Many of you have gotten this email.

B-note: This is a partial quote from the email. He cites several dozen more, but these are the “horrifying, shocker” lines referred to and originally printed by the author in red.

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I URGE YOU TO READ THIS ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT IS THERE TO PLEASE CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS TO OBJECT BECAUSE IF WE DON’T OBJECT THIS WILL BECOME THE LAW.

Subject: If you don’t want to even think about this, but surely you must oppose i…

If you have been in favor of any of the healthcare plan, you better think again. It will be tyranny for us. Let your congressman and senator know how you feel.

All of this is more than HORRIFYING, but for the biggest shocker look at page 425.

Peter Fleckstein has looked at Obama’s Healthcare Bill and if his comments are accurate this bill would be the most encompassing act of tyranny ever in the history of these United States. Here is what he says the bill says:

At the end of his comments there is a link to the actual bill itself so that you may check the accuracy of his comments.

PG 425 Lines 4-12 Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consultation. Euthanasia and Doctor-Assisted Suicide.

Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Govt will instruct consult regarding living wills, and assume power of attorney of all enrollees. Mandatory!

PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death decisions to end your life.

PG 427 Lines 15-24 Govt mandates program to mandatory end of life programs. The Govt will mandate how your life ends.

Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An “advance care planning consultant” will be used frequently as a patient’s health deteriorates

PG 429 Lines 10-12 “advance care consultation” may include an ORDER to initiate end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOV to terminate a life.

Pg 429 Lines 13-25 – The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

PG 430 Lines 11-15 The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life

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Oh my God!!!!!
Government mandated suicide!!!
Just like that Star Trek episode with the guy from MASH committing suicide at age 60 by law. How horrific!!!!!!

I don’t want anyone to think I’m for bill HR 3200 in any way. It’s garbage for 32,000 reasons including the euthanasia scare.

But not the way you think.

We’ve all gotten the horror email about killing old people. It says the bill mandates this outright in black and white.

The concern is real, though the bill doesn’t say that.

HR 3200 doesn’t give the government the powers of euthanasia that the emails describe.

It does guarantee the medical community, especially insurers like Blue Cross, that they can charge Uncle Sam once every 5 years for a “consultation” for every patient that qualifies for Medicare. More often than that if there’s a change in the person’s health.

These provisions are supposed to be about making sure people plan ahead for future care and have their wishes honored. The section lays out all the reasons you might need it: long-term care, life-sustaining care, decisions to be made if you can’t, and, yes, hospice.

No government agent is supposed to sit in on this consultation. You and your doctor, nurse, or – here’s the dangerous part – your proxy. Which can be your provider’s medical administrator.

According to the bill, this is a choice for the patient that the government must pay for. To insurers, doctors and health care providers, it’s a goldmine of guaranteed fees from the US coffers with no treatment or service expense. All providers will make this consultation mandatory by policy so they won’t miss out on any cash. Then, doctors will start telling all their patients of age, but not covered, that it’s mandatory but free, and everybody will get in on it.

Then, the providers and certain doctors will use the consultations as an excuse to suggest or deny treatments, minimize expenses, or, yes, convince folks to give up and let their illness win to maximize profit.

Facilities and providers under the current system can’t wait to bury patients who are terminal and no longer generating income through treatments and procedures.

They practically killed my dad with horrendous care and practices after botching his surgery. He couldn’t die soon enough. The nursing home doped him up and gave him pneumonia. Then the ER was going to deny him the antibiotics because he was going to die anyway. I almost hit the doctor. I demanded my dad get them, and he was eating a steak the next day. We set him up to do home hospice with me and my brothers. He left this world at his time, in his own home, watching his TV.

This bill will empower providers to lie about the law at will, applying it as they see fit to maximize their cash flow from the government. Every healthy person over 65 would be encouraged to test for some possible ailment at every consultation. Anyone with a problem would find themselves taking numerous tests, procedures, and drugs unrelated to the illness. God forbid you be terminally ill. They’ll send you down the hospice chute faster than you can wink. On life support? Not anymore. Cutting costs mean cutting your life.

So, yes, these fears are justified, but not because the government is going to suddenly become fascist, commie Nazis.

It’s because our medical providers will instantly abuse it completely and leave us worse off no matter what it says.

My brother pointed out to me that Nazi Germany had similar legislation, that had a distinction, read between the lines, that allowed for the elimination of “useless eaters” – euthanasia of those too old or infirm to contribute to society. Although the law didn’t say that, it could be interpreted by the Nazis intentionally to use it this way without the public’s awareness, most believing the law was fair.

This is exactly like that. The pages just say a Medicare patient can have this every 5 years or more often if their health changes.

Providers will say it’s mandatory. Even though they don’t provide that consultation at all now unless it’s demanded by the patient’s advocates and approved by the provider, however useful it might be.

