Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of July 30, 2009

President of black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha sued by members over … - Chicago Sun-Times McKinzie’s likeness, along with one of the first national AKA president Nellie Quander, cost a total of $45000, she said. All other figures are of group …. Countdown w/KO with Howard Dean Part Deux - July 29, 2009 - Daily Kos by citylightslover There are a number of downer “this day in history” items, but I’ll endeavor to make up for it in a bit. On July 29, 1981, ….

By Dan 60% still don’t think Obamacare will change their healthcare.  If you’re one of them, watch this video.Tags: Healthcare, video This entry was posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 4:59 pm and is filed under Broken News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Barbour focuses on national health careMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour focused on federal issues Thursday at the Neshoba County Fair, denouncing Democratic President Barack Obama’s proposals on health care and the environment. “Obamacare is a government-run health care system that would result in a federal government takeover of 18 percent of our economy,” Barbour told several hundred people under the tin-roofed pavilion on the fairgrounds outside Philadelphia.Full Associated Press story:

Health care reform, the polls, and you - neoneocon.com 07/30/2009 A WSJ poll finds that more Americans are against Obamacare than are for it: In mid-June, respondents were evenly divided when asked whether they thought Mr. Obama’s health plan was a good or bad idea. In the new poll, conducted July 24-27, 42% called it a bad idea while 36% said it was a good idea. Among those with private insurance, the proportion calling the plan a bad idea rose to 47% from 37%.

In an open letter sent today to ABC President David Westin, NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell questioned the ethics of ABC as a “news” network and wondered “how in the world can anyone take ABC seriously” after it was announced that ABC News has hired Democrat donor Dr. Richard Besser to be their new Senior Medical Editor.

Betsy McCaughey, chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former lieutenant governor of New York state, discusses how Government-run health care will erode health coverage for the elderly. Links to other comments by Betsy McCaughey can be found below: House Health Care Bill Requires Seniors to Get Counseling on How to End Their Lives Early Betsy McCaughey Speaks to the Manhattan Institute on Health Care Reform Defend Your Health Care Reduce Infection

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere…. The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble This is The “Stop Look and Listen” Edition KRUGMAN GETS A DOSE OF REALITY ON HEALTHCARE:   I wonder if it’ll take. (Vid) REMOVING ALL DOUBT: Over at The Corner, Andy McCarthy looks at a piece by Deb Burlingame. Both of them examine … somewhat disbelievingly, the recent withdrawal of security measures surrounding Shoe Bomber Richard Reid, by the Obama Justice Dept.  In another article , Andy looks at another situation with Holder and Obama, this time involving the intimidation case against the Black Panthers.

Warning: this may look like boring, accounting stuff.  But you should resist the temptation to click away.  This could be the most explosive paragraph in the thousand page bill. SEC. 116. ENSURING VALUE AND LOWER PREMIUMS. (a) IN GENERAL.—A qualified health benefits plan (QHBP) shall meet a medical loss ratio as defined by the Commissioner.  For any plan year in which the qualified health benefits plan does not meet such medical loss ratio, QHBP offering entity shall provide in a manner specified by the Commissioner for rebates to enrollees of payment sufficient to meet such loss ratio.

Dr. David Scheiner doesn’t think the president’s health care plan will work, but not for the reasons you might think . CNN’s Jim Acosta devoted a three-minute segment to the Scheiner’s left-wing criticism of the president’s health care plan, but excluded any other voices, even after the doctor took a shot at the insurance industry.

A soldier has a message for Senator Claire McCaskill (via an aide) at an Obamacare town hall in St. Louis, Missouri… The August recess is going to be ugly. h/t Art K

A WSJ poll finds that more Americans are against Obamacare than are for it: In mid-June, respondents were evenly divided when asked whether they thought Mr. Obama’s health plan was a good or bad idea. In the new poll, conducted July 24-27, 42% called it a bad idea while 36% said it was a good idea. Among those with private insurance, the proportion calling the plan a bad idea rose to 47% from 37%. Even the NY Times , in a separate poll, has noticed a decline in support.

