Posted on 07/15/2009 3:23:33 PM PDT by Cindy
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THE BRIEFING ROOM
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release July 15, 2009
Statement by the President on the Health Care Reform Legislation Passed Today by the Senate HELP Committee
"Today, thanks to the unyielding passion and inspiration provided by Senator Edward Kennedy, the HELP committee he chairs has produced a proposal that will finally lower health care costs, provide better care for patients, and ensure fair treatment of consumers by the insurance industry.
Like the legislation produced by the House of Representatives, this proposal would offer Americans quality, affordable health care that is there when they need it. No longer will insurance companies be able to deny coverage based on a pre-existing medical condition. No longer will Americans have to worry about their health insurance if they lose their job, change their job, or open a new business.
This proposal will bring down costs, expand coverage, and increase choice. Through a health insurance exchange, families and small businesses will be able to compare prices and quality so that they can choose the health care plan that best suits their needs. Among the choices that would be available in the exchange would be a public health insurance option that would make health care affordable by increasing competition, providing more choices, and keeping the insurance companies honest.
This proposal would also control rising costs by investing in preventive care and wellness programs, rooting out waste and fraud in the system, and changing the incentives that automatically equate the most expensive care with the best care.
When this proposal is combined with other proposals that the Senate Finance Committee is working on, it’s estimated that health reform will cover 97% of all Americans.
The HELP committee’s success should give us hope, but it should not give us pause. It should instead provide the urgency for both the House and Senate to finish their critical work on health reform before the August recess. I want to commend Senator Kennedy, Senator Dodd, as well as Senators Harkin, Mikulski, Bingaman, and Murray on the leadership they’ve shown and the foundation they’ve laid to reform our health care system."
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Copy of report:
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blog:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/14/document-drop-cbo-scores-the-health-care-takeover/
“Document drop: CBO scores the health care takeover”
By Michelle Malkin • July 14, 2009 04:33 PM
SNIPPET: “A Senate staffer passes along the CBO/Joint Committee on Taxation report scoring the House health care takeover.
Bottom line from the staffer:
$1.042 trillion over “ten years”, though the program really gets going in 2015 so its more like a 5 year score. Also, don’t forget most bills carve out unions so that they have a reprieve. Who needs card check [with] US government health insurance as a recruiting tool.
I’ve uploaded the full report: Read it here.
From the caveats section of the report intro:”
FUBO, I despise that man.
"The HELP committee’s success should give us hope, but it should not give us pause. It should instead provide the urgency for both the House and Senate to finish their critical work on health reform before the August recess."
As do I but I wonder why the markets are not tanking as a result? I know Intel did well today but in general if Cap and Trade and Obamacare aren’t spooking the market, what do they know that we don’t?
Word for word, I was just about to post the same thing. Satan with a smiley face.
In other words: “We ain’t gonna use no vaseline sucka!”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292831/posts
Universal Health Care Isn’t Worth Our Freedom
wall street journal ^ | JULY 15, 2009 | THOMAS SZASZ
Posted on July 14, 2009 9:00:10 PM PDT by Mount Athos
People who seek the services of auto mechanics want car repair, not “auto care.” Similarly, most people who seek the services of medical doctors want body repair, not “health care.”
We own our cars, are responsible for the cost of maintaining them, and decide what needs fixing based partly on balancing the seriousness of the problem against the expense of repairing it. Our health-care system rests on the principle that, although we own our bodies, the community or state ought to be responsible for paying the cost of repairing them. This is for the ostensibly noble purpose of redistributing the potentially ruinous expense of the medical care of unfortunate individuals.
But what is health care? The concept of reimbursable health-care service rests on the premise that the medical problem in need of servicing is the result of involuntary, unwanted happenings, not the result of voluntary, goal-directed behavior. Leukemia, lupus, prostate cancer, and many infectious diseases are unwanted happenings. Are we going to count obesity and smoking as the same kinds of diseases?
If we persevere in our quixotic quest for a fetishized medical equality we will sacrifice personal freedom as its price. We will become the voluntary slaves of a “compassionate” government that will provide the same low quality health care to everyone.
Henry David Thoreau famously remarked, “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
You mean Senator Kennedy, the man who is receiving the best private medical care in the world that money can buy?
You mean the man who is pushing legislation that will never apply to himself?
