Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of July 18, 2009

When I read these acronyms, part of me is carried back to my childhood cartoons like Lancelot Link:  Secret Chimp and APE (Association to Prevent Evil) or, in this case, NICE (National Institute of Coordinated Experiments), from That Hideous Strength, by C.S. Lewis. Yes, Great Britain’s healthcare program really does have a NICE, which stands for National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. And it’s goal is every bit of that which C.S. Lewis described. I often think that C.S.

In the past, I have always considered myself an independent voter who most often leaned toward the Republican side of political issues.   That was back when the Republican Party’s platform was built on certain conservative values such as fiscal responsibility and limited government.  However, it seems that over the last decade … or maybe since Ronald Reagan … the Republican Party has losts its focus and has simply become just another version of the same incompetent politicians who currently make up the the leftist leadership of the democratic party.  Both party’s political leadership  simply push their own agendas and self-interests … rather than doing the job we elected them to.

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann write at Dick Morris.com that Obama’s health care plan is likely to become law, ending medicine as we know it in the United States - unless he’s stopped: In two weeks, Obama’s health care plan is likely to become law, ending medicine as we know it in the United States! Unless we can stop him, our own personal access to medical care will be attenuated (no matter if we can pay for it ourselves) and we will all be subject to bureaucratic rationing.

Runaway Train To Less Freedom, Higher Taxes And Rationed CareBy MICHAEL O. LEAVITT | Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 4:20 PM PT President Obama and the Democratic leadership are trying to ram a medical insurance bill through Congress in record speed, before anyone can get a good look at it. This 1,000-page monstrosity was released last Tuesday. The president wanted to see voting start by Thursday.

A front page article in Friday’s Wall Street Journal reminds us, perhaps unintentionally, that The President and Congress, with the exception of less than a dozen members, has decided the Constitution is obsolete, and irrelevant.  The article, titled “Moderate Senators Hold Key to High-Stakes Legislation,” says: …the balance of power in determining the course of events — and the fate of the Obama agenda — lies with about a dozen centrist senators, a few of them Republicans but most Democrats.

A night after CBS and NBC skipped the assessment from the chief of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that the Senate and House health plans won’t meet President Obama’s pledge to not increase deficit spending, the two networks caught up only when Obama, reacting to “anxiety” even from Democrats, addressed the setback to his quest late Friday. CBS anchor Katie Couric spun the bad news for Obama into “a warning” from him about the ominous fate which awaits Americans if he does not succeed.

H/T to Texas Fred . Senator Claire “ACORN” McCaskill’s office fears Tea Party protester’s locks doors, closes blinds and and calls the cops. Can’t McCaskill’s staff stand the heat? No that is obvious. So sorry so…no I am not. McCaskill’s constituents have the First Amendment right. And it seems the cops don’t understand this at all.

Time … to … take … it … slow. Delay, delay, delay. Senator Jon Kyl has it right. Republicans are playing a time game. The longer they push off a vote on Obamacare, the better chance they have to stop it. Every week, it drops in support. Some moderate Democrats are openly voicing opposition. This is all great news. Republicans need to demand the usual open hearings. They need to bring in victims of Canadian healthcare. They need to bring in elderly people to testify.

Republicans, Straighten Up! - carolyntackettscloset.blogspot.com 07/18/2009 Michelle Malkin makes the excellent point that Republicans are falling short in the housekeeping department: The rotten American Conservative Union/David Keene pay-for-play scandal underscores a point I’ve made over and over and over again: The GOP can’t attack the Democrat culture of corruption ( my new book comes out July 27 ) until it cleans its own house first. The John Ensign mess keeps getting worse .

I’m Wondering If the Worm Hasn’t Turned CompletelyI mean, if even the AP is pointing out “NOT so fasts” in their Obamacare reports, there could be a disturbance in the Force, n’est pas?…Obama also repeated his pledge that his plan would not add to the federal deficit or deny patients’ choices.“Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story,” he said.That’s a pledge, however, beyond Obama’s control.

