The Lobbyists-First Healthcare Reform Bill. The “Screw” America Obamacare Plan.

 

 

 Didn’t Obama state during his campaign that there would be NO LOBBYISTS in the White House?  That lobbyists would NOT influence his agenda?

 

Is Obama just deceitful?  Or just bald face LYING?

 

The Lobbyists-First Healthcare Reform Bill

August 31, 2009

by Kyle-Anne Shiver

 

In the vernacular preferred by most men I know, Obamacare could be called the “Screw-You” plan.  Just about every special interest in this Country will make out like bandits, while you and I will be…well yes, I hate to say it, but here goes:  we taxpayers will be royally screwed.

 

 

 

 

 

We pay; they play. 

 

The special interests that elected this president are conducting multi-million dollar ad campaigns to seal the deal on Obamacare.  Every one of them has had a very cushy seat at the power table where the bill was written, not on C-SPAN as candidate Obama promised, but behind closed doors.

 

Good ole boys, whether from Chicago or New Orleans, play ball by the same slimy rules. 

 

Big Pharma, according to Forbes, is expected to spend as much as $150 million on ads supporting Obamacare.  The 1997 FDA rule change that opened the door to direct TV ads aimed at patients, rather than their doctors, heralded a golden age of unprecedented profits.  But many of those so-called miracle drugs developed in the 90s are about to go off patent and this will shrink Pharma’s profits.  The president has promised the drug companies that if they give $80 billion discounts up front, then there will be no haggling with the government over pricing in the future.  Good deal for Big Pharma; bad deal for taxpayers.

 

Can we use the word, “fascist,” yet?

 

If you wonder why the union bosses are sending thugs to harass, intimidate and assault Obamacare dissenters at townhall meetings, there are billions of reasons hidden in the legislation.  Union bosses spent so much money – about $65 million — getting Democrats elected last year that they are now on the financial ropes.  Obama’s campaign got $28 million from the SEIU alone.  Unions now have only about 30 cents for every dollar of projected costs for member pension plans.  Buried in Section 164 of Obamacare is the anticipated $10 billion taxpayer bailout that helps these union bosses make up for their profligate political spending.  And that’s only the first-on-the-table figure.  It’s sure to get bigger and bigger as time passes. 

 

In the real world, we call that political payback.  And, honey, it’s anything but transparent. 

 

Health insurance companies, who have mysteriously been one of the Democrats’ favorite targets in the reform sales blitz, are also on board with the plan.  The reason for this may seem shortsighted on their part, since every sentient observer well understands that the so-called public option is sure to eventually put them out of business, but in the short term, they stand to be guaranteed millions of young, healthy, government-mandated customers to help offset the expense of also-mandated coverage for all comers, regardless of pre-existing conditions. And it should not be forgotten that HMO executives gave more than $1.2 million to the Obama campaign.  Perhaps the boomer insurance execs are counting on the inevitable bankruptcy-tsunami coming after they’ve gone to their own golden parachutes in the sky. 

 

Smelling fishier and fishier, honey.

 

Trial lawyers are in greedy-rapture mode, dreaming up schemes to convince even more patients to file malpractice suits, since there’s not even a shred of tort reform in ObamaCare.  The multi-million dollar abortion industry is all aflutter, as FactCheck.org has confirmed, abortions would be covered by the federal plan and also by federally subsidized private plans.  Pro-illegal immigrant groups are purely salivating over Obamacare, since there isn’t a solitary provision in this bill that would require anyone signing up for benefits to prove he is indeed a U.S. citizen.  And George Soros, a multi-billion-dollar special interest unto himself, will get the eugenics-lite approach he favors to end-of-life decision making.

 

So, what we have here, dear readers, is a gargantuan failure to communicate.  The trio of Statist Tyrants in charge — Obama, Pelosi and Reid — have decided that saying the opposite of what they mean, all the while accusing others of lying, is indeed the way to have an “open debate” about healthcare reform. 

 

As these Democrats put on their plastic smiley faces in public, they are screaming the figurative, “Screw You,” behind closed doors.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_lobbyistsfirst_healthcare.html

 

From Human Events:

For the next three weeks, until Congress returns on September 4, congressional Democrats — at least those, unlike Indiana’s Baron Hill, who is apparently too scared of his constituents to even schedule a town hall meeting — will be hearing continuously from constituents who are concerned and angry at the Dems’ approach to health care “reform.”

But they have a lot on their side.  Especially Obama’s three stooges:  the SEIU, AARP and PhRMA.

Pelosi’s strategy memo also said, “The Leadership is working in close coordination with the White House and outside groups (including but not limited to HCAN, Families USA, AFSCME, SEIU, AARP, etc.) to ensure complementary efforts during August.”  Complimentary means opposing the protests of concerned Americans.

The three stooges are all members of a coalition of union, lobbying and business groups called “Heathy Economy Now” which is spending an enormous amount of money on television ads aimed at the Blue Dog Democrats, seeking to push them into supporting Obamacare.

The Service Employees’ International Union made its presence felt in the 2008 election, spending a reported $150 million to elect Obama and Congressional Democrats.  And they’re showing up at the town hall meetings in considerable numbers.  We’ve all seen the video of people wearing SEIU t-shirts pushing and shoving — physically assaulting — protesters outside one town hall meeting.  They want the so-called “public option” which will establish government-run healthcare, and they will brook no dissent.

AARP supposedly represents the retired and elderly.  But Obamacare proposes to cut about $500 million out of Medicare over the next decade, and will result in both healthcare rationing and “rationalization.” The rationalization — based on cost effectiveness determined by life expectancy — will limit what the elderly can obtain from their doctors.  If the Washington bureaucracy decides that you’re too old for a hip replacement, you’ll either have to pay for it yourself, or be unable to get it.

Perhaps the most shameful is PhRMA: the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.  PhRMA is the business lobby comprised of drug manufacturers. 

Its support was purchased in negotiations with the White House.  PhRMA’s chief is former Louisiana Democratic congressman Billy Tauzin.

As the Wall Street Journal reported on August 7, “Chief pharma lobbyist Billy Tauzin’s clients were probably wondering about the return on their investment. Then, lo, Mr. Tauzin disclosed this week in a page-one story in the New York Times that, yes, the concessions were capped at $80 billion, no further. ‘We were assured: ‘We need somebody to come in first. If you come in first, you will have a rock-solid deal,’” Mr. Tauzin said. ‘Adding other stuff changes the deal.’ The White House confirmed Mr. Tauzin’s account.”

Tauzin had said, according to the Times report, that the deal was confirmed with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, deputy chief of staff Jim Messina and health care reform “czarina” Nancy-Ann DeParle.

PhRMA

PhRMA is planning to spend $150 million on television ads supporting Obamacare beginning this month.  You can’t expect to see the hard sell from PhRMA: with all that money to spend, they’ll likely hire the best actors and actresses to star in their commercials.  The old will be likely be assured by Wilford Brimley that they won’t feel the pain of Medicare cuts.  Younger voters will probably be told about the benefits of Obamacare by experts such as Denise Richards, famous consumer of optional enhancement surgery.

PhRMA Connections

 

Obama and his congressional cohort are in a state of near-panic because Americans are speaking out in huge numbers against their effort to nationalize health care.  Voters rightly doubt that Obamacare will do anything to improve the way they receive health care or limit its cost.

It won’t do either, and the more Americans speak out to stop it, the more likely we’ll be able to have the best healthcare system in the world: that’s the one we have now, not the one Obama’s three stooges want to shove us into.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Obamas%20Three%20Stooges.html

 

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