Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of August 17, 2009
08/17/2009
Fannie Med
08/17/2009
“Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government’s coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development. It’s outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading ‘home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.’ The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills.
08/17/2009
Something I’ve believed for a very, very long time. Liberals are really communists. That’s as true as it comes. Ah, ah, ah… keep reading before you let the old knee start jerking.What exactly does liberal mean? Well, basically it comes from liberty, free from bondage, little or no “big brother” control over one’s life, kind of a “if it feels good, do it” type of thought, individual liberty.
08/17/2009
Apparently Representative Eric Massa (D- NY) has forgotten just who in the hell he works for! He told a group that he will vote against what his district wants if he’s able to get single payer health care. This issue is far from over and I advise everyone to watch what they are doing when they get off their summer break. I have a hard time believing Representative Massa is the only one with this attitude. These people actually feel that we, the people, don’t know what’s good for us and we need him to go against our will to prove it.
08/17/2009
The recent announcement by the White House that they are dropping/will accept no public option in their health reform bill has cause the already comatose Intrade market prediction of passage of a federal government run health insurance plan (public option) to completely tank, going from 35% chance of passage to a 14% chance of passage. This is the single best predictor of the future known to exist — people making bets with real money about the outcome of the future. Check out the straight down line on this graph .
08/17/2009
A look at the constitutionality of proposed health care reform from the Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress.
08/17/2009
So says black Congressman James Clyburn. When liberals and non-whites dissent, they’re patriotic Americans standing up for their principles. When white conservatives dissent, they’re racists: The third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives on Thursday compared the disruptive protesters at recent health care town halls to people who unleashed dogs and spat on civil rights demonstrators during the 1960s.In an interview with the Huffington Post, Rep.
08/17/2009
It’s Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who — to his credit — did actually bother holding a town hall with his constituents. He won’t end up listening to what they want him to do, but even pretending to listen is more than some Democrats are willing to do. The man is either lying or terribly ignorant. Medicare has over $36 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Yes, trillion . And that’s just for the next 25 years. It’s not conservative spin, that’s the number listed in the official 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government .
08/17/2009
Washington Post Health Care: Choose Your Own Adventure Atlantic Online Step 2: If you’re afraid that ObamaCare will spell the end of private insurance and be a total disaster, Go to Step 54. If you support — in general — the consensus insurance reforms in the House and Senate bill, go to Step 3. … Liberals complain over Obama concession The Associated Press Obama May Eliminate Certain Parts of Reform Effort to Get Health …
08/17/2009
Some interesting stories over the past week: The Whole Foods controversy : Whole Foods John Mackey writes a piece in the Wall Street Journal titled The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare (August 11), discussing his views on health care and the direction of reform the United States should take. Olivia Jane at the Daily Kos urges viewers to sign a petition for boycotting Whole Foods products . Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek sums up the debate and links to other views.
08/17/2009
ROB NATELSON: Is ObamaCare constitutional?
08/17/2009
As the pressure from angry constituents, Republican, Democrat and Independent alike over ObamaCare continues to ratchet up, many Congress Cowards are finding political safehouses in the friendly confines in the halls of their union masters. No muss, no fuss. (unless someone actually wants a non-scripted answer from their representative about the subject. And this assumes they even have access to a microphone) A few examples: Rep.
08/17/2009
Brendan may have broken the story , but it Hot Air , Just One Minute , Politico , and others discovered it about the same time: flag@whitehouse.gov is down. Earlier, a White House official admitted that the program was illegal . I have not heard anything from the Attorney General about prosecutions, though. He is too busy regulating what consenting adults do on their computers . Tweet This Post
08/17/2009
Visit Bulgaria Atlanta Protest of Health-Care Overhaul Draws Thousands Wall Street Journal ATLANTA — Several thousand people turned out in Centennial Park on Saturday to demonstrate opposition to President Barack Obama’s effort to overhaul the health-care system. Protesters carried signs saying, “Obamacare Makes Me Sick!
08/17/2009
The idea of offering incentives for medical professionals to discuss “end-of-life issues” with elderly patients and their families has become the lightning rod of the health-care debate—less, by the way, because conservatives latched on to it with the “death panel” label but because liberals thought they had the Right dead to rights with the “death panel” accusation. Surely, they believed, the forces arrayed against ObamaCare had gone too far; surely the “death panel” charge would boomerang against the anti’s, and finally the health-care package would take wing.
08/17/2009
[Posted by Karl] It appears I will be doing a segment on BreitbartTV’s B-Cast today at 5:00 EDT, talking about ObamaCare, co-ops, etc. –Karl
08/17/2009
It’s this week’s fashion on the left, and among such fashionably contemplative moderates as Mort Kondracke, to blast Rush Limbaugh for comparing Democrats to the Nazis. It’s no surprise that the Obama hardcores are misrepresenting the sequence and substance of events, but I would have hoped that Kondracke would at least have noted that Rush’s comparison — even if Kondracke thought it unwise — was neither gratuitous nor demagogic.
