Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of September 24, 2009

Newsmax.com, September 23, 2009 WASHINGTON – Sweeping health care legislation cleared its first hurdles in the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday as Democrats turned back a series of proposed changes by Republicans who attacked it as a threat to Medicare. Yet even as they prevailed on politically charged votes, majority Democrats also tacitly conceded one point — that despite a pledge by President Barack Obama, some seniors who receive coverage from private insurers could lose some of the optional benefits they enjoy.

When it comes to the Democrats’ healthcare plan, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says their changes to Medicare “would reduce the extra benefits . . . .” Democrats on Capitol Hill continue to insist otherwise. The Associated Press reports, “The bill would cut payments to the Medicare Advantage plans by more than $100 billion over 10 years.” Where is Carol Shea-Porter on these Medicare cuts?

The signs have been there since the debate began to scrap our nation’s premier health system and replace it with some lousy US Post Office version of government rationed care. It is now clear the idea of making health care affordable, therefore accessible, was all just a ruse so the power mad liberals in DC could take over 1/6th of the US economy. There are a lot of inexpensive things that could have been done to give us more choice (not one choice) and lower costs.

-By Ann “Babe” Huggett Just a typical Wednesday, 2009: 6:30 am: Rise and Shine! Push-ups, sit-ups and cinch Michelle into her latest thick leather belt. Man! That woman looks more and more like a plow horse every day! I’ve got to talk her out of those harnesses! 7:00 am: See the girls before they go off to that private Sidwell Friends School of theirs. Those girls deserve the best! 7:15 am: Sneak a cigarette and sign papers killing vouchers for school choice.

Sarah Palin spoke at CSLA in Hong Kong yesterday, an Asia-Pacific investors conference.  Her speech was very well received, getting accolades from such diverse publications as the Wall Street Journal and the (ghasp) New York Times ( Texas For Sarah Palin has a good Roundup).  The speech was tailored towards the investor event, but also seemed very much like a kickoff of a campaign theme.  In it, Sarah outlined her political philosophy of Conservatism rooted in the principles of Reagan and

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This development in Massachusetts has profound implications for the U.S. Senate floor debate and strategy for the Democrats’ attempt to pass ObamaCare: “The Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday granted Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, but with one catch: when the appointment can be made.

Sep.24, 2009 in UncategorizedNow Barack Obama is beginning to understand how Hillary felt sixteen years ago when she made her attempt at nationalizing health care. We’re not hearing for Nazi or un-American protests as Nancy Pelosi would like to frame it. And Obamas mis-statements like the AARP backs his program only adds more fuel for the fire. Now we know why the Obama administration wanted the bill passed BEFORE the recess.

REDSTATE MORNING BRIEFING FOR SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 Sign up to get the morning briefing by email here. 1. Watch me Get the ACORN Lawsuit Dismissed in 15 Minutes (or Less) 2. Rasmussen shows a close U.S. Senate race in Missouri 3. Former Baucus Aide Complicit in Max Baucus’s Humana Insurance Harassment 4. Obama Lied, Soldiers Died 5. Barbara Boxer & Lamar Alexander vs. Jim DeMint & Mitch McConnell 6.

Is your criticism of President Obama’s programs legitimate? Or are you one of those eeeeevil racists the Democrats keep talking about? Missourah.com recognized just how exhausting it can be trying to differentiate between legitimate criticism and racial hatred. So they developed this handy flow chart that makes the decision oh so very simple. Source: Missourah.com Related posts: Angry white racists gather to lynch Obama Rasmussen Reports: Almost no one buys the theory that ObamaCare protesters are racists from racist Democrats”> from racist Democrats’>Uh-oh.

    The left likes to use phrases such as “the majority of Americans want healthcare reform”. They try suggest that because of that they are right and everyone else is wrong. But that distortion exceeds the bounds of sincerity. The phrase is true but what the left neglects to mention is the remainder of that phrase. A majority of Americans do want healthcare reforms, but they don’t want the reforms that liberals are trying to ram down our throats.

AP – Former White House adviser Karl Rove says he thinks a health care reform bill will likely pass soon because of the numbers of Democrats in Congress, but probably not the bill they have been pushing for.Go here to read the rest: Rove: Conservatives need ‘Obamacare’ alternative (AP)Tags: congress, democrats, former-white, house, numbers, pass-soon, reform-bill, the-numbers, will-likely This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 11:40 pm and is filed

AP – Former White House adviser Karl Rove says he thinks a health care reform bill will likely pass soon … Read more from the original source: (AP)”> (AP)”>Rove: Conservatives need ‘Obamacare’ alternative (AP)

Let me get this straight. Obama’s health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it and whose members will be exempt from it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is broke. What could possibly go wrong?

