The healthcare bill is a massive piece of legislation — quite literally — at 1,000 pages.  It will have long-term consequences to our entire economy, and especially will impact small business… not to mention severe privacy implications… I could not be more opposed to it — and urge you to be vocal in your opposition as well.  It’s not good business.  It’s not good economic policy.  It’s a horribly inadequate band-aid on a long-term problem that (in typical big government fashion) piles on a lot of extras that have nothing to do with healthcare.

An anesthesiologist has read the bill and reviewed several sections in an e-mail that he sent to his Senator.  Why don’t you download a copy of the bill and write YOUR Congressman?   You can download it here: http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf

As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the healthcare bill

before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the

brazenness of the government’s proposed involvement in the patient physician

relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration

patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a

healthcare system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees

that we need to fix our healthcare system, but the proposed bills currently

making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed.

I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following

troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe

that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our fellow

citizens.

Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all

employers that self insure!!

Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill – THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides

what treatments/benefits you get.

Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!

Page 42 of HC Bill:The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC

Benefits for you. You have no choice!

Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens ,

illegal or otherwise

Page 58 HC Bill: Govt will have real-time access to individuals finances & a

National ID Healthcard will be issued!

Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt will have direct access to your bank

accounts for elective funds transfer.

Page 65 Sec 164: is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families

in Unions & community organizations: (ACORN).

Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC

plans in the Exchange.

Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The

Govt will ration your Healthcare!

Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services.

Example – Translation: illegal aliens.

Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN &

Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan.

Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. AARP

members – your Health care WILL be rationed.

Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be

automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.

Page 124 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No !

“judicial review” against Govt Monopoly.

Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical Association – The

Govt will tell YOU what you can make! (salary)

Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public

option plan. NO CHOICE!

Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND

their families.

Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not

provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll.

Page 150 Lines 9-13: Business’s with payroll btw 251k & 401k who doesn’t

provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll.

Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC

according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income.

Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual

taxes. (Americans will pay)

Page 195 HC Bill: Officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access

to ALL Americans finances /personal records.

Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be

treated as tax” Yes, it says that!

Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill: Govt will reduce physician services for

Medicaid Seniors, low income and poor are affected.

Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors, doesn’t matter what specialty you have,

you’ll all be paid the same!

Page 25! 3 Line 1 0-18: Govt sets value of Doctor’s time, profession,

judgment etc. Literally value of humans.

Page 265 Sec 1131: Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC

industries.

Page 268 Sec 1141: Federal Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven

wheelchairs.

Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS – Cancer

patients – welcome to rationing!

Page 280 Sec 1151: The Govt will penalize hospitals for whatever Govt deems

preventable re-admissions.

Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission th at

results in a re-admission -Govt will penalize you.

Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells Doctors

what/how much they can own!

Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating

hospitals cannot expand.

Page 321 2-13: Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT commun

ity input is required. Can u say ACORN?!!

Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: Govt mandates establishment of outcome based m

easures. HC the way they want. Rationing.

Page 341 Lines 3-9: Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans

, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt plan.

Page 354 Sec 1177: Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people!

Unbelievable!

Page 379 Sec 1191: Govt creates more bureaucracy – Tele-health Advisory

Committee. Can you say HC by phone?

Page 425 Lines 4-12: Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Think

Senior Citizens end of life patients.

Page 425 Lines 17-19: Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills ,

durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!

Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Govt provides approved list of end of

life resources, guiding you in death. (assisted suicide)

Page 427 Lines 15-24: Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The

Govt has a say in how your life ends.

Page 429 Lines 1-9: An “advanced care planning consultant” will be used

frequently as patients health deteriorates.

Page 429 Lines 10-12: “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for

end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOVT!

Page 429 Lines 13-25: The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end

of life order.

Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will

have at end of life!

Page 469: Community Based Home Medical Services = Non profit organizations.

Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?

Page 472 Lines 14-17: PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORIGINATION. 1 monthly

payment 2 a community-based organization. Like ACORN?

Page 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which

means they will insert Govt into your marriage.

