s narrative and falling into his trap, do some homework and speak boldly to create a completely different narrative.  In other words, expose the truth.

SIMPLE SOLUTION:

States can take control of the narrative by defining a clear, true and concise narrative that lets people know that, from our poor to our elderly and everyone in between, all who want healthcare can already get it without Obamacare.

Can a state prove this?  Yes.  I contend that all a state needs to do is gather totals… the total number of people served by each of the categories delineated below.  Every provider, insurer and program know how many people they serve in a given state.

Get the totals, add them up and then compare that number with the total population of the state to see how many people are not receiving healthcare from any of these categories.  The number will either be zero or a very small percentage of the state population.  Then, just a little more homework will reveal that the vast majority of this small segment of the state’s population is actually young, healthy people who choose not to spend their money on it because they don’t need it, they don’t use it and they don’t want it.

Take a very close look at all these programs and healthcare-delivery vehicles (below) that have been in place without Obamacare and before Obama took the Presidency.  Look at all the people covered in these categories.  A majority of working Americans who already have healthcare plans actually have no idea that all these programs exist and, unfortunately, Obama’s lies sound believable to them when no one counters him with the truth.

  • Medicare: for everyone aged 65 and older.
  • Medicaid and/or SCHIP (e.g. CA has MediCal and Healthy Families): for everyone who is poor and disabled.
  • TRICARE: for service members, retirees and their families.
  • Veterans Administration: for Veterans.
  • Employer-based: for individuals and families covered through their employer.
  • University-based: for University/College attendees (e.g. CA has a mandatory fee that all students must pay which provides healthcare coverage whether they want it or not).
  • COBRA: for individuals and families who are in-between jobs/left their job for whatever reason.  If they are unable to find new employment and their income remains low (e.g. unemployment), they become eligible for Medicaid, Hospital/Doctor Financial Waivers, and they can go to clinics or even private providers.  One size doesn’t fit all and these people have choices.
  • Tribes: for individuals and families who are members of an Indian Tribe.
  • Clinics: for individuals and families who receive healthcare from community-based/free clinics.
  • Private Provider: for individuals and families who choose to pay for their own healthcare through private providers.
  • Religious Exemption: for individuals and families who choose to be exempt for religious reasons, which includes people such as the Amish, Muslims, Mennonites and Hutterites (because purchasing insurance violates their religious beliefs).
  • Hospital/Doctor Financial Waiver: for individuals who receive free healthcare directly from doctors/hospitals because they submitted a ‘financial hardship’ form.

Don’t forget that Obama and his comrades gave the states another category:

  • Obama/HHS Waiver: for millions of Obama’s lobbyists/special-interest friends/campaign contributors who received an Obamacare waiver directly from Obama’s HHS secretary.

After a state gathers the grand total of all the above categories and subtracts it from the state population, the state can create their own waiver in order to protect young peoples’ right to choose and once they are in this new category, everyone is accounted for in terms of healthcare and Obamacare is proven irrelevant and unnecessary because the state is already compliant.  Everyone who wants healthcare already has it.

  • *Freedom-of-Choice Waiver: this is a new category (if needed) for the majority of young people who seek to exercise their unalienable Right, as granted by our Declaration and Constitution, to choose not to spend their hard-earned money on healthcare because they do not use, want or need it while they’re young and healthy.  The Freedom-of-Choice Waiver accomplishes the exact same thing as the waiver granted at the Federal level by Obama – it exempts people who want exemption; therefore, it is completely consistent with Federal precedence.

Take control of the narrative Governors!  Do your homework!  Don’t fall into the latest trap.  Expanding Medicaid rolls is a false flag.  Our poor and disabled are already on Medicaid and, in fact, many who are not poor and can afford healthcare are on the Medicaid rolls already.  We don’t have $100 million a year in Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse by accident.  So don’t take the bait!  Medicaid rolls don’t need expanding because our poor and disabled already have Medicaid.  So get out there and spread the truth!

