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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">I am considered a liberal Democrat by most accounts. Maybe more of a Libertarian Democrat by my definition; I voted for Obama. I was an Idaho State Delegate for Gore in 2000 and an alternative Idaho State Delegate in 2004 for Dennis Kucinich. But I am adamantly opposed to Obama’s Health Insurance Plan, which is unfair to the poor, and to the taxpayer. But most importantly, it will do nothing to improve the quality or quantity of health care to citizens of this country. </FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Please, don’t get me wrong! My work in the medical field and personal life experiences tell me that the Government Run Hospitals can be just as equally incompetently/competently function as the private ones. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the government said, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Donovan, we are going to take 5-10% of your income and provide you with quality health care,”</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"> I would be consenting. But that <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>IS NOT</U></B> what the government is attempting to accomplish here, nor will it if Obama’s plan is successful. But here is what will happen if it does;</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">First, if I lose my job after 4 months of work in the year, I will go broke. Obama will force me to buy insurance, which consequentially will be about $300 a month if I lose my job (those offered COBRA, know what I mean first hand). His promise to help the poor, (those making less than $930 a month) won’t apply to me because after 4 months of work, I will be over $10,500 income mark to receive government assistance with insurance costs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who can afford $300 a month on $10,500 a year? Obama thinks everyone can. </FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Health care is about receiving proper medical services. Insurance companies are about making a profit through the collection of payments. The goal of insurance companies is to make sure that you don’t use your insurance; otherwise they won’t make a profit. </FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Second, one way to pay for part of this horrible plan, Obama is going to be making cuts to Medicare. This is horrible. The one thing we know for sure that does work, we are going to cut up and rearrange the pieces.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Medicare patients already face great discrimination as it is because doctors, clinics, and health care provides often take losses because Medicare doesn’t pay as well as private insurance. The only thing I like about a bill that destroys Medicare is that it will motivate the over 55 crowd, a huge chunk of the electorate, to voice opposition against it. </FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Next, it would provide free medical care to anyone that could crawl, climb, walk, roll or drive, legally or illegally, into the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To say that we are not going to provide medical care to people until they produce certain documentation is illegal to do (not to mention unethical). Anything that is provided to the general public will also have to be provided to anyone in the country legally of illegally. The courts have already ruled on this, it doesn’t have to be in a bill. This will undoubtedly result in more debt for the nation, as well as invite those unfit and in ill health to attempt illegal border crossings across dangerous terrain to obtain free
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Another aspect of this bill will be an increase in your insurance premiums. If <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>everyone </U></B>regardless of illness, injury, or ailment, is allowed into your insurance co-op, then there will be more medical costs, and more costs handed to you. The only way insurance companies could absorb those costs would be to raise your premiums and deductibles. </FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">The last major impact you would experience is a decrease in the quality of life among the poor because health insurance is not health care. Obama tries to liken the requirement of buying health insurance to that of buying automobile insurance. His analogy breaks down because we don’t require people to buy insurance if they cannot afford the car. We give them the option of walking, riding a bike, taking a bus, a cab, or train, or riding with a friend of family member. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No such option exists for alternatives to health insurance. </FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Health insurance doesn’t offer people health care, anymore than Auto Insurance offers people quality car care. It simply gives people coverage “in case” something happens and they don’t want to lose everything they own. In poor peoples’ cases, they don’t own anything to lose. Forcing them to buy coverage is pointless when the insurance companies require a deductable or premium so high they cannot use the insurance unless they suffer a catastrophic illness or injury, in which case they would be declaring bankruptcy anyway. </FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Requiring a person who makes less than $20,000 a year, or a family less than $36,000 a year to buy a $3500-$6000 deductable insurance plan, or to pay premiums of $100-$350 a month only serves to worsen the living conditions of those families and individuals. $100-$350 a month makes a big difference in the lives of low income peoples. Having $3500-$6000 is also more of a dream than a reality for most low income families. Let them, please, Mr. President, keep their $100. Don’t pry it from their impoverished hands and give it to the wealthy insurance companies. Let them eat. Yes, I do understand the argument that people should pay into the health care system. But poor people don’t have the means. You cannot get blood from stone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">If you want to reform our health care system, I am for this.. I think our system of charging for each service provided, each band-aid, each mile in an ambulance, each bed pan change, makes fraud easy to accomplish and gets away from the focus of the necessity, quality and affordability of care. Forcing people to pay into a system that charges $50 for application of a band-aid is not where we should start, but rather questioning why application of a band-aid is $50. </FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Your Frustrated Friend,</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Donovan Arnold</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">(Yes, the real one, not someone using my name or an old account as some people on the V enjoy doing)</FONT></DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 9/23/09, Gier, Nicholas <I><NGIER@uidaho.