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

This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes.

CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. House on coming vote to set up federal abortion-funding program in “public plan”   WASHINGTON (October 23, 2009) –  The nation’s largest pro-life organization has put members of the U.S. House of Representatives on notice that it regards an upcoming procedural vote on the health care legislation as a vote on whether to establish a new federal government program that would directly pay for elective abortions with federal funds.

Politicians make asinine statements all, the time, but sometimes there is one that stands out from the crowd for its sheer cluelessness and lack of worth.  Patrick Kennedy , yep, one of Teddy Kennedy’s sons, a Democrat member of Congress from Rhode Island, lambasted the Church for not falling into line behind ObamaCare.  Here  is a statement that he made  to CNSNews.

Victoria JacksonBy Victoria Jackson / Big Hollywood.Breitbart.com I’m getting my fake fingernails put on and I’m thinking of you. I have a pitch meeting at Pie Town tomorrow and I chewed all my real fingernails off last night watching Anita Dunn express her admiration for Mao Tse Tung.  Thank you for exposing yet another enemy of our freedom.  You are so passionate and curious and smart and real.  Sigh.

Oct 23, 7:48 PM (ET)By DAVID ESPO / AP MY WAYWASHINGTON (AP) – Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month.Democrats have touted an unreleased Congressional Budget Office estimate of $871 billion in recent days, a total that numerous officials acknowledge understates the bill’s true cost by $150 billion or more.

And that is a bit scary : On Thursday night, Reid went over to the White House for a talk with the president. The conversation centered on Reid’s desire to put Schumer’s national opt-out plan into the base bill. White House officials were not necessarily pleased, and they made that known. Everyone agrees that they didn’t embrace Reid’s new strategy. Everyone agrees that the White House wants Snowe on the bill, feels the trigger offers a safer endgame, and isn’t convinced by Reid’s math.

Reuters, “ House health reform will have public option: Pelosi ” WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The health reform bill making its way through the House of Representatives will include a public insurance option, but negotiations are continuing on the details of the plan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday. “At the end of the day we will have a public option” in the House bill, Pelosi told a news conference. She noted it was possible the Senate might include a public insurance option in its final health reform bill.

My Way News (AP), “ House health care bill over $1 trillion for decade ” by David Espo “The bill will be paid for over 10 years. It will reduce costs but also will not add a dime to the deficit” in future years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a news conference. WASHINGTON (AP) – Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month.

admin 23 October 2009Bizzare and Offbeat No CommentIt seemed all but dead, but the idea of a gov’t-run health plan is catching on again in Congress, as Dem leaders consider reform bill compromises | FULL COVERAGE• House Health Plan Exceeds $1 Trillion• ‘Public Option’ Could Have Huge Advantage in Market• Report: Pelosi Lacks ‘Robust Public Option’ Votes• FOX FORUM: YOU Can Still Stop Obamacare

     Ok, maybe I’m missing something here, but isn’t the idea behind ‘healthcare reform’ to cut costs? I keep hearing all these different bills and pricetags and I am wondering where all these high costs are coming from. Now I may be a bit naive but I would think, ( and this is only my humble opinion ) that if they would make bills limiting the mal practice awards, forcing pharmaceutical companies to lower drug costs and looking into how much tests and procedures really cost, that we could accomplish the very thing that they say they are trying to do.

Rep Paul Grayson.  Deadbeat.  Liar.  Sycophant.  Unruly.  Tiresome.  Name Caller.  And that is just a small tinge of what this character is. Twice before I have written on this character.  The first is Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL): A Very True and Definite LIAR and the next is Alan Grayson: A Major Lying Punk .  He makes his own claim to fame at the expense of others whose tendencies of truth he unravels by squalor, lies and forever untruths.

Yesterday saw some rare good news on the health-care front, with the stealth Democratic plan to move $247 billion in ObamaCare costs off the books collapsing in the Senate on a procedural vote of 47 to 53. Maybe there’s more anxiety among Democrats about a huge permanent increase in government health spending than the White House is willing to let on.Related Posts:Sebelius to America: Don’t Sweat the Details — Cal ThomasCBO deals new blow to health planPat Toomey — $121 billion tax increaseDemocrats’

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Mike at Cold Fury: I’m…beginning to think that yelling at Obama for failing to protect America is like yelling at a six-year old for failing to make a dentist appointment, open a 401k and install vinyl siding on the house. This, at the end of a post answering an often heard argument that this law or that is Constitutionally justified by the “General Welfare” clause of the Pre-Amble: Every law ever written was aimed at someone’s idea of “the general Welfare”.

