Posted on 09/04/2009 8:53:46 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
A Doctor's Plan for Legal Industry Reform [An awesome criticism/parody of Obamacare!]
Wall St. Journal ^ | SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 | RICHARD B. RAFAL
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 12:09:37 AM by grundle
Since we are moving toward socialism with ObamaCare, the time has come to do the same with other professions—especially lawyers. Physician committees can decide whether lawyers are necessary in any given situation.
At a town-hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., last month, our uninformed lawyer in chief suggested that we physicians would rather chop off a foot than manage diabetes since we would make more money doing surgery. Then President Obama compounded his attack by claiming a doctor's reimbursement is between "$30,000" and "$50,000" for such amputations! (Actually, such surgery costs only about $1,500.)
Physicians have never been so insulted. Because of these affronts, I will gladly volunteer for the important duty of controlling and regulating lawyers. We physicians know much more about legal practice than lawyers do about medicine.
Following are highlights of a proposed bill authorizing the dismantling of the current framework of law practice and instituting socialized legal care:
ObamaCare -- Or Else!
The American Thinker ^ | September 04, 2009 | James Lewis
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 6:27:30 AM by Scanian
Now swallow your nice ObamaCare... it only tastes yucky for a second. No, don't throw it up! Now look what you did! Mommy will have to clean up after you. Again.
Is there something disquieting about a president who only wants to spread love and compassion to all Americans -- or else? Or else he'll hate us forever? Or else he'll put us in jail? Or else he'll stamp his feet and cry?
That's the feeling I'm getting. He is so intent on doing us all a big favor. ObamaCare is Just and Right and Compassionate --- and it has nothing to do with empowering the Left for the next generation and turning everybody else into Russian serfs. Nothing at all. There's no self-interest in this man and his benevolent friends from Chicago. They do whatever they do purely out of love for all of humanity. (And even out of love for all animality, according to Green Czar Van Johnson. It's not clear whether Mr. Johnson's compassion also extends to the plant kingdom, and maybe to bacteria and prion particles, but it could, it could. Seriously. These folks have really really big hearts.).
Obamacare Goes Primetime (Even if President Obama abandons the public option, the GOP won’t kowtow)
NRO ^ | 9/4/2009 | Robert Costa
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 10:23:47 AM by markomalley
For Republicans, August was a dream — Obamacare sinking by the day, angry protestors confronting befuddled or insulting Democratic politicians, Obama’s poll numbers sagging. But the calendar inevitably turns, and it’s on to September.
This week, the president’s team signaled that it might finally be ready to shift away from Obamacare’s current malignant incarnation. Maybe. They have mentioned no details, but David Axelrod and others are whispering to the media that on September 9, when President Obama makes his next major health-care policy speech to a joint session of Congress, things will start to move toward the center. We’ve heard this tune before.
The Free Market Is Not Another Form of Rationing (Arguments for ObamaCare are wrong)
Pajamas Media ^ | 9/3/2009 | Paul Hsieh
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 11:06:58 AM by SeekAndFind
As the health care debate rages, many conservatives have correctly argued that government-run “universal care” will lead to medical rationing. To control costs, the socialized health systems of Canada and Great Britain routinely restrict patients’ access to expensive services. A Canadian with a possible brain tumor might wait months for his government-approved MRI scan, whereas an American can receive one within days.
Liberals will typically counter that a free market is just “another form of rationing” — but by price rather than government decree. It is unjust, they say, that patients with money (or good insurance) can receive MRI scans whereas those without money cannot. Hence, they contend, the government must intervene to guarantee a supposedly fair distribution of medical services.
“No One Should Die Because They Can’t Afford Health Care” [How do we respond to this meme?]
No Third Solution ^ | Sept 4, 2009 | David Z
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 11:27:12 AM by CMoran325
Edited on Friday, September 04, 2009 11:48:23 AM by Admin Moderator. [history]
For many people (and yes I’m jumping to conclusions and making sweeping generalizations here) “No one should die because they can’t afford health care” is the weasel way of saying “I want someone else to pay for it” without sounding like a panhandler. So, take what follows with a grain of salt, OK?
On that note, someone’s Facebook status said:
No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
No one should die just because they were born in sub-Saharan Africa, either. But they do. Doesn’t make it fair, but it happens. For every “poor” or underprivileged Westerner complaining about their lack of “health care” (NB: even the poorest Americans have access to better health care than, I would venture to guess, 85% of the earth’s population has ever had), there are a million people living on $1 and a cup of rice each day — so cry me a fucking river.
Pelosi ally Murtha wouldn't support health bills
The Hill ^
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 2:21:17 PM by Sub-Driver
Pelosi ally Murtha wouldn't support health bills By Susan Crabtree - 09/04/09 01:33 PM ET
One of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) closest allies has said he wouldn’t vote for any version of the healthcare bill under consideration right now and predicted Congress wouldn’t pass legislation until early next year.
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), who is a co-sponsor of a healthcare bill that includes a single-payer provision, told constituents last night during a teleconference that Democrats still have a lot of work to do to produce a viable healthcare reform measure.
“The bill hasn’t passed yet,” Murtha said, according to an account of the conference reported in the Johnstown, Pa. Tribune-Democrat. “Everybody thinks this bill is concrete. I haven’t seen a bill I would vote for.”