08/17/2009
8/17/09 Public option to go from Obamacare; stocks plunge; marriage law; US coups in Honduras? Chile;No.Korea back in the news; Novartis & Glaxo sue each other; healthcare crisis in America; tropical storms brew, hit Florida; swine flu shot & nerve damage; 60,000 children lose healthcare in Calif; mom tasered at traffic stop; Goldman Sachs owns [...]
08/17/2009
I wrote to the PR team at Whole Foods seeking an email address for CEO John Mackey and stating why I wanted it. If you want to email Jack Mackey, Whole Foods CEO, directly, here’s the address; john.mackey@wholefoods.com . But read his blog first. This is what they sent me: Dear Whole Foods Market Customers, As you are probably aware, John Mackey wrote an Op/Ed piece that was published in the Wall Street Journa l earlier this week on health care reform, one of the biggest and most emotional issues facing our country.
08/17/2009
I reported here and here about the White House’s “fishy” expedition, a request that supporters turn in emails/websites giving contrary information on Obamacare . And as of today, the request is STILL UP . But according to a Politico article today, reported by Drudge (currently top link), the email address no longer works: Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box - flag@whithouse.gov - that was set up to receive information on “fishy” claims about President Barack Obama’s health plan.
08/17/2009
My column is up at American Issues Project. It’s on the unintended consequences of government policies. Check out “F or Every Action, There Is A Reaction .” While you are there, subscribe to the AIP blog so you don’t miss great posts like: The White House Spam Excuse Doesn’t Hold Water With Me by Jimmie Bise A reader asks: what will ObamaCare cost me ? by Despina D. Karras Mr. Clinton enters the health care debate by John Beski There are some good writers over there, so make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss a thing.
08/17/2009
Geraldo Rivera … INSANE! Why does Geraldo want Obamacare and against Free Speech? Maybe it will serve as the cure for his Bush Derangement Syndrome? So what does Geraldo Rivera have against people using their Constitutional rights? There is nothing like a cause that affects “We the People” to show just how liberal some of these cable show types really are. Rivera went insane and compared Tea Party protesters against Obamacare at the town hall meetings to the “Brooks Brothers” wearing demonstrators who stole the election for George Bush.
08/17/2009
…and not a moment too soon. Politico reports that the email address the White House had set up to collect “fishy” claims about Obamacare, for who knows what purpose, has been shut down. Why is it shut down? Is it that they had collected enough “chain emails” and reports of “casual conversations” to go on?
08/17/2009
Yet another respected pundit, Andy McCarthy, adds his support to Sarah Palin’s criticism of Obamacare: Palin Was Right on the “Death Panels” — A Dissent from Today’s NRO EditorialAn excerpt:I don’t see any wisdom in taking a shot at Governor Palin at this moment when, finding themselves unable to defend the plan against her indictment, Democrats have backed down and withdrawn their “end-of-life counseling” boards. Palin did a tremendous service here.
08/17/2009
Verizon LTE 4G Network Set to Turbocharge Mobile Devices (PC World) - thecellphonefactory.com 08/17/2009 PC World - Verizon tested out its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network this week in Boston and Seattle. LTE is a major step forward in the march toward entirely IP-based mobile communications and full 4G wireless. Once 4G speeds are generally available in major markets across the country it will transform expectations of what a mobile device is capable of and continue to blur the line between communications, entertainment, and productivity.
08/17/2009
Paul Krugman , yesterday : ( the correct, and I guess moral, thing to do is quote briefly, if at all, from other sources but, dammit, the truth needs to be out there as openly and often as possible, so I’m choosing practicality over principle this time ): It was the blooper heard round the world. In an editorial denouncing Democratic health reform plans, Investor’s Business Daily tried to frighten its readers by declaring that in Britain, where the government runs health care, the handicapped
08/17/2009
The Canadian health care system is imploding.The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country’s health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country – who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting – recognize that changes must be made.“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.“We know that there must be change,” she said.
08/17/2009
We’re still sorting through the health-care deal Henry Waxman struck with Blue Dog Democrats recently, but one 11th-hour revision stands out. Namely, veterans will now be “exempt from the requirements of the legislation.” That’s how Mr. Waxman’s staff put it in a memo to reporters earlier this month, announcing amendments that the House Energy and Commerce Committee included before passing the bill 31 to 28.
08/17/2009
It is not enough for President Obama to put forward a series of utterly false statements on behalf of his effort to engineer the wholesale reinvention of American health care. No, he has to position himself as the great truth teller in the process. His critics are “simply dishonest,” Obama said during his health-care town-hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado, on Saturday. In his New York Times op-ed , Obama decries the “wild misrepresentations” of his detractors.
