Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of October 26, 2009

Milwaukee residents lined up in the rain and waited hours for flu shots. Mike O’Keefe brought a sign that put the whole thing in perspective. Source: Gateway Pundit Related posts: You gave half a trillion of our dollars to who? And why? A primer for Democrats: How much is one trillion dollars? Poet sues Oprah Winfrey for $1.2 trillion dollars

Regardless of how President Barack Obama’s health-care agenda plays out in Congress , it has not been a success in public opinion. Opposition to ObamaCare has risen all year. According to the Gallup polling organization, the percentage of Americans who believe the cost of health care for their families will “get worse” under the proposed reforms rose to 49% from 42% in just the past month. The percentage saying it would “get better” stayed at 22%.

From the Wall Street Journal : First the legislature greatly expanded MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program. Today Maine families with incomes of up to $44,000 a year are eligible; 22% of the population is now in Medicaid, roughly twice the national average. … the state created a “public option” known as DirigoChoice. … This plan would compete with private plans such as Blue Cross. To entice lower income Mainers to enroll, it offered taxpayer-subsidized premiums.

October 26, 2009President Obama and his allies deny that their goal is to nationalize medical care by creating a “public option” that would ultimately lead to a single-payer system, where government is the only option. Learn2Discern the facts! Distributed by Tubemogul.Duration : 1 min 30 secTechnorati Tags: learn2discernPosted in: wedding plans

  1-911-YUPPIE : “Help! I don’t want to get up!” Ingraham on ‘This Week’ Slams Charlie Gibson’s ACORN Ignorance   Watch Podesta prove what an unprincipled wimp he is.  A Youtube commenter says Laura “gets her ass handed to her.”  She does?  It strikes me that the Dems, true to form, can’t disucuss principle.  It’s only about politics to them .  Period. Pettybottom: What’s The Upside for Obama in Going After FOX ? (See Best Ex-President , below) Mark Steyn:  Much of “the rich world” has essentially opted for voluntary extinction .

In case anybody cares, and you shouldn’t, I am now officially agnostic on just how important if at all the “public option” is in supporting the eventual health care bill.  I have just heard too many good arguments on all sides of the question to be able to persuasively argue one or the other. I remain convinced that, in a perfect world, a sweeping single-payer system — free, universal health care paid for by progressive taxation — is the best way to go.

It’s a beautiful headline and oddly enough it wasn’t reported in the U.S. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6409721/Barack-Obama-sees-worst-poll-rating-drop-in-50-years.html Often liberals complain conservatives are stupid. A new study shows there may actually be some limited validity to this argument, at least as far a traditional conservatism, not necessarily what is labeled conservative in the U.S (the small government, lasse faire type).

Specifically, the mandate portion requiring all Americans to have health insurance is unconstitutional. The Federal Government does not have this authority, because it is not enumerated in the Constitution. An amendment would have to be passed in order for this authority to exist. Otherwise, expect Obamacare to be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court and lose in a slam dunk case. Verum Serum finds this problem for Dem’s isn’t new, it was a stumbling block for Hillary care back in the 90’s too.

I am declaring a national emergency over the H1N1 virus. It’s an emergency, so I’m signing it now . But, I’m going to wait until the next day to announce it . I mean, what’s the hurry? We must take whatever steps we can to make sure that we have flu shots for everyone! Except for my kids . The rates of illness continue to rise rapidly within many communities across the nation, and the potential exists for the pandemic to overburden health care resources in some localities.

Democrats have been tying themselves into knots in their efforts to conceal from the public the true cost of Obamacare. Last Wednesday, their schemes came crashing down around Harry Reid’s ears.Related Posts:Politics Daily — Enter Harry Reid — Now Health Care Is in His HandsSnowe to Reid: ‘What’s the Rush?’ — by Robert RomanoBigGovernment.com on ObamaCare Box Score — Conservatives 1 – Liberals 0Gun Owners of America — How Much Will The Anti-gun ObamaCare Bill Cost?Interview with Senator John Thune

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.Related Posts:AFP: Mexico raises swine flu death toll to 48Myth of 46 million uninsuredCure for ObamaCare — The remedy, says Bill Sutton, is called ‘Congress Cares,’ a rare condition caused by genuine voter outrageUS, international health expert FAIL: private company warned 18