It reads like a far-left, celebrity-worshipping who’s who: two gay activists, four feminists, two far-left Hollywood actors, an anti-Semitic fan of Arafat and defender of Palestinian terrorists, a Muslim, a bloated drunk driver, and a token liberal Republican.Yes, there are a few token deserving awardees, but  they’re window dressing for the vast majority of the choices, all of whom are well out of the mainstream.*  Ted Kennedy:Well-known, bloated drunk driver/murderer/womanizer who is the father of the current Obamacare BS.  Has done more to TAKE AWAY our freedom than any other Senator in modern times (other than Sen.

The more I reflect on the various proposals to overhaul the health care system in the United States, the more I begin to wonder if whether or not the solution is to find a way to replicate the old employer-based health insurance system using the consumer-based system that we’re now moving towards. As I’ve discussed in previous pieces on the subject, the problem with health care in America isn’t with the care itself, it’s with the inflated costs and limited access to that care due to a changing

Before the economy collapsed Obama’s big issue in the campaign was universal health care. It was the left’s saving grace, they promised health care for everyone, how could they lose. Upon arriving in Washington it seemed like government run health care would be a lock. However, it appears the public is backing off of their support for a universal plan. Wanting universal health care is like wanting to go skydiving, it sounds great until you’re looking out the side of a plane with a parachute strapped to your back.

From Allah : Good stuff. Take one of the most unpopular politicians in America, have her go off half-cocked in a crude attempt to satisfy Democratic demands for a villain to demagogue in selling ObamaCare, then wait for the backlash. Bonus points for using the same Orwellian rhetorical device Paul Ryan called Katrina Vanden Heuvel on last night , namely, exploiting the language of competition to push one of the most anti-competitive domestic measures in American history.

We would still like healthcare reform legislation to succeed this year — but we are not nearly as enthusiastic about it as we were just a few short months ago. For starters, the Obama Administration isn’t calling it “healthcare reform” anymore. Now it’s “health insurance reform.” Reformers have lowered their sights. They aren’t trying to fix Big Pharma’s stranglehold on the American consumer anymore. All they are trying to do now is to offer a public alternative to Big Insurance.

When black panthers were caught on videotape menacing white voters in Philadelphia, using nightsticks and racial epithets to drive them away from the polls, Obama political appointees, including Assistant Attorney General Tom Perelli , intervened to dismiss the lawsuit that had been won against them by career Justice Department lawyers — dismissing the case after it had already been won!

Posts about Michelle Malkin as of July 30, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/30/2009 Posts about Michelle Malkin as of July 30, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/30/2009 Michelle Malkin, Matt Lauer: Malkin Trusses Lauer (Video) - maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com 07/30/2009 Michelle Malkin makes Matt Lauer sound like Katie Couric. My favorite from Malkin: Obama lost his racial authenticity (speaking of the Gates-gaffe-comment).

Let me rephrase that: No, Nancy, you no good, lying socialist who thinks she wields the power of Stalin, YOU are the fucking evil villain, you and your asshole buddies in the Democratic Socialist Party. From Reuters (you know, them of the doctored Iraq war photos media): WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday ramped up her criticism of insurance companies, accusing them of unethical behavior and working to kill a plan to create a new government-run health plan.

[AIPNEWS Editor's note: The following are notes compiled by AIP of North Carolina's Helen Moore. Her quotes of Dr. Keyes are not verbatim quotes. However, we think this information should be read and digested by every American. The future of liberty in this country hangs in the balance. Access to the Alan Keyes' webinars referenced here can be found at his LoyaltoLiberty.com site.] ———– The Healthcare Reform which the current administration is trying to ram through is really a very serious matter.

