Articles Tagged As “Health Care”:
2558.\\ In Your FACE!
I wonder how shocked Barry was when Ingrid Martin told him to shove his health plan up his squeaker? Joe the Plumber redux.
TAGGED AS: Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama, ObamaCare
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PERMANENT LINK2549.\\ Confiscation of Freedom
Thomas Sowell takes a somber and sobering look at the state of freedom in the United States. It is frankly pretty depressing to read how we are incrementally being deprived of everything the nation was founded to protect.
I renew my prediction of armed insurrection if the trend continues.
Best bit:
Another dangerous power toward which we are moving, bit by bit, on the installment plan, is the power of politicians to tell people what their incomes can and cannot be. Here the resentment is being directed against "the rich."
The distracting phrases here include "obscene" wealth and "unconscionable" profits. But, if we stop and think about it-- which politicians don't expect us to-- what is obscene about wealth? Wouldn't we consider it great if every human being on earth had a billion dollars and lived in a place that could rival the Taj Mahal?
Poverty is obscene. It is poverty that needs to be reduced--and increasing a country's productivity has done that far more widely than redistributing income by targeting "the rich."
You can see the agenda behind the rhetoric when profits are called "unconscionable" but taxes never are, even when taxes take more than half of what someone has earned, or add much more to the prices we have to pay than profits do.
TAGGED AS: Congress, Constitution, Health Care, Liberals, Liberty, Taxes, Thomas Sowell, Totalitarianism
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PERMANENT LINK2542.\\ Value Proposition
Mr. Sowell has entered the building. And with him comes an overall elevation of the intellectual discourse of the day.
Best bit:
"Since the only resources that the government has are the resources it takes from the private sector, using those resources to create jobs means reducing the resources available to create jobs in the private sector."
Which is why government is almost never the answer to any problem involving the market.
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Economy, Health Care, Insurance, Thomas Sowell
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PERMANENT LINK2526.\\ It's not about style; it's about substance
Brilliant article today from the prolific Charles Krauthammer.
He does an excellent job nailing down the exact reasons for why Obama's at where he's at (in the shit, in case you weren't paying attention).
Best part in my opinion, and the part that succinctly explains my opposition to the health 'reform' plans in general:
"Then, the keystone: a health care revolution in which the federal government will regulate in crushing detail one-sixth of the U.S. economy. By essentially abolishing medical underwriting (actuarially based risk assessment) and replacing it with government fiat, Obamacare turns the health insurance companies into utilities, their every significant move dictated by government regulators. The public option was a sideshow. As many on the right have long been arguing, and as the more astute on the left (such as The New Yorker's James Surowiecki) understand, Obamacare is government health care by proxy, single-payer through a facade of nominally "private" insurers."
TAGGED AS: Charles Krauthammer, Health Care, Obama, Socialism
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PERMANENT LINK2525.\\ The Health Bill is a Massive Tax
"The so-called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" in fact will make access to health insurance more expensive and less useful, and will also render the care provided by insurance less effective, more risky, and more expensive by taxing the production of new capital goods. The taxation approach taken by Senate Democrats is a purely foolish method of funding regulations that are themselves horrible."
Thanks Ludwig von Mises.
Left unsaid: It is a method for funding regulations that establish government control of your health. I've seen this movie before, it was called Logan's Run.
TAGGED AS: Autocracy, Dystopia, Economy, Government, Health Care, Insurance, Logan's Run, Tax
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PERMANENT LINK2509.\\ Economics of Failure
Excellent article in the Journal today. I encourage you to read it. Leave out all the pro-Reagan stuff and take the article on the merit of its central argument: that you do not promote long term, broad based growth by spending so far into debt that you can't get out.
Read it. And think about it when you hear about the tens of trillions of dollars that 'reform' is going to cost us.
TAGGED AS: Congress, Economy, Finance, GDP, Health Care, Ronald Reagan, Spending
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PERMANENT LINK2504.\\ House of Meddling
Stossel is right again. Unfortunately, no one in the Congress is listening anymore, not to him, not to the people. I suppose it is within their right to do what they think they should do, regardless of the mob. And thankfully it is the right of the mob to throw their asses out for any reason whatsoever.
Here comes 2010...
TAGGED AS: Congress, Health Care, John Stossel, Socialism
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PERMANENT LINK2502.\\ Worse Than Taxes: The Spending
John Stossel has it right again. In an opinion piece today, he fingers the real culprit of creeping Statism in America.