Way back on May 20 I produced and posted a video which I called “ The Public Plan Deception “. The purpose of which was to expose how key liberals had admitted that the public option was really a back door way to move the nation towards a single payer system. One in which the government provides reimbursement for all healthcare costs, and thus essentially has control over the entire system. A central figure in our video was Dr. Jacob Hacker, a Yale professor who has since come to be known as the “father of the public option”.

The biggest news here is the lack of transparency going on with the current process.In violation of the spirit of the process the bills are being merged behind closed doors with the Republicans being locked out. Remember when Obama promised transparency and how the hearings and such on the health care bill would all be on C-Span and not behind closed doors??Just a reminder, here are Obama’s seven lies in under two minutes. Below you will read about how what are called “Cadillac Plans” will be taxed at 40%.

My first thought? Not enough Charlie Rich. The Congressional Republicans could have had some fun with an ad titled “Behind Closed Doors,” making a kind of Weird Al parody video with unions letting their “hair hang down,” making Democrats “glad that they’re in Congress.” In fact, the word “congress” could be used as a double entendre for the marriage of statists and special interests pushing ObamaCare legislation away from the sunlight of public scrutiny.However, it’s still a great reminder that

[Posted by Karl] From Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals : RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.) *** RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, “No worries, there will be a public option”. Miss America Pelosi said at a news conference that the House version of an Obamacare bill would include a public option; this will make the San Francisco base of the democratic party happy, which for all intents and purposes is the base of the democratic party. Pelosi also said that a Senate version might have a public option (meaning they’re feeling the heat and might leave it out) but underscored the necessity for the two chambers to agree on a final product.

Got the following email from a friend, which is an appropriate follow-up to the post I did about Michele Bachmann’s recommendation that you call your Congress person daily to protest Obama Care: Hey, all! When you make those phone calls to senators and congresspeople in response to Michelle Bachman’s call for help, Roberto suggested we do the following (I did a test run and it’s a great, great idea): Use the hotline provided by the comrades at SEIU The SEIU “Hotline” for calling your representative to urge him to pass Obamacare (hah!) is: 1-800-603-7348.

Forbes : Why Doctors Are Worried by Marc Siegel The troubles of the impending health care reform are upon us. I sit before my aging patient Julia for a few moments before my office nurse bangs on the door to say I’m running late. Julia looks at me across the desk, and in her pleading eyes, I can see her hopes for a reassurance or a cure. She hopes that I will tell her that nothing is wrong, or if there is something, that I can immediately fix it. She is not thinking about health insurance reform.

October 23, 2009 Dear Kevin, Thank you for contacting me about health reform. I appreciate you sharing your views on this issue of critical importance. When I traveled around the state during the month of August, Minnesotans were asking three basic questions about health care. How are we going to bring down the costs of health insurance? What happens if one of my kids has a pre-existing condition, and I lose my job, or want to switch to a better job? If something bad happens to my family, are we going to have to sell the house or go bankrupt trying to pay off the medical bills? These are the questions I heard most, and they are all great questions.

State Representative David Bly, MN District 25B » Health Care Forum in Northfield Posted using ShareThis

From the Desk of: Steve Elliott , President, Grassfire.org Alliance Desert Conservative Visitor, Sen. Jay Rockefeller has a confession to make to the taxpaying American people , “We cannot promise [you] that the insurance reforms… will benefit everyone, when the reality is that this bill leaves out up to 55 percent, or 73 million people” (who are already covered by work plans).

On Fox News today, Neil Cavuto had the Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury as a guest. He stated that in an interim report, the $8,000 Credit for Homebuyers Program there was massive fraud. The Inspector said 74,000 homebuyers received rebates that were not entitled to them. Included in this group were foreign nationals, children and even 53 IRS employees. Of course, the Obama administration is seeking to expand this program. The Inspector General expects the final report to have considerably MORE fraudulent claims.

In case you’ve had your head in the sand, there is an international boycott being staged against Whole Foods Markets . It started on August 11th, when founder and CEO John Mackey wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal criticizing what he calls “ObamaCare.” It opened with Margaret Thatcher’s wry quote: “The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of other people’s money,” before moving on to put forward eight libertarian “alternative proposals” to the Health Care bill that echo the right-wing backlash to health care reform.