A counseling session like this may have allowed me to get my dad into home hospice much earlier. Even to have planned for it when his cancer metastasized. We only got him home after 3 near-death experiences exposing horrendous negligence. And begrudgingly. They fought us over it until we exhausted them. This is with full BlueCross/BlueShield and supplemental up the wazoo. They couldn’t wait to put him in a black gurney.

Imagine what they’ll do when they can charge the government full rate, say it’s mandatory, and dictate patient care from then on.

The bill doesn’t say that, but we’re already being told it does just to hide the fact that it’s already status quo.

They want more. This is a license to print money from Medicare patients and discard them when they don’t bring a profit.

The whole thing is written like this – vague, technical, and ripe for abuse by the current system.

I hate this bill, but I also hate to see all this larceny continue unabated because of some semantic sleight of hand.

The providers need to change to accommodate the market. No government-anything past fixing Medicare for now.

This bill will make everything worse.

Even worse yet, no bill will be any good until we start using the actual language against them instead of taking interpretations as fact.

This is the info I wish was going around the internet. The bill can’t be trusted because it gives free reign to all the morons and profiteers already ruining our system for most folks.

Obama is not out to kill our elderly, he just doesn’t know the medical insurance industry already is.

I hope you’ll pass this on. I hate to see this bill go through because this “euthanasia” point is too easy to dismiss.

It’s already happening now, and it will grow unchecked if this bill is passed.

Please send the real page 425 to everyone and your congress-morons.

Now, those actual pages from the house bill, accessed via the link in the email (you actually have to start at page 424 to get the entire section):

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I simply did as the email suggested: I followed the link to verify his comments.

To make it even simpler, I chose to first investigate his “horrifying” mandates on pages 425-430.

As you’ve read, there is no way to confuse this section as “mandatory euthanasia at the government’s discretion”. It merely demands counseling and knowledge of all aspects of care and assistance available, spelling them out by application – critical care, long term care, life-sustaining, and hospice.

This kind of misquote is rampant on both sides. Read the bill yourself. Don’t take someone’s word for what’s in it. There’s surely plenty wrong and right in the same pages, and much to be discussed. This is, however, a blatant attempt to frighten people into
fearing any health care bill, outright. We aren’t living in Logan’s Run unless we allow this to continue.

But, as my brother wryly observed, “objects in mirror are closer than they appear”.

All this nonsense has to stop.

And we’re just the hairpins to do it.
 
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Full text of HR 3200 IH on gpo.gov
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Star Trek: TNG episode “Half a Life” – Wikipedia entry
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From Oxford University Press:

refers to any one of various theories of economic organization advocating public or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with a more egalitarian method of compensation.

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

the ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy.

 

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This definition of socialism is valid.

The common distinction of Nazis obfuscating racism and nationalism as socialism is also accurate.

All the myriad modern political criticisms voiced as Nazi, socialist, and communist comparisons are accurate as well.

Historically, politically, and situationally. Accurate.

But, not from your real “Funk and Wagnalls’” point of view. Not according to the words themselves.

These are basically dirty words in America. They bring scorn and derision from many. Torrents of online comments and forums are rife with eager right wingers slamming liberals as “socialist”. Eventually, as “commies”, and of course, soon after, as “Nazis”.

Theses comments represent the individuals understanding of these terms from knowledge of their application through history. All 3 terms are instantly associated with cruel, brutal, evil regimes and widespread abuse, corruption, murder, and imperial plans for military global domination.

Of course, from the current Communist view, we Americans are “greedy imperialists’”out to take monetary and military control of the world. While we suspect as a society that our financial sector has maybe too big of an appetite, I think few of us believe that our leaders or citizens have ever wanted to militarily control the world or, in fact, even to be an empire of colonies around the globe. I think we genuinely want everyone to have their choice and the knowledge to make it wisely. We don’t see ourselves as the ruthless conquerors we observed the Soviet Union to be.

So here we are. Completely divergent socio-political systems at odds with each other and the global economy batted about between them like a shuttlecock. The other is so evil, mine has to be right. So both will tell you, with plenty of horrifying indisputable examples of why the enemy is so bad.

What’s missing – that hidden truth in the middle.

The clarity of the words themselves. What do they really mean?

Well, we can dump “Nazi” because it was created by a murderous lunatic and is only an acronym for his intolerant evil movement. Please use it sparingly. And alone. Or not at all, maybe.

No such luck with the other two. They’re real words twisted past recognition.

“Communism” and “socialism” are words that have been re-defined by history and politics.

Even Karl Marx himself was so inane as to call them a “political struggle”.

Communism – from “commune” or “community”. “Socialism”- from “social” or “society”.

These words mean, basically, “for the community” or “for society”. It’s not politics.

In fact, it’s an economic/administration system that could only work as a classless democracy with voluntary and agreed levels of community ownership and responsibility.

