The hope for repealing ObamaCare ended the moment that Republicans nominated Mitt Romney as their candidate.
Come on people. RomneyCare was the template for ObamaCare. Republicans are clearly as much a part of the problem as Democrats.
In hindsight, the Tea Party was nothing but a cynical ploy by the Republicans to get their grubby fingers in the pie of socialized health care.
In four years, I've been unable to find a single Conservative who is even willing to discuss free market health care reform. The Republican leadership simply sees the people who support them as useful idiots who they can use then discard.
The weak part of ObamaCare is the insurance mandates. Republicans could have soundly defeated ObamaCare if they simply discussed alternatives to insurance.
If there was a well defined and politically acceptable alternative to ObamaCare, the whole house of cards would have tumbled. Creating a well defined and peer-reviewed alternative to insurance is the simple matter of a half dozen people meeting in a room for a weekend to talk about free market health care.
I could not find a single person within 500 miles of Salt Lake willing to stand up for health freedom.
I am so upset at the duplicity of the Republican Party that it makes me want to scream.
Despite the fact the war was lost. I kept holding out hope that a group within 500 miles of Salt Lake would contact me and say: Yes, I want to stand up for freedom. I would travel further, but I would need some financial assistance to do so.
The opportunity to repeal ObamaCare vanished the moment Republicans nominated Romney. But all hope is not lost.
ObamaCare itself is a cynical plan. The Left wants socialized health care. The Left sees the Health Exchanges as a step in the progression to socialism.
The progression is as follows. In the first step, you convince people they need insurance (which is an inefficient way to fund care). You then create a government bureaucracy that promises to eliminate the inefficiencies (The Health Exchanges). The government bureaucracy piles on regulations that magnify the instability.
The Health Exchanges were designed to create a systemic flaw in insurance. When the house of cards crumbles we will be left with full blown socialized health care.
In people in the freedom movement thought ahead, it would be possible to structure things so that a free market structure could rise after the health exchanges failed.
Doing this would entail people meeting to discuss free market health care reform.
But people were unwilling to defend their freedom when winning the battle was simple. The idea that anyone would stand up for freedom now seems hopeless.
I really just want to give up, but if a small group of people (maybe half of half a dozen) met for three hours to talk about free market health care, they could still make a difference.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
Utah Among First States To Fully Implement ObamaCare
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Utah's Health Exchange got the nod from HHS and that the arch-Conservative state of Utah is among the first to implement PPACA (ObamaCare).
The article fails to mention that the Conservative Republicans that run the state have actively suppressed all debate about alternatives to ObamaCare.
The article fails to mention the fact that Utah Conservatives did not stand up for religious freedom when it was reported that provisions forced religious groups to buy abortives that they found morally objectionable.
The article fails to mention that the Conservative Establishment in this state not only failed to support freedom, the "Conservative Republicans" actively worked to undermine the cause of freedom throughout the United States.
I only hope that history correctly records that the American Experiment in Self Rule came to its inglorious end not simply because the forces of progressivism were skilled in taking freedom, but because conservative leaders gleefully handed the liberties of the the people to Obama on a silver platter because they wanted a piece of the government pie.
The article fails to mention that the Conservative Republicans that run the state have actively suppressed all debate about alternatives to ObamaCare.
The article fails to mention the fact that Utah Conservatives did not stand up for religious freedom when it was reported that provisions forced religious groups to buy abortives that they found morally objectionable.
The article fails to mention that the Conservative Establishment in this state not only failed to support freedom, the "Conservative Republicans" actively worked to undermine the cause of freedom throughout the United States.
I only hope that history correctly records that the American Experiment in Self Rule came to its inglorious end not simply because the forces of progressivism were skilled in taking freedom, but because conservative leaders gleefully handed the liberties of the the people to Obama on a silver platter because they wanted a piece of the government pie.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Data in Self Funded Health Care
The Health Exchanges of PPACA entails the creation of a massive centralized database with detailed health data on all Americans that corporate moguls will use to speculate on your health care.
I've been working on an alternative to insurance which I've tentatively called "The Medical Savings and Loan."
The MS&L is built from the ground up around Medical Savings Accounts. The mantra of the program is "Those who can self fund their care should." It uses a combination of savings accounts and loans to help people who can self fund their care do so.