While we’re on the subject of going on offense and getting the truth out there, notice that Obama’s campaign rhetoric includes sound-bites that give the false impression that Obamacare will give people whatever healthcare they want – for free – and up to now, his lies remain unchallenged.

Know this… Obamacare does not address the quantity or quality of healthcare; it merely asserts that once the federal government controls our healthcare, a 15-member panel and about 159 new government agencies will decide the quantity, quality and location of treatment IF they allow you to have it.

Who is challenging Obama about the federally controlled Medicare program that, by far, denies more claims for the people it serves than any other form of healthcare coverage?  Quantity or quality is not even part of the debate when talking about Obamacare because Medicare already shows us what happens when the federal government controls healthcare.  Get out there and spread the truth about this!

Make no mistake, Obamacare does not make healthcare a “right,” it takes away our right to choose and it forces our young people to pay into a monstrous system that destroys the best healthcare system in the world, transforms citizens into serfs, creates another massive redistributive system that seizes the fruits of our labor and gives the federal government control of our finances and our lives.  As Mark Levin says, it forever changes the relationship between government and citizen.

So… which states will remain on defense and constrain their public responses to the false narratives and clichés thrown at them by Obama and his comrades?

And… which states will do their homework, gather the totals and create the media firestorm that will stop Obamacare dead in its tracks?

Which state will be the first to prove that Obamacare is irrelevant in their state because they are already compliant and everyone who wants healthcare already has it?

Which state is ready to go on offense and protect individuals and businesses in their state from Obamacare? 

Let’s get it started!  If states do their homework, take control of the narrative and spread the truth, we’ll be kissing Obamacare goodbye in short order.

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The eligibility issue is not going away if the Supreme Court refuses to deal with it!

Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On February 17, 2012:

“(Feb. 17, 2012) — 11:49 a.m. ET – The Post & Email has just learned that the U.S. Supreme Court will be conferencing today to decide whether or not to hear the case of Purpura v. Sebelius, which challenges the constitutionality of the health care bill and Obama’s eligibility to hold office.

Plaintiffs Nicholas Purpura and Donald R. Laster, Jr. call their challenge the “We the People” brief.

Purpura stated that his case is “the best one” to challenge the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in March 2010 by the 111th Congress and signed by Obama.  He had submitted a Request for Reargument to the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case on January 17, 2012.

Purpura has stated that “the reason they don’t want to take the case and why they’re most frightened is Count 6,” which claims that if Obama is not eligible to serve as President, the bill is null and void.

A prayer request was put out by Purpura, and today he stated that he is “getting calls from all over the country” in response to it.  “People are praying at the Oklahoma Air Force base; people throughout the country…they’re even praying at the Supreme Court!  They want their lawsuit heard,” he said.

A new 17-page brief with 15 pages of argument sent to the Supreme Court was dated January 27, with Purpura representing himself.  “What I told them flat-out is that you have no choice but to hear this,” Purpura told The Post & Email.  “Count 6 is the most important.”

Purpura also said that “Sotomayor and Kagan cannot hear this case” because of their conflict of interest, having been appointed to the court by Obama.

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Count 6 reads:

  • Count 6  Violation Article 2, Section 1, Paragraph 5; No Constitutional question before this Honorable Court surpasses the importance concerning this issue that must be adjudicated.  Petitioner has never stated Mr. Obama is not a citizen of the United States.  That being said, the Constitutional question exists:  is Mr. Obama a “natural born Citizen”, if not; how can he exercise the authority of the office of President?  Failure to address this Count would constitute a desertion from ones [sic] sworn fiduciary duty and betrayal of the United States Constitution.  (See Article 6, Paragraph 2).  The Court must consider during the years Mr. Obama was developing a power base and running for President Congress 8-times attempted to remove the Constitution’s requirement that a president be a “natural-born citizen,” suggesting an organized strategy…

19. Therefore, the question still exists whether Mr. Obama was eligible to sign “Act” in law, make appointments, institute regulations or hold the office of president?