September 24th, 2009 AP – Former White House adviser Karl Rove says he thinks a health care reform bill will likely pass soon because of the numbers of Democrats in Congress, but probably not the bill they have been pushing for. Leave a comment Related Posts and VideosNo Related Post Loading…

Obama said to the U.N.: “No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation. No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed. No balance of power among nations will hold.” There you have it. Obama strives for mediocrity among nations. He wants a “world order” in which the U.S. is nothing special. He does not believe that the United States should be the exceptional nation it is – and he is doing everything he can to reduce it to the common denominator.

Rove: Conservatives need ‘Obamacare’ alternative LAS VEGAS ? Former White House adviser Karl Rove said he thinks a health care reform bill will likely pass soon because of the numbers of Democrats in Congress, but they probably won’t get the bill they have been pushing for. Speaking at a fundraiser Wednesday night in Las Vegas, Rove also [...]

I don’t know who died and made that a Kennedy seat … oh, excuse me, is this mike on? All indications are that this morning Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a made Kennedy bagman and coatholder will be appointed to fill the seat recently vacated by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, as the insistent urging of Kennedy’s widow, his sons and assorted bagmen and coatholders. It looks like former Gov.

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This development in Massachusetts has profound implications for the U.S. Senate floor debate and strategy for the Democrats’ attempt to pass ObamaCare: “The Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday granted Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, but with one catch: when the appointment can be made.

. . . . Liberal Lies About National Health Care – Part Five By Ann Coulter September 23rd, 2009 ANNCOULTER.COM Democrats lost Congress in 1994 because President Clinton failed to pass national health care.

From Tony Blankley : “As the town hall meetings on health care started in early August, the Democratic Party’s talking points accused the attending citizens of being “demonstrators hired by K Street lobbyists.” Then they started calling them a “mob.” Getting into the spirit of his party, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called those who oppose Obamacare “evil.” Then House Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called the dissenters “un-American.” For good measure, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused them of being Nazis.

I was sitting in a doctors office reading Newsweek wherein one of their columnists opined that people should not go around calling each other Nazis. Dutifully, he suggested that liberals should not call conservatives Nazis (I wonder whether or not he weighed in against that when it originally happened, because the examples he gave are now old news), but the occasion for his opinion piece was clearly the fact that conservatives have recently Cindarella-ed that jackboot onto some liberal feet and

Today Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee refused to approve a Republican amendment to make the full text of Chairman Max Baucus’ (D-MT) bill available to the public 72 hours before a vote. Democrats in the Senate are determined not to repeat the biggest mistake of their allies in the US House in the battle for Obamacare. As spring turned to summer this year, it appeared President Obama’s sweeping Socialist agenda would be put in place with virtually no resistance on Capitol Hill.

Drudge Report , FOX News, “ Pelosi to Offer New Draft of Health Care Bill Next Week ” by Chad Pergram House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to present a unified, redrafted health care reform bill next week, the head of the House Democratic Caucus said Wednesday. Chairman John Larson said the new bill would meld together parts of legislation written and approved in July by the House Education, Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees.

President Barack Hussein Obama was never popular with seniors , and they vote at a higher rate than any other demographic. Exit polling   showed that Obama and McCain split the vote amongst those in the 45 – 64 age bracket, but that McCain won the votes of the 65+ crowd 53 percent to 45 percent. When the results are broken down by age and race, McCain won the votes of whites 45- 64 by 56 percent to 45 percent, and the votes of those 65 years and older by 58 percent to 40 percent.

I went to a Virginia Conservative Campaign Fund party last night for Ken Cuccinelli, Bob McDonnell, and Bill Bolling. If you will recall, in 1993 the Republicans took over Virginia. It was a clear signal to the nation that a backlash was coming against the Democrats. Consequently, the Democrats ran for cover and Bill Clinton’s liberal agenda was largely shut down. If McDonnell, Bolling, and Cuccinelli sweep Virginia this year as Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General respectively, the same thing will happen.

Sarah Palin: Thoughts from Hong Kong Many have asked to see my remarks as presented in Hong Kong. Here is an excerpt: So far, I’ve given you the view from Main Street, USA. But now I’d like to share with you how a Common Sense Conservative sees the world at large. Later this year, we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – an event that changed not just Europe but the entire world. In a matter of months, millions of people in formerly captive nations were freed to pursue their individual and national ambitions.

