Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 04:47:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence <[email protected]>
Gabe, I am surprised you raise your blood pressure in response to the usual tsunami of disinformation. The rare exceptions use any pretext to poison the well by presenting flat out lies like "government take-over of the health-care system," thus bringing what is now political terrorism from main-street America. Mario responds: Gilbert's insinuations above are far left wing disinformation pure and simple. I'm not sure who he thinks he is fooling on Goanet about Obama and his plans for a "government run health care system" by spreading bald-faced distortions to deflect and cover up the information that has been discovered about Obama and his plans to destroy the American health care system. Here are clips that show Obama's duplicity in his own words to the American Medical Association and his real plans previously divulged in speeches to his far left wing union followers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk I hope Gilbert was unaware of this information and was not deliberately spreading false information on Goanet. Here is a report featuring one of Obama's top allies in the Senate, Dick Durbin, admitting that Obamacare is running into serious trouble: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/09/senate-democrat-open-health-care-public-option/ Gilbert wrote: Likely the US-based Goaneter, like some seniors who are against government-run health-insurance, has himself a government-run health-insurance called Medicare parts A, B and D. Mario responds: More bald faced distortions and these are deliberate because Gilbert surely knows better. The Medicare system is an insurance system only for persons over 65 years of age that is paid for with retirement money collected over a persons working life. Thus it is not FREE. The people covered have to pay for the insurance with monthly premiums as well as deductibles and co-pays and must carry supplemental insurance on their own to cover health insurance costs not covered by the plan. However, because the Medicare system has been designed and is run by government bureaucrats and is a single-payer system, it is projected to become bankrupt by 2017. http://www.examiner.com/x-11804-Health-Care-Examiner~y2009m6d17-Medicare-trustees-report-shows-program-will-run-out-of-money-earlier-than-expected Thus for Gilbert to point to this system as a paragon to be expanded for all Americans is disingenuous at best. Either that, or he has no idea what is going on. Actually, Obamacare will be far worse than Medicare because Medicare does not come between a physician and the patient as Obamacare seeks to do, which will make it as bad as the systems in Canada and Britain with their rationing and waiting lists and bureaucratic judgments on who gets certain care and who does not. Gilbert was apparently not invited to this meeting of physicians: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6563705.html Excerpt: Physicians jammed a town hall meeting in The Woodlands on Thursday, expressing fears about the cost and effectiveness of a health care reform bill that could come up for a vote in Congress as early as September. U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, hosted the meeting attended by about 90 physicians at Memorial Hermann Hospital-The Woodlands. “The bottom line is that doctors don't want socialized medicine — another flawed health care system like Medicare. They don't believe it will lower the costs or improve quality,” Brady said. “Medicare is already going bankrupt and not quality care. It also shifts medical costs onto other paying customers. It needs to be fixed first.” [end of excerpt] "The nine scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help!'" - Ronald Reagan.
