Discriminatory practice reflects a narrow-minded and statist view of education' - An Indiana-based company has decided not to hire any homeschool graduates, withdrawing a job offer from one candidate after discovering he was home educated, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association. ✧ That’s despite the fact that assessments and evaluations for homeschool students routinely run higher than for public-school students. ✧ HSLDA spokesman Michael Donnelly said NiSource, an energy-distribution company, informed HSLDA it would not hire homeschool graduates. ✧ The decision was based on the company’s interpretation of state law.
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Monday, May 5, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Indiana Ends Common Core Education Standards
Indiana’s experiment with Common Core is over. ✧ Gov. Mike Pence signed legislation Monday requiring the state to come up with its own academic standards, making Indiana the latest state to pull its support for the national education standards known as Common Core.
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“I believe our students are best served when decisions about education are made at the state and local level. By signing this legislation, Indiana has taken an important step forward in developing academic standards that are written by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers, and are uncommonly high.”
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Indiana doctor finds 51 objectitonable proposals in health care bill
VIA EMAIL, Received 8/3/2009 (Hat tip: Linda Weimer) - FYI: After reading the House health care reform bill, Dr. Stephen Earl Fraser, an anesthesiologist in Indianapolis wrote the following letter to Senator Evan Bayh (D) of Indiana...
July 23, 2009
Senator Bayh,
As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the healthcare bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the government's proposed involvement in the patient physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a healthcare system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our healthcare system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed. [The letter writer gives his take on 51 objectionable proposals in the bill]
I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our fellow citizens.
Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self insure!!
Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.
Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!
Page 42 of HC Bill:The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice!
Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise
Page 58 HC Bill: Govt will have real-time access to individuals finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued!
Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt will have direct access to your bank accounts for elective funds transfer.
Page 65 Sec 164: is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations: (ACORN).
Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the Exchange.
Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare!
Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example - Translation: illegal aliens.
Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan.
Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. AARP members - your Health care WILL be rationed.
Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.
Page 124 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No "judicial review" against Govt Monopoly.
Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical Association - The Govt will tell YOU what you can make! (salary)
Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE!
Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.
Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll.
Page 150 Lines 9-13: Business's with payroll btw 251k & 401k who doesn't provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll.
Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn't have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay)
Page 195 HC Bill: Officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans finances /personal records.
Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax" Yes, it says that!
Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill: Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors, low income and poor are affected.
Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors, doesn't matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same!
Page 253 Line 10-18: Govt sets value of Doctor's time, proffession, judgment etc. Literally value of humans.
Page 265 Sec 1131: Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries.
Page 268 Sec 1141: Federal Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs.
Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!
Page 280 Sec 1151: The Govt will penalize hospitals for whatever Govt deems preventable re-admissions.
Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission -Govt will penalize you.
Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells Doctors what/how much they can own!
Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating hospitals cannot expand.
Page 321 2-13: Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input is required. Can u say ACORN?!!
Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: Govt mandates establishment of outcome based measures. HC the way they want. Rationing.
Page 341 Lines 3-9: Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt plan.
Page 354 Sec 1177: Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people! Unbelievable!
Page 379 Sec 1191: Govt creates more bureaucracy - Tele-health Advisory Comittee. Can you say HC by phone?
Page 425 Lines 4-12: Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Think Senior Citizens end of life patients.
Page 425 Lines 17-19: Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!
Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death. (assisted suicide)
Page 427 Lines 15-24: Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends.
Page 429 Lines 1-9: An "advanced care planning consultant" will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates.
Page 429 Lines 10-12: "advanced care consultation" may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOVT!
Page 429 Lines 13-25: The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.
Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life!
Page 469: Community Based Home Medical Services = Non profit organizations. Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?
Page 472 Lines 14-17: PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORIGINATION. 1 monthly payment 2 a community-based organization. Like ACORN?
Page 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which means they will insert Govt into your marriage.
Page 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services.
Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything possible to inform patients and my fellow physicians about the dangers of the proposed bills you and your colleagues are debating.
Furthermore, If you vote for a bill that enforces socialized medicine on the country and destroys the doctor/patient relationship, I will do everything in my power to make sure you lose your job in the next election.
Respectfully,
Stephen E Fraser MD Read More......
July 23, 2009
Senator Bayh,
As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the healthcare bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the government's proposed involvement in the patient physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a healthcare system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our healthcare system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed. [The letter writer gives his take on 51 objectionable proposals in the bill]
I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our fellow citizens.
Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self insure!!
Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.
Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!
Page 42 of HC Bill:The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice!
Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise
Page 58 HC Bill: Govt will have real-time access to individuals finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued!
Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt will have direct access to your bank accounts for elective funds transfer.
Page 65 Sec 164: is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations: (ACORN).
Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the Exchange.
Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare!
Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example - Translation: illegal aliens.
Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan.
Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. AARP members - your Health care WILL be rationed.
Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.
Page 124 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No "judicial review" against Govt Monopoly.
Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical Association - The Govt will tell YOU what you can make! (salary)
Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE!
Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.
Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll.
Page 150 Lines 9-13: Business's with payroll btw 251k & 401k who doesn't provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll.
Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn't have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay)
Page 195 HC Bill: Officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans finances /personal records.
Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax" Yes, it says that!
Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill: Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors, low income and poor are affected.
Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors, doesn't matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same!
Page 253 Line 10-18: Govt sets value of Doctor's time, proffession, judgment etc. Literally value of humans.
Page 265 Sec 1131: Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries.
Page 268 Sec 1141: Federal Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs.
Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!
Page 280 Sec 1151: The Govt will penalize hospitals for whatever Govt deems preventable re-admissions.
Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission -Govt will penalize you.
Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells Doctors what/how much they can own!
Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating hospitals cannot expand.
Page 321 2-13: Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input is required. Can u say ACORN?!!
Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: Govt mandates establishment of outcome based measures. HC the way they want. Rationing.
Page 341 Lines 3-9: Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt plan.
Page 354 Sec 1177: Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people! Unbelievable!
Page 379 Sec 1191: Govt creates more bureaucracy - Tele-health Advisory Comittee. Can you say HC by phone?
Page 425 Lines 4-12: Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Think Senior Citizens end of life patients.
Page 425 Lines 17-19: Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!
Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death. (assisted suicide)
Page 427 Lines 15-24: Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends.
Page 429 Lines 1-9: An "advanced care planning consultant" will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates.
Page 429 Lines 10-12: "advanced care consultation" may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOVT!
Page 429 Lines 13-25: The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.
Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life!
Page 469: Community Based Home Medical Services = Non profit organizations. Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?
Page 472 Lines 14-17: PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORIGINATION. 1 monthly payment 2 a community-based organization. Like ACORN?
Page 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which means they will insert Govt into your marriage.
Page 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services.
Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything possible to inform patients and my fellow physicians about the dangers of the proposed bills you and your colleagues are debating.
Furthermore, If you vote for a bill that enforces socialized medicine on the country and destroys the doctor/patient relationship, I will do everything in my power to make sure you lose your job in the next election.
Respectfully,
Stephen E Fraser MD Read More......
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Obama stumps for stimulus bill
Back to the future for Obama with campaign-style trips
breitbart.com (Also see President Obama -- diminishing himself to serve Speaker Pelosi at Power Line.)
Barack Obama might have thought he left the campaign trail behind, but just three weeks into his presidency, he will be on the stump again this week, selling not himself, but his economic rescue plan. Obama will tred[sic] political ground familiar from his two-year election odyssey to defend the package in Indiana and Florida on Monday and Tuesday against Republican complaints that it is too expensive and will not work. The president peeled both states out of the Republican column in November's election, and now both are paying a painful price from the crippling wave of unemployment sparked by the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.
The two townhall meetings are part of what is now a full throttle campaign effort to sell the 800-billion-dollar plus stimulus package, which is slowly working its way through Congress with a deadline looming at the end of next week.
Late Monday, Obama will hold a primetime news conference -- the first of his presidency -- from the East Room of the White House, and he has urged supporters to hold weekend house parties to build momentum for the package.
"The scale and scope of this plan is right, and the time for action is now," Obama said Saturday, in his latest urgent call for Congress to send him the tax-cutting and spending plan designed to create or save three million jobs.
The president began pushing the stimulus plan by courting Republican support, hoping for bumper majorities to herald his administration and that he could call on again for tough issues like healthcare and climate change.
But his calls for bipartisanship dissolved in the face of opposition from Republicans, with only a few opposition lawmakers expected to back the Senate compromise on the bill when a vote comes as early as Monday.
Now, Obama is firing off fierce attacks on Republicans to match his campaign-style travel to set the stage for haggling between the two legislative chambers on a final bill that will require high-stakes votes.
"Let's be clear: we can't expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin and led us into this mess in the first place," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday.
"We can't rely on a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges -- the crushing cost of health care or the inadequate state of so many schools; our addiction to foreign oil or our crumbling roads, bridges and levees."
The change of tone has not been lost on Republicans, who are using the showdown over the stimulus plan to test the new president and build their own morale after successive electoral drubbings.
