After an extended employment related absence, I have returned to the world of blogging. I first would like to thank my friends who have posted NewBusted videos to fill the void created by my travels.

Since I’ve been gone, the health care debate has exploded. “Town Hall” meetings have turned into nothing short of mayhem because our elected officials have forgotten who exactly their employers are. They seem to think the purpose of a “town hall” is to propagandize the electorate and castigate them into submission with platitudes and bumper sticker slogans designed to make you “feel better” about the barratry pending in both houses of the US Congress.

During my time away, I have had the opportunity to read most of H.R. 3200. For those of you who may not know it, H.R. 3200 is the House version of President Obama’s health care reform package. It is one of 5 such plans being discussed on Capital Hill; four being in the Senate and the Nancy Pelosi/Henry Waxman crafted bill in the House (H.R. 3200).

My research of the proposal has sparked a sense of fear in me; fear that my government is truly out to exterminate large numbers of Americans. Without specifically stating its purpose, it is clear to anyone who takes the time to read H.R. 3200 that it is the gateway by which a system of mass extermination may be implemented.

Because we live in an age of advanced genetic testing, babies yet to be born who have the misfortune of having a birth defect may be aborted on the demand of the US government in the name of cost. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich quotes Dr. Ezekial Emanuel in his latest Human Events Online article.

“… produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.”

For those of you unfamiliar with who Dr. Ezekial Emanuel is, he happens to be an adviser to President Barack Obama on health care. Dr. Emanuel also happens to be the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel. Nepotism perhaps? No! The Democrats wouldn’t do that!

Dr. Emanuel has written an article advocating what he calls “the complete lives system” as a means of controlling health care costs through rationing.

Consideration of the importance of complete lives also supports modifying the youngest-first principle by prioritising adolescents and young adults over infants. Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments. Similarly, adolescence brings with it a developed personality capable of forming and valuing long-term plans whose fulfilment requires a complete life. As the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin argues, “It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies and worse still when an adolescent does”; this argument is supported by empirical surveys. Importantly, the prioritisation of adolescents and young adults considers the social and personal investment that people are morally entitled to have received at a particular age, rather than accepting the results of an unjust status quo. Consequently, poor adolescents should be treated the same as wealthy ones, even though they may have received less investment owing to social injustice.

Spelling and grammatical errors aside in the above snippet from his article, Dr. Emanuel is advocating that we ignore the problems of the very young and very old in order to focus on those who have the most productive years in front of them. For example, a 45 year old construction worker may require surgery to repair or replace a knee. Because of “prioritisation” [sic], that 45 year old may get bumped from the priority because a 16 year old high school football player requires the same surgery. It seems to me that Dr. Emanuel has spent so much time studying the health care systems of Europe that he’s lost his humanity.

European and Canadian health care systems are a bust. Rationing leads to more preventable deaths in the UK than anywhere on the planet. A caller into the Sean Hannity program Wednesday afternoon gave an example experienced by her daughter. She was visiting some friends in the UK when she was involved in an automobile accident. She was treated immediately because she is a citizen of the United States with private health coverage, but her friend was not treated at all during her 3 week stay in the UK. Upon calling 2 weeks after her return to the US, she learned that her friend has still not been treated for his injuries. Yet this is the kind of system that Dr. Emanuel and Barack Obama favor.

Barack Obama is facing tremendous opposition to his health care plan because his ability to stand before a crowd and read the words ‘hope’ and ‘change’ off a teleprompter is over. He’s the President now and he must reveal a little bit more about what the costs and consequences are for his plans before the American people will buy in. He slipped his stimulus program past the American people and they are now seeing how well it didn’t work. Now that Pandora’s box has been opened, the American people want details and the details they are getting are rather unattractive.

A recent poll announced numbers that were detrimental to the President and his socialized health care plans. It said that 70% of the American people are satisfied with their level of health care coverage. I’m sorry, but 30% does not make a majority, Mr. President.

If no crisis exists as the above poll numbers suggest, then it seems a bit disingenuous to insinuate the nation would be damaged if nothing is done. There is no hurry and yet the Administration and Congress want you to believe there is. Why? Because the more you know about their real plans, the less you will permit them to get away with.

Read the bill. More importantly, insist your elected officials read it as well. Let your Congressman/woman know if they vote for this bill you will be voting for their opponent. Let your Senator know the same even if they aren’t up for re-election.