Why Current Immigration
Policy is Really a Policy of Age Discrimination Aimed at Older American
Citizens
by Bruce W. Cain (10/29/2011)
Synopsis:
This essay makes the case that
the United State's -- Multi-National Corporately Controlled Government
-- is promoting both Legal and Illegal Immigration in order to displace
the aging population of US born "baby boomers" (those born 1946 - 1964)
with a much younger population of foreign immigrants (e.g., those born
after1982 in 2009). This is supported by the largely ignored fact
that both illegal and legal immigrants arrive here at the average ages
of 22 and 27 years of age respectively. In this essay I compare
our policy makers to farmers, practicing the art of Animal Husbandry.
But the crucial difference here is that our representatives are not
euthanizing animals, they're euthanizing older American Citizens.
Once the American People fully
understand this I predict that there will be a backlash against the
Government, and the controlling Multi-Nationals, that will be without
precedent. At least that is my hope. Please forward links to
this article as far and wide as possible. The time for American to
wake up is before it is too late: and that means we need to awake right
now!
Introduction:
I believe that Obama is the most prejudiced President in US history and
I’m quite confident I can make that case stick and then some.
The term prejudice derives from the Latin “to pre judge.” So the term is
inclusive of all sorts of discrimination: racism, ageism, classism,
sexism, sexual preference etc.
My contention is that Obama’s prejudice is squarely centered on age
discrimination. Let me explain.
Since December 2007 to June 2009 – about 18 months – a record 6 million
Americans have joined the ranks of the unemployed. In the last 6 months
we have been loosing record numbers of jobs: 600,000 jobs most months.
Worse yet a visit to www.shadowstats.com will quickly reveal that even these
figures understate the true magnitude of the problem. In fact by some
estimates the number of unemployed and underemployed is well over 20
million: from an estimated workforce of around 140 million.
You would think, during such times of unprecedented unemployment, that
any compassionate President would at least temporarily impose a
moratorium on all immigration into the United States: both Legal and
Illegal.
The current state
of Legal Immigration into the US:
Suspending all Visa programs would seem like a sensible method to
address the “Legal Immigration” side of the equation. But that is not
what Obama did. Instead he allowed – and continues to allow – 183,00
legal immigrants into the country each month despite concurrent jobs
losses of over 600,000 American jobs during those same months. So while
millions of American workers continue to loose their jobs this year
Obama will be bringing in nearly 2.5 million Legal Immigrants in 2009,
while as many as 7.2 million Americans (600,000 per month) could find
themselves unemployed.
And if this were not bad enough you have to consider that many of the
foreign students are essentially having their university educations
subsidized to the tune of nearly $10,000 dollars each year. And when
they graduate they will ultimately be taking away the jobs of American
Citizens. How much longer are we going to put up with this?
The current state
of Illegal Immigration into the US:
Then there is the issue of Illegal Immigration which the Corporate Media
has been saying has ebbed in the last year, largely due to the bad
economy. But it has not stopped and the millions that are still here are
working jobs that American workers could be doing.
You would think, during such times of unprecedented unemployment, that
any compassionate President would fully exploit any tools in his toolbox
to completely stop further Illegal Immigration. E-Verify is that tool.
E-Verify is 99.6% accurate in determining if a given worker is a legal
American Citizen or not. And all it requires from the employer is a
computer that is hooked up to a high speed internet connection:
something even most homeowners have. It basically works by comparing the
workers Social Security Number to what is in the Social Security
database: the ultimate “source of truth,” as my old mentor Jim Martin
used to say. And the 0.4% of inaccuracies are most usually resolved
within a week.
Currently thousands of businesses are using the E-Verify system. And it
would be relatively simple to expand the system so that virtually all
business could be mandated to use E-Verify. It is also worth noting
that, currently, the E-Verify system is only allowed to screen new
hires: not existing employees. This is unfortunate since there are as
many as 20 Million Illegal Immigrants and Visa Overstays (e.g.,
foreigners who brake our laws by staying here beyond the limit of their
visas) who are already here taking up jobs that American workers could
be doing.
So here is the bottom line. If Obama would merely expand the E-Verify
system to all US employers and require that both new and current
employees are screened: we might just create 20 million jobs for US
workers.
