Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of October 29, 2009

Only 23 percent of Pennsylvania voters think  Sen. Arlen Specter deserves re-election. And Obama’s approval rating in the state is the lowest of his presidency — 45 percent. Not a good way to celebrate his six-month anniversary as a Democrat (well, a Democrat after he was a Republican after he was a Democrat). “Beyond disgraceful” is how Charles Krauthammer describes Obama’s “child-like” fixation on blaming George W. Bush for all his failings, specifically the lack of an Afghanistan war strategy.

In all of the 14 states WellPoint scrutinized, ObamaCare would drive up premiums for the small businesses and individuals who are most of WellPoint’s customers. (Other big insurers, like Aetna, focus on the market among large businesses.) Young and healthy consumers will see the largest increases—their premiums would more than triple in some states—though average middle-class buyers will pay more too.

Stock analysts issue ‘Black Tuesday’ warning Trends on anniversary of 1929 collapse indicate markets on verge of ‘crash’Obamacare to put Planned Parenthood in charge? Provision for ‘pregnancy resource centers’ appears to benefit abortion industry leaderIslamic states pushing for ‘global blasphemy law’ Opponents say real goal is crackdown on Christians, members of other faithsU.N.

Real Clear Politics : Government by Holiday Inn Express By Mona Charen You’ve seen those commercials in which an airline pilot, or surgeon, or nuclear engineer is giving expert advice only to acknowledge eventually to his nonplussed listeners that while he is not actually a fill-in-the-blank, he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

The GOP Gang of Weasels continue looking for their spine even as their lips continue to move! More in today’s Morning Intell.

Many of us turn to the sports pages before the news section. For just a moment, we can put aside worries about the economy, Iraq, Afghanistan, ObamaCare, the “peril” of “global warming,” government bailouts and the feds’ borrowing and …Originally posted here: RealClearPolitics – When Sports-Lefties Go PoliticalNext Post:790/The Zone takes over sports for WGCL-TV | Radio & TV Talk Written by TakoTakoBurito · Filed Under UncategorizedTagged: afghanistan, aside-worries, before-the-news, economy,

October 28, 09 Posted by MP under Headlines. Tags:hannity, harry reid, harrycare, health care reform, michelle malkin, obama, obamacare, public option, sean hannity Hannity October 28. Be the first to comment!

Via Right Scoop, here’s the boss wondering whether Dingy Harry has cocked things up so badly in the Senate that he has no choice now but to try to ram through the public option via reconciliation. Two reasons to think that he won’t: (1) After having been rolled by Joe Liebs, there’s good cause to think he simply isn’t smart enough to pull off a gambit as complicated as reconciliation, and (2) if the GOP cleans up in next week’s state races, the Democrats are going to freak out about trying something as partisan and unilateral as that.

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 27, 2009 10:11 AM / Michelle MalkinDoug Powers takes a closer look at Harry Reid’s state opt-out sop.There’s no there there:I haven’t seen this section of the bill, but one thing is certain: It will be easier to get Michael Moore through the eye of a needle that for states to opt out of Obamacare.There will be countless additional funding measures attached so as to ensure that if states opt out, they’ll go even more broke than they already are.Technically states can

“I desire to o everything I can in my power to get the Republicans to work with us. This is a new world we found. When I came here, we had Republicans and Democrats work together. But you can’t dance if your partner is unwilling to get off the chair.” – Harry Reid.Harry Reid is not sharing the contents of this bill with Republicans and we don’t get to see it until after the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) returns it with their scoring of what it will cost.

Mitch McConnell: Democrats Wrote Health Care Bill In Secret and are Not Sharing it with Republicans. url=’http://www.libertysarmy.com/2009/10/28/health-care/mitch-mcconnell-no-republicans-have-seen-the-bill-sent-to-the-cbo/’;

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Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman Liberty Counsel , On Monday, I alerted you that pro-life Democrats who are opposing the abortion funding inherent in ObamaCare would face intense political pressure. Well, the heat is being applied! Rep. Bart Stupak says that members of his party are putting pressure on him because he is vowing to vote his pro-life conscience. “The Speaker is not happy with me,” Stupak says. The Congressman went so far as to say he is willing to lose his seat in Congress if that is a consequence of voting for life! Stupak is not alone.

Under Obamacare, you could face substantial fines and even punishment for violating the plan’s mandatory insurance requirement. It looks like the IRS may play enforcer for President Obama and the Democrats, even deciding if your insurance coverage is acceptable or not. For more information visit www.cwfa.org. Rationing care is inevitable under Obamacare. And those who are more vulnerable, like the elderly, will find their care restricted the most. Visit www.cwfa.org for more information.