The rallying bit:
"The politicians' spending schemes represent presumptuous interference in our lives. They are an assault on our autonomy."
Yes sir. Hoist the flag of protest
Many of these things have a amplifying effect. The spending, together with the taxing, together with the Orwellian paternalism of our new government, together with the systematic remaking of America into some minor European socialist utopia, will all add up to outright rejection by the people of this entire philosophy. Attempts to control the population like Obamacare, the nationalization of the transportation system, the ongoing disaster that is Government Motors, the transformation of terrorist enemy combatants into the equivalent of US Citizens, Climatofacism, thought crime laws, gun bans, religion bans, bans on free speech, the soda tax, the fat tax, the marriage tax, the death tax, the success tax, the tax tax; all of these will add up to an actual rebellion, I predict. States will simply refuse to implement these totalitarian diktats under the 10th Amendment. That is, if the citizens don't get there first.
TAGGED AS: Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Congress, Constitution, Fascism, Freedom, Health Care, Liberty, Orwellian, Socialism, Taxes, Totalitarianism
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PERMANENT LINK2499.\\ Even China Doesn't Believe It
When the world's finest purveyors of lies, propaganda, misdirection and outright fraud don't believe the snake oil you're peddling will work, then you've got a major, major problem.
What is more frustrating and depressing is that we're not even having the discussion of whether we SHOULD be doing this kind of health care reform at all. We're simply arguing over minute details about how MUCH we should mortgage, piss away, dump in the toilet. The debate in America isn't about our decline, but how fast we want it to happen.
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, China, Debt, Deficit, Health Care
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PERMANENT LINK2496.\\ Making the Constitution Support a Power Grab
There hasn't been too much talk of whether or not the Congress has any power at all to require individuals to purchase goods or services. I mean, I know I've talked about it but nobody else seems to care.
Except a few Senators like Orrin Hatch. Now sometimes he's a bit flaky, sometimes way to right wing, sometimes not. On this topic, I totally agree with his view on the limits of Federal power.
Unfortunately nobody will care about this issue until someone brings a lawsuit to the Supreme Court about the topic.
Best bit:
"If buying fuel-efficient cars is so important for the economy, Congress could just require people to buy them. Why does Congress need complicated bailouts when it could simply order people to deposit their paychecks in certain banks, invest in certain companies or purchase certain products?"
TAGGED AS: Congress, Constitution, Health Care, Orrin Hatch, Senate, Supreme Court
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PERMANENT LINK2494.\\ For All Our Sakes
Let's hope the pronouncements of the Greatest Deliberative Body in the World are reflective of the general mood of the Senate.
If any final legislation resembled the House bill, it would mean the end of western liberal democracy, the end of American supremacy and the end of the greatest economic engine the world has ever seen.
I don't typically invoke God to help deal with the legislative process, but... God help us.
TAGGED AS: Democracy, Health Care, Liberty, Senate
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PERMANENT LINK2492.\\ House Bill Hides $1.5 Trillion in Cost
The Cato Institute released an analysis today that clearly shows how the House bill on health care reform is a bait and switch fraud. The true cost of the plan is somewhere north of $2 Trillion. Using fancy accounting, fictional numbers and outright lies, Nancy Pelosi is set to spend America into banana republic status and destroy the nation's future.
You want health care reform? Fine, so do I. But this isn't the right way to do it. It will cause unbelievable harm to the very people it ostensibly means to help. And anyone who thinks it won't negatively impact them, raise their taxes, regulate their lives and force reliance on the State, is foolish or disingenuous.
TAGGED AS: Health Care, Liar, Nancy Pelosi, Socialism
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PERMANENT LINK2491.\\ Three Reasons to Reject Obamacare
As a rule, I don't believe insurance is the right model to pay for health care. I don't use auto insurance to pay for my gas each week, why should I expect to have health insurance pay for drugs I decide to take? Insurance implies a financial hedge against catastrophic events for which the expense is so high that I cannot pay it and therefore I need to spread that expense amongst other policy holders. It isn't a thing I use for routine events.
That being said, I don't believe in the direction the entire health care debate is taking. It should be about reducing the cost of procedures and making those costs transparent to me, the consumer, so that I can decide where to allocate my funds. I'm purchasing a good and/or a service. I deserve to know why it costs $25k for my wife to have a baby. Instead the true cost is hidden in premiums and deductibles and bureaucracy and regulation. If consumers knew the costs to them of various services provided by doctors, competition and Adam Smith's invisible hand would come to the fore and the system would self-regulate.
