HC Cramdown

Obama Knows Best? Vows to Force-feed Americans Bill They Hate

Heritage Foundation: Morning Bell: “The American Public Is Not Behind This Bill”

After more than a year of $862 billion dollar deficit stimulus bills, national-debt-doubling federal budgets, and government takeovers of the auto industry, it is difficult to remember that President Barack Obama actually ran as a moderate in many ways. On his way to a 53% – 46% win over Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), then-Sen. Obama promised to “cut taxes for 95% of workers and their families,” expand the Army by 65,000 and the Marines by 27,000, and enact “a net spending cut” for the federal government. Obama promised lower taxes, a strong defense and shrinking the size of government. No wonder independents in nine states that went for President George Bush in 2000 and 2004 switched their vote to Obama in 2008 (CO, FL, IN, IA, NV, NM, NC, OH and VA). But now those independents are beginning to reassess. Public Policy Polling (a liberal polling firm) notes that Obama now has a negative approval rating in every state that he flipped from the Bush column to his in 2008.

And now President Obama has lost one of his biggest and earliest supporters on his signature issue: health care. Yesterday, when pressed on CNBC if he would be in favor of scrapping the Senate health care bill, Warren Buffett responded: “I would be.” Specifically, Buffett believes that the Senate bill will not contain health care costs: “We have a health system that, in terms of cost, is really out of control, and if you take this line and you project what has been happening into the future, we will get less and less competitive. So, we need something else. Unfortunately, we came up with a bill that really doesn’t attack the cost situation that much and we have to have a fundamental change.” Buffett is correct on both fronts: 1) the President’s own Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has reported that the Senate health care bill would raise national health expenditures $234 billion by 2019; and 2) our current system is completely unable to control exploding health care costs.

So why is our current system completely unable to control costs? For the same reason most Americans over-eat at buffets: when you don’t have to pay for each plate of food, you usually eat more. In recent decades, the percentage of health care spending paid “out of pocket” by patients has fallen substantially, from 52% in 1965 to only 15% in 2005. Instead of patients paying for the care they receive, our system is built around a third-party payment system where the government and insurance companies are the ones who actually pay for individual medical expenses. When prices are determined through administrative procedures rather than market processes, both patients and producers are anesthetized from normal market incentives to reduce prices and spending. That is why our health care costs are rising so rapidly.

And every major pillar of Obamacare makes the third-party-payer problem worse: mandates that limit out-of-pocket spending by patients, mandates that extend the minimum benefits insurance must cover, a massive expansion of Medicaid, and lower limits on the tax deductibility of out-of-pocket spending. And the one measure that the left once pointed to as its key cost-reducing measure – the taxing of expensive health insurance plans –has been gutted and pushed back until 2018, when any honest observer knows it will never be implemented. Commenting on the state of health care reform, Buffet told CNBC yesterday:

If it was a choice today between plan A, which is what we’ve got, or plan B, what is in front of — the Senate bill, I would vote for the Senate bill. But I would much rather see a plan C that really attacks costs. And I think that’s what the American public wants to see. I mean, the American public is not behind this bill. And we need the American public behind the bill, because it’s going to have to do some tough things.

The current system is unsustainable. We do need heath care reform. But not reform that is opposed by the vast majority of the American people and makes the core problem of the current system worse. The President should follow Buffett’s advice, scrap the current bill and start over.

The Foundry: All Rhetoric, No Reality from White House on Health Care

Flanked, again, by doctors in lab coats, President Barack Obama gave yet another speech this afternoon urging Congress to pass his health care reform plan.

The President again claimed his plan lowers health care costs. It doesn’t.

The President again claimed his plan would not give government bureaucrats or insurance company bureaucrats more control over health care. It does.

The President again claimed that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” That simply is not true.

The President again said his plan gives the American people the same health care as Members of Congress. It doesn’t.

The President again claimed his plan is paid for. It is not.

The only “new” wrinkle in this speech was President Obama much telegraphed call for “an up or down vote” on health care reform. Again the White House is completely out of touch with reality. The Senate has already passed Obamacare. It is currently sitting ready for a vote in the House of Representatives. The House could pass Obamacare into law by an up-or-down/simple-majority vote tomorrow if they so desired.

But the simple reality is that they don’t have the votes. The House may be controlled by an overwhelming Democratic super majority, but the Obama administration simply does not have the 50% plus one votes they need to turn their top domestic priority into law.

Now the President is claiming he has some new plan that he all of a sudden wants a brand new vote on in the Senate. But that is not going to happen any time soon. President Obama says he is open to four specific conservative ideas, but the White House has produced no details or even legislative language for this new plan. And even if the White House ever does produce such language, it would then have to go to the Congressional Budget Office for scoring.

More importantly, simply adding so-called conservative ideas to the bill does not change the fundamental direction of the proposal. The bills before Congress, including the President’s new additions, would still result in a massive shift of power over health care financing and delivery of care to Washington politicians and bureaucrats. The public has spoken, and it does not want a federal take over of health care.

Conservatives should continue to press the Administration and leaders in Congress for bipartisan solutions that are based on elements of common ground, including letting states take the lead on health reform, tackling the tax treatment of health insurance, sensible insurance market reforms, and an honest commitment to fixing existing health care programs that the government already controls.

The Obama HC Cramdown is part of Obama’s Progressive Agenda which includes a socialistic-type power grab and his payback to the Unions (SEIU) for his election.

Scary Video of Andy Stern the Most Frequent Visitor to the WH and President of SEIU – Their slogan is the Marxist slogan: “Workers of America (the World) Unite”

Video: More Slight of Hand, More Lies, More Broken Promises

America… We Have Been Had… And Continue To Be, Let’s Get to Work ~

Ok, Patriots, you just heard the President say "Make your voice heard" so let them hear us...Here's a list of the 30 Democrats that are "on the fence". This list is compliments of Dick Morris' website.

He's put the names and numbers together for us. Now all we have to do is accept the President's invitation to make our voices heard. Pick up the phone and start calling!!!

Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107
Jim Hines (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1145
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462)
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150
Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657
Earl Pomneroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954

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(202) 225-0100 - Speaker of the House Pelosi

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It could always be worse… You live in bankrupt California where they are still trying to pass a State Single Payer HC Bill as well: “SB810”…

California Senate Passes SB 810,The California Universal HealthcareAct

Single Payer Discussion Moves to Assembly

Watch the Senate Floor Debate. SB 810 discussion begins 62 minutes into the Senate Session.

View the one hour and 13 minute senate debate. This is must viewing. It contains all the arguments for and against singlepayer.