The latest Harris Poll offers more bad news for the White House as it makes a final push for government-run health care. Support and opposition for the president’s “proposals for health care reform” are now tied 45% to 45%, according to the poll. A month ago, a modest 49% to 41% plurality supported them. More from results of The Harris Poll of 2,293 adults surveyed online between October 5 and 12, 2009: When President Obama was inaugurated, those who supported his “proposals for health care reform” outnumbered those who were opposed by more than two-to-one (50% to 20%).

Washington D.C.: Far from providing “affordable” care for everyone, ObamaCare would result in higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, lower wages, a reduced standard of living and an erosion of privacy and individual liberty. This is the conclusion of a new report, “No Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare,” by policy analyst Matt Patterson just released by the National Center for Public Policy Research.

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October 23, 09 Posted by MP under Headlines. Tags:constitution, constitutionality, health care reform, nancy pelosi CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?” Just 1 measley comment so far

It only took the Associated Press six weeks after Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie!”, but they finally have reported that Barack Obama told a whopper in his joint speech to Congress — and that Democrats have lied all along about abortion and ObamaCare.  Even at that, they bury the lead on the story several paragraphs into an analysis of the debate among Democrats on abortion funding, although not far enough for Life News to miss it:The main point of contention is the proposed new federal subsidies that

If you really oppose abortion and want to make a difference contact the American Life League at jbrown@all.org or through snail mail at ALL, PO BOX 1350 Stafford, VA 22555. DON’T BAIL ON THE BABIES! HELP US URGENTLY SAY NO TO TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTION, DEATH PANELS FOR SENIORS AND THE INFIRM, AND THE DEADLY “TRIGGER OPTION”!

Once again, Obama lies. He castigated Clinton’s attempts to get Hillarycare by saying that she tried to get her healthcare policies passed behind closed doors. He claimed he’d open the debate before the public and get it out from behind those closed doors. Yet, now Obamacare is being created behind the closed doors of the Senate and the House of Representatives. So, what happened to Obama’s now hoary promise that he’d have a transparent, open government? It’s gone the way of most of his other promises: down the memory hole.

Once again, Obama lies. He castigated Clinton’s attempts to get Hillarycare by saying that she tried to get her healthcare policies passed behind closed doors. He claimed he’d open the debate before the public and get it out from behind those closed doors. Yet, now Obamacare is being created behind the closed doors of the Senate and the House of Representatives. So, what happened to Obama’s now hoary promise that he’d have a transparent, open government? It’s gone the way of most of his other promises: down the memory hole.

-By Warner Todd Huston Despite assurances to the contrary, Politico.com is reporting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.) does not have the votes to include the so-called public option in the House version of Obamacare making it more likely that a “trigger” will be included instead. Politico also reports that Obama himself announced support for the trigger option. Obama told Senate Democratic leadership at the White House Thursday evening that his preference is for the trigger championed by Sen.

-By Warner Todd Huston Despite assurances to the contrary, Politico.com is reporting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.) does not have the votes to include the so-called public option in the House version of Obamacare making it more likely that a “trigger” will be included instead. Politico also reports that Obama himself announced support for the trigger option. Obama told Senate Democratic leadership at the White House Thursday evening that his preference is for the trigger championed by Sen.

You have to read all the way to page A-25 in today’s New York Times to learn about it, but the Senate took its first floor vote on Obamacare yesterday and the White House lost. Big. The NYT reports: “Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years. The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, needed 60 votes to proceed. He won only 47.

Even as Obama’s proposals for health care changes attracted two key swing votes in the Senate Finance Committee (Republican Olympia Snowe and Democrat Blanche Lincoln), public opinion is turning ever more hostile to the proposed changes. Inside the beltway, the plan looks unstoppable. Outside it, the legislation looks DOA. Which version of reality is the correct one? (more…)

Americans want no part of Obamacare. Are you listening Congress? By a 49% to 39% margin , most American voters say that no healthcare reform is better than the current disaster that is being put forth by Democrats known as Obamacare. Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters nationwide say that passing no health care reform bill this year would be better than passing the plan currently working its way through Congress. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% disagree and say the current effort is better than doing nothing.

Lean Yes: Ron Klein (FL-22): 202-225-3026, 561-544-6910 Dennis Moore (KS-03): 202-225-2865, 913-621-0832, 913-383-2013 Stephen Lynch (MA-09): 202-225-8273, 617-428-2000 Bob Etheridge (NC-02): 202-225-4531, 919-829-9122, 919-829-9122 Dina Titus (NV-3): 202-225-3252, 702-387-4941 John Boccieri (OH-16): 202-225-3876, 330-489-4414 Steve Driehaus (OH-1): 202-225-2216, 513-684-2723 Charles Wilson (OH-06): 202-225-5705, 740-633-5705, 330-533-7250 Christopher Carney (PA-10): 202-225-3731, 570-585-9988,

The Speaker of the House demonstrates her contempt for the Constitution of the United States: (CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious?

