Outrageous Watch--Government Health Care

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann addresses the U.S. House of Representatives about the current health care bill.   She quotes from a column by Betsy McCoy. 


Here is what some of President Obama's top advisors are saying about medical care under the federal government: 

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and a health-policy adviser in the Office of Management and Budget says

• (Healthcare) savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients.  Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously.     (What is the Hippocratic oath?  Do no harm!!  This is in a country where it is legal to kill an unborn child up to and including the point where his or her head is out of the mother's body! And we take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously?!?! )
  

• Communitarianism should guide decisions as to who gets care.  Medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled.
  

• Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination.  Even if the 25 year old receives priority over 65 year olds, everyone who is 65 right now was previously 25.  (So, its ok to tell 65 year olds that they can't get that operation?!)
  

Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

• recommends we slow medical innovation to control health spending. (So, America is supposed to turn its back on continuing medical innovation?!  Our quality of life is going to go down under this bill!  Our life expectancy is going to go down!!  In a few short generations, we will not be living as long or as healthily as our parents did, if this bill passes.) 
  

We've seen all this coming.  We now have advisers to the President of the United States stating that health care should be rationed away from those who are older or disabled to those who are young and can "contribute" to society.  We see this already in the mindset of companies who are ridding themselves of older workers while those workers are more proven and experienced and still need to work.  Oh, and of course, these older workers take up valuable medical resources too.  So, I guess we just refuse them jobs and refuse them health care.  Eventually they will go away. 

Outrageous Watch--Government Health Care

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann addresses the U.S. House of Representatives about the current health care bill.   She quotes from a column by Betsy McCoy. 


Here is what some of President Obama's top advisors are saying about medical care under the federal government: 

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and a health-policy adviser in the Office of Management and Budget says

• (Healthcare) savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients.  Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously.     (What is the Hippocratic oath?  Do no harm!!  This is in a country where it is legal to kill an unborn child up to and including the point where his or her head is out of the mother's body! And we take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously?!?! )
  

• Communitarianism should guide decisions as to who gets care.  Medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled.
  

• Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination.  Even if the 25 year old receives priority over 65 year olds, everyone who is 65 right now was previously 25.  (So, its ok to tell 65 year olds that they can't get that operation?!)
  

Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

• recommends we slow medical innovation to control health spending. (So, America is supposed to turn its back on continuing medical innovation?!  Our quality of life is going to go down under this bill!  Our life expectancy is going to go down!!  In a few short generations, we will not be living as long or as healthily as our parents did, if this bill passes.) 
  

We've seen all this coming.  We now have advisers to the President of the United States stating that health care should be rationed away from those who are older or disabled to those who are young and can "contribute" to society.  We see this already in the mindset of companies who are ridding themselves of older workers while those workers are more proven and experienced and still need to work.  Oh, and of course, these older workers take up valuable medical resources too.  So, I guess we just refuse them jobs and refuse them health care.  Eventually they will go away. 

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Sunday Snippets is sponsored by RAnn at This, That and the Other Thing. 

This week, I posted Morning Trisagion Prayers from the Orthodox Church, beautiful monastery bells from the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, and a post about the penitential  period in August prior to the Feast of the Dormition/Assumption on the 15th.

I pray that you all have a blessed week!

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Sunday Snippets is sponsored by RAnn at This, That and the Other Thing. 

This week, I posted Morning Trisagion Prayers from the Orthodox Church, beautiful monastery bells from the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, and a post about the penitential  period in August prior to the Feast of the Dormition/Assumption on the 15th.

I pray that you all have a blessed week!

Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos

In the Eastern Church, the period between August 1, and August 14 is a time of fasting and penance in preparation for the Feast of the Dormition (the "falling asleep") of the Theotokos (Mary--literally "God bearer").  August 15 is the Feast of the Dormition in the Eastern Church.  In the west, it is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.

The traditional virtue for August is diligence--perseverance, persistence, long suffering.  The Blessed Virgin was the primary example of persistence.  She  "kept all these things and pondered them in her heart." ~Luke 2:19.  Even when she was troubled, she persevered in her belief in the Father's love for her and continued to think and meditate about all that was happening in her world.

Perhaps these 2 weeks prior to this major marion feast can be a time of meditating on God's providence, taking some time to treasure and keep all that God has put in our path, and by fasting and penance, open our hearts to the future that God has in mind for each of us.

Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos

In the Eastern Church, the period between August 1, and August 14 is a time of fasting and penance in preparation for the Feast of the Dormition (the "falling asleep") of the Theotokos (Mary--literally "God bearer").  August 15 is the Feast of the Dormition in the Eastern Church.  In the west, it is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.

The traditional virtue for August is diligence--perseverance, persistence, long suffering.  The Blessed Virgin was the primary example of persistence.  She  "kept all these things and pondered them in her heart." ~Luke 2:19.  Even when she was troubled, she persevered in her belief in the Father's love for her and continued to think and meditate about all that was happening in her world.

Perhaps these 2 weeks prior to this major marion feast can be a time of meditating on God's providence, taking some time to treasure and keep all that God has put in our path, and by fasting and penance, open our hearts to the future that God has in mind for each of us.

Monastery Bells

Here are the bells from the Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Boston.  Hear them as a call to prayer.