Special thanks to Senator Leno for being such a strong single payer advocate. Below is a list of the various senators who spoke, when they spoke, and one sentence on their comments. Scroll forward 62 minutes into the senate session to the SB 810 discussion.

Next Steps:

• Thank Senators Who Voted Yes
• Collect Single Payer Postcards
• for Delivery to Assembly Members
• Please Donate

We want to thank all the senators who voted yes. It is important that senators know we appreciate their support so thank them.

Let them know you want universal healthcare minus the insurance companies. Below is a list of all senators, how they voted, and their Sacramento phone numbers. If your senator did not vote for SB 810, call them and ask them what it would take for them to vote for SB 810.

SB 810 debate begins on timeline at 1:02:20
Timeline – speaker – what they said

1:02:20 Author Leno from San Francisco introduces and speaks for bill.

1:11.50 Runner (R-17 – just north of LA) Opposed. Taxation removes choice of healthcare from families. Massachusetts shows voters do not want radical healthcare.

1:16:50 Strickland (R-19 – Santa Barbara) Opposed. Single payer has the compassion of the IRS and the efficiency of the Dept of Motor Vehicles. Single Payer is worse than what is being rejected in DC. Listen to the voters of Massachusetts.

1:19:59 Aanestad (R-18 – Chico) Opposed. Canada is failing. Massachusetts went to single payer and it is being rejected.

1:24:38 Romero (D-24 – East LA) For. System is broken. #1 cause of bankruptcy is healthcare. Employers are dropping healthcare.
1:26:48 Harman (R-35 – Orange County) Opposed. Are you kidding? SB 810 costs 200 billion. Kill this bill.

1:28:05 Hancock (D-9 – Oakland) For. Long list of groups for SB 810. 6 of 11 groups listed in opposition are insurance companies. MA is not single payer and that is its’ problem.

1:32:28 Pavley (D-23 – Santa Monica) For. Healthcare costs are rising 3 times faster than wages. This is an expansion of Medicare.
1:35:58 (Keho D-39 – San Diego) For. Keho is chair of Appropriations Committee. 810 is a fiscally sound bill. Our current system is not fiscally prudent.

1:38;02 (Denham R-12 – Central Valley) Opposed. 810 is socialized medicine.

1:40:55 (DeSaulnier D-07 – Contra Costa County) For. Good for small business.

1:43:11 (Simitian D-11 – San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz counties. For. Keep the discussion going.

!;44:31 (Steinberg D-6 Sacramento – He is the Senate President pro Tem (leader of Senate). For. Asked Republicans what their fix is. Asked Republicans where is their rage for a broken system.

1:52:00 Runner (R-17) Opposed. Families can spend money better than government. SB 810 is like fixing a flat tire by burning the car.

1:54:24 Steinberg (D-6) For. Families and businesses are getting shafted.

1:56:00 Cedillo (D-22 – LA) For. Republican proposals have been rejected because the car is burning and you only want to fix the tire.

The current system has the compassion of Exxon and the dependability of Amera Quest.

2:00:34 Dutton (R-31 – San Bernardino, Riverside) Opposed. Tried to change the subject by saying the problem is that we chased 2 million jobs from California.

2:2:32 Author Leno closes. 59% of Californians want Medicare for All. He then went point by point and answered all the objections. Cited polls on Brown voters in MA.

SB 810 is physician run healthcare, not insurance company run healthcare.

2:13:14 The vote. We win 22 to 14. 3 Dems did not vote. One office is vacant.

Your state senator and contact information can be found here.

California… You are getting scr_wd coming and going…

VA: URGENT ACTION ALERT

VA Urgent Action Alert: HB10 Vote in Senate Tomorrow

Stand-up America and Speak-up, there are still votes up for grabs. "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about IT! --Albert Einstein

Obama Knows Best? Vows to Force-feed Americans Bill They Hate

Barack Shows His True Colors: I’ll Steamroll Health Reforms Through Congress

O: We are Going Nuclear… No Matter What the Majority of Americans Want!!

President Obama declared for the first time today that he is prepared to steamroll his troubled health reform legislation through Congress with only Democratic support, a move Republicans denounced as the “nuclear option.”

Signalling that his patience had now snapped after a year-long fight over health reform, Mr Obama laid the ground for Democrats in Congress to muscle the Bill through using a high-risk legislative maneuver known as reconciliation, which overrides a Republican filibuster.

Although he did not use the word “reconciliation”, Mr Obama made clear that is the uncompromising route he now intends to take with his top domestic priority. White House aides and top Democrats on Capitol Hill have also stated in recent days that, in the face of unanimous Republican opposition, the legislation will now be forced through.

By using reconciliation, Democrats can get the health reform package through the Senate with a simple majority, rather than needing the Bill to pass the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. Mr Obama’s party ceded their 60-stong majority in the upper chamber after losing the late Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts seat in January.

That shock defeat was in large part due to growing public hostility to Mr Obama’s health reforms, which many see as too expensive at a time of exploding deficits. Forcing the Bill through Congress is, therefore, a high-risk strategy that Republicans vowed to exploit.

In a speech from the White House, Mr Obama conceded the risks involved. “I don’t know how this plays politically, but I know it's right”, he said.

He added: “The American people…are waiting for us to lead. And as long as I hold this office, I intend to provide that leadership.”

He added: “We have debated this issue thoroughly, not just for a year, but for decades.”

Mr Obama rejected Republican calls to start drafting new legislation. “For us to start over now could simply lead to delay that could last another decade or even more.

“I have therefore asked leaders in both houses of Congress to finish their work and schedule a vote in the next few weeks.”

The push for a swift endgame to the bruising health care battle was carefully choreographed by the White House after Mr Obama’s “bipartisan” health care summit with congressional Republicans last week.

He used that encounter to place four Republican ideas into his final health reform package today. That enabled him to declare that he was reaching out to the opposition, at a time when Democrats are in fact preparing to shut them out of the process altogether.

Eric Cantor, the number two Republican in the House, said: “If the president simply adds a couple of Republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the American people don’t support, it isn’t bipartisanship. It’s political cover.”

Mitch McConnell, the senior Republican in the Senate, warned that Republicans would use the health care issue to damage Democrats in November’s congressional mid-term elections.

If the Democrats “jam” an expensive Bill through Congress, Mr McConnell added, “it will be the issue in every single race in America this fall.”