Of this new development, Purpura told The Post & Email:

  • This is really important, because they’re disenfranchising the voters if they don’t hear it.  The first three pages, which are the opening statement, will tell you everything, and so will the last page.  The only count that really counts here is Count 6.  As you know, there are ballot challenges throughout the country, and what I told them flat-out is, “You have no choice but to hear this because we have a constitutional crisis.”  I’m believing, that if you read Count 6, because that’s the most important one in the whole brief, they’re sort-of trapped if they’re honest.  Kagan and Sotomayor cannot by U.S. statute participate.  So we’re in great shape in reality. But will they obey the statutes, or will they do what this administration is doing:  ignoring the law that are on the books in the United States.

Purpura then read from the third page of the brief:

  • It is incumbent upon this Court to settle the issue of ‘eligibility’ post haste to afford those in the Democrat Party an opportunity to choose an “eligible” candidate to be on the ballot in November.  To do otherwise disenfranchises all voters and continues the constitutional crisis that has been escalating since the Courts refused to address Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential campaign’s challenge.  To ignore this constitutional challenge will have devastating consequence, which this Court bears full responsibility for failing to perform its fiduciary duty pursuant to your sworn oath taken by every Member of this Court.

Source:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/02/17/breaking-u-s-supreme-court-meeting-today-on-purpura-v-sebelius/

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Obama Still Has A Lot Of Explaining To Do!-Posted on Western Journalism-By HIGHEST BRANCH-On February 18, 2012:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-still-has-a-lot-of-explaining-to-do/?utm_source=Western+Journalism&utm_campaign=d88bccf140-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email

II. Obama Ballot Challenge Filed in PA – A Nomination Petition Objection Was Filed in Commonwealth Court of PA Against Obama!-Posted on CDR Kerchner’s Blog-By CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret)-On February 17, 2012:

http://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/obama-ballot-challenge-filed-in-pa-a-nomination-petition-objection-was-filed-in-pa-against-obama/

III. SUPERIOR COURT ASKED TO BOOT OBAMA FROM BALLOT: ‘At issue is nothing less than the enforcement or loss of constitutional rule of law!’-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On February 16, 2012:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/superior-court-asked-to-boot-obama-from-ballot/

IV. Appeal of Georgia Eligibility Ruling!-Posted on Liberty Legal Foundation-By Van Irion, Founder, LIBERTY LEGAL FOUNDATION-On February 16, 2012:

http://libertylegalfoundation.org/1777/appeal-of-georgia-eligibility-ruling/

V. SHERIFF JOE SETS D-DAY ON OBAMA’S ELIGIBILITY: ‘Arpaio won’t release any of Cold-Case Posse’s conclusions in advance!’-Posted on WND.com-By Jerome R. Corsi-On February 6, 2012:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/d-day-set-for-sheriff-joe-on-obama-eligibility/

VI. OUR FRAUDULENT PRESIDENT CANNOT PASS AN E-VERIFY CHECK!-Posted on News With Views-By Frosty Wooldridge-On February 6, 2012:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty738.htm

VII. Three reasons for Kagan’s recusal!-Posted American Vision News-By Joel McDurmon-On November 19, 2011:

http://americanvisionnews.com/314/three-reasons-for-kagans-recusal

VIII. JW Releases New Kagan Emails as Obamacare Heads to Supreme Court!-Posted on Judicial Watch-By Tom Fitton-On November 18, 2011:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/weeklyupdate/2011/46-jw-causes-supreme-court-furor

IX. Health case raises recusal questions for Kagan, Thomas!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times-On November 14, 2011:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/14/court-announcement-raises-recusal-questions-kagan-/

X. Kagan Cheered ObamaCare Passage!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By By Terence P. Jeffrey-On November 10, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/kagan-tribe-day-obamacare-passed-i-hear-they-have-votes-larry-simply-amazing

Note:  The following website reveals Health Care for America Now (HCAN), which is a George Soros funded organization that was established in early 2009, and describes itself as a “national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people” who believe that “our government’s responsibility is to guarantee quality affordable health care for everyone in America and it must play a central role in regulating, financing, and providing health coverage …” Specifically, HCAN supports a “single payer” model where the federal government would be in charge of financing and administering the entire U.S. healthcare system.

