Personal Notes and Thoughts Written by Brannon Howse during President Obama's Speech on HealthCare to the U.S. Congress September 9, 2009. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
 
·       Obama says his plan will not include illegal immigrants but the 47 million he always declares as being uninsured includes illegal aliens. The President was booed when he said this and a congressman yelled, "You lie." Did you see the look on the face of Pelosi when this was going on?  
                                                                   
·       I think we can all agree the system needs to be reformed but we do not need the federal government taking over the system. That is not reform that is a revolution…it is a power-grab that puts the government in control of your life from cradle to grave. The National Center has just released a compilation of 100 stories of victims of government-run health care, "Shattered Lives: 100 Victims of Government Health Care" available for download at www.nationalcenter.org/ShatteredLives.html.
 
 
·       He says no death panels. What do you call paying doctors to talk with senior citizens about their end of life decisions? Why has his man Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who was appointed to two important government boards to assist in drafting and passing socialized medicine, declared that healthcare should be saved for people the State deems are productive human resources and that it should not be given to those "Who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens …An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia." What do you call that? 
 
·       Obama said, "No government bureaucrat will get between you and the care that you need." That is a flat out lie. That is exactly what will happen. Obama seems to be telling the left that he will not demand a 100% pubic option when he said, "The public option is only a means to that end, and we should remain open to other ideas that accomplish our ultimate goal.  And to my Republican friends, I say that rather than making wild claims about a government takeover of health care, we should work together to address any legitimate concerns you may have," Bloomberg news reported that in the early 2009 stimulus bill a new bureaucracy was created:
…the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and "guide" your doctor's decisions…Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effect. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost-effective standards set by the Federal Council. The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K board…This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for young patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly...
 
 
·       I think Obama is using the Hegelian Dialectic Process which I predicted week ago is what he was doing. Obama is saying we need to merge the ideas of the left and the right for a better third option or Third Way. I have predicted that if Obama could not get what he wanted then he would allow the left and right to fight it out and then offer the third option which makes both sides feel like they won something. In fact, Obama may have begun by wanting his plan but knowing that option C was his end game goal for now. Once he gets the option C that he is proposing, he will then start over with two views conflicting and then move again to a third option, allowing him to kick the can further down the road each time. Obama set up the conflict to bring the change just as Saul Alinksy calls for in Rules for Radicals. However, I think he will push to get 100% of what he wants but fall back on the third option.
 
 
·       Obama says he will not sign a bill that adds a dime to the deficit. That is not possible. He is lying again or will he ration healthcare to the elderly to have the billions needed to fund his plan?
 
 
·       As Obama said there are significant things to still work out. The devil is in the details. Notice a percentage of the room laughed at him…not with him.
 
·       Obama is all about fear and creating a crisis, collapsing the economy, destroying capitalism, and making things so bad that he can merge government with business in a capitalist-welfare state, also known as Fabian Socialism or Corporate Fascism.
 
·       Obama said people were peddling fear but about 20 minutes later he said:
Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it most. And more will die as a result. We know these things to be true.