Posted on 06/08/2010 7:58:33 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
White House and Allies Set to Build Up Health Law (campaign to "sell" it, using tax exempt org)
NY Times ^ | June 6, 2010 | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 7:02:32 AM by SmartInsight
President Obama and his allies, concerned about deep skepticism over his landmark health care overhaul, are orchestrating an elaborate campaign to sell the public on the law, including a new tax-exempt group that will spend millions of dollars on advertising to beat back attacks on the measure and Democrats who voted for it.
Americans will see the first evidence of the public relations offensive on Tuesday, when Mr. Obama travels to Wheaton, Md., to conduct a nationally televised question-and-answer session with older citizens to trumpet one of the law's most popular features: $250 rebate checks to help Medicare beneficiaries pay for prescription drugs.
To much medical care can do harm (RATIONING, DEATH PANELS, to many PSA test)
The Commercial Appeal via AP ^ | 6/7/10 | Lauran Neergaard
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 8:55:02 AM by GailA
More medical care won't necessarily make you healthier -- it may make you sicker. It's an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe.
Anywhere from one-fifth to nearly one-third of the tests and treatments we get are unnecessary, and avoidable care is costly in more ways than the bill: It may lead to dangerous side effects.
Obama Admin to Spend $125M to Defend Pro-Abortion Health Care Law
LifeNews.com ^ | June 7, 2010 | Steven Ertelt
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 11:34:44 AM by julieee
Obama Admin to Spend $125M to Defend Pro-Abortion Health Care Law Washington, DC -- The Obama administration is unveiling a new $125 million publicity campaign over the next five years to promote the pro-abortion health care law. Obama officials are replying on a pro-abortion former senator and a former official of a top pro-abortion group to make the case for the law.
Dems launch $125M health campaign
The Politico ^ | 6/7/2010 | Mike Allen
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 3:09:13 PM by Qbert
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Victoria Kennedy — widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) — are expected to be named co-chairmen of a $125 million campaign that White House allies are rolling out to defend health care reform amid growing signs Democrats are failing to get political traction on the issue.
The extraordinary campaign, which could provide an unprecedented amount of cover for a White House in a policy debate, reflects urgency among Democrats to explain, defend and depoliticize health care reform now that people are beginning to feel the new law’s effects.
Another Round of Obamacare Obamaganda
davidlimbaugh.com ^ | 06/07/10 | david limbaugh
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 9:04:50 PM by lancer256
So much for these bizarre theories that President Barack Obama is toying with a grand triangulation strategy, whereby he abandons his Democratic congressional allies in the 2010 elections and allows Republicans to win and save his fiscal fat from the fire. The New York Times is reporting that Obama is unleashing yet another public relations blitz to sell his already passed but woefully unpopular health care bill, at least in part to help Democrats who supported the boondoggle.
Obama defends health bill to seniors
Associated Press ^ | June 8, 2010 | ERICA WERNER and JULIE PACE
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:30:57 PM by Free ThinkerNY
WHEATON, Md. (AP) -- President Barack Obama is defending his signature health care overhaul to seniors, doing his best to convince the crucial voting group that they'll actually benefit from the law.
Speaking at a senior center in suburban Maryland, Obama took questions from people in the audience and others listening by phone.
Boehner ridicules Obama's healthcare town hall with seniors as PR gimmick
the hill ^ | 6/8/10 | Michael O'Brien
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:32:09 PM by Nachum
House GOP leader John Boehner (Ohio) went on the offensive Tuesday against an event in which President Barack Obama will promote his signature healthcare reform law to seniors.
Boehner ridiculed an online town hall the president will hold Tuesday morning as little more than a "glitzy PR campaign" to repackage the healthcare bill Obama signed in March.
OBAMACARE, TRIED IN GREECE, LEADS TO BANKRUPTCY, RIOTING & BLOODSHED
The Cypress Times ^ | 6/7/10 | Alieta Eck, M.D.
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 11:39:57 AM by Patriot1259
Some people learn from others' mistakes, and some have to "learn the hard way." Will America follow the lead of countries who have actually tried their own version of ObamaCare, or could we still learn from their mistakes? In a remarkable statement, the International Monetary Fund has recommended that, before any bailouts are considered, the Greek government must privatize transportation, energy and health care to rein in costs. The IMF recognizes that increased government involvement in health care does not save money. It also does not lead to better health care.
