Posts Tagged ‘obamacare’
I know, I know. It’s shameless self-promotion. But Mark Levin is, well, the Great One. He is a source of great inspiration to me, a truly Great American. Unafraid, uncowed by the Alinsky-ites and the race-hustlers, Levin speaks truth in the face of Orwellian spin by a shamelessly biased politico-media complex. Levin’s book Liberty and Tyranny is much more than a Conservative Mainfesto; it is a roadmap to victory over the statists that have insinuated themselves at all levels of our government and our culture.
The thought that Mark Levin actually read something I wrote, and encouraged others to read it, is deeply gratifying and humbling.
The post at David Horowitz’s NewsRealBlog is here.
//Shameless self-promotion mode OFF
Hugh Hewitt interviewed Senate minority leader John Boehner a few days ago, and could not get Boehner to commit to a rapid legislative agenda to repeal and reverse the democrat’s leftist legislative cramdown after the midterms in November. Boehner hemmed and hawed, sounding every bit like the establishment inside-the-beltway career politicians that got us into the dire economic mess that we’re in now.
An oldie, but goodie from Obama:
And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period.
When Texas doctors start opting out of Medicaid, patients will not get to keep the doctors, especially specialist, they like. According to the Dallas Morning News, doctors fear cuts in Medicaid payments and are threatening to opt out. They cannot afford it.
Things may get worse under ObamaCare.
Update: Edited Obama quote into a block quote for clarity.
Congressman Ciro Rodriguez is a Democrat from Texas. He unseated Republican Henry Bonilla a few years ago.
At the most recent city commission meeting, the attorney, who the city will pay $24,000 to redistrict the city, mentioned Rodriguez. The attorney recognizes that incumbency matters in redistricting. He also fought the Texas redistricting the state Republicans did and represented LULAC or some other Hispanic organization like LULAC. Viva La Raza!
But I digress. This post is about Congressman Rodriguez. Can he handle the truth when voters confront him with ObamaCare? (Via Breitbart Tv)
This Republican ad was posted on YouTube in February, 2010.
Jake Tapper of ABCnews has acquiesced to liberal tweeps and the White House and deemed “ObamaCare” a pejorative. It will not be used anymore.
Say it ain’t so! How can this be? Pejorative is defined as having a negative connotation. It’s a disparaging remark.
The question that everyone is asking is “how can it be a pejorative if Obama’s proud of his accomplishment?”
Better yet, you would think he would want to own the rainbow farts right?
I happen to agree with AnaJay: Since “reform” defined indicates improvement, can we object to the use of the term “Health Care Reform”?
(Hat tip: Patterico)
What is AARP’s position on Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law?
The AARP is SILENT on this issue, despite the fact that a broad majority of Americans support Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law.
- AMAC supports Arizona in their fight against Illegal Immigration.
- AMAC is opposed to those trying to label this legislation as “Racist.”
- AMAC is opposed to those calling for boycotts of Arizona.
Join AMAC’s effort to SUPPORT ARIZONA!
Go to www.TearUpYourCard.com or call 1-888-AMAC-006 (888-262-2006).
AARP backed ObamaCare to the bitter end, urging Congress to “Get Health Care Done.” This despite the fact that a majority of Americans OPPOSED that legislation. But AARP is silent on the Arizona law, which a majority of Americans SUPPORT.
AMAC SUPPORTS ARIZONA! So can you.
Come on – did you really believe that nationalization of the health care industry would lower costs?
According to a report in the decidedly left-of-center USA Today, the nationalization of our health care system aka “Obamacare” will neither lower costs nor increase access to health care:
President Obama’s health care overhaul law will increase the nation’s health care tab instead of bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation.
No one really believed that Obamacare was going to lower costs. That was a canard, “feel-good” fodder for the masses. The real goal was acquisition of political power. Well, now they have it. From now on, some pencil-neck government bureaucrat will have the authority to award or deny you the health care you need.
Feels good, doesn’t it?
-chris
The other day, a reporter asked Senator Harry Reid why the general public was still so down on Obamacare. The democrats had been saying, essentially, “Wait until we pass Obamacare. You’ll see. The American people are going to LOVE it once they see what’s in it.” Well, that has not happened. As many people hate Obamacare now as before. According to Rasmussen, 54% of the nation’s likely voters still favor repealing the new law. This number is virtually unchanged from two weeks ago.
Reid said this to Greta Sustern on FoxNews:
Now that the legislation passed, it’s amazing how much different people’s attitude is, I mean traveling on an airplane people are so nice to me, it wasn’t that way before. We have people sending me notes in church, you know, I have a disabled daughter, thank you very much for taking care of her. I mean, people have changed, even the Republicans have changed their tune.
Really, Harry? Your poll numbers do not reflect this change in attitude toward you or your policies. The latest Rasmussen poll has Harry Reid at a total unfavorable rating of 62% ( 53% very unfavorable + 9% somewhat unfavorable)
It is very unsettling to reflect on the idea that people may actually pay homage to politicians like Reid, thanking them for their health care. Doesn’t Reid’s account above expose the lie made by Obama and the Democrats that no government bureaucrat would ever come between you and your doctor? If that were true, why would anyone thank Reid for their health care? This is very frightening stuff.