Sources: White House Drafting Health Care Bill
CNN ^ | 9/4/09 | Yellin, Borger Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 3:09:48 PM by DRey
WASHINGTON (CNN) — CNN has learned that the White House is quietly working to draft health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months. Multiple sources close to the process tell CNN that while the plan is uncertain, they are preparing for the possibility they could deliver their own legislation to Capitol Hill sometime after the President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday. As previously reported by CNN senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash and CNN senior White House correspondent Ed Henry, the so-called trigger option remains very much on the table. Under a 'trigger option', a new government-run health care plan would only go into effect if insurance companies fail to meet certain affordability standards with their own plans.
Susan Estrich completely makes the conservatives case on health care
Patriot Room ^ | 09-04-2009 | Robert
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 3:13:27 PM by pocket5s
In a piece for Rasmussen Reports, Susan Estrich, a democratic strategist, completely makes the conservatives case on the public option. I'm not quite sure what she was trying to get across here, but I think it backfires. Let us take a look.
Dem: Obama hasn't led on healthcare
The Hill ^ | September 4, 2009 | Eric Zimmermann
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 3:29:03 PM by American Number 181269513
One of Congress's strongest proponents of a public option criticized President Obama for failing to lead the way on healthcare reform.
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said Obama has been sitting out the healthcare fight in August.
"We've been in a scrap through the month of August, but we really haven't had presidential leadership in the way we need it most," Weiner told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow last night.
Weiner has previously threatened that up to 100 Democrats would vote against legislation that doesn't include a so-called public option.
Boston’s Roman Catholic Cardinal Says He Confronted Obama about Abortion in Health Care Plan....
CNSNews.com ^ | September 04, 2009 | Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 3:31:55 PM by kingattax
(CNSNews.com) - Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, wrote on Thursday that he confronted President Barack Obama on the question of abortion in the health care reform plan now before Congress when he spoke to Obama in a Boston church at Sen. Ted Kennedy’s funeral.
Obama spokesman: "Another 1,500 Americans die each month because we haven't passed ObamaCare"
Fox News Channel | 9/4/09
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 4:49:37 PM by pabianice
Obama apologist "Steve" was just on Cavuto telling ever greater whoppers. According to Steve, 1,500 people die each month because we don't yet have ObamaCare and thus no health insurance. Cavuto tried to get him to admit that no one is ever turned away from an ER but Steve stayed right on talking points: The right is killing the poor because we are dangerous, selfish, and anti-American .
Progressives Warn Obama Against "Weakened" Public Option In Healthcare Bill
All Headline News ^ | September 4, 2009 | Kris Alingod
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 4:36:48 PM by Diana in Wisconsin
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The 80-member Congressional Progressive Caucus late Thursday reminded President Barack Obama that it would only support a healthcare reform measure that has a "robust public option plan." Obama issues an address before a joint session of Congress next week when lawmakers return from recess.
Now without the vote of Ted Kennedy at the final phase of the healthcare debate, the White House is said to be in negotiations with Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) about a government-run health insurance program that would only serve as as a backup to privately offered insurance.
Without Tort Reform, It Isn't Health Care Reform --It's a Plaintiffs' Lawyers Protection Act
Townhall.com ^ | September 4, 2009 | Hugh Hewitt
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 6:20:06 PM by EveningStar
President Obama wants everyone to believe that American health care is in a crisis, and he wants everyone to be willing to sacrifice in order to solve that crisis...
President Obama wants everyone to sacrifice. Well, not quite everyone.
There is one group that President Obama doesn't mention, one group he doesn't demand sacrifice for the greater good.
President Obama is protecting the plaintiffs' lawyers who sue doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies and reap billions in fees from the tort lottery...
WIRE: Obama May Need Sense of Crisis to Revive Health-Care Overhaul...
http://www.drudgereport.com ^
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 7:02:05 PM by kcvl
Per Drudge...
Care costs for undocumented immigrants stack up [illegal aliens]
The Miami Herald ^ | 08/.26/2009 | JOHN DORSCHNER
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 7:42:08 PM by SwinneySwitch
JACKSON HEALTH SYSTEM
Facing ever-increasing financial losses, Miami-Dade's struggling Jackson Health System has spent $33 million this year alone on caring for undocumented immigrants.
On a quiet street in northwestern Miami, a Jackson nursing home serves 60 undocumented immigrants -- some paralyzed, quite a few on ventilators -- costing Miami-Dade taxpayers about $318 a day per patient.
Another Snowe Job(IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure)
IBD Editorials ^ | September 4, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 7:45:42 PM by Kaslin
Health Care: In the wake of a public outcry effectively killing the "public option," who comes along to try to revive socialistic health reform? The definitive Republican In Name Only — Sen. Olympia Snowe.
How To Pass Health Reform: Play Small Ball
IBD Editorials ^ | September 4, 2009 | PAUL HOWARD
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 8:47:23 PM by Kaslin
President Obama is staking the success of his health care plan on his personal popularity with a prime time address to the nation on Wednesday. House Democrats will be cheering him on and encouraging him to double-down in his support for a public plan option.
For Obama, this is the wrong message and a big gamble. He won the election by promising to govern from the center but has let Congress tack hard left on key issues from the stimulus to global warming.
Both sides need to respect debate on health care reform [RINO barf alert]
NewJerseyNewsroom.com ^ | 2009-09-04 | Christine Todd Whitman
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 9:10:57 PM by rabscuttle385
It is a shame that the current health care debate hardly resembles a debate — rather, it has devolved into a screaming match among the fiercest partisans on both sides.
For more than 60 years, presidents from both parties have tried to pass meaningful health care reform. There is no doubt that the sector needs reform now more than ever, but that does not mean we should be hastily or superficially negotiating a bill that carries a price tag of $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years and that could fundamentally alter more than 15 percent of our entire national economy.
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