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Rush Warns About Future of Health Care Months After I Infiltrated Single-Payer Strategy Confab

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IF President Barack Obama’s so-called health care reform plan (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”) becomes law and UNTIL it’s rescinded for being unconstitutional, you can rest assured that more harmful legislation — including public option and single-payer option  health care — will soon be following it down the slippery slope of socialism.  That’s the essence of what radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said today on his show, and I agree.

That in mind, I felt it appropriate to offer what loyal readers of this blog read in my post, Radical Ideology Exposed at Healthcare-Now National Strategy Conference in St. Louis, the first of 10 posts I published after crashing the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference held Nov. 14-15 at the Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet in St. Louis.  Below is an excerpt from that first post:

Though uninvited, I introduced myself as a journalist and gained access to the meeting’s opening session late Saturday afternoon.  There, I fully expected to find a room full of people in favor of the latest iteration of government-run health care.  Instead, I found more than 100 people voicing widespread opposition to the bill.

Unlike those who oppose government-run health care on strong Constitutional grounds, the conference attendees with whom I spoke said they oppose the bill because, first, it lacks a strong-enough public option component and, second, it does not include coverage to pay for abortions.

Fast forward to the present when the U.S. House of Representatives under the leadership — or lack thereof — of Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears on the verge of shoving ObamaCare down the throats of all Americans.  The links below provide glimpses, complete with undercover video, into the kind of people and ideas likely to be part of the next slippery-slope phase of government-run health care:

In addition, here’s a piece I wrote about the conference for Pajamas Media:  Health Care Confab Plots Single-Payer Strategy.

Share this post!  Warn others!  It must be stopped!

Top BMW Stories the Mainstream Media Missed (Update)

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Below, in much the same manner as Fox News published a year-end piece, Nine Big Stories the Mainstream Media Missed in 2009, I highlight four seven subjects I covered that were, mostly or largely, ignored by the “lame-stream” media:

1.  The Chevron-Ecuador Lawsuit — My coverage began April 22 with the post, Blogger Investigating $27 Billion Lawsuit Against Chevron, Sending Correspondent to Ecuador.  Twenty-eight posts later, I found myself being trashed by The Huffington Post for reporting the facts.  A badge of honor, I say.

2. Anti-Socialism Rallies — Not your typical “Tea Party” rallies, the K and N Patriots’ rallies were launched by a 68-year-old grandmother whose message continues to resonate.  To date, I’ve published 22 posts, several of which included videos contrasting the patriotic, pro-freedom crowd with those advocating government-run health care.

3. Single-Payer Health Care — On Nov. 14, I crashed the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference as the only journalist in a room full of radical, left-wing single-payer health plan advocates, including NOW President Terry O’Neill, as they discussed extreme proposals for government-run health care.  In addition to a piece published at Pajamas Media, I published 11 posts that included 10 unique videos from the conference.

4. Three Navy SEALs — In four posts this month, I not only covered the surface issues related to the case of three Navy SEALs facing charges related to their apprehension of an enemy combatant, but I sought out inside sources, including a retired Navy SEAL who questioned the nation’s mental state.

Stay tuned as I’m working on several investigative pieces — including one on small town health care — and plan to publish them during the coming months.

UPDATE 1/01/10 at 11 a.m. Central: As I published this post yesterday afternoon, I must have been experiencing the side effects of what I like to call a “brain fart.”  In short, I left at least three more important story subjects off of my list of stories missed by the mainstream media.  Because I own this blog, I decided to add items #5 and #6 below:

5. LIE DETECTORS IN COMBAT — On April 9, I asked the question, Is Tech ‘Turf War’ Putting U.S. Troops at Risk? What followed was a series of six more posts about a controversy with life-and-death implications has been brewing for years over the Army’s decision to deploy the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held lie detector, to combat zones instead of using new, more effective technology preferred by those who’ve used both in combat zones.  I have more stories coming on this subject.

6. EXCLUSIVE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING INTERVIEWS — While many consider the subject closed, I consider it wide open.  After new post-blast video tapes were released by the FBI, many wondered why the nation’s top law enforcement agency didn’t release tapes from prior to the bombing.  In two exclusive interviews published in late September, I spoke with Jayna Davis, investigative reporter and author of the best-selling chronicle,  The Third Terrorist, and David P. Schippers, a man who served as chief investigative counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee during the Clinton Impeachment Hearings and as manager of the proceedings that followed in the U.S. Senate.  He is an outspoken believer in Davis.  My investigation of this story isn’t finished.

7.  1st Lt. MICHAEL BEHENNA –I wrote my first story about this Army officer from Edmond, Okla., in June.  Six months later, I launched a tirade of more than a dozen follow-up pieces, nine of which were penned by new BMW contributor Carrie Fatigante.  In short, his story is one of justice denied.  He’s now serving a 20-year sentence for killing a known Al-Qaeda operative in self-defense.  For the complete story in one document, read “The Michael Behenna Story (pdf),” a 26-page document (PDF) by Fatigante.

Single-Payer Advocate Says White House Lost Debate on Government-Run Health Care

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Michael Lighty, the former national director of the Democratic Socialists of America who now serves as public policy director of the ultra-liberal California Nurses Association, spent 10 minutes Saturday afternoon addressing a group of roughly 100 single-payer health care advocates in St. Louis for the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference.