Reconciliation is a procedure created in 1974 that was designed at the time to help Congress push through difficult budget legislation, and in particular measures aimed at cutting deficits. These could not be filibustered and would only need a simple 51 vote majority in the Senate to pass. It was therefore designed to address fiscal, and not social policy. Mr Obama and Democrats have, therefore, been stressing in recent months that his reforms are aimed at reducing long-term deficits by cutting health costs.

Both parties have used reconciliation more than 20 times each since 1980, but never to pass a piece of legislation as expensive as sweeping as Mr Obama’s health reforms. Bill Clinton used it to overhaul the welfare system; President Reagan to give health benefits to people who lose their jobs. George W Bush used it twice to ram through huge tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.

Source: UK TimesOnline/Fox Nation

Text of Obama's Remarks (PDF)

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Video: More Slight of Hand, More Lies, More Broken Promises

America… We Have Been Had… And Continue To Be, Let’s Get to Work ~

Ok, Patriots, you just heard the President say "Make your voice heard" so let them hear us...Here's a list of the 30 Democrats that are "on the fence". This list is compliments of Dick Morris' website.

He's put the names and numbers together for us. Now all we have to do is accept the President's invitation to make our voices heard. Pick up the phone and start calling!!!

Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107
Jim Hines (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1145
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462)
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150
Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657
Earl Pomneroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954

Obama Says He Likes 4 GOP HC Reform Ideas…Gimmick? And What is the Problem?

Photo:  Fox Nation

President Obama this afternoon wrote a letter to Congressional leadership detailing four areas where he thinks Republican ideas can be included in a final health care compromise and pledging to drop the Medicaid deals for Nebraska and Florida from what he proposes tomorrow.

The White House released the letter which Obama wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner summing up his take from the health care summit last week. Obama said he came away from the meeting feeling the group agreed the cost of health care is a massive problem that must be solved.

"I also left convinced that the Republican and Democratic approaches to health care have
more in common than most people think," Obama wrote.

"No matter how we move forward, there are at least four policy priorities identified by Republican Members at the meeting that I am exploring. I said throughout this process that I'd continue to draw on the best ideas from both parties, and I'm open to these proposals in that spirit," Obama wrote.

Those areas are as follows:

1. Although the proposal I released last week included a comprehensive set of initiatives to combat fraud, waste, and abuse, Senator Coburn had an interesting suggestion that we engage medical professionals to conduct random undercover investigations of health care providers that receive reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid, and other Federal programs.

2. My proposal also included a provision from the Senate health reform bill that authorizes funding to states for demonstrations of alternatives to resolving medical malpractice disputes, including health courts. Last Thursday, we discussed the provision in the bills cosponsored by Senators Coburn and Burr and Representatives Ryan and Nunes (S. 1099) that provides a similar program of grants to states for demonstration projects. Senator Enzi offered a similar proposal in a health insurance reform bill he sponsored in the last Congress. As we discussed, my Administration is already moving forward in funding demonstration projects through the Department of Health and Human Services, and Secretary Sebelius will be awarding $23 million for these grants in the near future. However, in order to advance our shared interest in incentivizing states to explore what works in this arena, I am open to including an appropriation of $50 million in my proposal for additional grants. Currently there is only an authorization, which does not guarantee that the grants will be funded.

3. At the meeting, Senator Grassley raised a concern, shared by many Democrats, that Medicaid reimbursements to doctors are inadequate in many states, and that if Medicaid is expanded to cover more people, we should consider increasing doctor reimbursement. I'm open to exploring ways to address this issue in a fiscally responsible manner.

4. Senator Barrasso raised a suggestion that we expand Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). I know many Republicans believe that HSAs, when used in conjunction with high-
deductible health plans, are a good vehicle to encourage more cost-consciousness in consumers' use of health care services. I believe that high-deductible health plans could be offered in the exchange under my proposal, and I'm open to including language to ensure that is clear. This could help to encourage more people to take advantage of HSAs.

He also drops the special deal made for Sen. Ben Nelson in Nebraska that had the federal government covering the cost of the state's Medicaid burden and a similar provision in Florida that he and Sen. John McCain discussed during the summit.

"My ideas have been informed by discussions with Republicans and Democrats, doctors and nurses, health care experts, and everyday Americans - not just last Thursday, but over the course of a yearlong dialogue. Both parties agree that the health care status quo is unsustainable. And both should agree that it's just not an option to walk away from the millions of American families and business owners counting on reform," Obama wrote.

Read the full letter here. (TPMDC)

Where do we start???

1.  Too little too late – Obama is giving the GOP just enough in an attempt to convince at a few Republicans to vote his way so he and he and the his cronies, Pelosi and Reid, can call it a bipartisan bill  and blame take the blame off of the Progressive Dems.

2.  No Meat – the 4 points Obama outlines in his compromise have no teeth or power to really make a difference.

3.  No Compromise or Major Retractions from the Dems – The only thing Obama concedes is the two absolutely crazy buy-offs for Nebraska and Florida that even their constituents didn’t want.

4.  Ideological Focus – None of the objectionable measures in the bills like oversite panels for care; centralization of medical records by GE with full access by govt; ultimate link to social security, bank accounts etc to those records by the govt; eventual RFID chipping for access to those records; exemption of union and govt  Cadillac HC plans from the rules and taxes the rest of us will have to follow and pay; and the list goes on.  Did you know that 2/3 of the HC Bill Passed Already! Hidden in the Stimulus Package that No One in Congress Read… Done Deal!!! unless we stop the passing of this portion of the bill.

5.  Power Grab Instead of Overhaul of HC -  We have the best HC in the world and serious tort reform, serious focused fraud, waste, and abuse reform, inter-state purchasing and sale of health insurance, and a some tweaking is all we need to reform our system. And, everyone that can do basic math and has been paying attention knows this bill gives the government power over our lives and purses that nobody except those who follow the progressive vision want.

6. Huge Tax and Cost Increases for Worse Coverage –  Every expert and anyone that has done the math knows that the taxes are going up and that the real cost of this bill is double if not triple of what they are telling us and unsustainable for our children and grandchildren.

Americans do not want this bill or any of the ObamaCare bills and they do not want this bill passed using Reconciliation that Obama is now calling an up or down vote.  The majority of Americans know that when there is more shit than shinola… that it is time to grab a shovel.  The average American knows that this whole process cannot pass the smell test.  They want everything having to do with so-called HC Reform scrapped… and taken off the table until after the 2010 or even the 2012 election and then real bipartisan discussion and work to begin.

The underhanded tricks and methods have soured the American people and the more they know what is in the bill, the more they are against it.  The bill will immediately be challenged in the courts for its constitutionality, if it passes, which will cost every American money and may of the programs that will have begun will be almost impossible to reverse.  Please help stop this bill now!  The Dems cannot get this passed in the right way and might not even have the votes for Reconciliation.  

