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Barack Obama is the Biggest move of God in Our time

WHAT AMERICAN HEALTH CARE REFORM SHOULD INCLUDE

By Fishcounter - Aug 21st, 2009 at 5:01 pm EDT

I am a supporter of a national health care system because I think we have proven that unbridled capitalism and health care don’t mix very well. In unbridled capitalism the cost of anything is based on what the market will bear. The market will bear almost anything when people are sick, hurting and dying.</p>

I am against the idea of government run hospitals as we all know about the poor care in VA and military hospitals. The government should just run a health insurance system that people pay into. When they pay into this government health insurance system they get a card which they can take to any private doctor or hospital anywhere in America. The private doctor or hospital will then send their bills to the government for payment.

In basic economics, if you want to decrease the cost of anything like health insurance you should increase the supply. A government health insurance option does that by adding one more choice. Not only does it increase the supply, but it takes the profit motive out of health care and increases the competition which also reduces cost in a capitalist economy.

The private health insurance companies should not be eliminated because if you do that with a single-payer system you have decreased the supply of health insurers to one with the resulting high prices and shortages.

There has been talk about solving the problem putting all kinds of new regulations on private health insurers like eliminating lifetime caps on coverage, not allowing denials for pre-existing conditions or cancellations after getting sick. Without a Government Health Plan that has these features, this will only give the private health insurance companies an excuse to raise their premiums even higher than they are now.

Who will pay for this Government Health Insurance Option? The answer should be those that benefit from it. Currently we pay a 2.5% Medicare tax, which covers persons 65 and older. We should just raise the Medicare Tax to 6% to cover anyone of adult age. There should be a provision allowing a person to opt out of this 6% Health Insurance Tax if they are enrolled in a private Health Insurance Plan. This way there are no un-insured as everyone is covered either by the Government plan or by private Health Insurance. The Government Health Insurance System should be Revenue Neutral. This means that it can only pay out what it takes in as Health Insurance Tax. This would ensure fair competition with Private Health Insurers and not increase the National Debt. Illegal aliens would not be covered by the Government Health Insurance Option since they pay no taxes.

Where does the 6% rate come from. The median household income in the United States is $40,000. I pay $250/month for my health care insurance as a single person. If we reduce that by 80% by eliminating non-medical costs such as lawyers, insurance companies, and administrators from the system it comes to $200/month, or $2400/year or 6% of the $40,000 median household income. With a Health Insurance tax rate to 6% of the household income per adult, married couples would pay 12% and we could add a 1.5% additional rate for each dependent child up to a maximum of 6% for four children.

Since the Health Insurance Tax is a fixed percent of income, 20-30 year olds who make only $20,000 or $30,000 a year and don’t buy private Health Insurance would only be paying $100/month or $150/month which is both affordable and fair because they don’t get sick very often. As people get older and earn more they pay more and they are more likely to get sick.
The Government Health Insurance Option should not be dependent on a person’s job. When a person is employed, they or and.or their employer pays the 6% tax in a ratio decided by the employer. When a citizen or legal alien is unemployed they are still covered by the Government Health care Insurance as a form of welfare.

Since the cost of the Government Option depends is a fixed 6% of income, the rich would be better off with private Health Insurance. Assuming Private Health Insurance plans cost $12,000/year, a married couple would be better off with the Private Health insurance if they made more than $100,000/year between them. A family of four would be better off with the Private Health Insurance if they made more than $80,000/year..

We could even build prevention into the Government Health Insurance Option by allowing one free check-up per year per person. If people go to these check ups, and are not smoking, are not overweight, and have good cholesterol and blood sugar levels then they should be offered a lower rate of 5% or 4% on their Health Insurance Tax.

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Barack Obama Comes out of the Closet as a Christian

By Fishcounter - Jan 11th, 2009 at 11:23 pm EST

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He did that by asking Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation and speak at his Inauguration. To the horror of Democratic liberals and Republican Christians Rick Warren agreed to do it. The Democratic liberals are horrified because of Rick Warren’s anti-gay and other strong Christian values. The Republican Christians are horrified because Rick Warren is speaking at the Inauguration of the Anti-Christ and worse someone who is pro-abortion.