HCAN’s strategy is to achieve such a system incrementally, first by implementing “the public option”—i.e., a government insurance agency to “compete” with private insurers, so that Americans will be “no longer at the mercy of the private insurance industry.” Because such a government agency would not need to show a profit in order to remain in business, and because it could tax and regulate its private competitors in whatever fashion it pleased, this “public option” would soon force private insurers out of the industry.

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean announced HCAN’s mission on the first night of the annual “America’s Future Now!” conference hosted in June 2009 by the Campaign for America’s Future, where Dean pledged to spend up to $82 million to advance the cause of socialized medicine.



Effective at mobilizing large numbers of demonstrators who share its healthcare ideals, HCAN rallied 15,000 people in Washington, DC in April 2009, another 10,000 there in June 2009, and—in collaboration with the Maine People’s Alliance—hundreds more in three Maine cities the month after that. In addition to organizing and funding local demonstrations such as these, HCAN devoted significant financial resources to such initiatives as advertising in regional and national television and print media, and to establishing a major presence in the new media world of the Internet, blogs, and text messaging.

Most of HCAN’s component organizations have no experience or expertise in health care, and virtually all have received large, tax-exempt grants from leftist billionaire financiers like George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry. The public demonstrations for health-care reform that HCAN has organized are largely Soros-financed operations. In August 2009, Soros pledged $5 million to HCAN.

The HCAN Steering Committee is composed of the following organizations: ACORN; the AFL-CIO; the AFSCME; the American Federation of Teachers; Americans United for Change; the Campaign for America’s Future; the Center for American Progress Action Fund; the Campaign for Community Change (the so-called "action center" of the Center for Community Change); the Children’s Defense Fund Action Council; the Communications Workers of America; the United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); MoveOn.org; the NAACP; the National Council of La Raza; the National Education Association; the National Women’s Law Center; the Service Employees International Union (SEIU); the United Food and Commercial Workers Union; USAction; Women’s Voices, Women’s Vote; and Working America.

Health Care for America Now (HCAN)-Posted on DiscoverThe Networks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7488

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetrated-in-american-history/

Supreme Court to Strike Down Obamacare!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/supreme-court-to-strike-down-obamacare/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/what-happened-to-free-speech/

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

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Jake

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Posted on Soros Files-By Cliff Kincaid-On January 30, 2012:

“My Catholic priest, Father Larry Swink, delivered a homily on Sunday that I told him would make headlines. In the toughest sermon I have ever heard from a pulpit, he attacked the Obama Administration as evil, even demonic, and warned of religious persecution ahead. What was also newsworthy about the sermon was that he cited The Washington Post in agreement—not on the subject of the Obama Administration being evil, but on the matter of its abridgment of the constitutional right to freedom of religion.

What is happening is extraordinary and unprecedented. The Catholic Church is in open revolt against the Obama Administration, with Fr. Swink noting from the pulpit that priests across the archdiocese were joining the call on Sunday to rally Catholics to resistance against the U.S. Government. He said we are entering a time of religious persecution and that Catholics and others will have to make a final decision about which side they are on.

The issue is what the Catholic Bishops have called a “literally unconscionable” edict by the Obama Administration demanding that sterilization, abortifacients and contraception be included in virtually all health plans.

