Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of July 17, 2009
07/17/2009
PANICKED AT THE ANTI-OBAMACARE PROTEST IN ST. LOUIS: McCaskill’s Office Locks Doors, Pulls Blinds, Calls Cops & Forces Obamacare Protesters Off Public Property.Yeah, it’s not like these are constituents or anything. . . .
07/17/2009
A group of six “centrist” senators has asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to slow down the stampede to pass health care reform. A bipartisan group of centrist and conservative senators sent a letter to the Democratic and Republican leaders on Friday urging delay in consideration of health care reform. The letter, obtained by the Huffington Post, was drafted by Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and is also signed by Democratic Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.).
07/17/2009
I should know better than to think, “They can’t be serious proposing that!” But the Democrats’ fix for healthcare sends even my shock-and-surprise meter into red zone. The President’s self-styled Health Reform Plan, or ObamaCare , reforms [fixes] nothing . It robs Peter to pay…who? No one? ObamaCare calls for $1.5 trillion (yes, with a “t”) dollars in new expenses.
07/17/2009
Dear House and Senate members who are increasingly doing fly-bys of the Monster, Please stay awhile and tell all your banker, insurance and DOD contractor buddies to pull up a chair. You may actually learn just exactly how exasperated we are with you, and then you will have the choice of what is sure to come [...]
07/17/2009
Those who earn between $20,000 and $75,000 per year believe even more strongly that health care reform will require raising taxes on the middle class. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of U.S. voters say it is at least somewhat likely that taxes will be raised on the middle class to cover the cost of health care reform. Fifty-six percent (56%) say it’s very likely. Read More Not only will middle and low income class Americans will be paying higher taxes, but the poor will be paying higher prices for food and other needed products plus many more will lose their jobs.
07/17/2009
Our wonderful specially selected congressman was one of 50 members of the House “Progressive” Caucus that sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying they would not support any health care bill not including a single payer plan. For those who don’t know, a single payer plan means the federal government would completely control our health care. Yeah, I know you all want government bureaucrats deciding if Aunt Flossie gets her liver transplant, and I know you all want to pay for “free” health care for everyone in the country—legal or illegal because that is what Congressman Hare wants for his district.
07/17/2009
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07/17/2009
From All American Blogger : So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers. All American Blogger , Jul 2009 You should read the whole article .
07/17/2009
I’ve been having an interesting Facebook discussion with one of the members of the BPN Forums, LLansing . It started with my status update asserting that the new health care bill would make private individual medical insurance illegal. (By the way, here’s my Facebook page ). Here’s my initial Facebook status update: Illegal to own individual private medical insurance? Bleep this bleeping piece of bleep federal bleeping government and every bleeping moron who voted to put these bleeping stupid bleepholes into office.
07/17/2009
A new Rasmussen poll indicates waning support creation of a government health insurance company with only 35% of U.S. voters supporting Obamacare. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 50% of voters oppose setting up a government health insurance company as President Obama and congressional Democrats are now proposing in their health care reform plan. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided. If you liked this post, click here to buy me a TinCap ticket.
07/17/2009
I should know better than to think, “They can’t be serious proposing that!” But the Democrats’ fix for healthcare sends even my shock-and-surprise meter into red zone. The President’s self-styled Health Reform Plan, or ObamaCare, reforms [fixes] nothing . It robs Peter to pay…whom? No one? ObamaCare calls for $1.5 trillion (yes, with a “t”) dollars in new expenses.
07/17/2009
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D – California) Speaker Nancy Pelosi is attempting to rally legislators to move forward on Obama’s health care by declaring that everything’s okay and on schedule and the Congress is acting with “wholesome dynamism,” according to Fox News . Huh? Pelosi appears to be in denial of the truth. The Democrats’ expensive health care reform legislation, which could cost $2 trillion or more inside a decade, is losing ground fast.
07/17/2009
Michelle Malkin’s column today does a fabulous job of exposing the new beast of a bureaucracy the health care bill will create : Because 32 “czars” isn’t enough, the Democrat plan would add another overlord to the Obama administration. The new “Health Choices Commissioner” would helm the new “Health Choices Administration” (Section 141 of the bill) – separate from the already existing Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration), the Veterans Health Administration, and the Indian Health Service.
07/17/2009
The House Ways and Means committee approved a half-trillion dollar tax increase overnight, but the ABC and NBC morning news shows offered only a single sentence to the development, while CBS’s Early Show skipped it entirely. Neither NBC’s Today nor ABC’s Good Morning America mentioned the tax increases $544 billion price tag, as each newscast folded the development into larger pieces on President Obama’s push for health care “reform.” ABC’s Deborah Roberts first gave a mere two sentences to the CBO report that contradicts White House claims that Obama’s plan would save money.