POOLE, England - It has become commonplace to call Britain a “surveillance society,” a place where security cameras lurk at every corner, giant databases keep track of intimate personal details and the government has extraordinary powers to intrude into citizens’ lives.Related Posts:Obama breaks/delays another promise, stimulus transparencyJeffrey Miron, Cato: The Case for Doing NothingThe Scary Permanence of Congressional Power — Bill FrezzaMichael Tanner at Cato: ‘The Obamacare to Come’Club for

October 25, 2009  |  Posted by Mitch Gurney   Who are they, what is their mission, and most importantly who funds them?By Mitch GurneyOctober 2009Updated version A couple of days following the Senate Finance Committees approval of their “Healthy Americas Futures Act of 2009″ Senator Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina’s blog featured a commentary regarding a news scoop, “UPDATE: ‘Congress’ Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare - Pushed to Plan B’” apparently uncovered by the Heritage Foundation.

Steve Kroft of CBS had a neat story on Medicare fraud in Miami.“Medicare fraud is estimated to cost this country $60 billion a year, and “60 Minutes” this weekend looks at what’s being done to stop it,” Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel reporter.But Obamacare will be fraud free because it is totally different.

As the Obama administration watched their poll numbers plummet in regard to health care reform (and the public option in particular), they began trying to reshape what the debate was about.  Instead of continuing the positive tone of making sure everyone is covered and lowering costs, they went negative, attacking and vilifying the insurance companies.  [...] Related posts: Another Day, Another Promise Broken Obama Thinks Doctors are Greedy? The White House is Backing Away From the Public Option in Health Care Reform.

Among the nearly 200 patriots participating in an anti-socialism rally Saturday afternoon in O’Fallon, Mo., was Bill, an 85-year-old veteran of World War II.  He shares his hopes and fears for the future — including a warning to Americans about being complacent — in the video above. It marked the first time the former B-25 crew member-turned small business owner, father, grandfather and great-grandfather participated in the rallies which take place weekly at the intersection of Highways K and N in the city of 77,000 located about 30 miles west of St.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s comments about American business during the health care debate could fill a thesaurus of inanity. Just last week, while the Majority Leader was appearing as a witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Reid told this whopper:As for insurance companies, “There isn’t anything we could do to satisfy them in this health care bill. Nothing,” Reid said. “They are so anti-competitive. Why? Because they make more money than any other business in America today…

Fairly balanced? Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace may have abided being called to account by former Prez Bill Clinton (for allegedly being a Fox shill doing a conservative hit job on Clinton). However, he was somewhat more sensitive when Fox’s very own, i.e., Juan Williams, took him to task on the public option. During FNS’s segment on Obamacare, Wallace declared, “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi [is] keeping hope alive for a government-run health insurance as a central feature of health care reform,” He further asserted, “It seems like it was only a week ago that everybody in this town said that the public option was dead.

For Release : Immediate Contact : Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or e-mail jkent@nationalcenter.org to schedule an interview with Matt Patterson 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.

Via Glenn Reynolds , an intriguing question : Some companies noted last week that Congress’ plans to mandate that everyone buy health insurance include only weak penalties. The plans also make insurers take on customers who are already sick. If you’re young and daring, you pay the low penalty and go insurance-free until your doctor says you’ve got cancer. You then apply and pay $800-a-month premiums for $10,000-a-month care. Sweet, until the industry inevitably collapses, say insurers.

Say it ain’t so:AMERICANS seem to like the idea of broadening health insurance coverage, but they may not want to be forced to buy it. With health care costs high and rising, such government mandates would make many people worse off. The proposals now before Congress would require just about everyone to buy health insurance or to get it through their employers — which would generally result in lower wages.

Even supporters of Obama and this bill have admitted that they will ration care and deny care that is not cost effective. Is the timing of this bill coincidental to the same time frame that baby boomers are starting to retire? Is this a way to control the costs of care for those pesky baby boomers? Think about [...]

Maybe this universal health insurance debate is a good thing after all. It’s raising a lot of questions that apply equally well to other socialist entitlement programs. If we’re toting up the cost of Obamacare, there’s surely a ledger line for the demolition of an industry, even an unpopular one. Insurers’ power will be transferred to federal agencies, their earnings to a public option, their workers to the dole. Ah, well: Villains defeated. This is exactly the spirit of Obamacare.

