by Terry Watkins

On Wednesday, September 22, 1993, President Clinton addressed the people of United States of America to introduce Health Care Reform. President Clinton made many wonderful promises:

"Health care that could never be taken away, universal coverage for all, generous benefits, and all at a cost, of no more than we pay now.".

"Americans ought to be able TO CHOOSE their own health care plan".

"The fourth principle is CHOICE. Americans believe they ought to be able TO CHOOSE their own health care plan and keep their own doctors. And I think all of us agree. Under any plan we pass, they ought to have that RIGHT." (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

They ought to have that right BUT WILL THEY?

Page 65 of the President's Health Security Plan reads ". . . ONLY health plans that enter into contracts with the appropriate regional or corporate alliance ARE AUTHORIZED to provide the guaranteed benefit package." Page 81 reads, "ONLY STATE-CERTIFIED health plans are allowed to provide health insurance and benefits in regional alliances."

Business Week, Sept. 20, 1993(p.34), in an article titled "Three Fibs that Won't Help Health Reform" states, " . . . Clinton's health plan employs at least three lies ranging from a fib to a whopper . . ." One of the DOCUMENTED LIES: "Everyone will have the right TO CHOOSE his or her doctor . . ."

Wall St. Journal, Sept. 30, 1993(p.18), in an article appropriately titled "Health Plan's Devilish Details", states, "Under the Clinton plan, most Americans WILL NOT BE ABLE to hold onto their personal physician or buy the kind of insurance that 77% of Americans now choose."

And not only will we not have a choice but it will be AGAINST THE LAW to go outside the system! Page 89, of The President's Health Security Plan, reads,

"No health plan, insurer, or any other person may offer anyone eligible for the guaranteed benefit package a supplemental insurance policy that DUPLICATES coverage in the national benefit package."

Page 10 says,"NEW CRIMINAL PENALTIES for fraud related to health care and for the payment of bribes or gratuities TO INFLUENCE the delivery of health services and coverage."

Phil Gramm, the Texas Senator, states in Wall St. Journal, Oct. 19, 1993(p.A10), the Clinton plan would make it "illegal for free citizens in this country to go to Blue Cross and buy their own insurance policy if they're willing to pay for it."

And not only that, THE LAW WILL REQUIRE, every man, woman and child to participate and pay whatever the price and whatever the coverage the governments' health plan!

Clinton's idea of CHOICE is simple - join our government-controlled health plan or GO TO JAIL!

Wall-Street Journal, Sept. 30, 1993(p.18), says "The Clinton plan is COERCIVE. It takes personal health choices away from patients and families,. . ."

Americans have been told, they will always have the option to buy fee-for-service insurance. But, a little detail, on page 67 of The President's Health Security Plan, says different, "Under certain conditions, with approval from the National Health Board, a state may waive the requirements for each alliance to offer a fee-for-service health plan . . ."

Clinton's plan contains no individual choice, the government can "force" and "manipulate" you into whatsoever plan they choose! Wall St. Journal of Oct. 18, 1993(p.A16), sums it up, "The array of choices is a SHAM:. . ."

Clinton also said, "We also believe that doctors should have A CHOICE as to what plans they practice in. Otherwise, citizens may have their own choices limited. We want to end the discrimination that is now growing against doctors, and to permit them to practice in several different plans. CHOICE is important for doctors, and it is absolutely critical for our consumers. (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

The President's Health Security Plan, on page 139, incrediably dictates, "Legislative AUTHORITY establishes a new system TO MANAGE the supply of specialty training for physicians,. . ."

Wall-Street Journal, Sept. 30, 1993(p.18), states, "Seeing a specialist and paying for it out-of-pocket will be almost IMPOSSIBLE. . . The Clinton proposal is DESIGNED to drive doctors out of private practice. . . Price controls will make private practice unfeasible. . . Even Drs. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, leading proponents of a Canadian-style single-payer system, warn that the plan will 'OBLITERATE PRIVATE PRACTICE'".

Newsweek, Oct. 4, 1993(p.34), says point-blank, "Clinton's plan also AIMS TO FORCE some doctors and hospitals out of the system . . . Most doctors would be FORCED to take salaried jobs as health-plan employees (p.39)."

There's the Clinton choice again! Here's the choice, doc . . . You either work for the government, under government controlled prices, or you don't practice medicine!