Good stuff. Take one of the most unpopular politicians in America, have her go off half-cocked in a crude attempt to satisfy Democratic demands for a villain to demagogue in selling ObamaCare, then wait for the backlash. Bonus points for using the same Orwellian rhetorical device Paul Ryan called Katrina Vanden Heuvel on last night, namely, exploiting the language of competition to push one of the most anti-competitive domestic measures in American history.For sheer comic alarmism, this is topped only by The One’s warning at last week’s presser that greedy doctors are after your tonsils.

Obama Fails By J.R. Dunn Over the past couple of weeks, it has become apparent even to politicians and the media that the Demented Spree Act of 2009, better known perhaps as the “Obama Stimulus”, has not worked, and shows no sign of ever working. Unemployment — the professed reason for the stimulus in the first place — is now at 9.5% and will break 10% within the next few months. Credit remains tight and industry is still fumbling.

Posts about Bill O’Reilly as of July 30, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/30/2009 Posts about Bill O’Reilly as of July 30, 2009 - thedailyparr.com 07/30/2009 Bill O’Reilly: Moral Barometer or Guitar Hero Shill? - gametooplay.com 07/30/2009 Once more Bill O’Reilly finds himself attacking a video game ad during his show. And by attacking I mean allowing the entire sexy advertisement to play, unedited, while he quietly watches.

Today I’ll be hanging out with Mickey, Goofy, and the rest of the gang at Disneyland as we spend a few days in the Happiest Place on Earth, but I want to share a recent episode you may have missed. This episode features Senator Jim DeMint talking about his new book, Saving Freedom, and about the rush to ObamaCare. In the first half, I replay an interview from July 16th with Michael Yon from Afghanistan.

Embedded video from CNN Video UK’s Daily Telegraph reports: He is bitterly disappointed in the way the reforms are being organised and says he was bounced from the invitation list to a White House event because of pressure from the health lobby. “I was all set to go to an event, I got an email a few days before confirming it, and then suddenly I was told ‘there were too many people’ coming,” he said.

Just passing on my comments I left at this post at Ace of Spades HQ with regards to the Barack Obama “birth certificate” controversy. I couldn’t even get through the first few paragraphs of Gabriel’s post before I started getting annoyed and bored, but I got the gist of his rant. Personally, I found this post at The American Thinker to be much better thought-out and in a much better tone of respect.Also, another great article by Andrew McCarthy on this issue at NRO: Suborned in the U.S.A.

ACORN Founder Lusts to Overthrow Capitalist System Obama’s Health Care Swindle 6 Reasons Obama-Care Is Bad Medicine Senators Eye Tax on ‘Cadillac’ Health Plans to Pay for Health Care Reform BUTLER: Big Bang approach all wrong for health reform The Pelosi Jobs Tax House Seems To Be Set on Pork-Padded Defense Bill President Obama and the Dems Should Remember What Lincoln Said Doug Casey: America Has Died China Says Loose Monetary Policy to Stay House Pork Threatening Our Security Big Goverment Spends Taxpayer Dollars to Study Energy Behavior Obamacare: Only 52 Payments of $19,231,769,235!

Good news indeed! It’s looking as if  the villagers are beginning to taking a hard second look at President Obama. Apparently Obama is no longer the Messiah. I see Obamacare and Gates-Gate as the two main factors causing this recent slip in approval ratings….  Be sure to check out the full report. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.

CONGRESS EXEMPTED THEMSELVES FROM HAVING TO USE IT. I cannot believe that this is not getting more press, so I am posting it again: http://fonddulac.blogspot.com/2009/07/biggest-indicator-that-obamacare-sucks.html

American Life League is leading the charge in informing the public about Obama’s pro-death policies. His latest claim to ramroding a socialist agenda into your private and business lives is the Healthcare bill.  He took six months to choose a family dog!  Now he wants congress to vote on a healthcare bill none of them have even read! Wonder why?  THIS is what we’re in for if it’s passed.  Here’s the breakdown of JUST THE FIRST 500 pages … I hope YOU take the time to read the NEXT 517 pages and see what YOU can find.  If you’re waiting for your people in Washington, DC to do it for you, you may literally DIE waiting!

