Petition to Repeal Healthcare Reform

Don’t forget that you can sign the petition to repeal healthcare reform if you want to do more than mourn the loss of our rights and freedoms and the ability of United States citizens to make their own decisions about their healthcare insurance and spending.

The particular petition I’m talking about is the Repeal It Now campaign supported by the Restore America’s Voice Foundation. Only people and businesses who have no interest in the healthcare system can donate to the campaign.

Our legislators and many others have decided that it’s okay to abdicate personal responsibility in favor of a government that tells us what is right or wrong and what we do and don’t need when it comes to our health care. They try to make this country into something that fits only their vision, without regard for the vision of the opposite viewpoint. Many of these people have control issues, thinking it’s okay to put legislation into effect just because they think it’s best.

We told them we didn’t want the healthcare reform bill to pass, with phone calls, letters, in-person meetings, through polls, through town hall meetings…none of it mattered. They passed the bill anyway, because of course, they knew more than us, even though most of them hadn’t read more than a few pages of the bill they were passing, but they believed they could make a more informed, better, decision than the rest of us. The arrogance astounds me to this day.

If you would like to support efforts to repeal the healthcare reform legislation known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act before it’s too late, this petition at RepealitNow.org is a good place to start.

Obama on the Cry for Repeal of the Healthcare Law

FoxNews.com covered a recent speech from President Obama in which he reference the call for repeal of the healthcare law.

Obama Dares Republicans to Pursue Repeal of Health Care Law

(Selected Excerpts Below)

President Obama mocked Republicans’ campaign to try to repeal his new health care law, saying Thursday they should "Go for it" and see how well they fare with voters.

Frankly, they’re likely going to fare pretty well with this Independent, formerly Democrat, voter who voted for Obama in the last election.

A different article from The Hill about the speech in question elaborates on President Obama’s comments.

President Obama to repeal-minded Republicans: ‘Go for it’

(Selected Excerpts Below)

President Barack Obama on Thursday flipped into campaign mode and dared Republicans to repeal the healthcare law.

With his signature agenda item signed into law, Obama switched from selling the bill to aggressively promoting it during a speech in Iowa City, Iowa, the town where Obama announced his healthcare reform agenda as a candidate in 2007.

“This is the reform that some folks in Washington are still hollering about. And now that it’s passed, they’re already promising to repeal it,” Obama said. “They’re actually going to run on a platform of repeal in November. Well, I say go for it.”

Social Justice – Playing Robin Hood

I have to admit, when I was a little girl, it never occurred to me to wonder why Robin Hood was the good guy. He stole from the rich to give to the poor, and I grew up under that ideology. Now that I look back, though, I wonder why all the rich folk of the story are portrayed as evil and only Robin Hood can save the downtrodden people.

There’s one key difference between the society of Robin Hood and our American Society, and that difference is how "rich" is made.

Robin Hood lived in the time of serfdom, where you were either born rich or born poor, and there was never any way to change that. The opportunity to create wealth didn’t exist for those poor. That’s not the case in America.

Robin Hood is not someone I want my kids to look up to in a modern perspective. Because without that historical background, my kids might just think I’m promoting a "take from the rich and give to the poor" philosophy.

Then again, I’ve been pretty clear with my kids that this isn’t the way to go so maybe they’ll be able to guard against the insidiousness of the current Social Justice climate in America.

Robin Hood might have been a hero in his day, but in America, today, Robin Hood is a thief.

Many of the rich in America worked long and hard to become rich, after being poor for many years themselves.

The kind of social justice that promotes redistributing wealth is not the kind of social justice America needs.

The new Healthcare Reform law signed by President Obama yesterday tries to do just that. It takes from people who have good healthcare insurance plans or people who don’t need healthcare insurance plans, and gives to those who don’t have health insurance. If someone wants to self-insure, they should be allowed to do so. If someone wants health insurance but can’t afford it, maybe they should think about dropping their cable and cell phone. Seriously. I paid $5,000 in premiums annually for health insurance when my family of 4 had a gross income of less than $25,000 a year. We made sacrifices, but that was our choice. Too many people these days act like children and refuse to make tough choices. Don’t be one of them.

Life is not fair and this desperate need of the Social Justice movement to make life fair is a disgrace to the diversity of the world and the human population.

If you believe this is about healthcare, think again. This is about insurance for healthcare. It would be no different if Congress passed a law that said everyone who could afford homeowner’s or renter’s insurance should subsidize those who can’t afford it.

And if we let this law stand, if we do not repeal this bill, this is exactly what might eventually happen.

Anyone playing Robin Hood in America today deserves to go to jail for theft. Government officials included.

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South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint to Introduce Bill to Repeal “ObamaCare”

DeMint to Introduce Bill to Repeal ObamaCare

(Complete Press Release Follows)

March 21, 2010 – WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) announced that he will introduce legislation this week to repeal President Obama’s government takeover of health care. House Democrats voted this evening to pass the Senate version of the health care bill and it will likely be signed into law by President Obama later this week.

“This bill is unconstitutional and it cannot be fixed. It must be repealed,” said Senator DeMint. “The battle for health care freedom is not over and I will introduce legislation this week to repeal this health care takeover.

“Unless this trillion-dollar assault on our freedoms is repealed, it will force Americans to purchase Washington-approved health plans or face stiff penalties. It will fund abortions, raise taxes and insurance premiums, while reducing health care choices and quality.”

“This arrogant power grab proves that the President and his party care more about government control than the will of the American people. Americans told Washington to keep its hands off their health care in opinion polls, at public protests, and at the ballot box, but their pleas were ignored.

“If the President and Democrats were serious about true health care reform, there were many free-market solutions we could have easily passed. Americans support commonsense reforms such as purchasing coverage across state lines, stopping frivolous medical lawsuits, and giving the same tax breaks to Americans who don’t get their insurance at work. Unfortunately, Democrats refused to listen.”

The bill passed in the House today raids $52 billion from Social Security, cuts nearly $500 billion from Medicare, and doesn’t account for the hundreds of billions Congress must pass to pay doctors who treat elderly patients.

TEXT of Senator DeMint’s bill to Repeal ObamaCare:

To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REPEAL.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the amendments made by that Act, are repealed.