07/17/2009
Friday Digest 17 July 2009 Vol. 09 No. 28 THE FOUNDATION “If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.” –Thomas Jefferson GOVERNMENT & POLITICS Income Redistribution: ObamaCare Advances We’re in for a ride Make no mistake: The health care debate going on in Washington is about one thing, and it is not the millions of uninsured Americans.
07/17/2009
States See Spreading Unemployment Pain: Still No Stimulus In Sight Michelle Obama requires 22 attendants ‘U6′ Unemployment — The People Who Will Be Hurt Most If Pelosi & Reid Kill E-Verify Parts Of DHS Spending Bill Inside the monstrous Obamacare bureaucracy Today: Nationwide protest against socialized medicine & cap-and-tax CBO Head Says Health Reform Would Increase, Not Decrease Spending Joe Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’
07/17/2009
I had the story the other day of the plans for a surcharge on high earners to pay for Obamacare, but let’s be serious, the surcharge won’t come close to paying for Obamacare. However, Nancy Pelosi, the eternal optimist, thinks there will be money left over and instead of cutting taxes and returning the stolen funds to those who earned it, she’ll just throw it at the rest of the black hole the Dems are creating : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Democrats could use a proposed new tax on the wealthy to pay down the deficit, if there’s money left over after funding healthcare reform.
07/17/2009
Let’s file this under the category, “Yet another stupid Democrat idea”: Let’s finance a socialized medicine plan that Americans don’t want by taxing the owners of small business who create the few jobs we’ve got left. Tax Increase on ‘Rich’ People Planned by House Democrats Would Strike More Than a Million U.S. Small Businesses Tuesday, July 14, 2009 By Christopher Neefus (CNSNews.com) – More than a million small business owners and about two-thirds of the profits earned by U.S.
07/17/2009
PROTESTING OBAMACARE IN RALEIGH: Reader Amanda Cross sends this picture.
07/17/2009
One month ago, support was tied at 41% to 41%. In the intervening weeks the public has been subjected to an onslaught of supportive media propaganda. Obama has been on tv and all over the country pitching it. So, why is support going down? Is the Obama magic wearing thin? Do people see how wrong his stimulus plan has gone? Are people rejecting Obama’s socialist agenda? 78% also recognize that taxes will go up even though Obama promises they won’t. Of course, none of this matters.
07/17/2009
If you can remember back to last summer, a study was conducted to determine who gave the most money to charities. What they found was an enormous amount came from wealthy conservative Americans, it was so large that you’d almost think these conservatives would be for redistribution of wealth (kidding).
07/17/2009
Fitting in well with my persistent theme that we’re living “Atlas Shrugged” and that things must get worse for the voters before they get better – because it will take things getting worse for voters to rebel against The One, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Schumer, etc – is today’s news that unemployment is now over 10% in fifteen states plus the District of Columbia: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, DC.
07/17/2009
Meet Frank Turner: Mortgage Bailout Poster Boy of the Week – debbieschlussel.com 07/17/2009 By Debbie Schlussel Meet Frank Turner , this week’s poster boy for everything that’s wrong with the continuing mortgage bailout. He’s kind of like the “kinder, gentler” version of Jeremiah Wright. Longtime Detroiters knows Turner as the two-time former Detroit news anchor, unfunny former comedian, and openly anti-Semitic radio talk show host who became a televangelist.
07/17/2009
Petition: Keep Gitmo Detainees Out of America – quotegator.com 07/17/2009 July 17th, 2009 admin Posted in conservative | The Democrats love the idea of releasing dangerous terrorists into the United States out of Gitmo. In their appeasement to their absolutist ideals, they are willing to put Americans in this posititon. They’ve even proposed to offer welfare to these America haters. Via Michelle Malkin:Sen.
07/17/2009
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – HometownAnnapolis.com LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles police say they are investigating a break-in at Orlando Bloom’s Los Angeles home. Police spokeswoman Amanda Betat says officers responded to the 32-year-old actor’s home Wednesday afternoon. She says police were called to Video Vault: Classic comic book ‘Watchmen’ inspires an epic – Observer-Dispatch I first bought “Watchmen” in 1986, when it was originally released as a dozen comic books.
07/17/2009
Obama’s ideas on payment reform to change how Medicare pays providers, and knowledge reform to investigate which treatments are most cost effective will never work and will increase costs and reduce quality. Read more….
