Breaking Down ObamaCare

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David Janda, MD is a highly respected orthopedic surgeon and author. His office is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, affiliated with St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. On July 17, 2009, he was asked to be the keynote speaker at a Congressional Dinner. I hope you will read and consider this article he wrote and published regarding the proposed healthcare reform. If passed this legislation will affect us all!

THE ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE OBAMACARE

Written by Dr. Dave Janda Thursday, 23 July 2009

As a physician who has authored books on preventative health care, I was given the opportunity to be the keynote speaker at a Congressional Dinner at The Capitol Building in Washington on Friday (7/17). The presentation was entitled Health Care Reform, The Power & Profit of Prevention, and I was gratified that it was well received.

In preparation for the presentation, I read the latest version of “reform” as authored by The Obama Administration and supported by Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid. Here is the link to the 1,018 page document:

Let me summarize just a few salient points of the above plan. First, however, it should be clear that the same warning notice must be placed on The ObamaCare Plan as on a pack of cigarettes: Consuming this product will be hazardous to your health.

The underlying method of cutting costs throughout the plan is based on rationing and denying care. There is no focus on preventing health care need whatever. The plan’s method is the most inhumane and unethical approach to cutting costs I can imagine as a physician.

The rationing of care is implemented through The National Health Care Board, according to the plan. This illustrious Board “will approve or reject treatment for patients based on the cost per treatment divided by the number of years the patient will benefit from the treatment.”

Translation…..if you are over 65 or have been recently diagnosed as having an advanced form of cardiac disease or aggressive cancer…..dream on if you think you will get treated….pick out your coffin.

Oh, you say this could never happen? Sorry… this is the same model they use in Britain.

The plan mandates that there will be little or no advanced treatments to be available in the future. It creates The Federal Coordinating Council For Comparative Effectiveness Research, the purpose of which is “to slow the development of new medications and technologies in order to reduce costs.” Yes, this is to be the law.

The plan also outlines that doctors and hospitals will be overseen and reviewed by The National Coordinator For Health Information and Technology.

This “coordinator” will “monitor treatments being deliver red to make sure doctors and hospitals are strictly following government guidelines that are deemed appropriate.” It goes on to say…..”Doctors and hospitals not adhering to guidelines will face penalties.”

According to those in Congress, penalties could include large six figure financial fines and possible imprisonment.

So according to The ObamaCare Plan….if your doctor saves your life you might have to go to the prison to see your doctor for follow -up appointments. I believe this is the same model Stalin used in the former Soviet Union.

Section 102 has the Orwellian title, “Protecting the Choice to Keep Current Coverage.” What this section really mandates is that it is illegal to keep your private insurance if your status changes – e.g., if you lose or change your job, retire from your job and become a senior, graduate from college and get your first job. Yes, illegal.

When Mr. Obama hosted a conference call with bloggers urging them to pressure Congress to pass his health plan as soon as possible, a blogger from Maine referenced an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance.

He asked: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” Mr. Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.”

Then there is Section 1233 of The ObamaCare Plan, devoted to “Advanced are Planning.” After each American turns 65 years of age they have to go to a mandated counseling program that is designed to end life sooner. This session is to occur every 5 years unless the person has developed a chronic illness then it must be done every year. The topics in this session will include, “how to decline hydration, nutrition and how to initiate hospice care.” It is no wonder The Obama Administration does not like my emphasis on Prevention. For Mr. Obama, prevention is the “enemy” as people would live longer.

I rest my case. The ObamaCare Plan is hazardous to the health of every American.

After I finished my Capitol Hill presentation, I was asked by a Congressman in the question-answer session: “I’ll be doing a number of network interviews on the Obama Health Care Plan If I am asked what is the one word to describe the plan what should I answer..”

The answer is simple, honest, direct, analytical, sad but truthful. I told him that one word is FASCIST. Then I added, “I hope you’ll have the courage to use that word, Congressman. No other word is more appropriate.”

Dr. Dave Janda, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon, and a world-recognized expert on the prevention of sports injuries, particularly in children.

Dell FireWire Frustration

Have you ever owned a Dell product that needed tech support? If you have, you know how frustrating the process can become.

I purchased a Latitude D830 from them, which I liked very well, that is until it would not download my camcorder video.

My camcorder is a Canon ZR930, which I liked very well, that is until I had to talk to their support people.

We had been using the ZR930 with an older laptop (not a Dell) for all of our video downloading; however it was very slow because of its age so we decided to start using the newer, faster Dell D830. That is when all the fun started (only kidding).

When I plugged the ZR930 camcorder into the Dell D830 FireWire IEEE 1394 port, the Movie Maker popped up, just like it was supposed to. Then I told it to start capturing the tape. It started the film going in the camera but would not show a preview on the monitor. Then when I clicked on stop capture and then the finish button I received an error that stated my device was not configured properly.

This began my conversation with Canon. The first customer service representative told me that if the laptop engaged the camera (which it did) then it was not a camera problem and that I should contact Dell.

Okay, so I contacted Dell support, whose representative proceeded to tell me that because the laptop was running the camcorder, it was not a Dell laptop problem and I should give Canon a call again, which I did.

Canon then proceeded to tell me that because it worked on the older laptop and not the newer one, that Microsoft did not have the correct drivers loaded, so I called Microsoft.

Microsoft would not talk to me because I purchased the laptop through Dell; they told me I had to call Dell, which I did. Does this sound like it is starting to get annoying?