  Hat tip to Smart Girl Nation : Information or Indoctrination? This copy was submitted to the site founder from a concerned member of her website.   Apparently the video wasn’t shown in school, but the Anatomy teacher instead chose to show a taping of it later in the day… complete with a pop quiz.   Per the link provided above: Her daughter, a senior in high school, had come home upset because, although the speech was not shown in her school, her anatomy teacher had made the class watch the President’s health care speech.

I cannot stomach dissecting the whole sickening “speech”, (http://thepage.time.com/remarks-obama-at-the-u-n-genereal-assembly/) so I’ll just cover a few of the embarrassing, feckless statements he made during the latest ingratiating on our behalf.I took office at a time when many around the world had come to view America with skepticism and distrust. Part of this was due to misperceptions and misinformation about my country.

The funny thing? He didn’t realize what he was admitting : Transcript of the (literal) money quote: [Senator Tom Carper, D-DE] I’ll tell you — if someone negotiated a deal with me and I agreed to put up say, 80 dollars or 80 million dollars or 80 billion dollars and then you came back and said to me a couple of weeks later — no no, I know you agreed to do 80 billion and I know you were willing to help support through an advertising campaign this particular — not even this particular bill, just the idea of generic health care reform? No, we’re going to double — we’re going to double what you agreed in those negotiations to do.

A blog post illustrates what are shaping up to be bad omens for the Dems in 2010.  As is noted: The political scandals surrounding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and Senator Roland Burris have handicapped the Democrats’ chances of keeping Obama’s old Senate seat. Governors in Colorado and New York appointed two relative unknowns to fill Ken Salazar’s and Hillary Clinton’s shoes, respectively, both of whom left for the Cabinet. And then Ted Kennedy died, prompting a Massachusetts special election due to be held in January.

NC Asks :  What part of NO do these control freaks not understand? by Heritage Foundation BureaucraZy! A Personal Touch! With the President and Congress’s plan to pass comprehensive health care reform reaching increasingly high levels of unpopularity, and reconciliation becoming an impediment, the leadership of the Senate is rumored to be preparing a new secret plan to railroad the bill through the Senate in record time by using a seldom used parliamentary procedure.

“…the MediaMutters guys are also humorless. They haven’t even pointed out that the Mississippi Acorn office is located on Hooker Street.” – James Taranto Source: Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web Today Related posts: Quote of the Day: “One might say (William) Rice is lucky to have lost only a finger, when ObamaCare may end up costing all of us an arm and a leg.””> Quote of the Day: “One might say (William) Rice is lucky to have lost only a finger, when ObamaCare may end

By: Ann Coulter (15) Democrats lost Congress in 1994 because President Clinton failed to pass national health care. I’m not sure if this is another example of the left’s wishful-thinking method of analysis or if they’re seriously trying to trick the Blue Dog Democrats into believing it. But I gather liberals consider the 1994 argument an important point because it was on the front page of The New York Times a few weeks ago in place of a story about Van Jones or ACORN.

I posted earlier today on the role the White House played via the Office of Public Engagement in proactively organizing an ongoing campaign in support of the President’s legislative agenda with the NEA and the artist community. It now appears that the activity with the NEA is really just the tip of the iceberg of a large-scale, orchestrated effort by the Office of Public Engagement to organize and initiate political activity in support of ObamaCare by various progressive-leaning interest groups, including many federally funded, non-profit organizations.

No surprise that he backs McChrystal, but given his record in Iraq, saying so obviously carries a lot of political weight. On the other side, leading the “no more troops” charge inside the administration: Um … Joe Biden, who of course opposed the surge too.Among the alternatives being presented to Mr. Obama is Mr. Biden’s suggestion to revamp the strategy altogether. Instead of increasing troops, officials said, Mr. Biden proposed scaling back the overall American military presence.

Obama Worldview Unchanged Since His College Years? Israel on the chopping block . It was a very naive, Wilsonian speech ‘Czarism’ , and why it’s not a good thing. Is it time to appoint a zombie czar? Why we should Get rid of the mandate The difference between “a society which organizes itself around stern lessons administered by bureaucrats preaching to schoolchildren and a society of free men who hire bureaucrats to take out the garbage”: Equal to ourselves Omphaloskepsis

Here’s is your latest British ObamaCare update, from the BBC: A specialist ward at Bristol’s new £60m Heart Institute has been closed for six weeks due to an infestation of flies. The coronary care unit (CCU) was closed as a precaution in early August, and hospital officials are working to reopen in early October. A blocked drain is being blamed, and experts have been drafted in to report on what caused the plug. The facility is scheduled to treat more than 15,000 people annually and carry out up to five heart operations daily.

