Jan Schakowsky Townhall Report

Earlier tonight I attended Townhall meeting held by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). It featured everything I have seen read, and heard about. There were some campaigning, there were TV crews there. There was leftist astroturfing. Signs weren't allowed inside, but they wore mass produced sticky badges. Seats towards the front were reserved for the brownshirts, so they outnumbered regular citizens, but their voices could still be heard.

During the meeting, Rep. Schakowski said she had read the bill. However, when questioned on Sec 431A on p.195 regarding the Health Chioces Administration having access to taxpayer information such as filing status, income, and dependents, she said she'd have to get back to us on that.

One hard-hitting question about her buddy President Obama was regarding the video clip of him saying he's "a proponent of a single payer healthcare plan" to the SEIU in 2003 and 2007. His key statement was " I don't think we can eliminate employer healthcare coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out." However, earlier this year at the AMA he says that "those who are claiming a public option is a Trojan horse for a single payer system (is) an illegitimate concern that's being put forward". The question was, "was he lying then, or is he lying now?" Complete with thunderous applause. Of course she wouldn't answer the question.

After the Townhall adjourned, I saw the astroturfers outside the building holding their mass produced signs chanting, health care now! on the other side were the tea party protesters, and with them were LaRouche democrats with their Obama as Hitler signs.

Going to this Townhall only deepened my convictions to fight government run health care in any way possible, and this blog is part of that fight. (HT YouTube):

YouTube: SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS Saying His Health Care Plan Will ELIMINATE Private Insurance

Political Caption Of The Day

Another good statement on Obamacare, aka Deathcare and the attempted government takeover of health insurance. (HT Rush Limbaugh):

Conyers & Durbin: Two Reasons Why Americans Have Contempt For D.C.

On July 24th, 2009 at the National Press Club, Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) said the following:

CONYERS: "I love these members that get up and say, "Read the bill!" What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you've read the bill?"

That's the whole point, genius. It's your job to go through this bill to make sure your constituents (Read: voters) aren't getting a raw deal in legislation. However, this comment makes it pretty clear that you're a lapdog for House Speaker Nazi Pelocchio and voting the party line.

Then there's Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL). On Monday, he "warned other members of Congress against antagonistic audience members at healthcare town hall events who may be funded by industry interest groups", so he thinks, by stating the following:

DURBIN: Well I think members should be out, speaking with the public, meeting with people who are the health care professionals and talking about the current situation. I’ve done it and I’ll continue to do it. But you know, I hope my colleagues won’t fall for a sucker-punch like this. These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town halls for visual impact on television. They want to show thousands of people screaming ‘socialism’ and try to overcome the public sentiment which now favors health care reform. That’s almost like flooding the switchboards on Capitol Hill. It doesn’t prove much other than the switchboards have limited capacity. So, we need to have a much more balanced approach that really allows members of Congress to hear both sides of the story, rather than being sucker-punched or side-tracked by these types of tactics.

First of all, if any DC politician gets "sucker-punched", they brought it on themselves by not being aware of the bills' details because they haven't read it. Second, These are real Americans going to these town hall meetings. The health insurance companies didn't put them up to it. They want government out of their lives. Your party, at King Hussein's direction, is packing town hall meetings with union thugs through the side door. He's great at stacking his audiences and questions at press conferences.

Americans know good and well just how inefficient the Federal government is. Simply look at their wonderful management of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Federal Highway Infrastructure, Cash For Clunkers, and the list goes on. We have had enough of you self righteous, pompous pigs at the trough and that uproar is what you are seeing. Good job trying to play the red herring though. With each passing day, more Americans are on to you. (HT Rush Limbaugh & The Hill):

Rush Limbaugh: Conyers: No Need to Read Bills
The Hill: Durbin Warns Other Lawmakers Of Healthcare Town Hall 'Sucker Punch'

Political Caption Of The Day

A picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, its Obamacare, aka Deathcare. (HT Atlas Shrugs):

Healthcare Update - Private Health Insurance Outlawed

Investor's Business Daily had a hard hitting editorial on the Obama health care plan passed by the House of Representatives. How many of you have heard President Obama say, "Hey, if you like your plan, if you like your doctor, you'll get to keep it"? Well it didn't take long to find the catch. On Page 16, there is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. Under the Orwellian header of 'Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,' the 'Limitation On New Enrollment' section of the bill clearly states: 'Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day' of the year the legislation becomes law."

So if this bill becomes law this year, effective January 1, 2010, nobody in the insurance business can offer anybody and you can't buy private medical insurance. "So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised -- with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers." You will have to go to the public option. "From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither." And you don't need to be an expert to understand this.

"Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington's coverage." We also know this. We know that many companies are looking very forward to off-loading their health care expenses to the government. "The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more Americans could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a program. That would leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer customers.

What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law. The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts." The reason the left wants health savings accounts dead is because you have control.

Obama and his brownshirts want to get rid of HSA's, and it's in the legislation. Democrats have wanted to get rid of health savings accounts for years. They want to get rid of that because nothing gives individuals more control over their Medicare and the government less than health savings accounts. It took Investor's Business Daily just 16 pages of reading the health care bill, over a thousand pages, to find this naked attempt by the political powers to increase their reach. So that's page 16, and they wonder what other horrors await us as they read the additional 1,002 pages. So the day this private option becomes law nobody can buy and nobody can sell individual, private coverage.

So the way to compete with private carriers is to put them out of business. Pollowing the Alinsky premise, don't level the playing field, clear the playing field. It's a horror story. It really is. This is why they're trying to push this through, because they know their agents in the Matrix are not gonna report this to you. This is not going to be told.

US Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., a leader of fiscally conservative House Democrats, said Wednesday a House plan to overhaul the US health-care system is losing support and will be stuck in committee without changes. 'Last time I checked, it takes seven Democrats to stop a bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee,' Ross told reporters after a House vote. 'We had seven against it last Friday; we have 10 today.' Three House committees are slated to begin considering the $1 trillion-plus bill this week, but the Energy and Commerce looms as the biggest challenge. That's because it counts among its 36 Democratic members seven members of the Blue Dog Coalition," conservative Democrats that are opposing House Democrats' efforts in general on health care.

Mike Ross said that the bill doesn't include provisions adequate to curb rising health care costs including what the government spends on health care. So he says that his committee has the votes to block it. He needs to be supported to hold the line against the upcoming pressure from Pelosi, Emanuel, and Obama.

There's a chart in the New York Post on the tax rates and what it's gonna cost various income levels in New York City where the top rate will go to 58%. And somebody at $80,000 a year in New York City will pay an effective 36% of their income in taxes. Posting that New York Post chart, this is what the RNC ought to be doing. Michael Steele ought to get busy getting some people to go to every major city and put this chart out and get it out in every city, what Obama health care is going to cost you, family of four, this income group, this income level. The numbers are what people will understand. How much it's going to cost them above and beyond what everything costs them now. 77% of the American people are happy with their health care. When they find out how much this reform is going to cost them, this bill could be killed.

The bottom line is King Hussein and the Democrats want socialized health care. This legislation proves they're willing to implement it incrementally, like the rest of their agenda over the past 80 years.

Investor's Business Daily: Under Dem Plan, the Public Option is the Only Option
New York Post: Dems Health RX a Poison Pill In NY. Terrifying 57% Tax Looms for Biggest Earners
DowJones: Centrist Dem Leader: Has Committee Votes To Block Health Bill
Heritage Foundation: The True Cost of the House Health Plan in Pictures