It creates a well funded system of grants for people who cannot.
One interesting aspect of this design is that breaking up the large internal pools of the insurance industry results in a radical change in the processing of health care data.
Data follows the money. With insurance and socialism, our health care resource are placed in massive centralized pools. The money flows from these centralized pools to large care providers.
To handle this flow, insurance companies have created a massive bureaucracy with an internal focus on the pool.
Insurance naturally results in a large centralized database maintained by a bureaucracy focused on that pool.
The Medical Savings and Loan breaks up the centralized pools.
Your health spending would flow from your savings account to your doctor.
Just step back and imagine a system in which all of your health spending flowed from a savings account under your control to the care providers of your choice. Information from your doctor would flow back along the same channel.
In this structure, your medical savings account creates a de facto record of all your health spending.
By simply enhancing the Medical Savings Account with a document management system, one would end up creating an extremely robust distributed health information system.
For four years I've been on my knees begging for patriots to have a meeting about health freedom. The meeting will be about the very dry issue of health data.
Group health care (socialism and insurance) necessarily results in massive centralized database and large bureaucracies with a central focus on the resource pool.
A system built from the ground up around individual Medical Savings Accounts would result in a distributed information system with an external focus.
To emphasize this fact, the Medical Savings and Loan transitions all of the workers in the insurance industry into a new position called "The Health Care Advocate."
If you would like to learn more. I have a wonderful presentation called "The Medical Savings and Loan." I am willing to travel to any group willing to discuss free market health care reform (I live in Utah). Sadly, I spent all my personal savings on this project. I would need to run a fundraiser in conjunction with the meeting to pay for the trip.
I've been working on an alternative to insurance which I've tentatively called "The Medical Savings and Loan."
The MS&L is built from the ground up around Medical Savings Accounts. The mantra of the program is "Those who can self fund their care should." It uses a combination of savings accounts and loans to help people who can self fund their care do so.
It creates a well funded system of grants for people who cannot.
One interesting aspect of this design is that breaking up the large internal pools of the insurance industry results in a radical change in the processing of health care data.
Data follows the money. With insurance and socialism, our health care resource are placed in massive centralized pools. The money flows from these centralized pools to large care providers.
To handle this flow, insurance companies have created a massive bureaucracy with an internal focus on the pool.
Insurance naturally results in a large centralized database maintained by a bureaucracy focused on that pool.
The Medical Savings and Loan breaks up the centralized pools.
Your health spending would flow from your savings account to your doctor.
Just step back and imagine a system in which all of your health spending flowed from a savings account under your control to the care providers of your choice. Information from your doctor would flow back along the same channel.
In this structure, your medical savings account creates a de facto record of all your health spending.
By simply enhancing the Medical Savings Account with a document management system, one would end up creating an extremely robust distributed health information system.
For four years I've been on my knees begging for patriots to have a meeting about health freedom. The meeting will be about the very dry issue of health data.
Group health care (socialism and insurance) necessarily results in massive centralized database and large bureaucracies with a central focus on the resource pool.
A system built from the ground up around individual Medical Savings Accounts would result in a distributed information system with an external focus.
To emphasize this fact, the Medical Savings and Loan transitions all of the workers in the insurance industry into a new position called "The Health Care Advocate."
If you would like to learn more. I have a wonderful presentation called "The Medical Savings and Loan." I am willing to travel to any group willing to discuss free market health care reform (I live in Utah). Sadly, I spent all my personal savings on this project. I would need to run a fundraiser in conjunction with the meeting to pay for the trip.
An Intrusive Health Care Database
ObamaCare entails the creation of a massive centralized database that will rival any data system on earth.
This closed system will record in minute detail the health systems of every American. The programs will be used by the ruling elite in Corporate America and the government to trade your health care on a centralized exchange.
The massive health database can easily be joined with records of your political activities, your business activities, your sexual activities, your web browsing activities, your reading activities and what not allowing the ruling elite to keep the people in check.
Since ObamaCare will be the largest and most intrusive database in history. ObamaCare rivals the East German Stasi in the intrusiveness and scope of the data that they will collect on every American citizen.
It is not surprising that the ruling elite want a massive database that they can use to keep the people in check.