But once again that is not what Obama is doing. Instead he is doing
everything he can to completely defund and destroy the E-Verify Program
in order to serve the interests of his Multi-National Corporate Masters.
He is screwing us.
The Illegal Immigration issue also has ramifications with drug policy.
Mexican Drug Cartels now operate in over 230 American Cities and ship
nearly 38 billion each year back to Mexico: 27 billion (about 70%) is
from the cultivation and sale of Marijuana. It is safe to assume that
this requires the cooperation of hundreds of thousands of Illegal
Mexican Immigrants. So another thing Obama could do is simply
Re-Legalize Marijuana so that all adults could grow it without any
taxes, regulation of other forms of government interference. This is
known as the MERP Model. By doing this hundreds of thousands of Illegal
Alien Mexican Drug Cartel Workers would go broke and be forced to move
back to Mexico. And without any expensive taxation or regulation it
would keep nearly 27 billion dollars in the US economy each and every
year after the MERP Model is fully implemented.
Note that the moneyed drug reform organizations (NORML, Drug Policy
Alliance and the Marijuana Policy Project) are pushing for “Government
Marijuana Dispensaries” that will not take enough money out of the black
market in Marijuana which is necessary if we expect to eliminate the
Mexican Drug Cartels.
Why current
immigration policy is really a veiled form of age discrimination.
So what does this have to do with age discrimination you ask? Well what
they really don’t discuss too much is the fact that the average Illegal
Hispanic Immigrant is around 22 and the average Legal Foreign Immigrant
is around 27. Meanwhile most of the Americans loosing their jobs are
over 40, though there is also significant job loss amongst younger Legal
American Citizens as well.
And why would they want to do a thing like that: screw older American
workers? They do it because it saves the Multi-National Corporations
lots of money. That’s why. Let’s consider a few age related issues.
(1) How does business save on their health care costs by getting rid of
older workers?
It costs about twice as much to provide health insurance for a 50 year
old worker than a 35 year old worker. And after 50 the disparity
actually accelerates. So supplanting older American Workers with younger
Foreign Workers (Legal or Illegal) saves billions of dollars each year
for Multi-National Corporations ranging from Ford Motor to General
Electric.
This also explains why Obama has made
sure that "Single Payer" health care remains "off the table."
Because with "Single Payer" health care each citizen would receive care
regardless of whether they are currently working. Obama
would rather see older workers thrown out of the job market, to be
replaced by younger workers who are cheaper to insure. This way
the older workers will slowly become both jobless and without any form
of healthcare.
It also explains why Obama is pushing
so hard for granting Amnesty to all of these Legal and Illegal
Immigrants. Not only will they be undeservedly granted
citizenship: they will also be first in line to receive health care and
other entitlements that are normally only granted to actual US citizens.
In point of fact many illegal immigrants are already receiving Medicare
and Medicaid because there is no E-Verify check on their status before
receiving such benefits. If you
click here, I
have provided an article that further elaborates on how older Americans
are going to get the "short end of the stick" should be allow him to
move forward with his "Corporate Health Care" program.
The only program that makes sense is
some for of Single Payer system as it eliminate nearly 35% of undeserved
profits that is currently going to the HMO's, PPO's etc.
(2) Why did Obama really push the Auto industry into bankruptcy?
Because by doing this he would allow the Multi-National owners to renege
on the entitlements that they promised the older workers: workers who in
many cases have been working 6 days a week for decades to realize these
benefits. So they turn their pensions over to the PBGC effectively
reducing the workers pension by 50 percent. And then they destroy the
retirement health care that they had promised through skyrocketing co
pays and expanding “rules” that make access to care increasingly
difficult. All the while the media obfuscates this reality, by
substituting the term “legacy costs,” without discussing the nature of
the costs or who looses (e.g., the older worker) when bankruptcy is used
to make the legacy costs disappear.
(3) What is the age-related aspect of the current housing market?
Many older Americans were actually counting on working jobs that would
allow them to mature in their roles and make a wage that would
significantly rise beyond the average annual Consumer Price Index (CPI).
