• AARP loses members
  AARP lost 60,000 members due to their support of the Obama/Pelosi healthcare plan.
  
  
• Snitch email closed
  The White House snitch line email address, flag@whitehouse.gov, was asking for people's personal information if they disagreed with Obama to maintain an "enemies list." (It's illegal for the White House to do this, and also illegal for them to delete a single email, so that's what they were doing). The email has been shut down.
  
  
• Government-driven death counsel removed
  The House Bill to lower health care costs included paying doctors (which of course would cost more) to talk to patients about different "end of life" options - which in order to be in this bill has to save money, so it would be promoting the cheapest way for someone to die. Protests, including Sarah Palin's resulted in the Democrats saying they'll remove that provision.
  
  
• Public option may go
  In a complete turn-around, Obama and his spokespeople are saying that government-run insurance program that was intended to bring about single-payer health care is negotiable. The problem, of course, with giving the payer (insurance) power over regulations, is that they'll make regulations for what saves them the most money as the payer.

We don't know what will happen. Perhaps as some have predicted, the Democrats will work harder to spread fear to get people onboard this fall with the swine flu scare or some other scare. Perhaps the replacement for the public option will be nearly identical just under another name.

But one thing is to be learned: Whether the Democrat leaders are going to be more responsive or more deceptive, they're now reacting to what the people are saying. We need to keep talking.

There's a lot more that's problematic in the Obama/Pelosi plan, including fining people who don't have presidential-appointee-approved insurance (and it leaves that completely open, so the presidential appointee could say no private insurance is approved, or your plan is only approved if it pays for abortion, or only if it doesn't pay for abortion), reducing payments to hospitals who re-admit a patient (if the cost of re-admitting you won't get paid, your chances of receiving health care go down).

If you haven't called and written to your Representatives and Senators, please do. If you have, do it again. I plan on calling again today.

Conservatives now outnumber liberals in all 50 states - you are not alone, and if we speak, they will hear our voices. We don't know how they'll react, but the power-grab their after is lessened when they realize their constituents are displeased as we approach future elections.

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