In an AP report today, President Obama is requesting Congress to allow the White House to determine more particulars in US Medicare reform.  His goal is to get involved in lowering overall medicare costs, but you won’t believe his proposed solution to Medicare reform… restricting reimbursement rates to Doctors, Hospitals, and Providers!An excerpt from the AP report is below…WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is asking Congress to give the executive branch more power to limit Medicare’s rising

That’s how the Times is spinning it, but read the fine print. What he actually says is he won’t sign any bill that adds to our deficits over the next decade. The One knows this is a sinkhole in the long run even if it isn’t in the short run — which, per the CBO, it almost certainly is. No worries, though: “I don’t believe that government can or should run health care,” he assures us, ignoring the fact that he once famously said he doesn’t want to run the auto companies … a month after he forced the chairman of GM into early retirement.

According to a July 12th poll taken by Public Policy Polling, Senator Richard Burr had better get his game on if he wants to see another term in the U.S. Senate. While Burr is ahead of his potential Democrat challengers, his approval rating is hovering in the lower forties to mid thirties and he doesn’t poll any higher than 42% of the vote at this point in time.Burr currently has an approval rating of 36% with 29% of state voters holding an unfavorable view of him.

The Obamassiah has promised that “if you like your health plan, you can keep it,” That’s a load of horseshit. If either of the two liberal Obamacare bills in Congress passes, you would be forced to switch to a managed-care plan with limits on your access to unnecessary things like tests and visits to specialists. The socialist mission is to level the playing field when it comes to healthcare consumption. In other words, everybody gets the same coverage, no hogging healthcare because you can afford a better package than say, Joe the wino down on the street corner.

According to a July 12th poll taken by Public Policy Polling , Senator Richard Burr had better get his game on if he wants to see another term in the U.S. Senate.  While Burr is ahead of his potential Democrat challengers, his approval rating is hovering in the lower forties to mid thirties and he doesn’t poll any higher than 42% of the vote at this point in time.

Morning Read, 7/18/09 Good morning AFFers! Got a blind item, gossip, a link, birthday, or anything of the sort for Washington Planner? Drop us a line at  tips@americasfuture.org . BLOGS It’s still all talk of books and being voted off islands on The American Scene . Freddie deBoer lists the books he hasn’t read , Alan Jacobs admits only pretending to like  Absalom, Absalom! , and Peter Suderman defends Watchmen . Would Obama be cooler if he drank more? The Moderate Voice analyzes his alcohol preferences, or lack thereof .

Saturday, July 18, 2009: Posted at 8:50 A.M. PST: Czars: FOX News: Obama Appoints More Czars Health Care: Hot Air: CBO - House Version of ObamaCare Adds $239 Billion to Deficit SCOTUS: World Net Daily: NRA Comes Out Against Sotomayor Taxes: News Busters: House Panel Votes Huge $500 Billion Tax Increase Other News: FOX News: Only Half of U.S. Governors Expected to Attend National Governors Meeting The Hill: UPDATE - Senator Quashes Department’s Bid for Cartoonist Posted at 10:00 A.M.

Healthcare Is “Not a Right” and Obama’s Plan WillCost Way Beyond $1T, Ron Paul SaysPost by Peter Gorenstein Healthcare legislation is quickly picking up momentum in Washington.  Three separate committees in the House of Representatives are hard at work hammering out details of a bill.  Votes are planned today in the Education and Labor and Ways and Means committees on a plan that majority House Democrats presented this week.  The legislation seeks to provide coverage to nearly all Americans

Check this out over at Michigan Taxes Too Much: Michigan Education Association Opposes Obamacare Copyright 2005-2009

The CBO splashed ice water on Obamacare and one key Democrat noticed. A Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) report on healthcare was a “devastating blow” to the bill’s prospects, a key centrist Democrat argued Friday. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), whose vote will be critical to passing a final healthcare reform bill through the Senate, condemned the House version of the bill, which institutes a surtax on wealthy Americans to finance the $1 trillion bill, as creating “class warfare.” “I think it’s a devastating blow,” Nelson said of the import of the CBO analysis this week that the House healthcare reform proposal would worsen the fiscal situation of the U.S.

