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Health care businesses are already responding to the Obama administration’s ominous plan for government control of health insurance and medicine. Drugstore company Walgreens announced that its pharmacies in the state of Washington will refuse to accept new customers using the government’s state and federally funded Medicaid program. Last year, Walgreens nearly dumped new Medicaid recipients in Delaware. Walgreens withdrawal underscores that the poor and the weakest in society are the first to suffer under government control of the economy.

The drugstore chain’s Washington decision relates to ObamaCare, which would expand Medicaid by at least 15 million people, posing a problem for Walgreens in Washington, where Medicaid drug reimbursement forces drugstores to sell drugs at a loss. In a statement, Walgreens refers to the state’s “continued reduction in reimbursement.” Businesses in Washington are not alone; CNN reports that Georgia companies that cooperate with Medicaid are going out of business. In fact, Medscape reports that, nationwide, doctors are bailing on Medicaid just as the recessed economy is making more Americans dependent on the government program. ObamaCare, if passed by Congress, will increase the burden on businesses and Walgreens knows it. Effective in mid-April, new Medicaid recipients will be rejected at Walgreens (two other pharmacy chains have already stopped) in Washington.

The backlash to ObamaCare has begun.

Last summer, I compared the arguments about health care reform to the battle over slavery. By fall, I observed that “President Obama will do anything to force this morally bankrupt idea into law.” In November, I urged every American to “speak out immediately, repeatedly, and often, and seek to stop this monstrous legislation. If it passes, it will become necessary to coordinate intellectual, economic, and political counterstrikes, such as organized boycotts (of any business or group that supports it), strikes, legal challenges, efforts to repeal, state-by-state opt-out legislation, marches, protests, and other measures, including a demand that any local, state, or federal political candidate take an oath to work to repeal the law as the highest priority. Silence implies consent and now is the time to speak up.”

Four months later, with the federal executive and legislative branches ignoring the nation’s founding principle, individual rights, and threatening the entire country with a fascist medical system, a Constitutional crisis, and events which could lead to outright revolt and secession by individual states of the union, it is not too late to speak up.

As Barack Obama and his thoroughly corrupt Congressional comrades conspire to pass an historic bill to enact socialized medicine, despite the risk of total economic catastrophe given the nation’s precarious financial condition, FoxNews reports that the President’s latest sob story, an emotionally-driven appeal about a woman in Ohio, is a fraud.

The Leukemia patient, who chose to drop her health insurance after premiums were raised, is apparently eligible for existing government programs. Read about it here. The story reminds me of Winifred Skinner, an old woman in Iowa who was the impetus for then presidential candidates Bush and Gore to propose the largest expansion of socialized medicine for seniors (Medicare) since the program was enacted in 1965 (later, Bush shoved Medicare drug subsidies down our throats by one vote). Click here to read an article I wrote about Skinner and the push to expand Medicare, which was fully supported by conservatives. The fact is that medicine is becoming increasingly costly, as the President argues. As many have pointed out, the cause of the higher costs is government intervention. What we need is more capitalism, not more government control, in medicine and insurance. According to this Democratic Congressional leader, what we’re going to get is a government takeover of both health insurance and medicine (some forecast a vote for Saturday, March 20).