Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of October 22, 2009

So the word was that Democratic leaders worried about the health of Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore Robert C. Byrd, whom they needed as a 60th vote to end any Republican filibuster.On Wednesday, Byrd voted against cloture — meaning he sided with the Republican filibuster.He was not alone.In all, 12 Democratic senators and Joe Lieberman and every single Republican (yes, Senator Olympia Snowe voted against cloture) as Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid was humiliated.He needed 60 votes.

Yes, it happened again: (CNN) — Arizona police are looking for an Iraqi man who they allege ran down his daughter and her friend because he believed his daughter had become “too Westernized.” Peoria, Arizona, police said Wednesday that Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, struck his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, and her friend Amal Edan Khalaf with a vehicle he was driving in a parking lot Tuesday afternoon.

Mark Tapscott: Obama’s thug politics dirty health care endgame Mark Tapscott | Washington Examiner So this is what “change we can believe in” done the Chicago way really looks like – Barack Obama and his White House capos muscling recalcitrant opponents and promising to crush those who don’t get in line. Obama has zeroed in on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Fox News and doctors.

RED STATE: “We cannot protect this country by putting politics over security…” Phillies dump Dodgers for World Series return Welcome to the World of Newspeak Democrats and the Politics of Rage Dick Cheney blasts Obama administration during speech at Center for Security Policy Google To Launch Music Service Called Google Audio The Public Option Deception White House E-Mailing MSNBC During Shows You know the war on Fox is going poorly when the newspaper that brought down Nixon calls Obama “Nixonian” Gunman runs away after Minn.

Transparency: As Senate considers Obamacare, “What’s in it for me” Amendments and back room deals are sure to come.Tags: government waste, Healthcare, hypocrisy, liberals, Obama, senate This entry was posted on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 7:16 am and is filed under Broken News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

One of the first questions I was asked by a reader was; now that I am looking for a job, have I had changed my mind on Obama’s health care reform and economic stimulus plans? No, and No. I still oppose both. Now more than before. Related posts: Oops! Stimulus was trickle down not trickle up The U.S. and world economies needed stimulus. The right kind… Health care town halls and deep, calming breaths If you are angry about efforts to reform health care,…

  Future historians may mark this vote as the day Obamacare died.   Harry Reid was unable to have the senate invoke cloture and end debate on a bill which would dump 250 billion in medicare reimbursements over 10 years from the health care bill and throw it into the general budget deficit with no hint as to how this quarter of a trillion dollars would be paid for.  In order to invoke cloture Reid needed 60 votes, he got 47 .  13 Democrats joined all 40 Republicans in refusing to invoke cloture .

Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules against government-funded propaganda. The Web page is accessed through a “state your support” button featured prominently on the HHS Web site and carries a disclaimer that the Web site is maintained by HHS.

Meeting with the Washington Post’s editorial staff on January 16, President-elect Obama pledged to reform entitlements saying the process would begin straightaway by convening a “fiscal responsibility summit” before delivering his first budget to Congress. “What we have done is kicked this can down the road. We are now at the end of the road and are not in a position to kick it any further,” he said.

Typically, a voiceover announcer can’t work on competitive products. But, then, that’s really not an issue here, since MSNBC is virtually indistinguishable from the White House Office of Communications. Source: APCheck Related posts: Surprise! Surprise! ObamaCare advocate finds out Canadians hate their socialized healthcare White House hearts MSNBC. Throws $50 million at “The Arts.” eco-hypocrites”> eco-hypocrites’>Surprise, surprise! Eco-wackos exposed as eco-hypocrites

Day by day, step by step, the Obama adminsitration and his cohorts in Congress are working towards fulfilling Obama’s campaign promise to “fundamentally change America.” If we like the change or not doesn’t seem to matter. And if these political prostitutes have to corrupt the writings of the United States Constitution to shove something down our throats, well, nothing is beyond them. Now House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is making the claim that Congress has “broad authority” to force American’s to buy health insurance.

Here’s one of my favourites – “Pro-Choice” = Euthanasia and / or Abortion (and of course anything opposed to this begins with the negative sounding word – “anti”)By Janet Levy – American ThinkerIn George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” Newspeak refers to language designed by a totalitarian regime to control thought and make subversive speech impossible. It destroyed words with prohibited meanings so that heretical thoughts couldn’t be expressed. A form of censorship, Newspeak employed euphemisms and words deliberately opposite the reality they described.

