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> Interesting links I've found lately
The Goal, From the Beginning: Single Payer, Universal Healthcare
Posted On Thursday, 28 Jun 2012 By David Westerfield. Under Politics, Society, Video Tags: 2004, AFL-CIO, Healthcare, Illinois, Obama, Payer, Senator, Single, Single Payer, State, Universal, Universal Healthcare, Video
In light of the healthcare ruling, I thought this might be a good reminder. The goal, from the beginning (and it's coming, when the weight of the current system can no longer be sustained, by design): single payer, universal healthcare. I present to you Illinois state Senator Barack Obama from ... Read More
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Lofty Utopian Healthcare Dreams Meet Reality
Posted On Tuesday, 18 May 2010 By David Westerfield. Under Politics Tags: Administration, Emergency, Health Care, Healthcare, Kay Granger, Obama, Politics, Rooms, socialism, TheHill, Untenable
Health reform threatens to cram already overwhelmed emergency rooms - TheHill.com
The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities.
A chief aim of the new healthcare law was to take the pressure off emergency ... Read More
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Practical Effects of the Health Care Legislation
Posted On Thursday, 25 Mar 2010 By David Westerfield. Under Politics Tags: Caterpillar, Costs, Health Care, Healthcare, Legislation, Obama, ObamaCare, Verizon
ObamaCare Day One - WSJ.com
Theory aside, practically what does the health care legislation mean for businesses and therefore individual employees of those businesses ... already? Read the article above. Now, after it's too late, does everyone see a little clearer that this legislation is ... Read More
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Socialism Is What We’re Getting … From Democrats’ Own Mouths
Posted On Wednesday, 24 Mar 2010 By David Westerfield. Under Audio, Politics, Video Tags: Audio, Democrats, Dingell, Ed Schultz, Fox News, Health Care, Healthcare, liberalism, Obama, President Obama, radio, Sharpton, socialism, Statism, TV, Video
In all honesty, without an angered emotional response on my part, coolly looking at the information presented in the videos, in the context of the questions asked with the full responses, what are we conservatives supposed to make of these statements? Can I have a liberal friend ... Read More
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Health Care, Fear and the Christian Life
Posted On Monday, 22 Mar 2010 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Culture, Politics, Theology Tags: Afraid, Anger, Conservative, Fear, Health Care, Healthcare, idolatry, jesus, Legislation, Liberal, Outrage, Perfect Love, Politics, Russell Moore
Don't Be Afraid - Russell Moore
It is a sad day ... no, not about health care. It is sad to see so many, I would even venture to say a majority of fellow believers (many possibly assumed believers of the verbally violent conservative bent) controlled more by their affections and ... Read More
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Peter Schiff on Health Care
Posted On Sunday, 22 Nov 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Politics, Video Tags: Health Care, Healthcare, House, Peter Schiff, Ronald Reagan, Senate, Socialized Medicine, Video
And then, if Schiff's assessment is true, what did Ronald Reagan have to say about socialized medicine, once enacted?
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CBO: GOP Health Care Plan Lowers Costs; No New Taxes
Posted On Thursday, 05 Nov 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Politics Tags: Amendment, Big Government, BigGovernment.com, Bill, Boehner, CBO, Congressional Budget Office, Democrat, Free Market, GOP, Health Care, Healthcare, HR3962, Lowers Costs, Lowers Premuims, Republican, Socialized Medicine
(Info found linked on BigGovernment.com)
As opposed to the Democrats plans to change the health care system, that calls for more irresponsible spending (money we don't have), more taxes, and will inevitably lower the overall quality of health care for the long-term through a muck up of bureaucracy, the GOP has ... Read More
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Something They Won’t Show You in the Mainstream Media About the Protests This Past Weekend
Posted On Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Culture, Politics, Video Tags: 1 Million, 2 Million, fort worth, Health Care, Healthcare, Mainstream Media, Protests, socialism, Taxes, Tea Parties, Tea Party Express, texas, Video, Washington D.C.
A million march to US Capitol to protest 'socialism' - (Univ. of Illinois spacial image mapping estimated it at 1.7 million, highest estimate is 2 million)
NY Times Buries Massive Conservative D.C. Rally, Hails Smaller Liberal Protests
Also: 912 Project Fort Worth protests the federal government (estimated between 10,000 and 20,000)
I think ... Read More
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Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine – 1961
Posted On Friday, 14 Aug 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Audio, Business, Economics, Health, History, Politics Tags: 1961, Audio, Conservatism, Democracy, Health Care, Healthcare, History, liberalism, Ronald Reagan, socialism, Socialized Medicine, Video
This couldn't be any more prescient:
Interesting quotes by Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President under the Socialist Party ticket, one of which is mentioned in the audio above:
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist ... Read More
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe on Healthcare Reform
Posted On Friday, 14 Aug 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Business, Culture, Economics, Health, Politics Tags: Austrian School, Conservative Solution, Economics, Free Market, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Health Care, Healthcare, Ludwig von Mises, Politics
A Four-Step Healthcare Solution (Archive)
This post will undoubtedly be met with a complete misunderstanding of what these solutions would actually do for those who cannot currently get health insurance (namely because of costs, resulting ultimately from government meddling, which has had a domino effect in the private sector). In ... Read More
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