Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

So here’s your health “reform” from those you elected.  How do you like me now?

This president is showing day by day why he was a terrible choice.  As I said before, he reminds me more of Richard Nixon than any other president.  He’s breaking the law in so many ways and using our tax dollars to do it.  Sending out unsolicited emails is the definition of spamming and there is a law against that though it seems that he has the opinion that he’s above the law.

He’s like a child acting out because he’s not getting his way.  He’s spending us into oblivion and to make sure of it he’s funding an ad campaign with yet more of our tax dollars.  Whats a few million more I guess, right?

I’m sure that both sides orchestrate disruptions in town hall meetings and I  have to agree that it does more harm than good.  If you want to complain and boy do we have good reason to complain about this, do it in a respectful way.  Respectful of others who have an opinion as well and respectful of the Senator or Representative that you are speaking to.

You really can’t expect someone to take you seriously if you’re a raving maniac, now can you?  I certainly wouldn’t.  When you go to these meetings, think about how much more you will accomplish if you take a bunch of like minded people with you and fill the room with voters who oppose governmental control of your healthcare.  Congress does take this seriously.  They want to get reelected.  If they see their district or their state vocally opposing what they are pitching, they will switch pitches.

Not that long ago there was a terrible amnesty bill up before Congress.  It caused so much of a ruckus that congress listened and it died.  Now this isn’t going to die, but if we raise enough hell it can become watered down enough to not do any real damage.  It’s already working to some extent, but calm complaints are the way to have your voice heard.  Think about it.

Fact: Nearly 10 million (9.7) of the 45.7 million uninsured are “not a citizen.” That makes every media claim of uninsured Americans higher than 35.9 million is wrong.

Myth: The 40 million to 50 million uninsured cannot afford health insurance.

Fact: More than 17 million of the uninsured make at least $50,000 per year (the median household income of $50,233) – 8.4 million make $50,000 to $74,999 per year and 9.1 million make $75,000 or higher. Two economists working at the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that 25 to 75 percent of those who do not purchase health insurance coverage “could afford to do so.”

Myth: The 40 million to 50 million uninsured do not get health care.

Fact: The National Center for Policy Analysis estimates that uninsured people get about $1,500 of free health care per year, or $6,000 per family of four.

Fact: An Urban Institute study found that 25 percent of the uninsured already qualify for government health insurance programs.

Myth: People will remain uninsured without government assistance.

Fact: The Congressional Budget Office says that 45 percent of the uninsured will be insured within four months. CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin also said that the frequent claim of 40+ million Americans lacking insurance is an “incomplete and potentially misleading picture of the uninsured population.”

Fact: Liberal non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation put the number of uninsured Americans who do not qualify for government programs and make less than $50,000 a year between 8.2 million and 13.9 million. (The 8.2 million figure includes only those uninsured for two years or more.)

Fact: CBO analysis found that 36 million people would remain uninsured even if the Senate’s $1.6 trillion health care plan is passed.

Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projections, rising costs for health care and the aging of the population will cause federal spending to increase rapidly under any plausible scenario for current law. Unless revenues increase just as rapidly, the rise in spending will produce growing budget deficits. Large budget deficits would reduce national saving, leading to more borrowing from abroad and less domestic investment, which in turn would depress economic growth in the United States. Over time, accumulating debt would cause substantial harm to the economy.

But they are pushing it through anyway.  NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.  Otherwise they will let it pass and the US economy will ultimately collapse under its own weight; the weight of Obamas socialist agenda.

Here’s your government run healthcare that the OSM keeps pushing on you:

“They said to me that you had a brain tumor and it was pressing on your optic chasm and that it needed to come out immediately,” Holmes said.

Holmes is Canadian, but the “they” she refers to are doctors at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, where she turned after specialists in her own government-run health care system would not see her fast enough.

“My family doctor at that time tried to get me in to see an endocrinologist and a neurologist,” Holmes recalled. “It was going to be four months for one specialist and six months for the other.”

I don’t know about you, but I can hardly “wait” for this kind of healthcare!

Here’s something else that I find interesting:

Despite Shona Holmes’ horror story about her inability to get timely treatment for a brain tumor, Canadian officials and doctors insist most life-threatening cases are treated quickly.

Toronto’s Doug Wright can attest to that. The 40-year-old father of three young boys found out last month he has cancer — a tumor on his leg.

But he says he never had to wait more than five days to see a specialist or get a test. And from diagnosis to surgery, it will be just over a month.

“The community medical system thought this process could not have been any better. I have not had to wait to see some of the best specialists in the country, who are renowned internationally,” Wright said.

An investment adviser, Wright has the money to go to the U.S. for his care, but says there is no need.

Note how the rich guy got much quicker treatment than the average gal.  Coincidence?  Maybe or maybe not.