That was considered to be a fair assumption when they took out a
mortgage for their homes 20 to 30 years ago. Instead many of them have
been displaced by much younger foreign workers and have been forced to
settle for lower paying jobs that no longer pay health insurance,
vacation, 401-K match or pension benefits. Meanwhile the value of their
homes has decreased as much as 50% over the last 2 years. As a result
many are loosing their homes to foreclosure for reasons they could no
possibly imagine 20 years ago. And as the ultimate humiliation, they are
forced into foreclosure. Finally, their homes are bought up by younger
workers (many of them foreign) who don’t have an existent home, that is
under water (e.g., the house is now worth less than they originally paid
for it) to worry about. It is a win-win for the foreigners and a
loose-loose for the older American Worker.
Was this the “change” people voted for when they elected Obama in
November 2008?
(4) How will Obama’s Health Care Plan benefit Illegal Aliens at the
expense of American Workers?
It is apparent from Obama’s intent to destroy the E-Verify system that
he wants to grant both Illegal Aliens and Visa Overstays Citizenship.
And it quite likely that, of the 45 million Americans without Health
Insurance, as many as 26 million are Illegal Aliens of one sort or
another. And on top of that he will not consider the “Single Payer”
option that most experts say is the only viable solution to our health
care problems. And since “Single Payer” would separate health insurance,
from the employer, it would reduce or eliminate the age discrimination
to compels current employers to overlook older employees. Instead he is
beholden to his Multi-National Corporate handlers that simply want to
push the older unemployed workers into a ditch.
It is time to expose Obama for the egregious “Ageist” that he really is.
Unfortunately “Ageism” has become the new leading edge of prejudice: now
becoming far more prevalent than racial discrimination. Obama’s actions
expose the prejudice, and specific form of discrimination, now institutionally directed at
older Legal American Citizens.
Obama Moving
Forward to Grant Amnesty to Illegal Aliens
Today (06/19/2009) Obama made it abundantly clear that he was going to
grant amnesty for up to 26 million Illegal Aliens:
Let me translate that for you. What Obama is really saying is that he is
going to displace millions of mostly older Americans with much younger
Illegal Aliens that won’t cost nearly as much in terms of health care
and other entitlements.
"What Obama is doing
is much more like Animal Husbandry, accept the animals are Older
American Citizens. It is not uncommon for farmers to euthanize their
animals once they get to old to be useful. And that is exactly what
Obama is doing to the burgeoning numbers of newly retiring Baby Boomers.
This could be one of the worst crimes of the last thousand years."
This actually goes much further than
mere "Ageism with extreme prejudice." It
is actually far worse than the Eugenics agenda that Alex Jones
incessantly talks about. What Obama is doing is much more like Animal
Husbandry, accept the animals are Older American Citizens. It is not
uncommon for farmers to euthanize their animals once they get to old to
be useful. And that is exactly what Obama is doing to the burgeoning
numbers of newly retiring Baby Boomers. This could be one of the
worst crimes of the last thousand years.
What Obama is doing is bringing Orwell’s “Animal Farm” to life and
essentially putting older Americans to death. For what are these growing
millions of unemployed older Americans going to do, once disposed of
their homes, their pensions, their health coverage: their very ability
to survive? It is highly unlikely that they will find jobs paying
anything close to the pay and benefits that they were previously making
before this onslaught of Legal and Illegal Immigrants were allowed to
wash up upon our shores.
Are we really going to allow him to get away with this? If there was
ever a time for the American people to get off their lazy asses I would
say this is the time. And I mean immediately.
A case study in
how Obama’s displacement of older American Workers may eventually affect
you.
This is the story of 44 year old Mark D. Fussner. And this is an excerpt
from one of the articles about his “death by eviction:”
According to the Detroit free press
Mark D. Fussner, an Allen Park resident, who was going to be evicted
from his home, was in involved in a five hour standoff with police.
Fussner fired shots after court officers tried to serve him an eviction
notice.
Fussner wounded a police officer, and refused to give in to the requests
of the officers. Police returned the gunfire. Fussner was found dead in
his basement. It is has not been confirmed as to whether he died of a
self-inflicted gun shot wound, or if he was shot by police.
You would have thought that such a
story would have been plastered on every National News channel. After
all “news that bleeds is news that leads,” goes the old adage.”
But I think the Multi-National News got cold feet because they didn’t
want too much detail of this case revealed. They didn’t want the Legal
American Citizens to start asking too many questions. So let me share
with you some of the information that was missing from most of the
stories on this tragedy.