  September 23 , 2009 Liberal Lies About National Health Care , Part 5 By Ann Coulter (15) Democrats lost Congress in 1994 because President Clinton failed to pass national health care. I’m not sure if this is another example of the left’s wishful-thinking method of analysis or if they’re seriously trying to trick the Blue Dog Democrats into believing it.

President Obama promised us “transparency”. Senator Max Baucus says “not so fast”. Senate Democrats suppressed a Republican amendment to the health care reform bill that would have given us (you know, the voters and the taxpayers) 72 hours to read it before his commmittee voted on it. His reasoning? It would have slowed down the process. This is why I oppose ObamaCare. If it really was A Good Thing for America they’d be proud to showcase it. But Baucus learned from H.R.

As the town hall meetings on health care started in early August, the Democratic Party’s talking points accused the attending citizens of being “demonstrators hired by K Street lobbyists.” Then they started calling them a “mob.” Getting into the spirit of his party, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called those who oppose Obamacare “evil.” Then House Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called the dissenters “un-American.” For good measure, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused them of being Nazis.

In other news related to promises unfulfilled, the head of CBO said today that Medicare benefits would be cut under the Senate bill, as reported by the Associated Press : Congress’ chief budget officer is contradicting President Barack Obama’s oft-stated claim that seniors wouldn’t see their Medicare benefits cut under a health care overhaul. The head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, told senators Tuesday that seniors in Medicare’s managed care plans would see reduced benefits under a bill in the Finance Committee.

This is very disturbing. And by the way, what is it with the far left and their hostility towards freedom of speech and conscience? Well the far left is statist and absolutely convinced of their own moral and intellectual superiority…perhaps that has something to do with it.Senator McConnell protests from the Senate Floor. Here is the entire clip – WATCH IT: Special thanks to Hotair.com for the video link.News Busters:Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to go to the Senate floor on

Plain and simple. Click on image for better view. Related: Help Prevent US Government money from funding abortions through health care reform

Hot Air » Blog Archive » War: ACORN sues Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Giles . Amazing. In one fell swoop, the lawsuit (a) gives Fox a reason to keep covering the story, (b) presents a thorny legal issue that’ll attract media to the scandal who might not otherwise have touched it, and (c) makes ACORN look like they’re trying to punish people who exposed taxpayer-funded corruption. Which, of course, they are. Remember, Bertha Lewis told CNN she was grateful to O’Keefe et al.

We live in an Era when our congressmen scoff at the idea that they would read the bills that they vote on. Now, the want to make certain that the public isn’t given the chance to read the health care bill before it is voted on either. Officially wiping out any delusions of “transparency”, the Democrats on the Finance committee voted down a GOP amendment which would have required a health overhaul bill to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes.

Napolitano is damn right about that.

Two incidents to cover here, both via Michelle Malkin. The first involves an ObamaCare quiz given to students at the school of a Smart Girl Politics reader’s child. The quiz asks students how many people don’t have health care, what the goals of ObamaCare are, how man people lose their insurance every day, whether federal funds can be used to pay for abortions, and whether the students think it’s a good proposal. The students weren’t asked to write down facts checked by the Associated Press, Congressional Research Service, or Congressional Budget Office, of course.

From my friends at Smart Girl Politics , you’ll love the propaganda quiz that one student brought home from class after watching President Obama’s joint address to Congress on health care. [...] Read the rest » Hot Air » Top Picks found this 3 hours ago on michellemalkin.com Find more top political news, videos, and blogs on BeltwayBlips: Other , Health care

Senate Finance Committee Nixes Obamacare Online Disclosure – Michelle MalkinThe Senate majority’s contempt for the American people rears its ugly head again. The Senate Finance Committee just voted down a GOP amendment requiring that Obamacare legislation be available online 72 hours before the panel votes. Instead, the Democrats offered to make “conceptual language” available.Dems lied, transparency died:Senate Finance Committee Democrats have rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health overhaul bill to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes.Republicans argued that transparency is an Obama administration goal.

Will Ferrell and a gaggle of other Hollywood stars are now appearing in a MoveOn.org video that knocks executives of medical insurance companies. Let’s just set aside the fact that it’s even less funny than Ferrell’s last couple movies and proceed to more important issues. LIke is it fair and well-researched? Is it even good advice? Or is it just more half-baked Hollywood hypocrisy? The clips are actually just a smoothly-produced bit of propaganda for government-run healthcare.