Barack Obama has been a Christian all along, and is the largest move of God in our time, but he had to stay "In the Closet" as a Christian to get elected as a Democrat. In 2006, before the election, when he could talk about it, he gave a 40 minute speech about how he became a Christian, what his faith means to him and the relationship between Christianity and politics. The video of his speech can be seen at

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid353515028/bctid416343938

After watching the video I got the idea that Barack Obama came to Chicago with no real strong views on Christianity one way or the other. He became a Christian when he saw that the churches had the power to bring about the social change he was seeking to bring about. He realized that the black churches were responsible for the whole Black Civil Rights movement in America that made it possible for someone like him to be President.

He picked Rick Warren to speak at his Inauguration because he knows that Rick Warren, like his own pastor, is also big on using the power of God to bring about social change. Barack also knows that many white Christians look up to Rick Warren and might be inspired by him to bring about the needed further social change in America through the power of God flowing in their own churches.

God definitely pulled one over on America with Barack Obama.

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Bailing out the U.S. Auto Industry – How God keeps making it easy for Barack

By Fishcounter - Dec 13th, 2008 at 8:30 pm EST

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I heard Barack Obama’s campaign promise on more than one occasion to build fuel efficient and alternate fuel cars in America, not Japan, not South Korea and to reduce America’s dependency on Foreign Oil. He has just been offered a wonderful opportunity to do just that.

All he has to do is take the $15 billion for the auto bailout and announce that this money is available as grants to any company, including the current big three U.S. automakers, any university or any group of qualified individuals that sends in a proposal to design and build a prototype of a fuel efficient, alternate fuel car or both. These companies, universities or groups of individuals have to be American owned of course.

Once the design and prototype proposals come in, part of the $15 billion should be used to fund the most promising ones. Once the prototypes are built and tested those companies, universities or groups of individuals responsible for the more successful and promising ones should be asked to submit a proposal to set up a pilot production facility in America, using American labor to build 10,000 or so of these vehicles and sell them on the open market.

The most promising of these pilot production proposals should be funded with the remaining part of the $25 billion. After these pilot production vehicles have been built and sold on the open market we should let the market decide which ones continue on from there as the $25 billion will have been spent.
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Barack Obama is the biggest move of God in Our time

By Fishcounter - Dec 13th, 2008 at 12:42 am EST

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I first suspected this when I read Shirley Ujimori’s prophecy about “3 Presidents to Come”

You can read this and Skirley Ujimori's other prophesies at her <a href = "http://www.theheartofchrist.com/Heart%20of%20Christ%20prophecy%20mainsite.htm"> website </a>and click on the Prophesies left menu item.

The full text of Shirley Ujimori's prophecy about "The 3 Presidents to Come" that she received as a vision from the Lord in June 2004 BEFORE Bush was re-elected is given below.
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As I was in Prayer God gave me a vision. He showed me 3 figures. The first was of a man, his appearance was that of President Bush, the second was another man, but I could not see his face. His appearance was of a dark skinned man, thin to medium in body stature. The third was of a women, her appearance was one of a fair skinned women shorter then the men.

As I watched the dark skinned man and the woman stood behind President Bush, they were standing side by side. Suddenly the woman takes a step forward showing that she is the next to step up. I believe that this woman will be the next president.

Then the Lord spoke saying, " Bush will win the presidency this year. He will bring the people into a place of moral unity within themselves. He will set the example of seeking God."

The women, fair skinned, will be one who will lead the people into a unity in country. Bring the people together to stand strong as a country. She will show them the way to stand as one family, as a mother and child.

The dark skinned man, will bring the people into a unity with other countries. He will have a motherly aspect as the woman but will want all nations to work together for the good of all mankind. A world unity.

"These things must happen before I return. I will use them for my glory, to prepare the people for what is to come."

The Lord did not state the exact order, but I am looking at the order it was received.
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Shirley definitely heard from the Lord as she has America's 2008 election nailed. It looks like Barack Obama is the skinny black man and that Sarah Palin is the motherly white woman in her vision. The order in which they will be president was determined by the 2008 election. It was God's preference and more logical to have Sarah come first to restore family values to America and then have Barack restore America's relationships with the rest of the world, but the people of America have spoken and Barack will come first to both restore America and then restore the rest of the world. Sarah will come after him and preside during the good times that follow Barack’s restoration.

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