Speaker Pelosi and President Obama admit JAIL is "fair" for not buying insurance

11-9-09 - During a press conference at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Nancy Pelosi skirted a surprise question, twice. The questions pertained to 5-year jail terms and $250,000 fines for those refusing to buy health insurance under her plan. However, she did say her plan was "fair".

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, was in Seattle on Monday, November 9, 2009 where she joined Democratic Reps. Jay Inslee, Jim McDermott and Norman Dicks in a tour of Swedish Medical Center. Pelosi's visit came less than 48 hours after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the massive and short-sighted "Affordable Health Care for America Act" bill by a very narrow margin, 220-215. Pelosi needed at least 218 votes for passage.

The closed door meetings and their partisan Democrat scheme worked despite the obvious will of the People as a Rasmussen poll found that 57% Americans opposed while only 41% approved government run health care. By all accounts, this bill should have died. However, the Stupak amendment revived it at the promise of removing funding for abortions, which we all know can be reversed later on. The Stupak amendment to HR 3962 was proposed and approved in the House of Representatives on November 7, 2009.

UPDATE: As of Dec 22nd 2009, public funding of abortion was added by language c0-sponsored by Sen. Murray (D-WA) & Sen. Boxer (D-WA. They lied...surprise, surprise, surprise. Even Obama later admitted, "there were some stray cat and dogs that got snuck in...that we were in the process of eliminating". This "stray dog" was "snuck in" several weeks AFTER they railroaded this unconstitutional law through.

Pelosi was recently asked another question that she could not answer. She was asked where in the Constitution does it give government the right to run health care. Her snarky answer was simply; are you serious, are you serious? Yes, we patriots are serious; just ask us what we think of more government intrusion in our lives, this being an egregious one that will snatch 1/6th of the US economy from the private sector and in total making government in charge of about half of the entire economy. The more this reckless government strays away from the guidelines set by our Founding Fathers, the less freedom we are left with.

Liberty will die and so will patients under this sort of health care reform. Like in Canada and much of socialist Europe, patients needlessly die waiting weeks or months for life saving surgeries. And in our case, Washington bureaucrats will make decisions for you and your doctor based on cost effective procedures. That is where rationing and cost savings will offset the massive fraud, waste and abuse that government is infamous for. It is a good thing that Congress, with their 240 millionaires, will be spared the rationed care they impose of the American public.

This legislation must be stopped at all expense, as the Senate will soon vote on it. Our Liberty and quality of health care depends on our success in stopping this reckless government and their radical and destructive agenda. Their narrow-minded approach to destroying the best health care on Earth only to reform it is based on deceptive tactics and exploitation of the American people. It must be done NOW, however not implemented until 2013. Therefore, the negative fallout will not play a role in possibly reelecting our leftist president.

*The same day that Pelosi ducked the jail question, President Obama also danced around a similar question posed by White House press staff Jake Tapper. Mr. Tapper also had to ask the question twice and met with a condescending, "I'm not sure that's the biggest question they're asking right now". The audio portion of the Obama interview follows the Pelosi press conference.

Please call, email, or visit your Senator and urge them to vote NO, before its too late! Once implemented this government plan, like all other entitlement programs, is permanent and will cost at least 3x the projections, totaling over $3 Trillion...of deficit spending!
Furthermore, they talk about "subsidies" and they really mean redistribution of wealth. Karl Marx said, "To each according to his need, from each according to his ability". The have some "moral" obligation to steal from those who are productive and distribute to those who don't produce much if any to society. This is not government's role, they think it's charity, but last time I checked charity was to be given, not taken by a rule by fear government with a "mandate". This health care "debate" is not about health or care, it's about CONTROL.

More details at this Seattle TEA party COMMUNITY ORGANIZER's blog:
http://redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com/

Also, this press conference was not announced publicly. And the protest against Pelosi-care was organized with only 3-hours advance notice.

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[humanills]

Fake questions.

[VideoSeattle]

@humanills Wrong, those questions were asked. You're not the 1st one to make such a false accusation, just look at the "fake video" comment at the top. Sure, the 2-channel audio sounds odd b/c it's splits Pelosi onto one channel and the TV reporter onto the other. The reporter had a direct feed from Pelosi and I didn't, so I snatched his audio so you can actually distinguish her words.

For proof, go to his video to hear the same audio: Does Speaker Nancy Pelosi Dodge Health Care Question?

[Donrajja]

This is a fake video.

[VideoSeattle]

@Donrajja

Fake? Wrong, its legit. Go to the TV reporter's footage, I pulled the audio from it since my mic hardly picked up the pathetic pontification from Pelosi:

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Does Speaker Nancy Pelosi Dodge Health Care Question?

[frankiecanuckx]

You pay for this already only at a higher cost due to the use of Hospital emergency and add the 30% insurance profit ..Funny Republicans you don't want to pay for others but when they try to do something about it ...you cry .. We have the highest costs in the world by almost double. Public option would have done something about that but nooooo...cry cry cry...lol

[VideoSeattle]

@frankiecanuckx

Costs have risen for many reasons; Gov't mandates, trial lawyers, and lack of interstate competition. You can gloss over the reality, but it's still exists...despite your partisan talking points.

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Dissent used to be "patriotic", now dissent is "racist" or some other smear. You people have no shame. You either have contempt for our founding law, or no concept of how it protects Liberty. Hint, gov't expansion and control over the individual violates inalienable rights.

[Iridium242]

Nancy needs to do time in Jail for this OUTRAGEOUS attack on our personal freedoms.

[SaberTanker22]

SO I go to jail for 5 years for not buying health insurance Time to change are fucking government system the whole thing most be Re done.

[ChiefLaughingChicken]

@pluto4847 Obamacare is unconstitutional. You can't force anybody to buy anything. It will never see the light of day. Obamacare will be repealed. And those who voted for it will receive everlasting shame.

[pluto4847]

@blameonmyyouth

I hate to bust your bubble, but you can go to jail for dropping a cigarette on the sidewalk/. Will it be enforced? Highly unlikely although you could be fined for littering, and if you don't pay the fine than you might go to jail.

Its the same with Obamacare. Just pay your healthcare dues, and you'll have nothing to worry about--unless you like wearing an orange jacket in the State Pen--than healthcare will be free for you! Hahaha

[soldatqc]

@Donrajja fake lolll it real and i bet you vote for obama hahahahaahah idiot liberal !!!

[ISUCN]

Anyone that doesn't get health insurance pays a fine or goes to jail while all there cronies are exempted from getting it. They are setting the right up to support the whole system while the unions and those supporting the left doesn't have to pay.These are low life evil bastards but the public is figuring things out for themselves. 1 less progressive liberal parasite=several freed tax payers! If the left reads this they may want to get rid of be because I'm putting the word out about them.

[nutblast23]

@Vide Anthony Weiner already said that they are not going to criminalize people for not purchasing health insurance. Of course pliticians are greasy but but the ilte is misleading and inaccurate. You are misquoting them, actually.

[hobo59]

The most hilarious part of this bill is that the ones most likely to go to jail would be the poor and illegals. Those are like the Democrats core !

[JawsJaws]

@Donrajja Its not fake

[blameonmyyouth]

they wont put "ILLEGAL ALIENS" in jail for being hrre illegally ---but they want to jail american citizens for not agreeing with their socialist agenda and subsidizing obamacare for 30 million more democrats who dropped out of school or crosseed the border---pathetic