Two millennia ago, the Roman Emperor demanded that everyone travel to the place of their birth for a census of the empire. The enumeration would be used for the allocation of military resources and taxation.
Being the day before Christmas, I might inject that the birth of Jesus Christ took place during this enumeration.
Maintaining massive databases to keep the people in check is not a new idea. ObamaCare is just keeping to an age old tradition of oppression.
If there is any group within 500 miles of Salt Lake City willing to discuss alternatives to ObamaCare, please contact me. I have a wonderful free presentation on free market alternatives.
If you are more than 500 miles away and have a group sufficient to fund a trip, I will be happy to travel to your location. If someone wants to travel to Park City for a ski trip, I would be happy to combine my presentation and your trip.
I am ready to drive to Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Colorado Springs or Denver if there was a group of 20 plus people wanting to stand up for health freedom. Please use this contact form.
This closed system will record in minute detail the health systems of every American. The programs will be used by the ruling elite in Corporate America and the government to trade your health care on a centralized exchange.
The massive health database can easily be joined with records of your political activities, your business activities, your sexual activities, your web browsing activities, your reading activities and what not allowing the ruling elite to keep the people in check.
Since ObamaCare will be the largest and most intrusive database in history. ObamaCare rivals the East German Stasi in the intrusiveness and scope of the data that they will collect on every American citizen.
It is not surprising that the ruling elite want a massive database that they can use to keep the people in check.
Two millennia ago, the Roman Emperor demanded that everyone travel to the place of their birth for a census of the empire. The enumeration would be used for the allocation of military resources and taxation.
Being the day before Christmas, I might inject that the birth of Jesus Christ took place during this enumeration.
Maintaining massive databases to keep the people in check is not a new idea. ObamaCare is just keeping to an age old tradition of oppression.
If there is any group within 500 miles of Salt Lake City willing to discuss alternatives to ObamaCare, please contact me. I have a wonderful free presentation on free market alternatives.
If you are more than 500 miles away and have a group sufficient to fund a trip, I will be happy to travel to your location. If someone wants to travel to Park City for a ski trip, I would be happy to combine my presentation and your trip.
I am ready to drive to Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Colorado Springs or Denver if there was a group of 20 plus people wanting to stand up for health freedom. Please use this contact form.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Quandary
Here's a puzzle for you:
Why is that progressive get all bugged-eyed and paranoid at the thought that a web firm might record click stream data from users while they don't bat an eyelash that the Health Exchanges of ObamaCare will give bureaucrats and big businesses intimately detailed information about their health?
For that matter, why is it that progressives don't seem to care that the ruling elite will essentially be engaged in making trades based on the health of the people on the health exchanges of ObamaCare?
Is is possible that people really are this naïve?
PS: If ever someone wanted to engage in a fascinating discussion of privacy rights in health care, they could contact me about the Medical Savings and Loan. I have a detailed presentation which shows that a system based on self-funded care will provide better health services and protect the privacy of the people.
All I need is a group within 500 miles of Salt Lake or a group that is willing to pay travel costs and I will give a presentation that will blow ObamaCare away.
Why is that progressive get all bugged-eyed and paranoid at the thought that a web firm might record click stream data from users while they don't bat an eyelash that the Health Exchanges of ObamaCare will give bureaucrats and big businesses intimately detailed information about their health?
For that matter, why is it that progressives don't seem to care that the ruling elite will essentially be engaged in making trades based on the health of the people on the health exchanges of ObamaCare?
Is is possible that people really are this naïve?
PS: If ever someone wanted to engage in a fascinating discussion of privacy rights in health care, they could contact me about the Medical Savings and Loan. I have a detailed presentation which shows that a system based on self-funded care will provide better health services and protect the privacy of the people.
All I need is a group within 500 miles of Salt Lake or a group that is willing to pay travel costs and I will give a presentation that will blow ObamaCare away.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Taking Control of the Narrative
The "Fiscal Cliff" (which dominates the news) is a crisis manufactured by politicians.
The US Debt is real. We are likely to see a complete failure of our nation if our politicians fail to address the debt.
The debt is bad, the debt, in and of itself, is not the heart of our nation's malaise.
Our malaise is the result of our looking to the government for the answers and not to ourselves.
Yes, government debt is destroying our society.