There's a shitload more to say on that topic and more explanation as to why treating the entire industry the same as any other goods/services industry makes sense. But I digress. While I may have dozens of reasons for rejecting Obamacare, the National Review gives you just three. Frankly they are the only three you need. What are the reasons? The reason you should reject Obamacare is that it doesn't meet any of Obama's own stated requirements. Pretty simple.
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi, Socialism
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PERMANENT LINK2486.\\ As If There Were Any Doubt...
David Harsanyi deconstructs the 2000 page omnibus health bill in an article from the Denver Post last week.
I just don't understand how something with a $1.2 Trillion price tag will reduce our deficit. I also fail to see how half a million words outlining new regulations, taxes, fees, mandates, penalties and bureaucracy could possibly make health care faster, cheaper and better (hell I'd settle for any one of those three).
Best bit:
As you flip through the pages of the House bill, you will notice the word "regulation" appears 181 times. "Tax" is there 214 times. "Fees," 103 times. As we all know, nothing says "affordability" like higher taxes and fees. The word "shall" - as in "must" or "required to" - appears over 3,000 times.
God help us. Although I suppose in the near future I'll be required to say "Government help us".
TAGGED AS: David Harsanyi, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi, Orwellian, Taxes
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PERMANENT LINK2478.\\ Miscalculations on Health Care
There is a thoughtful analysis by Robert Robb of the Arizona Republic on what impact the House Democrats' bill would have on the Health Care industry. I can't say I agree with him. I happen to increasingly believe that the leftists in this country don't give a damn about the people. They are motivated by some utopian dream of manipulating the entire society and remaking it according to intellectual theory dreamed up in a bubble. It is a dangerous ideological crusade they are on and it is little different in its use of philosophy than Jihad, little different in its tactics than Mao's Cultural Revolution and destined to be little different in its results than Lenin's experiments. Theory and practice in the realm of social engineering rarely collide. The inevitable endgame is Orwellian.
Read it for yourself here.
TAGGED AS: America, Democrats, Dictatorship, Health Care, Jihad, Lenin, Mao, Orwellian, Socialism
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PERMANENT LINK2477.\\ Mandated Shopping
Congress cannot legislate the purchase of goods or services. It cannot force the people to buy a particular product. It cannot force the people to buy anything. This includes health insurance. In fact, the very notion of Congress forcing everyone in the nation to purchase a service is unconstitutional and therefore illegal.
"But aren't we already forced to purchase auto insurance policies?" you ask. Well of course, but that is different on two levels. First off, it is a State government, the first sovereign power under our form of government that is legislating this requirement. The Constitution specifically allocates the necessary powers to States to make and enforce such laws. Secondly, and obviously, the law only applies to people who choose to purchase a vehicle. Since owning a car is not a right (as of this writing at least - who knows, that could change any day now), there is minimal infringement upon individual liberty. It is also a key role of State government to protect our individual freedoms (including our property) from the unlawful or harmful activities of others.
If Congress is allowed to force every one of us to buy health policy, why stop there? Why not legislate that everyone must purchase an automobile from a US automaker? Or why not simply legislate directly which goods and services we are required to purchase each week and from whom we are to purchase it? Naturally to ensure 'competition' the Government itself will soon be producing goods and services and subsidizing them. And why stop there? Why not simply legislate the private sector away completely? Surely it is unfair to someone someplace that I can buy something that they cannot. We should all be forced to buy exactly the same things in the approved quantities from the approved vendors...
It is absurd, of course. Yet this is the logical extension of the argument being used to foist subpar services on us at higher prices. It is un-American, unconstitutional and represents the worst of social engineering.
TAGGED AS: Congress, Constitution, Health Care, Liberty, Socialism
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PERMANENT LINK2475.\\ Pelosi Denies Public Access to Public Space for Public Plan Announcement
Only those who don't dissent are permitted to enjoy an America rationed out by those who know best. You're not on that list.
TAGGED AS: Congress, Elitist, Fascism, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi
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PERMANENT LINK2468.\\ Baucus Bill Bull
Read this article and then defend the plan.
My favorite bit:
"Only in government accounting could an additional 29 million people receive new health coverage with a savings of $81 billion. By this congressional logic, America could insure all 6 billion people in the world at a savings of trillions of dollars."
UPDATE:
There's also this analysis which demonstrates the government socially engineering a dependent society where it makes more sense to do nothing than it does to actually work.
