My Cousin Barack Obama and Our ObamaCare Family Feud

Milton Wolf is a badass. Go check out his blog if you get a chance.

It got to suck for obama to be dissed by his own family, but sometimes that's what you get. Especially when you have a complete disregard for the law, the Constitution and the will of the American People. obamacare is a disaster for our Country. It is going to destroy the best medical system in the world and replace it with a european style socialized system that will rely on rationing and second rate care.

Don't believe me? Read the words of an actual Doctor and obama's cousin...

By Milton R. Wolf M.D. - FoxNews

When Barack Obama and I first met he had already become president and was furiously erecting the government-controlled health care system that bears his name and I had already begun a very public crusade to save America from it. Fate would never reunite our mothers who grew up together as young girls, cousins and friends, after they were separated decades ago, but now their sons bridged a divide in our family that was created by decisions not our own. It’s not often that a president’s most vocal critic comes from his own family, but I believe the inviolable oath I took to my patients demands that I oppose ObamaCare.

Today, ObamaCare is on the ropes—in the courts, and in terms of public opinion. While the Supreme Court denied Virginia’s petition to hear its ObamaCare lawsuit on an expedited basis earlier this month, this case will soon be heard by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a more high-profile case, Judge Roger Vinson ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional. This lawsuit, which was filed by more than half the states in the union and led by Florida, will be heard in the U.S. appeals court in Atlanta in June. And in poll after poll, it has become clear that more than one year after ObamaCare’s passage, the American people strongly reject it. The fundamental flaw at the core of ObamaCare is the mistaken belief that the government can spend your dollars more effectively than you can. This tragically pessimistic belief views all Americans with suspicion as either incompetent or unrighteous but either way in need of big-government control.

Sadly missing from the national health care debate was an honest discussion of the origins of our health care system’s shortcomings. Let me be clear, while we certainly have problems, America still has the finest heath care system in the world. That patients flee their government-run systems -- like Great Britain’s and Canada’s -- and flock to America for our medical miracles should be an obvious clue to not recreate their failures; obvious to everyone, that is, except ObamaCare supporters.

While the Constitution does not give the federal government the authority to interfere with our health care, the big-government types have been at work for decades and have, by any fair assessment, wreaked havoc. The first health care waiver was granted in 1929 when the American Medical Association successfully lobbied that Blue Cross be exempt from certain regulations and taxes. Thus began the era of crony health care where Big Government’s friends were more equal than the rest of us.

In the following decades, Republicans’ and Democrats’ health care intrusions fueled increasing costs which priced more and more Americans out of the market. Many of the problems we face today are a direct result of those bad laws. The 1942 wage controls (and later tax laws), for example, forced the devastating marriage of health insurance to employment. Ask anyone denied employment or trapped in a bad job because of a medical condition how well that’s working out for them. Meanwhile state insurance monopolies create artificial barriers to insurance portability, increase costs dramatically and are responsible for 1 out of 4 uninsured Americans. The list goes on and on and the big-government type’s solution to these bad laws is always the same: more laws!

To call ObamaCare a doubling down on these government failures is a probably a betrayal of basic math skills -- it’s more like a quadrupling down. ObamaCare mandates that every free citizen purchase state-sanctioned insurance while it increases taxes (on everything from tampons and tanning salons to gold and the sale of your home); it increases spending even more; it turns health insurance companies into public utilities; it eliminates proven free-market reforms and it sets in place the mechanism for health care rationing. What’s more, ObamaCare has been ruled unconstitutional.

The unkeepable promises of ObamaCare are, as we say in medicine, too numerous to count, and are already collapsing. You can keep your current doctor and your current insurance. No tax increases. No rationing. Reduce the deficit. Four million new jobs created -- “400,000 almost immediately.” Public hearings. These are the pathetic peddlings of false hope.

Read the rest at the link above...

Wisconsin Medical Examining Board Reviewing Sick Note Allegations

If any of the "doctors" caught on tape passing out fake sick notes still have a license to practice medicine after the investigation the Department of Regulation and Licensing is derelict in its duty. These "doctors" have broken laws and the hypocratic oath they swore to when becoming a doctor.

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is conducting it's own investigation. What do you think the findings will be? What do you think they should be? If a similar situation came up in the private sector, those employees would be fired. I doubt that will be the case here. There will probably be some minimal punishment if there is any at all.

I don't get how an investigation can take more than about five minutes for either one of these entities, there is a wealth of video footage of these "doctors" passing out the notes. It's not like they were wearing a Groucho mask and doing this stuff on the down low. They stood on the street corner yelling, "Get your fake sick notes here!"...

From FoxNews

The Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing is reviewing complaints that doctors wrote fake sick notes to people missing work while protesting Governor Scott Walker's proposed budget. The department oversees the state's Medical Examining Board.

Dave Ross, the department's secretary says "over the weekend the agency received numerous contacts concerning physicians involved in writing medical excuses for those attending rallies at the State Capitol."

"Any charge against a physician is taken seriously and this is no exception," Ross continued in a statement. "Rest assured, the agency is processing these complaints as quickly as possible. DRL will be working with the independent Medical Examining Board to appropriately review these complaints."

The statement goes on to say that part of both the Department of Regulation and Licensing and the Medical Examining Board's responsibility is to "discipline individuals who act improperly in the practice of their profession."

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is already investigating reports that some of its doctors were involved in writing fake sick notes at the protest.