At a time when the media are full of reports about who is ahead and behind in the polls, and who will win the next Republican presidential primary, this incredible uprising in the Catholic Church is something that could not only overshadow the political campaign season, but also may have a major impact on the ultimate outcome – if Republicans know how to handle it. This matter goes beyond partisan politics to the growing perception of an unconstitutional Obama Administration assault on religious freedom. To hear the Catholic Bishops and Priests describe it, our constitutional republic and our freedoms hang in the balance.

The administration claims there is a religious exemption in the mandate, but the bishops say it is so narrow that it fails to cover the vast majority of faith-based organizations, including Catholic hospitals, universities and service organizations that help millions every year. “Ironically,” they say, “not even Jesus & his disciples would have qualified.”

The bishops go on, “Now that the Administration has refused to recognize the Constitutional conscience rights of organizations and individuals who oppose the mandate, the bishops are now urging Catholics and others of good will to fight this unprecedented attack on conscience rights and religious liberty.”

Obama is at war with the Catholic Church:

By Cliff Kincaid

Interestingly, The Washington Post, as Father Swink indicated, agrees with the bishops. The paper said, “In this circumstance, requiring a religiously affiliated employer to spend its own money in a way that violates its religious principles does not make an adequate accommodation for those deeply held views. Having recognized the principle of a religious exemption, the administration should have expanded it.”

So why would the administration pick a major fight with the Catholic Church? There are two main reasons. (1) The administration wants to please its progressive and feminist, secular pro-abortion base. (2) The administration believes Catholics are divided on the issue and will ignore their leaders and follow Obama.

Support for the latter explanation comes in the form of the Obama Administration’s efforts to co-opt the Catholic Church, primarily through appointing nominal Catholics to high-level positions in government and keeping funding going to the church for “social justice” causes. Another player in this effort is the hedge-fund billionaire George Soros, an atheist who nevertheless has found groups that are “Catholic in name only” to accept his financial largesse. These groups, including Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, are designed to give the impression that Catholics are less concerned about issues like stopping abortion and protecting the sanctity of traditional marriage than passing government health care.  The Obama/Soros gamble may be backfiring.

It’s true that the bishops went along with Obama’s health care scheme, even lobbying on its behalf. But now they seem to be realizing that the plan was a Trojan Horse designed to force population control measures on the people of the United States. It will be difficult for the bishops to continue working with the administration on other issues, like immigration. They have drawn a line in the sand. They cannot back down.

Father Larry Swink of Jesus The Divine Word Catholic Church in Huntingtown, Maryland, is not alone in his tough language. Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik posted a letter on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh’s website that said, “It is really hard to believe that it happened. It comes like a slap in the face. The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, ‘To Hell with you!’ There is no other way to put it.” He added, “This whole process of mandating these guidelines undermines the democratic process itself.  In this instance, the mandate declares pregnancy a disease, forces a culture of contraception and abortion on society, all while completely bypassing the legislative process.”

You know it’s serious when the bishops are talking about heaven and hell.

Indeed, Fr. Swink opened his discussion of what he described as the evil nature of the Obama Administration by reading from scripture about Jesus casting out demons. He saw the order on health care coverage as the start of religious persecution. The congregation joined him in calls of “Amen” when he challenged them to stand tall with the church.

You cannot expect the secular Washington Post to go along with such rhetoric. But even its liberal editorial writer saw the ramifications of the health care order, perhaps anticipating the confrontation that we now see developing. From the point of view of this liberal paper, the Obama Administration is not only undermining religious freedom but risking a major backlash to its overall “progressive” agenda and even a second term in office.

Some may see this battle as just another church-state dust-up that will be resolved through litigation. But when apocalyptic imagery is used, such as what I heard at my church on Sunday, one must wonder if there is an awakening on the part of the Catholic community and if there is something else going on here besides politics as usual. In short, is the Catholic Church beginning to finally recognize the real nature of the Obama Administration?

IMPORTANT BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

The critical role of the Catholic Church in passing national health care reform legislation is coming under serious media scrutiny. But the story has taken a strange turn. It has now been revealed that George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund operator and well-known atheist, has been pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into “progressive” Catholic groups that are significant players in the national debates over health care and immigration.

