Health Care by OIG - the Obama Insurance Group

Government Health Care "reform" - this is nothing but a huge sham. The Federal Government has no constitutional right or mandate to interfere with private companies. Does anybody truly believe the government can run a pay toilet...let alone health care?

The fact is that the out of all the government sponsored heath programs, the only one that works, and quite well, is the medicare prescription program, which has in fact done it's job better than forecasts and saved money. Literally every other program is nothing but a huge money pit.

Your legislators are kicking around the idea of taxing employer provided medical benefits as income. There are numerous "ideas" but they all mean one thing: they want to increase taxes on both employees and employers.

While they claim this tax would help "pay" for the coverage, in reality it's the primary tool the government will employ to force a "government sponsored" "option".
Here is how it would work:

The government would tax employees, or employers, or both, for the health care provided by employers as benefits. Regardless of how implemented, this tax increase combined with already high premiums would make these benefits unaffordable.

The result would be that either employers would discontinue coverage - or the employees would opt out - either way, the government's desired result would be achieved: private group plans which offer lower premiums would see their numbers dwindle, which would give the insurance companies the excuse to raise the premiums even higher. Eventually, these groups would shut down.

Due to losses in the billions on the now defunct group plans, insurers would significantly increase the premiums on individual plans while reducing coverages, which would result in premiums too high for individuals to afford, and discontinuation of coverage...or, in simple terms, killing the private insurance market.

Then the government would "offer" their option - which in reality won't be an option, rather the only coverage most people could afford.

Of course the government would claim this as "competition" that private insurers could not meet - all the while offering to take care of us all.

Please call your Congressmen and Senators, and tell them NO to any form of government health care.

There are many ways to make health care more affordable - but this is NOT one of them.

Cudos to Congressman King from New York for his coments regarding Michael Jackson.

Indiana legislature "honors" Michael Jackson during special session

As a resident of Indiana, I was outraged to discover that the Indiana General Assembly, during a special session called to handle the State budget, found time to prepare, vote on, and record a joint resolution "honoring" Michael Jackson. This was done by both houses, and by unanimous vote.

I contacted Nancy Dembowski, the Democratic State Representative for my district (IN 17) by email as follows:
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Nancy,

I am having a real hard time understanding how we had the time during the special session to “celebrate” Michael Jackson? This pervert was a child molester – exactly how is this a valid use of taxpayer money? I would imagine that you were to ask every constituent in the district, you wouldn’t get a lot of support for spending any time on this, and quite probably not a lot of support for it if time were available.

Shame on all of you.

I would like to meet with you or speak by phone regarding issues which I feel need attention by the legislature before the next session begins. Please let me know when we might talk.

Thanks,

Mike

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Nancy replied the following day as follows:

Mike:

Michael Jackson had a tremendous impact on the city of Gary regardless of his personal issues. I am sure that leadership felt that since it was important to the legislators from that city, it could be done out of respect for them. It was done after the passge of the budget and the entire process did not take 5 minutes. I am sure the only taxpayer monies would have been the cost of the paper it was printed on.

I will be more than happy to speak with you in regard to your issues. I have a pretty full schedule (vacation and home repairs) for July. I will email you early in August to set up a time that is convenient for you. Nancy Dembowski

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This is exactly what is wrong with our legislative bodies (all levels), and our judicial system.

State lawmakers have no business dealing with ANY issue other than emergent business during a special session. Such action is MISUSE of taxpayer money. They certainly don't have any business, representing the entire population of the State, taking an action to honor a pervert like this.

You will also note the way my comment about taxpayer money was completely blown off. It seems Nancy doesn't take into account the salaries of all representatives, staff, and support staff in the time needed to prepare this garbage - or the money it cost to run the entire building during this - including utilities. To them, it's just the cost of the paper...I guess the money tree grows the rest of the funds?

You will also note she refuses to address my statement that her district wouldn't have supported this at all. She's there to represent a district - guess our opinion doesn't matter.

I'm also sick of elected officials justifying this type of action by calling it "personal issues", and then saying they are acting out of respect for another group. This is NOT justification when you claim to represent the entire State of Indiana.

How about calling it like it is - Michael Jackson was no damned role model, and no hero. How about standing up for INNOCENT CHILDREN and refusing to cave to the PC police and not say anything because he was black (before trying to become white).

Inexcusable and pathetic.