If Obamacare passes it will provide (list from Dick Morris, author of Catastrophe):

•  A $500 billion cut in Medicare
•  30 million new patients with no new doctors
•  Health care rationing
•  Protocols of care to deny costly treatments based on how many "Quality Adjusted Life Years" remain
•  Require the uninsured to pay $8500 to buy policies
•  Fine them 2.5% of their income if they don't
•  And send them to jail if they don't pay
•  Tax medical devices like pacemakers and automated wheelchairs
•  Force up premiums for all Americans by $2,000 a year
•  Add $500 billion to the federal deficit (by 2024)
•  Raise income taxes 2.5%
•  Raise capital gains taxes 2.5%
•  Cut reimbursement to doctors who order too many tests for patients

Please call, fax and write your congressman and Senators today and tell them:  Vote NO on ObamaCare or we will vote you out!!

  PHONE NUMBERS FOR SWING VOTE CONGRESSMEN:

PLEASE CALL!	DC OFFICE	LOCAL OFFICE
Harry Mitchell	(202) 225-2190	(480) 946-2411
Gabrielle Giffords	(202) 225-2542	(520) 881-3588
Ann Kirkpatrick	(202) 225-2315	(928) 226-6914
Jerry McNerney	(202) 225-1947	925-833-0643
John Salazar	202-225-4761	970-245-7107
Jim Hines	(202) 225-5541	(866) 453-0028
Alan Grayson	(202) 225-2176	(407) 841-1757
Bill Foster	(202) 225-2976	630-406-1145
Baron Hill	202 225 5315	812 288 3999
Mark Schauer	(202) 225-6276	(517) 780-9075
Gary Peters	(202) 225-5802	(248) 273-4227
Dina Titus	(202) 225-3252	702-256-DINA (3462)
Carol Shea-Porter	(202) 225-5456	(603) 743-4813
Tim Bishop	(202) 225-3826	(631) 696-6500
John Hall	(202) 225-5441	(845) 225-3641 x49371
Bill Owens	(202) 225-4611	(315) 782-3150
Mike Arcuri	(202)225-3665	(315)793-8146
Dan Maffei	(202) 225-3701	(315) 423-5657
Earl Pomneroy	(202) 225-2611	(701) 224-0355
Steven Driehaus	(202) 225-2216	(513) 684-2723
Mary Jo Kilroy	(202) 225-2015	(614) 294-2196
Zach Space	(202) 225-6265	(330) 364-4300
Kathy Dahlkemper	(202) 225-5406	(814) 456-2038
Patrick Murphy	(202) 225-4276	(215) 826-1963
Christopher Carney	(202) 225-3731	(570) 585-9988
Paul Kanjorski	(202) 225-6511	(570) 825-2200
John Spratt	(202) 225-5501	(803)327-1114
Tom Perriello	(202) 225-4711	(276) 656-2291
Alan Mollohan	(202) 225-4172	(304) 623-4422
Nick Rahall	(202) 225-3452	(304) 252-5000
Steve Kagen	(202) 225-5665	(920) 437-1954

Senators from your State. or Congress.org - Elected Officials

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(202) 225-0100 - Speaker of the House Pelosi

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1. Get your hands in the dirt. Gardening has long been known for its meditative, relaxing, and grounding effects. Medical News Today reports that UK scientists have discovered friendly bacteria in soil that reportedly affects the brain in a way similar to antidepressants by increasing the release of serotonin. A great, easy to follow gardening guide is RHS Gardening Month by Month, by Ian Spence.

2. Meditate. Many of us have all heard that meditation reduces stress. Scientists are now beginning to uncover evidence that meditation has a tangible effect on the brain. Professor Mark Williams, from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford conducted a trial study reported by the BBC News, indicates that meditation reduces the likelihood of depression by over 50%. "It suggests to people that they begin to see all their thoughts as just thoughts, whether they are positive, negative or neutral." Get Self Centered offers meditation workshops and retreats across the US. Or, learn to practice from home with Jack Kornfield's downloadable audiobook, Meditation for Beginners.

3. Burn Incense. Incense has long been used in religious rituals and hippy living rooms across the globe to create a peaceful environment. In a new study (that can be found at The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal an international team of scientists have discovered how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain that alleviate depression. Floracopeia provides high quality, organic frankincense available as incense and essential oil.

4. Ingest a yellow flower. St. John's Wort is a wild yellow flower that has been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. There is some scientific evidence that St. John's Wort is helpful in treating mild to moderate depression. Two large studies, one sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), showed that the herb may be helpful for treating mild depression, however it may not be effective for treating major depression. iHerb provides several types of St. John's Wart supplements.

5. Eat Sushi. Research has shown that fatty fish oil can actually improve wellbeing. People suffering from depression have lower levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood. One study (Nemets & Belmaker - American Journal of Psychiatry) showed that the lower the level of EPA, the more severe the clinical depression. In addition, fish oil supplementation reduced suicidal tendencies and improved the well being when 40 people were given fish oil or placebo for 12 weeks (Hallahan, Hibbeln, Davis - British Journal of Psychiatry). Fish oil can be found in raw and cooked fish and can also be taken as a dietary supplement. Zebra Organics is a great source for high quality, organic fish oil supplements.

6. Move your body. Talk a walk, ride a bike, hit the gym, or go dancing. Science indicates that people who regularly exercise benefit from positive boosts in mood and reduce the risk of depression. When you exercise, the body naturally releases chemicals called endorphins that trigger positive feelings in the body and mind.

7. Use natural sweeteners such as Agave Nectar or Maple Syrup. Some studies have linked the use of refined sugar to depression. Author William Dufty creates a strong argument for avoiding sugar in his book Sugar Blues. Another interesting book on the subject is Sugar Shock, by Connie Bennett with Stephen Sinatra, M.D. Natural sweeteners such as Agave (a sweet cactus nectar) and maple syrup (a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees) can be used as natural alternatives to refined sugar.

8. Get in the sunshine. Vitamin D has been shown to increase levels of serotonin in the brain. Researchers from the University of Toronto noticed that people who were suffering from depression, particularly those with seasonal affective disorder, tended to improve as their levels of vitamin D in the body increased over the normal course of a year. The recommendation is to allow yourself limited, unprotected sun exposure in the early morning and late afternoon (no more than 15 minutes for light-skinned individuals, 40 minutes for darker skin). Vitamin D is also available as a dietary supplement and can be found at ProHealth.

