Plus the hippies are very nice to her.

My thoughts exactly. The Whole Foods in my town is full of hippies and elitest DINKS. The parking lot is filled with–yep, you guesed it–Volvo’s, Prius’s and Land Rovers.

Personally, I shop there because they have inexpensive tofu, tempeh and sesame oil. (I also enjoy parking my 12-year-old gas-guzziling V8 next to a 9V Prius.)

That is #1 lie of the Obama Administration that many have bought – _________(fill in the blank, CEOs, Insurance, Big Pharma etc) are greedy, evil, etc – except that it is essentially a barter, a deal – you give them money and you get a product/service. . .Government takes our money – at ever increasing rates – and it is appearing that those who do little or nothing are getting a bigger return than those who provide the most money – and we certainly get a shoddy product/service – and in the mean time the government is attempting to squash all alternatives.

I was miffed as Whole Foods (locally) has No Carry Signs – I thought it was a touchy-feelly hippie thing – and then realized it was due to the alcohol in the stores – now that I’ve read this – Whole Foods is back as one of my stores.

I sent many of his ideas to my D (as in dumb) ‘representative’ – he responded with the exact same response he sent me – before my ideas as to solutions – other than a government takeover of healthcare – so I know how he is going to vote – despite the fact that after his first ‘town hall’ meeting – he has canceled and/or turned them into invite only – to dismiss the majority of his constituents that are against the ‘healthcare reform’.

So much for being a true representative of his constituents.

Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.</b

Which is precisely the opposite of what ObamaCare will do. It will mandate coverage and at what levels, and you will not even be allowed to offer a private health plan unless it mandates coverage for what the Government feels is appropriate.

About as far from “lowering costs” as you can get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CHBvKGmevI

On the congressional floor, she quotes Presidential advisors, including Rahm Emanuel’s brother who states that doctors take the Hypocratic Oath too seriously. Social Justice should be a more important factor than the patient’s well-being.

In addition, Dr. Emanuel explainsthat the elderly are not subject to civil rights protections, and hence have no right to equal health care. Nor the handicapped. It’s a cost issue you see. If the money wasted on the old and infirm can be better spent on others, so it should be.

Fortunately, we have a genius president who, in addition to appointing Dr Emanuel as a health advisor, can use his prodigous experience and wisdom to sift through the factors and make the right decision for our 300 million person country, whether you are white or black, whether you are liberal or conservative, whether you believe white people have abused blacks for centuries or not, whether you are old and greedy or not, whether you deserve to live or not, whether you stupidly disagree with him (the president) or not.

And that’s why I still feel really really good about the most major disruption in the American way of life since the great World Wars. I want this senseless and endless 3-week debate to end. The country is 230 years old, after all. It’s time we grew up and accepted 1000 page bills for our own good being rammed through Congress in a few hours while our representatives tend to other important business like expanding their fleet of jets.

We are certainly in good hands. Honest hands. Objective hands, Benevolent hands. The loving hands of Barack Obama, with his cuddly All-american backgroun and broad life perspectives, and his many tender allies, like Barney Franks, Nancy Pelosi, and Rahn Emmanuel.

Oh, I may disagree about a detail or two. But I know when my time comes, the bureaucrat making the life or death decision for me will be well trained. AND fully knowledgable about the cost and social justice implications of expensive procedures which would be wasted on someone as guilty as me, or at least of the same gender and race as others who are guilty.

I remember John Stossel talking about this plan on ABC some time ago .

It’s about government take-over.

Approaches like this, and there are dozens of them, that improve health care incrementally are the ENEMY of big government.

So they must be suppressed at all cost.