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Gier, Nicholas <NGIER@uidaho.edu><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Chris Witmer<BR>To: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1@msn.com>, eimyreekenxlime@hotmail.com, vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 9:08 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi Keely,<BR><BR>Paste away!<BR><BR>You have my undying support.<BR><BR>Hey, Chris: you are nothing but a coward!<BR><BR>Nick<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: keely emerinemix [<A href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com</A>]<BR>Sent: Wed 9/23/2009 1:25 PM<BR>To: Gier, Nicholas; eimyreekenxlime@hotmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Chris Witmer<BR><BR><BR>Thank you, Nick. Would you mind if I pasted your comments onto my blog, whose readers are heavily biased against me and toward Witmer?<BR><BR>Either way, I appreciate the support.<BR><BR>Keely<BR>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:30:52 -0700<BR>From: NGIER@uidaho.edu<BR>To: eimyreekenxlime@hotmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Chris Witmer<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>RE: [Vision2020] Chris
Witmer<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Good Morning Visionaries,<BR><BR><BR><BR>When Chris Witmer learned that I was traveling to Tokyo in December, 2007, he invited me<BR><BR>to have lunch with him while I was there. I declined saying that I was astounded that he thought<BR><BR>that I would want to see him after all the nasty things he had said about me and my friends.<BR><BR><BR><BR>In a return e-mail he apologized profusely for any wrong that he had done me, and urged me<BR><BR>to reconsider lunch. I answered that I didn't trust him and that was the end of the matter.<BR><BR><BR><BR>If Witmer could apologize to me, then certainly he can apologize to Keely, one of the most<BR><BR>eloquent and elegant ladies that I know.<BR><BR><BR><BR>What about it, Chris?? If you were man enough to apologize to me, then you are certainly man<BR><BR>enough to apologize to Keely. Of course, it has nothing to do with "manliness"; it has everything<BR><BR>to
do with being a decent human being.<BR><BR><BR><BR>And while you at it, shut down your vicious and perverse blog.<BR><BR><BR><BR>We are eagerly waiting.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Nick Gier<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR><BR>From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com on behalf of Eimy Reekenxlime<BR><BR>Sent: Tue 9/22/2009 11:02 PM<BR><BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Chris Witmer<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Gee, that got mangled pretty badly; let's try that again --<BR><BR><BR><BR>Well nobody<BR><BR>is approving of anti-gay violence, let alone homosexuals' violence<BR><BR>against themselves and other homosexuals, but apparently the grieving<BR><BR>parents had by that time managed to pull themselves together enough to<BR><BR>reaffirm that 1) they had done right by their son by making no effort<BR><BR>to get him to change and 2) rather than seeking to change homosexuals<BR><BR>they would try to change society to
accept homosexuals. And of course<BR><BR>behind all that is the underlying assumption that biblical Christian<BR><BR>morality is part of the problem. That being the case, I hardly think<BR><BR>the gentle rebuke in that letter makes someone a "godless soul";<BR><BR>however, perhaps you would like to put the same question to Joe and<BR><BR>Marion Allen, whose son Bart was murdered by his homosexual live-in<BR><BR>lover when he was trying to come out of homosexuality.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Allen's parents, Joe and Marion, founded Hope for the Broken Heart<BR><BR>after his tragic murder. They have spoken at numerous Exodus<BR><BR>International events since then..<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>When Bart was struggling with unwanted homosexual feelings, he sought<BR><BR>out a counselor for help. The counselor, however, told him he was born<BR><BR>gay. (No doubt Saundra Lund and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton would consider<BR><BR>that to be good counsel.)
According to Joe and Marion, "When Bart came<BR><BR>out of her office, he looked like he had been given a death sentence. I<BR><BR>know this lady did not realize what she was doing . . . but she had<BR><BR>told him he was born gay. She told him we were doing him an injustice<BR><BR>by telling him this was wrong and he needed to go back [to the<BR><BR>homosexual lifestyle]..<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Bart Allen did go back to homosexuality, but he couldn't accept it. His<BR><BR>lover, however, refused to accept the fact that Bart wanted to leave<BR><BR>homosexuality behind. While Bart was asleep, his partner strangled him<BR><BR>to death with a dog leash.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>You can see and hear Joe and Marion Allen's testimony here (first of two parts):<BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.vimeo.com/2532972" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.vimeo.com/2532972</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>No doubt it is easy for people who have not
struggled with this sort of<BR><BR>thing in their own families to pass judgment on "godless"<BR><BR>Bible-thumpers from a distance, especially in a way that very<BR><BR>conveniently allows one to think of one's self as open-minded, loving,<BR><BR>accepting, tolerant, etc.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>But the fact of the matter is, when homosexuality is embraced by people<BR><BR>who experience such temptations, it becomes a deathstyle for them in<BR><BR>the fullest and truest, most tragic sense of that word. Especially for<BR><BR>those of us who are struggling with such problems in our own families,<BR><BR>we don't have the luxury of sitting back and telling people who are<BR><BR>headed for damnation that they are just fine the way they are. If<BR><BR>speaking such truth makes one a "godless soul" then I pray that such<BR><BR>"godlessness" might flourish.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Eimy Reekenxlime<BR><BR>===========================<BR><BR>Can you handle the
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