Knowing the intentions of this government-controlled plan, Clinton told a whopper, "We propose to give every American a choice among high-quality plans . . . The choice will be left to the American citizen, the worker not the boss, and CERTAINLY NOT SOME GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRAT." (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

President Clinton also made this statement: "Nevertheless, the vast majority of the Americans watching this tonight will PAY THE SAME OR LESS for health care coverage that will be the same or better than the coverage they have tonight. That is the central reality." (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

Here's the plan. . . Clinton's going to cover an additional 37 million uninsured people; generous benefits including abortions; increased Medicare benefits; create the largest government bureaucracy in history and according to his own words, "the vast majority of the Americans . . . will pay the same or less . . ."

Boy, you talk about a magic act!
And how does Clinton propose performing this wonderful magic act! Clinton and crew claim up to $238 billion dollars (that's billion with a 'b') can be saved by reducing waste and simplying our current system.

And how does "capitol hill" feel about Clinton's proposal? Senator Moynihan, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, calls it "A FANTASY". Newsweek, Oct. 4, 1993(p.46), quotes an administrative aide calling it "a walk in space". An administration insider, says in Business Week, Sept. 20, 1993(p.31), "The proposed savings are ILLUSORY, because the assumptions are CRAZY, . . ."

Henry Aaron, one of the world's leading economist ,and a scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said, in Time, Oct. 4, 1993(p.31), "the savings that some people think can be realized are BALONEY."

Where did Clinton get these huge savings?

Time magazine, Oct. 4, 1993(p.31), amazingly, quotes a key Clinton adviser saying, "The ASSUMPTIONS are not dishonest, but they are optimistic . . . We had to pick a number, and WE PICKED A HIGH ONE."

But wait. . . Time out. . .

Since those numbers "flopped" , on Oct. 27, 1993 they decided they'd better "pick" another. The new "fantasy" is $189 billion in savings. Are they reliable? Not hardly. Treasury Secretary, and Clinton supporter, Senator Lloyd Bentsen, said in the New York Times, Oct. 28, 1993(p.A11) of the new numbers, "The Administration says their numbers are the best we can do just now. They are subject TO CHANGE. We know there are VAST UNCERTAINTIES."

Leon Panetta, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, who helped supply the numbers in New York Times, Oct. 28, 1993(p.A11) admittedly said, "Health care estimates, no matter how carefully drawn, ARE HARDLY CERTAIN FORECASTS. We've just seen too many unpredictable results in health care."

Isn't that something?
Clinton wants to demolish the greatest healthcare system in the world and create a gigantic socialist government monster - on the basis of some numbers they "admittedly" pulled out of thin air! Somebody ought to wake Clinton up!

If they don't it could be our "NIGHTMARE"!
Consider this. . . Of the $389 billion, Clinton claims the government can "throw in", $300 billion comes from "hoped-for-assumations".

(For instance $124 billion "hoped-for" Medicare savings, $65 billion "hoped-for" Medicaid savings, $71 billion "hoped-for" income tax increases due to health reform, $40 billion "hoped-for" savings from federal programs) The only "semi-concrete" source is the $89 billion from taxes on tobacco products. Do you realize just how serious this is? Now, what do you think is going to happen when this takes effect and "reality" hits and the "assumed" $300 billion is not there. Real simple. The quality and coverage of Health Care will drop like a rock! And your taxes will go up like a space rocket!

And when you consider the government's track-record of "forecasting" costs and savings, you know we're in a "mess 'o trouble". For instance, when Lyndon Johnson introduced Medicaid in 1965, he projected the costs would be $10 billion in 1990. The actual costs were over $110 billion! As Time magazine, May 24, 1993(p.32) titled an article on Clinton's plan, "Better Hold Onto Your Wallets".

President Clinton said in his speech Sept. 22, ". . . the vast majority of the Americans watching this tonight will PAY THE SAME OR LESS for health care coverage that will be the same or better than the coverage they have tonight. That is the central reality."

