Ann Coulter: LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE: FOURTH IN A SERIES (9/9/9)

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[RonDog]

LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE: FOURTH IN A SERIES

by Ann Coulter
September 9, 2009

(12) Only national health care can provide "coverage that will stay with you whether you move, change your job or lose your job" -- as Obama said in a New York Times op-ed.

This is obviously a matter of great importance to all Americans, because, with Obama's economic policies, none of us may have jobs by year's end.

The only reason you can't keep -- or often obtain -- health insurance if you move or lose your job now is because of ... government intrusion into the free market.

You will notice that if you move or lose your job, you can obtain car and home insurance, hairdressers, baby sitters, dog walkers, computer technicians, cars, houses, food and every other product and service not heavily regulated by the government. (Although it does become a bit harder to obtain free office supplies.)

Federal tax incentives have created a world in which the vast majority of people get health insurance through their employers. Then to really screw ordinary Americans, the tax code actually punishes people who don't get their health insurance through an employer by denying individuals the tax deduction for health insurance that their employers get.

Meanwhile, state governments must approve the insurers allowed to operate in their states, while mandating a list of services -- i.e. every "medical" service with a powerful lobby -- which is why Joe and Ruth Zelinsky, both 88, of Paterson, N.J., are both covered in case either one of them ever needs a boob job.

If Democrats really wanted people to be able to purchase health insurance when they move or lose a job as easily as they purchase car insurance and home insurance (or haircuts, dog walkers, cars, food, computers), they could do it in a one-page bill lifting the government controls and allowing interstate commerce in health insurance. This is known as "allowing the free market to operate."

Plus, think of all the paper a one-page bill would save! Don't Democrats care about saving the planet anymore? Go green!

(13) The "public option" trigger is something other than a national takeover of health care.

Why does the government get to decide when the "trigger" has been met, allowing it to do something terrible to us? Either the government is better at providing goods and services or the free market is -- and I believe the historical record is clear on that. Why do liberals get to avoid having that argument simply by invoking "triggers"?

Why not have a "trigger" allowing people to buy medical insurance on the free market when a trigger is met...

Rest the REST at www.anncoulter.com

[RonDog]

See also, from the anncoulter.com archives:

LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE: THIRD IN A SERIES
(COMMEMORATIVE PLATES ON SALE NOW!)
and
LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE: SECOND IN A SERIES
(COLLECT ALL 10!)
and
LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE: FIRST IN A SERIES

[RonDog]

Check out this AMAZING animated graphic from FReeper potlatch:

[AU72]

The conservative women, Sarah, Ann, Michelle, Laura et al are carrying the ball.

[potlatch]

Lol, glad you enjoy it RonDog!
Appreciate the ping.

[RonDog]

And, from www.anncoulter.com:

QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN

September 11, 2009, 4:23 AM

TEA PARTY THIS FRIDAY - **Ann Coulter To Be At Bridgeport Tea Party (Joe The Plumber Too!) Friday!**

For MORE details, check out the "Breaking News" thread about this here on FR that Ann linked to from her website.

[RonDog]

You da best!

[potlatch]

Thank you!
That makes me feel good!

[dalebert]

well lets see if we can stop both parties from action on healthcare...im just as worried about a republican plan..we cant afford any plan.

[RonDog]

:o)

I really liked the one you did with her kicking the NBC peacock, too!

Speaking of Ann on TV, see also from www.anncoulter.com:

QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN

September 10, 2009, 7:36 PM

COULTER TV THIS WEEK -

THURSDAY 8PM, FNC -- O'REILLY FACTOR

FRIDAY 9PM, FNC -- HANNITY

FRIDAY NIGHT 2AM (technically Sat), FNC -- RED EYE

SAT & SUN 10PM, FNC -- GERALDO

[Zakeet]

Cute graphic, but it doesn't quite comply with The Rule.

[RonDog]

Thanks!

I prefer this (more light-hearted) one:

[Awestruck]

She hit the nail on the head with this one...and its a side of this that I don’t see hammered home enough....if the gov’t would quit spending our money willie nillie, and let us keep more of it, we would all have enough to spend on health care. Not that our health care situation is perfect, but if they want us all to have it, then we need to be able to keep our money to buy it. No more double taxation, no more spending our money on programs that benefit only a few.

[Zakeet]

I prefer this (more light-hearted) one

ObamaCare is nothing to laugh about.

[RonDog]

ObamaCare is nothing to laugh about.

LOL!

Perhaps. But RIDICULE and HUMOR are often powerful weapons, too. :o)

See aslo:

Sarah Palin BLASTS Obamacare On Eve of Dear Leader's Big Speech to Congress - UPDATED

[RonDog]

...Why not have a "trigger" allowing people to buy medical insurance on the free market when a trigger is met...

