We could fix it in a Single Day: But voters, as always, must choose




So before we can nullify the unjust, profligate, unconstitutionaljudgments, agencies, laws and actions which produced the welfare cliff, the horrific cost of healthcare, oppressive lawless bureaucracy, and of course endless war and ever-more militarization, voters must first say something to the ruling elitesthat they’ve not heard in a hundred years:




  • Term Limits
  • Rule of Law
  • End “earmarks” (pork)
    • Few enough to actually know
    • Simple enough to actually obey
    • Important enough to enforce without exceptions or special classes


It’s all in voters’ power to set things right. But first, in order to use their power, they must understand that they’ve always had it, andused it to get to where we are today. And for that to happen, they need to be better informed of their choices, and how elections have been working up to now.

Liberty or Bust!

Andrew Horning

Libertarian for 8th District US House of Representatives

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Money, Politics, and Central Banks: Politicians have robbed us for generations


Step #2 is our twisted-hybrid political/private financial system.



Why? Because the most effective way to hide the true costs of war, tax the public without their knowledge, enrich elites, and covertly monetize the massive debts incurred by a military empire and industry, is to replace naturally limited money with cheap currency*, and then devalue it by making gobs of it.





  2. Replace the current Federal Reserve System with a trulyprivate banking system that is not only subject to audits, reporting and SOP as with other incorporated institutions, but also has no power to monetize political debts or create currency.


Liberty or Bust!


STOP stealing our wealth, opportunity and security!

The Orwellian “Bank Secrecy Act” of 1970 forces banks to report large financial transactions to federal agents. As with all “federal” laws, since its passage, requirements have gottentougher, more expansive, and secretive. For example, the“Suspicious Activity Report” invokes a gag order, and nullifies the already-lowered dollar limit such that any financial activity at allmay be secretly monitored by federal agents.






But just last week, US House Rep. Larry Bucshon touted his support of, among other anti-constitutional bills, H.R. 5607, theEnhancing Treasury’s Anti-Terror Tools Act.





I have a plan to restore respect for the badge and restore faith inall our important institutions. It’s an already well-respected plan to not only police the police and govern government, but also to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

Gun control? Who’re we kidding?












So let’s be real clear on who oppresses, enslaves, commitsgenocide and war:









I’m not objecting to the No Fly, No Buy marketing campaign just because of that; or because our increasingly militarized empire ispushing for a political monopoly on weapons, or because it’s another example of bureaucrats with too much power. And it’s not just that we beleaguered taxpayers are expected to arm everybody but ourselves.





– That it’s our politicians who need to be restrained…not us!



I’d recently written about our Middle East Madness; and by now we all know that our own government creates, trains, arms andfunds our enemies such that we end up in war against ourselves all over the world.

I’ll wrap this up with some context:




Radically Reasonable




You see, while our federal lawmakers are of course overpaid, arrogant, and almost completely corrupt, they’re practically irrelevant now.





And this doesn’t even count the UN










This ain’t about religion, folks





This was not a very popular idea among the very many Muslims who liked the advances made in the intervening eleven centuries.


















Consider what Lawrence wrote as applicable to all of us:


About Our Guns…


The USA Constitution‘s Article I, Section [8:15] does grant Congress the rather scary authority, “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.


Article I, Section [8:16] further grants Congress authority “To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.”





Again, this won’t make proper sense without state constitution context.

So here’s what the Indiana Constitution says.

Let’s first consider the Indiana Constitution‘s Article 2, Section 9:












And a lot richer!





Would that be so bad?

Kill the Two Party System before it kills us


Update:  Well, dang it.

Against all my hopes, but as expected, and mostly because there was just no public interest in it, my case was “dismissed with prejudice.”

That means, in legal parlance, “Shut up, go away, and never come back.”

The new judge blathered on about lots of things.  But in practical fact (and only slightly paraphrasing) he said, “nanner nanner; we’re The Powers That Be and you’re nobody.”  Without any public interest in the underlying issue, the judgment is, unfortunately, fact.  People get what they vote for, and fight for; not what they merely say they want.  And one guy’s vote and fight isn’t enough to change anything.

The status quo may once again breathe a sigh of relief that yet another challenge to their crony corruption has been silenced.