The following info was obtained from a referal from the www.fivedoves.com web site.  It relates to Obama being indicted by the Supreme Court and the World Court. The article is unbelievable. See the video I posted yesterday about the interview with the Inspector General of the Federal Reserve. Nando CASPER UPDATE #1 : SEPTEMBER 22, 2009 More in this Category Go Back Related Articles THE 11TH HOUR AND 59TH MINUTE… CASPER UPDATE #1: SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 CASPER

SEN. JIM DEMINT (R-SC): “He told us in March that he had a [Afghan war] strategy and now he’s saying that we don’t have one. The problem is the war in Afghanistan and the economy are our two biggest issues. But he’s working on other issues such as health care and he’s putting off the decision on Afghanistan, which I think puts our troops at risk. So he needs to focus on priorities right now and not try to ram so many things down our throat here in Congress.

From my friends at Smart Girl Politics, you’ll love the propaganda quiz that one student brought home from class after watching President Obama’s joint address to Congress on health care.Here’s an excerpt:Check out SGP for the rest of the story.***Earlier today: The Obama school rap and other Lessons for Revolutionary Change

Crazy Qaddafi Qualifies For Obama Health Care Plan By Lisa Richards September 23, 2009 Saturday Night Live could not have done a crazier skit of Qaddafi at the UN than Qaddafi himself.  The world’s most disheveled drag queen—darling, do us all a favor: please call Queer Eye —stood before the UN Assembly Council dressed in 1980’s conference center drapes, rambling on like a Hollywood drunk about the fact it was night time in Libya and everyone should be asleep, why is he talking to

WILL FERRELL – HEALTHCARE EXPERT You’d have to look to Castro, Chavez and Ahmadinanutjob to find bigger wastes of oxygen than the scum that make up actors in Hollywood. Most of them are narcissistic, blow-hards that know very little about anything. Hmmm…reminds me of someone else living at 1600 Pennsylvania! Moveon.org, the communist, anti-American group of dog sh*t, has made a commercial promoting the public option for ObamaCare. That means the government controls your healthcare and private insurance would go the way of the buffalo.

This Months Top Headlines… (Army Announces New Troop Rotation)(Trauma From Iraq Could Alter Veterans’ Brains)(Obama Pushes Euthanasia on Veterans) – ACORN 11 – CAIR Rejoicing – Race Card? – Joe Wilson (R-SC) was right? – Tort Reform – European Missile Program? …………… The headlines go on. Obama outspends Bush and Clinton. We have lost more jobs than ever and banks have money but refuse to lend. We release terrorist to kill again and push God out of life……Whats next….Who will stop the madness..

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor thinks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “is in another world” if she believes raucous anti-health-reform demonstrations could lead to violence — and he says he hasn’t personally witnessed racist comments during a summer of passionate town hall demonstrations. The Virginia Republican, speaking to POLITICO on a day when President Barack Obama was meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in New York, expressed a dim view of the White House’s Middle East policy, saying Obama doesn’t seem to be a “true friend” of the Jewish state.

In his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama talked a lot about “bipartisanship,” but in office, he has governed from the far left, on both domestic and foreign policy, by meddling overseas in favor of left-wing would-be dictators, and at home in support of powerful left-wing unions, at the expense of taxpayers, airline security, the Constitution, and the rule of law.  (One possible exception to his left-wing path is his support for the obscene Wall Street bailouts, which disgusted left and right alike, although those bailouts showered billions of dollars on the liberal Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, which was so rich that it didn’t even need the money).

FOX : McConnell Blasts Government Over ‘Gag Order’ on Private Health Care Provider U.S. health officials launched an investigation into Humana after the Louisville-based company mailed a letter to patients enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plans, alerting them that President Obama’s health overhaul could eliminate important benefits of the program. The federal government resorted to bullying tactics when it ordered an investigation of Humana — one of the country’s biggest private insurers — for its decision to send customers a letter alerting them about pending health reform legislation, a leading Republican charged Wednesday.

  Anything’s possible these days, and it looks like this could be, too. Bill and Clyde at The Patriot Room just got off a blogger conference call with Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Erik Paulsen (R-MN). And according to Rep. Jordan, the Cap and Tax bill is “all but dead in the House.” Rep. Paulsen, a freshman, noted that many of his freshman colleagues on the other side of the aisle were forced by the leadership to vote for the House bill without the opportunity to read it.