Who can forget Hurricane Katrina? The left used that natural disaster to excoriate President Bush. All the myths and lies about Hurricane Katrina have now been debunked . Heh, heh! Obama failed to fill a room in the bluest of blue states – Massachusetts. Yes we can? It’s more like ‘Maybe we can’t .’ The GOP needs less political tactitians like Newt Gingrich and more rogues like Sarah Palin and Doug Hoffman.

With the historic carrier U.S.S. Midway as our backdrop,  the Radio Mayor of Southern California, Roger Hedgecock, headlined a cheering celebration of America to kick off the Tea Party Express II, Countdown to Judgment Day tour.Somewhere around 2,000 people greeted our arrival at our Tuna Harbor venue.   Hundreds more cheered, honked and thumbs-upped our motorcade through the city.  Leading us was a contingent of two-dozen Patriot Riders on Hogs decked out in flags.A small group of pro-Obamacare demonstrators showed up but wound up actually joining Lloyd’s chorus line for one of his songs!Next stop…..

In the companion piece to this post, Couldn’t See That Coming!, we noted that the United States Department of the Treasury, run by tax evader Timothy Geithner, has decided to institute wage controls at those companies that accepted large amounts of TARP money; TARP is the Troubled Asset Relief Program… that is, the Wall Street (and Motown) bailout.We ended that post with the by now familiar bleat (which I shamelessly stole from Patterico, though I added the adverb, which Patterico began copying

1. Now that the rest of the networks have sided with Fox News on remaining in the White House news pool, everyone is on the enemies list and the only network news that administration officials will appear on is SCTV News with Floyd Robertson and Earl Camembert.EVIL.2. Even the Huffington Post thought the White House erred in attempting to exclude Fox News from the press pool. All for one, one for all…GOOD.3.

Barack Obama: The do as I say, not as I do President. President Barack Obama has declared that swine flu is a national emergency in the United States. However, Obama has not vaccinated his own two daughters. So how exactly does a President declare a national emergency and not vaccinate his own children? The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October.

Barack Obama: The do as I say, not as I do President. President Barack Obama has declared that swine flu is a national emergency in the United States. However, Obama has not vaccinated his own two daughters. So how exactly does a President declare a national emergency and not vaccinate his own children? The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October.

Barack Obama: The do as I say, not as I do President. President Barack Obama has declared that swine flu is a national emergency in the United States. However, Obama has not vaccinated his own two daughters. So how exactly does a President declare a national emergency and not vaccinate his own children? The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October.

Making someone else pay Suppose that, besides being the Enemies of All Mankind, health insurers are actually right. Some companies noted last week that Congress’ plans to mandate that everyone buy health insurance include only weak penalties. The plans also make insurers take on customers who are already sick. If you’re young and daring, you pay the low penalty and go insurance-free until your doctor says you’ve got cancer. You then apply and pay $800-a-month premiums for $10,000-a-month care.

In Barack Obama’s vision of America, people are not allowed to disagree with the president’s position. Even of facts are used, dissent must be crushed.  Such it is with the the insurance industry “Even as America’s families have been battered by spiraling health care costs, health insurance companies and their executives have reaped windfall profits from a broken system.” Barack Obama July 2009 Two weeks ago when the Insurance Industry released a study showing that Obamacare would actually increase costs, the POTUS went on a rampage once again : It’s smoke and mirrors.

When you get the AP doing fact checking, you have to know something’s amiss in Obama fantasyland. In the POTUS’s desperate attempt to simplify his demand for remaking America’s health care system, he reverts to the proven Alinsky techniques of finding a demon, targeting that demon and isolating it to stir up public discontent. His latest mantras have been focused on portraying those evil health insurers in the same light as Wall Street CEO’s. Trouble is, facts get in the way of the rhetoric.

Boston Globe US-POLITICS Summary Washington Post WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leaders are close to securing enough votes to advance a sweeping healthcare reform backed by President Barack Obama … Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama’s Support Common Dreams (press release) ObamaCare: HuffPo Claims Obama Lacks Leadership; Looks to Harry Reid for Salvation NewsBusters (blog) Huff Post: Obama is actively discouraging Democrats from supporting public …

NYT : Democrats See Positive Side in a Bad Economy : “Democrats…say that economic insecurity and high unemployment stoke public support for their proposals to guarantee insurance for millions of Americans.” It’s easier to sell socialism in hard times.  But if Dems think people find health insurance more important than jobs and economic growth , they’re more clueless than I thought.