9. Have a good laugh. Have you ever noticed the physical response you sometimes have after a good laugh? Studies show that laughter fights the onset of depression by reducing stress hormones. The positive results of laughter may encourage people to relax and release the stress that often causes depression. Reading the comics, watching your favorite sitcom, or listening to a comedian may actually be a prescription for happiness.

10. Use depression to make you stronger. Can depression actually make you healthier? A recent article from the BBC News features Dr Paul Keedwell, an expert on mood disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Keedwell says that depression is not a human defect at all, but a defense mechanism that in its mild and moderate forms can force a healthy reassessment of personal circumstances. "Don't beat yourself up about being depressed, in most cases it will run its course provided you take yourself out of the situation that caused it." Depression can actually serve a purpose, deepening and enriching the human experience. By overcoming challenging times in our lives, we can actually become stronger evolutionarily speaking.

Simply recognizing we are feeling depressed can be the first step towards changing it. We all experience difficult stages in our lives and while we recommend seeing a professional to help alleviate clinical depression, we also have found that little changes in our diet and lifestyle can go a long way. So the next time the blues get you down, you can try lighting up some frankincense, ordering a fish taco, and chowing it down in the sunshine. Hey, worth a try.

By Shannon Bindler

 

The best natural anti depressants

The Best Natural Anti Depressants – A Guide
A lot of people, weary of the conventional medicines offered by pharmaceutical corporations, have begun to turn to natural supplements to aid their depression.

Why would they do this?

Well, there are many herbs and minerals out there that have proven to aid in depression for thousands of years. Also, many of the products marketed for depression by pharmaceutical companies have laundry lists of side-effects that can sometimes be worse than depression in and of itself.

Here is a small list of some of the herbs and supplements that have proven successful over the years in the area of depression aids:

St. John’s Wort:

Also known as hypericum, a double-blind study of St. John’s Wort was recently conducted to determine its use as an anti-depressant. The query resulted in St. John's Wort being as effective as its pharmaceutical counterparts but with less occurrences of side effects. This alone proves the fact that hypericum can be a very useful supplement when dealing with depression. Also, St. John’s Wort can be found at a fraction of the cost of the anti depressants offered by drug companies. It’s even been used for around 2,400 years! St John’s Wort is clearly one of the best natural anti depressants.

Gingko Biloba:

One of the world’s oldest living species of trees, Gingko Biloba has proven time and time again to be effective in the treatment of memory loss, lack of alertness, and most importantly, depression. Increasing blood flow to the brain, it also controls the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain, aiding depression further. With regards to St. John’s Wort, Gingko Biloba is probably the second of the best natural anti depressants.
Also, Saffron has been known to help depression. Studies have shown that it may be of therapeutic benefit in the treatment of mild to moderate depression.

One of the best natural anti depressants available

Sam-e..

Sam-e is a nutrient which is produced naturally by the human body. our bodies use an amino acid - methionine, which produces Sam-e.

Sam-e is a very important substance to us and is involved in many metabolic processes within our body.

Himalayan Goji Juice:

The best Himalayan Goji Juice on the market is bottled and distributed by FreeLife.

America's Deadliest Sweetener Betrays Millions, Then Hoodwinks You With Name Change

Aspartame producer Ajinomoto is launching a new initiative that will rebrand the sweetener as “AminoSweet”.

Aspartame is used in many foods and beverages marketed as low calorie or sugar-free. However, its reputation has been clouded somewhat by studies that have investigated reports of ill effects.

Just to remind you, the side effects of aspartame can include:

• Headache
• Change in vision
• Convulsions and seizures
• Hallucination
• Nausea and vomiting
• Joint pain

It can cause many, many other problems as well.

Aspartame is the most controversial food additive in history, and its approval for use in food was the most contested in FDA history. In the end, the artificial sweetener was approved, not on scientific grounds, but rather because of strong political and financial pressure. After all, aspartame was previously listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent!

It’s hard to believe such a chemical would be allowed into the food supply, but it was, and it has been wreaking silent havoc with people’s health for the past 30 years.

The truth is, it should never have been released onto the market, and allowing it to remain in the food chain is seriously hurting people – no matter how many times you rebrand it under fancy new names.

The Deceptive Marketing of Aspartame

Sold commercially under names like NutraSweet, Canderel, and now AminoSweet, aspartame can be found in more than 6,000 foods, including soft drinks, chewing gum, table-top sweeteners, diet and diabetic foods, breakfast cereals, jams, sweets, vitamins, prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

Aspartame producer Ajinomoto chose to rebrand it under the name AminoSweet, to “remind the industry that aspartame tastes just like sugar, and that it’s made from amino acids – the building blocks of protein that are abundant in our diet.”

This is deception at its finest: Begin with a shred of truth, and then spin it to fit your own agenda.

In this case, the agenda is to make you believe that aspartame is somehow a harmless, natural sweetener made with two amino acids that are essential for health and present in your diet already.

They want you to believe aspartame delivers all the benefits of sugar and none of its drawbacks. But nothing could be further from the truth.

How Aspartame Wreaks Havoc on Your Health

Did you know there have been more reports to the FDA for aspartame reactions than for all other food additives combined?

In fact, there are over 10,000 official complaints, but by the FDA’s own admission, less than 1 percent of those who experience a reaction to a product ever report it. So in all likelihood, the toxic effects of aspartame may have affected roughly a million people already.

While a variety of symptoms have been reported, almost two-thirds of them fall into the neurological and behavioral category consisting mostly of headaches, mood alterations, and hallucinations. The remaining third is mostly gastrointestinal symptoms.

This video will familiarize you with some of the terrifying side-effects and health problems you could encounter if you consume products containing this chemical.

Unfortunately, aspartame toxicity is not well-known by doctors, despite its frequency. Diagnosis is also hampered by the fact that it mimics several other common health conditions, such as:

Multiple sclerosis
Parkinson's disease

Alzheimer's disease
Fibromyalgia

Arthritis
Multiple chemical sensitivity

Chronic fatigue syndrome
Attention deficit disorder

Panic disorder
Depression and other psychological disorders

Lupus
Diabetes and diabetic complications

Birth defects
Lymphoma

Lyme disease
Hypothyroidism

How Diet Foods and Drinks CAUSE Weight Problems

In recent years, food manufacturers have increasingly focused on developing low-calorie foods and drinks to help you maintain a healthy weight and avoid obesity. Unfortunately, the science behind these products is so flawed, most of these products can actually lead to increased weight gain!