I wrote earlier today about the thuggish tactics employed by Washington Democrats to get their health rationing plan passed. Astute readers will note that the name ‘Max Baucus’ seems to pop up over and over – lecturing the Congressional Budget Office on how much the health care bill should ‘cost,’ telling unions what ads they can and cannot air, and warning lobbyists that they need to make sure they’re on ‘the right team.’ Had I written that post a few hours later, I would have included Baucus’

Several celebrities have recorded an ad in support of ObamaCare (there’s a big surprise!) which was paid for by MoveOn Political Action (another huge surprise!). Courtesy of Hot Air. Some of the celebrities involved include Will Ferrell, Thomas Lennon, Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde, among others. One figure that is quoted repeatedly throughout the video is 80% of America supports ObamaCare. I wonder where they got that number? They LIEShare This

U.S. issues $7 trillion debt, supply to stabilize The uneven economic recovery Both sides skeptical as Baucus revises health care bill Passing a Shell of A Bill: Congress’ Secret Plan to Ram Through Health Care Reform Steven Chu: Americans Are Like ‘Teenage Kids’ When It Comes to Energy Misleading Medicaid Claims From Senate Finance Read the Bill! What Bill?

While philosophically I object to a mandate to purchase health insurances, it is also necessary to look at the issue pragmatically. Compromise is often necessary to pass legislation and the reality of the situation is that we might face a choice of health care reform with mandates or no health care reform at all. As I’ve often said in discussing health care legislation, the details are essential. While I would prefer not to have mandates at all, the manner in which mandates are enforced is an important point.

More sound thoughts from Rep. John Boehner (R-OH): Washington, Sep 23 – As the Senate Finance Committee gets set to begin its second day examining Senator Max Baucus’ (D-MT) costly government run-health care bill , House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) released a list of 10 facts every American should know about what he calls “the wrong prescription during these tough economic times:” This partisan bill is the wrong prescription during these tough economic times.

While this shouldn’t surprise any of you, it’s still amazing that it can happen in this country. One more step towards a totalitarian state. The federal government resorted to bullying tactics when it ordered an investigation of Humana — one of the country’s biggest private insurers — for its decision to send customers a letter alerting them about pending health reform legislation, a leading Republican charged Wednesday. U.S.

Republicans and Democrats alike would like to gloss over the implications of mandatory insurance (a measure included in just about every proposed healthcare reform): it means a great many people will be forced to by health insurance they don’t want or else pay a fine — that is, a tax. This is guaranteed income for the insurance companies, which is why they aren’t too worried about big-government healthcare plans. But for young people especially, it’s a tremendous financial burden.

-By Warner Todd Huston Woodrow Wilcox, a fellow that operates a Medicare advice and assistance website , was contacted not long ago by a local Indiana doctor that read the entire bill of H.R. 3200. Once he was done he had some deep and troubling concerns about Obamacare. The doctor, Stephen E. Fraser, M.D., then sat down and wrote Senator Evan Bayh about these concerns. Here is that letter : Dear Senator Bayh, As a practicing physician, I have major concerns with the health care bill (HR 3200) before Congress.

National Health Care — An alternative viewpoint I tend to look for what isn’t being said during national debates on relevant issues. One critical aspect about the current debate on health care is not being discussed, and it’s pretty glaring: the quality of health care in this country by and large is unbelievably high and runs very efficiently. You don’t see people like Sen. Chris Dodd going to Canada for treatment. Or the neighbors down the street. Where did the late Sen.

To be honest, the only actor I recognize in this video is Will Ferrell. According to Michelle Malkin , Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde (whoever they are) also appear. I’d take these Hollywood idiots more seriously if they put their money where their mouths are. How about they give up 90% of their pay to charities that help the uninsured? How about Michael Moore give 90% of his earnings to the poor? They make so much money I’m sure, if they’re frugal, they could get by on 10% of their earnings.

USA Today ObamaCare’s Calculated Deception Forbes In his health overhaul speech last Wednesday, President Obama accused his critics of spreading “misinformation” and “bogus claims,” of “demagoguery and distortion,” and of using “scare tactics” instead of honest debate. Read the original post:ObamaCare’s Calculated Deception – ForbesTags: action-since, berkshire-eagle, bogus-claims, clove-flavors, coverage, debate-over, detroit-free, loss-on-tobacco, made-unsteady, overhaul-bill, president, press,

  Powered by Max Banner Ads   The Domestic Tranquility Act of 2010 has passed. It is every American’s duty to drink the Kool Aid. Link @YouTube Lyrics: Hey there Obama, I am feeling so much calmer since the Congress had a rule made that we had to drink your Kool Aid its the law, To hold the president in awe, You have no flaw. At first I didn’t think that it’d be good for me to drink it til those federal agents burst in and they shot me with a squirt gun.

