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Showing posts with label obamacare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obamacare. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts............
WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee voted on Tuesday to approve legislation that would reshape the American health care system and provide subsidies to help millions of people buy insurance, as Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine, joined all 13 Democrats on the panel in support of the landmark bill.
The vote was 14 to 9, with all of the other Republicans opposed.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Public May Kick Back
Trying to shove an unwanted health care plan down the citizens' throats may have serious repercussions.For Obama.
For Pelosi.
For All the Dems.
Obama's Push for Health Care Reform May Use Up His Political Capital
The shift in public tone toward President Obama and his agenda raises fresh questions about the political capital he is expending to push through his top domestic priority, especially after he scored a hard-fought victory to get his $787 billion stimulus package passed.
Barack Obama promised on the campaign trail to change Washington if elected president, and he rode a wave of support based partly on that pledge all the way to the White House.
But change doesn't come cheap, and securing health care reform may wind up costing him much of that support -- known in Washington as political capital.
There already are signs that Obama's support is waning -- notably in his approval rating -- as he and Democratic leaders push to pass an overhaul of the nation's heath care system. And many of the people attending legislators' town hall events this month are voicing outrage and skepticism.
"That's really a big problem for a president that's persuasive but suddenly half the country says I just don't trust you," Stuart Rothenberg, a political analyst, told FOX News.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann delivers fiery speech
“What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”
U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican, chats with a supporter at an Independence Institute fundraiser in Denver on Aug. 31. (Photo/Ernest Luning)
DENVER — In a fiery speech that had her conservative Colorado audience cheering, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann railed against the dangers of health care reform and other Democratic initiatives, warning the proposals “have the strength to destroy this country forever.”
“This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”
“Something is way crazy out there,” Bachmann said in her remarks, billed as a “personal legislative briefing” by the Golden-based Independence Institute, which bills itself as a “free market think tank.”
“This is slavery,” Bachmann said after claiming many Americans pay half their income to taxes. “It’s nothing more than slavery.”
http://coloradoindependent.com/36840/bachmann-slit-our-wrists-be-blood-brothers%E2%80%99-to-beat-health-care-reform© Janet Crain
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Your life may well depend on stopping the proposed insurance plan
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Many a slip.......
What went wrong?
by Janet Crain
Well, I'd like to think the message was DOD. Too much hubris, too much over confidence, too much taking the great unwashed electorate for granted.
No one expected the turnout at Town Hall meetings. It was messy, inconvenient, some even called it un-American. But it was democracy in action and it reminded many of what this country was and is all about. You can take all the lobbyists and Union bosses, all the late night bull sessions by the old pols, take the lock step liberated liberals who march to exactly the same tune, and all the ink and all the electron bits and bites and megabits and throw them in the ocean. The people wouldn't miss them. The people can govern themselves.
From Salon
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by Janet Crain
Well, I'd like to think the message was DOD. Too much hubris, too much over confidence, too much taking the great unwashed electorate for granted.
No one expected the turnout at Town Hall meetings. It was messy, inconvenient, some even called it un-American. But it was democracy in action and it reminded many of what this country was and is all about. You can take all the lobbyists and Union bosses, all the late night bull sessions by the old pols, take the lock step liberated liberals who march to exactly the same tune, and all the ink and all the electron bits and bites and megabits and throw them in the ocean. The people wouldn't miss them. The people can govern themselves.
From Salon
It's almost Labor Day. Healthcare reform is struggling, the public option is near dead. Why couldn't Obama deliver?
By Thomas Schaller
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
President Obama at a healthcare forum Thursday in Washington.
Aug. 24, 2009 | Barring a major public groundswell or miraculous reversal in Congress, Barack Obama's healthcare reform package will not include the provision that matters most to the Democratic base, the so-called public option. Why has a president who entered the White House with the second-biggest winning margin of any Democratic president since the New Deal, and who is blessed with solid Capitol Hill majorities in both chambers of Congress, struggled to save this key agenda item?
Was the White House's public relations rollout insufficient to counter the stronger-than-anticipated resistance from healthcare opponents? Was the public option always just a bargaining chip to give away in exchange for what the president really wants? What happened to the vaunted Obama campaign apparatus, which was supposed to morph into a machine delivering support for Obama's agenda? Did Obama simply lack the political will or political capital? Or should he have been less of a consensus seeker and more of a Rove-ian steamroller?
Maybe there's some truth to all those scenarios. Call it the public option's "imperfect storm." Yet the policy stumble by a president who demonstrated so much political skill over the past two years merits further inquiry into what went wrong, and why. Here are four possible explanations:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/24/town_halls/?source=newsletter
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Nyet to Soviet Medicine!!!
What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us
In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal "cradle-to-grave" healthcare coverage, to be accomplished through the complete socialization of medicine. The "right to health" became a "constitutional right" of Soviet citizens.
The proclaimed advantages of this system were that it would "reduce costs" and eliminate the "waste" that stemmed from "unnecessary duplication and parallelism" — i.e., competition.
These goals were similar to the ones declared by Mr. Obama and Ms. Pelosi — attractive and humane goals of universal coverage and low costs. What's not to like?
The system had many decades to work, but widespread apathy and low quality of work paralyzed the healthcare system. In the depths of the socialist experiment, healthcare institutions in Russia were at least a hundred years behind the average US level. Moreover, the filth, odors, cats roaming the halls, drunken medical personnel, and absence of soap and cleaning supplies added to an overall impression of hopelessness and frustration that paralyzed the system. According to official Russian estimates, 78 percent of all AIDS victims in Russia contracted the virus through dirty needles or HIV-tainted blood in the state-run hospitals.
cont.http://mises.org/story/3650
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Obamacare explained
In contrast to the old methods requiring costly instructors, universities, medical schools, and textbooks, Obamacare will reply heavily upon the Internet for instructions on how to proceed.
This will save enough money to pay for insurance for everyone and the refunding of Medicare and Social Security. And provide yearly stimulus checks for everyone under 50. Oldsters will receive End of Life counseling in lieu of a check.
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This will save enough money to pay for insurance for everyone and the refunding of Medicare and Social Security. And provide yearly stimulus checks for everyone under 50. Oldsters will receive End of Life counseling in lieu of a check.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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