Rush Limbaugh Morning Update 10/28/09

That was Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s Chief of staff, last year shortly after the Presidential Election.  The full quote excerpted from this aged NewsBusters piece:”You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”Which makes this current William Warren cartoon from GetLiberty.Org all the more poignant:The question I have is how…

Memeorandum : Carrie Budoff Brown at the Politico: Defections have Dems ISO Plan B .  Nice.  ReidCo bombs out so now the ENTIRE DNC uper echelon are on Plan B.  Plan B?  Isn’t it more like Plan Z? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s appeals for party unity landed with a thud Tuesday with the very group he needs for his public-option push to pay off: centrists who hold the key to health reform. And not just any centrists but one who makes liberals see red: Sen.

Private Insurance Could Triple Under ObamaCare

According to a state-level study conducted by WellPoint Inc, it is a near-certainty that ObamaCare will cause insurance costs to rise across the board.At the request of Congressional delegations worried about their constituents—call it a public service—WellPoint mined its own actuarial data to model ObamaCare in the 14 states where it runs Blue Cross plans. The study therefore takes into account market and demographic differences that other industry studies have not, such as the one from the trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans, which looked at aggregate national trends.

Today, Rep. Bart Stupak threatens to derail ObamaCare over the issue of abortion, but last Saturday, Stupak tried a different position back in his home district. The Heritage Foundation blog The Foundry published the video, where Stupak told a town-hall audience that he would support ObamaCare if the Democratic leadership allowed him a vote to ban federal funding of abortion first:Read the Foundry’s post to discover why Stupak may not have expected this to come to light.  Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?Does this negate what Stupak asserted just a few days later? Perhaps not.

Assuming that ObamaCare is passed into law in America, people may in the future be calling the ObamaCare Line as the first step in receiving medical treatment. Here’s what such a phone call might sound like: The ObamaCare Line – Estimated Wait Time is 35 Days Well, as over-the-top and hyperbolic as this video by Concerned Women For America is, every country that has enacted government mandated and administered healthcare has incurred waiting time for treatment that are greatly in excess of what Americans’ are currently used to putting up with.

Fishbowl DC had it first, then Mediaite confirmed it independently. Thus dies one of the sweetest, easiest sources of bloggy material we’ve had in ages. RIP.The good news? These truces never last. Eventually Beck will accuse The One of being a Bilderberger or something and we’ll be playing the feud once again, oh yes.Details of the meeting and terms of any agreement are still emerging, but we hear the meeting was to come to a “truce” between both sides – a point first reported by FishbowlDC.Mediaite hears the meeting was between FNC Senior Vice President Michael Clemente and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in Gibbs’ office at the White House.

Concerned Women for America has a series of humorous videos highlighting their objections to ObamaCare. They cleverly use one of the most annoying inventions of the modern age, the voice-mail menu system, to underscore their specific points as well as an unsubtle reminder of the bureaucracy to come after the government-forced overhaul of the American medical system.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA, 100%) is of course shepherding the economy-killing energy bill, Cripple and Tax (sorry, I meant Cap and Trade) through the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which she chairs. Her fellow committee member Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT, 80%) — who just recently wrote his own Obamacare bill in the Senate Finance Committee, which he chairs — has decided to write his own energy bill as well; he came out swinging against the Boxer bill…

Previous: Coming To Your Public Schools: Under ObamaCare “Planned Parenthood” Sets Up Shop On Campus 1) In most all cases HPV IS caused by multiple sex partners. Targeting young girls for the vaccine (as seen in recent years in TV ads) IS presuming, assuming, and even condoning girls in our society would/should be involved in such an irresponsible, careless, and dangerous ‘openness’ with their bodies. Those TV ads do nothing to explain this disease originates in sexual activity, that it can be prevented by either practicing safe sex, or abstaining from becoming active.

OPT OUT Defined By: Lee S Gliddon Jr Senator Reid thoughjt long and hard and came up with a solution that hwe was sure he could make appear as a viable Plan to get Obamacare enacted. His idea, allow states to Opt Out of the Public Plan (Obamacare). Sounds good; HUH! Well, Opt Out means: The Healthcare Part of this Bill will not come to effect for 4 yeras.

Treating seniors as ‘clunkers’   By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Last Updated: 2:45 AM, October 27 , 2009 Posted: 12:45 AM, October 27, 2009   Everyone knows that if you don’t pay to maintain and repair your car, you limit its life. The same is true as human beings age. We need medical care to avoid becoming clunkers — disabled, worn out, parked in wheelchairs or nursing homes .   For nearly a half century, Medicare has enabled seniors to get that care.