There’s nothing sillier than Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in Japanese commercials…People run for office and the next thing you know they have created “A Separate Reality!” Fund raisers hash around, political consultants march off in all directions and issues that you might think….before….were non issues suddenly become the “new hot topic of discussion”. Watching the latest episode of the “Real Orange” with a Cutting Edge co-founder Mark Petraca casting pearls before swine as it were with the likes of Rick Reiff and Lindcoln Club heavy Mike Capaldi was interesting stuff.

Hat Tip: Larwyn Daily scoreboard Hmmm: Is the AARP getting “kickbacks” from Obamacare? It’s time to appoint a Zombie Czar Great: Mass Senate Passes “Give Teddy His Dying Wish” Bill Byrd hospitalized Can’t all conservatives at least agree that Glenn Beck is not the enemy? Jeb Bush: Give Marco Rubio a Chance 72% are mad as hell Conyers and Frank: Investigate ACORN CBO Budget Chief to Obama: You lie Oh, Perfect: Conyers Wants Probe of ACORN… and Shady

President Obama has shown his commitment to the green movement by giving a speech which contained 100% recycled material. Here’s the deal, if you call a big special meeting and invite all the press, a bunch of Senators and Congressman… if you make Ms. Nancy fly her Gulfstream off to get a new pantsuit and a Botox shot or two and ask 300 million Americans to tune in, you should say something we haven’t heard before. There was a lot of leftover campaign rhetoric about bringing us together.

The Senate majority’s contempt for the American people rears its ugly head again. The Senate Finance Committee just voted down a GOP amendment requiring that Obamacare legislation be available online 72 hours before the panel votes. Instead, the Democrats offered to make “conceptual language” available.Dems lied, transparency died:Senate Finance Committee Democrats have rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health overhaul bill to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes.Republicans argued that transparency is an Obama administration goal.

I have to say that this video speaks to each one of us who is in the health care arena.  We should keep this in mind and tell our elected officials exactly how we feel about the fight to protect our insurance company profits and keep our executives from losing their homes due to callous disregard! Read more on The Real Health Reform Victims – Insurance Execs…

This report is from the New Republic , which is sympathetic (to say the least) to Obama-style health care reform, so if anything there was an incentive to try to magnify the impact of the demonstration. Anyway, remember the controversy over attendance at the anti-Obama Washington rally on 9/12, whether there were 60,000 or 2 million or somewhere in between? Well, a bunch of proponents of public-option (or a single-payer) program decided to show those nasty insurance companies that the masses are fed up with them and want more government care.

From the New York Times : “The first big fight over the Senate Finance Committee’s health care legislation erupted Tuesday night: a rollicking brawl over a deal that the Obama administration cut with the pharmaceutical industry to achieve $80 billion in savings on drug costs over 10 years, money that would help pay for the legislation. Top House Democrats have hated the deal from the get-go. Senate Democrats are now bitterly divided. And Senate Republicans are eagerly jumping into the fray to needle the Democrats over their divisions.

« PreviousA Health Care Expert Speaks Up Next »Sarah Palin Goes to Asia Democrats Say ‘Go’ – Republicans Say ’Wait’ Posted by Kate PickertWednesday, September 23, 2009 at 12:01 pm 19 Comments • Trackback (0) • Related Topics:Max Baucus, congress, health care While members expected the Senate Finance Committee to begin its Wednesday markup by returning to the contentious amendment related to a White House deal with pharmaceutical companies, Democrat Bill Nelson – who had introduced that amendment – was not present.

I n what would surely be a  mass political suicide , SanFranNan appears prepared to try and ram-through the increasingly unpopular ObamaCare proposal… even including the highly-controversial “public option” -a de facto nationalization of the US health insurance industry.  Such an overreaching, hubristic move in the face of surging public opposition could ensure the 100-seat loss that some are already predicting in November 2010.

By Oak Leaf ~ September 23rd, 2009 @ 8:44 am In August, the pundits were writing that September was the cruelest month;Investors are wondering whether September “will live up to its reputation as the month in which the S&P 500 posts its worst price performance and frequency of decline,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor’s Equity Research, on Monday.I relish seeing old rules of thumb tossed on the trash pile of history and it looks like another one gets thrown on the pile.

Let’s save America instead In short, Rush was right, for if conservatives and Republicans are to conserve enough of the City on a Hill to keep it Shining, President Barack Obama and liberal mainstream of the Democratic party must fail in their efforts to enact their dreams of fundamental change into law. Presidencies come and go. The Flag must always be defended and preserved by We the People.