Two stories are unfolding out in the 23rd Congressional District of New York. In the foreground, we have the three-way contest between hapless Republican Dede Scozzafava, upstart Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, and some generic Democrat whose name no one can remember. This race is a microcosm of our strange politics, which have become like a speeding car with jammed door locks, cut brake lines, a dead steering wheel, and air vents that pump nitrous oxide.

Mike O’Keefe at Milwaukee Swine Flu vaccine line outside high school Vaccination Hell: In Oakland County MI, Thousands Line Up For H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine, Some In Line 11 Hours! Washington Examiner : From the people who brought us the swine flu vaccine shortage – Government-run health care! UPDATED By: Mark Tapscott President Obama’s late-night declaration of a nationwide public health emergency last night shouldn’t be allowed to obscure the most important lesson of the developing swine flu crisis – The same government that only weeks ago promised abundant supplies of swine flu vaccine by mid-October will be running your health care system under Obamacare.

Tyler Cowen talks about the likely impact of a health insurance mandate in today’s New York Times: The proposals now before Congress would require just about everyone to buy health insurance or to get it through their employers — which would generally result in lower wages. In other words, millions of people would be compelled to spend lots of money on something they previously did not want, at least not at prevailing prices.

This is ironic to say the least: A little-noticed tidbit in Saturday’s Washington Post is sure to raise eyebrows among liberal supporters of a gorvernment-run healthcare plan: the plan is likely to be administered by a private insurance company , the very companies that progressive activists are trying to unseat. The public-option debate is frustrating some Democrats, who have come to believe that a government-run plan is neither as radical as its conservative critics have portrayed, nor as important as its liberal supporters contend.

Look folks, I disagree with just about everything President Obama and his administration say and do, but I have to be reasonable in my criticism. The administration is not putting some chemical into the H1N1 vaccine that will turn our children into socialists through some twisted plot worthy of the Manchurian Candidate Returns. It’s a flu shot. That’s all. My family will get the vaccine if it is available to us on time. You’re probably well aware by now that production is way too slow relative to the speed the flu is spreading.

WASHINGTON – Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They’re all more profitable than the health insurance industry. In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making “immoral” and “obscene” returns while “the bodies pile up.” Ledgers tell a different reality.

Jim sent this in: Last week, millions of Americans watched President Barack Obama continue to sell his national health care plan on news shows, talk shows and even the David Letterman Show.  Reporters during televised question and answer portions of Obama’s performances attempted to appear unbiased, but their tone and demeanor is a marked difference from the attack approach they use on conservative politicians. And not one reporter asked about the potential for fraud and corruption in such a huge financial endeavor as providing health care for Americans.

Surprise! Surprise! Employees leaving businesses where pay is being regulated .  (Hat Tip: Hot Air .) Tapper challenges Obama White House’s war on Fox News . (Hat Tip: Reformed Chicks Babbling .) (Obama taking notes? Chavez takes aim at unfriendly media .  (Hat Tip: Wizbang .) U.S. Health care costs growing at the same rate as countries with government run health care . The latest advocate for Obamacare: Horror movie antangonist, Jigsaw .  (Hat Tip: Newsbusters .) Victory over the SEIU .

We were greeted this morning by the news that President Obama had declared a national emergency in connection with the H1N1 virus: President Obama has declared H1N1 swine flu a national emergency, clearing the way for his health chief to give hospitals wider leeway in how they handle a possible surge of new patients, administration officials said Saturday.

NOT SEEING A STORY HERE: Various people are emailing me saying “Obama declared a national emergency over swine flu, but his own daughters aren’t being vaccinated!” But if you read the story, you get this: The Centers for Disease Control recommend that children ages 6 months through 18 years of age receive a vaccination against the H1N1 flu virus. At this time only children with chronic medical conditions are receiving the vaccination because their immune system is not strong enough to fight off the strain.So they’re not getting the vaccine because there’s a shortage, and they don’t fit the triage guidelines.

Last week, millions of Americans watched President Barack Obama continue to sell his national health care plan on news shows, talk shows and even the David Letterman Show.  Reporters during televised question and answer portions of Obama’s performances attempted to appear unbiased, but their tone and demeanor is a marked difference from the attack approach they use on [...]