Page 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining,

creating, rationing those services.

Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything possible to inform

patients and my fellow physicians about the dangers of the proposed bills

you and your colleagues are debating.

Furthermore, If you vote for a bill that enforces socialized medicine on the

country and destroys the doctor/patient relationship, I will do every thing

in my power to make sure you lose your job in the next election.

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The following is a reprint (by permission) of an e-mail from one of the smartest business people I know, Ken McCarthy.  Ken has a wealth of life and business experience, and teaches online marketing in a Michael Jordan kinda way — learn the fundamentals and practice, practice, practice.  Thousands of folks have gladly paid thousands for his advice and benefitted tremendously from it.  You can get it totally free, absolutely no strings attached…  Please read what he has to say about one of the most important topics affecting us all right now — Money.  There is a link at the bottom and I won’t make a dime if you choose to click that link — think of it as a public service.

 

Money…

People talk about it, worry about it, dream
about it.

Today there are not not only TV shows devoted to it
but also whole TV channels.

It’s a topic of endless interest – and it generates
a lot of emotion.

Like most people, I’ve been fascinated by the
subject of money too.

I’ve also had some very interesting experiences
with it:

* I worked on Wall Street in the late 1980s and
still have lot of friends who are part of that
scene.

* I’ve met and talked with four billionaires
(Jim Clark, Marc Andreessen, James Barksdale
and Scott McNealy)

* I’ve been part of the Internet revolution since
before Day One and have seen many fortunes
made and lost.

=== Here’s a secret about me…

For every book I own about marketing (and I
have hundreds of them), I have a book about
money.

I’ve never made a business of giving market advice,
but occasionally I have shared insights -
publicly and in writing.

Like in 1994, when I recommended business
owners and investors take the Internet seriously

Like in 1998, when I recommended that investors
STOP taking the Internet so seriously.

Like in 2002, when I said the Internet was going
to come back stronger than ever after the
dot com crash.

Every time, I was going against the flow in a
big way.

If I were an investment advisor, these three calls alone
would have been enough to put me in the Investor’s Hall
of Fame.

=== But that’s just the tip of the iceberg

I’ve also issued occasional private market advisories to
my System Club members.

Like in 2005 when I advised all System Club members
to rethink what their business – and life – would be
like if there were to be a sudden and drastic credit
crunch – which I called “inevitable.”

Like in the spring of 2007, when I wrote that
there was something profoundly wrong with the
real estate market and the party looked like it
was over.

Like in August of 2008 when I flashed a red alert
to get out of the stock market and make sure
you don’t have more than the FDIC limit
in any one bank account.

“Crazy man” advice at the time it was given…

But I know several people for whom the 2008 stock
warning alone saved six figures of hard earned life savings.

How did I know these things (or at least have a strong
enough suspicion that I was willing to put it out there?

Hey, I’m going to be 50 years old this year and
I’ve been paying attention to the financial markets
like a hawk since I was 14.

If I hadn’t learned something by now I’d be
in trouble.

Also, actually working on Wall Street and having
friends there woke me up to the reality of the
place…it’s a glorified casino and everything the media
says about it needs to be taken with several tons
of salt.

=== So what does this have to do with you?

Almost every day I come across someone
who has been massacred by bad money advice…

It both breaks me heart and p*sses me off.

Either they’ve been given bad Internet marketing
advice, or they’ve been given bad investment advice
or they’ve just never been given good advice about
money – how to make it and how to KEEP it and
grow it. (Notice the one word I put in caps.)

Because I can’t possibly fully explain
one-on-one how money and wealth building works
to everyone who’s asked me, I decided to sit
down and write down everything I know about it.

Now that the writing is done, I realize how valuable
what I’ve produced is.

After all, what would unambiguous advice to get out of stocks
in August of 2008 have been worth to some people?

I know… In one case $127,000. In another person’s
case $384,000. And in both cases, their “broke”-ers
fought them tooth and nail about going to cash.

=== So what should I charge for this thing?

A few hundred? A few thousand? Should I put on
one of those $10,000 weekend deals for “insiders”
only?

