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Canadian Socialized Health Care Nightmares... What Obama Has For Us!

Here are some excerpts from Canadian Press about the Socialized Health in Canada. Again this is what Obama and the American media don't want Americans to know. This is the health care coming to the United States under the Obama plan.

You can read any of the excerpts by clicking on them.

Parliament unanimously passed the Canada Health Act in 1984 and established a single-payer, publicly-financed health care system. To ensure a true government monopoly (is there any other kind?) Canadian provinces outlawed private health insurance.
Chaoulli v. Quebec UPDATE (June 9, 2005) : In a 4 to 3 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down Quebec's law that prohibits private medical insurance.

U.S. Patients have Greater Access to Advanced Medical Technology Than Do Canadians




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I visited Canada two years ago. They have two seperate taxes on everything that is purchased in that country. One is a tax like the Americans have and the other is for health care and education. Every citizen is treated equal when it comes to health care and education, no special treatment because of wealth and no refusals because of non wealth. Every heath care facillity in the states are for profit, as well as every college, it's all about money.

 
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That's right. Everyone has equal access to the same expensive, inefficient health care throughout Canada.

Posted 2009-03-06T23:22:31Z
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I think Health Care in Canada is great. I have over the last 20 years used Candian health care in 5 provinces, any thing from a broken finger to a bladder infection and had excellent care and not paid a cent. (except for the prescription for meds.) Last winter in Florida I had a bladder infection and it cost me close to $400.00 plus the meds. Why would Americans not want health care?. Sure we pay for it in our Taxes, but we all share the cost. In the US I pay around $900.00 for 6 months, out of Country. That covers emergencies and most things are not said to be emergencies.  

 
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THERE ARE (5) U -TUPE LINKS BELOW, VERY IMPORTANT ONES, THEY SHOW THAT THERE IS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, PLEASE TAKE THE TIME AND JUST CLICK ON EACH ONE AT A TIME, PLEASE BE SURE YOU HIGHLIGHT FIRST, AND ALSO PUT KEEP AS NEW , YOU CAN RETRIVE FROM OLD FOLDER.

Well here is the link guys from Kenya that states he is not an American citizen........in fact several videos showing it  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0riQMj1BvwM&NR=1

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Cool Equal justice for All

The law works but the system needs changed, We all abide by the law but sometime it failes us. The same with the goverment. God bless the USA, Brign our troops HOME safely, To the men who did not get the credit they deserve, MAY GOD WATCH OVER OUR SERVICE MEN.

The same thing on The Great britian health and Canadian health care works and what it does for us???????? As we are lost in the shuffle.

Posted 2009-10-25T20:00:32Z
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"THIS WAS IN MY E-MAIL,FROM ONE OF OUR BEST POSTERS"
      "PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ, THANK YOU"
 
Good Morning Friends,

I take this recent statement by Dr. Charles Krathammer not as fact, but as a distinct possibility.

I am not sure how many of you are familiar with the Climate Change Meeting that will be occurring in December, (Copenhagen), and the potential ramifications on Americas Sovereignty? At this point I don't, but am trying to educate myself as to the possible outcomes. Why? Because it is really starting to assail my basic American sensibility
. Sorry, but I kind of like what freedoms we still posses, and have this unnerving feeling that what this administration is trying to do with OUR country is simple. That is to Take us into economic parity with the rest of the developed nations. Instead of being number ONE, we shall be ONE of many.

Dr.
Krathammers statement, or belief.

"
Obama doesn't really see himself as President of the United States, but more as a ruler over the world.  He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries and their
agendas.  He sees moral equivalency in all cultures.  His apology tour in Germany and England was a prime example of how he sees America, as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors.  This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!"


With that thought in mind I have taken several sections of the proposed Global Climate Change Treaty and did a little cutting and pasting.
What you will notice is what I call a lot of multiple choice language. Depending on the choices taken, and the signatures adhered to, will basically determine what we as a once sovereign nation will contribute to the rest of the world. From what I can tell, if the proper wording is picked in the FILL IN THE BLANKS, we will be screwed.  You be the judge.


Here are some of the excerpts. Once again you be the judge.
When I filled in the most conservative blanks, guess what? Take the first paragraph and you fill in the blank and ask yourself, WHAT DOES THIS DO TO OUR ECONOMY? OUR JOBS? OUR WAY OF LIFE???
If you recall Bush would not sign the Kyoto Treaty that called for a 5% reduction of Carbon Emissions for the vast ramifications that would be felt by the U. S. Let me think. What do you thing a 75 % reduction would do, much less a 95% reduction.



[And [in the range of 75–85] [by at least 85] [by at least 90] [by more than 95] per cent
by 2050.]]
Alternative to subparagraph 31 (
b):
[should transform their economies over the coming decades in order to collectively reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions by 80–
95per cent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.]
 
