Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of July 24, 2009
07/24/2009
There’s lot’s of discussion going on about health care lately– very little of substance from our politicians (is anyone surprised?), who are more interested in ramming through a massive government “solution” than actually figuring out what a good solution might be. Here’s some articles worth looking through to get yourself better informed: ♦ TennCare’s troubling history : Tennessee tried universal coverage with a public option in 1994, similar to what is planned for Obamacare.
07/24/2009
Byron York : If Barack Obama fails to enact national health care, it will be because he sowed the seeds of his own demise last Feb. 17 — the day the president, surrounded by Democratic leaders, signed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. In the legislative campaign leading up to that moment, both Obama and congressional Democrats made promises and took actions that are now coming back to haunt them as they pursue their goal of remaking the nation’s health care system.
07/24/2009
Screwing the pooch.
07/24/2009
“The paranoid spokeman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms — he traffics in the birth and deaths of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human value.” — Richard Hofstadter . (quote from Franklin Deleano Roosevelt to be placed here, when I can retrieve it.) ………………………………….. “Internal document usually means something which Chip Berlet or Dennis King claim that they have obtained through clandestine means and which cannot be verified.” — Leatherstocking, on this wikipedia page .
07/24/2009
Congress may or may not vote on the job killing (if not people killing), privacy destroying government healthcare takeover bill until the Fall–at least in the Senate : Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday abandoned plans for a vote on health care before Congress’ August recess, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama’s ambitious timetable to revamp the nation’s $2.4 trillion system of medical care.
07/24/2009
Most people think in binary - black and white; good or bad. “If you’re not with me, you’re against me.” If you are against ObamaCare, you oppose healthcare reform . I am and I do not. There is no question that healthcare is sick. The evidence (ignore all the selfishly motivated hype and spin) is overwhelming whether you look at financial data ; quality of outcomes ; errors and adverse impacts ; efficiency , however measured; or shortages of personnel.
07/24/2009
There’s lot’s of discussion going on about health care lately– very little of substance from our politicians (is anyone surprised?), who are more interested in ramming through a massive government “solution” than actually figuring out what a good solution might be. Here’s some articles worth looking through to get yourself better informed: ♦ TennCare’s troubling history : Tennessee tried universal coverage with a public option in 1994, similar to what is planned for Obamacare.
07/24/2009
From a penetrating commentary by Charles Krauthammer on the fiscal disaster that is ObamaCare 2009: This is not about politics? Then why is it, to take but the most egregious example, that in this grand health-care debate we hear not a word about one of the worst sources of waste in American medicine: the insane cost and arbitrary rewards of our malpractice system? When a neurosurgeon pays $200,000 a year for malpractice insurance before he even turns on the light in his office or hires his first nurse, who do you think pays? Patients, in higher doctor fees to cover the insurance.
07/24/2009
Fox News is reporting the following: A key House committee chairman on Friday threatened to roll over moderate Democrats who are holding up the health care reform bill and bring the package straight to the floor. The statement underscored the deep divisions the health care reform debate is causing in the ranks of the Democratic Party. Fiscally conservative Blue Dogs are holding up the bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee over cost concerns and other issues.
07/24/2009
The is a very good reason President Obama and his staff wants the health care bill rammed through Congress as quick as possible. That reason is that Obama doesn’t want you to read some of the changes he wants to make to heath care. If people found out about these, there is no way they would want this type of government intervention. There’s over 1000 pages to the health care bill. Here are a few tips of the iceberg: ObamaCare MANDATES the government will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure.
07/24/2009
In Obamacare We Trust? — Populist Party Blog Surgeons will, likewise, become much busier doing joint replacements for overweight people who will now have unlimited access to the medical system. I have a friend like this, we call him the Bionic Man. He’s a federal retiree out to … See the original post:In Obamacare We Trust? — Populist Party BlogThe nicest compliment that you can give me is to to subscribe to the Dental Blogging Newsletter. Thanks for visiting! (No Ratings Yet) Loading …
07/24/2009
Where’s the beef in this rally? Something is missing from the round of ’strong’ earnings results. What is it? Oh yeah. Sales! Companies can’t cost cut their way to prosperity forever……Companies are reporting decent profits, but many have done so only because they’ve taken a chainsaw to costs - CNN Money, Paul R. La Monica >>> Guaranty Financial Group, the second-largest publicly traded bank in Texas, said it will probably fail after loan losses and writedowns left it “critically” short of capital.