Credit: Johnson There’s a small office on Capitol Hill that is playing a major role in determining whether Americans will have affordable health care or more renewable energy in the coming year. The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan body in charge of providing economic data to Congress, has an incredible amount of power over our political system. In June, this office released a report on the Affordable Health Choices Act showing that enacting the proposal would increase the deficit by $1 trillion over the next decade and would insure fewer than half of the 46 million uninsured Americans.

ObamaCare and the Disarmament of US Citizens A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet *********************************** To do this commentary justice you really need to read this short piece in The Washington Times. Please do so before continuing this commentary. Just click the link HERE. We knew it was just a matter of time. So, apparently the Obama administration has decided it IS time. How many times have we warned that ObamaCare would punish American gun owners? We were shouted down each time.

The drug-induced anti-authority, anti-discipline, hippie era of the ’60s combined with America’s drubbing in Vietnam and the spectacular birth of the Black Power and Woman Power movements spawned a nation ever more contemptuous of right-of-center thought. Because this is more a movement of passion than of reason, it has rapidly accelerated in zeal, power, and influence, which has led to Leftist thinking dominating in society’s mind molders: the colleges, and the media: including book and magazine publishers, and TV news networks, led by CNN.

On his show today, Beck exposed the failure of universal healthcare forced upon the fine people of Massachusetts , aptly called Romneycare or Barneycare. I promised a few weeks ago to start focusing on the plight of the disabled under Obama’s administration.  This video highlights some points that we, who are disabled, need to be aware of if Obamacare is passed . You will be denied certain ‘unnecessary’ services. You will be denied medical durable equipment if its too expensive.

Chuck DeVore Interview with SDNR – ”I’ve never had a desire to be anything.” Early in the interview, DeVore was asked if he had always planned to run for Senate, to which he replied: I’ve never had a desire to be anything. Inspirational stuff, really. The best line of the entire interview, however, was the next sentence: Offices are tools from which you do things with. Also, too.

Sen. Charles Grassley is a tad concerned that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius might be using federal funds to propagandize about ObamaCare : Grassley points to the “state your support for health care reform this year” button featured on the HHS home page. Visitors can send an e-mail to President Obama praising his health care reform plan.

And this guy thinks he’s going to vaporize his opponent next year? This guy just got vaporized by his own party. Harry Reid, fast becoming one of the most unliked politicians in Washington (and that’s quite a feat), was smacked down by his own party for trying to treat them like a bunch of idiots. Well, he got some on board. His scheme didn’t atrtact one Republican. Reid’s problems started when the AMA threatened to pull their support for Obamacare unless they dropped the idea of cutting Medicare payments to doctors as outlined in the Baucus bill.

No, not all the winners of this award are Democrats? Take today’s winner Can you sayRINO ALERT!It’s bad enough that the Left wants to regulate the Internet through “net neutrality” interventions.  Now we have Republicans talking about regulating the Internet in order to protect “women and children.”  Carly Fiorina told an audience in San Francisco that the “duality” would have to end:She mentioned that politicians should be held accountable just the way that business managers and board members are, and that the U.S.

(H/T Comcast ) Related Posts: Video: The Day Obamacare Died Enough is Enough! Video: Two From RedState Update Updated! It has started: Black Virginia Police Officer threatens to arrest White Man if he holds up Anti-Obama sign Officer Cheeks works for the SCHOOL and NOT the City Police! “> Updated! It has started: Black Virginia Police Officer threatens to arrest White Man if he holds up Anti-Obama sign Officer Cheeks works for the SCHOOL and NOT the City Police! Today in History for August 15, 2009 Funny Video: WRIF Bloopers Video: Henry Gates Jr.

Not much Hope but a whole lot of Change. ObamaCare plus stagnant unemployment plus dithering on Afghanistan makes for a magical brew indeed, my friends.In fact, the 9-point drop in the most recent quarter is the largest Gallup has ever measured for an elected president between the second and third quarters of his term, dating back to 1953. One president who was not elected to his first term — Harry Truman — had a 13-point drop between his second and third quarters in office in 1945 and 1946…More generally, Obama’s 9-point slide between quarters ranks as one of the steepest for a president at any point in his first year in office.

Want Peace. Give Nukes the Nobel.Time Magazine has an interesting article that bucks their usual shtick. The article advocates giving nuclear weapons the Nobel Peace Prize  for helping to keep several wars from happening.UN Calls for Dropping Dollar as World Reserve CurrencyThe UN along with a whole host of countries  is witnessing what the government and the Federal Reserve is up to.  Oh wait, you don’t know what they are up to? OK quick economics lesson.