For example, researchers have discovered that drinking diet soda increases your risk of metabolic syndrome, and may double your risk of obesity – the complete opposite of the stated intention behind these “zero calorie” drinks.

The sad truth is that diet foods and drinks ruin your body's ability to count calories, and in fact stimulate your appetite, thus boosting your inclination to overindulge.

Unfortunately, most public health agencies and nutritionists in the United States recommend these toxic artificial sweeteners as an acceptable alternative to sugar, which is at best confusing and at worst harming the health of those who take their misguided advice.

Even More Toxic Dangers of Aspartame

Truly, there is enough evidence showing the dangers of consuming artificial sweeteners to fill an entire book -- which is exactly why I wrote Sweet Deception. If you or your loved ones drink diet beverages or eat diet foods, this book will explain how you've been deceived about the truth behind artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose -- for greed, for profits, and at the expense of your health.
As mentioned earlier, almost two-thirds of all documented side effects of aspartame consumption are neurological.

One of the reasons for this side effect, researchers have discovered, is because the phenylalanine in aspartame dissociates from the ester bond. While these amino acids are indeed completely natural and safe, they were never designed to be ingested as isolated amino acids in massive quantities, which in and of itself will cause complications.
Additionally this will also increase dopamine levels in your brain. This can lead to symptoms of depression because it distorts your serotonin/dopamine balance. It can also lead to migraine headaches and brain tumors through a similar mechanism.

The aspartic acid in aspartame is a well-documented excitotoxin. Excitotoxins are usually amino acids, such as glutamate and aspartate. These special amino acids cause particular brain cells to become excessively excited, to the point that they die.

Excitotoxins can also cause a loss of brain synapses and connecting fibers. A review conducted in 2008 by scientists from the University of Pretoria and the University of Limpopo found that consuming a lot of aspartame may inhibit the ability of enzymes in your brain to function normally, and may lead to neurodegeneration.

According to the researchers, consuming a lot of aspartame can disturb:

• The metabolism of amino acids

• Protein structure and metabolism

• The integrity of nucleic acids

• Neuronal function

• Endocrine balances

Furthermore, the ester bond in aspartame breaks down to formaldehyde and methanol, which are also toxic in their own right. So it is not surprising that this popular artificial sweetener has also been found to cause cancer.

One truly compelling case study that shows this all too well was done by a private citizen named Victoria Inness-Brown. She decided to perform her own aspartame experiment on 108 rats over a period of 2 years and 8 months.

Daily, she fed some of the rats the equivalent (for their body weight) of two-thirds the aspartame contained in 8-oz of diet soda. Thirty-seven percent of the females fed aspartame developed tumors, some of massive size.

How to Ditch Artificial Sweeteners, and Satiate Your Sweet Tooth

If you suffer from sweet cravings, it’s easy to convince yourself you’re doing the right thing by opting for a zero-calorie sweetener like aspartame. Please understand that you will do more harm than good to your body this way.

First, it’s important to realize that your body craves sweets when you’re not giving it the proper fuel it needs.

Finding out your nutritional type will tell you exactly which foods you need to eat to feel full and satisfied. It may sound hard to believe right now, but once you start eating right for your nutritional type, your sweet cravings will significantly lessen and may even disappear.

Meanwhile, be sure you address the emotional component to your food cravings using a tool such as the Meridian Tapping Technique (MTT). More than any traditional or alternative method I have used or researched, MTT works to overcome food cravings and helps you reach dietary success.

And, if diet soda is the culprit for you, be sure to check out Turbo Tapping, which is an extremely effective and simple tool to get rid of your soda addiction in a short period of time.

Non-Acceptable Alternative Sweeteners

I have written a few articles on fructose earlier this year, and I will be writing many more, so please be aware that I am absolutely convinced that fructose ingestion is at the core of our obesity epidemic.

And I’m not only talking about high fructose corn syrup, which is virtually identical to table sugar. The only major difference between the two is HFCS is much cheaper so it has contributed to massive increase in fructose ingestion, far beyond safe or healthy.

Please understand you need to keep your fructose levels BELOW 25 grams per day. The best way to do that is to avoid these “natural” sweeteners as they are loaded with a much higher percentage of fructose than HFCS.

• Fruit Juice

• Agave

• Honey

Please note that avoiding these beyond 25 grams per day is crucial, even if the source is fresh, raw, and organic. It just doesn’t matter, fructose is fructose is fructose…

Acceptable Alternative Sweeteners

For those times when you just want a taste of something sweet, your healthiest alternative is Stevia. It’s a natural plant and, unlike aspartame and other artificial sweeteners that have been cited for dangerous toxicities, it is a safe, natural alternative that's ideal if you’re watching your weight, or if you’re maintaining your health by avoiding sugar.

It is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar and truly has virtually no calories.

I must tell you that I am biased; I prefer Stevia as my sweetener of choice, and I frequently use it. However, like most choices, especially sweeteners, I recommend using Stevia in moderation, just like sugar. In excess it is still far less likely to cause metabolic problems than sugar or any of the artificial sweeteners.

I want to emphasize, that if you have insulin issues, I suggest that you avoid sweeteners altogether, including Stevia, as they all can decrease your sensitivity to insulin.

Lo han is another sweetener like Stevia. It’s an African sweet herb that can also be used, but it’s a bit more expensive and harder to find.

So if you struggle with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or extra weight, then you have insulin sensitivity issues and would benefit from avoiding ALL sweeteners.

But for everyone else, if you are going to sweeten your foods and beverages anyway, I strongly encourage you to consider using regular Stevia or Lo han, and toss out all artificial sweeteners and any products that contain them.

Posted by: Dr. Mercola

Related Links:

Aspartame: Killing You By Degrees

Aspartame, Brain Cancer and the FDA

New Research Links Nutrasweet to Leukemia and Lymphoma

Where inner-contentment comes from

I’m taking you on another day of your virtual pilgrimage to a far away place for a close in purpose.

It is obvious, everywhere you travel in India–in the large cities, in the small towns, throughout the countryside–there is tremendous poverty.

Many of the people have literally no possessions other than the clothes they are wearing. It is easy to see this “lack” through our western trained eyes and think that having little means would result in sadness.

However, it is equally obvious, everywhere you look that there is no misery in these people. These are HAPPY people. You can see it in their always-ready smiles, in their body language, and in their interactions with one another.

For many Westerners, it takes a bit of close observation and a bit of introspection about one’s own beliefs to realize that poverty and maybe even struggle and misery do NOT go hand in hand.