Death by Obamacare
Canada Free Press ^ | June 7, 2010 | Philip V. Brennan
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 9:38:22 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
It occurs to me that someone else might be writing my column - more appropriately my obituary,- if Obamacare were in effect now instead of four years hence.
Last Wednesday night I had a heart attack. 911 responded promptly and summoned an ambulance to transport me to the hospital emergency room. I was quickly admitted, had a bunch of costly diagnostic tests and was assigned to a room.
I was given the best, up-to-date care available, including chelation therapy which does a roto-rooter procedure on the blocked artery, clearing it out and buttressing it with a stent to prevent it from closing down.
Obama Now Attacking Health Ins. For Price Gouging With No Evid...
Business Insider ^ | 6/7/2010 | Megan McArdle
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:36:57 AM by Qbert
Health and Human Service is once again playing freelance actuary, demanding that the health insurers hold down increases in the premiums for their Medicare Advantage plans. As far as the administration is concerned, this is a two-fer. When people have to pay more for their insurance, they tend to ask what the hell good this gargantuan new health care bill is doing--not the question you want them asking as they head to the polls. But in the case of Medicare Advantage, there's another benefit. The health care reform bill mandated a substantial cut in payments to Medicare Advantage providers, which everyone expects will translate into cuts in the extra services that Medicare Advantage plans now provide. If they make those cuts a year early, maybe the administration gets to claim that the cuts don't have anything to do with the new health care bill.
Seniors Across America to Host Local Meetings, Participate in Health Care Tele-Town Hall Meeting...
Whitehouse.gov ^ | June 7, 2010 | n/a
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 1:38:51 AM by Cindy
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Health law could ban low-cost plans (more than 1 million to lose insurance in September)
Politico ^ | June 8, 2010 | Jennifer Haberkorn
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:46:30 AM by reaganaut1
Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama’s reforms.
Under the provision, insurance companies will no longer be able to apply broad annual caps on the amount of money they pay out on health policies. Employer groups say the ban could essentially wipe out a niche insurance market that many part-time workers and retail and restaurant employees have come to rely on.
ObamaCare Aftermath – One Million Low Income Workers Soon To Be Forced Out Of Affordable Health Care
Flopping Aces ^ | 06-09-10 | Curt
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:59:23 AM by Starman417
ObamaCare chickens coming home to roost:
Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama’s reforms.
First victim of health care overhaul?
Politico ^ | June 8, 2010 | Sarah Kliff
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 2:26:46 PM by C19fan
A Virginia-based insurance company says “considerable uncertainties” created by the Democrats’ health care overhaul will force it to close its doors by the end of the year.
The firm, nHealth, appears to be the first to claim that the new law has driven it out of business. “We don’t know what the rules are going to be, and, as a start-up, our investors need certainty,” nHealth CEO and President Paul Kitchen told POLITICO. “The law created so much uncertainty that is beyond our control.”
Road To Single-Payer
IBD Editorials ^ | June 8, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:01:25 PM by Kaslin
Congress: Anyone who's watched Democrats' long campaign to "reform" health care knows the ultimate goal is to drive the private sector out of medicine. Obama-Care seems to have started the process.
Under the headline "First victim of health care overhaul?" Politico reported Monday that "a Virginia-based insurance company says 'considerable uncertainties' created by the Democrats' health care overhaul will force it to close its doors by the end of the year."
ObamaCare strikes out with workers
POLITICO ^ | 6/8/10 | Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:22:05 PM by george76
ObamaCare, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is bad news for U.S. workers.
Strike One: ObamaCare is fiscally dangerous, raising the risk of higher taxes all around — including taxes on labor at a time when the job market is struggling.
Strike Two: ObamaCare creates strong incentives for employers — even while holding workers financial harmless — to drop employer-sponsored health insurance for as many as 35 million Americans. This is sure to lead to widespread turmoil in labor compensation, employee insurance coverage and labor relations.
Strike Three: ObamaCare slaps big increases in effective marginal tax rates on low-income workers. Every worker forced onto the subsidized exchanges is sure to face higher barriers to upward mobility and the pursuit of the American Dream.