But, in The New York Times, Oct. 29, 1993(p.1), Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, one of Clinton's Health Care "reformers", said that AT LEAST 100 MILLION would pay more! And oh yea, those Sept 22. premium prices they've also went up. And for you on Medicare, your prices have also went up. And oh yea, they also said the tax some tobacco products were increasing over 10,400 per cent (New York Times, Oct. 29, 1993p.C3). Oh yea, I almost forgot, remember that "promised" $91 billion deficit reduction that was supposed to magically appear from all this mess, they also said Oct 29, You'd better make that $60 billion. No wonder, Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott, (New York Times, Oct. 28, 1993 p.A11) said of the Clinton forces, "They have gone NUTS . . ."

ARE YOU BEGINNING TO SMELL A RAT?
The joke of the year has to be when Clinton said in his healthcare speech,

". . . under this health care security plan, every employer and every individual will be ASKED TO CONTRIBUTE something to health care. . . I believe we should also ASK FOR A MODEST CONTRIBUTION from big employers who opt out of the system. . ." (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

He's going to "ASK" for a "CONTRIBUTION"? Sounds like he's going to pass the plate around in church for a "free-will-contribution". Fact is, if Clinton gets his way you could be the one "asking for contributions" at the nearest soup line!

In his speech, Clinton said, "So then we gave these numbers to actuaries from major accounting firms and major Fortune 500 companies who have no stake in this other than to see that our efforts succeed. So I believe our numbers are good and achievable." (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

Wall St. Journal, Oct., 1, 1993(p.A12), had an interesting article titled, "To Find out Whether Clinton Numbers Add Up in Health Plan, Ask People Who Crunched Them". The article quoted a Mr. Helms, an executive at Principal Financial Group, a Des Moines insurer, who was ACTUALLY one of the actuaries Clinton referred to, Mr. Helms said, "If it gave someone the impression that we looked at all of the numbers in fine detail and signed off on them," he says, "it was potentially MIS-LEADING."

No potentially mis-leading to it - President Clinton was lying like a persian rug!

President Clinton has repeatedly said price controls are not part of his plan.In his speech he reiterates that point:

"So how will we achieve these savings? Rather than looking at price control, or looking away as the price spiral continues; rather than using the heavy hand of government to try to control what's happening,. . ." (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

But then just two sentences later, he said this ...

"But we also believe we should back this system up with LIMITS on how much plans can raise their premiums. . ." (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

Page 68 of the President's Health Security Plan states, "A provider may not charge or collect from a patient a fee IN EXCESS OF THE FEE schedule adopted by an alliance." Page 255 states, "Upon introduction of the reform plan, the President announces a program urging all sectors of the health care system, hospitals, physicians, laboratories, drug manufacturers, and all others, TO LIMIT PRICE and expenture increases to a SPECIFIED AMOUNT."

As history as shown time and time again nothing will kill productivity and quality like price control. Look at how well they worked in the Soviet Union. And the Clinton plan is filled with price control!

Of couse, they don't call it that, sometimes they call it "imposing budget discipline"(p.6), or "launch prices"(p.45), or maybe "premium targets"(p.105), here's a good one "reasonable price"(p.46) or just "caps"(p.259), but as Business Week, Sept. 20, 1993(p.34) reports, "Clintonites won't admit it, but PRICE CONTROLS ARE THE CENTERPIECE of their health plan."

Even though a recent House vote on the Hyde amendment, which prohibits Medicaid funds for abortion, clearly shows the majority does not support federally-funded abortions, the Clinton plan "sneaks" it in. The word "abortion" is not found in The President's Health Security Plan, but it is "lurking" under such vague services as "Family planning services"(p.21), and "Pregnancy-related services"(p.21).

Another disturbing element of the Clinton plan is the mandated school based clinics and condom distribution. Page 211 of the plan says, "Dedicated funds. . . support school-based clinics targeted at middle schools and high schools. Clinics provide physical and mental health services and counseling in DISEASE PREVENTION and health promotion as well as in individualized RISK BEHAVIOR reduction." Of couse [DISEASE PREVENTATION] and [RISK BEHAVIOR reduction] clearly refer to condoms.

But the Clinton, "I didn't inhale" whopper, from his Health Care Speech, had to be:

"We should require the LEAST BUREAUCRACY or disruption, and create the cooperation we need to make the system cost-conscious, . . .We will SIMPLIFY also and we must THE GOVERNMENT'S RULES AND REGULATIONS, because they are a big part of this problem." (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

To show the utter madness of the Clinton healthcare reform, how do you suppose President Clinton is going to "simplify" government regulation and cut-down bureaucracy? Simple. He's going to create the largest and most expensive government bureaucracy in history! According to the book, The President's Health Security Plan, to "cut down bureaucracy" and "simplify the system", Clinton would create 59 NEW FEDERAL BUREAUCRACIES, EXPAND 20 OTHERS and impose 79 NEW FEDERAL MANDATES!

