Legal Strategies for Avoiding the Vaccines

 Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics related to COVID shot exemptions, vaccine passports, and religious freedom. To stay informed and get involved–visit http://www.LC.org.  Be sure to check out the comments.  Find three of them below

Susieelizabeth writes,

I work in a Catholic Hospital that will not accept a letter for religious exemption from jab mandate. They notified me to take the jab or be put on unpaid administrative leave by 10/1. Then in 30 days if I didn't get the jab, it will be noted as my resignsation. They say they are following the Gov's mandate. At end of letter to me, they give their Catholic religious convictions for taking the jab...but won't accept an employee's religious exemption letter. After listening to your video, I believe it is my US Constitution, legal right to file my religious conviction letter to exempt from taking the jab at this hospital employment. God Bless you all for helping!!!

KatarinaSC writes,

On The American Frontline Doctors website, their attorneys talk about religious exemptions, suggesting using an attorney to give it more teeth. If you're turned down, more can be done quicker. By using an attorney, they say it gives more notice to the employer. Additionally, you said after a 30-day unpaid leave if you still have not gotten jabbed, they will consider you resigned. But that is not a resignation, but rather an unlawful firing. They are trying to avoid an unemployment claim. Write them a letter stating, you "do NOT resign, under any circumstances". They will be forced to fire you which will give you more standing ,in filing an unemployment claim. It's obvious how employers are trying to avoid massive unemployment insurance claims.

KOOLADE 1212 writes,

MAKE THEM SIGN A FORM FROM AM FL DRS THEY OFFER FORMS FOR EMPLOYERS...MAKE THEM SIGN THAT THEY R SENDING U HOME AND FIRING YOU! I SAW A VIDEO OF A GIRL WHO WENT BACK WORK AND VIDEO TAPED THEM SAYING SHE WAS FIRED...AS THEY HAVE HUNDRED THEY R FIRING IT WILL COST THEM BEC THEIR INS WILL GO UP.... SPEAK OUT ! 

For more on legal strategies to get your employer to honor your natural right of consent, check out what lawyer, Robert Barnes, has put together a letter here [the original version] and [a revised version] here.  

"MEDICARE FOR ALL" WILL SHORT-CHANGE HOSPITALS . . . AND THERE WILL BE CLOSINGS

Medicare for All Would Decimate New York Hospitals

To the editor:

With election season heating up, so is the conversation about single-payer health care. Is it appropriate for New York? Is it appropriate for upstate? What about hospitals?

Upstate New York hospitals have their own unique geographic, economic and patient-mix factors; there are 54 hospitals and health systems in the Iroquois Healthcare Alliance’s region alone, and 217 hospitals throughout the state. Additionally, IHA members span over 28,000 square miles, across 32 counties of New York. Hospitals upstate range from large academic teaching institutions to sole community hospitals to 15-bed critical access facilities. Many are often the only safety-net providers in their communities. Single-payer for all of these hospitals is, therefore, obviously, complicated. ADVERTISING

What isn’t complicated is the apparent appetite for some level of government involvement in health care, mostly because it already exists. New York operates one of the largest Medicaid programs in the country, totaling nearly $60 billion annually, with 5 million enrollees. Approximately 1 in 3 New York City residents and approximately 1 in 4 in the rest of the state are enrolled in Medicaid.

Hospitals and health care providers throughout New York remain reliant on government, both Medicaid—and on Medicare—for patient revenue. In fact, Medicare is the largest payer upstate, because of the aging population. For upstate hospitals, Medicare accounts for 47% of hospital inpatient revenue, while Medicaid only accounts for 15%. Private insurers account for 20% of total inpatient revenue.

In dividing the tab for hospitals three ways between Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance, government (Medicare and Medicare) is the entity footing most of the bill. Unfortunately, government as a payer hasn’t exactly been a win for the hospital industry. Nearly half of all IHA member hospitals reported negative operating margins in 2016, and the median operating margin for IHA hospitals was a meager 0.3% that year.

Upstate hospitals are also paid less than their counterparts in downstate for the actual cost of both Medicare and Medicaid. Downstate hospitals receive 36.4% in Medicare, 21.6% Medicaid and 14.4% in private insurance. Looking at the data per day by payer, Medicare provides hospitals $2,337 per day upstate and $3,012 downstate. Medicaid follows a similar pattern: $2,150 upstate, $2,929 downstate.

But the most pronounced difference is in private insurance. These insurers pay upstate hospitals $3,767 per day and downstate hospitals a staggering $6,105. Private insurers pay over 60% more than government per day to hospitals located downstate.

A single-payer health system can only be examined, discussed and debated when the payer is known—and most importantly when the reimbursement structures are known. Single payer that uses rates similar to what private insurers pay downstate hospitals per day would be positive for upstate hospitals. A system based on the current rates being paid by Medicaid and Medicare would hurt all hospitals, particularly devastate upstate hospitals, and likely reduce access to health care in many communities.

Gary J. Fitzgerald 
President
Iroquois Healthcare Alliance

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20180829/OPINION/180829891/medicare-for-all-would-decimate-new-york-hospitals

Gary North forecasts the problems correctly:

He sees what is coming: short-changing hospitals. At that point, they will start going bankrupt. There will be closings.

There will be rationing. People will not be able to schedule operations without waiting.

What will happen to people who cannot afford private healthcare programs, which will rise in price due to rising demand? The rich have concierge physicians. The upper middle class will start flying to the Caribbean. They will pay for the services they want. But the middle class will be caught in the rationing system.

Obamacare: A Nixon Legacy?


Dr. Gary North reviewed this video.  Parts of it he likes.  

The segment on Nixon is terrific. The tapes reveal the connection with Edgar Kaiser. The key fact is this: Nixon heard about this plan on February 17, 1971. He then had a speech written for him, which he delivered on national TV the next day. The video reported this, but did not mention it. It is clear that Kaiser and Ehrlichman had the whole package ready to go. Nixon approved it without having read it or even thinking through the implications. This was the #1 source of HMO's in U.S. history. Nixon had given no thought to the whole program. It changed American medicine.

He definitely likes the video but doesn't have high hopes for it.  

The video was posted in 2014. The video as of this week had 96 views. It took two years to get this. Maybe there is another posting of this video online with more views, but with under 100 views in two years, this project was a failure. I have rarely seen any YouTube video with so few views.

We need lots of videos like this one. But they take lots of time to produce. There is no guarantee that anyone will view them.

Then there is this fact. They change nothing. Ever. 

There is no one better in assessing government programs than Gary North.  He understands Congress. He worked inside its bowels for a few years under Ron Paul.  This point here is not so much hopeless as much as it is practical.

Voters cannot get Congress to repeal a bad program. Congress will only make it worse. We never see repeal -- only "repeal with replacement." Once there is a constituency for a program, it's forever.

In other words, don't waste your time on federal activism or federal legislation.  His antidote? 

There is only one way to kill a program: the bankruptcy of the federal government. They all must go down together. It is politically impossible to kill them once they become law.   

It's coming.  So he says.

Though Dr. North did admit that he finds national politics entertaining.

I love national politics. It's a three-ring circus: Senate, House, and White House.

The big economic issues are never addressed, such as:

1. The unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare: $210 trillion (present value)
2. Federal Reserve policy
3. The extension of administrative law -- 81,611 new pages in the Federal Register (2015)
4. Tax reform: 74,600 pages
5. The causes of, and solutions to, the flattening of households' median real income since 1965

There is a reason for this silence: there are no politically acceptable solutions. "Don't ask. Don't tell. Don't worry."

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