Birth control free under Obamacare

This month, a committee comprised of experts will meet to decide what preventive care should be provided to women free of charge under "Obama's medical overhaul".  One of the things being considered is birth control, or using the nice term, Family Planning. What it really means is abortion in its most extreme sense and contraceptives in the less extreme.

Associate Press reporter Richard Alonso-Zaldivar asks the question, "But what part of that is preventive medicine?" I'd like to know the answer to that question as well.

How many senators and representatives stood up to Pelosi and Obama declaring they would not vote to use public funds for abortions? Enough to have ground that monolith to a legislative halt. Yet, how did that amendment under the guise of women's  health make it into the bill? According to its author, Sen. Barbara Mikulski D-Md, it was clearly understood it was about family planning. Again, what is meant by family planning by every abortion clinic from here to Timbuktu? Abortion. Were the legislators horns waggled? Come now. Surely, they watch the news regularly. Surely, they knew what "family planning" meant. After all, Mikulski said it was clearly implied it was woman health. There is little doubt about the true meaning because our nation's largest provider of abortions, Planned Parenthood, is pushing their agenda in the matter.


Some physicians state emphatically that family planning saves lives and promotes health. Certainly, if we do not consider the life of the baby, that may be true. Do they mean by promoting health in the same way removing a tumor helps prevent cancer from spreading? Surely not. Yet, the morning after pill which aborts any fertilized egg is considered contraceptive by the Food and Drug Administration. Dressing it up and calling it something else doesn't change what it actually is, just like calling poop excrement doesn't change the smell.

Our society has lost so much self-control that abstinence isn't even considered as a viable solution to preventing pregnancies. Yet, it is the only contraceptive which is 100% effective that does not cause damage to the womb or death to a living human being who has no voice to say, "I want to live!"

Why was that amendment left in the bill? Because the U.S. government set a goal to reduce unplanned pregnancies by 30% by this year. The CDC also says one half of the 6,000,000 U.S. pregnancies each year are unplanned. Amazing statistics posted by the American Pregnancy Association; only 26,000 pregnancies end in a stillborn child. Does that resonate with anyone else?

I shiver to imagine what God thinks of this offering innocents to the god Convenience. How now shall we give honor to the LORD God Almighty and remain silent about those who are speechless?

Obamacare: 2,500 pages of lies

I did everything right when this nightmare began. I emailed and called my representative and senators. They knew how I felt and felt the same way, too. They voted against the Lies buried in 2,500 pages that were coated in tiny bits of truth, and lots of “what a disadvantaged person wants to hear.” But, the thing passed anyway. It is just plain DUMB. Anyone who would vote for something without knowing and understanding not only what is written in it, but all the ramifications of it is just plain DUMB.

Obama promised in a speech to the AMA back on June 15, 2009  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/06/15/obama-if-you-like-your-doctor-you-can-keep-your-doctor/ that everyone would be able to keep their own physician. But if your doctor steps away from the Medicare program and you are on Medicare, then you can’t keep your doctor. Before 2007, doctors who left the Medicare system were very few. The Texas Medical Assoc. says that their survey in 2008 revealed the 300 doctors that have left the system in the past two years far exceeded their assumptions.  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7009807.html It is because of the alarming decreases in reimbursements (21% in 2010 alone).

“You do Medicare for God and country because you lose money on it,” said Dr. Guy Culpepper, a graduate of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and a family practitioner. “The only way to provide cost-effective care is outside the Medicare system, a system without constant paperwork and headaches and inadequate reimbursement.”

In Obama’s speech on September 9, 2009 to the joint session of Congress, he promised again that there would be zero federal dollars spent on abortions. That is simply not true. States like Pennsylvania http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/233141/democrats-life-call-your-office-kathryn-jean-lopez and New Mexico will be using federal funds to abort babies…

“The section on abortion (see page 14) asserts that “elective abortions are not covered.”  However, that statement proves to be a red herring, because the operative language does not define “elective.”  Rather, the proposal specifies that the coverage “includes only abortions and contraceptives that satisfy the requirements of” several specific statutes, the most pertinent of which is 18 Pa. C.S. § 3204, which says that an abortion is legal in Pennsylvania (consistent with Roe v. Wade) if a single physician believes that it is “necessary” based on “all factors (physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age) relevant to the well-being of the woman.” 

In one word: appalling.

The most frightening of all is that this Obamacare package requires all businesses to maintain some medical healthcare security for their employees. The burden is so great that some businesses will find it cheaper to just pay the $2,000 fine per employee. In fact, premiums are so high now that $2,000 per employee sounds good to employers. For example…

AT&T, for example, paid $2.4 billion last year to cover medical costs for its 283,000 active employees. If the company dropped its health plan and paid an annual penalty for each uninsured worker, the fines would total almost $600 million. But that would leave AT&T with a tidy profit of $1.8 billion. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703880304575236602943319816.html

Even the fact that a company like AT&T even did the internal computations to find out the cost effect of the fines is scary enough to make me tremble.

Any person who can balance their own check book knows without having to do any kind of heavy calculations that when you try to insert 30 million people into a medical care system that is overburdened as it is because of fewer and fewer physicians that the system will collapse under this “last straw”. Malpractice insurance costs depleted our physician pool, and the low reimbursements of Medicare and Medicaid have reduced the pool even further. Now, the burden of even lower reimbursements along with the HMO-type of government decisions on what kind of care will be paid for (Sarah Palin called them the “death panel”) http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=116471698434 takes the medical decisions out of the hands of the physicians and puts them into the hands of bureaucrats. That is just plain DUMB. Oh, there is a lot more of the lies, but right now, I’m sick of DUMB.