07/17/2009
Earlier today I had the Gallup poll that showed Americans opposed to Obamacare 50%-42%. The numbers for Obama are even worse on Rasmussen : Just 35% of U.S. voters now support the creation of a government health insurance company to compete with private health insurers. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 50% of voters oppose setting up a government health insurance company as President Obama and congressional Democrats are now proposing in their health care reform plan.
07/17/2009
Obamacare is coming… Here’s a commercial that illustrates a lot of we’re trying to warn people about socialized medicine. Please pass it along! Click here to view the embedded video. People who really want Socialized Medicine need to ponder this. I’ve been watching protests, rants, etc. on YouTube all morning.
07/17/2009
Matt Taibbi gets to it : Ask yourself this question: has borrowing money gotten any cheaper for you this year? Did someone from the government walk up to you after you foreclosed on your house or missed payments on your charge card and, as a favor, just because you’re so cool, jack your credit score back up to the 99th percentile and invite you to start all over again? Because that’s what happened to these assholes. They made every bad move you can think of and they not only got a clean credit slate but a vitually ceiling-free spending limit.
07/17/2009
“Will you geriatric leeches just die already? Why are you still here? My grandma didn’t want to be a burden on the taxpayers, but she opted for surgery and she croaked shortly thereafter. Why can’t you selfish geezers learn from her lesson, that expensive care for your shriveled behind is a waste of taxpayer money (’cuz I really care about proper stewardship of tax dollars)? Don’t you think it’s a good idea to learn from my grandma’s mistake and make her the poster child for euthanasia?” That’s the attitude that old folks can expect from the Socialist in Chief.
07/17/2009
Michael Sean Winters even writes columns I totally agree with or very much disagree with. This column is the wacko department. See his piece at the Catholic Americ a magazine blog Yes, Let’s Tax the Super-Rich to Pay for Health Care . Now there are many problems with this. The use of the term neo cons is annoying. I thought neo con referred to a particular foreign policy mindset but now it appears to refer to a specific economic mindset as well. Who knew? He states at the end ” I vote for Democrats for one primary reason.
07/17/2009
Here’s what you can look forward to under Obamacare: It’s a bit over the top, but in every country where nationalized health care has gone into effect rationing of some sort was sure to follow. It’s about saving money, not lives. Just look what’s happening in Massachusetts where the state government required everyone to have insurance (from Don Surber ): Experts are surprised to learn that its universal health care program has led to “the high price and heavy use of hospitals,’’ and so they are recommending the state stiff doctors and hospitals.
07/17/2009
Today’s special guests on Liberal Pinheads Exposed are Karen Tumulty of the Times’ Swampland blog, and Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic. They were apparently unhappy with John Boehner’s chart showing the complexity of healthcare with the Obamacare plan.So Mr. Cohn produced his own chart showing the horrendous complexity of the current system, and Ms. Tumulty put them side-by-side on her blog, inviting her readers to decide which chart scared them more.Boehner’s ChartCohn’s ChartHer readers happily obliged her preference for Mr.
07/17/2009
by DefendUSx July 17, 2009 00:04 (Alleged) President Barack Obama announces Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, left, as his nominee for Health & Human Services Secretary, Monday, March 2, 2009, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) (CNSNews.com) – There is a knock at the front door. Peeking through the window, a mother sees a man and a woman, both in uniform. They are agents of health-care reform. “Excuse me, ma’am,” says the man.
07/17/2009
by DefendUSx July 17, 2009 00:05 So where is this going? Second economic blowout likely coming Flu-Pandemic to be hyped up and likely forced vaccinations in Fall Military refusing orders until Obama proves eligibility Obama blatently disregarding the Constitution and shunning eligibility like a spoiled kid Unfortuantely, it all seems to be leading to civil unrest. Do they want civil unrest? Research and inside “leaks” indicate “Yes” Have Congressman been threatened with Martial Law if they do not vote a certain way? Yes, they have.
07/17/2009
A short video on understanding the real impact of the Obamacare plan.
07/17/2009
“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day [of the year the legislation becomes law].” – section 102 of the ironically-titled America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 effectively forces enrollment in the public plan, thereby eliminating private insurance altogether.
07/17/2009
Don Surber on how the state is considering forcing hospitals to ration medical care, because the costs of its state-run, single-payer insurance plan have skyrocketed. Behold the future under ObamaCare.
07/17/2009
Kaboom goes Obamacare: Just 35% of U.S. voters now support the creation of a government health insurance company to compete with private health insurers. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 50% of voters oppose setting up a government health insurance company as President Obama and congressional Democrats are now proposing in their health care reform plan. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.
