Thursday, April 15, 2010

Have We Been Scammed?

Did Barak Obama and the Democratically controlled congress initiate the greatest scam since human beings organized themselves into kingdoms and countries?

After hearing reporters and commentators on the various networks, reading blog entries on the Internet and various editorials from newspapers across America, it is all to obvious.

Very few, if any, media personnel that have the responsibility of giving the public verifiable information, are doing his/her/their job. Is it possible that the Democratically controlled U.S. House of Representatives, Senate and President Barak Obama are lying to us and misleading us?

No one has addressed this issue. Is the recently passed health care bill by the democratically controlled United States Senate, House of Representatives and being sold by President Barak Obama, a classic scam? Is it possible that no one is really scrutinizing our so-called congressional leadership because these people are democrats and Barak Obama is African American?

Giving the public misleading information and lying are the same. If any information given to the public is not true, it is a lie regardless of who is saying it, repeating it, reporting it or commenting on it. If information cannot be validated, independently of the source, it should not be reported as factual. If there is conflicting information, both sides of the issue should be heard. At least Fox News makes an attempt to be fair and balanced.

America is not some communist, totalitarian, socialist or fascist country, or a dictatorial regime or a "Banana Republic", at least not yet. All this was written to make these observations about the so-called health care debate that led to the health care bill and a supposedly massive restructuring of America's health care delivery systems.

The democrats seem to be very fond of repeating and identifying the horrors of America's so-called broken health care system. This broken system, according to democrats and their leadership is producing thousands of dead people annually because they did not have access to health care. Is this true? Where are the facts to verify these statements?

Secondly, what is the source of this information? It seems no news organization bothered to ask. The President said, he received letters from thousands of people about their medical horror stories, but, he has only mentioned one or two...and I know of only one that has been factually verified by Fox News. This number of 32,000,000 Americans without health insurance.... wait a minute....isn't there a difference between health care and health insurance? Again, nothing I have seen or read challenged the difference between the two.

The next issue that was poorly covered in the health care debate is denied coverage. How many people have been denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions? .... And... how does this number of denials compare to all the people that have a health insurance policy? Does having a health insurance policy translate into health care coverage? Or... can health care be received without having an insurance policy?

Has anyone bothered in the media to check out these statements to give us, the general public, the facts regarding these statements by democrats and the President? Or....Is the main stream media indirectly and unknowingly participating in and supporting this scam? Not even Fox News, the number one rated news service, bothered to question democrats or the President about their statements and their source/s of information relative to these horror medical stories. These statements might be coming from political operatives. They might even be vastly overstated and there is always the possibility that there might be other reasons for these so-called medical horror stories that have nothing to do with insurance companies.

What else did the news media fail to question the democrats and the President about?

1. How many people were actually dropped by insurance companies after becoming sick?
2. How many people actually lost their homes because of medical bills?
3. What is the primary reason why the cost of health care is escalating?
4. How can you save a dollar and spend it at the same time?
5. Can financial figures from the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) be manipulated to produce a politically pleasing result?
6. Can CBO numbers be verified or reviewed independently of Congress or must we rely solely on this so-called bi-partisan government agency?
7. Is there a better way to solve America's health care problems without costing trillions of dollars?
8. Can the government legally penalize someone if he/she fails to buy health insurance?
9. Can the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) really and legally be authorized to monitor and investigate American citizens as it relates to health care insurance?
10. Do people really come to emergency rooms for health care or for medical treatment?
11. Does having a national health care system translate into higher productivity, increased innovation and opportunity like the democrats are telling us?
12. Is being a woman a pre-existing condition that would facilitate denial of insurance coverage? {Gleaned from Nancy Pelosi's statement)
13. Can an Executive Order written by the President supersede statutory federal law?
14. Is there a loophole in the health care bill that would allow for abortion? And...if this loophole does not exist, why would President Obama need to sign an Executive Order?
15. Was Bart Stupak sincere? ....Are was he and his group holding out for a similar "Cornhusker Kickback" and when it could not happen, sought political cover from the President?

If these questions were asked and answered, were the answers verified independently of the source? These are just a few of the questions I have not read or seen on any major or minor media outlet. If these questions are not asked and the answers verified by an investigation into them, can we assume the "Fix" is in?

And...we, the American people, are about to be scammed out of trillions of dollars for a health care bill, that we just....might not need...in its current form? Somebody somewhere is going to reap huge benefits from this health care bill and I can literally guarantee, it is not going to be the overwhelming majority of the American people.

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