• Why does Obama want to eliminate private health insurance via Single Payer/Universal Health Care

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Barack Obama wants to eliminate private health insurance via his Single Payer/Universal Health Care system. In his own words:

This begs two questions:

1. What does a Single Payer/Universal Health Care system mean for Americans?
2. Why does Barack Obama want to eliminate private health insurance?

1-> What does a Single Payer/Universal Health Care system mean for Americans?

It means death and misery because the government will decide what treatment people will be allowed to have. It will mean having government staff viewing your private medical records. It will mean a reduction in the quality of health care you receive, because the government wants to keep costs down and paltry payments from the government will mean that hospitals will be unable to afford new equipment, new treatments, good staffing levels, and so on (private health care encourages these things because competition encourages hospitals to provide the best possible care, and in a free market system hospitals will supply what patients demand and are willing to pay for). I live in a country where all but a few medical services are “provided” by the state, so I know what universal health means. Also, have a look at this from Bloomberg:

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what [Tom] Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.

New Penalties

Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)

What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.

The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.

Daschle’s arrogance is breathtaking: he wants to slow life-saving human creativity and wealth generation in order to reduce costs (something that will be impossible when the government is running the health care system). Imagine if the UK government had done the same thing in 1959, and slowed down car development at a time when cars looked like this:

This is a Ford Prefect 100E from 1959. The heater was an optional extra, the vacuum wipers got slower as you went faster, and 0-60mph took 32 seconds: in my experience these were pretty awful cars. Why would anyone want to slow down human creativity and innovation?

Presumably Daschle is wealthy enough to avoid the effect of his own policies. Presumably he would not like being forced to forgo experimental treatments if he had terminal cancer. Heaven forbid that he should descend from his ivory tower and share a four-bed hospital room with the hoi polloi.

2-> Why does Barack Obama want to eliminate private health insurance?

I believe that Obama is a fundamentalist Marxist, and that eliminating private health insurance is part of his Marxist plan to give the state/himself more power and wealth. In the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels described the steps for a transition from socialism to communism:

We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie [that’s Obama’s desire to tax the wealthy], to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State [Single Payer/Universal Health Care is a step towards this, as are the bailouts where the state ends up owning part of the company], i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear [are] economically insufficient and untenable [e.g. Single Payer/Universal Health Care, TARP – Toxic Asset Recovery Program, cash for clunkers, bailouts of bankrupt companies, etc.], but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.

These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.

Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax [Obama’s plan to make the wealthy pay more tax].

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State [see above]; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.

(Here I have only highlighted those points which pertain to Obama’s health care “reforms”, but in fact much of what is recommended in the Communist Manifesto has been accomplished in the USA and other countries: click here for details)

Remember the Marxist/Communist utopia was a fiction, false advertising to justify immoral acts like Obama’s and those described in the Manifesto.

Summary

• Barack Obama wants to eliminate private health insurance via his Single Payer/Universal Health Care system
• Single Payer/Universal Health Care will mean death, misery, loss of privacy, loss of choice, and all-round inferior health care for Americans
• Single Payer/Universal Health Care will control how doctors treat their patients
• Single Payer/Universal Health Care is intended to slow down human creativity and wealth generation, e.g. new medicines and medical technologies that can save lives
• Barack Obama is following the game plan laid out in the Communist Manifesto

What do you think about Obama’s plan for state-controlled health care and the points that I have raised here?

Hat tip: LRC

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• Barack Obama’s $787bn bailout is stupidity

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The BBC is reporting that the US$787 billion bailout is described by Obama as a “historic step” and a “major milestone on our road to recovery”. Obama’s economic skills remind me of something that parents find in nappies every day.

Where does this bailout money come from? One of two places:

1. the Federal Reserve prints some new money, which causes inflation (i.e. reduces the value of each existing dollar, thereby stealing wealth from everyone) and is exactly what bought about the present economic problems
2. borrowings, which have to be repaid eventually, either from taxes or from, you guessed it, printing more money

Either way, the people on the street wind up paying for their mythical bailout: why isn’t Obama honest enough to call it a noose?

The nearest analogy on an individual level is using credit cards in times of financial trouble. People who do this just rack up bigger and bigger debts in the hope that they can pay it off in the future: everything looks fine now because they’re spending money, but it’s not real money and in fact their wealth is declining every time they spend. Such a person should stop digging a hole and go for plastic surgery (i.e. cut their card in half): Obama should stop digging a hole also.

At least the person who gets himself into trouble with his credit card does so of his own free will. Obama is digging a hole for all Americans whether or not they want to be in the hole, not to mention the fact that they have to pay to be extracted from the hole at a later date.

If you want to really understand what is behind the economic crisis, bailouts, etc, read this article by Murray Rothbard. It’s long but it’s written so that everyone can understand it. Not only will it change your view of money forever, but after reading it you will have a better understanding of economics than Obama does.

What do you think about the bailout?

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Barack Obama has been inaugurated: now the theft begins

Here I have modified an earlier post because people need to know about the theft that this evil man intends to carry out. Naturally Marxists such as Obama call it “income redistribution” to make the medicine go down. See also my posts here and here.