  If you are upset about how Congress is trying to take over our healthcare system, there are a host of ways to express your views on-line. Here are a few. NCPA has been promoting a “Free our health care now!” ( http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/ ) petition that already has 400,000 signers. It also has an “action pack” ( http://actionpack.ncpa.org/ ) so you can spread the word even further.

With the Government mandated contraction of the health care industry, how will the Federal Government decide who receives what medical care? Via The Strata-Sphere : 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.

Definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result ~ Albert Einstein Barack Hussein Obama campaigned for president on a shaky platform of Change. He promised to “hit the ground running” if elected president. He promised no taxes on the working class and relief for the millions of Americans who [...]

By Lisa Richards With the way things are going in Washington and Obama and Pelosi’s Healthcare Bill, we Americans may have to start going to our pet’s vet for treatment. It is after all quicker, cheaper, and the patient receives whatever it takes to save its life. I thought about that yesterday while listening to politicians in both parties discussing the new socialist healthcare Obama is enforcing upon our bodies. On May 28, 2009, my four and a half year-old Rottweiler named Cody suddenly collapsed on his bed into a semi-coma.

President Barack Obama on Saturday defended his broad health care overhaul, calling it fiscally sound and urging Congress not to squander its moment to pass reform. Fiscally sound? This bill won’t add to the deficit? How can it not!?!?!? Are you kidding? Does anyone know what color the sky is in Obamaland ? Jon Kyl makes the case against socialized nationalized “rationed” Obamacare .

Barack Obama may redefine the term “flash in the pan” accomplishing the most in the shortest amount of time and become a lame duck President all in his first 100 days in office! Obama entered office with very high personal popularity ratings. He proceeded to scare the American public with doom and gloom predictions as a justification for a number of liberal spending programs to address apocalyptic crises.

Barack Obama may redefine the term “flash in the pan” accomplishing the most in the shortest amount of time and become a lame duck President all in his first 100 days in office! Obama entered office with very high personal popularity ratings. He proceeded to scare the American public with doom and gloom predictions as a justification for a number of liberal spending programs to address apocalyptic crises.

Donald Douglas reports at American Power: Today was another big day for the national tea party movement. Turnout was robust around the country, although some protesters were met with harrassment and profanity. Michelle Malkin and Glenn Reynolds have reports. Plus, at Pajamas Media TV, Amy Kremer of TeaPartyPatriots.org (see, “Nationwide Protests Target ObamaCare: The People Say No to Gov’t Run Healthcare”). Also via Instapundit, “Bureaucrash at the Healthcare Freedom Tea Party Protest” (YouTube).

It is not that I don’t trust big government with my health care dollar, it is that I don’t trust big government with any of my dollars. I see a record of tired old ideas that have failed to produce the utopian society that they were invented for.  Take education, as an example. We spend more dollars per student than any country in the world, yet our kids can’t read. Why?  Take Medicare as another example. It is a system that is limited to the senior population. Yet, Medicare is broke.

Thanks to NWWaguy who posted this link in a comment on the Herald’s article Bellingham Tea Party protests health care reform .  The title seems a little misleading because I don’t know anyone who feels our health care system doesn’t need reforming of some kind.  We can reform with less government involvement or with more government intrusion and waste. by Wally ©2009 Wally Wonders Why . All Rights Reserved.

As if the White House hadn’t heard enough from Doug Elmendorf and the CBO this week.  Their new analysis shows that the House version of ObamaCare not only is not deficit neutral, but the actual hit to the federal deficit for this program alone exceeds $239 billion over the next decade.  Democrats immediately pledged to address it — by finding new ways to cook the books:The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office dealt another blow to House Democrats on Friday night, saying their health care bill

Interesting collection of blogs and writing on the ObamaCare that linked to my last post.  Thanks Coach P. Some good writing by a fellow PIMA Board Member on HealthCare reform.  (Wish it was blog, though.  Working on that.) Sale of a Private/Personal Health Insurance Policy to become ILLEGAL.  Read the article from INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY . One stat overheard: relative to insurance policy billing, one TPA is seeing 38% ACH versus 12% Credit Card.  The rest would be non-electronic direct pay… billing statements, checks, etc..