36. The new agreed post-2012 institutional arrangement and legal framework to be established for
the implementation, monitoring, reporting and verification of the global cooperative action for
mitigation, adaptation, technology and financing, should be set under the Convention. It should include a
financial mechanism and a facilitative mechanism drawn up to facilitate the design, adoption and
carrying out of public policies, as the prevailing instrument, to which the market rules and related
dynamics should be subordinate, in order to assure the full, effective and sustained implementation of the
Convention.
38. The scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention will be based on three
basic pillars: government; facilitative mechanism; and financial mechanism, and the basic organization
of which will include the following:
(a)
The government will be ruled by the COP with the support of a new subsidiary body on
adaptation, and of an Executive Board responsible for the management of the new funds
and the related facilitative processes and bodies. The current Convention secretariat will
operate as such, as appropriate.
[[[Be legally binding, and] [Include] [legally-binding] provisions for ensuring the
compliance of Annex II Parties with their financial commitments to support enhanced
action on adaptation in developing countries] [Provisions for ensuring the compliance of
developed country Parties with their financial and technology transfer commitments shall
be legally binding];]
2. [National adaptation plans [are to be] [should be] [reviewed and] updated [every [three to] four
years] [with financial support from the Convention Adaptation Fund]. [Implementation of] national
[adaptation plans [and actions]] [adaptation planning processes] [should be ongoing and iterative, and
activities] [should be] [could be] [reported] [included] as part of a country’
s national communication.]
23. [[To promote [[the] enabling [activities] [environments] [(policy, legislative and institutional)] to
support] [, enable and support the implementation of] adaptation action[
s], [all Parties] [Parties] [all

 
 
FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/INF.2
Page 35
 
developing country Parties [particularly low-lying and other small island countries, countries with low-
lying coastal, arid and semi-arid areas or areas liable to floods, drought and
desertification, and
developing countries with fragile mountainous ecosystems]] [with financial support from the Convention
Adaptation Fund, technical support and capacity-building] [shall][should][may]:] [To promote the
enabling activities to enhance adaptation actions in all developing country Parties, the developed country
Parties should]:
 
At this point there are 200 pages of this piece of work. 


Does the Carbon Issue need to be addressed? Yes. Does Health Care need to be addressed. Yes.
How? In small, systematic increments that actually accomplish the ends to the mean. That don't disrupt our whole social and economic system at the insistence of our Presidents outlook on our FLAWED and unfair nation.


The question that I need to ask is very simple. Is this
GCC treaty a means to Obama's true goal as suggested by Dr. Krathammer? How does this tie into Cap and Trade, Health Care, Compensation Control, Education, and all of the other radical changes that he is trying to enact?


I think that we are starting to see the larger picture now.


KEEP THE FAITH, and I think it is safe to say, KEEP UP THE FIGHT!

B. 
 

 
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Why not tell your people in Congress that you don’t really agree!!!!!
"AMERICA WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED FROM T HE OUTSIDE. IF WE FALTER AND LOSE OUR FREEDOMS, IT WILL BE BECAUSE WE DESTROYED OURSELVES"
ABRAHAM  LINCOLN 
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Little gems from the Health Care Bill

Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009 4:12:23 PM by CMS
• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan.. If that is not available, you will be required to take the gov option!
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 124: No company c an sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll <>BR • Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• Page 167: Any individual who doesnt' have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
• Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.." Yes, it really says that.
• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected."
âA C¢ Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.
• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates.. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

 


On page 425 it says in black and white that EVERYONE on Social Security, (will include all Senior Citizens and SSI people) will go to MANDATORY counseling every 5 years to learn and to choose from ways to end your suffering (and your life).  Health care will be denied based on age.  500 Billion will be cut from Seniors healthcare.   The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut health care, the oldest and the sickest will be cut first.   Paying for your own care will not be an option. 
Now, CALL YOUR PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!! 2 Tell them to read page 425 if they don't read anything else.  Surely  some of them have parents.

 


 
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"THIS IS A FOLLOW-UP E-MAIL FROM ONE OF THE BEST"
"PLEASE TAKE THE FEW MINUTES TO VIEW AND READ"
 
Friends,
 
I wrote to you this weekend about what I had read in the Copenhagen World Treaty on climate change that is going to occur in December. 
 
 
WE as a nation are hearing virtually NOTHING about what is about to transpire. With all my heart, all my convictions, I believe that this is one agenda item on Obama's list of many, that will give you the change that we all have so desperately craved. RIGHT!! 


If allowed to happen, this will Fundamentally change America as we know it.


Please take 4 minutes of your time and listen to this video. Then you judge. 


The question is, "What can we do to stop this madness???"


B.


Thanks James for the information.





Click here: YouTube - Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?
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by Michael David Smith Filed under: Michigan , Ohio State The Ohio State-Michigan game has always been my personal favorite college football rivalry, dating back to my days as a 5-year-old living near Ann Arbor and worshiping Bo Schembechler. OSU vs. Michigan 2009 doesn't figure to be one of the legendary games -- it might not even be a very good game -- but I'll be watching, and I'll be tweeting my observations while I watch. And since I'm a sucker for rivalry games, I'll also be tweeting about lesser rivalries like the Harvard-Yale game as well. Follow along below or follow me on Twitter @MichaelDavSmith .Ohio State-Michigan Game 2009: Live Twitter Updates originally appeared on Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:05:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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