TAGGED AS: Congress, Health Care, Liar, Senate
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PERMANENT LINK2461.\\ Finance Committee Democrat: Health Bill is gibberish
Well hell. If one of the guys who WROTE the damn thing won't even bother to support it, why should anyone?
More evidence that this blunderbuss is a solution in search of a problem.
TAGGED AS: Health Care, Nonsense, Senate
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PERMANENT LINK2456.\\ The Morality of Health Care
Far be it from me to dispute morality with a professor of ethics, but I would offer up the basic notion that humans don't form governments in order to legislate morality. It does not, can not, has not ever worked when the State takes on the role of father/mother/nanny.
Perhaps his argument that collectivization in support of the weakest among us is indeed the Christian and moral thing to do. And I encourage his efforts to rally the public to voluntarily support that. But don't ever make the mistake of attempting to FORCE morality on the mob and COERCE them into following your ethos by way of legislation.
It will fail and it will fail spectacularly like every other social engineering attempt before it.
TAGGED AS: Christianity, Health Care, Morality, San Francisco Chronicle
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PERMANENT LINK2454.\\ He Lies After All
Look no further than this bit by Jake Tapper of ABC News.
While fact checking the Obama administration, surely a first for ABC News, Jake discovered that holy shit! The President made up a bunch of crap to push his health care agenda. Who's using scare tactics now Barry?
A representative bit:
"But President Obama's description that Beaton's "insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot to declare a case of acne" is not accurate."
i.e. the President lied.
TAGGED AS: ABC News, Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care, Jake Tapper, Liar, Media
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PERMANENT LINK2430.\\ Throughout this campaign...er...effort
I love this exchange. Since most people probably didn't see it (cause no one watches George's show), I invite you now. My favorite part is where Obama forgets he's President and thinks he's still on the campaign trail.
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Health Care, Liar
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PERMANENT LINK2423.\\ 72% of Nation's Doctors Are Racists
Because, you know, they oppose the President's policies and since he's black then that means they hate black people.
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Health Care, Liar
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PERMANENT LINK2415.\\ Geroge Will and the Brilliant Distill
This guy has a knack for his ability to boil a complex, thorny circumstance down to its basic elements. He's done so again in Newsweek. This time he devestatingly lays out the fundamental contradictions in Barry's proposals and explains why Americans don't believe anything he says.
My favorite part:
"On the 233rd day of his presidency, Barack Obama grabbed the country's lapels for the 263rd time--that was, as of last Wednesday, the count of his speeches, press conferences, town halls, interviews, and other public remarks. His speech to Congress was the 122nd time he had publicly discussed health care. Just 14 hours would pass before the 123rd, on Thursday morning. His incessant talking cannot combat what it has caused: An increasing number of Americans do not believe that he believes what he says."
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Congress, George Will, Health Care, Liar, Mitch McConnell, Newsweek
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PERMANENT LINK2413.\\ Old News
I got most of these in my real time twittering during the speech. Nice to know I wasn't the only one.
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Health Care, Liar, Nonsense
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PERMANENT LINK2412.\\ Most Important Read of The Week (And it's only Monday)
Read this and argue with it. You can't! You can't!
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Economy, Health Care, Nonsense
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PERMANENT LINK2410.\\ So Basically He Did Lie
Facts are terrible things when they contradict the illusion you are trying to construct.
To wit, the President's assertions in his health care speech last week were false.
I believe that makes him a non-truth teller. Or, as some may say, a LIAR.
Best part (talking about Barry's claims that Alabama was an egregious example of how the evil insurance companies are killing Americans):
"In fact, the Birmingham News reported immediately following the speech that the state's largest health insurer, the nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, has about a 75% market share. A representative of the company indicated that its "profit" averaged only 0.6% of premiums the past decade, and that its administrative expense ratio is 7% of premiums, the fourth lowest among 39 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans nationwide.
Similarly, a Dec. 31, 2007, report by the Alabama Department of Insurance indicates that the insurer's ratio of medical-claim costs to premiums for the year was 92%, with an administrative expense ratio (including claims settlement expenses) of 7.5%. Its net income, including investment income, was equivalent to 2% of premiums in that year.