From Eric Dondero: Dozens of Tea Party style protests were held in front of Congressional offices across the nationwide yesterday. The rallies were most organized by Freedom Works, but also included independent groups. Mostly Democrats were the targets, particularly those on the fence in regards to Obama’s Socialist Health Care plan. But, rallies were held outside of Republican offices, as well. Some of the bigger ones included: Cong. Cliff Stearns in Florida (Republican), Senator Clair McCaskill in St.

One thing that hasn’t been reported on is just how much of a fantasy the costs are that are being assumed as the Democrats push through the Health Care Takeover. The Democrats are planning that they will pay the providers the same rates plus five percent that they’re paying for services performed by Medicare. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., said Wednesday that he will vote against the health care reform bill when it comes before the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday because it would tie the payment schedule for a new public option insurance plan to existing Medicare payments.

One thousand pages of “healthcare reform” written and rewritten on almost a daily basis, but one thing remains constant, the huge expansion of the Federal government into micromanaging every individual’s life and growing socialism with confiscatory taxes Washington, DC, July 14, 2009 - A third updated Tax Foundation report shows that 39 states would see top tax rates exceed 50% under a health care funding plan announced … [ visit site to read more ]

by Scott Creighton You have to give the man credit; Dennis Kucinich is one tenacious son-of-a-bitch. Since Pelosi and the other corrupt representatives in the House have sidelined his single-payer universal health care bill, HR. 676 , and since he knows damn well that this Obamacare fraud, HR 3200, is going to pass, what he has done in good faith is attach a provision to the bill that allows states the option of passing their own single-payer universal health care law.  That provision

Obama defends call for broad health care overhaul WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Saturday defended his broad health care overhaul, calling it fiscally sound and urging Congress not to squander its moment to pass reform. Stepping up their criticism, Republicans cast the plan as a financial burden that shouldn’t be rushed. Adopting an aggressive [...]

Investor’s Business Daily reports that half of the American public believes that a government take-over of health care would reduce health care quality. Why should we let Obama do this? How do we stop it? There will be a web-cast Thursday to Educate and Mobilize Pro-Life Americans Against Great Dangers of Obama Health Care Bill; Coalition of leaders alarmed that pro-lifers unaware of what is at stake with Obamacare. Charmaine will be joining Mike Huckabee, Chris Smith (R) NJ, Tony Perkins and other pro-life leaders.

Have a great link you’d like me to review? Drop me an email or reply via Twitter.NationInside the monstrous Obamacare bureaucracy: MalkinSenate Health Bill: Trillion-Dollar Takeover: PJM (Emanuel)A Clown For All Seasons: PrudenDemocrats Refuse Public Option For Their Own Health Care: RiehlBrave Claire McCaskill Ran Away: GWPHealth Care Reform Bonus!: TigerHawkHarry Gives ‘Em More Hell: FaustaThe Public Option Health Care Scam: Chicago TribuneKucinich may kill Obamacare: SurberDoing for the Right

Have a great link you’d like me to review? Drop me an email or reply via Twitter.NationInside the monstrous Obamacare bureaucracy: MalkinSenate Health Bill: Trillion-Dollar Takeover: PJM (Emanuel)A Clown For All Seasons: PrudenDemocrats Refuse Public Option For Their Own Health Care: RiehlBrave Claire McCaskill Ran Away: GWPHealth Care Reform Bonus!: TigerHawkHarry Gives ‘Em More Hell: FaustaThe Public Option Health Care Scam: Chicago TribuneKucinich may kill Obamacare: SurberDoing for the Righ

The Hidden Cost of ObamaCare When all is said and done, the so-called public “option” could wind up costing taxpayers more than $30.1 trillion by 2080.   Justice Ginsburg and the Undesirables The Supreme Court Justice thought that Medicaid funding of abortions was going to be included in Roe v. Wage – all in the name of Eugenics!   Americans for Limited Government: Calls upon Congressman Boswell to “stand firm” against government-run health care Iowa Politics reprints Americans for Limited Government’s Press Release telling Blue Dog Democrats, like Congressman Boswell from Iowa, to stand firm.