H1N1 flu is running rampant throughout the U.S., and the country will have received only 25 percent of the vaccine that was expected by the end of October, Sen. Joe Lieberman told a Senate committee hearing Wednesday. The grim news was the focus of a special hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, at which three Cabinet secretaries were called to address the panel: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

I gotta get up at 3 a.m., so I’m throwing a linkfest before I head to bed early. Hot Air: Fiorina: Government has to regulate “wild west” Internet Moxie: Really terrific episode of PennSays D-Vice: Skiing Robot Greg Hendler: Rep. Grayson: FOX & GOP Are Enemies of America, Peace, and Education Dr.

by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann at Townhall.com : Whether or not you now have health insurance, Obama’s health care bill will cost you dearly. If you don’t have insurance, you will be required to buy it. The legislation specifies how much you will have to pay for the coverage before any subsidy kicks in. All during the campaign, Obama kept speaking about affordable coverage. Now it appears that his definition of “affordable” might be a bit elastic.

Michelle Malkin: It looked like the fix was in. The “Doc Fix,” that is. As the Heritage Foundation has been reporting, the White House and Dem leaders scurried today to try and pass a $247 billion payoff to doctors groups as an enticement to support Obamacare. Surprise: The fix failed. The cloture voted on S. 1776 failed by 47-53. Here’s the roll call vote: And now look who’s whining .

Brian Darling at the Heritage Foundation writes:  The Senate just voted down, 47-53, a procedural motion to commence debate on the so-called “Doc Fix” bill today. This is important because this procedural vote was Round 1 of the battle over Obamacare, and the liberals lost.  The White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) wanted the Senate to pass the Doc Fix bill as a means to take $247 billion off the cost of Obamacare and to purchase the support of doctors for the measure.  A bipartisan coalition of senators concerned about spending stopped Sen.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post is funny , in his rendition of Majority Leader Reid and his quest to put $250 billion in ObamaCare off-budget, adding it to the deficit. It really is worth the read, here are his first paragraphs: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future — period,” President Obama told Congress in a health-care address last month.

From the Hill : “A group of Democrats joined all Republicans in blocking a 10-year freeze of scheduled cuts to doctors’ Medicare payments, legislation that was considered important to getting a broader healthcare bill through later this year. Prior to the 47-53 procedural vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) blamed the American Medical Association (AMA) for giving him bad information on the number of Republicans expected to support the measure.

The L.A. Times published a story that was probably meant solely as a bash on insurance companies, but still the report brings up several issues that Obamacare will only make worse if passed. The problem raised in the headline, “ Healthcare bills lack protections against treatment denials, experts say ,” isn’t the only problem the story touches upon — not that the L.A. Times dwells on them. The headline problem is important, of course though the Times tries to phrase the problem as an evil failing of insurance companies.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post is funny , in his rendition of the hapless Majority Leader Reid and his quest to put $250 billion in ObamaCare off-budget. It really is worth the read, here are his first two paragraphs: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future — period,” President Obama told Congress in a health-care address last month. Well, that depends on what the meaning of “plan” is.

I don’t know, actually. Does Heather Graham still qualify as a celebrity? We’re a long, long way from “Austin Powers”, my friends. Regardless, this spot and its hosannas to competition — from MoveOn, no less — cry out for parody even more than that Will Ferrell abomination did. Keep the track-meet motif and simply have Public Option pull out a tire iron and kneecap the other racers mid-stride, just like all those nice Democrats who’ve been caught on tape burbling about single-payer would like.

Wrong thinking, Danger, and Profits are the formula being used against Americans with one more trick up their sleeves. Let’s all watch Glenn Beck and Fox instead of paying attention to the healthcare debate raging in the congress. I will update this post as video of the “trick” becomes available. Beck and John Stossel – the truth about Obamacare and the “Doc Fix”

Senator Harry ‘Hands Up’ Reid blew it! He was postitive that he could BRIBE the AMA to see Obamacare as to their BENEFIT! Reid brought the $247 billion bill to the Senate floor this week as part of a deal to secure the support of doctors groups such as the AMA for passage of a separate, broader healthcare reform bill later this year. But the strategy has backfired. Reid knew that he needed Republican votes because several centrist Democrats made it clear to him before this week that they would not vote for the measure if its cost was not offset.

