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Despite this veil of secrecy, we know some organizations that have received Democracy Alliance funds, though not the precise amounts of the grants. According to the Capital Research Center, these include the aforementioned ACORN, as well as Media Matters for America, the Center for American Progress, the Sierra Club, Air America, and People for the American Way.
All these organizations are active supporters of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda. All are now part of the secular-socialist machine.
CHAPTER FIVE
The Secular- Socialist Machine’s Health Bill Disaster
With David Merritt, Vice President of National Policy for the Center for Health Transformation
N othing captures the corruption of today’s secular-socialist machine better than the Democrats’ takeover of the healthcare system. It’s hard to imagine a more destructive course of action than the one they pursued: using fast-paced votes and procedural tricks to pass trillion-dollar bills no one had read; scheming to pass bills without actually voting on them; dismissing deep public opposition; relying on secret negotiations among a handful of staff and politicians; bullying opposition with bare-knuckled threats; and resorting to backroom deals to buy support.
This process was a tragedy, because improving healthcare for all Americans is one of our country’s most pressing priorities. The healthcare system has become an anchor on virtually every aspect of society, including personal health, the quality of care we receive, and the availability and cost of insurance.
• Health insurance premiums skyrocketed 87 percent between 2000 and 2007, while wages grew only 20 percent over that period.
• Weighted down by healthcare costs, employers are dropping employees’ coverage, with only 59 percent of individuals now receiving employer-based health benefits, down from 64 percent in 2000.
• More than 7,000 Americans are killed annually by preventable medication errors, and nearly 100,000 Americans are killed every year by preventable medical errors.
• Sixty-four percent of adults are either overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of obese children has tripled since 1980.
• Diabetes is a major factor in killing more than 220,000 Americans every year.
Democrats were right to try to fix the health system, whose deficiencies threaten America’s future. We need reform so that every American has more choices of greater quality healthcare at lower cost. Everyone—policymakers, doctors, hospitals, employers, individuals—must work together to accomplish this goal.
But Obama, Pelosi, and Reid didn’t choose this path of inclusion, cooperation, and expertise. They saw the large Democratic majorities in Congress and a Democratic White House as an opportunity to expand the power of the secular-socialist machine by growing government. This was their moment to build another Great Society—a permanent expansion of the welfare state that would reduce ever more Americans into government dependence and bind them to the Democratic political machine. That’s just what they tried to do when the president signed health reform into law on March 23, 2010.
SECULAR SOCIALISM IN THE HEALTH BILL
The destructive, corrupt, and thuggish path the Left followed on health reform perfectly captures the extremism of the secular-socialist machine.
The Left had to resort to this corrupt process because Americans won’t willingly approve a “reform” that massively increases government power, erodes individual freedom, and redefines citizens’ relationship to our government. Obama’s healthcare reform will do all those things: it is impossible to spend trillions of taxpayer dollars and reduce the role of government. Instead, you get new bureaucracies, more regulation, more complexity, and less control of your healthcare, just as the Left planned.
Just look at H.R. 3590. That’s the bill that Senate Democrats
Despite this veil of secrecy, we know some organizations that have received Democracy Alliance funds, though not the precise amounts of the grants. According to the Capital Research Center, these include the aforementioned ACORN, as well as Media Matters for America, the Center for American Progress, the Sierra Club, Air America, and People for the American Way.
All these organizations are active supporters of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda. All are now part of the secular-socialist machine.
CHAPTER FIVE
The Secular- Socialist Machine’s Health Bill Disaster
With David Merritt, Vice President of National Policy for the Center for Health Transformation
N othing captures the corruption of today’s secular-socialist machine better than the Democrats’ takeover of the healthcare system. It’s hard to imagine a more destructive course of action than the one they pursued: using fast-paced votes and procedural tricks to pass trillion-dollar bills no one had read; scheming to pass bills without actually voting on them; dismissing deep public opposition; relying on secret negotiations among a handful of staff and politicians; bullying opposition with bare-knuckled threats; and resorting to backroom deals to buy support.
This process was a tragedy, because improving healthcare for all Americans is one of our country’s most pressing priorities. The healthcare system has become an anchor on virtually every aspect of society, including personal health, the quality of care we receive, and the availability and cost of insurance.
• Health insurance premiums skyrocketed 87 percent between 2000 and 2007, while wages grew only 20 percent over that period.
• Weighted down by healthcare costs, employers are dropping employees’ coverage, with only 59 percent of individuals now receiving employer-based health benefits, down from 64 percent in 2000.
• More than 7,000 Americans are killed annually by preventable medication errors, and nearly 100,000 Americans are killed every year by preventable medical errors.
• Sixty-four percent of adults are either overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of obese children has tripled since 1980.
• Diabetes is a major factor in killing more than 220,000 Americans every year.
Democrats were right to try to fix the health system, whose deficiencies threaten America’s future. We need reform so that every American has more choices of greater quality healthcare at lower cost. Everyone—policymakers, doctors, hospitals, employers, individuals—must work together to accomplish this goal.
But Obama, Pelosi, and Reid didn’t choose this path of inclusion, cooperation, and expertise. They saw the large Democratic majorities in Congress and a Democratic White House as an opportunity to expand the power of the secular-socialist machine by growing government. This was their moment to build another Great Society—a permanent expansion of the welfare state that would reduce ever more Americans into government dependence and bind them to the Democratic political machine. That’s just what they tried to do when the president signed health reform into law on March 23, 2010.
SECULAR SOCIALISM IN THE HEALTH BILL
The destructive, corrupt, and thuggish path the Left followed on health reform perfectly captures the extremism of the secular-socialist machine.
The Left had to resort to this corrupt process because Americans won’t willingly approve a “reform” that massively increases government power, erodes individual freedom, and redefines citizens’ relationship to our government. Obama’s healthcare reform will do all those things: it is impossible to spend trillions of taxpayer dollars and reduce the role of government. Instead, you get new bureaucracies, more regulation, more complexity, and less control of your healthcare, just as the Left planned.
Just look at H.R. 3590. That’s the bill that Senate Democrats
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