On the surface, it would appear that Soros would be opposed to many positions of the Catholic Church. A major financial backer of the ACLU, Soros supports such causes as drug legalization, the rights of “sex workers” and felons, euthanasia, radical feminism, abortion rights, and homosexual rights. He does all of this in the name of promoting an “open society.”

But a review of the records of his Open Society Institute finds that a group calling itself Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) has received $200,000 over the last several years.

James Todd of the Pewsitter.com web site, which represents traditional Catholics, calls such groups “CINOs,” or Catholics In Name Only. He explains, “This group and several others have sprung up recently — I suspect purposely organized and funded  — to counterbalance the growing influence of the faithful Catholics AND to try to deceive and mislead the middle of the road Catholics that have determined the last 13 Presidential elections.”

An investigation also finds, however, that Soros money has gone into the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), an organization established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops back in 1988. It has received at least $530,000 from the Open Society Institute.

The two issues merge in the fact that the Catholic Bishops are demanding that national health care legislation cover illegal aliens.

In a story headlined, “Religious Leaders Seek Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants,” the Los Angeles Times recently quoted Kathy Saile, director of domestic social development with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as saying that illegal immigrants should be included in any healthcare reform plan. Father Richard Estrada of Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Los Angeles was described as being part of a religious service and phone bank “to urge congressional leaders to include illegal immigrants in any healthcare reform plan.” His church has in the past offered sanctuary to illegal immigrants.

CACG played a role in House passage of H.R. 3962, the bill known as Pelosicare and boasts that it had joined with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Health Association, and “dozens of other Catholic and faith-based groups in celebrating this historic vote.”

The group’s blog even offered a “Health Care Reform Prayer,” asking for God’s help in passing federal legislation.

John Gehring, CACG media director, said that, “We have been primarily focused on highlighting the moral dimensions of this issue and articulating how Catholic social teaching addresses health care as a human right central to a just society. Along with other faith-based groups like PICO National Network, Faith in Public Life, Sojourners and others we brought citizens and faith leaders to Capitol Hill several weeks ago to meet with representatives and they emphasized the urgency for reform and specifically the critical issue of affordability. For example, Fr. Joseph Shad, S.J., a hospital chaplain at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine, came to Capitol Hill and met with representatives. He shared stories we have collected from citizens across the country as part of our project, Voices for Health Reform.”

On the passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962, CACG said, “As Catholics, we applaud the efforts of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Bart Stupak, and others who helped extend current restrictions on federal funding of abortion to health plans participating in the public [health] exchanges.”

But Judie Brown of the American Life League says the provision doesn’t go far enough and accuses the Bishops who lobbied for passage of wanting “mandatory, government-run health care for one and all more than it desires the protection of all vulnerable human beings’ right to life.”

The anti-abortion restrictions, Brown points out, still permit federal funding of abortions in some circumstances.

Meanwhile, Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute says that “Catholics should be outraged at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops” because while they succeeded in getting a pro-abortion provision dropped from the bill, they “abandoned the Church’s doctrine of subsidiarity by endorsing the rest of the Democrats’ plan to centralize power in Washington.” Cannon says his grandfather served as counsel to the Bishops.

But the Soros-funded Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good has high-level connections of its own. The Treasurer-Secretary is Francis Xavier Doyle, a former top official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Executive director is Victoria Kovari, a former organizer for the Gamaliel Foundation, the same group that helped launch Barack Obama’s career as a community organizer in Chicago. The chairman is Alfred M. Rotondaro, a senior fellow at another Soros-funded group, the Center for American Progress.

Although CACG describes itself as “a lay Catholic organization that works to promote the common good and the broad spectrum of Catholic social teaching,”Frank Walker of the conservative Pewsitter website labels it a religious and political Trojan Horse designed to mislead Catholics and produce votes for the Democratic Party.