Obamacare: The More We Learn, The Worse It Gets
Obamacare Watch ^ | 6/8/2010 | James C. Capretta
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:22:44 PM by Qbert
This week, we learned that the Obama administration is orchestrating a $125 million propaganda campaign to sell the recently enacted health-care law to the public. That effort will be funded by labor unions and other groups from the Democratic political orbit. It comes on top of the misleading government mailer sent to the nation’s seniors, at the expense of taxpayers, touting the supposed benefits of ObamaCare for the elderly. On Tuesday, the president himself will join the fray again to make the sales pitch, this time promoting the colossal waste of taxpayer money associated with $250 per senior bribes to be issued this summer and fall.
America's Most Powerful Woman (As The Overseer Of ObamaCare)
IBD Editorials ^ | June 8, 2010 | MERRILL MATHEWS
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 7:30:02 PM by Kaslin
She's the most powerful woman in the country, exercising enormous control over the life of every American.
Not First Lady Michelle Obama or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, though they have a lot of power. No, I'm referring to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Ms. Sebelius was handed one of the biggest jobs in Washington when she left the Kansas governor's office to run HHS. She oversees about 70,000 employees (full-time equivalents), manages a budget of about $860 billion (for 2010) and runs the largest health insurance programs in the world, Medicare and Medicaid.
Why six residents of assisted-living centers will be evicted [they're on Medicaid]
Peninsula Daily News ^ | 6/5/10 | Diane Urbani de la Paz
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 4:35:31 PM by Clint Williams
By June's end, Prairie Springs in Sequim and Laurel Park in Port Angeles will have evicted six of their elderly residents because they are on Medicaid.
Lucile Cole, who'll turn 99 on June 13, and Edith Bateman, 93, are among the women and men who received a letter this spring from Assisted Living Concepts, the Wisconsin-based corporation that owns Prairie Springs and Laurel Park.
Cancer patients denied surgery (Australia)
iplextra.indiatimes.com ^ | 6/7/10 | KATE BENSON
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 8:13:43 PM by Nachum
But angry surgeons claim some patients have already deteriorated as a result of the fiasco. The error has also made politically sensitive hospital performance figures - much vaunted by the health department - look better than they are. A spokeswoman... Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald
The Doctor Will See You Later
IBD Editorials ^ | June 7, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 9:37:47 PM by Kaslin
Health Care: The British government has decided that it needs to cut millions of operations because the public system cannot afford them. This is coming soon to a hospital or doctor's office near you.
According to the Daily Mail, Britain's National Health Service is "preparing to cut millions of operations" so that it can save $29 billion by 2014. Procedures that will be "decommissioned," if we may borrow a particularly descriptive term used by one doctor, include hip replacements for obese patients, some operations for hernias and gallstones, and treatments for varicose veins, ear and nose problems, and cataract surgery.
Mitch Daniels Criticizes GOP Demagoguery on Medicare Cuts
The American Spectator ^ | June 8, 2010 | Philip Klein
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 2:19:11 PM by Bratch
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who is being touted as a potential 2012 presidential candidate, on Monday criticized fellow Republicans for making attacks on Medicare cuts a centerpiece of their campaign against President Obama's national health care legislation.
"I do not think it was a proud moment for the Republican Party at all," Daniels told reporters and bloggers at a Heritage Foundation gathering. "Medicare is going to have to change. I have to say, the granny card has been played so cynically against Republicans so many times, that I can certainly understand the turnabout there. But it is not a grownup attitude. We're going to have to have some grown up conversations. And to pretend that Medicare can continue in its current form is just not honest."
Seniors Must Scrutinize Medicare Mailer
IBD Editorials ^ | June 8, 2010 | NEWT GINGRICH AND NANCY DESMOND
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 7:09:53 PM by Kaslin
As weeks turned to months during the Great Debate over what to do about health care this past year, President Obama made one solemn pledge to the nation and its seniors:
He said health care would not add one dime to the deficit. And if all of us liked our doctor, we would get to keep our doctor.
Fast-forward almost 90 days after the passage of ObamaCare and the attitude of most Americans to that pledge is: "Prove it."
Blanche Lincoln was the 60th vote on healthcare, and just won...
Shame.
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