Mark Fussner was 44 years old when the authorities came to evict him
from his Allen Park home. He had worked as a design engineer for over 15
years and it is apparent from the various articles that he was currently
jobless. He had also had the organizational skills to write and publish
a book on weight loss:
Here are some things that the Multi-National News conglomerates probably
didn’t want people to start asking:
* How is it that an intelligent 44-year old was no longer able to secure
a job and wage that would allow him to stay in his home?
* Did he loose his job to a foreign immigrant or was the business he
worked for offshored?
* Was he really “odd” as one of the articles stated or was he merely
succumbing to the realities of job loss and his pending eviction?
Wouldn’t that cause anyone to feel and act a little bit oddly?
* Is this why Obama is bringing the Military onto US Soil for the first
time in US history? Is this the reason that he is continuing to build
and ready over 800 “internment facilities across the United States?
Could those facilities be getting prepared for dispossessed Legal –
mostly older -- American Citizens
* Are you or I soon going to be forced into a position of not being able
to afford food, clothing and shelter because Obama apparently cares more
for much younger Legal and Illegal Immigrants than he cares for the
welfare of Legal American Citizens?
Conclusion
If there has ever been a time for the American People to rise up it is
now. Every day that we allow Obama’s Multi-National Corporate agenda to
move forward is another day that thousands of Americans are being
displaced from their jobs by foreign workers. And at the same time Obama
is allowing the offshoring of additional jobs and manufacturing to
countries that specialize in “cheap labor” such as China. Most of the
new Ford and GM cars are gong to be built in Mexico and China.
Fortunately there are a number of things that can be put in place now to
reverse Obama’s movement towards a “Human Animal Farm” where older
Americans will be displaced from the job market and will be faced with
foreclosure, eviction and economic ruin.
(1) Completely Stop all Legal
Immigration into the United States for at least 20 years.
(2) Immediately require all employers to used E-Verify on all new and
existent workers. All Illegal Immigrants and Visa Overstays will have to
train their Legal American Counterparts before returning home.
(3) Legalize Marijuana immediately under the MERP Model in order to
destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels and force those involved out of their
jobs and back to Mexico.
(4) Implement a Single Payer Health Care System which will only be
extended to Legal American Citizens who mush first be verified as such
through the E-Verify system. Since Single Payer is separated from the
employer the employer would no longer to discriminate against older
workers on the basis of their age.
(5) All deported Legal and Illegal Immigrants will have complete
biometric data collected (e.g., fingerprints, iris scans etc.) from each
before being deported. Any that return will be subjected to 10 years of
hard labor.
(6) From the time Obama signed the TARP Bailout on 10/03/2008 nearly 15
Trillion dollars has been allocated to the very “banksters” that
offshored our jobs, offshored our factories and allowed this invasion of
young carpet bagging foreigners. Based on an adult population of 200
Million we could give $75,000 to each adult and allow them to pay off
all of their debt: housing, credit and tuition. If anything is left
after that they can keep the remainder. So let’s take back every last
dime and give it back to the American people. This would stabilize the
fall in housing prices and stop the sell off of this country to Saudi,
Chinese and other foreign carpet baggers.
In addition to this I would encourage
you to familiarize yourself with the “New Agenda for America” and the
“MERP” Model for Re-Legalizing Marijuana for adults. Both would be of
great benefit to Legal American Citizens of the United States. And it is
upon this agenda that I will be running as a “write-in” candidate for
the 2012 Presidential Election.
Yours in Peace and Freedom,
Bruce W. Cain
Editor, New Age Citizen
Write-in Candidate for the 2012 Presidency
Author of “The MERP Model” and “The New Agenda for America”
(1) Universal Health Care for All American Citizens
(2) A 20-year moratorium on all immigration into the United States
(3) Legal Marijuana for all Adults and Medical Patients
(4) An immediate reversal to the Offshoring and Inshoring of American
Jobs
(5) A strict enforcement on issues of Separation of Church and State
(6) An immediate move from so-called Free Trade Agreements to Bilateral
Trade agreements
(7) A major R&D project to bring energy independence to the United
States and the World through recycling, reuse, ending hyper-consumerism
and investing in the development of sustainable energy sources (e.g.,
solar, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal)
(8) No further ownership of US Assets (businesses, homes, ports, stock
exchanges) by foreign governments or individuals!