I called Dell and once again explained my problem. After the first representative could not figure it out, she placed me on hold. After being on hold for 40 minutes, I was so mad I hung up. I then called Microsoft back.

They said they would only help me if I paid them $39.00, and they guaranteed to fix the problem. I was so upset with everything at that point that I agreed. After spending over an hour on the phone with them, they could not fix the problem. They told me that there was no such thing as drivers for the FireWire port and that it was a Canon problem. So I called Canon again.

After 20 minutes with another Canon representative, they told me that the previous rep was incorrect, it was not a driver problem. They said that during video playback, the laptop powers the camcorder and it was a Dell problem.

I spent about another hour on the phone with another Dell representative (this time a specialist for the D830) who not only had me do a bunch of stuff, he also logged into my computer. After about 60 minutes, I told him he had wasted enough of my time and I wanted them to send an on-site technician to my office. I had paid for next-day, on-site service when I purchased the Dell laptop. He told me that unless I could determine what the problem part was, they would not send a tech. Can you imagine how upset I was with this process? Here was Dell, telling me that I had to figure it out (because they could not) before they would send out an on-site tech. What a waste of time.

So I decided to do try and figure some stuff out. I used someone’s older Canon camcorder (I do not remember what the model was) and it worked just great on my Dell laptop. So I called Canon again.

Canon then said that each camcorder is a bit different in how much power it requires from the laptop to download video; the ZR930 requires more laptop power. They said that since the laptop was not getting enough power through the FireWire port, I should call Dell. So I called Dell once again.

I spent another 50 minutes on the phone telling Dell what Canon had stated and also what I did with the different camcorders. I told them the bad part had to be something with the FireWire port or the Motherboard, since that is what sends the power to the FireWire port. The rep still would not send out a tech, so I told him to get his supervisor on the line, so I waited another 10 minutes on hold till the supervisor picked up. I then proceeded to tell him everything I had been though; he agreed to ship out a new Motherboard and an on-site technician.

The technician arrived and switched out the Motherboards. Do you think it worked? It did…it worked just like it should have from the beginning. The tech said the old Motherboard was defective. Was I ever glad to have this done!

I am sharing this in the hope that others, having problems downloading video from their camcorder via a FireWire port, are armed with more information.

Am I going to buy another Dell? Probably not. I think I may go out on a limb and try an Apple.

Take this job and….

Take this job and love it—and you thought I was going to quote the country song made famous by Johnny Paycheck, Take this Job and Shove It?

Since we are talking about our jobs, do you really like yours? I mean do you enjoy getting up and looking forward to your job? Or do you find yourself wishing you did not have to go to work?

Gallup did a survey and found that only 42% of Americans loved their jobs: definitely room for improvement.

There once was a wise man who said, “A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work.” If it is true, and I believe it is, then the world should stop (so to speak) until we start doing what we really want to be doing. The alternative is to keep doing what you are and being unhappy. What are you gaining by being unhappy? Nothing.

If one of the wisest men to ever live said that there is nothing better we can do in our lives than to be satisfied with our jobs, let’s not waste another day, week, or year being unhappy.

Yes I know there may be times in life when we have to do things we don’t like in order to accomplish our greater goals. But that does not mean it should consume our lives, or we will end up at the end of our time without having the satisfaction that was there for the taking. Now that would be a waste.

So what do you really want to do with the rest of your life?

The Gallup survey also found that the people most satisfied with their jobs were the ones who work in service-related occupations, helping others.

The same wise man also said this: “I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.” How about that! Doing good things is related to happiness on the job.

Are you ready to take the plunge? Maybe you have not even allowed yourself to dream about what you would like to do. Then start dreaming and after you have dreamed, take action. If you do not act on your dream, it will never become reality. You will be stuck in the same pattern of life until your time is done.

Is time our friend?

Is time really our friend? Or, are we always fighting with it to accomplish what we want? Maybe the bigger question is…what we are filling our time with? After all, aren’t we the captains of our time? Isn’t it easy to say, “Tomorrow or the next day, I will do this ‘thing’ that is important to me”?

Have we ever looked backwards and noticed that time has come and gone for some of those things we wanted to do, things we will never get the opportunity to accomplish? I wanted to go camping more often with my oldest son and daughter. Now they are older and too busy—and I missed all those summer nights when we should have been sitting beside a fire, all because I was too busy with ’something.’

How do we stop this before it is too late for the next thing that is important? Maybe we should grade each event according to what we value as a priority.

Here is a great quote on time that I would like to share. “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” — Denis Waitely.

Since we all have the same amount of minutes per day, let’s make them work for us!

Time saver for quickbook users

Are you a Quickbooks user? I am and have found a great piece of software that saves me tons of time. Zachery Systems makes an application called ez account import and ez credit card import. This software allow you to download your bank or credit card transaction directly into your quickbooks file. Talk about saving time, wow. Take if from someone who use to spend a lot of time entering checks and charges, you will love this product. On top of the quality product, Zachery Systems also provide EXCELLENT customer service. Your are probably aware of how hard it is to find a company that appreciates us the consumer. Here is a link to their web page, Zachery Systems, give them a look see.

Hello world!

Hello world, are you listening? I have decided to put some of my thoughts in this blog for the purpose of sharing with others who may find them useful. I would appreciate any comments you may have on these postings.