Sarah Palin in 2012: health plan

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Like Lemings Jumping Off a Cliff

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Monday, September 14, 2009

This won't hurt a bit.......

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Your life may well depend on stopping the proposed insurance plan

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Obamacare End-of-Life Counseling

Politico EXCLUSIVE: A new coalition this morning is launching $12 million in TV ads to support President Obama's health-reform plan, in the opening wave of a planned tens of millions of dollars this fall. The new group, funded largely by PhRMA, is called Americans for Stable Quality Care. It includes some odd bedfellows: the American Medical Association, FamiliesUSA, the Federation of American Hospitals, PhRMA and SEIU. The ads start airing at about 11 a.m. The group is likely to be the biggest spender in support of health reform. The campaign will serve as a counterweight to the critics at town meetings, which are getting saturation news coverage while Congress is out of town.

The group's campaign is likely to mean that White House supporters keep the upper hand on the airwaves. PhRMA's participation is key, because the group has promised to kick in as much as $150 million for advertising and grassroots activity to help pass the president's plan. But the new group could provoke complaints from the left. The debut ad is mean to shore up support among the conservative House Blue Dog Democrats, and to target swing senators. So it's airing in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota and Virginia. The first buy is expected to run for two weeks, with a weekly spend of around $3 million.

The first ad is called, 'Mean for You,' as in, 'What Reforms Means for You.' The 30-second script, with a soothing male narrator: 'What DOES health insurance reform mean for you?

Just bear in mind the operative words: MEAN FOR YOU

Too far, too soon, too fast, and costing too much!!!

Obamacare is going too far, too soon, too fast, and costing too much

By: Gov. Haley Barbour
OpEd Contributor
August 13, 2009

Americans are alarmed about the current federal efforts to change health care, and for good reason. After all it not only represents 18 percent of the U.S. economy, the health care system literally involves life and death decisions.

The White House and other proponents of a government-run health care system claim the concerns about and protests against the various proposals pending in Congress are politically generated and intended to hurt the president's popularity. This is simply not the case.

Citizens, whether seniors or medical providers, have received little solid information as proposals have changed and major differences have emerged in House and Senate versions.

What we do know, however, is all plans contain large cuts (hundreds of billions of dollars) in Medicare spending and large tax increases (hundreds of billions of dollars more) that fall very heavily on small businesses.

No wonder people are concerned, and that concern is exacerbated by the Democratic leadership's attempts to force passage of this complicated, life-changing legislation by artificial deadlines.

It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog. Cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time scares people who have been told, accurately, the various bills contain a billion-dollar combination of tax increases and Medicare spending cuts.

During a deep recession, when most people believe job creation and economic growth should be top priorities, huge tax increases on small businesses, whether in the form of an additional eight percent payroll tax, or a $750 per employee fee, or a 5.4 percent income tax surcharge, make no sense. When the government makes it more expensive to employ people, employers will employ fewer people.

And Democrats shouldn't be surprised that proposals to cut back on Medicare spending scare seniors. Democrats ran full-fledged "Mediscare" campaigns against Republicans in the 90's when we proposed increasing Medicare spending at a slower rate, i.e., "cutting Medicare."

This is not about party politics. Neither is the bipartisan opposition of governors who fear the expansion of Medicaid, as provided in both House and Senate proposals, will result in enormous unfunded mandates being placed on state governments.

States simply do not have the resources to assume tens of billions of dollars of new costs to cover an expansion of the Medicaid program as a device to give "health insurance" to some people.

Good citizens, Democrats and Independents as well as Republicans, are telling Washington to slow down. Everything this year has been "too far, too fast, too soon, too much", and too many trillions and trillions of dollars. It's time to slow down.

Americans want to know the facts and the effects of the various bills and proposals. They want to hear a lot more about the Medicare savings, the tax increases, the mandates and the regulatory system.

The 22 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who have chosen "Medicare Advantage" need to know if it will still be available and at what cost. People who want to keep their current plan need to have explained to them how that will be guaranteed if, five years from now, the federal commissioner of health care will have to approve any health plan before it can be sold in the U.S. How can these competing ideas be reconciled?
OpEd Contributor
August 13, 2009

Americans are alarmed about the current federal efforts to change health care, and for good reason. After all it not only represents 18 percent of the U.S. economy, the health care system literally involves life and death decisions.

The White House and other proponents of a government-run health care system claim the concerns about and protests against the various proposals pending in Congress are politically generated and intended to hurt the president's popularity. This is simply not the case.

Citizens, whether seniors or medical providers, have received little solid information as proposals have changed and major differences have emerged in House and Senate versions.

