What is hidden in ObamaCare? Even Nancy Pelosi admitted to the unknown consequences of the bill when she said, ”we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
To help us (and Nancy) find out what is in ObamaCare, Sally Pipes, President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, read the greater than 2,000 pages of the legislation passed in March. She published the findings in her new book, The Truth About ObamaCare.
AAPS Government Affairs Counsel Michael Ostrolenk interviewed Ms. Pipes, this past Wednesday, about her book as well as true free-market solutions that would re-empower patients to make their own health care decisions. (Click the “play” button below to listen.)
You can also watch Ms. Pipes discuss these topics in the below video clip from the August 7th National Doctors Tea Party.
Dr. Orient's annotated copy of the PPACA aka "ObamaCare".
AAPS Executive Director, Jane Orient, M.D. also read the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and summarizes her findings in an upcoming article in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Download the pre-publication version: www.jpands.org/vol15no3/orient.pdf.
Dr. Orient, as did Ms. Pipes, made an appearance at the National Doctors Tea Party on August 7th. Watch the below video clip of her explaining the opposing priorities of private free-market medicine versus government-controlled healthcare.
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I can think of no quotation more appropriate than this one:
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
- From Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957)
The proliferation of regulations (and the punishments associated with even unintentionally breaching those regulations) associated with Obamacare is designed to make of the medical profession and the private sector providers of all health care services into a class of people essentially subject to penal servitude, with no doctor, no nurse, no medical technician, no hospital administrator in this country capable of resisting the imposition of coercive command by politicians and bureaucrats of the federal and state governments.
The objective of Barry Soetoro (who never did legally change his name back to “Barack Hussein Obama” after having been adopted by Lolo Soetoro and becoming a citizen of Indonesia in his childhood) and the rest of the National Socialist Party has been to conscript the entirety of the health care sector of the U.S. economy into a regimen of dirigisme guaranteed to simultaneously bankrupt the nation and deliver the American people into the same kind of medical care enjoyed by the proletariat in the old Soviet Union.
Oh, the “National Socialist” bit? Well, they’re a national party, aren’t they? And they’ve proven themselves to be flagrantly socialistic. Would you rather we call them the “National Socialist Democratic American Party” instead?
Hm. “NSDAP.” Has the proper ring to it, no?
Makes me feel Jewish all of a sudden….
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