(Via Right Scoop)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFFZJpTmD0
President Barack Obama:
But the thing is though, you have to love some of the pundits in Washington. Everying single day since I signed the [Obamacare] reform law, there’s been another poll or headline that said “Nation still divided on health care reform – polls haven’t changed yet!”
We’ll yeah. It just happend last week. It’s only been a week!
But if polls would have soared through the roof, heh. Well, the president would be everywhere.
(By A Concerned Citizen)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right after all.
Via Daily Caller.
Medicaid recipients have found it increasingly difficult to be seen by doctors, as states in extreme economic duress have cut payment rates. …
“With the expanded definition, it leaves every state vulnerable to a new wave of lawsuits any time someone cannot access a service, even if that service is limited by virtue of the rates we pay,” said Alan Levine, Louisiana’s secretary of health and hospitals, in a recent memo prepared for fellow state government officials.
I tend to believe Hot Air‘s analysis. Here comes more lawyers and less doctors.
Consider this bill the anti-tort reform bill. It’s a big, ribbon-wrapped gift to the litigation industry. As more doctors opt out of Medicaid systems, wait times will get longer, and people will start filing massive class-action lawsuits against states over access. Instead of solving the problem through the political system, the bill allows ambulance chasers to get courts to bypass voters and have courts set rates instead. It’s not just the antithesis to tort reform; it’s the antithesis of responsible democratic governance as well.
The following Democrats flipped their votes on Obamacare. They lied to their constituents. They’re not “pro-life.” They’re not “conservative,” fiscally or otherwise. By voting for this bill, they have exposed themselves as hardcore leftists who do not represent the will of the majority of their constituents. They represent the tyranny and the corruption that has been ushered in by the Obama Administration, and they must go.
Name of Congressman – - – - – - – - Amount paid for vote
- Rep. Jerry Costello of Illinois.: $1,418.7 million ($256.4 million in 2010)
- Rep. Solomon Ortiz of Texas: $618 million ($726.1 million in 2010)
- Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan: $578.9 million
- Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio: $294 million ($305.7 million in 2010)
- Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania: $236.8 million ($54 million in 2010)
- Rep. James Oberstar of Minnesota.: $207 million ($226 million in 2010)
- Rep. Brad Ellsworth of Indiana.: $115.4 million ($82.3 million in 2010)
- Rep. Charles Wilson of Ohio: $84 million ($62.3 million in 2010)
- Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania.: $67.1 million
- Rep. Steve Driehaus of Ohio: $33.2 million
- Rep. Joseph Donnelly of Indiana: $19.8 million ($11.65 million in 2010)
Glenn Beck guest host Thompson said that the Obamacare tanning salon tax is “racist.” I don’t think it’s intentionally directed at the melanin deficient, but it is punitive. The tax is meant to dissuade people from using tanning salons “for their own good,” similar to the punitive taxes on cigarettes and alcohol. At least, that’s what liberal, leftists, and other Big Government-loving statists will tell you. It’s actually just another in a long list of schemes to bring in much-needed revenue to fund the Limiting Patient-Consumer Choice Act (aka “Obamacare”). The fact that such punitive taxation is an just another assault on our freedom is lost on the healthcare redistributionists. The era of Deathcare and Authoritarian Medicine is upon us. Better get with the program.
(By A Concerned Citizen)
Under Obamacare, insurance companies and employers are not forced to cover kid’s with pre-existing conditions until 2014.
Via Hot Air and The New York Times:
William G. Schiffbauer, a lawyer whose clients include employers and insurance companies, said: ‘The fine print differs from the larger political message. If a company sells insurance, it will have to cover pre-existing conditions for children covered by the policy. But it does not have to sell to somebody with a pre-existing condition. And the insurer could increase premiums to cover the additional cost.’ [emphasis mine]
President Barrack Obama may have overstated what’s actually in the bill he signed into law last week. It’s kind of a mystery how this could have happened.
What if the Dems purposely left this section ambiguous in hopes that it would invite a challenge from the insurance industry and, ideally, the GOP? The exemption for preexisting conditions is probably the single most popular provision in the bill; extending that exemption to sick children would, I suspect, poll somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 percent. What better way to sell the bill to a wary public than to manufacture a showdown with the evil, heartless insurance companies and their Republican ‘corporate cronies’? If nothing else, a vote in Congress to correct the drafting ‘error’ and close the loophole would be a poison pill for the GOP. If they vote no, they ‘hate sick kids’; if they vote yes, the base will take it as a sign that they’re not serious about repeal. All of which is to say, if this really is an accident, it’s a very happy one for Democrats.
There is something to what Allahpundit is saying. Be sure to read all of it on Hot Air. It has some links to other reasons why this loophole happened.
The Constitution and Declaration of Independence were written in plain English for plain folk. The Founders intended for ordinary citizens to read those founding documents and internalize the principles contained therein. We don’t need a group of robed experts to interpret our rights for us. I certainly do not. Obamacare is unconstitutional and a flagrant violation of our natural rights. The only way to fix Obamacare is to repeal it, COMPLETELY, and start over with a focus on increasing access to health insurance, lowering costs to consumers, enacting tort reform, and increasing competetion between insurance companies.