07/24/2009
From a July 24, 2009 Star-Telegram.com article By DAVE MONTGOMERY AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be “disastrous” for Texas.
07/24/2009
What Happens When You Don’t Believe in Effective Marketing Proposed Health Care Reforms Bad for Our Health Obama’s Health Expert Gets Political Minimum wage hits $7.25 as some businesses strain Dirty Jersey: Feds Bust Dozens in Corruption Scandal Obama to schools: Change or miss out on cash SEC, FDIC heads want new council to be supercop What Senators Kerry and Boxer Got Wrong About Energy and Cap and Trade Guest Blogger: Congressman Pete Olson (R-TX) on the Increase
07/24/2009
Every single desire and concern of the American people is met by Obama’s miraculous proposal. July 24, 2009 - by Jeffrey H. AndersonIn his televised press conference on Wednesday evening, President Obama said three separate times that he was being “honest” with the American people.So we know he was telling the truth.Therefore, we know that we can take the president at his word when he said:If you already have health insurance, the reform we’re proposing will provide you with more security and more
07/24/2009
Ever dealt with one of those people that refuses to see their part of blame in things gone wrong? Somehow their idea of accepting responsibility basically just boils down to them accusing others and/or pointing out their faults in the situation. “I know I’m wrong but ultimately this happened because of you…yada, yada…”, yeah, and I was totally born yesterday. Pahleaze, that’s not taking responsibility. That’s just being a blow-hard who’s trying to use scapegoating as a diversion technique to shield themselves from actually having to take any responsibility whatsoever.
07/24/2009
Charles Krauthammer: Why Obamacare Is Sinking…
07/24/2009
Michelle Malkin appeared on Fox and Friends this morning promoting the hysterical claim that millions of “illegal lawbreakers, border jumpers, visa overstayers, and deportation fugitives” will be receiving health care because House Democrats decided to vote down an amendment to the health care bill proposed by Rep.
07/24/2009
Texas Governor Rick Perry continues to channel the ghost of John C. Calhoun: AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be “disastrous” for Texas.
07/24/2009
In Oregon that is the case . Some terminally ill patients in Oregon who turned to their state for health care were denied treatment and offered doctor-assisted suicide instead, a proposal some experts have called a “chilling” corruption of medical ethics. Since the spread of his prostate cancer, 53-year-old Randy Stroup of Dexter, Ore., has been in a fight for his life. Uninsured and unable to pay for expensive chemotherapy, he applied to Oregon’s state-run health plan for help.
07/24/2009
Henry Waxman had to pull a lot of strings to get the chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House, kicking longtime chair John Dingell out for his moderate stance on cap-and-trade. However, his most controversial action in the ECC hasn’t come on cap-and-trade but on Barack Obama’s push to get a health-care reform bill passed before the August recess. Waxman has threatened renegade Democrats on the panel that he will allow Pelosi to bypass them if they don’t fall into line:Chairman
07/24/2009
It’s conventional wisdom now that Obama’s health care initiative is in deep trouble. But that’s wrong. It’s in deep, deep, deep trouble. Again contrary to Washington wisdom, neither the cost of ObamaCare nor the squabble among congressional Democrats is the main reason. The biggest problem is average Americans. They dislike ObamaCare. The new Fox News poll , conducted this week, captures the dimensions of the public’s turnoff.
07/24/2009
The Obama, Pelosi, Reid cabal have been pushing to get ObamaCare rushed in to law before the provisions of the bill become public knowledge. The Administration must know that if the public becomes aware of how pro-death the bill is that there will be a major backlash. Fortunately, in the internet age new travels fast and bad news travels faster. Word of Section 1233 has already leaked as well as the Dems refusal to exclude abortion coverage from ObamaCare.