08/17/2009
Matt Drudge doesn’t have a chance when he reports the facts as they are. A frequent abuser of headlines and false stories, The Drudge Report has become synonymous with bottom-of-the-barrel news. Fox News, The Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and the GOP have got themselves a fine operation of misinformation going between them. As we’ve shown ad nauseum here on Left Agenda here , here , here , here , here , and here , The Drudge Report makes a special effort to give misleading headlines, false no-link headlines, spread obvious lies as truths, etc., etc.
08/17/2009
There’s a debate going on in this country that is far wider than health care. Health care is the current battle; but the war is over the size, scope, and power of government over our lives. The left wants more government, and more, and more. Government as God, the State as Savior. Statolatry, the idolatry of a worship of and dependence upon the state rather than God. And the American people compelled to abandon the free market system for one featuring increasing government control over every aspect, even as the government increasingly intrudes into every sphere of not only our social but even our private lives.
08/17/2009
Former House leader says government is preparing to exploit fear to reinvigorate support behind failing agenda Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, August 17, 2009 Former Congressman and House Majority Leader Dick Armey warns that the government is planning to exploit a hyped swine flu outbreak this fall in order to reinvigorate support behind its failing Obamacare agenda.
08/17/2009
During the Bush administration, many within the dominant culture expressed concern about the constitutionality of detaining several hundred alleged enemy combatants in Guantanamo. Whenever legal restrictions on abortion are proposed, many express doubt about the constitutionality of interjecting government between patients and their doctors. But those voices have been mostly silent about the constitutionality of empowering the federal government with decisions over the life, death, and health of three hundred million Americans.
08/17/2009
Nationalized, socialized, single payer health care under the United States Constitution does not exist. PERIOD. What we are debating is an issue that is NOT laid out in the ENUMERATED powers of the United States Constitution. If “people” DEMAND such activity than the AMENDMENT processes MUST be fulfilled, making the FEDERAL HEALTH CARE PLAN become PART OF the United States CONSTITUTION! PERIOD .
08/17/2009
Dan Mitchell continues his invaluable series of videos explaining the policies of fiscal conservativism and the virtues of free-market economics from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation. In this installment, Mitchell explains a couple of key points on both free markets and the nature of government spending, which comes at the end. Before that, though, Mitchell makes the point again that the nature of the private sector lends itself to innovation and efficiency, while the nature of government doesn’t:One might expect this to be obvious, but unfortunately many people seem to have forgotten why private-sector competition works.
08/17/2009
Possible Death of the Public Option: What’s the Big Deal? - poplife.biz 08/17/2009 “Look, kids, there’s the chasm between the parties on health-care reform.”The big news in the ongoing battle for health-care reform is that the White House may be backing away from a public option, which President Obama has said he favors as a way to reduce costs and ensure that most Americans obtain insurance.
08/17/2009
Defenders of ObamaCare assert that their critics are nothing more than obstructionists who like the current health care system or who just don’t want the president to prevail on health care because they didn’t vote for him. Neither charge is informed or fair. The fact is that critics of an increased federal role in manipulating the health-insurance market have long advocated major reforms of the tax and regulatory systems to give patients more power over their own lives and medical choices, reforms that are already bearing fruit in the growing market for consumer-driven health care.
08/17/2009
by Rick AckermanonAugust 17, 2009 5:25 pm GMT Here’s an excerpt from a must-read essay by James Lewis that you can access by clicking here:“[Obamacare] is the result of fanaticism, not balanced thinking. That seems to be President Obama’s way. This White House defines a goal like Arab-Israeli Peace in the Middle East, or Health Care for All, and goes hell for leather, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead — without ever pausing to think, or to listening to people who have spent decades dealing with these questions — if they dissent from Obama orthodoxy.
08/17/2009
If you want to read the most-referred-to version of the ObamaCare bill, you can read its 1,017 pages by clicking here This entry was posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 10:00 am and is filed under Daily Chat, Top Blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
08/17/2009
The Wall Street Journal looks at why the elderly are more and more opposed to ObamaCare . While claims about euthanasia and “death panels” are over the top, senior fears have exposed a fundamental truth about what Mr. Obama is proposing: Namely, once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted. Far from being a scare tactic, this is a logical conclusion based on experience and common-sense.
08/17/2009
The White House is against us. The press is against us. Both houses of congress are against us. Too many Republican leaders are against us. But even in the face of these overwhelming odds, the power of Conservatism still gets results. The average Americans speaking out town hall meeting has slowed ObamaCare to a crawl and put Obama and the dems on defense. Sarah Palin single handedly forced the dems to remove the “death panel” references in their bill. And, it’s just been announced on Drudge that Obama has closed down flag@whitehouse.gov.
