[CitizensTruth] Kissinger, Obama, The FED and Mark Kirk Confess, featuring Ron Paul and Alex Jones

[Hal Snyder]

Nice job in production and post with the video installment, Gary.

But Ron Paul on "socialized healthcare"? He uses a combination of  
scare talk and non sequiturs. Didn't convince me at all.

J'accuse. I say it's time to stand up to Ron Paul and all the others  
who have marinated our culture in their free-market flim-flam for  
decades.

Let's have some debate. We came together on this mailing list with a  
common interest. Maybe it's time to discuss our differences.

Hal

"government crisis rather than medical crisis" - this is pure  
rhetoric; he offers no facts to back this up. Tell the 47 million  
people on Medicare that you're going to cancel their evil, socialized,  
health care plans and they can go apply for coverage in the free  
market. Tell the ones who are not completely uninsurable due to a pre- 
existing condition that they can trade the 3% overhead of Medicare for  
a private plan with 30% overhead where any funds spent on actual  
health care are considered "medical loss".

Ron Paul says most people don't talk about why medical costs are so  
high. Actually there is a lot of discussion going on about this.  
Private insurers keep 25% to 50% of premiums as profit and overhead.  
They spend our health care dollars on CEO salaries, marketing,  
underwriting, and a mushrooming bureaucracy whose sole purpose is to  
deny paying for care.

Ron Paul talks about choice without mentioning the limits of the  
present system. We have 94% of insurance markets in the United States  
highly concentrated, with insurers thriving in the anti-competitive  
"free market", raking in enormous profits. This is hardly a "reaction  
to government" as Ron Paul says; it is profiteering in the worst way,  
getting rich off the suffering of others. One quarter to one half  
people employed in the U.S. complain about job lock - we are stuck in  
dead-end jobs, just to get some level of coverage. Meanwhile, health  
plans offered by employers - decreasing every day - are limited in  
number and limited in benefits.

Tax credits are regressive. The let the fat cats off the hook and give  
a few dollars to the rest of us. They don't help if you're unemployed  
or just getting by.

You want choice, look at Australia, where people pay a flat 1.5%  
personal income tax to cover their major health care needs, regardless  
of who employs them or whether they have a job at all. You are free to  
choose your doctor and other practitioners. You are free to start your  
own business, take time between jobs to care for a loved one, or  
change careers, and still have uninterrupted affordable, quality care.

"if the government starts a program, we ought to have the right to opt  
out of the program"... This is deceptively simplistic and ignores how  
deeply interconnected people are today. Consider fire departments. Do  
you want to opt out of paying for fire protection? If you do, you  
raise the cost for others and put your neighbors at risk. What about  
programs to protect the environment? Anyone living comfortably in this  
society is reaping the benefits of a system we all put in place.

Fire Care - here's a video extending the fire department analogy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpUG4apgrE

On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Gary Franchi wrote:


> Reality Report (episode 12)

> Kissinger, Obama, The FED and Mark Kirk Confess, featuring Ron Paul  

> and Alex Jones

>

> Watch it here: http://blip.tv/file/2282584

>

> This Reality Report is stuffed to the gills with info just for you!  

> We've got Kissinger calling to over throw Iran and Obama telling us  

> we've done it before! We have the Federal Reserve confessing they  

> misplaced a Trillion or so of your dollars and a few guys who are  

> fighting Congressman Mark Kirk to get some transparency for the US  

> Central Bank through HR 1207.

>

> We also have the extended report from Jekyll Island with Katherine  

> Albrecht, Bob Schulz, Adam Kokesh, Clyde Cleveland, Ernest Hancock,  

> G. Edward Griffin, Michael Badnarik and more.

>

> To add to the fun Gary Franchi will take you deep inside Alex Jones  

> Studios for an exclusive behind the scenes look while filming for  

> Camp FEMA.

>

> And to put the icing on the cake, Ron Paul makes an appearance to  

> share his thoughts on Socialized Health Care.

>

> Oh and that squirmy Dictator Kim Jong Il rears his ugly head to  

> shout some threats at the United States.

>

> With appearances by: Mark Kirk, Ron Paul, Alex Jones, Katherine  

> Albrecht, Adam Kokesh, Clyde Cleveland, Ernest Hancock, Ernest Guy  

> Cunningham, G. Edward Griffin, Michael Badnarik, Dr. Bob Frady and  

> more!

>

> This is one jam packed report that you need to see and share!

>

> Watch it here: http://blip.tv/file/2282584  

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