07/24/2009
Representative Michael N. Castle (R-DE) got an earful at a townhall meeting after he voted for the disasterous Cap-n-Tax bill . This is starting to become a common theme. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) recently got himself an earful too! Too bad suckers! That’s all I’ve got to say. Because there’s nothing conservative about 95% of the Republican politicians anymore. Oh, let’s start here … Only needing 60 votes to pass an amendment that would allow citizens with a concealed carry permit to carry in other states that also allows for concealed carry, it failed obtaining only 58 votes.
07/24/2009
Rhetoric Meets Reality By Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON — What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health care nirvana: more coverage, less cost. But you can’t fake it in legislation. Once you commit your fantasies to words and numbers, the Congressional Budget Office comes along and declares that the emperor has no clothes.
07/24/2009
President Obama and ObamaCare fans in Congress have been blanketing the media with claims that they can raise money to pay for a vast new federal health care program by eliminating waste and fraud in Medicare. Congressman John Yarmuth (D – KN) appeared on Fox News to answer questions about how Obama-Care would be funded: By demonstrating a significant number of cuts in Medicare spending, we believe there is waste and fraud there we can cut.
07/24/2009
My friends at the American Issues Project are spotlighting the House Democrats who have come out against ObamaCare. So far, they’ve got: Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA) , who realizes that tax increases on small businesses won’t help those small businesses to offer health care they can’t afford to offer now. Rep. Mike Arcuri (D-NY) , who wants more time to get his constituents involved. Rep. John Boccieri (D-OH) who recognizes that his constituents don’t like a government-run plan, especially one that includes a tax increase.
07/24/2009
Jul24 MadcapMust read article by Charles Krauthammer on why Obamacare is faltering big time.WASHINGTON — What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health care nirvana: more coverage, less cost.But you can’t fake it in legislation. Once you commit your fantasies to words and numbers, the Congressional Budget Office comes along and declares that the emperor has no clothes.President Obama premised the need for reform on the claim that medical costs are destroying the economy.
07/24/2009
WaPo : Why Obamacare Is Sinking By Charles Krauthammer What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health-care nirvana: more coverage, less cost. But you can’t fake it in legislation. Once you commit your fantasies to words and numbers, the Congressional Budget Office comes along and declares that the emperor has no clothes.
07/24/2009
None of the figures that King cites — including the 5.6 million number that he uses to strike fear in xenophobic hearts — are included in the CBO’s infamous health care bill projections.
07/24/2009
None of the figures that King cites — including the 5.6 million number that he uses to strike fear in xenophobic hearts — are included in the CBO’s infamous health care bill projections.
07/24/2009
The reason that European nations have better health is not because they have “free” access to doctors occasionally. It is because–for the most part–they don’t eat the crazy American fast food diet. Europeans eat real food. They often walk rather than drive to places they need to go, because they live in walkable cities–not in a suburb linked to their place of work by an hourlong drive to go ten or twenty miles.
07/24/2009
While Obamacare is referred to regularly, in derogatory terms, to the Canadian healthcare system by Americans who continue to insist we have the best healthcare in the world, the blog Sadly, No! documents how we do compared to our neighbors to the North. But let’s not let facts get in the way of the established opinion we read about on the center-right blogs here: Circulatory disease deaths per 100,000 : Canada: 219 United States: 265 (more after the jump:) Child
07/24/2009
Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. Duane and I will dissect the presidential press conference, the Gates controversy that overwhelmed it, and the collapse of the ObamaCare initiative in Congress this week. All of this and more — and stay tuned for a preview of tonight’s Hugh Hewitt Show.Now you can join the conversation in the chat room! Be sure to register at Ustream to participate in our raucous live-chat sessions.
07/24/2009
Consider this Tim Pawlenty’s entree into the 2012 sweepstakes. Freed of having to walk a fine line in Minnesota, Pawlenty has aggressively attacked not just Barack Obama’s health-care plan, but also the Massachusetts plan installed during Mitt Romney’s tenure as governor. Pawlenty notes that costs have tripled in Massachusetts, but saves the big guns for Obama:“This whole health care proposal by president Obama is really quite a joke on a number of levels,” Pawlenty told Neil Cavuto.