08/17/2009
Here are the top five most popular columns that ran at Reason.com between August 10 and August 14: Big Business Goes Big for Health Care Reform : Why drug companies and insurance providers are backing ObamaCare, by John Stossel (8/13) Medical Mosh Pits : Understanding the clashes at the health care “town halls,” by Jesse Walker (8/13) Strangers in a Strange Land : Forget man’s inhumanity to man.
08/17/2009
Left Blogistan is alive with the sounds of open dissent. I can only say, it’s about time. Here’s a good example from TheHill.com aptly headed Obama picks fight with left on Health Reform . The news, however, is this fact. A public option is not a liberal option. It’s the option that every advanced economy in the world has chosen in some form. We already have a public option for seniors. We’re the majority, in every sense of the word, on this issue. This fight is not with the Left.
08/17/2009
SPECIAL OFFER! CLICK HERE FOR “EXPOSING THE SOCIALIST AGENDA” Obama has gathered the domestic enemies of America into a single coalition called “ Health Care for Americans Now “. This is just a partial list of the Marxist, Socialist and racist groups that he has brought together: “ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Campaign for Community Change, Children’s Defense Fund Action Council,
08/17/2009
Our Central Florida Fascist Congressman Alan Grayson has come out of hiding to hold a town hall meeting. It is set for tonight at 7:45, at a Union Hall at 820 Virginia Drive in Orlando. But be there early. It’s easy to get to. Take I-4 to Exit 85, Princeton Street. If coming from South, turn right, eastbound at exit. If coming from North, turn left under I-4 to go eastbound on Princeton. Proceed 1/4 mile east on Princeton to first traffic light at North Orange Avenue.
08/17/2009
Workout notes I got to the gym at about 7 and was done at about 8:48; in between I did 2200 yards of swimming (500 warm up, drill/swim, 10 x (25 fly, 25 free) on 1, 10 x (25 fist, 25 free) on 1, 200 cool down. Then 3 miles of running; a 10 minute mile to warm up then 9:30 mpm for the last 2 and then hit the shower. Hence 5-7 am should give me plenty of time to get in to my 9 am class with coffee, time to review notes, etc.
08/17/2009
This has nothing directly to do with homeschooling, but as homeschoolers we want to teach our children about the workings of government and also about using critical thinking to see through bad legislation. Dems confess hopes to eliminate private healthcare: I hate to keep harping on this Obama/Democrat health care proposal. It seems as if it has nothing to do with homeschooling, but homeschooling is all about freedom to educate our children as we see fit, and the health care debate is actually about freedom versus government control in making our own health care decisions.
08/17/2009
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08/17/2009
Since I’m neck deep in work stuff today, there will likely be light posting. One thing to note - the anti-spam software will kick in if you have more than one link in a comment, leaving me to un-spam it when I get to it. So, keep that in mind when making your points. And lots of points are being made lately over Obamacare, which has been the hot topic for days at the SDWC. Traffic is up, and so are the comments, with the country openly rejecting the Obamacare public option.
08/17/2009
The Republican party of the United States of America should be engaging the Democrats in intelligent debate. They need to force the Democrats to define the problem they are trying to solve. That problem is not simply soaring health care costs and insurance industry bad practices. Related posts: Harry & Louise: stealth free market health care supporters Harry and Louise first made the national scene in a… Health care needs to be reformed.
I believe strongly that there is a problem with access to health care. It is being presented as a health care problem though the two are distinctly different. Govenrment control is not the answer. “We the people” (to borrow the phrase from an old document, somewhat disdained by the federal government) need to see options because the largely derelict Congress is either incompetent as an institution to deal with this or unwilling to do the jobs that they are paid and benefitted to do. Either way, this situation is unacceptable. It is to each of us (AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN!) to demand accountability not only from our Senators and Representatives, but from Congress and this silly excuse for a president.
It is a bit odd to hear the Democratic party complaint that there is no bi-partisan dialogue on the matter. They’ve prevented the Republican ideas from being heard in Congress and the list of constituent meetings (townhalls) that have been cancelled reads strongly Democratic Party. It is most unsettling that the main stream media (the alphabet soup - ABCNBCMSNBCCBSCNNNPRPBS [THAT WAS FUN]) decline to report this in favor of leading the cheering section for these dishonest and derelIct government officials. I don’t want to hear a single word about “journalistic integrity.” It isn’t there and hasn’t been for generations.
It must be understood that the president is lying. Liars lie. Figure it out on your own. His protestations are totally without merit. Know this thing: The powers assigned to the federal government in the language of this proposal are real, fascist in nature and exceedingly dangerous to every person in this country. This is a point in the history of this nation where there is no room for being irresponsible. The people must speak loudly, clearly and honeslty.
We are where we are because too many people just handed it over to “the smart guys in DC.” So we have what we deserve. It’s up to us individually to demand that those “smart guys” remember who they work for or show them the door.