One purpose of the Soros money, Walker says, is to play down the importance of the issue of abortion to Catholics and even make abortion rights a “respectable” Catholic position.

Walker notes that, “The CACG is run and advised by powerful Democrats.  Their board, staff, and advisory committee include top fundraisers and strategists as well as major labor union representation.” He adds, “Catholic Church Leadership from the Sisters of Mercy, the Jesuit order, the government-funded Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services are also represented at CACG.  Catholic academia has a strong presence.”

Indeed, the CACG advisory council includes figures from the Service Employees Union (SEIU), AFL-CIO, Catholic University of America, Georgetown University, and Boston College.

In addition to health care reform, other big issues for CACG are “immigration reform” and “worker justice.” The latter links to a group promoting a bill, the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for unions to gain members.

The SEIU representative on the CACG board is Tom Chabolla, who serves as assistant to SEIU President Andy Stern. Before joining SEIU, he was associate director of programs for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the agency of the Bishops that funded ACORN to the tune of $7.3 million over the last decade. Funding of ACORN – but not to groups like Gamaliel – has been suspended by the Bishops.

Gamaliel says on its website that says, “Barack H. Obama, former Gamaliel organizer, is the 44th president of the United States,” and that this makes the organizing community proud. It also has a story about Obama friend and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett speaking to a Gamaliel event in Washington, D.C. of 2500 activists. Jarrett is the official who said that “we” had recruited communist Van Jones to the White House. Another speaker was Melody Barnes, Obama’s Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Before coming to the White House, Barnes was the executive vice president for Policy at the Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP).  Van Jones also worked at CAP before going to the White House. CAP CEO and President John Podesta, who served as President Clinton’s chief of staff, is a major “progressive Catholic” and member of the ACORN advisory council who served as a professor at Georgetown University.

Interestingly, Tom Chabolla of the SEIU and formerly of the CCHD was on the dinner committee for the 33rd Annual Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award Dinner, which was held on May 7, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

One of the award winners was none other than Van Jones.

On Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, Catholics across the country will be asked to support the CCHD with their financial offerings. Gamaliel is appealing for support, saying that it is “under attack from those with a partisan agenda to de-fund groups committed to organizing for social justice.” It says. “Many Gamaliel Foundation affiliates rely on funding from CCHD to serve their communities.”

But Gamaliel also relies on George Soros. His Open Society Institute provided $300,000 to the organization in 2008.”

Source:

http://sorosfiles.com/soros/2012/01/soros-funded-fake-catholic-groups-in-retreat.html

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Pope: Some U.S. Cultural Trends ‘A Threat Not Just to Christian Faith, But Also to Humanity Itself!’-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On January 27, 2012:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pope-some-us-cultural-trends-threat-not-just-christian-faith-also-humanity-itself

II. Obama Orders Catholics to Act Against Their Faith; Bishops Call it ‘Unconscionable!’-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On January 22, 2012:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-orders-catholics-act-against-their-faith-bishops-call-it-unconscionable

III. When the Government Decides Who Lives and Who Dies!-Posted on Catholic Online-By By Peg Luksik-On January 22, 2012:

http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=44477

IV. Obama Once Accused Christian Right of Intolerance, Narrow-Mindedness!-Posted on FxNews.com-By Todd Starnes-On January 21, 2012:

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/obama-once-accused-christian-right-of-intolerance-narrow-mindedness.html

V. Supreme Court Tells Obama ‘No!’-Posted on Personal Liberty Digest-By Chip Wood –On January 20, 2012:

http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/supreme-court-tells-obama-no/?eiid

VI. Courts Say Christian Church Not Allowed to Practice Christianity!-Posted on Christian Revolution-On January 16, 2012:

http://creationrevolution.com/2012/01/courts-say-christian-church-not-allowed-to-practice-christianity/