No government on Earth’s ever tried this without military ruling-class domination and the virtual elimination of the middle class. Not Russia, not Cuba, and certainly not China. And the Nazis? Socialists? Hardly! As soon as Marx made it a political issue, he gave it to uncounted current and future despots as a new strategy.

The only example of socialism or communism ever attempted in the modern age was by – you guessed it – hippies in the late 60’s.

A “commune” was a community of people acting as one entity, sharing all assets and duties equally.

They ran into immediate difficulty because all needs and skills are not equally applicable. A variable scale has to come into play to account for demand, supply, skills, priority and value.

This goes against the philosophy itself unless you add individual ownership and capitalism to generate growth and stability.

In other words, free-market capitalism.

Socialism demands a common base for all and a common right to improvement and enrichment for all, balanced by the desire to contribute to the base by those who grow.

China is learning as we watch. You can’t sustain a true communist society of billions without growing economically. They are starting to evolve, albeit at a snail’s pace, to a free market-socialist hybrid. They’re seeing a dramatic increase in middle class as they take on a more active role in the world marketplace.

They have a long way to go, but you can see that they’re adding bits of capitalism here and there to keep the system running. While democracy may be light years away there, China is in a prime position to set the world example for nationalized health care and meeting public welfare/retirement needs.

Serious human rights issues remain from the military origins of Chinese communism, and these will need to be overcome as well before they can achieve this prosperous blend of east/west philosophy.

Simply put – they must find the necessary blend of socialist and capitalist practices to ensure maximum stability or they will die financially like the Soviet Union.

In any case, the stage will be set for a new attempt at democratic, free-market, socially-oriented government.

Think of it. The American dream – you’re right try to achieve anything you want and reap the fortunes you earn, anchored by the safety of knowing you have shelter, food, education, and communication at your disposal – you can try, really try, without risking your home, your livelihood, your family’s health. You can grow, earn, profit, and participate in your government. You can truly choose.

I have only ever seen one example of this kind of government.

Star Trek.

In this fictional Utopia of the future, it seems the lowest one falls is a place to stay with a replicator, communications port, and medical help if they need it. Above and beyond that – the universe is the limit.

You live a life of freedom of choice, of speech, of endeavor. You vote. You participate in your government’s affairs. Your politicians know this and act responsibly. (Ok, even I couldn’t keep a straight face on that one.)

In the Federation’s day, things are still made. People are still employed privately and civilly. There are still successful folks, and folks who just get by on the basics.

If we had to nitpick about how a fictional society works;

All housing isn’t arbitrarily free. You live in a small, clean, pleasant, healthy, and accessible studio apartment with a bath, sleeping area, a dining area, replicator, and communications hub. The furniture is built in and it retracts if you want to buy your own custom furniture. You can still buy or lease any size or style of home, but this one is free as long as you need it.

A basic communications system probably would give you all the same kind of things that are free or normal for general consumption now. A computer keyboard/lcd port for internet/Library access, news, TV, some entertainment, communication, correspondence, and education. Special programming and features would cost extra.

The replicator might come with about 500 normal everyday household patterns, from chicken soup, salads, and hot dogs to pajamas and screwdrivers. A small selection of toys and games. Specialty items, like designers clothes, sports equipment, musical instruments, and recreational items would cost. You’d buy the pattern for that brand-name tennis racket, and if it broke you could make another.

You see, you still can have a job and get paid. And you don’t have to spend 90% of your pay struggling just to exist. If this isn’t enough for you – if you want more, you can go after it all you want without fear of dying alone in the street.

And when you make it, you can have a mansion somewhere and your own shuttle-pod. Maybe even your own transporter. You can replicate Gucci underwear and famous gourmet recipes.

Gene Roddenberry’s world of our future implies a true fusion of democratic, capitalist, and socialist philosophies.

Does that make Star Trek a bunch of pinko-commie Nazis?

We can’t even use the word socialist without attaching the idiocy of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao. The term itself is now vilified beyond repair.

So, my point stands. No one has ever tried to implement a proper working blend of democratic, capitalist, and socialist practices.

Well, a couple wanted to, but they immediately thought, “Ok, we can free everybody from this tyranny if we just get control of the military, banks, and broadcasters.” You know the rest.

It will be hundreds of years before mention of socializing or nationalizing anything is not tainted by these horrific examples.

And so it goes.

The subject of “socialism”, of welfare itself, in any form, is now immutably wed to the despicable crimes of fascist, insane, despotic megalomaniacs bending Marx’s already misguided words.

I’m just saying. Nothing but the shams of military dictators has ever seen the light of day.

Some of the most stoned people on the planet figured out by 1969 that socialism alone doesn’t work because it kills the economy. “Man, like, I need bread to make bread, you know, but i gotta sell some bread to get some.”

But, because of the historical morons I’ve named, it will take until Star Trek is real before the concepts themselves will be mentioned without generating revulsion.

I suppose we can wait. We’ve waited all this time already.

What’s another 300 years?

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