It isn’t that those who have so little don’t know that there is more to be had. It isn’t that they have no aspirations for a better life. This authentic happiness comes from a sense of well-being with “what is” and it comes from a deep connection with the land, with each other, and with their Spirituality.

The smiles are real. The reaching out to touch and be touched is real. The desire to be of service is real. And . . . the happiness is real. It is a direct result of not allowing one’s physical and financial conditions to determine one’s emotion.

At first we see what they “don’t have” and then these great souls teach us there is something to “have” that has nothing to do with things.

As you and I travel together today on this virtual journey, let’s concentrate on the outward signs of this possible inner contentment. Let’s initiate smiles, handshakes, even wave at a stranger, and notice you can truly generate the wonderful feeling that life IS good, if we believe it to be good: No Matter What!

Seeing The Choice To Be Happy In You, Mary

P.S. Here is the scene I passed by in India that inspired this message.

By Mary Morrissey

Source: Mary’s Journal

When There is More Sh_t Than Shinola… It Is Time To Grab a Shovel

In a matter of 5-days, Obama held a bipartisan HC Summit that was anything but bipartisan.  Said he’d give the Congress 4 to 6 weeks to work on a new plan and has now announced that they would be rolling out a new partisan plan by Wednesday as Pelosi spent the weekend brow beating the members of the House and reversing her stand and opposition statements to everyone she could think of, including the tea party movement, who she called Astro-Turfers all summer.

All the experts are saying that Pelosi does not yet have the votes in the House to pass this mis-guided bill that the people want less as each day goes on and that passing it using any of the plans that are being considered is a suicide mission for the Democratic Party.  So why pass it you ask… because 2/3 of the HC Bill Passed Already! Hidden in the Stimulus Package that No One in Congress Read… Done Deal!!! – With Back-up Research But they need some kind of actual HC Bill to activate most of these diabolical measures… Wake-up America!  If they can pass any kind of HC Bill, that 2/3 will be activated and they can amend and work whatever they sneak by us into want they really want afterwards… unless we can have it all overturned by the Supreme Court, which will be a lengthy and expensive process even though this entire bill is unconstitutional.

Obama to Introduce 'Smaller' Health Care Bill Wednesday

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday President Obama will soon propose a health care bill that will be "much smaller" than the House bill but "big enough" to put the country on a "path" toward health care reform.

A senior administration official told Fox Obama's proposal will be introduced Wednesday.

"In a matter of days, we will have a proposal," Pelosi said, pointing to Obama's forthcoming bill. "It will be a much smaller proposal than we had in the House bill, because that's where we can gain consensus. But it will be big enough to put us on a path of affordable, quality health care for all Americans that holds insurance companies accountable."

Melody Barnes, a top Obama domestic policy adviser, did not dispute Pelosi's characterization of the new plan as smaller in scope - and quite possibly in cost - than either the House or Senate health care bills.

"It's going to be matter of drawing on these different ideas and coming up with the right proposal," Barnes said in an exclusive interview with Fox. "That's what my colleagues are working on. That's what they're talking with Congress about. We'll see what it looks like when the proposal is sent forward."

Asked how White House staff is putting the new proposal together, Barnes said they are "borrowing" from conversations at Thursday's health care summit.  Read The Full Article

 

White House:  Let’s Go Nuclear - White House: Simple up-or-down vote on health care

The White House called for a "simple up-or-down" vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama's chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers.

In voicing support for a simple majority vote, White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle signaled Obama's intention to push the Democratic-crafted bill under Senate rules that would overcome GOP stalling tactics.

Republicans unanimously oppose the Democratic proposals. Without GOP support, Obama's only chance of emerging with a policy and political victory is to bypass the bipartisanship he promoted during his televised seven-hour health care summit Thursday. Read The Full Article

Pelois: Lawmakers Should Sacrifice Jobs for Health Care

(AP) House Speaker Pelosi says lawmakers aren't in Washington for job security but 'to do the job for the American people.'  Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina, speaks with reporters outside the White House at the end of a health care summit with President Obama and Republicans held at Blair House. (AP Photo) Read Complete Article

ObamaCare Summit Reviews~

The last 5-minutes of the Summit said it all… Obama intimated that they would do whatever it takes (Saul Alinsky all the way) to get this bill passed without real bipartisan input or compromise and in the end that means reconciliation even if the American people don’t want this bill. The only problem is that right now… Congress doesn’t even have the votes for that. So stay committed and keep up the pressure.  Full Article

Progressive McCain’s Dietary Supplement Bill: An Attempt to Implement Codex Alimentarius

A bill recently introduced to the U.S. Senate, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (S. 3002), by Senators John McCain and Byron Dorgan is possibly the most direct assault on natural health freedom we have seen for some time. If passed into law, this bill would require all dietary supplement manufacturers, distributors, and holders all the way down to the retail store level to be comprehensively registered. It would also allow for the arbitrary banning of nutritional supplements by the FDA and the introduction of deceitful reporting of adverse events related to them.

The legislation effectively gives the FDA carte blanche to do whatever it wishes in regards to natural supplements.  Read Full Article

Today, we stand on the precipice as a country. Within the next few days, we may be overtaken by a wave of socialism! Plain and simple... that is what it really is. People in the Obama Administration are trying to paint a rosy picture---but, plain and simple, it is SOCIALISM! OBAMACARE is socialism in its purest form, and it is going to adversely affect YOU and your family! OBAMACARE will cause America to literally go bankrupt!

Warren Buffet says this is a bad bill and a bad plan and all economic experts are warning that the bill(s) are riddled with taxes, hidden costs and the true cost will be deferred or is being hidden… but in the end it will cost America 2 to 3 times what they are telling us!!

You and I must stop OBAMACARE in its tracks!

AND WE MUST DO IT NOW, before it is too late!

Barack Hussein Obama STILL does not "get it"--- he still has not paid any attention to the will (in every poll) of the American people. The latest Quinnipiac University National Poll shows, "American voters still disapprove 54 – 35 percent of Obama’s Health Care Reform Plan, but they say 52 – 44 percent they want Congress and the President to keep trying on health care reform rather than giving up and moving on to other matters."

At last week's Summit, Vice-President Biden stated, "I am always reluctant after being here 37 years to tell people what the American people think. I think it requires a little bit of humility to be able to know what the American people think. And I don’t." Mr. Vice-President, you need to LISTEN to the American people---54 percent oppose OBAMACARE!!

Please CLICK HERE to FAX every Member of Congress to let them know that you OPPOSE OBAMACARE. Your DONATION to the Republican Majority Campaign (RMC) is urgently needed to defeat this attempt to push OBAMACARE through Congress!