Here’s my plan…a very reasonable $195…
UNLESS, you come and get it on Independence Day.

On July 4th – and that day only – it will be
absolutely free.

No strings attached. No back end. No up sell.
No baloney.

Then, on July 5th, it goes back to $195.00 which
frankly is a world class bargain.

=== Why am I doing this?

Because I’m tired of seeing good people getting
misled and blown up by the financial industry.

Whenever I turn on the financial news on TV
I just have to shake my head and sigh.

Never has so much nonsense been spouted to
so many about something that’s so important.

Why am I offering this on the 4th of July, Independence Day?

To make this important point…

The whole reason to be involved in the business of making
money is to attain financial independence.

Period.

You can do it fast. You can do it slow. You can fail to do it.

It’s up to you – but it really helps if you know the right way to
go about it.

There are actually five things you need to do to become
financially independent – just five. But you need to do
all five to make it work.

That’s it – and I guarantee you can buy every money-making
course out there and less than 1 out of 1,000 will never lay
it out for you as clearly as I do.

It’s surprisingly simple (not easy, but simple)…if you just know
how – and it doesn’t matter what the economy is doing.

I’m calling my report the Independence Day Blueprint.

If you want it, go here:

http://www.thesystemseminar.com/july4/

See you on Independence Day!

Ken

 

Invest some time in your future and click the link.  Again, I have no affiliation other than knowing Ken and knowing the quality of the information he produces.  I know it will make a difference in your life.  And it’s totally free.

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I just received an e-mail from a business owner who feels he has done all the right things in the last six months — he started a WordPress blog, assigned one of his employees to post to it a few times a week, optimized the site for SEO, created an opt-in box to capture e-mail leads, etc., but he’s not seen any traffic to speak of… a few visitors a day, no opt-in’s, no extra business, and nothing but expenses and bills to show for his efforts… and needless to say he’s frustrated, discouraged and at the point of giving up.  His results are actually very typical, but it doesn’t have to be that way.  Millions of websites are earning revenue for their businesses by following a few key strategies.

A few years ago, you could create an SEO-friendly website and the mere fact that it was optimized would attract traffic to your website, but that’s not enough anymore.  You must advertise or market the site.  

Before we move forward, I’ll state unequivocally that if your site is not optimized, you will suffer search engine rankings.  It’s part of building a professional website, and simply a matter of course that you need to pay attention to proper optimization of each page.  It would be like showing up at the opera in a dirty t-shirt and cut-off’s; it simply isn’t done if you want to be taken seriously.  Pay attention to the title of your page, as well as the description, keywords and especially the content.  Tag your images with relevant keywords.  Do all those things — especially if your keyword competes with less than 50,000 – 60,000 other web pages in Google’s index.  We commonly see the lack of optimization on home-made websites (made in a free editor), Flash sites (pretty but not very smart) and old websites (technically obsolete).  If you have a home-made, Flash or old website, it’s entirely possible to have a well optimized site, but you may have to work harder to get here than the guy with the WordPress blog.  WordPress sites are about as good as it gets for good SEO, and should be your model to emulate in your own web property.

More than simply optimizing your site for search engines, you must tell the world about your website.  There are simply too many pages on the Internet about your topic — too much noise for a page to simply “exist” and get any attention at all.  Time and again, you have heard me talk about “the conversation,” and that’s an image I’ll return to again here.  Think about a cocktail party.  If you are in the street outside the house, you could be the most relevant contributor in the world to the conversation; but unless you walk into the house and actually join the conversation, you’re not relevant.  You’re not even on the radar.  People don’t know you exist.  You are a mere murmur in a world that is shouting.

The Internet — and by extension, search engines — filter out pages for a number of reasons.  Spam content that contributes nothing gets thrown to the side of the road.  Good content with no volume is not found, and that is a true shame.  There are many ways to join the conversation.  If you have something to say — especially if you have something of substance to contribute — you have a responsibility to make yourself heard.  So get out there!  It’s time to be heard.

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