But that doesn’t change the fact that the two-headed monster we only think is a two-party system is actually a crime ring.

You know it’s corrupt. But very few understand that it’s operating under illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, destructive and even stupid rules that hurt everybody.

Here is the original complaint. And my final response to the state’s blathering responses is here.

The basic scoop is that our society is divided into two classes of people; the favored corporate entities, and everybody else. Individuals are nobody; corporations and only two political parties have special rights and powers that individuals are denied.

Only MPPs (major political parties, of which, by recent “laws” there can be only two) can have Precinct Committeemen, be on election-related committees, fill vacancies, and in general, run the country. Nobody else, no other party, has such power.

I’m arguing a constitutional case for equal rights among all human beings, regardless of affiliation, class, creed or crony network.

But, really, you should be arguing that too.  Every day.  In every way you can.




Nullification – It already happens, all the time

To get my vote, I expect two things from any political candidate* at every level of office in the upcoming election:


2. Nullification of everything else from politics.


I’ll explain.











Every Single Day.BWLadyLib

Let that sink in a minute.


Every day.

It happens.

All the time.


Up to now, there’s been a direction to that nullification.




So here’s all that I will vote for:


2. Nullification of everything else from politics!


And I won’t vote for any less than that.




Technology versus Politics

Technology is marvelous. It tends to make things better, cheaper, more available. It tends to make people happy.

Politics, on the contrary, is the opposite of all the above.  The most exciting, promising technology turns divisive, corrupt, costly and deadly once politicians get their mitts on it.

We should never have let them monkey with our healthcare.  I’ve said so many times in the past (see links below), and I’ll keep saying so until we snap out of our stupor …or it comes crashing down around us (at which point I will say I Told You So).

So, let me offer just one, seemingly minor, even merely clerical reason, why your healthcare sucks.

It’s called ICD-10.

First of all, in my business of healthcare information/image technology, compliance with ICD-10 has been an enormous (i.e. expen$ive) undertaking. There are seven squillion, nine hundred and ninety three fillion codes (give or take) to correlate to software hooks and data. It has made the inherently complex business of making products for patient care even more complex.

The mass of codes and interrelations is certainly a hassle for the engineers making stuff to sell to doctors – presumably to make healthcare providers’ jobs easier (at increa$ed co$t, of cour$e).

But what does ICD-10 mean to doctors, patients and the tangle of insurance companies and taxpayers who ultimately pay for all this complexity?

Well, as of October 1, the wrong code can lead to not only a denied claim and/or months/years of costly hassle, but perhaps significant punishment (on basis of “Medicare Fraud” among other things too legally frightening to mention) for the doctor/institution as well.

Good, you say?

You want fewer mistakes in medicine.

Yes of course.  We all do.

Doctors must do better, certainly.  Prescription drugs, correctly taken, kill more people by far than do “illegal” drugs.  And hospital stays in general (with iatrogenic infections, drugs, mistakes, etc.) kill more Americans than everything but cancer and heart disease.

But what does “do better” mean?  And how do we help make that happen?

And how much arm-twisting, lawsuit-hurling, defrocking, fining and imprisoning force does it take to be helpful??

Let’s see how ICD-10 “helps.”

Let’s say a Farmer Andy comes to the Family Practice clinic with an infected wound that he’s not so sure he can explain. Stuff happens to farmers all the time, and he just can’t remember what this wound was from, initially. He’s always getting bangs and scrapes and cuts, after all.

(And let us be truthful. Andy is a terrible farmer. He’s mostly into quixotic politics)

So, what was the injury initiating this visit?

It’s legally critical we get this right!

Was it ICD-10 code W55.21, “Bitten by a cow,” or W61.33, “Pecked by a chicken?”

Was it when he became a V00.01 “Pedestrian on foot injured in a collision with roller skater?”
Come to think of it, he had been visiting his nephew in prison when that happened, which could add a Y92.147,“Courtyard of prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause.”

Does that qualify as a Z63.1, “Problems in relationship with in-laws?”

Anyway, the doctor knows it wasn’t Y92.253, “Hurt at the Opera,” since Farmer Andy hasn’t gone there since the last episode…(we mustn’t discuss it here.  That would be a violation of HIPAA rules which could lead to a revoked license and even prison).

