Put the Burger Down and Step Away

Michelle Obama, after lecturing people about eating healthy food during her address to the NAACP a couple days ago, went to an ice cream parlor and had a large chocolate "Hurricane Swirl". Her husband is way too often popping into greasy burger joints and woofing down beefy mush burgers with all the fixin's.

While doing that, they have visited upon us an electronic tracking system of your health records, that will be open to every government bureaucrat in Amerika. This will be in place by 2014, by law of ObamaCare, and you will be required to have your BMI in your electronic records. “Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient’s height and weight.”

These will be know as electronic health records (EHRs). If health care providers do not comply with putting their patients BMI in the EHR, and forwarding it to the Federal government, then there will be penalties.

Section 301 of the law:

"Section 3001 of the stimulus law says: "The National Coordinator shall, in consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies (including the National Institute of Standards and Technology), update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (developed as of June 3, 2008) to include specific objectives, milestones, and metrics with respect to the following: (i) The electronic exchange and use of health information and the enterprise integration of such information.‘‘(ii) The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014."

The BMI, Body Mass Index, for those of you not up on health lingo, is used to determine if you're fat or not (height to weight ratio). With this law, your BMI info will be sent to any federal or state government health agency.

Here's another quote from the law: “Electronically record, retrieve, and transmit syndrome based public health surveillance information to public health agencies.”

The ultimate goal of ObamaCare is that everyone will be on a single payer government health care program, except of course the wealthy Obama's and other wealthy people, politicians, union members, and federal employees. Once the law is in effect, if you change your health care policy, or changing jobs changes your health care policy, then you must, under penalty of law, buy a policy sanctioned by the government. Corporations will shed their employee policies because it's cheaper to pay fines for not providing employee coverage than maintaining their policies.

Plus, if the government, once you're forced onto their program, thinks your BMI too high, you will of course have to pay a higher fee or tax toward the health care program. Of course all those greasy burger joints will be taxed extra for selling food not approved by the government, which means the patrons will have to pay more because business taxes are passed to the consumer, and burgers drive up fat. Already afoot in several Statist controlled states are extra taxes on 'sugary drinks'. The Statist government in NYC tells chefs how much salt they can use (I think this is a pending law). Are you more that ten pounds over on your BMI? Better loose it by 2014 and keep it off.

All the men will look like the cover models on "Men's Health" magazine and all the women will look like super models. We will all use our gorgeous bodies to bow down to the State.

Newest ObamaCare Costs at a Glance

According to CBO (Congressional Budget Office), HR 3962 will force about 50 million people on to Medicaid by 2019. The projection before this was about 35 million people. Ten year cost $450 billion.

Health Insurance Exchange will be yet another new bureaucracy. That is where one would go to get insurance if you don't have it through your employer. Through it will be decided if one has to go on Medicare or can purchase insurance. If the citizen is 400% below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) he will be required to go on Medicaid. If one gets off Medicaid he will only be able to purchase the cheapest, least coverage policy for the first two years.

The government will mandate employers' insurance coverage. That is, the government will tell employers what coverage they have to provide. There will be an additional 8% increase in payroll tax for non-compliance.

By 2015 employers with over 100 employees, can have their employees go on the public option. Paying the fines or taxes will be less expensive for companies, so be ready, if this passes, to have to give up the employer subsidized insurance you have now. Companies will save millions in insurance costs, and you will be forced to buy government run insurance.

Built into this are $700 billion in tax increases. That's to cover the estimated $1.05 trillion cost. That's to start. This being a government, you can count on it being at least double that to start and it'll grow from there. Medicare Advantage will be cut; seasoned citizens will feel this immediately. Medicare prescription drug payments will be reduced. Seasoned citizens again hit hardest.

Obama said repeatedly, until he announced for the presidency, that he wanted a single payer program. If this passes, by 2015, pretty much everybody not self insured will be forced to get health insurance through the government. Yet Obama and the Dems keep saying it's about choice and competition. What part of government monopoly is competition? The choice? Comply with government mandates or get fined.

Washington Post, an Obama supporting Statist mouthpiece, even says premiums will be higher for all. Article here.

If the government controls your health insurance, and your health care providers, they will control what foods, what cars, what doctors, what anything they want to control. And you will have the honor of paying them more for premiums, fees and taxes so they can do so.

Sent to Represent

By the way elected representatives are acting, it's clear they think they are sent to rule. Really, charging for entry to townhall meetings, meetings by invitation only, teleconference meetings by invitation only, shouting down the people that dare question them, calling their constituents Nazis, fascists, mobs, racists and whatever else.

This following exchange at a meeting of some radical leftists and Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) is indicative of the mindset of politicians.

"MASSA: Listen, I tell every audience I’m in favor of single payer.

PARTICIPANT: If there was eighty twenty in the room?

MASSA: If there was a single payer bill?

PARTICIPANT: And there was a single payer….

MASSA: I will vote for the single payer bill.

PARTICIPANT: Even if it meant you were being voted out of office?

MASSA: I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

Massa: I will vote against their opinion if I actually believe it will help them."

The American people, see, are too stupid to know what's good for them.

Waking up to...

Here's a quick glance at what I see this morning.

Tax revenues are down, projected to drop 18% this year. Individual payments to the government (some people call them taxes, Dems call them investments) down 22 percent from a year ago. Corporate income taxes are down 57 percent in that same period. Not surprising when we have an administration take control of several sectors of the economy, attack Wall Street, the oil industry, pushes for increased spending for existing social programs plus creating new ones, and then is trying to ram socialized medicine down the throats of the American people when poll after poll shows half or more of us don't want it. The result of this is that investors, the money guys, are sitting on the sidelines. They aren't going to start new business or invest if they don't know if they will face higher taxes, civil charges, politically correct charges...the administration has made it clear it does not like capitalism, prefers socialism, so the capitalists will sit it out. I think if much more time goes by, they will start investing overseas. Goes back to the question for socialists, 'what do you do when you run out of OPM' (other peoples money)? Tax Cheat Geitner and Rahm Emanuel say they may have to raise taxes on the middle class. That's probably you, dear reader.

I see Dems and RINO's (Republican in Name Only) facing tough town hall meetings. The Dems have sent memos out to politicians and the MSM to demonize these people as right wing extremists and political operatives sent to disrupt. I guess when the Left has riots and break things, disrupt conservative speakers, even physically jump on stage and attack conservative speakers, that's okay...just regular folks do that. But if a Statist politician gets up and regular working folks take off work to question policy; well, damn that right wing conspiracy anyway. I mean, really, what sane person would object to having the government take over every aspect of his/her life?

Talks our Dear Leader have given saying his goal is for a single payer health care system have been found and is getting posted all over the place. The Bamster is saying it's out of context, and has geared up his White House staff and his still existing campaign army (why are they still in place, and who's paying them?)to refute it. Well, context or not, when he says, in two vids I've seen, that his goal is a single payer system, then he wants a single payer system. Below is one of the vids.



Also I read this morning that an estimated 27 million people are now on anti-depressants. Part of it is, I'm sure, is $9.6 billion in U.S. sales. Follow the money.
Then there's justification; more is being reported, more is being diagnosed, pills are cheaper than therapy, to name a few. My view is that it is because the constant campaign against traditional values, church, God, religion, and capitalism (that has provided a stable economic system, except when the gov't intervenes like in the '30's and now). Take away the foundations of society and culture, the people get stressed. The secular society says, take drugs for it; it's okay. Traditionalists say, embrace your family and friends, and God. I've tried both drugs and God. God works better.