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Comment by Cheri Vaughan on October 18, 2009 at 9:08am

Sarah Palin:
Good Intentions Aren't Enough With Health Care Reform
Now that the Senate Finance Committee has approved its health care bill, it’s a good time to step back and take a look at the long term consequences should its provisions be enacted into law.

The bill prohibits insurance companies from refusing coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and from charging sick people higher premiums. [1] It attempts to offset the costs this will impose on insurance companies by requiring everyone to purchase coverage, which in theory would expand the pool of paying policy holders.

However, the maximum fine for those who refuse to purchase health insurance is $750. [2] Even factoring in government subsidies, the cost of purchasing a plan is much more than $750. The result: many people, especially the young and healthy, will simply not buy coverage, choosing to pay the fine instead. They’ll wait until they’re sick to buy health insurance, confident in the knowledge that insurance companies can’t deny them coverage. Such a scenario is a perfect storm for increasing the cost of health care and creating an unsustainable mandate program.

Those driving this plan no doubt have good intentions, but good intentions aren’t enough. There were good intentions behind the drive to increase home ownership for lower-income Americans, but forcing financial institutions to give loans to people who couldn’t afford them had terrible unintended consequences. We all felt those consequences during the financial collapse last year. Unintended consequences always result from top-down big government plans like the current health care proposals, and we can’t afford to ignore that fact again.

Supposedly the Senate Finance bill will be paid for by cutting Medicare by nearly half a trillion dollars and by taxing the so-called “Cadillac” health care plans enjoyed by many union members. The plan will also impose heavy taxes on insurers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, and clinical labs. [3] The result of all of these taxes is clear. As Douglas Holtz-Eakin noted in the Wall Street Journal, these new taxes “will be passed on to consumers by either directly raising insurance premiums, or by fueling higher health-care costs that inevitably lead to higher premiums.” [4] Unfortunately, it will lead to lower wages too, as employees will have to sacrifice a greater percentage of their paychecks to cover these higher premiums. [5] In other words, if the Democrats succeed in overhauling health care, we’ll all bear the costs. The Senate Finance bill is effectively a middle class tax increase, and as Holtz-Eakin points out, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation those making less than $200,000 will be hit hardest. [6]

With our country’s debt and deficits growing at an alarming rate, many of us can’t help but wonder how we can afford a new trillion dollar entitlement program. The president has promised that he won’t sign a health care bill if it “adds even one dime to our deficit over the next decade.” [7] But his administration also promised that his nearly trillion dollar stimulus plan would keep the unemployment rate below 8%. [8] Last month, our unemployment rate was 9.8%, the highest it’s been in 26 years. [9] At first the current administration promised that the stimulus would save or create 3 to 4 million jobs. [10] Then they declared that it created 1 million jobs, but the stimulus reports released this week showed that a mere 30,083 jobs have been created, while nearly 3.4 million jobs have been lost since the stimulus was passed. [11] Should we believe the administration’s claims about health care when their promises have proven so unreliable about the stimulus?

In January 2008, presidential candidate Obama promised not to negotiate behind closed doors with health care lobbyists. In fact, he committed to “broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are. Because part of what we have to do is enlist the American people in this process. And overcoming the special interests and the lobbyists...” [12] However, last February, after serving only a few weeks in office, President Obama met privately at the White House with health care industry executives and lobbyists. [13] Yesterday, POLITICO reported that aides to President Obama and Democrat Senator Max Baucus met with corporate lobbyists in April to help “set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform.” [14] Needless to say, their negotiations were not broadcast on C-SPAN for the American people to see.

Presidential candidate Obama also promised that he would not “sign any nonemergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House Web site for five days.” [15] PolitiFact reports that this promise has already been broken three times by the current administration. [16] We can only hope that it won’t be broken again with health care reform.

All of this certainly gives the appearance of politics-as-usual in Washington with no change in sight.

Americans want health care reform because we want affordable health care. We don’t need subsidies or a public option. We don’t need a nationalized health care industry. We need to reduce health care costs. But the Senate Finance plan will dramatically increase those costs, all the while ignoring common sense cost-saving measures like tort reform. Though a Congressional Budget Office report confirmed that reforming medical malpractice and liability laws could save as much as $54 billion over the next ten years, tort reform is nowhere to be found in the Senate Finance bill. [17]

Here’s a novel idea. Instead of working contrary to the free market, let’s embrace the free market. Instead of going to war with certain private sector companies, let’s embrace real private-sector competition and allow consumers to purchase plans across state lines. Instead of taxing the so-called “Cadillac” plans that people get through their employers, let’s give individuals who purchase their own health care the same tax benefits we currently give employer-provided health care recipients. Instead of crippling Medicare, let’s reform it by providing recipients with vouchers so that they can purchase their own coverage.

Now is the time to make your voices heard before it’s too late. If we don’t fight for the market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven reform plan that we deserve, we’ll be left with the disastrous unintended consequences of the plans currently being cooked up in Washington.

