Category: health care

Welcome to Dhimmitude, Pro-lifers

~ Pharmer

Obama admin: birth control mandate is final; bishops vow to fight | LifeSiteNews.com.

“In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences,” said Archbishop Timothy Dolan.

From the statement above, you think the U.S. Catholic Bishops have a plan for dealing with their most favored President Obama?

There’s a debate over at JillStanek.com to see if people think the Bishops will stand up to Obama, or will they begin covering the pill, or will the religiously affiliated institutions  pay the Dhimmi tax in order to be allowed not to cover the birth control pill.

The Dhimmi tax is the amount of money that religiously run hospitals would have to pay for each employee, in order to stop health care coverage for them.  This tax will start out at two thousand dollars per individual, and increase from there.

In many Muslim governed  countries,  people of other religions have to pay additional taxes in order to be permitted to live in the country and practice their own religion.     This is a perfectly good word to apply to the new relationship of pro-life religions to the dominant statist religion, which is coercing religiously run institutions to contribute to the  state program of reproductive control.

I am wondering what will happen when the Muslim physicians, pharmacists and nurses  decide that they have a problem with the coercive policies of the Obama administration,  as have the Muslim health caregivers in Europe.
The reason that Europe is allowing some religious dissent to the abortion culture, is not because of the Christians.  They already gave in.   It’s mostly the Muslims who rolled the abortion coercion back a bit, by refusing to cooperate.  The governments have sufficient fear of the Muslims that they’re afraid to deny them  the freedom to not abort.
Sorry to say, there is a significant social drawback to turning the other cheek.
So far, it appears that the Bishops will eventually   do what they did in Canada…  let the government have its way, with minimal resistance.  Pharmer would like for this prediction to be wrong.

 

Indiana State Legislation Aims to Protect Conscientious Heath Care Workers

~ Pharmer

Introduced Version, House Bill 1228.

Click above to read House Bill 1228 in its entirety. This constitutes an effort to protect the health care workers who wish not to participate in abortion.

All citizens should be interested in this bill because it also protects the CHOICE of a woman to not get an abortion.

Once Obama-care sets in, there will be considerable coercive forces for a woman to abort in the case of untoward fetal diagnosis and various other economic reasons.

Freedom of choice for health care professionals is a line of protection for the freedom of choice by patients.

Even people who wish for abortion to be available, but not COERCED should be supporting the right of health care professionals to opt out.

Obama Care Driving Physicians Out of Practice

~ Pharmer

Small Business: Doctors going broke – Jan. 5, 2012.

Reimbursement for chemotherapeutic agents has decreased to the point that oncologists in private practice are losing money and taking out loans to stay in practice.   The burden of government compliance as well as the technical expertise and business expertise needed to run a private practice makes it an almost impossible task.

This is the second of the pressures coming from Obamacare which will drive half of physicians out of private practice.

Populations in rural areas will be most adversely affected by the loss of these practices.   We already understand that this population is not a priority concern of the Obama administration,  because it is too white, too evangelical, too rural.

The Obama campaign has given up on the support from white working people in the 2012 election.  Do not expect this particular problem to be addressed.  Obama will kill private medical practices in  a similar way that he is killing small farm businesses.

Press Secretary Jay Carney Has Offended Peta

~ Pharmer

PETA sends letter to White House press secretary for taking bestiality question ‘lightly’ | The Cutline – Yahoo! News.

The latest defense authorization bill approved by the Senate includes repeal of military laws forbidding sodomy and bestiality.

Jay Carney dismissed questions on this from a reporter during his daily press briefing, merely saying, “Let’s get on to something more serious”.

This prompted a letter from PETA’s Director of Communications, Colleen O’Brien.   It points out that their office has been deluged with calls from people who are upset that bestiality is now permitted in the military.

From the letter:  “As we outlined in the attached letter sent yesterday to the secretary of defense, animal abuse does not affect animals only—it is also a matter of public safety, as people who abuse animals very often go on to abuse human beings.”

One of the rare bits of common sense coming from the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals  is going to fall on deaf ears, as the Obama Administration would not be sympathetic to these kinds of problems.

In fact, the FDA is again seeking to facilitate the sexual abuse of humans by putting the morning after pill, Plan B One-Step  out on store shelves with the condoms.

Ella, the new morning after pill which is chemically analogous to mifepristone (RU-486), is now distributed  through an on-line prescribing and dispensing  process.  Though it is more cumbersome, it allows  non-patients and  men to have access to the drug and accumulate doses for abortions.

By this means, the FDA has  facilitated the availability of  home abortions outside the supervision of medical personnel.  These processes are frequently completed at hospitals where the resultant, life-threatening infections are treated.

Sorry, PETA, this is one administration which is not concerned about the  abuse of  animals, (humans included).

Abby Johnson: Why Private Insurance Does Not Cover Maternity Costs

~ Pharmer

Secret Planned Parenthood Memo: Stop Maternity Coverage | LifeNews.com.