VII. Supreme Court Saves Religious Liberty from Obama!-Posted on The Center For Individual Freedom-By QUIN HILLYER-On January 12, 2012:

http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/42-constitution-and-legal/1266-supreme-court-saves-religious-liberty-from-obama

VIII. Western Civilization vs. Islam, Why the Clash of Civilizations?-Posted on The Examiner-By Gary Hill, Northern Maine Christianity Examiner-On January 12, 2012:

http://www.examiner.com/christianity-in-bangor/western-civilization-verus-islam-why-the-clash-of-civilizations

IX. Video: Gingrich Blasts Media For Anti-Christian Bias At NH Debate!-Posted The Patriot Update-On January 8, 2012:

http://patriotupdate.com/videos/gingrich-blasts-media-for-anti-christian-bias-at-nh-debate

X. Faith in America!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Matt Spalding-On December 26, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/26/morning-bell-faith-in-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

XI. Obama is a traitor!-Posted on WND.com-By Larry Klayman-On December 16, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=378265

XII. Obama’s Relentless Attack on Christian Values!-Posted on JoshuasTrail.org:

http://joshuastrail.org/obama.pdf

XIII. Obama Mocks & Attacks Jesus Christ And The Bible!-Posted on Christian Clips.com:

http://www.christianclips.com/video/658/Obama-Mocks--Attacks-Jesus-Christ-And-The-Bible

XIV. Godfather of Islamic Revolution? ‘Barack Hussein Obama may be the godfather of the Islamic revolution. The tempo and turmoil of regional events fit his agenda, and may be a result of his policies.’-Posted on Israel National News-By Dr. Mordechai Nisan-On February 10, 2011:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9982

XV. Letters To Leaders: Obama Fingerprints On Franklin Graham Dis-Invitation? CAIR the terrorist org? WHO?-Posted on Congress.org-On April 27, 2010:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?letter_id=5102172031

Note:  The following newly established website exposes how Marxism has infiltrated the American Church-You Decide:

Exposing Marxism In The Church!-Posted on Religious Left Expose:

http://religiousleftexposed.com/home/

Note:  The following articles and/or blog posts and reports reveal that George Soros has a pastor close to President Obama on his payroll, along with exposing the President, Soros and the Religious Left, to include how Marxist “Progressives” have infiltrated the American Catholic Church. Also included is a report that exposes the religious face of the New World Order-You Decide:

Soros Has a Pastor Close to Obama On His Payroll!-Posted on American Thinker-By Ed Lasky-On August 25, 2010:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/soros_has_a_pastor_close_to_ob.html

Why Do Catholics Keep Funding the Radical Left?-Posted on American Thinker-By Kathryn Scharplaz-On November 20, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/why_do_catholics_keep_funding_the_radical_left.html#ixzz1eIug4aPt

Barack Obama, George Soros and the Religious Left!-Posted on American Thinker-By Jason Lee-On June 12, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/barack_obama_george_soros_and_the_religious_left.html

Bitter Harvest: How Marxist “Progressives” Have Infiltrated the American Catholic Church!-Posted on Religious Left Exposed-By William Mayer:

http://religiousleftexposed.com/docs/mayer.pdf

The Religious Face of The New World Order:  From the Vatican to the White House to the United Religions Initiative!-Posted on America’s Survival-By Cliff Kincaid:

http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Global_Religion.pdf

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Faith of Our Forefathers!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/faith-of-our-forefathers/

Have the “power elite” and pseudo-experts covertly sold us corruption disguised as freedom?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/have-the-“power-elite”-and-pseudo-experts-covertly-sold-us-corruption-disguised-as-freedom/

Are Obama’s Fingerprints On Franklin Graham Dis-Invitation?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/are-obama’s-fingerprints-on-franklin-graham-dis-invitation/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

New World Order By Executive Order!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/new-world-order-by-executive-order/

Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/who-owns-our-supposedly-fair-and-balanced-airwaves-and-news-outlets/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Does Europe have a future?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/does-europe-have-a-future/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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