According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: [T]he NBC/Journal poll — which was conducted of 1,009 adults Oct. 22-25, and which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points — shows that opinions on the health care debate haven’t changed much over the past month. Only 38 percent believe that Obama’s health plan is a good idea, compared with 42 percent who say it’s a bad idea, which is virtually identical to the numbers from September.

Obamacare will double or triple the amount you pay for health care. On the other hand, you will get less health care under Obamacare. Take Ohio, where a young, healthy 25-year-old living in Columbus can purchase insurance from WellPoint today for about $52 per month in the individual market. WellPoint’s actuaries calculate the bill will rise to $79 because Democrats are going to require it to issue policies to anyone who applies, even if they’ve waited until they’re sick to buy insurance.

If he doesn’t get a chance to offer an amendment on abortion: Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) on Tuesday threatened that he may work with Republicans to torpedo healthcare reform unless he gets a vote to strip abortion-related provisions out of…

I’m going to apologize at the outset to our long-time readers who by now are probably longing for the day when they no longer have to hear about Trojan horses, the public option, and Jan Schakowsky. That day is coming soon – I am a little tired of covering this issue myself. But it’s crunch time, and even now the Democratic leadership in Congress is working feverishly to get some form of the public option crammed into the final bill. And it’s not yet clear whether they will be successful.

-By Warner Todd Huston Reports have emerged over the behind-closed-doors deal that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is desperately trying to make with Big Unions in order to get the waters smoothed for his Obamacare policies. These reports show where Reid’s sympathies lie: with union bosses and not with the voters. The Hill reported that Reid made “several significant concessions” to organized labor to smooth the way for his healthcare policies.

-By Warner Todd Huston Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty delivered a red meat assessment of Obamacare and it appears he doesn’t like it much. Pawlenty slammed Obamacare as a “bait-and-switch” and said the president is “corrosive to freedom and liberty.” In a NewsMax interview , Pawlenty really went after Obama serving a hearty dish of red meat to conservative voters across the country. Gov. Pawlenty is widely considered a prime candidate for president in 2012.

Memeorandum… Michael Calderone at The Politico: News gets worse for the MSM There have been a lot of bad days recently for what’s come to be known as the mainstream media — or MSM — but Monday was one of the worst.  —  New circulation figures showed that big city papers had lost as much as a quarter of their circulation in the past six months. [...] And CNN is now last on the list of network news.  No wonder they went after Valarie Jarrett.  Maybe it’s this: Mike’s America at FA: Sen.

The real plan is bad enough! What an actor! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid presented his idea (we still haven’t seen the bill which he wrote in secret) for a government run health plan that had an “opt out” provision with a straight face. But the idea is such a joke, it’s difficult to see how anyone took the idea seriously. What state would consent to see their citizens taxed to pay for the health benefits in another state? Reid knows that there are not 60 votes in the Senate for a government run health plan.

Here’s a good video summation of one of this year’s resounding lietmotifs: Obama lied, transparency died.

In yet another reminder that the administration will have a tougher time pursuing cap-and-trade legislation than ObamaCare, its principal author for the latter in the Senate announced yesterday that he has “serious reservations” about the former, at least in its current form.  Max Baucus (D-MT), fresh off of handing Harry Reid his summary on overhauling the American health-care system, says that the cap-and-trade bill proposed by John Kerry and Barbara Boxer attempts to do too much at once:Senate

By PoliPundit ~ October 28th, 2009 @ 9:03 am Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), on Harry Reid’s version of Obamacare:“I am very, very skeptical about the whole thing right now.” Subscribe to blog feed. « “Waterboring” Leave a Reply Name (required)Mail (will not be published) (required)WebsiteComment RSS  |  Trackback URI

Huge Unmet Need for Contraception in Uganda Uganda has the highest rate of unmet need for contraception in Africa, reports the Guardian UK , denying women the ability to avoid unintended pregnancy and to choose the number and timing of children they bear. “Limited access to family planning services, fears about side effects, opposition from partners and religious beliefs have led to Uganda having the highest unmet need for contraception in east Africa,” says the Guardian.

I’ve been pretty vocal about my frustration with those folks boycotting Whole Foods and protesting in crazy way s . So when I watched the below episode on The Daily Show I couldn’t have been happier. In the show’s second segment Wyatt Cenac interviews Mark Rosenthal , one of the guys behind the Whole Foods boycotts.  He also looks into “the buycott” those folks who want people to support Whole Foods.  Either way Cenac seems to suggest that it’s kind of impossible to only support good companies and that Whole Foods isn’t actually that evil.