Or please make calls and send faxes on your own.  If you believe that the United States has the best HC system in the world, that just needs some overhaul , and/or you want to save some freedom and financial opportunity for your children or grandchildren… now is the time to speak up.  There are many Congresspeople and Senators who are teetering!!

Tell them “NO Obamcare”.  Scrap all these bills and start over from scratch in a true bipartisan fashion or shelf this until after the 2010 or 2012 elections.

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This latest actions have now become the charade that even the liberals can’t deny is Obama and Pelosi telling the American people “We are ideologues and we will do anything to fulfill our progressive agenda… no matter what the will of the people or how we have to skirt around legislative tradition or the Constitution.”

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McCain’s Dietary Supplement Bill: An Attempt to Implement Codex Alimentarius

A bill recently introduced to the U.S. Senate, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (S. 3002), by Senators John McCain and Byron Dorgan is possibly the most direct assault on natural health freedom we have seen for some time. If passed into law, this bill would require all dietary supplement manufacturers, distributors, and holders all the way down to the retail store level to be comprehensively registered. It would also allow for the arbitrary banning of nutritional supplements by the FDA and the introduction of deceitful reporting of adverse events related to them.

The legislation effectively gives the FDA carte blanche to do whatever it wishes in regards to natural supplements.

The cover for this legislation is that it is designed to prevent both intentional and unintentional steroid adulteration of dietary supplements. The trigger, according to McCain, was six NFL players who were accused of doping with supplements tainted with steroids. Even with this being the case, however, the FDA already has the authority to regulate synthetic anabolic steroids via the Anabolic Control Act of 2004 which permits them to do just that. Nevertheless, under the guise of the behavior of six NFL players, an entire market that has been proven not only very safe but very healthy will be essentially regulated out of business. (NHF)

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 would require registration of any “business or operation engaged in manufacturing, packaging, holding, distributing, labeling, or licensing a dietary supplement for consumption in the United States,” definitions which could possibly include even retail stores that sell herbal and nutritional products. (DSSA p.2) Currently, under the Dietary Supplements and Non-Prescription Consumer Protection Act, small retailers are not required to register. This, however, will change with the passage of McCain-Dorgan’s bill. (NHF)

The switch from the current practices of Serious Adverse Event Reporting to that of simply Adverse Event Reporting is of concern as well. Existing law requires the reporting of serious adverse events related to the supplement in question to be reported for regulatory and recall purposes. The McCain-Dorgan bill, however, removes the language “Serious Adverse Event” and replaces it with the term “adverse event,” opening up the floodgates for the most ridiculous possible claims of adverse events such as bad taste or even dislike of packaging. This “report everything possible” stance is will vastly increase the numbers of complaints that will hence be used to add credence to the arguments for banning supplements in the future. Not only that, but more government bureaucracies will have to be created in order to organize and sort through all of the incoming “adverse event reports.” (NHF)

Yet the most frightening aspect of this bill is the immediate effects it would have on natural supplements. Currently, due to the Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), all supplements on the market prior to October 15, 1994 can lawfully be sold in the United States. However, the legislation being proposed completely reverses this and defines a “new dietary supplement” as one that “is not included on the list of ‘Accepted Dietary Ingredients’, to be prepared, published, and maintained by the Secretary” (DSSA p.5-6). This seemingly slight change in language actually removes the grandfathering in of supplements on the market prior to 1994. These new dietary supplements will also be considered “adulterated” unless “there is a history of use or other evidence of safety establishing that the dietary ingredient when used under the conditions recommended or suggested in the labeling of the dietary supplement….” (DSSA p.5) The registrants are then required to create and maintain a “scientifically reasonable substantiation file” which is to be made available for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to inspect at his/her whim. These products are to be registered at least 75 days prior to market. (NSF)

As quoted above, the bill also mandates that an “Accepted Dietary Ingredients” list should be created by the Secretary of HHS which will replace the current guidelines. Such a list effectively gives the FDA carte blanche to do whatever it wishes in regards to natural supplements. The FDA is given absolute authority to determine what supplements are allowed on the “Accepted Dietary Ingredients” list, thereby granting it the authority to ban any supplement without due process, scientific merit, or even a hearing simply by refusing to place it on the ADI list. (NSF) The FDA will also be able to remove supplements from market even after it has allowed it to be included on its’ list. As the bill states,

“If the Secretary finds there is a reasonable probability that a dietary supplement or a product marketed or sold as a dietary supplement would cause serious, adverse, health consequences or death, or is adulterated or misbranded, the Secretary shall issue a cease distribution and notification order requiring the person named in the order to immediately – cease distribution of such dietary supplement or a product marketed or sold as a dietary supplement; notify distributors, importers, retailers, and consumers of the order; and instruct those distributors, importers, retailers, and consumers to cease distributing, importing, selling, and using the dietary supplement.”(DSSA p.9)

The cost of the recall, of course, will be absorbed by the retailer. (DSSA p.11)

While the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 is an egregious attack on Americans’ freedom of choice, it is also a symptom of an even larger problem. The McCain-Dorgan bill is not just another silly attempt by corrupt politicians to demonstrate that they still have some value to their constituents, but an attempt to implement Codex Alimentarius at the national level and move the United States away from our Common Law heritage. The European Union has already passed similar legislation in the European Union Food Supplements Directive which has decimated open access to natural dietary supplements. Canada has passed laws to the same effect in recent weeks as well.

Brandon Turbeville
Infowars.com - February 24, 2010

Works Cited:

“Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010.” February 2, 2010. http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=2fe2fa5d-636b-4705-97df-8318a24f718f

“Bullet Points on McCain’s Anti-Supplement Bill S.3002.” National Health Federation. http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_19_feb_2010.html

“McCain Anti-DSHEA Bill a Clear and Present Threat to Health Freedom.” http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4608

Codex Alimentarius

Having spent the past twelve months investigating Codex Alimentarius, I am deeply disturbed by the almost total lack of awareness (or even interest) with regard to the implications of this pernicious global Commission, particularly amongst those most affected by the excesses of this restrictive legislation. In the words of the National Health Federation[i], the aims and objectives of Codex Alimentarius are as follows: * Only low-potency, “me too” supplements available that will do nothing for your health. * All or most foods genetically-modified. * Beneficial supplements unavailable or sold by prescription only. For many people, this agenda is so outrageous, they cannot believe such goals are achievable; yet this may well be the reality as soon as 31st December 2009, if the Codex Alimentarius Commission continues to disregard input from those who offer a counter perspective to the combined forces of Big Farmer & Big Pharma.

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