Unfortunately, politicians have learned to use the crises caused by their malfeasance to demand more resources from the people.
The crisis caused by excessive government results in a never ending demand for more government.
To truly solve our problems, the freedom movement needs to counter this game of action/reaction and restore the narrative that a free society is a strong and prosperous one.
IMHO, health care is the most important issue of the day.
The most productive thing the freedom movement could do in 2013 is to avert its eye's from the train wreck in Washington and engage in a substantive debate about free market health care reform.
Health care is a fascinating subject that will draw people into the freedom movement.
I contend that, if a small group of patriots engaged in an authentic conversation of free market health care, the freedom movement could capture the narrative and put America back on the path of freedom and prosperity.
Unfortunately, as long as conservatives are content with the game of reacting to actions engineered by the ruling elite, we are doomed to stay on the road to serfdom until we experience national collapse.
But if a small group of people were brave enough to discuss free market health care, that group could turn the narrative around.
Unfortunately, I am stuck in Utah. Utah is unique. The state was founded by a group seeking to create a theocratic socialism. There is no freedom movement in Utah. Notice how every prominent Mormon is for a version of ObamaCare. Harry Reid sponsored ObamaCare. Mitt Romney imposed RomneyCare in Ma. Governor Mike Leavitt's insurance company is selling Health Exchanges. Jon Huntsman supported socializing health care via health exchanges. The Republican Utah legislature was among the first groups to adopt ObamaCare. The Sutherland Institute supports socialized health care run by a State Compact.
Every attempt to discuss free market health care is suppressed in Utah by the ruling elite.
I am willing to travel, but I have to be certain that, if I drove 500 miles to talk to a group, that there would someone there.
The fact that I've been unable to find anyone interested in engaging in a substantive talk on health care reform is so incredibly frustrating it makes me want to scream.
The US Debt is real. We are likely to see a complete failure of our nation if our politicians fail to address the debt.
The debt is bad, the debt, in and of itself, is not the heart of our nation's malaise.
Our malaise is the result of our looking to the government for the answers and not to ourselves.
Yes, government debt is destroying our society.
Unfortunately, politicians have learned to use the crises caused by their malfeasance to demand more resources from the people.
The crisis caused by excessive government results in a never ending demand for more government.
To truly solve our problems, the freedom movement needs to counter this game of action/reaction and restore the narrative that a free society is a strong and prosperous one.
IMHO, health care is the most important issue of the day.
The most productive thing the freedom movement could do in 2013 is to avert its eye's from the train wreck in Washington and engage in a substantive debate about free market health care reform.
Health care is a fascinating subject that will draw people into the freedom movement.
I contend that, if a small group of patriots engaged in an authentic conversation of free market health care, the freedom movement could capture the narrative and put America back on the path of freedom and prosperity.
Unfortunately, as long as conservatives are content with the game of reacting to actions engineered by the ruling elite, we are doomed to stay on the road to serfdom until we experience national collapse.
But if a small group of people were brave enough to discuss free market health care, that group could turn the narrative around.
Unfortunately, I am stuck in Utah. Utah is unique. The state was founded by a group seeking to create a theocratic socialism. There is no freedom movement in Utah. Notice how every prominent Mormon is for a version of ObamaCare. Harry Reid sponsored ObamaCare. Mitt Romney imposed RomneyCare in Ma. Governor Mike Leavitt's insurance company is selling Health Exchanges. Jon Huntsman supported socializing health care via health exchanges. The Republican Utah legislature was among the first groups to adopt ObamaCare. The Sutherland Institute supports socialized health care run by a State Compact.
Every attempt to discuss free market health care is suppressed in Utah by the ruling elite.
I am willing to travel, but I have to be certain that, if I drove 500 miles to talk to a group, that there would someone there.
The fact that I've been unable to find anyone interested in engaging in a substantive talk on health care reform is so incredibly frustrating it makes me want to scream.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
A Traveling Show
The primary focus of the "Health Care Advocate Association" is to host meetings about free market health care reform.
There is a critical need for this function. Let's face it, we will lose all freedoms if no-one ever talks about health freedom.
The focus of the projects is the assertion that the problem in health care lies with our use of group funding of individual consumption.
Health Care is a complex subject. It takes about two hours to lay a solid base for discussing the differences between group-funded and self-funded care.
