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What should pro-life democrats do?
How many times do we hear that the democratic party isn’t the party of death? They falsely claim they are the party of choice. Well, once again we can show that they are only for the choice as long as they agree with that choice.
Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”
Kathleen Sebelious made the network interview rounds last week and said specifically that abortion would not be funded by Obama’s healthcare plan. She wouldn’t answer why they wouldn’t put that in writing. Lies are the change we get … I’m afraid to see what the hope is.
Mammie Grams
I just thought I should update everyone on the governments want to change when women should get mammograms.
From the Wall Street Journal “A Breast Cancer Preview – The mammogram decision is a sign of cost control to come.” 11/19/2009 page A20
As recently as 2002, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force affirmed its
recommendation that women 40 and older undergo annual mammograms to check for breast cancer. Since regular mammography became standard practice in the early 1990s, mortality from breast cancer—the second leading cause of cancer death among American women—has dropped by about 30%, after remaining constant for the prior half-century. But this week the 16-member task force ruled that patients under 50 or over 75 without special risk factors no longer need screening.
So what changed? Nothing substantial in the clinical evidence. But the panel—which includes no oncologists and radiologists, who best know the medical literature—did decide to re-analyze the data with health-care spending as a core concern.
(A)ccording to its review, because there are fewer cases of breast cancer in younger women, it takes 1,904 screenings of women in their 40s to save one life and only 1,339 screenings to do the same among women in their 50s. It therefore concludes that the tests for the first group aren’t valuable…..
Single Payer Health Care…In HIS own Words
And just for fun…
Let it Begin
The government is showing us some signs of what life would be like when they are in control of our healthcare:
A government task force said Monday that most women don’t need mammograms in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50 — a stunning reversal and a break with the American Cancer Society’s long-standing position.
What’s more, the panel said breast self-exams do no good, and women shouldn’t be taught to do them…….
For most of the past two decades, the American Cancer Society has been recommending annual mammograms beginning at 40, and it reiterated that position on Monday. “This is one screening test I recommend unequivocally, and would recommend to any woman 40 and over,” the society’s chief medical officer, Dr. Otis Brawley, said in a statement.
But the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government panel of doctors and scientists, concluded that such early and frequent screenings often lead to false alarms and unneeded biopsies, without substantially improving women’s odds of survival.
“The benefits are less and the harms are greater when screening starts in the 40s,” said Dr. Diana Petitti, vice chair of the panel.
Speaking of Frothing at the Mouth……
The Liberal blogs are all a fluster. I love it! This has nothing to do with Obama – because they are probably still hung over from the “he got a prize for doing nothing” party. What I’m talking about is the American Medical Associations report card on Insurance companies. Ya know, those big baddies that don’t pay for squat! Wanna know which insurance company denied the most coverage? Medicare. The government.
Now I know everyone, even the conservative news, wants everyone to think that the big bad insurance companies are allowed to deny pre-existing conditions willy nilly with no thought to the person and that Medicare must cover all who are eligible, as suggested by the Daily Kos. Well, that is simply untrue. Guess what? There is a federal law (federal law trumps state laws) that mandates that insurance companies must have legitimate reasons and can only withhold coverage for pre-existing conditions for a specific amount of time. That little law is something that is well known but this section doesn’t seem to see much public light. It is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It can be found in Title 29 U.S.C. 1181.
What does it all mean?
I’m going back to the Universal Healthcare Reform bill that is in Congress right now because I’ve been informed that I haven’t been getting to the facts as I usually do. Until now the Conservatives groups have been screaming that it will harm us and the Liberal groups have been saying it will not harm and that we need it. So which one is it? In order not to disappoint the readers that know me, I went straight to the source. The bill itself.
One complaint that I’ve been hearing and complaining about is the legalization of euthanasia or “physician assisted suicide” (which is the PC term for euthanasia). Is it really in there and is it mandated? My first 
reaction to these questions is who the heck knows? It is all in legalese so I’ve had to read, reread, and reread some more to try to figure it out. So here is what I’ve got on that:
Sec 1233: Advance Care Planning Consultation (starting on page 424 of above link).
‘‘(E) An explanation by the practitioner of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice, and benefits for such services and supports that are available under this title.
The truth about the uninsured
I saw these statistics this morning on the Fox News program Fox and Friends and have spent most of the morning verifying their numbers. I verified this information at the National Center for Policy Analysis(NCPA), Business and Media Institute, The Census Bureau, Employment Policies Institute, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Whew. 
So here it is:
We hear it all the time, that there are approximately 47 Million people uninsured. This number is true, but extremely misleading. The problem is they don’t tell you what qualifies as an uninsured person. The CBO report has the definition of uninsured as “uninsured at some point in time”. This is how long a person actually goes without insurance. If a person switches jobs and there is a 1 week gap between the Cobra insurance ending and the new jobs insurance beginning, that counts as one of the millions of uninsured.
Government healthcare means death
I’ve been talking about how Governmental healthcare is really pro-death healthcare. Months ago, I argued my position repeatedly on here UNTIL now. Now that it is close to a reality, no comments in support of government healthcare are anywhere to be found. I have to admit, I’ve been curious about that.
So, what brought this up? Well, a Wall Street Journal article has got me seriously thinking how dangerously close we are to this being a reality, and how dangerously close we are to the ultimate pro-death society.
Wall Street Journal, 7/23/2009 by Betsy McCaughey who is chairman of the 
committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former lieutenant governor of New York state.
Since Medicare was established in 1965, access to care has enabled older Americans to avoid becoming disabled and to travel and live independently instead of languishing in nursing homes. But legislation now being rushed through Congress—H.R. 3200 and the Senate Health Committee Bill—will reduce access to care, pressure the elderly to end their lives prematurely, and doom baby boomers to painful later years.
Another lie is not hope and change
There was a young man from Chicago
Whose politics were a lot like the lotto
He pushes the bills through
Which helps just a few
and “I didn’t read it” is his Motto
Let me give you two recent quotes from President Obama:
“If you have health insurance, and you like it, and you have a doctor that you like, then you can keep it. Period.’"
Yet, here is his response to the question – "Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?"
"You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about."
And guess what? He said both of these statements during a conference call he had with left leaning bloggers! The same interview on the same day.
This is all because of a new bill, H.R. 3200, "America’s Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009," is being pushed through Congress. It has 1,018 pages to it. Obama doesn’t want it read, because if Congress does that they may notice that money goes where it isn’t supposed to go A La the AIG bonuses. He needs this bill passed before Congress goes back to their home states during the break. This is because less than 50% of Americans now approve of this bill and our representatives will be getting an ear full about this.
Pro-life Democrats take a stand
Yes! The pro-life democrats get vocal about their opposition to abortion!
Abortion is emerging as a flashpoint in the congressional debate over health care reform.
Even though none of the reform proposals grinding through congressional committees refer to abortion, a group of anti-abortion Democrats in Congress say they’re worried the controversial procedure will be covered
under the legislation even if it’s not specifically mentioned.
Ninteen of them….. sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that vowed opposition to any health care reform package that spends tax dollars on abortion.
"We cannot support any health care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan," says the June 25 letter. "By ensuring that any health care package will not fund or require funding for abortions, we will take this controversial issue off the table so that Congress can focus on crafting a broadly supported reform package."
The (National Women’s Law center) Vice President Judy Waxman said that 80 percent of employer-based health insurance programs cover abortions, and predicted "people will be angry if they don’t get to keep what they already have" under public health insurance. She said none of the health care reform proposals under consideration in Congress specify the procedures they would include.
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