I am a member of the AmVets yet they didn't even fight a ban on smoking in their clubs here in Ohio. They do subvert the law whenever they can, but that is not the way it should be done. In this state, (Ohio) the law was suppose to exempt veteran clubs, but you know how the legislators work and it certainly isn't for us. They make a lot of money banning things, then justifying taxing it out of business. Next, will be certain foods we eat while making smoking pot legal for monetary gain. It makes no sense.except for the obvious reason; money.

I remember a time when we were all free and trusted each other.

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Got the message yet?

Under current circumstances the best health care is first to stay as healthy as possible through good diet, vitamin supplements and exercise and second to buy gold and ammo. Make no mistake these folks are Marxists and they are driving for the end game. Marxists are like a plague of locust except they don’t just destroy vegetation. They destroy everything they touch. The lights are going dim, the band is playing the next to the last dance and the party is just about over. There is a train wreck just up around the next bend.

Section 2531, entitled “Medical Liability Alternatives,” establishes an incentive program for states to adopt and implement alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But]…… a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages.

So, you can’t try to seek alternatives to lawsuits if you’ve actually done something to implement alternatives to lawsuits. Brilliant! The trial lawyers must be very happy today!

The VA Health program only marginally survives because so many non-profit programs fill the void and even then, not enough is being done for our veterans.

Why they can't fix this problem first, is beyond comprehension. .

Simply saying that people have health insurance is meaningless. Many countries provide universal insurance but deny critical procedures to patients who need them. Britain’s Department of Health reported in 2006 that at any given time, nearly 900,000 Britons are waiting for admission to National Health Service hospitals and shortages force the cancellation of more than 50,000 operations each year. In Sweden, the wait for heart surgery can be as long as 25 weeks, and the average wait for hip replacement surgery is more than a year.

Many of these individuals suffer chronic pain, and judging by the numbers, some will probably die awaiting treatment. In a 2005 ruling of the Canadian Supreme Court, Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin wrote that “access to a waiting list is not access to healthcare.”

Interestingly enough, in Canada, where by law they cannot pay for private medical treatment, the only option for those who must either have an operation or die is often to travel to America.

Of course, once our system is as socialistic as is theirs, that will no longer be an option.

Speaking of our friendly neighbors to the north, Canada is currently looking at massive changes in their system.

First, the citizens are in an uproar due to long waiting lists. Second, the costs of the system are completely out of control.

Is this really what we want? Are we so anxious to blame a not-guilty party — the free enterprise system — that we will throw away still another freedom, the freedom to care for ourselves and our loved ones the way we see fit, not the way some faceless bureaucrat sees fit?

Do we want our children getting the same “expert and loving” medical care as did our wounded vets at Walter Reed and in similar government-run hospitals?

Would we really rather see everyone suffer through this kind of healthcare mandated for all? Except the politicians, of course.

Senator Hillary will never have to wait in line. Governor Romney will never be told, “Sorry, no CAT scan for you until every poor person can get one.”

The solution is actually quite simple. Get the government out of our healthcare system and let the free market, private charity, and loving-kindness do what it once did: Provide us with a healthcare system that really works.