If you didn't know what the Clinton Administration was really up to you'd have to seriously consider their sanity!

A terrifying picture of government competency was clearly shown the night of Clinton's Health Care speech, as they put the wrong speech in the Teleprompt! That ought to send a earthshattering warning about the inefficiencies and incompetencies of government bureaucracies! How would like to have that same person, operating on you or your children? Wonderful thought isn't it? They can't put the right speech in the teleprompt and they want to control the worlds' most massive health care system!

Congressman, Dick Armey (R-Texas) said in the Wall St. Journal, Oct. 13, 1993(p.A22), " . . . the Clinton plan is a BUREAUCRATIC NIGHTMARE that will ultimately result in higher taxes, reduced effeciency, restricted choice, longer lines and a MUCH, MUCH BIGGER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT."

Congressman, Spencer Bachus (R-AL), in The Birmingham News of Oct. 1, 1993 (p.11A), says,

"My concern is that the government doesn't have a very good track record on keeping down health care costs. In 1990, for example, Medicaid spending increased by 21.3 percent. In 1991, it increased by 33.2 percent. Health care expenditures in the private sector ROSE ONLY 7.4 PERCENT over the same period. Last week, President Clinton said the current system has too much bureaucracy, too much waste and fraud, and the costs are too hlgh. His prescription for health care reform is, ironically, A MASSIVE NEW FEDERAL PROGAM."

William Wetzel, president of the National Association of Health Underwriters, in the Birmingham News, Sept. 26, 1993, commenting on The President's Health Security Plan says, "I call it the 246-page brick that Clinton has hit us with, a brick that is going to HURT EVERY AMERICAN and WREAK HAVOC on the American economy."

Page 50, of The President's Health Security Plan has a "cute", little, "gotcha":

"When the National Board notifies the Secretary of Health and Human Services that a state has failed to comply with FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS, the National Board shall also notify the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury will impose A PAYROLL TAX ON ALL EMPLOYERS IN THE STATE. "

Isn't that amazing! And there's no limit on the tax there's no voting, no Congressional approval, it's literally a "BLANK CHECK" signed by me and you! Boy, if that don't give you nightmares, I don't know what will!

The Wall St. Journal, Sept. 29, 1993, "Financing the Clinton health plan would require SUBSTANTIALLY MORE TAX REVENUE than the administration admits. . ."

Time, Sept. 20, 1993(p.61), in a column titled, "The Devil in the Numbers", says, "Nearly EVERY Democratic health-care expert, however, concluded that effeciencies alone would never be enough; Clinton would have to RAISE TAXES as well".

Time magazine, Oct. 4, 1993(p.37), commenting on the Clinton speech, put it like this: "What he said, in effect, is "TRUST ME" - and never mind that if he and his advisers ARE WRONG, the costs of extending health care to the uninsured would ultimately require new taxes."

Do you get the feeling the Clinton Administration have no idea what they're doing? Well, YOU'RE WRONG! The truth is THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING! And Health Care is just a cover for the "real" Clinton agenda!

Richard Scrushy, CEO of HealthSouth Corp., said in The Birmingham News, Sept. 26, 1993, "I think people in America don't realize that THEY ARE BEING HOODWINKED by the leadership in this country."

The Clinton agenda is to "radically" change the America which you and I know. In his Health Care address, Sept. 22, he stated his purpose, "OUR PURPOSE in this dynamic age must be TO CHANGE-to make CHANGE our friend and not our enemy." (Health Care Speech, Sept, 22, 1993)

The Clinton change is Socialist America!
Socialism is defined as "GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP AND/OR CONTROL over the basic means of production and distribution of goods and services". And, despite the glaring fact, that socialism has never, ever worked. Despite the fact that the most intense attempt at socialism has devastated Russia. But, for some unknown reason, the Clintons just don't get it! Socialism does not, can not and will not work!

Speaking, Oct. 8, 1993, before the Democratic National Committee: Clinton said, "When you CHANGE A COUNTRY, now, you can't just pass a law and change it,. . . You have to CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR of the whole country. People have to CHANGE THEIR LIVES."