You mean the man who if he was a regular Joe Six-Pack would have to, under the nationalized health care he is advocating, stand in line for his cancer treatments, and then be told that due to his age and terminal status of his cancer, that the resources should go to younger patients, and be turned away for treatment?
That Senator Kennedy?
I don’t wish him poorly, but what a hypocritical ass!!
Hey America, you think waiting in line at the DMV is bad, just wait!
Blog:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/singlepayer_health_care_in_act.html
July 15, 2009
“Single-payer health care in action”
Russ Vaughn
SNIPPET: “I’m no big fan of the Associated Press as I consider them soapbox hawkers for world socialism in general, and more specifically, anything anti-American that will support that goal. However, as the overused cliché goes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Such is the case with Mary Clare Jalonick’s article describing the terrible conditions faced by Native Americans in their single-payer, federal health care system.
What resonates here for me is my past experience in dealing with that system as a government sales manager for a subsidiary of one of America’s largest pharmaceutical companies. I was a hands-on manager who wanted to see my accounts, to better know what their needs were, so I travelled to a number of Indian Health Service facilities, from remote clinics in Alaska to their so-called showcase inpatient facilities in Phoenix and Gallup, as well as their national headquarters in suburban Rockville, Maryland outside Washington.
It was all uniformly, bureaucratically, depressing. Inadequate doesn’t begin to describe the services offered and criminal doesn’t begin to describe the results.”
obama....further comments: “I really like male nurses....you know I threw out the 1st pitch last night at the MLB All-Star game last night....and everyone knows I would rather play “catch” with a male nurse...!”
Marking this because I’m interested in the answer to this, too. :)
Loved “the American people want this” moment.
Only confirmed how much this man will say and do anything to get votes...the lying POtuS.
Thanks to a special emailer for this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIOrdtm63ug
“New healthcare chart explains US new health system.”
(Added July 15, 2009)
Previously...
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2287423/posts
Statement from the President on Health Care Reform
WHITEHOUSE.gov ^ | July 7, 2009 | n/a
Posted on July 7, 2009 10:51:31 AM PDT by Cindy
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THE BRIEFING ROOM
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2009
Statement from the President on Health Care Reform
“I am pleased by the progress we’re making on health care reform and still believe, as I’ve said before, that one of the best ways to bring down costs, provide more choices, and assure quality is a public option that will force the insurance companies to compete and keep them honest. I look forward to a final product that achieves these very important goals.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293580/posts
Let Customers Control The Money And Market Will Cure Health Care
IBD Editorials ^ | July 15, 2009 | MICHAEL F. CANNON
Posted on July 15, 2009 6:22:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
As it turns out, “universal coverage” may not be so inevitable after all. Much to the chagrin (and apparent surprise) of President Obama and congressional Democrats, squabbling has erupted in earnest over who will spring for the exorbitant cost.
Fortunately, Obama has an exit strategy: “If there is a way of getting this done where we’re driving down costs and people are getting health insurance at an affordable rate, and have choice of doctor, have flexibility in terms of their plans, and we could do that entirely through the market, I’d be happy to do it that way.”
Well, there is a way: Let individuals control their health care dollars, and free them to choose from a wide variety of health plans and providers. If Congress takes those steps, innovation and market competition will make health care better, more affordable and more secure.
Experts suggest that one-third of U.S. health care spending, or about 6% of GDP, is pure waste. The reason is simple: Government controls half of our nation’s health care dollars, and lets employers control an additional quarter. And nobody spends other people’s money as carefully as they spend their own.
Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag told Congress last year: “Imagine what the world would be like if workers (understood) that today it was costing them $10,000 a year in take-home-pay for their employer-sponsored insurance, and that could be $7,000 and they could have $3,000 more in their pockets today if we could relieve these inefficiencies out of the health system.” Nothing will increase consumers’ understanding like giving them that $10,000 directly.
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Meaning -- HURRY BEFORE EVERYONE STOPS ENJOYING THE SUMMER AND STARTS PAYING ATTENTION! Oh - and finish the bill on paper at 3AM on a Saturday, hold a special session and vote it through that morning. You know -- to be REALLY transparent and honest.
I don't wish him poorly, but what a hypocritical ass!!
In that case, I will wish him poorly for you!!! Very shortly he will be standing alone before the Lord of Lords & King of Kings, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will answer for the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne and the rest of his evil deeds.
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July 18 will be the 40th anniversary of her death.
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