WordPress database error: [Table 'jingerja_wrdp2.tbl_cxp_posts' doesn't exist] SELECT * FROM tbl_cxp_posts WHERE (`postid` = ‘541′) Sign the Petition Against Obamacare If you think that Obamacare is a bargain, or you think that we will get better care, then think again. John Stossel exposes what it will really be like under Obamacare. What surprised me the most about this video is how little the government has contributed to finding cures for anything (only four percent).

The Obama administration is now “investigating” Humana for “telling falsehoods” by informing its customers that ObamaCare would result in reduced Medicare benefits.  This is the equivilent of the President of the United States threatening a private company that is merely expressing it’s First Ammendment Rights.  Perhaps Obama should do the same to the CBO since they agree with Humana. Political disagreement and the practice of free speach is now met with “investigations.”  Chicago thuggery at its best.

This story is about free speech and doing buisness with the Federal Government . It was first reported in the Wall Street Journal. and ABC News (see video below) runs the first part Senator McConnell’s Senate floor speech about this HHS gag order. Did I mention that HHS are the ones that will be running your health plan in the Health Information Exchange under ObamaCare?

“Obama and his commissars are labeling Americans who just happen to oppose Cap & Trade, billions for clunkers and to the havoc the leftists are trying to wreak on our health care system, as brainless sheep. Large groups of citizens rise up to voice their grievances and he calls them mobs, claims that grass roots are really made of Astroturf and tells his minions to ape the Soviets and rat out their friends and neighbors. Some people I know refer to what Obama is doing as social engineering.

Cross-posted to the right-wing liberal Some politicians employ what might be called revisionist history; others use verbal misdirection; and many more lunge for half-truths. Hardly anyone has ever used all three as richly as Creigh “What’s in Your Wallet?” Deeds did in his painfully tragic Washington Post Op-ed. It’s easy to see why Creigh needed to get this in the paper: the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce had just endorsed his opponent ( Bob McDonnell ) yesterday ( WaPo ).

If there was ever a time to blow the whistle on the American Association for Retired Persons and expose them as a left-wing shill group, that time is now. From the American Spectator: One of the subplots to the health care debate I’ve been following is the cozy relationship between AARP and the Obama administration, as the group has thrown its full-throated support behind the Democrats’ health care push even though their membership comes from the age group most opposed to Democratic health care proposals.

On Monday, we noted that the Obama administration had begun a probe into Humana’s attempts to communicate with its customers on ObamaCare. Humana told customers that the proposed changes would result in reduced benefits for its members on their Medicare Advantage plans, and the White House accused them of spreading faslehoods. Of course, the CBO now says exactly what Humana argued all along, but even absent that, the Obama administration has no business investigating the exercise of free speech.

My wife used to ask, “Honey, do you want to wash the dishes or vacuum the floors?” I always answered back, “I’ll take option three!” “Option three?” “Yeah, none of the above.” Poll questions never give you the answer you would like to give because they’re gear more toward achieving a desired outcome than knowing really how you feel. Tom Remington Check Out Related Articles What Does An Outhouse And A White House Have In Common? Jay Leno On ACORN Jack Webb Takes Obama To Task We Must Stop Global Cooling Before It’s Too Late Hey There Obama (Drink the KoolAid) 5000 Years Of History Obamacare! U.S.

Are government-run health care programs good or bad? U.S. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor can’t seem to decide. At a public forum Monday in Richmond, Va., the Virginia Republican contradicted himself and said… read more

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Jim sent this in: While not everyone is onboard with the medical insurance plan commonly peddled as ObamaCare, no one will argue that health care — including medication — costs are rising steadily. This creates just the right environment for criminal enterprises to take advantage of Americans seeking savings on prescription drugs. One of the challenges for law enforcement in the 21st century is internet pharmaceutical drug traffickers operating in the United States.

This is getting to be a pattern: WASHINGTON – Congress’ chief budget officer on Tuesday contradicted President Barack Obama’s oft-stated claim that seniors wouldn’t see their Medicare benefits cut under a health care overhaul. The head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, told senators that seniors in Medicare’s managed care plans could see reduced benefits under a bill in the Finance Committee. The bill would cut payments to the Medicare Advantage plans by more than $100 billion over 10 years.

Joe Wilson may have been reprimanded, and he may have been rude, but the man was right.  Obama lies.  This time, it’s not about illegal aliens, but about seniors and their Medicare .  Rule of thumb for Obama:  Don’t believe anything he says.

“It’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election.” – Barack Obama The discourse in America is heating up. We are becoming a nation of Howard Beales’ “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”. What is at the bottom of all this anger? And what are we to do about it? Angry outbursts are becoming commonplace in our culture these days.