What we do know, however, is all plans contain large cuts (hundreds of billions of dollars) in Medicare spending and large tax increases (hundreds of billions of dollars more) that fall very heavily on small businesses.

No wonder people are concerned, and that concern is exacerbated by the Democratic leadership's attempts to force passage of this complicated, life-changing legislation by artificial deadlines.

It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog. Cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time scares people who have been told, accurately, the various bills contain a billion-dollar combination of tax increases and Medicare spending cuts.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Doc, What's This on my Back?

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Above all; do no harm..........

Hat Tip: Donna

I wake up every morning and wonder how our country got where it is today. How so many people were so deceived.JC

"On Page 425 of Obama’s health care bill, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes...They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!"

DEADLY DOCTORS

ADVISORS WANT TO RATION CARE

By BETSY MCCAUGHEY

July 24, 2009 --

THE health bills coming out of Congress would put the decisions about your care in the hands of presidential appointees. They'd decide what plans cover, how much leeway your doctor will have and what seniors get under Medicare.

Yet at least two of President Obama's top health advisers should never be trusted with that power.

Start with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He has already been appointed to two key positions: health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.

Emanuel bluntly admits that the cuts will not be pain-free. "Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change," he wrote last year (Health Affairs Feb. 27, 2008).

Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, "as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others" (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).

Yes, that's what patients want their doctors to do. But Emanuel wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.

Many doctors are horrified by this notion; they'll tell you that a doctor's job is to achieve social justice one patient at a time.

Emanuel, however, believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia" (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. '96).

Translation: Don't give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's or a child with cerebral palsy.

He explicitly defends discrimination against older patients: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years" (Lancet, Jan. 31).

The bills being rushed through Congress will be paid for largely by a $500 billion-plus cut in Medicare over 10 years. Knowing how unpopular the cuts will be, the president's budget director, Peter Orszag, urged Congress this week to delegate its own authority over Medicare to a new, presidentially-appointed bureaucracy that wouldn't be accountable to the public.

Since Medicare was founded in 1965, seniors' lives have been transformed by new medical treatments such as angioplasty, bypass surgery and hip and knee replacements. These innovations allow the elderly to lead active lives. But Emanuel criticizes Americans for being too "enamored with technology" and is determined to reduce access to it.

Dr. David Blumenthal, another key Obama adviser, agrees. He recommends slowing medical innovation to control health spending.

Blumenthal has long advocated government health-spending controls, though he concedes they're "associated with longer waits" and "reduced availability of new and expensive treatments and devices" (New England Journal of Medicine, March 8, 2001). But he calls it "debatable" whether the timely care Americans get is worth the cost. (Ask a cancer patient, and you'll get a different answer. Delay lowers your chances of survival.)

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Help Stop the Insurance Insanity!!!!!

Speaker Pelosi and President Obama are rushing a health care plan through Congress that will force millions of families out of their health care plans and into a costly, lower-quality, complicated, government-run system.

But they won't be using this health plan so they don't care!!!!!

We need to stop them right here and now.

Remember this:

Health care costs will skyrocket. Make no mistake, a complex government-run system will send costs soaring even higher and Washington will have to keep raising taxes and rationing care to keep up.

Millions of jobs will be lost. Democrats want to impose a massive small business tax and crippling penalties that will force small businesses to shed jobs or close their doors.

It will be expensive. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pegs the cost at more than $1 trillion. Remember, we're already running a trillion-dollar deficit this year alone.

Millions of Americans will be kicked out of their current coverage. The CBO also estimates that roughly 23 million Americans would lose their private coverage. Not only that, USA Today says that after burying our country even deeper in debt, "15 million to 20 million would remain uninsured" under the Democratic plan. That's more proof that a government takeover of health care is not the answer.

Democrats are acting quickly on this monstrosity so the American people won't have time to examine it and find out what it really does. One top Democrat even laughed at the idea that they'd read their own bill before voting on it.

You can help today.

Republicans have a real health care solution that will lower health care costs, expand access to high-quality care, and foster new innovations that will save lives - without raising taxes.

Our plan will make it easier for small businesses to provide affordable coverage, and will end the junk lawsuits and wasteful spending that drive up costs.

We can bring down the cost of health care - but first we need to stop Speaker Pelosi and President Obama's government takeover. Please make an immediate contribution and help fight back today!

Townhall.com

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Friday, July 17, 2009

What a Couple of Big Sell Outs: Harry and Louise

Hat Tip: Chickaboomer

This horrible national health plan makes me feel like Dracula has arisen and is stalking the land. That silver bullet must have had some lead in it.

Man, I wish we didn't have to hit rock bottom before the people in this country WAKE UP!!!!!

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