In last night’s Virginia Governor’s Debate, Creigh Deeds said that the public option was not necessary for health care reform: Then he said he didn’t say that: Geez, this guy is the best you could come up with Virginia Democrats ? H/T: Bearing Drift Similar Posts: DailyKos/Research 2000: McDonnnell Up By 7 Points Olympia Snowe: Obama Should Drop Public Option Obama’s Speech: No Ultimatum On Public Option Majority Says No Health Care Reform At All Is

CNS News: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.” The Congressional Budget Office, however, has stated in the past that a mandate forcing Americans to buy health insurance would

It looked like the fix was in. The “Doc Fix,” that is. As the Heritage Foundation has been reporting, the White House and Dem leaders scurried today to try and pass a $247 billion payoff to doctors groups as an enticement to support Obamacare.Surprise: The fix failed. The cloture voted on S. 1776 failed by 47-53. Here’s the roll call vote:And now look who’s whining. Harry Reid blames the AMA:Reid brought the $247 billion bill to the Senate floor this week as part of a deal to secure the support of doctors groups such as the AMA for passage of a separate, broader healthcare reform bill later this year.

Even the Washington Post is not on board with the Senate’s latest efforts to pass ObamaCare: Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) now says that “we need to fix the Medicare doctors’ payments first, outside of health reform” — thereby allowing $247 billion in new deficit spending to be passed without having to count it against the balance sheet of a Democratic health bill. This Washington Post editorial doesn’t pull many punches in response to Sen.

Sometimes, you find a nugget of truth on a web site that’s more valuable than anything the web site’s owner might intend to share with you. That was the case this morning when I visited the AFL-CIO web site.  The video above tells the story in just over a minute as does the story below. How did I end up on the site purporting to represent the interests of 11.5 million workers?  Allow me to explain.

So-called “health care reform” or ObamaCare, will be a de facto, involuntary contract between each citizen and his/her government. It will list the medical services each of us is eligible to receive, and set forth the terms and conditions that each of us will have to meet to access those services. The contract will be enforced by the IRS and scores of new federal agencies, and you will not be permitted to opt out.  The contact will continuously evolve over the years, as various population groups pass into and out of political favor and as costs inevitably rise above government’s ability to meet.

We, RedState readers, have defeated Harry Reid today and delivered a significant blow to the potential passage of Obamacare . We held every Republican Senator including Olympia Snowe and Richard Burr. Harry Reid just ran to the Senate floor and cried that he cannot get enough votes to pass the doctors’ bribe to support Obamacare. He blamed the AMA for misleading him. He might actually want to look to RedState. Our readers have generated hundreds and hundreds of phone calls in 24 hours to pretty much every Republican Senator.

Wow, what a difference ten months make. This is not surprising, since the president is still vacillating on the Afghan troop request, refuses take the threat of ObamaCare off the table, stocks his administration with “fans” of Chairman Mao, and spends his time warring with FOXNews. After riding a wave of Hopeyness, the [...]

Department of Bulls^#t.“She is back fighting to get everyone the same good health care she has,” Backus said in an e-mail.This response from Sebelius’ spokester is after she testified to a Congressional Committee with a droopy eye after a ‘procedure’ earlier this week.The reason is it BS is because Sebelius, as a privileged Federal Employee, isn’t going to be plagued with living under Obamacare or public option or Pelosicare …..I would also assume that the DHS head happens to get a little better care then the staffer in the Senate cafeteria.

There’s a pattern here.Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the case.

After reading the latest polling from Rasmussen, including the polling on President Obama and the Generic Ballot Question , it’s clear that Democrats are in serious trouble. That’s before factoring in their troubles should they pass a tax-filled health care bill that doesn’t significantly reduce the number of uninsured and that is a job-killer. Here’s the grim news for President Obama: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.

House Dems want Medicare for everyone House Democrats are looking at re-branding the public health insurance option as Medicare, an established government healthcare program that is better known than the public option. The strategy could benefit Democrats struggling to bridge the gap between liberals in their party, who want the public option, and centrists, who are worried it would drive private insurers out of business. While much of the public is foggy on what a public option actually is, people understand Medicare.

The Democrats haven’t been doing the best job of actually explaining why the public option is awesome as of late.  Luckily there are smart and simple ads like the one below featuring Heather Graham from MoveOn.org .  In the video it becomes clear that the reason the public option is good is that it will force the greedy and lazy insurance companies to shape up and be more efficient at their jobs. Which is clearly what we need.