(9) Replace the Federal Reserve with a People's Reserve which allows
public oversight
(10) Absolute support for Net Neutrality
Frosty Wooldridge
For those that want to understand the unsustainable economic and
environmental impacts of our current immigration policy I highly
recommend the writings of Frosty Wooldridge that can be found at the
following link:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frostyA1.htm
Comment:
Though this does appear to be from a group that is also against a Single
Payer Healthcare system it is useful in its information speculating that
Obama's Health Care would also discriminate against older workers. I
haven't read it thoroughly but I don't know that it argues that Obama's
Amnesty, for Illegal Aliens, will also econoomically impact the program
by bringing in an additional 12 to 26 million Illegal Immigrants that we
would have to subsidize with our tax dollars. Good luck with that.
Right now, as you read this letter, politicians in Washington are
scheming behind closed doors to impose a massive government-run health
care system on the American people.
Forget, for just a moment, the 1.6 trillion cost to taxpayers for the
“downpayment” on this plan. Forget, for just a moment, that the cost of
Obama-Kennedy-Pelosi-Care will bankrupt the nation.
What should really concern you is not its cost... but rather its
callousness.
Probably the most horrifying aspect of Obama-Kennedy-Pelosi-Care is that
it will actually limit your family’s health care choices, put government
bureaucrats and accountants in charge of your family’s medical
decisions, and enable these government bureaucrats to actually play God
– deciding who gets what treatment and when.
The dirty little secret is that Barack Obama’s and Teddy Kennedy’s and
Nancy Pelosi’s idea of “reforming” American health care seems to be Less
Care for All, Little or No Care for Some.
Here's what political pundit Dick Morris recently wrote on the subject:
"[T]heir secret emerges: They are going to cut medical costs by cutting
medical care. ... decisions will not be medical but financial. They will
not be based on a doctor’s opinion of what his or her patient needs, but
a bureaucrat’s and an accountant’s opinion of what the new health care
system can afford."
"And you will not be able to bypass their rulings and pay for this care
yourself. The rules laid down must be followed and private payments will
not be permitted to override them. What we now call a private fee for
service will metastasize into a bribe.
"But this is just the very beginning... rationing is coming, and coming
soon."
Rationing of services? Denial of choice? Is that the kind of “reform”
you want?
If you need a CAT Scan or an MRI, forget it. If you need antibiotics,
maybe – only if they’re approved by the federal government. As for
potentially life-saving or life-extending treatments, take a number and
stand in line.
Is this why our so-called leaders in Washington want to bankrupt the
nation in the name of “reform?”
We say “no.”
But simply saying no is not enough. We must, right here and right now,
tell our elected officials that we want them to say "no" to
government-run health care as well.
This is perhaps the biggest fight for freedom in a generation. It is
about the liberty to make our own health care decisions, in consultation
with the doctors of our choice, rather than the federal government doing
it for us!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Fax messages to
President Barack Obama and each and every Member of the Republican and
Democrat leadership of the United States Senate and the United States
House of Representatives - or alternatively to President Obama all 535
Members of Congress.
Tell them that Obama-Kennedy-Pelosi-Care or any other government-run
health care scheme is the wrong prescription for America. Tell them that
the American people do not want a system that rations care, limits
choices or puts government bureaucrats – rather than you and private
doctor – in charge of your family’s health care decisions.
If the button above does not work, please use this hyperlink.
Empty Promises Lead to Bad Public Policy.
Despite the realities of every other government-run health care system
in the world, President Obama, in typical fashion, is attempting to sell
his plan to the American people with empty promises – by telling you
exactly what you want to hear.
”If you want to keep your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor,”
Obama says. “If you want to keep your present health plan, you'll be
able to keep your present health plan,” he tells us.
But if his government-run health care plan passes, Obama will never be
able to keep those promises and he knows it.
Jim Lindgren, writing for the popular Internet blog Volokh Conspiracy,
spelled out the reality of Obama’s plan:
"[I]f the Obama plan is enacted, a substantial portion of employers will
cut their health subsidies — raising their employees’ share of
contributions to the company plan — in order to drive some of the
employees into the government exchange and the public option. Other
employers may drop their plans altogether — after all, workers could buy
their own coverage in the government exchange — or simply fund part of
their workers’ participation in the exchange. These changes, which would
be the direct results of the implementation of the Obama plan, would
make it virtually impossible for Obama to keep these promises..."
And, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office recently reported that
the plan currently under consideration in Congress would cause about 23
million Americans to lose their private insurance.
Another thing Obama failed tell you is that even if he could keep those
promises – and he can’t - keeping your doctor or your present health
plan won’t matter when government bureaucrats start calling the shots
and telling your doctor and provider exactly what they can and cannot
do… when and how they are allowed to treat patients and how much they
can charge for that treatment.
You can stop this government-run health care scheme dead in its tracks –
right now, today!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Fax messages to
President Barack Obama and each and every Member of the Republican and
Democrat leadership of the United States Senate and the United States
House of Representatives -- or alternatively to President Obama all 535
Members of Congress.
Tell them that Obama-Kennedy-Pelosi-Care or any other government-run
health care scheme is the wrong prescription for America. Tell them that
the American people do not want a system that rations care, limits
choices or puts government bureaucrats – rather than you and private
doctor – in charge of your family’s health care decisions.
If the button above does not work, please use this hyperlink.
Don’t Take Our Word for It, Here’s Obama And Other Proponents of
Government-Run Health Care In Their Own Words…
Earlier this year, the New York Times Sunday Magazine published a
lengthy interview with Obama in which the President gave the American
people a small taste of what he envisions for health care reform.
Consider what Obama said:
Obama: “Part of what I think government can do effectively is to be an
honest broker in assessing and evaluating treatment options."
Translation: Government bureaucrats will step in and call the shots.
Both you and your doctor will be shut out from determining appropriate
treatment.
If that doesn’t worry you, the President elaborated further:
"The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are
accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill..."
“There is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors,
scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very
difficult democratic conversation that takes place."
Just what do you think Obama’s talking about here? Trust me, these are
scary times if you’re chronically ill or over the age of 55.
If you have diabetes or high blood pressure or multiple sclerosis – or
are diagnosed with heart disease or cancer – your future doesn’t look
very bright based on the President’s comments above.
If the feds determine you’re costing more than you’re worth, well, it’s
been nice knowing you.
Even Obama’s top health advisers have emphasized that America should
value the lives of young, healthy people more than those of old, sick
individuals.
One such adviser is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Obama’s pit-bull
chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel.
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online describes Dr. Emanuel’s
views:
“He wrote in The Lancet in 2008: ‘Unlike allocation by sex or race,
allocation by age is not invidious discrimination.’ We all were young
once, the argument goes, and so denying the elderly and weak in order to
care for the young and fit is just.”
Does that sound “just” to you?
And, Obama claims that his health plan won’t involve rationing or
reduced care. But that’s ridiculous, because all government-run health
systems suffer from those drawbacks.
In fact, government-run health care supporters in Congress have already
made a down payment on rationed care.
Specifically, 1.1 billion has already been appropriated as part of the
disastrous “stimulus bill” for so-called “comparative effectiveness
research.”
What is “comparative effectiveness research?”
Congressman David Obey, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee,
explained it in his committee’s report:
“…those items, procedures, and interventions… that are found to be less
effective and in some cases, more expensive, will no longer be
prescribed.”
What happened to America being a Republic that promises to safeguard the
God-given rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?”
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Fax messages to
President Barack Obama and each and every Member of the Republican and
Democrat leadership of the United States Senate and the United States
House of Representatives -- or alternatively to President Obama all 535
Members of Congress.
Tell them that Obama-Kennedy-Pelosi-Care or any other government-run
health care scheme is the wrong prescription for America. Tell them that
the American people do not want a system that rations care, limits
choices or puts government bureaucrats – rather than you and private
doctor – in charge of your family’s health care decisions.
If the button above does not work, please use this hyperlink.
Private System vs. Government-Run System...
We are the first to admit that America’s health care system is not
perfect. Costs are out of control; access to care is a real issue for
some.
Yes, some reform is needed, but “reform” modeled after state-run
European and Canadian models is the wrong approach.
After all, despite its flaws, the current health care system in the
United States is second-to-none in the world.
