Capturing the Moral High Ground Part 2 of 3 was the concluding talk from a presentation given at the National Press Club in Washington DC on September 19, 2009 by Yaron Brook during a public briefing on the “Joint Defense of Freedom in American Medicine” sponsored by Americans for Free Choice in Medicine. Other talks from this presentation can be found on this YouTube Site. All ideas that involve government intervention in health care are based on the false morality of need. Only private health care is consistent with the individualistic founding principles of America which include individual liberty, personal responsibility, and free market economics. This lecture explains why an understanding of the issue at a political and economic level alone is not enough to combat the ever increasing slide toward socialism and collectivism. Only by understaning how our political decisions improperly place the false morality of need above the proper morality of individual rights will we be able to institute the proper political policies. This presentation provides an introduction on how to develop a deeper philosophical understanding of the issue. If you find this approach compelling, please do the following: send the link to your contacts; go to www.AynRandCenter.org and www.AFCM.org and sign up as a supporter; view the entire briefing there; view more videos and written material; become actively involved with the debate.
News stories about hate groups targeting the President will begin to run in conjunction with stories concerning the Heath care debate. Raising concerns about Hate Groups now, allies opposition to Socialized Medicine with radical hate groups and racists.
In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform that implemented a number of policies that are now being mirrored in the Obama health reform plan. The president has repeatedly claimed that his plan will lower health care costs but not decrease health care quality. This visualization looks at how the Massachusetts plan has panned out in terms of cost and wait times. Sources: Wait Times – Merrit Hawkins and Associates 2009 Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times: www.merritthawkins.com Cost of Insurance Premiums – AHIP Center for Policy and Research Individual Health Insurance 2006-2007: A Comprehensive Survey of Premiums, Availability, and Benefits – www.ahipresearch.org
During a press conference at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Nancy Pelosi danced around a difficult question, twice. The questions pertained to 5-year jail terms and 0000 fines for those refusing to buy health insurance under her plan. However, she did say her plan was “fair”. Choice??? According to HR 3962, buy insurance or go to jail. Such “choice” is standard under dictatorships, is this tyranny the “change” that voters hoped for? Of course not. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, was in Seattle on Monday, November 9, 2009 where she joined Democratic Reps. Jay Inslee, Jim McDermott and Norman Dicks in a tour of Swedish Medical Center. Pelosi’s visit came less than 48 hours after the US House of Representatives passed the massive and short-sighted “Affordable Health Care for America Act” bill by a very narrow margin, 220-215. Pelosi needed at least 218 votes for passage. The closed door meetings and their partisan Democrat scheme worked despite the obvious will of the People as a Rasmussen poll found that 57% Americans opposed while only 41% approved government run health care. By all accounts, this bill should have died. However, the Stupak amendment revived it at the promise of removing funding for abortions, which we all know can be reversed later on. The Stupak amendment to HR 3962 was proposed and approved in the House of Representatives on November 7, 2009. Here are more details about the amendment: thehill.com Pelosi was recently asked another question that …
Originally about healthcare, this video is now dedicated to Jack Webb, who wanted each show to contain at least one strong speech that would attempt to set the moral compass of the country right. These speeches need to be heard by a new generation. Contact me if you remember one that applies to current events. dorazio@cox.net At hulu.com watch the original episodes. ** original description ** Obama says things are a mess so let’s roll the dice on your health insurance with 2000+ page bills that mention no tort reform. At www.youtube.com see Jack Webb School Obama on Democracy. At bulletpeople.com is my blog. The healthcare fight isn’t over. Go to http and click Notes for common sense. At www.takebackmedicine.org read what a group of physicians have written about health care reform, infant mortality, and coverage of illegal immigrants. Hat tip to Dragnet writer Preston Wood and the cast for this amazing scene. (Go to http to see the original.) ps Harry Morgan in 2008: www.youtube.com
Jacob Hacker responds to the recent Lewin Group report on the public health insurance plan and offers his own report, backed up by months of research, laying out how a public health insurance plan could compete with private health plans on a level playing field to keep us healthier and save us more money. www.healthcareforamericanow.org
Peter Harbage explains how the individual market is different from employer-sponsored insurance, and how health reform would improve health care for all.