Rasmussen first documented the rapid decline of Barack Obama’s approval numbers, and the rest of the pollsters soon followed suit.  Pew Research, one of the most respected of the national pollsters, corroborates what Rasmussen and others have said for over a month — that Obama has undermined confidence in his administration’s ability to lead, especially on the economy and the deficit.  His dustup with the Cambridge PD didn’t do anything to help, either:Barack Obama’s approval ratings have suffered major declines.

“I look at his program and I can’t see how it’s going to work . He has no cost control. There would be no effective cost control in his program. The [Congressional Budget Office] said it’s going be incredibly expensive … and the thing that I really am worried about is, if it is the failure that I think it would be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time.” Dr. David Scheiner , Obama’s personal physician for over 20 years talking about ObamaCare

She’s agin’ it : I know, most of you have already figured out why I oppose national health care.  In a nutshell, I hate the poor and want them to die so that all my rich friends can use their bodies as mulch for their diamond ranches.  But y’all keep asking, so here goes the longer explanation. Basically, for me, it all boils down to public choice theory.  Once we’ve got a comprehensive national health care plan, what are the government’s incentives?  I think they’re bad, for the same reason

You know the Universal Healthcare plans working their ways through congress are bad when Obamas own private physician is against it. From the Huffington Post The man Barack Obama consulted on medical matters for over two decades said on Tuesday that the president’s vision for health care reform is bound for failure. Dr. David Scheiner, a 70-year Chicago-based physician who treated Obama for more than 20 years, said he was disheartened by the health care legislation his former patient is championing, calling it piecemeal and ineffectual.

In response to the news that Rep. Baron Hill would vote for President Obama’s health care reform in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce before Friday, Indiana Republicans Thursday questioned Hill’s change of heart. “On Tuesday, Rep. Hill said he couldn’t support this legislation because it didn’t control costs,” pointed out Indiana Republican Party Chairman Murray Clark. “Yet on Wednesday, after hours of closed-door meetings with Democrat leaders, he announced he was ready to support it in committee.

Just to show you how fucking stupid people are to even begin to ponder this bullshit, take into consideration these facts: 1. The government can’t even properly fund and manage the so-called ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program that was supposed to pay for junking cars greater than one year old (hardly a clunker by definition). 2. Democrats, including Obama, haven’t even read the goddam bill, and even if they did it was changed yesterday and nobody has had time to read that either. 3.

Here is a second open letter to our erstwhile president, Mr. Obumbler penned by Mr. Franklin T. Bell. Note that Mr. Bell has sent copies of his letter to his Senators and Representatives. This letter is spot on. Please consider doing as Mr. Bell is doing, making his views known and exposing the dinglebarry and his bumpkins for what they are. Obama and his ‘progressive’ plans for American must be thwarted! This open letter is dated 07/29/2009 and was obtained via email from Mr.

If I could take back all our bloviations over this farkakte health care bill (well, my bloviations) and just ask you to read one thing, it would be this: 10 Questions for Supporters of ‘ObamaCare’ 1. President Barack Obama repeatedly tells us that one reason national health care is needed is that we can no longer afford [...]

Bill O’Reilly: Moral Barometer or Guitar Hero Shill? - gametooplay.com 07/30/2009 Once more Bill O’Reilly finds himself attacking a video game ad during his show. And by attacking I mean allowing the entire sexy advertisement to play, unedited, while he quietly watches. Even more interesting is the fact that the ad in question is for Guitar Hero 5 , making it the second Guitar Hero ad to get prime placement on the much-watched O’Reilly Factor, unaltered.

Link‘…What has just begun, is the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) wants huge cuts to specialists as early as the beginning of next year; these will be included in Obama’s Nazi “reforms.” Physicians who read X-rays, CT and MRI scans will get a 30% cut Jan. 1, on top of a 23% cut they got five years ago. Radiation oncologists will get a 20% cut; impact on practices is estimated at an 18%-31% cut in revenue.