Your cousin comes at you with an email, you reply with an IBD editorial, She sends you an AP link, you mail her a copy of Atlas Shrugged. It’s the Chicago Way…I have heard “The Chicago Way” many times (they even had it on the Irish TV series “Ballykissangel”), but I never knew where it was from. Kim Strassel provides a citation, quotes it, and then compares it to the Obama Administration. Great stuff and another Friday jk link to Strassel won’t surprise nobody.But my blog brother was looking for examples of “disingenuousness” from the President.

Fox News is reporting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly lacks the votes to pass a “robust public option,” the most far-reaching of three forms of a public option House Democrats are mulling to overhaul the nation’s health care system. The shortfall, according to Politico.com , increasingly points to a compromise for a “trigger” option for a government plan on the heels of a private White House meeting on Thursday.

In The Freeman , I write, Overall, I would argue that on the demand side, the United States healthcare system is essentially socialized. The fact is that close to 90 percent of health-care spending is paid for by third parties, which means that individuals in this country generally experience a socialized process for obtaining medical services. I am inclined to lump private health insurance in with government programs, and call the whole deal socialism–even before Obamacare tightens the noose on insurance companies any further.

‘Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars’ by William Patry – Los Angeles Times – freestuff.shawnadee.com 10/23/2009 ‘Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars’ by William PatryLos Angeles TimesSome just want free stuff, or, citing economist Joseph Schumpeter, say that “creative destruction” accompanies innovation.

Excellent News!! We win one and the Senate, our elected officials who are supposed to represent US, actually showed a dash of ethics. All-in-all, not a bad way to begin a Friday. From Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert dated 10/23/2009 entitled, “Gun Owners Win the Opening Battle on ObamaCare!”: Congratulations! You have stymied the shady tactics used by Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi to try to pass the ObamaCare bill and — in the opening salvo of the battle — you blew them out of the water.

admin 23 October 2009Bizzare and Offbeat No CommentHouse Speaker reportedly lacks support to pass ‘robust public option,’ the most far-reaching that Dems are mulling • ‘Public’ Plan With State Choice to Opt Out Is Eyed• Pelosi, Obama Have Government-Run Lunch• FOX FORUM: YOU Can Still Stop Obamacare• McCain Stalls Obama Labor Pick

Hey, just what we and future generations of taxpayers need: Vast new opportunities for out-of-control government health care fraud!Philip Klein at the American Spectator reports: Guillermo Denis Gonzalez was released from prison in Florida in 2004 after serving 12 years for murder. By the end of 2006, he owned a health care business officially licensed by Medicare.This August, the Miami Herald reported that Gonzalez pled guilty to filing $586,953 in phony Medicare claims for supplies that were

And who says Family Research Council doesn’t have a sense of humor…

Misogynous obamacare? Is there disgust for women in this fiasco that the administration and socialist’s in congress are ramming down our throats? You decide. Posted in Editorial, Opinion, Education, News, Politics, Wordpress Political Blogs Tagged: misogyny, News, obamacare, Politics, womens issues

Each Friday, I will be posting a list of the best links of the week.  I’ll collect what I find most interesting during the week, and will take submissions of articles that readers find interesting. Best of the week from ModernGraham’s Reading List: The Reformed Broker had a couple of good posts this week: Keeping it Real:  Dow Broke 10k Because IBM Didn’t Split Too Often A Different Take on Dow 10k From Eric Bolling The DIV-Net always brings some of the best dividend posts: Stock Analysis:  Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

The episode noted here the other day in which the DNC’s Organizing for America group secured the use of a City of Wilmington building for political work has blown up into a full-fledged imbroglio. When city officials booted the pro-ObamaCare activists from the MLK building two hours before the scheduled end of their phone banking, the officials said Organizing for America had misrepresented its intentions in its application for the use of the building.

  No great surprise… Democratic Chairman Towns has changed the locks on the Committee doors behind which “The Left” is deciding our health-care fate. No Republicans.  No C-Span. No press. Nope. Can’t even get in unless you know the double-top secret Democrat handshake. Here we have our esteemed elected officials hashing over what will no doubt be one of the most important pieces of legislation in this country’s history, and we can’t even watch the process.

American Thinker | by Janet Levy | Oct. 22, 2009In 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. For example, “joycamp” was the term assigned to forced-labor camps.