In addition to talking strategy, tactics and that time-tested liberal approach known as civil disobedience with like-minded thinkers from across the nation, he explained why he believes single-payer advocates lost having their say in health care bill that recently passed the House.

“They excluded us.  They fought us every step of the way.  They didn’t want this health care bill to be tainted by the ‘government-run’ moniker,” Lighty explained.  “We were essentially in an undeclared war with the White House for the last year.

“What happened to them is that they lost the debate on government-run health care,” he continued.  “They lost that debate, because they weren’t ready to wage it and, instead, the right-wing became the defenders of Medicare.  Just think about that.”

In addition, Lighty announced the formation of a new national nurses union of 155,000 RNs “committed to single-payer” health care.

To see what else Lighty said in his speech, watch the video below which I shot as the only journalist at the conference.

To see and hear what other conference speakers had to say, click here.

Single-Payer Advocates Told to ‘Get Arrested’

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Sometimes experience speaks volumes.  Such is the case when it comes to Tim Carpenter.

The fifth of six speakers who addressed the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, Carpenter’s resume includes having served on the team that managed the unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio).  Today, he’s known as the executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, an ultra-liberal group pushing for the single-payer health care option.

Carpenter spent most of his seven minutes addressing matters of collaboration and strategy with approximately 100 like-minded individuals in the room.

“Not everybody can get arrested, but some of us can get arrested,” he said.  “Not all of us can run for Congress, but all of us can challenge members of Congress.”

He went on to explain that it’s “our responsibility as part of a larger social movement” to stand and challenge the electoral process inside and outside the party.

Concluding his speech, he said, “Health care, not warfare” is the mantra with which his liberal friends should challenge members of Congress.  Sounds to me like Cindy Sheehan might have had both a sex change and a name change.

To see the rest of what Carpenter had to share with his liberal friends, watch the video below which I shot as the only journalist at the conference.

To see and hear what other conference speakers had to say, click here.

Victimhood Alive, Well at Single-Payer Conference

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In the beginning of her speech, Ethel Long Scott didn’t present herself as the most-polished of the six speakers who addressed attendees during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis.  She did, however, come off as the loudest, most-outspoken and most-victimized liberal granted access to a microphone.

Scott, executive director of the Oakland, Calif.-based Women’s Economic Agenda Project, seemed to get past early-speech jitters and find her pace at about the point when she pinned the political “tail” on who — or, more precisely, what — is to blame for all of her woes.

“It’s not the undocumented workers or the uninsured who are causing the problem, but, in fact, (it’s) this rotting, decaying capitalist system, and we need to call it like it is,” she barked.  “The reality is, what Congress is contemplating won’t do one damn thing to help the 14,000 brothers and sisters who are losing their health insurance every day.”

And she thinks single-payer will?  Puh-leeze!

To see the rest of what Scott had to share at the single-payer conference, watch the video below which I shot as the only journalist in attendance.

To see and hear what other conference speakers had to say, click here.

NOW President Announces Single-Payer Push

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“I intend to roll out a national action campaign for single-payer health care,” said Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, speaking during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis.

Before she was finished as the third of six speakers at the two-day conference, the self-described feminist lawyer asked the approximately 100 attendees for help in the area of what she called “women’s reproductive health care needs” (a.k.a., “abortion”).

“We were not that happy with the House bill that we understood was going to be going to the floor in the first place,” O’Neill explained.

Moments later, she added, “It was a weak bill. It did not have a strong enough public option.”  Then she got to her point of focus — that is, she’s upset about funding for abortions was removed from the recently-passed House health care bill.

“We are determined to kill this health care legislation altogether,” she said.  “If Stupak-Pitts, or anything like it, passes, we will insist that President Obama veto the bill and, if the bill passes the Senate or the House, we will target for defeat any legislator that votes for legislation (like Stupak-Pitts).”

While it’s great to see the femi-Nazis cringing, statements made by O’Neill on Saturday led me to believe her group is serious about waging an all-out battle to ensure funding for abortions is included in whatever health care bill becomes law.

Let’s hope her battle is a long and unsuccessful one.

Below, in two parts, is the full-length video of O’Neill’s statement I shot as the only journalist at the conference.

To see and hear what other conference speakers had to say, click here.

Labor Boss Says He Hopes to ‘Take the Corporate Community and Its Greed Out of the Picture’

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Advocates of single-payer health care will not stop there, according to Jerry Tucker, former member of the UAW International Executive Board who now represents the group, Labor for Single Payer.  Speaking during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, he explained his vision for the future.

“Health care is but one of the fronts that we have to be concerned about in the struggle for social justice,” said Tucker, the second of six panel members to speak during the session.

“When we whip this health care crisis and we bring it into the bright place where it should be and we take the corporate community and its greed out of the picture, it will be such a major setback for them that it will open the door for many of the other struggles as well.”

Tucker, who claimed to have cut his teeth as a single-payer advocate in 1972 as Big Labor’s representative to advance legislation sponsored by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), was very open to the audience he considered all-friendly, going so far as to admit that union workers once had “the Lambourghini” — not the Cadillac — of health care plans.

I’ve never had a Lambourghini or Cadillac plant.  Have you?

Below is the full-length video of Tucker’s statement I shot as the only journalist at the conference.

To see and hear what other conference speakers had to say, click here.