07/24/2009
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. – George Santayana Whether it is rationing of care, cost, or who will bear that cost in the form of taxes, history has much to teach us about the proposed Democrat takeover of our health care system. This was but one important theme discussed in Thursday evening’s health care forum sponsored by Patients First , the Maryland chapter of Americans for Prosperity and its Lower Shore chapter . Speakers at the forum included Dr.
07/24/2009
The Senate version of Obamacare will let “adult dependents” stay on your health insurance until they’re age 26 . (p. 4/22 in the PDF) Extension of Dependent Adults: All individual and group coverage policies will be required to continue offering dependent coverage for children until the child turns age 26, according to regulations to be established by the Secretary of Health & Human Services. (§2709) Notice the verb “required”. Infantilization meet collectivism.
07/24/2009
If good intentions were dollars, TennCare would be turning a profit instead of failing in its financial and moral responsibilities to the people of Tennessee. And so begins an article dealing with the financial problems of a universal health care insurance program that has failed, and of a government that hid the fact that it was failing.
07/24/2009
Vicious assault on seniors. WSJ . You’ve got to hear this–Betsy McCaughey talks with Fred Thompson. Audio . Pay attention Boomers–this means you too. HT Illinois Review :PROTECT YOUR PARENTS FROM RAHM’S BROTHER, DR. ZEKE More: Rahmbo’s on NPR spinning per The Swamp , but thankfully the more people are learning about this little emperor Big Brother bill, the more questions they have. Better a Waterloo for this bill than for us . There is bipartisan opposition to this monstrosity , despite what Rahm says.
07/24/2009
DOCTOR’S ORDERS Obamacare for old folks: Just ‘cut your life short’ Health plan provision demands ‘end-of-life’ counseling ——————————————————————————– Posted: July 22, 2009 8:21 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2009 WorldNetDaily The version of President Obama’s universal health care plan pending in the U.S. House would require “end-of-life” counseling for senior citizens, and the former lieutenant governor for the state of New York is warning people to “protect their parents” from the measure.
07/24/2009
Urge the Blue Dogs to Defeat Obamacare! Freedom Works One of the promising developments has been the opposition to the government takeover by the Blue Dog Democrats in the House of Representatives. Some of these Congressmen have flat out told President Obama that they will not support a government takeover, and others have focused on the trillions of dollars in new taxes that would be required for Obamacare. The battle against government-run health care is being fought within the Democrat party, and that is where we must focus our efforts.
07/24/2009
Taxpayer funded ACORN held a rally at Senator Claire “ACORN” McCaskill’s office in St. Louis on Thursday. They were allowed to protest in front of her office– unlike the Tea Party protesters from last week. They didn’t get flipped off either. But, suddenly a Tea Party protest broke out across the street! Local conservative and author Kevin Jackson holds up the Code Blue sign.
07/24/2009
Are you ready for a Jindal/Palin or Palin/Jindal ticket? Watch this first: Now, to that ticket thing: Rodger also mentioned this when posting the above video: Like Sarah Palin, Rep. Michelle Bachman, and a few others, Jindal walks the walk. After deconstructing the democrat’s Obamacare premises, Jindal offers his reforms. Here’s some. “ •Consumer choice guided by transparency. We need a system where individuals choose an integrated plan that adopts the best disease-management practices, as opposed to fragmented care.
07/24/2009
Thomas Sowell : Magician Politics - Townhall.com Distracting the audience’s attention is one of the ways magicians pull off some of their tricks. President Barack Obama’s televised news conference on medical care shows that he is something of a magician when it comes to politics. The big trick for the president is to convince the public that he can add tens of millions of people to his government medical care plan without raising the costs.
07/24/2009
AARP Letting The Elderly Down Elitist liberal progressive Barack Hussein Obama is shilling his healthcare plan like a barker at the carnival. One major problem for Obama is that there are five different versions of this healthcare plan. The Health Care plan(s) Obama is shilling aren’t even completed yet. No one has read them, even Elitist liberal progressive Obama has admitted to not knowing different parts of the plan(s). Yet Obama says we have to have a plan voted on in the next two weeks.
