Posted on 04/27/2009 8:26:48 AM PDT by richardb72
“If you got health insurance, then you can keep it . . . and we won’t do anything about that,” at least that was what President Obama promised during the campaign last year. Well, add that to a very long list of broken campaign promises, including: cutting government spending, reducing the deficit, and “no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.”
Just as bad, on Friday it was revealed that Obama and the Democrats have no problem pushing through Senate votes on these radical health care changes that strip away normal procedural protections for those who oppose such changes.
Last Sunday on “Meet the Press,” Larry Summers, Obama’s chief economic adviser, let the cat out of the bag on health care. In explaining why universal health care wasn’t going to increase the deficit, Summers said that people are just getting too much unnecessary care. Summers claimed: “whether it’s tonsillectomies or hysterectomies . . . procedures are done three times as frequently [in some parts of the country than others] and there’s no benefit in terms of the health of the population. And by doing the right kind of cost-effectiveness, by making the right kinds of investments and protection, some experts that we — estimate that we could take as much as $700 billion a year out of our health care system.”
This sure seems like rationing. . . . .
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“The truth is what I say it is.” Ned Beatty in “Shooter.”
“Change comes from me.” (guess who)
“I won.” (Danny Glover and guess who)
“too much unnecessary care”
So illegals and free care folks will now get heart surgeries and tonsillectomies........
Define “right kind”
Who decides this and how? Is Congress and the Executive branch part of this system?
Birth of yet another tag line.
Thanks for the ping!
This will allow them to control what we are allowed to eat as well....
Listen, there was plenty of Freepers salivating over this back in the Fall and getting their panties totally in a twist when people tried to tell them this was the last thing we wanted.
I imagine we will all be required to use Hugo Chavez’s voting machines — the one’s many states have trashed because they could be so easily monkeyed with......
In fact the latter may go to the head of the line for “past racial crimes against them”; it will be a form of retribution in practice.
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Good points!
I agree most Americans use too much, for the wrong reasons.
Gee, I wonder if those "parts of the country" are the parts with LARGE illegal alien invader populations? Inquiring minds want to know.
Exactly right. As Stalin said:
"It is enough that people know there was an election.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything.
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