In addition to these consumer friendly numbers, a survey in Consumer Reports this month reported that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama ranked second nationally in customer satisfaction among 41 preferred provider organization health plans. The insurer's apparent efficiency may explain its dominance, as opposed to a lack of competition--especially since there are no obvious barriers to entry or expansion in Alabama faced by large national health insurers such as United Healthcare and Aetna. "
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Health Care, Liar, Wall Street Journal
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PERMANENT LINK2404.\\ Liberal Agenda Struggling
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Congress, Economy, Health Care, Liberals
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PERMANENT LINK2403.\\ 'Public Option' Unlimited But Paid For, Leaving Number-Crunchers Perplexed - Political News - FOXNews.com
As if there were any doubt, now even his own CBO says the math is impossible.
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Health Care, Nonsense
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PERMANENT LINK2402.\\ Union Hell
Holy crap. Turns out that one of the bills under consideration to reform health care will force health workers in hospitals and doctor's offices around the country into labor unions.
Sorry, this is the 21st century isn't it? For a moment I thought we were back in the late 1800s.
Forced unionization did wonders for the auto industry in this country. And mining. And manufacturing. And the airlines. In fact, I can't think of a time or place (within living memory) where labor unions actually helped anything at all (besides helping themselves of course, enriching their members).
Not only is it unfair, it is un-American and anti-capitalistic. In the age of instant communication and universal distribution of knowledge, labor unions have long outlived any usefulness they once had. They are now no more than parasites, sucking the soul out of our economic bloodstream.
TAGGED AS: Health Care, Unions, Wall Street Journal
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PERMANENT LINK2400.\\ Barone Gets it Right (Again)
With his usual direct style, Michael Barone points out the increasing absurdity of the plan(s) to change how health care works in this country.
My favorite part:
"There is an element of convenient fantasy as well in Obama's health care statements to date. We are going to save money by spending money. We are going to solve our fiscal problems with a program that will increase the national debt by $1,000,000,000,000 over a decade. We are going to guarantee you can keep your current insurance with a bill that encourages your employer to stop offering it.
The list goes on. We are going to improve health care for seniors by cutting $500,000,000,000 from Medicare. We aren't going to insure illegal aliens, except that we won't have any verification provisions to see that they can't apply and get benefits."
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Economy, Health Care, Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
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PERMANENT LINK2399.\\ Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care - WSJ.com
She grates on my nerves, but her article is well thought out and hits most of the key points I care about. I wish she hadn't defended her use of the death panel term. That's all the MSM will seize on as proof that she's a nutjob.
But her point is smack on. Reform does not mean nationalize.
TAGGED AS: Health Care, Sarah Palin, Wall Street Journal
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PERMANENT LINK2397.\\ The Public Option
Seems to be going well in the UK as well as in France.
Yeah. I can't imagine why we don't want our system to emulate theirs.
Let me reiterate. Anything run by the Federal Government is wasteful, inefficient and costly. Oh and typically results in a piss poor product.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Sorry, I'm missing the part that says "Congress shall have the power to create, administer, fund and control Health Care" and I'm also missing the part of the Bill of Rights that lists health care as one of the enumerated rights...
TAGGED AS: Congress, Constitution, France, Health Care, Socialism, UK
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PERMANENT LINK2386.\\ Sentenced to death on the NHS - Telegraph
Yeah. I wonder how this is working out for the Brits? Clearly we need the same thing here. You know, to ensure 'competition' (as if State control somehow miraculously provides MORE competition than the free market containing hundreds of competing companies).
TAGGED AS: Daily Telegraph, Health Care, NHS, UK, US
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PERMANENT LINK2382.\\ David Brooks and the Silent Majority
In an Opinion piece, (usually) conservative columnist David Brooks surveys the political situation we're in and does his best to say nothing of interest on the matter.
With a discernible sourness, for reasons I can't quite fathom, he rambles on about how much of a mistake Obama's left tilt has been (shocker) and the disaster of health care reform for the Democrats (another shocker).
Despite writing an obvious filler piece (probably Sunday afternoon or something), he can't avoid some gems such as this:
"Amazingly, some liberals are now lashing out at Obama because the entire country doesn't agree with The Huffington Post. Some now argue that the administration should just ignore the ignorant masses and ram health care through..."
Love it.
TAGGED AS: Barack Obama, Congress, David Brooks, Deficit, Economy, Harry Reid, Health Care, New York Times
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PERMANENT LINK2376.\\ How is this Right in Any Way?
TAGGED AS: Bias, FoxNews, Guns, Health Care, Leftist, MSNBC, Obama, Racist
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PERMANENT LINK2375.\\ ABC Joins NBC As Official White House News Organ
As if having the head of General Electric/NBC appointed to the board of the Federal Reserve wasn't sufficient conflict of interest, now ABC is declaring officially that it is in the tank for Barry.