The internal Whip Count document tallying House of Representative votes for an ObamaCare bill with a public option shows that Democrats lack the votes necessary to pass such a bill by a large margin. A bill in the House of Representatives requires 218 votes for passage.  Democrats have been able to corral less than 200 votes [...]

Canada Free Press MailoutCanada Free Press | CFP RSS Feed | World RSS Feed | Medical RSS Feed | Automotive RSS Feed | Business FeedCFP Photo Gallery | CFP Speakers Bureau | CFP Shop Cover Stories NewsNo Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccinations II By Jim O’Neill“The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.”—From the Nuremberg CodeThis article is basically an addendum to my previous article “No Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccinations!”  There are a couple of reports that have come

A follow-up and possible explanation to my previous post comes from The Hill, which reports on the way Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) has made himself into the fly in the ObamaCare ointment.  While Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-NC) tries to whip 218 votes out of the Democratic caucus, Stupak claims to control 40 of those votes, thanks to the federal funding of abortions in the House plan.  Stupak now threatens to collaborate with Republicans on a procedural motion that will kill ObamaCare for the session unless Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Nancy Pelosi allow an amendment to block all federal funding for abortions:Rep.

So Harry Reid is pushing hard for a public option in the senate’s health reform bill. Joe Leiberman has threatened to filibuster with the Republicans if a public option is part of the senate’s health reform bill. In the words of Sarah Palin (cringe) “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” Does Joe Leiberman really care about health care reform, with or without a public option attached?  Ummm, not so much.  What Joe Leiberman cares about is getting re-elected.  This time, as a Republican.  From the NY

Because no one will be able to afford private care WSJ Washington is captivated by the Senate melodrama over the so-called public option, salivating at the ring of Harry Reid’s political bell (see below). But the most important health-care questions continue to be about the policy substance—particularly those that Democrats don’t want asked. Foremost among them is: How will ObamaCare affect insurance premiums in the private health-care markets? Despite indignant Democratic denials, the near-certainty is that their plan will cause costs to rise across the board.

Liberal Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry have been toiling away on cap-and-trade, seemingly oblivious to the utter lack of appetite for this initiative among their moderate colleagues. Sen. Max Baucus came along to dump some cold water on their efforts, according to this report: “I have some concerns about the overall direction of the bill,” Mr. Baucus said at the start of hearings Tuesday.

Walter Williams once again hits the nail on the head. This abomination being foisted upon the American people needs to just go away… “At the heart of the American idea is the deep distrust and suspicion the founders of our nation had for government, distrust and suspicion not shared as much by today’s Americans. Some of the founders’ distrust is seen in our Constitution’s language such as Congress shall not: abridge, infringe, deny, disparage, violate and deny.

Real Clear Politics : Government by Holiday Inn Express By Mona Charen You’ve seen those commercials in which an airline pilot, or surgeon, or nuclear engineer is giving expert advice only to acknowledge eventually to his nonplussed listeners that while he is not actually a fill-in-the-blank, he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Do you ever get the feeling that we are getting Holiday Inn Express government? Does anything they say make basic economic sense? President Obama and the Democratic Party propose to save money (or what they call “bend the cost curve”) on health care spending.

More bad news for ObamaCare: The House Dem leadership has conducted its preliminary whip count and has tallied up less than 200 likely Yes votes in support of a health care reform bill with a robust public option, well short of the 218 needed for passage, according to an internal whip count document I’ve obtained. The document — compiled by the office of House leader James Clyburn — was distributed privately at a meeting between Clyburn and House progressives today where the fate of the public option was the subject of some contentious debate, with liberals demanding that House leaders push harder to win over votes.

“Even if states say no, taxpayers will still have to pay.” — ALG President Bill Wilson.   October 27 th , 2009, Fairfax, VA —Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today denounced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for “trying to put the so-called ‘public option’ on life support with a cynical and duplicitous ‘opt-out’ ploy.”   At the same time, Wilson applauded Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) for promising to join Republicans in filibustering the “public option.”

I love a good political fight as much as the next person. And I even get enmeshed in the procedural wrangling that is government. But I am studiously avoiding the ins and outs of the Capitol Hill wrangling that I still believe will lead to health care legislation. Why? Because as a former Statehouse reporter I remember the words (if not the correct order) of Otto von Bismarck’s pronouncement : “Laws are like sausages.

Dear Joe:Just join the fucking Republican Party already.Love,MikeP.S. Fuck you, you opportunistic, immoral douchebag. P.P.S. While I still think Gore was robbed in Florida, the fact that you never ended up as Veep almost makes up for it. You’re Connecticut’s version of Sarah Palin.