"We had an opportunity to do this in a truly bipartisan basis and the president said originally he had hoped to get 80 votes," said Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell.
"It appears that, the way this has developed, there will be some bipartisan support, but not a lot -- and it's not likely, in the judgment of most of us, to produce the result that we all desire."
Obama's travels on Monday and Tuesday will mark a change of strategy after he largely confined his lobbying for the stimulus plan to in and around Washington, meeting congressional leaders and key lawmakers.
But as the package got bogged down in Congress, critics suggested that Obama would do better by taking his case directly to the American people, especially as polls showed support for the stimulus plan slipping.
His spokesman, Robert Gibbs, denied that the president was hoping to pressure vulnerable lawmakers by flying into the historical battleground states of Florida and Indiana on Air Force One.
"This is not designed specifically to cajole any member of Congress," Gibbs said.
"It's an effort for the president to talk to the American people about what's at stake."
Obama will travel to Elkhart, Indiana where unemployment has rocketed from 4.7 percent to 15.3 percent over the past year.
On Tuesday, the president will fly to Fort Myers, Florida, for a second townhall meeting -- the kind of event he held almost daily for two years on the campaign trail.
Last year, the unemployment rate in Fort Myers stood at six percent, but it has now hit 10 percent. Read More......
breitbart.com (Also see President Obama -- diminishing himself to serve Speaker Pelosi at Power Line.)
Barack Obama might have thought he left the campaign trail behind, but just three weeks into his presidency, he will be on the stump again this week, selling not himself, but his economic rescue plan. Obama will tred[sic] political ground familiar from his two-year election odyssey to defend the package in Indiana and Florida on Monday and Tuesday against Republican complaints that it is too expensive and will not work. The president peeled both states out of the Republican column in November's election, and now both are paying a painful price from the crippling wave of unemployment sparked by the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.
The two townhall meetings are part of what is now a full throttle campaign effort to sell the 800-billion-dollar plus stimulus package, which is slowly working its way through Congress with a deadline looming at the end of next week.
Late Monday, Obama will hold a primetime news conference -- the first of his presidency -- from the East Room of the White House, and he has urged supporters to hold weekend house parties to build momentum for the package.
"The scale and scope of this plan is right, and the time for action is now," Obama said Saturday, in his latest urgent call for Congress to send him the tax-cutting and spending plan designed to create or save three million jobs.
The president began pushing the stimulus plan by courting Republican support, hoping for bumper majorities to herald his administration and that he could call on again for tough issues like healthcare and climate change.
But his calls for bipartisanship dissolved in the face of opposition from Republicans, with only a few opposition lawmakers expected to back the Senate compromise on the bill when a vote comes as early as Monday.
Now, Obama is firing off fierce attacks on Republicans to match his campaign-style travel to set the stage for haggling between the two legislative chambers on a final bill that will require high-stakes votes.
"Let's be clear: we can't expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin and led us into this mess in the first place," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday.
"We can't rely on a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges -- the crushing cost of health care or the inadequate state of so many schools; our addiction to foreign oil or our crumbling roads, bridges and levees."
The change of tone has not been lost on Republicans, who are using the showdown over the stimulus plan to test the new president and build their own morale after successive electoral drubbings.
"We had an opportunity to do this in a truly bipartisan basis and the president said originally he had hoped to get 80 votes," said Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell.
"It appears that, the way this has developed, there will be some bipartisan support, but not a lot -- and it's not likely, in the judgment of most of us, to produce the result that we all desire."
Obama's travels on Monday and Tuesday will mark a change of strategy after he largely confined his lobbying for the stimulus plan to in and around Washington, meeting congressional leaders and key lawmakers.
But as the package got bogged down in Congress, critics suggested that Obama would do better by taking his case directly to the American people, especially as polls showed support for the stimulus plan slipping.
His spokesman, Robert Gibbs, denied that the president was hoping to pressure vulnerable lawmakers by flying into the historical battleground states of Florida and Indiana on Air Force One.
"This is not designed specifically to cajole any member of Congress," Gibbs said.
"It's an effort for the president to talk to the American people about what's at stake."
Obama will travel to Elkhart, Indiana where unemployment has rocketed from 4.7 percent to 15.3 percent over the past year.
On Tuesday, the president will fly to Fort Myers, Florida, for a second townhall meeting -- the kind of event he held almost daily for two years on the campaign trail.
Last year, the unemployment rate in Fort Myers stood at six percent, but it has now hit 10 percent. Read More......
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