Congressman Phil Gramm said in the New York Times, Oct. 28, 1993(p.A10), ". . .the bottom line is, they're trying to sell you SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, and that is a bad product."

The Newsweek, Oct. 4, 1993(p.29), cover article, "Clinton's Trillion dollar Cure (And What We Didn't Tell You)", reads, "What the president didn't say is that his plan arguably the most ambitious attempt at SOCIAL ENGINEERING since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is just as risky as it is bold."

Congressman, Spencer Bachus (R-AL), in The Birmingham News of Oct. 1, 1993(p.11A), gives this warning, "Under the Clinton plan, the federal government will in one fell swoop control every aspect of our health care system 14 PERCENT OF OUR ECONOMY. In order to do that, he has proposed three new levels of government bureaucracy: a National Health Board, Regional Health Alliances and state enforcement agencies. This seven member board would control $900 billion in health care goods and services that's three times more than the resources under the control of all our nation's governors combined."

Friend, their aim is real simple CONTROL.
They want to control every aspect of your life. Currently, one out of every seven dollars in America is spent on health care. The Clinton Administration wants to capture our health care system and place under the control of government. And every one of us, sooner or later, will need its services! It would place the American people in a dangerous position, literally a life or death position at the mercy of government for our most basic care OUR HEALTH CARE!

The magazine, World and I, Oct. 1993(p.18-26), published by The Washington Times, had these comments, "President Clinton and his administration are CLEARLY intent on carrying out a culture REVOLUTION in America. . . Given the ideology of the Clintonites who hold high positions in the administration, there is no argument that RADICAL CHANGE is their goal. . .There can be no question that RADICAL CHANGE IS THEIR GOAL. . ."

A disturbing article was published in Wall St. Journal, Oct. 26, 1993(p.A22), titled "Clinton Health Plan Salutes Italy's Past". The article compared the Clinton Health Plan with the cruel economic Fascism of the Italian dictator Mussolini. Incredibly, the comparison was startling!

IS THERE A CONNECTION?
In the book, "'Slick Willie', Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton" (p.109), revealed an article that appeared August 8, 1992, in the Italian news weekly Il Sabato, reporting of Governor Clinton's 1987 visit to Italy to study their economic system (which is communist). The article was amazingly entitled, "Comrade Bill" ("Comrade" is a term for a communist party member). In the article, Clinton was asked the following question:

"Don't tell me this [communist cooperatives] is your economic prescription for the [United] States?" Mr. Socci asked Governor Clinton.
"ABSOLUTELY," responded the Governor.

If you still doubt Clinton's real goal. . . On page 23, of his book, Putting People First, he made this "alarming" statement: "We cannot put people first and create jobs and economic growth without A REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT."

A REVOLUTION? Webster defines "revolution" as: 1. a sudden, radical, or complete change. 2. the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed.

What kind of talk is that for the President of the United States! Friend, that's the talk of the Karl Marxs, the Lenins, the Stalins and the Mussolinis! Not the President of the United States!

It makes you wonder, just what did Clinton mean in his announcement speech, at the Old State House in Little Rock, Ark. on Oct. 3, 1991, when he declared, "I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism. . ." (Putting People First, p.187)

The undeniable fact is, the Clinton Heath Care is a brutal attack at our freedom. And, as Clinton has acknowledged several times it's just the beginning!

As the Clinton Health Care Plan, is released and revised, there will be much debate among Congress. Many details will be changed. But what the Clinton Administration will not back down from is that massive government control.

Senator Phil Gramm, said in the Wall St. Journal, Oct. 1, 1993(p.A10), "I believe we can and will repeal the president's tax increase. I believe we can and will repair foreign-policy mistakes." But about the Clinton health, monstrosity, he says, "I can't fix this."

But, you and I can. Senator Phil Gramm, also said in Wall St. Journal, Oct. 1, 1993(p.A10), ". . . the good news is that the middle class Americans are going to decide this."

1. Know you're a sinner.
   
   

"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" Romans 3:10

"... for there is no difference. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23

2. That Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for your sins.
   
   

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, ..." 1 Peter 2:24

"... Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," Revelation 1:5

3. And the best way you know how, simply trust Him, and Him alone as your personal Savior.
   
   

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16

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