http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
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Posted on 03/06/2009 11:38:56 PM PST by neverdem
The Democrats' case to expand government health care is so full of holes that passing it quickly is their only hope. If Americans slow down and ask questions, they will be hard-put to come up with answers.
In fact, if members of Congress slow down long enough to read the detailed reports of their own Congressional Budget Office (CBO) -- or even its director's recent Senate testimony...
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Preventative care, disease management and electronic medical records are also constantly cited as big cost-savers. The idea here is that if our health-care system was set up to prevent disease rather than just treat it, and could do so without duplicative paper records, it could save money. It's a great hypothesis, but research does not indicate it amounts to much. "In many cases," as Mr. Elmendorf testified regarding such initiatives, "those studies do not support claims of reductions in health spending or budgetary reductions."
Americans like their current health care, its plethora of choice and its intensive, high tech approach to fixing our ailments. A Gallup survey in December reported that "on balance, Americans still favor maintaining the current system, 49% to 41%." But the CBO is very clear that saving money on health care involves doing less of the very things Americans like the most.
"Studies attribute the bulk of the cost of growth to the development of new treatments and other medical technologies," the CBO notes in a report issued last December, later adding, "Given the central role of medical technology in cost growth, reducing or slowing spending over the long term would probably require decreasing the pace of adopting new treatments and procedures or limiting the breadth of their application."
In other words, reducing costs means rationing the care of those who currently have private insurance and Medicare.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
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are over the age of 90, 80, 70, 60, 50 or ?
Cost not care is the keyword.
Do liberals really want politicians campaigning against each other over which health care procedures and technologies will be funded and which will not? That is what it will come down to. All aspects of health care will be nothing more than political footballs to be kicked around during campaigns and spending debates.
I believe it will be decided by what group you belong to. Certain "favored" demographics will get health care and other demographic groups, like white males who aren't Dem politicians, will be denied.
The cost-savings aspect is just propaganda to sell the idea. The way it will be run is Fascism.
"Obama expects us to eat healthy and get exercise. That's really funny!"
Neither Moderate Nor Centrist: How Buckley, Gergen and Brooks finally realized Obama's left leanings
Will on warming: The cold facts
Some noteworthy articles about politics, foreign or military affairs, IMHO, FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.
That's because Soviet medicine isn't about medicine.
It's about power.
Power over moms with sick kids, families with feeble elderly or a sickly teen. Middle-aged people with family histories of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or Alzheimer's.
Power over the minds of voters -- power over the People. That's what it's all about for those evil, eyes-glowing-in-the-dark, sick, twisted b*stards.
DING! DING! DING! DING!
No more calls, please, hold your calls ..... we have a winner .... no more callers, please!
When has a Democrat EVER been concerned with fact??? Facts are so messy, so complicated. Lies, on the other hand, can be neatly packaged into palitable little bundles--pellets for the sheeple.
Thanks for the ping!
thanks neverdem for all of ‘em.
Neither Moderate Nor Centrist:
How Buckley, Gergen and Brooks finally realized Obama’s left leanings
Forbes | March 6, 2009 | Peter Robinson
Posted on 03/06/2009 8:02:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2201189/posts
Imagine Paradise - More fairness and tolerance, and less . . . you.
National Review Online | March 06, 2009 | David Kahane
Posted on 03/06/2009 6:41:08 PM PST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201149/posts
Will on warming: The cold facts
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW | March 7, 2009 | Bill Steigerwald
Posted on 03/07/2009 12:32:28 AM PST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201250/posts
What has the government EVER taken over and made better?
I sincerely tried to think of something. I’m drawing a blank.
While the posted article is OK as far as it goes, perhaps the best argument against nationalized health care is its harmful consequences in countries whose citizens are already subjected to it.
Of course, these arguments being put forth by the 'Rats aren't made in good faith. They are just smokescreens to obscure the real sadistic goal to be achieved by their health care plan: government control over the citizens' bodies!
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