Health Care to "control the people"

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Congressman Ted Poe of Texas wrote this!
Washington, Mar 16 -



Mr. Speaker, we are told that we must immediately pass this government takeover of healthcare or there will be healthcare panic in the streets. Now, we know the real reason this bill is being rushed to passage, even though no one has had time to read it. According to the Speaker, as quoted, "We have to pass this bill so that you can find out what is in it." Let me repeat what the Speaker said: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

After all, it's 2,700 pages long, and it's just too long to find out what's in it before we vote on it. So now we know, it has to be voted on so it can be read. I guess if Members read the whole bill before they voted, they might actually vote it down.

But there's one thing that we do know that's in this bill, and it is that it steals the right of privacy for all Americans. It will invade people's legal right to medical privacy. The government gets control over everybody's healthcare information, and it's another reason why we should oppose the bill. The government has no business sticking its nose into people's medical records. It's none of the government's business. The bill creates a healthcare integrity data bank where the Feds have access to everybody's medical records. Healthcare information is supposed to be between the patient and the doctor, not the patient and some yet unnamed, anonymous, unaccountable federal bureaucrat hiding somewhere in this building.

When the government has everybody's medical records, they are at risk for misuse. Giving government bureaucrats' access to people's most private and intimate health information means their health records become public property. People's most intimate private health care information, warts and all, becomes the property of the U.S. Government. The Federal Government grab of healthcare will eliminate any masquerade of medical privacy.

The 111 new federal agencies in this bill, that we have yet to read, will be snooping through your records. Talk to your doctor, and the government will know what you said. You've got some type of illness or disease, well, the government's going to know about it. Feeling a bit depressed after a family death and need some medication? Well, the government will even know your mental health issues. Now, is this the kind of information that should be in the hands of federal bureaucrats, a bunch of busybody bureaucrats bestowed with the task to go forth and do good to the people?

The famous author C.S. Lewis once said, "Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons' cruelty may sometimes sleep, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end."

See, don't worry, the bureaucrats will boast. It's for your own good that we know this information. It won't hurt too much.

Once medical records are available to the Feds, every government agency will want to get their hands on those private medical records. That's just the way those bureaucrats work. And every American will be required to be a part of the Big Brother health care database.

People won't talk to their doctor anymore about their problems. They'll know somewhere in the deep, dark, dank dungeons of Washington, D.C., a federal bureaucrat will be reading and perusing their medical records.

This is an invasion of privacy, and it violates the U.S. Constitution. The whole scheme denies individual liberty when the government takes over healthcare.

Thomas Jefferson even talked about universal healthcare once. He said: If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

When government takes over healthcare, it will equalize poor health for everybody. The government takeover of healthcare is not about health and it's sure not about care. It's about government control of our personal lives. And this legislation violates our U.S. Constitution because it steals the right of privacy right from underneath us, all in the name of taking care of us.

And that's just the way it is.
 
Number one, if you, Boult, understand already it's the govt, which is growing and burgeoning more people than ever before, is in fact designed to “control the people.” And the people in charge do believe they should be in charge of “controlling the people” instead of supporting and defending the Constitution which was their oath when they signed up to do the job as a public servant. Else they wouldn't have mandated that everybody pay for health insurance which is unconstitutional in the first place. What Dingell said may have been a Freudian slip but what he said isn't far from the truth.
 
Public servants, eh? You mean perpetual chair-warmers? :lol:

Oh, just learned that the Bill was sent back to the House by the Senate. So, let's see if they pass it again, after having heard what people think of it.
 
kokonut said:
Number one, if you, Boult, understand already it's the govt, which is growing and burgeoning more people than ever before, is in fact designed to “control the people.” And the people in charge do believe they should be in charge of “controlling the people” instead of supporting and defending the Constitution which was their oath when they signed up to do the job as a public servant. Else they wouldn't have mandated that everybody pay for health insurance which is unconstitutional in the first place. What Dingell said may have been a Freudian slip but what he said isn't far from the truth.
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Dingle can't even get his excuses straight. I saw him on the ed.....he admited it was a mistake there.
 
TXGolfer, what did you think of what Ted Poe had to say above?
 
Tousi said:
TXGolfer, what did you think of what Ted Poe had to say above?
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I think it was well said. The medical privacy issue may be my biggest concern of all. Think about this....even past records go online. I can totally understand people who are wanting to leave the country now. Some argue that the place they will move to is no better. I compare it to when a person has their house broken into. I have known many that moved after their house was broken into. The place they moved wasn't better necessarily.....but at least it wasn't a reminder of where they were violated. This week the framers were violated, everyone who fought for freedom was violated and the those that enjoy the freedom this country provides were violated. By 5 votes and the stroke of a pen our country and freedom has taken a greater hit than has ever been dealt by a foreign aggressor.
 
Ah, so we are slowly imploding from within! Thanks, TXG!!
 
TXgolfer said:
That's the way I see it. It is sad......actually it is beyond sad, it is disgusting
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Alas it has happened to every country that has existed in history and USA would not be an exception.
 
Tousi said:
We gotta make us an exception! We gotta!
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You can try but it's a fact of life here on earth. Roman empire lasted for nearly 1000 years if memory serves but it eventually imploded on itself also.
 
Secretblend said:
You can try but it's a fact of life here on earth. Roman empire lasted for nearly 1000 years if memory serves but it eventually imploded on itself also.
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Yeah but we ain't that old! :lol:
 
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