Abby Johnson, who is rapidly becoming  Planned Parenthood’s worst nightmare,  tells us that health  insurance companies are not offering maternity coverage in their private pay policies.  They have told her that this is due to  an OBAMACARE MANDATE.  (The mandate of which they speak is likely an indirect effect of the new costs and regulations put upon the insurance companies by the health care “reform”.   Some insurance companies have ceased offering private policies altogether, due to the added  regulatory costs. )

This problem reminded Ms. Johnson  of one of those historical memos put out by Planned Parenthood, which they did not wish to become  widespread knowledge.

The Jaffe Memo of 1969 gives a list of recommendations made in response to  a government request that Planned Parenthood provide some proposals to deal with “overpopulation”.  You will see words such as “Compulsory” in there,  and this might even bother those who see abortion as a “choice”.

Upon seeing this memo you will understand that many of the programs are fully implemented or well under way.   Take a look HERE.

Please pass the Jaffe Memo around to your associates, to help others understand the Planned Parenthood agenda.

Sebelius tells Mennonite Insurer To Reverse Rate Hike

~ Pharmer

Obama tells insurer to reverse rate hike – Washington Times.

Up front, you should know that insurers don’t have to do what Kathleen Sebelius says, but are expected to publicly justify the increases on healthcare.gov.  The Everence report is posted HERE, and mentions that the increase is in response to three years of posting loses on that group of insurance offerings.

Health and Human Services, which can’t do math, is saying that the Everence Insurance company is using national data rather than Pennsylvania data to predict losses.    The company has jacked rates on small group plans affecting about 5000 people.

Why are insurers raising their rates?   With the economy failing, the healthiest people are the most likely to trim health care insurance from their expenses.  This leaves the less healthy ones, who know they have to keep coverage, still on board.  Less income, more costs.
We don’t need the government to control and ruin the health insurance industry. If those affected small groups hate the Everence increase a lot, they’ll shop for cheaper plans. Under the guise of regulating prices, the government is working to kill insurance companies, and force us into a one provider system.

Kagan to Tribe on Day Obamacare Passed: ‘I Hear They Have the Votes, Larry!! Simply Amazing.’ | CNSnews.com

~ Pharmer

Kagan to Tribe on Day Obamacare Passed: ‘I Hear They Have the Votes, Larry!! Simply Amazing.’ | CNSnews.com.

Emails from Justice Elena Kagan  to Harvard’s Laurence Tribe contain  written evidence that she is not neutral on the issue of Obamacare, and was very happy that it passed.

Kagan is being asked to recuse herself from the Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of Obamacare, particularly a government requirement that people have to purchase health care insurance.

Despite the evidence, Neither Tribe nor Kagan felt that there is any reason for people to doubt her impartiality, per their written answers to CBS questions on the matter.


 

 

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Sued for Coercing Nurses to Assist Abortions

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The Alliance Defense Fund has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey against the University of Medicine and Dentistry on behalf of 12 nurses.  The University has been threatening nurses with loss of their jobs if they refuse to train for and assist in abortions.  This is a due to a recent change in policy and supervision of the nurses.

The suit asks for removal of federal funding for the hospital until it ceases religious discrimination against the nurses whose beliefs forbid participation in killing the unborn.  It asks also for the hospital to return 60 million in federal funding which it received in 2011,  attorney fees  and relief for the nurses as the Court sees fit.

A Copy of the Complaint filed with the United States District Court in NJ can be found HERE.

Pharmer congratulates the 12 Nurses who have distinguished themselves  by courageously taking action against the hospital, and offers prayers for their success.  (Be encouraged.  There is life, and even a job after this kind of  lawsuit.  Been there, done that.)

Perhaps They Hope He’ll Do It Again

~ Pharmer

Mental hospital wants to release failed Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. – CNN.com, to live near his 85 year old mother.

While he’s on drugs, he probably lacks energy for planning an assassination, but once Hinckley (now 56)  is off his meds, he’ll probably find someone else to shoot.

Who’s whackier, the patients or the administrators at that hospital?

Operating St. Elizabeth’s  under the threat of Obama care has probably driven the hospital administrators stark raving mad.

Pharmer sez:  Hinckley needs to stay locked up.

Government lawyers objected to the request for the release saying: “There is recent evidence of deception toward his treating physicians as well as narcissism, both of which are significant risk factors for future violence.”

Deception and narcissism……… that sounds like most of our elected officials!

California quietly passes law to allow coerced vaccinations, removing parental rights : Moral Outcry

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California quietly passes law to allow coerced vaccinations, removing parental rights : Moral Outcry.

AB-499 has been passed by the California Legislature and awaits Governor Jerry Brown’s signature.   It transfers consent for the Gardasil vaccine for HPV  to the authority of 12 year old girls, bypassing their parents.  Of course the parents would remain financially responsible for untoward effects of the drug in their children.