- Sarah Palin


[1] See http://tinyurl.com/yjs3mgf
[2] See http://tinyurl.com/yfuw3k3
[3] See http://tinyurl.com/yfxq8ca
[4] See http://tinyurl.com/ykefsk6
[5] See http://tinyurl.com/ygf42fj
[6] See http://tinyurl.com/ykefsk6
[7] See http://tinyurl.com/lkvgsp
[8] See http://tinyurl.com/nx4nh6
[9] See ibid.
[10] See http://tinyurl.com/yhhr56v
[11] See ibid.
[12] See http://tinyurl.com/yhzhkvg and http://tinyurl.com/lhyr9o
[13] See http://tinyurl.com/yksd6h3
[14] See http://tinyurl.com/yl9gg27
[15] See http://tinyurl.com/yknpxd6
[16] See http://tinyurl.com/d2k5hb
[17] See http://tinyurl.com/yf8qmfh

Comment by Cheri Vaughan on October 18, 2009 at 9:06am

Anyone who has been reading Sarah Palin's written works over the past
year, including anything that she wrote while she was Govenor of
Alaska at the state website, would know that Sarah wrote this herself.
This is typical 'Sarah'.  She has been using Facebook Notes to get her
message out without the MSM being able to distort her words. Good for
her at taking this tactic to circumvent the MSM. The power of the pen?
Or, in this case, a laptop. She could be anywhere in the world working
from, "Laptop Of The United States," or 'LOTUS', as it is so fondly
called by those who follow Sarah Palin. There are 72 Facebook Notes,
so far, that Sarah Palin has accumulated on her Facebook page. Her two
previous Facebook Notes, "Drill," and, "Birthday wishes to Margaret
Thatcher," were written on Oct. 16th and Oct. 13th. She has been
writing Facebook Notes all along. Sarah Palin resigned her position as
Govenor to do just what she is doing now. What better way to begin the
stalling of the Health Care Reform bill, HR 3200, than to cause
a nationwide ruckus at townhall meetings over the term, "Death Panel."
 "Death Panel," is the term that came straight out of her Facebook
Notes. The Senate changed the wording in the bill, specifically
because of this. We will get Sarah Palin's perspective of this last year
and the election in her  book, "Going Rogue," which comes out Nov.
17th. She has kept a detailed journal for many years, so it was easy
for her to put a book together. It was #1 at both B&N and Amazon
within the first 24 hours and the first printing of 1.5 million sold
out within the first two weeks. Not since , "Harry Potter," has there
been anything close to
a record breaker like Sarah Palin's book. She may come out into the
public to do some book signings, but her speaking engagements will
begin after the first of the year. Also, she will begin campaining for
true conservatives, who will be elected to congress in our next
election. We are in for an exciting year with Sarah Palin.
For those of you who need to catch up on Sarah Palin's Facebook Notes,
here is the address to those.
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin

Comment by Henry's Mom on October 13, 2009 at 11:15am

Remember how good it felt to cast your vote for a true American Hero last year? Let this great video of Sarah lift your spirits today!

Comment by Cheri Vaughan on October 9, 2009 at 11:57am

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amazing and inspirational one of a kind never ever seen anything like it.
It is a gift from God to me and now to you to look at.

Comment by Cheri Vaughan on September 9, 2009 at 2:45am

The buzz is still in the top 10. This is national exposier for Sarah when it is in the top 10, even if it doesn't make it to the front page. Did you see the op-ed piece that she did in the Wall Street journal? Great timing, as Obama gives his big speech tomorrow to congress. Sarah kicked his butt today with that op-ed piece. Here is the link to that:
I posted to twitter.com
Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care (WSJ)
http://is.gd/33dIq
Here is a warm fuzzy place to hang out with
Sarah fans. I love the comments.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/08/quote-
of-the-day-559/comment-page-1/#comments
Have you been to the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee Store? There are
2012 Draft Sarah
t-shirts available there. Here is the link to the
official 2012 Draft Sarah Committee site: http://bit.ly/NZzQL

Thanks everyone for all your support. See you tomorrow for another power buzz.

Comment by Sherry Potter on September 8, 2009 at 11:56pm

i 'buzzed' it. good article.

Comment by Cheri Vaughan on September 8, 2009 at 10:03pm

This buzz story is Sarah's testimony that she submitted to the New York State Senate Aging Committed per their request. Please help us buzz this to the front page tonight. Thank you for all your support in helping get Sarah exposed to thousands in a positive way. When people see her written words, the media have a hard time tearing those apart. She is working to get her message out in her own way and it is working. Here is the power buzz story. Buzz it up and leave comments to help it to the front page.
http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:2343ec78a04c6ea9d80806345d31fd78:50ba150e744b2022aaec642f664a701d/Sarah-Palin-Written-Testimony-Submitted-to-the-New-York-State-Senate-Aging-Committee

Comment by Cheri Vaughan on September 8, 2009 at 9:16pm

Get on board the power buzz train. Help us get this story to the front page by buzzing it up. Leave some comments, too. That also helps.
Tonight, our story is all about death panels and the people -czars- behind them and why we need to get them ousted. Sarah's "death panel" phrase is vindicated in this great piece of work.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:653166773dc88127bd3afe0b6dfe5ea7:4cad0ce968654d66f232bba649a18495/Barach-Obamas-Dr-Death-Cuts-And-Runs-When-Confronted-About-His-Nazi-Like-Death-Panels-And-Other-B?usc=1

in Freedom's name I am,
Cheri Vaughan

Comment by Cheri Vaughan on September 8, 2009 at 1:48am

We do Sarah power buzzes on YaHoo just about every day. I will try to notify you when one comes up. We may start doing this on other internet news sites in the future. It helps to get the story in the top 10 and to the front page, if you can make some comments after you buzz up the story. Thumbs up, or down helps, too. Sometimes, we get trolls, Sarah haters that try to spam our comments pages. We don't put it out on Twitter until we have the first page of comments in, thus keeping some of the trolls off of the story for a bit longer. We have the regulars who hunt us down eventually. It is strategy. We don't put the story out at the same time all of the time. We started going on an hour for a while. We might put 2 stories out at 2 different times. It's a great time watching a Sarah story climb the charts.

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