ABC has refused to air any ads critical of Obama's effort to nationalize healthcare. This is the channel that broadcast its 'news' from within the White House. As Dick Morris puts it:
"It's the ultimate act of chutzpah because ABC is the network that turned itself over completely to Obama for a daylong propaganda fest about health care reform. For them to be pious and say they will not accept advertising on health care shuts their viewers out from any possible understanding of both sides of this issue."
Read the full story here.
Sad. But totally believable. And it explains why shows like Lou Dobbs and O'Reilly are increasing their viewership so dramatically. In fact, O'Reilly has beat CBS broadcast news several times. That's gotta be a record to have a non-emergency cable news hour beat out the same hour of news on a national broadcast channel. The message seems to be loud and clear to me (apparently not to ABC, NBC or CBS): people aren't buying the distorted leftist bullshit you're serving. They see you as groveling sycophants willing to dispense with principles, morals and integrity in order to service the Liberal Messiah you believe is the second coming of JFK.
Fewer pay attention to you with each passing day....
TAGGED AS: ABC, CBS, Health Care, Media, NBC, White House
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PERMANENT LINK2371.\\ You're the Imposter!
LOL. And here I thought that the Democratic Party was opposed to forcing people to show their ID's for any reason (i.e. for voting).
TAGGED AS: Congress, Democrats, Health Care, Town Halls
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PERMANENT LINK2365.\\ Rule Britannia...
I've never thought that our healthcare system is perfect here, or even particularly stellar. But by God anything produced by the private sector in terms of healthcare has got to be better than letting Joe Bureaucrat run things. The people that bring you the IRS want to dictate your medical treatment? No thanks.
Pundits frequently make hash of the fact that socialized medicine in countries with national health systems is crap. I'd hasten to point out that we have a national health system in the United States and it is called Medicare/Medicaid. I know people who use Medicare. My entire family works in the health sector. Nobody who uses Medicare would prefer Medicare over a comprehensive plan like many of us enjoy. In fact, I can't think of many services that the Federal Government manages and offers to its citizens that is superior to an equivalent private sector offering. Not even NASA seems to work that well anymore when compared to private companies like Bigelow, SpaceX or Rotary. Hell even the CIA has to bring in Blackwater in order to get some quality work done.
If you were ever a believer in the ability of the Federal Government to manage itself wisely, a few Google searches on the deficit and pork-stuffed appropriations bills ought to cure you of that. But in the event that you believe a Federal Government, which cannot even manage EXISTING national health programs well and provide quality care, ought to be granted executive authority over your well being, then allow me to disabuse you of that notion by providing this excellent overview of the effectiveness of the NHS in the motherland. Where I come from we call it crimes against humanity and while not on the order of Hitler's 20 million, Stalin's 60 million or Mao's 70 million, providing "cruel" healthcare for 1/60th of your citizens in an enlightened Liberal Democracy is criminal in my book. I wonder if the International Criminal Court should bring charges? Nah they're probably too busy trying to prosecute US government officials for doing their jobs.
TAGGED AS: Big Government, Bureaucracy, Crimes Against Humanity, Government, Health Care, Telegraph, UK, US
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PERMANENT LINK2361.\\ On Death Panels
For any that missed my meme on Facebook that apparently led to a number of 'friends' deleting me.
"The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out there. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. That is why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance." - Barack Obama, April 14, 2009.
No thanks. I don't want a bureau giving me guidance on making decisions about death and dying. I don't care if they are super educated doctors and government advisers acting in the best interest of the rest of society. No. The only "independent group" I need in order to make those kinds of decisions are in my family.
Political channels, panels and "the country" have no right to make medical decisions on my behalf. Nor should they advise, propose, guide or even have any knowledge whatsoever of my medical conditions, treatments, complaints or visits. They do not need to know what meds I'm taking or what my diet consists of or how much I weigh or if my ass itches. My information does not need to go into a gigantic database with cool analytics that allows a group of politicos to decide that I'm in the 80% Obama mentioned above and categorize me or anyone I care about as an end-of-lifer.
He can take his independent groups, his death panels, and go to hell. This is the material from which revolutions spring.
TAGGED AS: Congress, Death Panels, Health Care, Liberals
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PERMANENT LINK2360.\\ Talk of Death Panels
The reason talk of it won't go away is because it is in the damn language of the bills in Congress. Since it is IN THE BILL it can't creditably be called a "myth" can it?
TAGGED AS: Congress, Death Panels, Health Care, Liberals
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