The Forbidden Charg - click for exanded version Interestingly the most open and transparent administration in history which controls the Franking Commission has given us another example of just how open and transparent they really are. For those not familiar with it, the franking privilege permits members of congress to send mail to constituents at taxpayer expense.

“Blue Dogs” holding up passage of ObamaCare ? Stories of mythical “blue dogs” holding up the passage of ObamaCare are a red herring. Their message is nothing but compromise. What they’ve said, in effect, is “We’ll be happy to vote for socialized medicine, if you’ll just take out the parts that scare our constituents; after all, we’ve got to run for office soon…give us come cover here guys!” For example, my representative Jim Cooper voted (via TARP , the stimulus bill , cap &

ST reader and fellow North Carolinian Donna went to the anti-ObamaCare protest in Raleigh yesterday and sends along a link to pictures from it. Obama held a “ healthcare town hall ” in Raleigh yesterday and the protesters wanted to make sure to greet him properly Randy’s Right , another NC blogger, also has photos – along with a couple of videos that show the confrontations between the anti-ObamaCare forces and the pro-Obama faction.

I had 1,000 items to go through in Google Reader this morning for these links. Please click every single one of them. You won’t regret it. As usual, send us any social news, event suggestions, or required readings to tips@americasfuture.org . BLOGS According to The American Scene , the government should subsidize and not tax smokers, because we cost less to the government. We die sooner. Andrew Sullivan (sorta) jumps on the birther train, and The League of Ordinary Gentlemen criticizes him for it .

July 30th, 2009 Celinda Lake: As we moved from general principles, support was bound to narrow. The major thing we need is for the president to define the plan and what the middle class and small businesses will get. Also he needs to reassure seniors that their medicare benefits will not be cut. The current town halls especially with aarp are a good start Lurita Doan: Americans are mostly wise and prudent, and as they learn the details hidden in the ObamaCare bill, support drops accordingly.

Food for thought - “I mean, a joke’s a joke, but how could Obama and [Henry] Waxman believe for a second that people like Barney Frank, Barbara Boxer, Charles Rangel, John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi and the idiots on the Black Congressional Caucus could make a better living outside of politics? Half of these people would be trolls living under bridges if they ever lost an election.

side note: I want to apologize for not getting more articles up on NT this summer…..it’s been a hectic one for the NT staff. We do need to do something about the health care issue in this country. I do see a problem with the President’s rhetoric and what his staff is doing to reign in the Dems who have been bought-off by the insurance and pharma industries. Specifically his closest adviser, Rahm Emanual.

Dennis Miller’s Humorous Take on “Beer Summit”; Michael Vick Return to NFL - Video 7/29/09 - freedomslighthouse.com 07/30/2009 Here is video of Dennis Miller last night on The O’Reilly Factor giving his humorous take on the whole Henry Gates Arrest and the upcoming “Beer Summit” at the White House later today between President Obama, Sgt. James Crowley and Gates. Miller said Obama had better “pour for Professor Gates first so you don’t spin him out into some injustice jag.” Miller also talked about Health Care and Michael Vick returning to the NFL.

A few ramblings.. - tuxwerx.com 07/30/2009 While surfin the web over the weekend I found a few tidbits to pass along…. Michelle Malkin at HotAir posted an interesting Video that’s both funny and thought provoking. Scary part is that, if your religious, the video makes a scary but funny point. The Vid is HERE in case the embedded vid doesn’t work: The wonderfuly talented and hilarious cartoonists at TownHall.com have come up with yet more great cartoons! Here’s a few that caught my eye: Last weekend my SO picked up Glenn Beck’s new book ‘Common Sense’.

After two more health care town hall meetings yesterday in North Carolina and Virginia, the President’s poll numbers continue to crash . He’s doing more good for the conservative cause than anything else! Keep talking Mr. President!