Dr. David Gratzer, a Canadian-trained physician who practices in the
United States, makes that very point in his book The Cure. Here are just
a few examples he cites:
U.S. breast cancer patients are four times as likely to be diagnosed
before the tumor has spread… and thus much more likely to survive;
U.S. cancer patients generally have much higher survival rates than
their European counterparts;
American heath care dramatically outperforms the “universal care”
systems with heart disease and stroke; and,
American researchers in a private enterprise system are responsible for
roughly 80% of the world’s major medical advances.
Here’s how Dr. Gratzer describes his own revelation about Canada’s
state-run system:
“On [my way to medical school class]… I cut through a hospital emergency
room and came upon dozens of people on stretchers – waiting, moaning,
begging for treatment. Some elderly patients had waited up to five days
in corridors before being admitted to beds. They smelled of urine and
sweat. As I navigated past the bodies, I began to question everything I
thought I knew about health care – not only in Canada, but also in the
United States. … I had begun a journey into the heart of one of the
great policy disasters of modern times."
Painful and interminable waits for care are policy disasters Obama
“forgot” to mention.
The time is now to tell Congress that you don’t want government
bureaucrats making life-and-death decisions for you and your family. The
time is now to defeat government-run health care in the United States.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Fax messages to
President Barack Obama and each and every Member of the Republican and
Democrat leadership of the United States Senate and the United States
House of Representatives -- or alternatively to President Obama all 535
Members of Congress.
Tell them that Obama-Kennedy-Pelosi-Care or any other government-run
health care scheme is the wrong prescription for America. Tell them that
the American people do not want a system that rations care, limits
choices or puts government bureaucrats – rather than you and private
doctor – in charge of your family’s health care decisions.
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You Think The Canadian System Is Bad? What About The European Systems?
Is the situation really any better in Europe – should we, for instance,
emulate the French system?
Consider what one French journalist said at the Heritage Foundation:
“The majority of France’s state-owned hospitals are managed in a way
that is reminiscent of the old U.S.S.R. ... In the average French public
hospital, it is not uncommon for every window to be open, even in
winter, because the heating system in the building cannot be regulated.
With the only options being no heat or unbearably high heat, everyone
opts for the latter. Predictably, this is not very cheap.”
What about Germany? The British medical journal, Lancet, states:
“The German health care system is facing bankruptcy on an unprecedented
scale.”
In Great Britain, one current cost-saving measure is the denial of
essential medications to women in advanced stages of certain cancers.
Somehow, Obama “forgot” to mention the stench, the unbearable heat, the
withholding of medications and the financial calamities.
Truth be told: Universal health care is a sham and a delusion. It’s
universal only in that everyone waits in line and everyone receives
substandard care, if they receive any care at all.
On June 15, Barack Obama told the American Medical Association (AMA)
that other developed countries – he meant nations like Canada, Germany,
France, and Britain – pay much less per capita for health care than
Americans.
He’s right… but you also get exactly what you pay for.
Will the health care system under the Obama plan start to follow the
Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) model, where you take a number....
and wait… and then wait some more?
Dr. Gratzer describes what rationing is like in Canada:
“I trained in emergency rooms that were chronically, chaotically,
dangerously overcrowded… all across Canada. I met a middle-aged man with
sleep problems who was booked for an appointment with a specialist three
years later; a man with pain... who was referred to a pain clinic with a
two-year wait list; a woman with breast cancer who was asked to wait for
four months before starting the life-saving radiation therapy.”
There’s tremendous irony in Obama’s and Kennedy’s and Pelosi’s mindless
drive toward a government-run system.
In Great Britain, France, Germany – and even Canada – there’s a growing
push to get people back into private insurance systems, taking the
pressure off public facilities and doctors. It’s a move toward – you
guessed it – government cost savings.
It’s time to tell Congress – loudly and clearly – that
Obama-Kennedy-Pelosi-Care is hazardous to our health, as individuals and
as a nation.
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activists throughout the planet. The translation bar should allow
this to be read in any language. The 5-Point Strategy for
Marijuana Re-Legalization should be easy to implement in any country
throughout the planet. I encourage all groups celebrating the
Global Marijuana March to make the immediate implementation of the MERP
Model a primary focus of the event.
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(1) Immediate clemency for Marc Emery and
(2) Immediate implementation of the MERP Model through an Emergency
Session of Congress, similar to what was used to pass the TARP Bailout
on October 3rd, 2008
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