Honesty Option for Health Care
The debate is heading for rock bottom.
“If you like your plan,” Barack Obama promises for the umpteenth time in the Rose Garden yesterday, “you’ll be able to keep it. And each bill provides for a public option that will keep insurance companies honest, ensuring the competition necessary to make coverage affordable.”
At tonight’s press conference, will someone please ask the President why, half a century after handing over health care to profit-making private insurers, it should be necessary now to keep them “honest”?
Meanwhile, the industry that gave Americans one of the worst medical systems in the world at the highest cost is busy lobbying for more of the same with the legislative watchdogs like Sen. Max Baucus, who are negotiating the details of how to reform their ways.
In the House, we are in Joe the Plumber territory, as Democrats propose to pay premiums for the poor by taxing the very wealthy, couples making $500,000 a year or, as Nancy Pelosi is now hinting, perhaps $1 million.
This would affect only a tiny fraction of the richest Americans but, in their Joe-the-Plumber fantasies, the working class can empathize with Republican outcries. “Tax is a four-letter word” with voters, says conservative Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, pointing out that even families not in the top 1 percent “hope they’re going to be there someday.”
In the Wall Street Journal, one of the last rising Republican stars still standing, Bobby Jindal accuses Obama of a “fundamentally dishonest approach to reform…”
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It tends to make a lot of good people despondent and at the least susceptible, when they read, watch and listen to the maverick storm of media ads, thumping down President Obama's health care initiative? Much of the rambling artifacts are the Simon and Lois ads of the Clinton administration, heavily armed against any revisions in this issue that wealthy insurance companies and subsidiaries won’t tolerate.
They insulted the senior citizens with their propaganda and bald faced lies about the European government run health care system. Being originally an Englishman myself, I guarantee in the 1960's, we had a unique form of medical services, inclusive of eye and teeth. It did plummet down somewhat, when business starting recruiting foreign labor from the commonwealth and Northern Europe. Many were out for a free financial ride and got it, along with their large families that British citizens have to support with their limited pounds sterling.
Just as the anti-governmental health care extremists have been pounding the airwaves, the open border, globalist is now subjecting the American people to a torrent of inflaming immigration polls. But like all polls they can be intentional manipulated, in exactly how the questions are worded? Sure they can keep their co-pays, deductibles and pre-existing small-print clauses, squeezing every penny from a hurting economy, but tell the–BLOODY TRUTH!
It's a sad fact that you cannot trust the Liberal slant regarding this searing problem, although not all Liberals are favorable to another AMNESTY? The Democratic leadership, hiding liberal views behind closed drapes tried to annihilate any good, workable illegal immigration enforcement laws. In an earlier session of the Senate an error was made with E-Verify, so it's was fortunate to survive Sen. Reid and Pelosi’s notion? Anything that has an impact on removing illegal immigrants is intercepted by business oriented free traders.
GOOGLE—illegal immigration–to find out their sinister intention, to just throw open the gates, ports and airline entrances to cheap labor, that also become the downfall of the European Union. the polling I have seen has been calculatedly –ENGINEERED–to get results, that they can brandish around, declaring the majority of Americans believe in a path to citizenship and open borders? Already the Democrats are ready to flag the Save Act, 287(g) local police enforcement to weaken these laws.
Currently both issues have heavy fallout, and you the voter should let your Senator or Representative know your opinion on either matter at 202-224-3121—BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. Both have massive consequences in costs and quality of life in your future and generations to come.WE MUST SAY NO AMNESTY! SEAL OUR BORDERS AND NO MORE FREEBIES TO ILLEGAL ALIENS. THEY ARE THE CRIMINALS, NOT AMERICANS WHO SACRIFICE TAXES? GOOGLE–NUMBERSUSA for details our government and the media have a nefarious talent, for keeping facts under wraps?
Universal healthcare may make some sense in certain forms but not the form going through Congress now.
This piece opens with
” Barack Obama promises for the umpteenth time in the Rose Garden yesterday, “you’ll be able to keep it.”
But does Obama really know whats in the bill?
http://www.heritage.org/2009/07/21/morning-bell…
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During the call, a blogger from Maine said he kept running into an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance. He asked: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.”
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How can he not know about something this major when he has been engaged in a media blitz in support of the legislation?
What about the issue of whether taxpayer dollars will be used to fund abortions?
Obama budget director Peter Orszag is not willing to comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCLvfT6Bkj0
Obama is drumming up support for a bill that he has no idea what it will end up containing in its various provisions. This is pure absurdity.
The problem is, he is deadly afraid of running out of time as his poll numbers start to slip, He has to generate a feeling of crisis just like he did on the stimulas and the bailouts with his form of Weapons of Mass Destruction crisis argument, so that the people don't get a chance to see whats really inside the bill. He is holding meeting with healthcare experts behind closed doors and has been unwilling to release the names ala Dick Cheny (remember those energy poicy meetings?) despite his promise:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promise…
“I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process.”
Town hall meeting on Aug. 21, 2008, in Chester, Va.
And meanwhile he is putting off the budget update to hide bad numbers until after a healthcare vote, so people don't become more aware and concerned
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99I8E4…
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The administration's annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama's budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through Congress.
The release of the update — usually scheduled for mid-July — has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.
The administration is pressing for votes before then on its $1 trillion health care initiative, which lawmakers are arguing over how to finance.
The White House budget director, Peter Orszag, said on Sunday that the administration believes the “chances are high” of getting a health care bill by then. But new analyses showing runaway costs are jeopardizing Senate passage.
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This process is a sham. This is not a matter to be rushed though for political expediency, this is a matter to be broken apart, analysized, improved upon and then brought forth openly before the American public, not to be brokered by arm twisting, pork project awarding, information stiffling behind closed doors by political elites.
(This merits being posted on multiple threads. I waited first to see if anyone else would note it already.)
Did you note the irony of what Obama said in the press conference? Was it unintended, I wonder?
“We also know that health care inflation on the curve that it's on, we're guaranteed to see Medicare and Medicaid basically break the federal budget. And we know that we're spending — on average we, here in the United States, are spending about $6,000 more than other advanced countries where they're just as healthy.
And I've said this before, if you found out that your neighbor had gotten the same car for $6,000 less, you'd want to figure out how to get that deal. And that's what reform is all about. How can we make sure that we are getting the best bang for our health care dollar.”
Note that again:
“And I've said this before, if you found out that your neighbor had gotten the same car for $6,000 less, you'd want to figure out how to get that deal.”
Ironically, Mr. Obama, that is a fine analogy for the crowding-out of private health insurance that you and the other Dems know will happen if you enact your incrementalist “public option” for health insurance.
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