Michael Gerson doesn’t think that Olympia Snowe’s vote for the Baucus bill means much. He writes: Snowe’s vote applies a thin veneer of bipartisanship on health reform, but it does not indicate broader Republican momentum. She did not bring any Republican colleagues with her, and her main argument — that the bill is flawed but better than nothing — is not likely to begin a rush. This is true for two reasons — political and substantive.

Just in from Freedom Works VP for Policy Max Pappas: “The Senate is going to vote cloture on S.1776 this afternoon around 2 pm. Today’s cloture vote is key–if they get this through, they will have come through in buying off the doctors and will keep lying about the overhaul reducing the deficit.” Here is the target list from Erick Erickson: Here are the big targets today.

As the Democrat controlled Congress presses on towards passing legislation the public doesn’t want, a few of our local Democrats have weighed in on the raging debate. Amazingly, the most honest assessment comes from our governor. Mr. Nixon is quoted as saying he doesn’t expect a single payer system to be in the final bill: [...]

Just as is expected under Obamacare (Obama even admitted to rationing ), Britain’s cost-effectiveness watchdog - The National Institute for Health Clinical Excellence (NICE), has blocked the use of a life-extending breast cancer drug on the NHS, despite a fresh review of the medicine saying that it still did not feel GlaxoSmithKline’s drug Tyverb was a cost-effective use of resources. NICE’s action will result in 2,000 British women a year being denied access to the drug.

By Mario Rizzo   If anyone doubts that this Administration and the Democrats in Congress live in bizarre fantasy world he should take a look at what is happening with the funding of Medicare .   Premiums are scheduled to “rise” by 15%. Most people will not have to pay because their increases are limited by their Social Security raises which are zero this year (aside from the $250 lump-sum political payment to the elderly that Obama is contemplating).  The “wealthy” would have to pay and Medicaid will pay on behalf of its beneficiaries.

Once again, Bleeding Cool Rich Johnston  has tuned me in to comic-world buzz that’s right up my alley, calling attention to a recent post on the official website of Barry Windsor-Smith, where the legendary comic creator puts some fanboy perspective on the need for healthcare reform in the United States. Back in the 1970’s, Windsor-Smith had a health crisis of his own, which started much like mine–with a lump in his neck, but because he lacked the nifty corporate medical coverage that I benefit from today, turned into a fiasco that saw him forced to leave the country and return to Britain for the treatment he needed.

Perhaps the leading economists of the US could convene a special remedial course for Congress to explain the difference between price and costs.  One might have expected the political class to have learned that difference from the disastrous US effort to fix prices and wages in the 1970s during Richard Nixon’s term in office, but apparently not.  Democrats hailed their new, revamped House version of ObamaCare and its $871 billion price tag, based on forcing more providers into existing Medicare

Everyone else’s shows universal disapproval for it (and especially for the “public option”), but then everyone else’s has an even split of party affiliation.

James Pethokoukis (Reuters) cites two examples of why America is well down the road of a banana republic economy. Our record debt levels and deficits, combined the fiscal fantasy land the White House and Congress work and live in are writ large in both examples. First, the White House announces a $250 payment to every senior for inflation that didn’t exist. “In effect, a COLA was paid on inflation that no longer existed,” notes Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute.

The Senate is expected to try to take up S. 1776 today for a cloture vote. What that means is the Senate will see if it can get 60 votes to cut off debate on the measure. As I told you yesterday, S. 1776 is a deficit busting bribe to the doctors’ lobby to support Obamacare. If this passes, Obamacare will probably pass. The measure is a three quarters of a trillion dollar payout to doctors through increased medicare subsidies.

Not a good idea for a Republican congressional candidate to back card check and remain mute on whether it’s a good idea to raise taxes in a recession to pay for ObamaCare. Even a worse idea to call the cops on the Weekly Standard reporter who was asking about all that. And an even worse idea to complain about his reporting on the incident. From the latest CNN poll : “48 percent of people questioned say that they agree with Obama on the issues that matter most to them, with 51 percent saying no.

Embarrassing. Turns out Democrat Steve Shannon, who’s running for Virginia Attorney General, doesn’t really know anything about the office for which he’s running. Quick. Answer a question that wasn’t asked. Any question. Obfuscate. Dither. Change the subject. Even when the audience realizes exactly what you’re doing. Then, just to make an uncomfortable situation even worse, have your staff harass pesky reporters who attempt to follow up on his answer. Or non-answer, as the case may be.