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I’ve been reading Obama’s energy policy, which was a thrill. Here’s two diaper gems from there:

1) Obama will enact a windfall profits tax on excessive oil company profits to give American families an immediate $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families pay rising bills. This relief would be a down payment on Obama’s long-term plan to provide middle-class families with at least $1,000 per year in permanent tax relief.

I have two responses to this:

a) There is no such thing as excessive profits; that is a Socialist/Marxist fiction created to justify the theft of money from companies and the giving of it to the “poor”. In other words, this is Marxist “income redistribution” which attempts to take money from the rich and give it to the poor, so that everyone has the same income. It didn’t work in Russia and it won’t work in America; all it does is discourage the creation of wealth for many people by businesses.

In the long term this harms the “poor” that Obama claims to champion, therefore his supporters are voting for their own poverty.

Also, who defines what is “excessive”? Obama, presumably, and that is wide open to abuse. Is one dollar an excessive profit? One billion dollars?  Note the use of the emotive word “emergency” to make it sound like Obama is going to rescue the country from a clear and present danger. The only clear and present danger is Socialist politicians like Obama.

b) Obama will not provide middle class families with tax relief, rather he will steal money at gunpoint* from the oil companies and others then give the money to middle class families.

2) Deploy the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Energy Source — Energy Efficiency.

Obama will set an aggressive energy efficiency goal — to reduce electricity demand 15 percent from projected levels by 2020.

Obama, energy efficiency isn’t an energy source, it’s just using less of what you have. What exactly are your qualifications for being the (supposed) Leader Of The Free World?

What do you think about Obama’s plan to additionally tax “excessive” profits?

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* if you provide sufficient resistance to the paying of taxes the state will use lethal force against you, so effectively all taxation is done at gunpoint

Barack Obama’s inauguration: the communists have won the cold war

In my previous post I spoke about Barack Obama being a communist and a terrorist.

Is is deeply ironic that after about 45 years of “cold war” between the USA and the USSR the communists have finally conquered America without firing a shot. Heck, the “land of the free and the brave” (yeah, right) invited the commie conquest.

Tell me, why were the commies Enemy Number One for so long, then good enough to invite into the Oval Office?

Also, are any US veterans of Korea and Vietnam ticked off about a commie being president?

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Barack Obama’s inauguration: a communist and a terrorist is now the world’s most powerful man

On Kiwiblog David Farrar said

There will be plenty of days to disagree with the policies of President Obama, to complain about the media hype. But for me today is not one of them. Today is a day to celebrate a peaceful transition of office in the most powerful country on Earth, and to celebrate Obama’s achievement in becoming the first African-American President.

Apart from the fact that “African-American” is a nonsensical description rooted in pernicious political correctness, this is not a day to celebrate. This is a day to mourn, a day to mourn the fact that a communist and a terrorist is now the worlds most powerful man, the only man capable of projecting significant military force around the globe. That man may also be a closet Muslim. Whilst increased freedom for black Americans is a good thing, that is a trivilality compared to the evil that lies within Obama, and his colour has been used as a means of getting him into power, a point of difference in marketing terms. In my humble opinion the people behind Obama don’t give a stuff about Obama’s colour beyond the fact that it helps them to get their man into power.

So why do I call Obama a communist and a terrorist?

1) In my earlier post I quoted Obama’s Communist/Socialist/Marxist language:

Barack says “Every child in America is our problem, every child in America is our responsibility. That’s not somebody else’s child, that our child”. Back up the Socialist/Marxist bus Barack, children belong to their parents and no one else: you’re trying to justify State interference in the raising of children. This is your variation on “It takes a village to raise a child”.

2) Trevor Loudon says

It is indisputable that US president-elect Barack Obama, has been groomed and supported by radical Marxists almost his entire life.

It is now well known that three Marxist organisations-Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have supported Obama’s political career.

It is also common knowledge that Obama has enjoyed close ties to several former members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and its terrorist splinter, Weather Underground Organisation (WUO).

What is less well known is that all these strands are linked to one entity, an organisation with documented ties to hostile foreign intelligence services-Washington based “think tank” the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

Trevor has done a lot more research than I and he is generally considered to a reliable source of information. Note three points from the above:

1. Loudon believes that Obama has been groomed – taught – by radical Marxists [Socialists/Communists]
2. Obama has close ties to communist and terrorist groups
3. those groups have links to hostile foreign powers

3) Terrorists are active supporters of Obama. Birds of a feather flock together, and it is human nature to associate with those people who have a similar world view as ourselves. It is reasonable to conclude that, since Obama is close to such people, he shares their ideology. Furthermore, Marxist ideology advocates revolution – a form of terrorism – so their ideologies are in harmony. Democratic Socialism has covered the iron fist of the Marxist armed revolution with a velvet glove, but that iron fist is no less lethal.

Also, if Obama was anti-terrorism he would not associate with terrorists for fear of harming his political career. Politicians always grovel up to those who share their ideology and will vote for them, whilst shunning those who are repulsive to their electoral base.

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I am aware that these are not the strongest arguments I have ever made and I cannot conclusively prove that Obama is a communist and a terrorist. However, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck (#1 above), walks like a duck, and flies with the ducks (#2 & 3 above), then it probably is a duck.

Think of Obama as Helen Clark with more guns and more money then you’ll have the right picture.

What are your thoughts regarding Barack Obama and his ideology?

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See also this post about Obama:

The Communists have won the Cold War