07/17/2009
Wall Street Journal : The Grassley Test — An Iowa Republican may decide the fate of ObamaCare. — Printer — Friendly — Forget Max Baucus, Henry Waxman and Rahm Emanuel. If there’s one guy who may hold the whole health-care world in his hands, it’s Sen. Chuck Grassley. That ought to have President Barack Obama worried.
07/17/2009
If anyone doubts Obamacare is not just rationing, but rationing based on your pre-existing conditions, here are some eye openers. First, Obamacare relies on cutting health care costs (which means cutting health care services) for the elderly and poor : Obama’s health care proposal is, in effect, the repeal of the Medicare program as we know it. The elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access.
07/17/2009
One of the most important things to remember about Obamacare, is that it isn’t “reform.” It is merely an expansion of current government programs combined with the creation of new federal bureaucracies such as:Health Choices AdministrationPublic Health Investment FundHealth Insurance Exchange Trust FundBureau of Health InformationOffice of Minority HealthHealth Care Program Integrity Coordinating CouncilNational Health Care Workforce CommissionAnd, don’t forget, these new hives of government drones
07/17/2009
Dr. Orly Taitz published It’s Not An Option By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Congress: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it.
07/17/2009
Earthside Comments: There are train-loads of money for health care in this country. The insurance mega-corporations and the pharmaceutical mega-corporations make huge profits and contain huge ‘administrative’ bureaucracies. But instead of boldly supplanting this wasteful interposition of profiteers and ‘bean-counters’ between doctor and patient, President Obama and the timid Dimcrats in Congress decided that the major part of reform would mean building an entirely new “public option.” Genuine health care reform means just one thing: single-payer.
07/17/2009
“If you like your health plan, you can keep it,” President Barack Obama. That is a LIE!!! If that is true Mr. President you better have a talk with those writing the bills you are touting. The bills as written make your statement false. These bills would force individuals to switch to managed-care plans. Further these bills limit a patients access to specialists and tests that most current plans cover. If you are comfortable with a bureaucrat selecting a plan they feel is in your best interest then you will be happy with the plans under consideration.
07/17/2009
-By Warner Todd Huston I’m sorry, I’m not much for name calling but this woman is an idiot. She is claiming that the oppressive surtax can “also” go to retire the Obama $1 trillion deficit if there is any “left over” after Obamacare is “paid for”! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Democrats could use a proposed new tax on the wealthy to pay down the deficit, if there’s money left over after funding healthcare reform.
07/17/2009
-By Warner Todd Huston Here’s another one of those wonderful examples of how the Old Media will use a headline that makes a stark claim about how rotten Republicans are for opposing a Democratic plan while at the same time conveniently ignoring the opposition to the same idea among Democrats. This time it is the “ partisan divide ” in the healthcare debate. The Times tsks Republicans for solidly lining up to oppose Obama’s wild grab for nearly 20 percent of the nation’s economy through his healthcare plans.
07/17/2009
Watch this great “retro” video illustrating the best that government run health care has to offer. Clever!
07/17/2009
An amazing new development! The MEA has apparently taken a stand on the efforts of the Obama administration with this quote: Doug Pratt Of The MEA “This is a massive expansion of government at a time when we can’t even get the budget balanced,” said MEA spokesman Doug Pratt. “These savings aren’t here and the taxpayers shouldn’t fall for it. Why would public school employees trust the health of their families to a state bureaucracy in Lansing?” Oh.. right..
07/17/2009
Dr. Ada M. Fisher – Obamacare is coming and the price is one politicians and the public don’t truly appreciate. Not only will choices of providers be limited, services cut and pertinent problems not dealt with, but the cost will be prohibitive no matter who pays. Doing what we are doing is not the way, but there are options which aren’t as burdensome and allow more access to care than being discussed. The one Obama Administration appointment which may prove brilliant is that of Dr.
If you believe any poll that Rasmussen puts out you might as well believe in Santa Klaus.
Rasmussen is well known for it’s providing Republicans with the best polling that money can buy.
From widipedia:
Scott Rasmussen was a paid consultant for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign. Rasmussen presidential polling numbers tend to be an outlier among samples taken from other polling organizations. Others have pointed out that the reason Rasmussen’s polls trend more Republican than other mainstream polls is simply that he samples likely voters. [11] John Marshal of Talking Points Memo has said, “The toplines tend to be a bit toward the Republican side of the spectrum, compared to the average of other polls. But if you factor that in they’re pretty reliable. Networks such as MSNBC simply do not use Rasmussen polls. Conversely, conservative media frequently refers to Rasmussen, praising them for being the first to ask about a relevant issue or to ask questions that other polsters do not.