President admits that ObamaCare is all bucked up Video at I HATE THE MEDIA Here’s The One talking about his healthcare plan, telling people “We need to buck up people a little here” and “It’s time for us to buck up.” No problem, Mr. President. We’re pretty sure that if ObamaCare gets passed, we’ll all be bucked up. GO VISIT NOW…HA, HA! Dear Mr. President … we’re alreading bucking up just tolerating your administration.

Posts about Michelle Malkin as of July 18, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/18/2009 Posts about Michelle Malkin as of July 18, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/18/2009 Posts about Michelle Malkin as of July 18, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/18/2009 Nationwide Protests Against Obamacare! Democrats Harrass Tea Partyers as Healthcare Monstrosity Stalls in Congress - beltwayblips.dailyradar.com 07/18/2009 Today was another big day for the national tea party movement.

Cancer Advocates Call For Health Care Reform Now On July 22, the American Cancer Society will unveil thousands of hospital bracelets signed by New Hampshire citizens (Bedford, NH) American Cancer Society volunteers will gather at the State House in Concord on Wednesday, July 22, at 4:30 p.m., to urge our political leaders to enact effective health care reform now. They will be displaying the results of a recent grassroots effort to show the widespread support for health care reform in New Hampshire.

The pure socialism that is Obamacare is not an experiment at all. In fact, there has been a model available for all to see, and no, I’m not talking about the Veterans Administration. The current administration, all too obviously failed to grasp economics and recent world history while in school. So, they plow on. Sewing the seeds of disaster across this once wonderful place. Around the Nation: Massachusetts Health Care With the debate over health care raging on Capitol Hill, one need only look to Massachusetts to see how ObamaCare would play out.

Make no mistake: The health care debate going on in Washington is about one thing, and it is not the millions of uninsured Americans. It’s about the Obama administration’s goal of turning this country into a socialist nation. President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are pushing Congress to pass the health care overhaul before the August recess, riding roughshod over the protests not only of Republicans, but of some Democrats, many business interests and hospitals.

At American Thinker, Cliff Thier extols an advertisement opposing government health care. He says it’s the best one he has seen. Earlier last evening I had seen a similar ad that I would have called the best. It was made by the same group: PatientsUnitedNow.com. These people are going to euthanize Obamacare.

Posts about Michelle Malkin as of July 18, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/18/2009 Posts about Michelle Malkin as of July 18, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/18/2009 Nationwide Protests Against Obamacare! Democrats Harrass Tea Partyers as Healthcare Monstrosity Stalls in Congress - beltwayblips.dailyradar.com 07/18/2009 Today was another big day for the national tea party movement. Turnout was robust around the country, although some protesters were met with harrassment and profanity.

onenewsnow If you think government is too big and too costly, wait until Obamacare kicks in. The Congressional Budget Office put the price tag of the House Democrats’ healthcare takeover plans at $1.5 trillion over 10 years. But the CBO’s fine print included a telltale caveat: “We have not yet estimated the administrative costs to the federal government of implementing the specified policies, nor have we accounted for all of the proposal’s likely effects on spending for other federal programs.” You don’t need an accounting degree or clairvoyant powers.

About 150 rallied outside Congressman Dennis Moore’s (D-KS) office in Overland Park late yesterday afternoon to express opposition to the current health care reform bill being hastily pushed through Congress by Democrats. The protesters were mostly from various Culture of Life groups, including Life 4 All and KFL , but many signs also focused on the fiscal issues related to health care and other government spending.