07/24/2009
The answer to the “if you don’t want Obamacare, you want people to die” sort of liberal argument: Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. - Frederic Bastiat
07/24/2009
Jul24 Government Encouraged Euthanasia? By MadcapEuthanasia is a predictable outcome of ObamaCare. The following is a press release from Rep. John Boehner (R-OH): End-of-Life Treatment Counseling in Democrats’ Health Care Legislation. EugenicsAlso see my Question to the New Science Czar…. Washington, Jul 23 - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) today issued the following joint statement regarding a provision targeting seniors contained in Section 1233 of H.R.
07/24/2009
My syndicated column today presses again on the freaky-deaky science czar John Holdren and the implications for Obamacare. Related read: Stacy McCain sheds light on Big Money and the Culture of Death. And Matt Barber wonders: Will there be a co-pay for forced abortion under Obamacare?Ghoulish science + Obamacare = health hazard by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2009Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tried to reassure citizens in New Orleans this week that Obamacare bureaucrats will make sound medical decisions for all Americans.
07/24/2009
What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health care nirvana: more coverage, less cost. But you can’t fake it in legislation. Once you commit your fantasies to words and numbers, the Congressional Budget Office comes along and declares [...]
07/24/2009
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LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY. (Thomas Paine)
We have the 37th worst quality of healthcare in the developed world. Conservative estimates are that over 120,000 of you dies each year in America from treatable illness that people in other developed countries don’t die from. Rich, middle class, and poor a like. Insured and uninsured. Men, women, children, and babies. This is what being 37th in quality of healthcare means.
I know that many of you are angry and frustrated that REPUBLICANS! In congress are dragging their feet and trying to block TRUE healthcare reform. What republicans want is just a taxpayer bailout of the DISGRACEFUL GREED DRIVEN PRIVATE FOR PROFIT health insurance industry, and the DISGRACEFUL GREED DRIVEN PRIVATE FOR PROFIT healthcare industry. An insurance bailout is all you really get without a robust government-run public option available on day one.
These industries have been slaughtering you and your loved ones like cattle for decades for profit. Including members of congress and their families. These REPUBLICANS are FOOLS!
Republicans and their traitorous allies have been trying to make it look like it’s President Obama’s fault for the delays, and foot dragging. But I think you all know better than that. President Obama inherited one of the worst government catastrophes in American history from these REPUBLICANS! And President Obama has done a brilliant job of turning things around, and working his heart out for all of us.
But Republicans think you are just a bunch of stupid, idiot, cash cows with short memories. Just like they did under the Bush administration when they helped Bush and Cheney rape America and the rest of the World.
But you don’t have to put up with that. And this is what you can do. The Republicans below will be up for reelection on November 2, 2010. Just a little over 13 months from now. And many of you will be able to vote early. So pick some names and tell their voters that their representatives (by name) are obstructing TRUE healthcare reform. And are sellouts to the insurance and medical lobbyist.
Ask them to contact their representatives and tell them that they are going to work to throw them out of office on November 2, 2010, if not before by impeachment, or recall elections. Doing this will give you something more to do to make things better in America. And it will help you feel better too.
There are many resources on the internet that can help you find people to call and contact. For example, many social networking sites can be searched by state, city, or University. Be inventive and creative. I can think of many ways to do this. But be nice. These are your neighbors. And most will want to help.
I know there are a few democrats that have been trying to obstruct TRUE healthcare reform too. But the main problem is the Bush Republicans. Removing them is the best thing tactically to do. On the other hand. If you can easily replace a democrat obstructionist with a supportive democrat, DO IT!
You have been AMAZING!!! my people. Don’t loose heart. You knew it wasn’t going to be easy saving the World.
God Bless You
jacksmith — Working Class
Republican Senators up for re-election in 2010.
* Richard Shelby of Alabama
* Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
* John McCain of Arizona
* Mel Martinez of Florida
* Johnny Isakson of Georgia
* Mike Crapo of Idaho
* Chuck Grassley of Iowa
* Sam Brownback of Kansas
* Jim Bunning of Kentucky
* David Vitter of Louisiana
* Kit Bond of Missouri
* Judd Gregg of New Hampshire
* Richard Burr of North Carolina
* George Voinovich of Ohio
* Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
* Jim DeMint of South Carolina
* John Thune of South Dakota
* Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas
* Bob Bennett of Utah