The meetings start with a presentation of a business model I called "The Medical Savings and Loan." This model uses a combination of savings accounts, a loan reserve and grants to reverse engineer an insurance pool. This business model transforms insurance agents and claims adjusters into a new position called "Health Care Advocate."
I then contrast the advocacy model for administering health care to the litigation model used by insurance. I show that advocacy achieves better results than litigation.
This is a beautiful model for financing health care that strikes at the root false assumption of PPACA (ObamaCare).
I believe that a traveling show that attacks the root assumptions of ObamaCare would be beneficial to the Conservative Movement.
I travel cheap. The expenses of a traveling show are: Gas, hotel rooms, conference rooms and food. Cheap hotels average around $60. Conference rooms seem to cost about $80. I eat cheap. $5 a day suffices. Gas is expensive. My car gets 32 MPG. Driving from Salt Lake to Phoenix costs $75 in gas plus wear on the car.
To make the conference idea work. I would probably need to make $200 to $300 at each stop. Each show would include a fund raising community event.
A traveling show that crossed from San Diego to Florida would cover about 3000 miles and have about 16 stops would cost about $10,000 (that includes the cash to get back home).
Each meetings would include a fundraising activity, which is likely to pay for the meetings.
My presentation is substantive. It could help arm local Tea Party groups to fight against socialized medicine.
The reason we are falling into socialized medicine is because our sound-byte driven media is not engaging in a substantive debate. The antidote is to engage in such a debate.
There are hundreds of traveling trade shows. These shows exist because it is an effective format for conveying messages.
The impossibly hard part is getting the first meeting going. It would take a group of four or so people (within a day's drive of Salt Lake) willing to commit a few days to exploring free market health care reform.
NOTE, I could drive to Las Vegas, Phoenix or Denver. Or, people could come to Utah. Park City has great skiing.
A traveling show that presents a substantive argument for health freedom could play a vital role in defeating ObamaCare and restoring health freedom. The program simply needs a little support and a push.
There is a critical need for this function. Let's face it, we will lose all freedoms if no-one ever talks about health freedom.
The focus of the projects is the assertion that the problem in health care lies with our use of group funding of individual consumption.
Health Care is a complex subject. It takes about two hours to lay a solid base for discussing the differences between group-funded and self-funded care.
The meetings start with a presentation of a business model I called "The Medical Savings and Loan." This model uses a combination of savings accounts, a loan reserve and grants to reverse engineer an insurance pool. This business model transforms insurance agents and claims adjusters into a new position called "Health Care Advocate."
I then contrast the advocacy model for administering health care to the litigation model used by insurance. I show that advocacy achieves better results than litigation.
This is a beautiful model for financing health care that strikes at the root false assumption of PPACA (ObamaCare).
I believe that a traveling show that attacks the root assumptions of ObamaCare would be beneficial to the Conservative Movement.
I travel cheap. The expenses of a traveling show are: Gas, hotel rooms, conference rooms and food. Cheap hotels average around $60. Conference rooms seem to cost about $80. I eat cheap. $5 a day suffices. Gas is expensive. My car gets 32 MPG. Driving from Salt Lake to Phoenix costs $75 in gas plus wear on the car.
To make the conference idea work. I would probably need to make $200 to $300 at each stop. Each show would include a fund raising community event.
A traveling show that crossed from San Diego to Florida would cover about 3000 miles and have about 16 stops would cost about $10,000 (that includes the cash to get back home).
Each meetings would include a fundraising activity, which is likely to pay for the meetings.
My presentation is substantive. It could help arm local Tea Party groups to fight against socialized medicine.
The reason we are falling into socialized medicine is because our sound-byte driven media is not engaging in a substantive debate. The antidote is to engage in such a debate.
There are hundreds of traveling trade shows. These shows exist because it is an effective format for conveying messages.
The impossibly hard part is getting the first meeting going. It would take a group of four or so people (within a day's drive of Salt Lake) willing to commit a few days to exploring free market health care reform.
NOTE, I could drive to Las Vegas, Phoenix or Denver. Or, people could come to Utah. Park City has great skiing.
A traveling show that presents a substantive argument for health freedom could play a vital role in defeating ObamaCare and restoring health freedom. The program simply needs a little support and a push.
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