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Now that it appears that a version of the Health Care Bill will come out of California Rep. Henry Waxman’s committee, the one that Dingel presided over until he was ousted by Pelosi in favor of Waxman.  The August recess has begun and our Congressional members are heading home to talk to the people.  They have been encouraged by President Obama to hold town hall meetings to go over details of the bill, trying to gain favor for it.

This is exactly what will kill this bill; not the Republicans, nor conservative Blue Dog Dems, not even the insurance industry, but it will be the people who drive the final blow against it. You have seen it already at the meetings being held early during the recess.  Spector got an earful, and his meeting was not the only one. 

The people, the same ones that Obama talked about in San Francisco before the election, but then we were only gun toting, bible hugging nuts.  This time its the elderly who want to know why they are destroying medicaid and medicare.  Why their benefits are going to be taxed after Obama laughed McCain out of the room for even suggesting it?  The parents that are worried whether they will get the care they need for their infants, or will it take months before they get their needed treatments.

Not that we can politically change their minds, but we have a chance to make Debbie Stabenow and John Dingell to seriously think about their chances of re-election their next time out. 

You can voice your opinions to John Dingell up in Romulus.  He has been whipped worse than the family pig, by his own party.  Its a shame too, once upon a time Dingell could have described as the first Blue Dog,  I voted for him many years in a row, and respected his vision on gun rights, but no longer.

Health Care Town Hall Meeting With John Dingell

Stabbenow would not be a shocker, she has followed the party line to a “T”. You can have your chance to ask her questions in Monroe very soon.

I saw this on some show last night while flipping channels because the Tigers had a night off.  Missed most of it, but was able to jot down the web address.

The opening page is an introduction for an investigation of what Canadian Health Care is like.  Then there are four different video segments at the bottom covering different topics.  It is an insight into what Obama’s health care system would be like.  Not that I personally believe it, but Obama might have a different goal in working towards universal coverage.

Like every other piece of high priority legislation passed to this point, he has no hand in writing it, and as leader of his party allows amendments to be slipped in during the middle of the night when no one is looking.  Since no one will get a chance to read the bill, if and when they brow beat the blue dogs into submission, the people will not know what is in the bill until he signs it.

Canadian Health Care Perspective

I just had an email from a walleye fishing bud from Ontario.  She fell on her tailbone a year ago, about four months ago she could barely walk.  She now has arthritis and pinched nerves, with shooting pains up and down her legs.

She is HOPING next week is her turn to get in for therapy.  “Her turn”, right now here in the states, you would schedule for therapy to begin the same week as the diagnosis.  No waiting, no length of time to endure the pain and discomfort.

It happens all the time in England, Sweden and the Canadians come here for treatment when they cannot wait any longer.  This is what is in store for us, if Obama gets his way, that and higher taxes for everyone.