Farmer Andy did mention (under his breath, seemingly ashamed) that it could have been an “Accident while knitting or crocheting,” which would be a Y93.D1.

The doctor hated to ask, but since he knew Andy and his family had been to Sea World, could Andy have been “Struck by Orca, initial encounter,” which would be a W56.22?

No, said Andy.  It certainly wouldn’t have been a Killer Whale, nor was it a strike.

There was perhaps that bite from a Sea Lion, Andy recalled.  Though it wasn’t the first time, or even the second time that had happened.

So that would be a W56.11XS “Sequela…Bitten by Sea Lion.”

Hmmm, the doctor thought. That would have a very specific look to it.  No; it must be something else.

The wound wouldn’t look like this if it were a V91.07 “Burn due to water-skis on fire,” certainly.  He’d seen plenty of those before.

And the doctor could tell just by looking at him that Farmer Andy hadn’t been “Sucked into jet engine,” or X52.

Or was he getting the codes wrong?


Wait…X52 is actually “Prolonged stay in weightless environment.”

Was it V95.40? No…that one is the rather vague, “Unspecified spacecraft accident injuring occupant.”

How about Y37.54?  (Doctor types in code and waits…it’s a big database)

When the doctor worked in the hospital, there was an entire department of people whose only job is to “do coding.”  Here in the clinic, they’ve got a part-time/outside IT department, and sometimes their network bogs down, and…
Oh, here it comes…

Oh heck no!  Y37.54 is “Military operation involving nuclear radiation effects of nuclear weapon.”  SMH, he thought.  He should’ve remembered this one from last week’s incident.

Ah, there it is…V97.33 is the sucked-into-jet-engine code.

Dang it, he has to remember that.  The CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) “ICD-10 Ombudsman” was fairly lenient last time.

He can’t afford to make that mistake again!

OK, I have a question for you.  Does the preceding strike you as the best way to improve healthcare delivery?


Now, codifying data is a great idea.  In the right hands and in the right way, when we’re ready (this is a key part), then having convenient, appropriate labels for all our data makes it easier to store, find, and use in a meaningful way.  And I’m even all in favor of people using ICD-10 exactly as it is…if they choose to.

Let me restate that.

If people trained in the care of patients, in their situation (hospital, clinic, private practice) find that using ICD-10 codes helps them treat patients, then great.  Excellent, even!

But that’s not how our $y$tem work$, is it?  It’s not up to the healthcare professional how things are billed and paid anymore.  It hasn’t been for many years now.  In the most practical $en$e, politicians are more involved in healthcare decisions than doctors are.  Doctors can bill for only what they can get paid for by people other than patients; and that is determined by politicians.  In this case, technology becomes more of a parasite than an aid.

As a true-free-market technology guy, that breaks my heart.

Just imagine you’re trying to sell something; a product you make, your old car, cookies at a bake sale…but bickering politicians, lawyers and lobbyists determined what you could charge for it.  Imagine they demand you buy some things, and don’t let you buy others…and that every political intervention not only directly affects your job…it substantially changes your job.

How would that work out in the real world?

And the way “meaningful use” and other “federal” requirements are being FORCED on healthcare providers is, at this state in our knowledge and technology, madness on top of even more madness (do I even need to mention Obamacare?).

To make matters worse, healthcare has been a union shop/monopoly for over a hundred years.  There can be no serious competition with what politicians and lobbyists call healthcare.

If the rest of our technology worked like this, we’d all be clacking away on Windows 3.1, at best.

There were smart people involved in the development of ICD codes.  Lots of them.  But their seemingly dedicated work was performed in disconnection from monetary, human and practical technology concerns.  It’s another good example, in fact, of such obsessive bureaucratic “paperwork” (albeit mostly without paper), that the recording and processing of all this data can and often does compromise patient care in ways analogous to the Observer Effect.

OK, so I have another question for you.

Should we let doctors, who go to school for many years and spend a lot of time in residency and continuous training, actually do the jobs they were trained to do, or should we continue to vote for ever-more intrusion into that profession by politicians, who don’t need any education or even interest in healthcare at all?

Well, please think on it.

It’s your money, your rights, your life and health at stake here, you know.