Read the REST at www.anncoulter.com

For those who prefer NOT to go to Ann's website, here is the REST of today's article, from www.anncoulter.com:

...Why not have a "trigger" allowing people to buy medical insurance on the free market when a trigger is met, such as consumers deciding their health insurance is too expensive? Or how about a trigger allowing us to buy health insurance from Utah-based insurers -- but only when triggered by our own states requiring all insurance companies to cover marriage counseling, drug rehab and shrinks?

Thinking more broadly, how about triggers for paying taxes? Under my "public option" plan, citizens would not have to pay taxes until a trigger kicks in. For example, 95 percent of the Department of Education's output is useful, or -- in the spirit of compromise -- at least not actively pernicious.

Also, I think we need triggers for taking over our neighbors' houses. If they don't keep up 95 percent of their lawn -- on the basis of our lawn commission's calculations -- we get to move in. As with Obama's public option trigger, we (in the role of "government") pay nothing. All expenses with the house would continue to be paid by the neighbor (playing "taxpayer").

To make our housing "public option" even more analogous to Obama's health care "public option," we'll have surly government employees bossing around the neighbors after we evict them and a Web site for people to report any negative comments the neighbors make about us.

Another great trigger idea: We get to pull Keith Olbermann's hair to see if it's a toupee -- but only when triggered by his laughably claiming to have gone to an Ivy League university, rather than the bovine management school he actually attended.

(14) National health care will not cover abortions or illegal immigrants.

This appeared in an earlier installment of "Liberal Lies About Health Care," but I keep seeing Democrats like Howard Dean and Rep. Jan Schakowsky on TV angrily shouting that these are despicable lies -- which, in itself, constitutes proof that it's all true.

Then why did Democrats vote down amendments that would prohibit coverage for illegals and abortion? (Also, why is Planned Parenthood collecting petition signatures in Manhattan -- where they think they have no reason to be sneaky -- in support of national health care?)

On July 30 of this year, a House committee voted against a Republican amendment offered by Rep. Nathan Deal that would have required health care providers to use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program to prevent illegal aliens from receiving government health care services. All Republicans and five Democrats voted for it, but 29 Democrats voted against it, killing the amendment.

On the same day, the committee voted 30-29 against an amendment offered by Republican Joe Pitts explicitly stating that government health care would not cover abortions. Zealous abortion supporter Henry Waxman -- a walking, breathing argument for abortion if ever there was one -- originally voted in favor of the Pitts amendment because that allowed him, in a sleazy parliamentary trick, to bring the amendment up for reconsideration later. Which he did -- as soon as he had enough Democrats in the hearing room to safely reject it.

If any liberal sincerely believes that national health care will not cover illegals and abortion, how do they explain the Democrats frantically opposing amendments that would make this explicit?

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[alloysteel]

The reason the whole “health care reform” has been framed in such vague language is so that the regulations, later on, may be “nudged” to conform with the whims of the moment. This became all too clear this afternoon when Cass Sunstein, professor of faux law, was essentially confirmed on what will be a voice vote in the Senate.

With the aid of a few crossover Republicans.

[RonDog]

The conservative women, Sarah, Ann, Michelle, Laura et al are carrying the ball.

And, it's not just the CONSERVATIVE women who are blasting the "Wee Wee" One...

Apparently strong women IN GENERAL don't like what our Metrosexual in Chief is up to.

See also, THIS thread:

Obama Gets Ripped from Right AND from Left!!!
(Sarah Palin and Camille Paglia's ObamaCare Op-Eds)
Dumb Ox Daily News ^ | September 9, 2009

Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:33:32 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

Two op-eds today that systematically and irrefutably rip the facade off of the Obamessiah's administration are worth reading and savoring, and they come from two ladies of very different philosophical and social persuasions.

Both ladies find a not-so-odd coincidence of political opinion regarding the case of Obama's dreams for remaking the face of America and its institutions in His image. While the first lady (not the First Lady, thank you) is the faith- and family-driven Sarah Palin and the second lady is the somewhat Nietzchean alternative lifestyle Camille Paglia, the two of them share a commitment to first principles, and among those principles are individual liberty, personal responsibility, and the safe guards of the Bill of Rights. Things which the Obamaists mock and decry as evil or outmoded concepts in favor of their utopian views of power and technocratic regulation of every aspect of life.

Gov. Palin absolutely destroys Obama's and Pelosi's claims about what their healthcare "reforms" will and won't do. Read it NOW before the Obamessiah gets on the tube tonight and tries to backtrack on the truth... As I've said again and again--yeah abortion IS in there because if it's not specifically prohibited it will be allowed under "reproductive health" which is code for abortion on the feminazi left; and yeah, death panels are in there too, under the rubrics of quality control and efficiency. The Gov. lays out the CBO facts and the common sense approach to the kind of reforms that are needed that would not create billions of new debt, increase corruption, create millions of union dues paying useless jobs, etc.

Camille Paglia's piece is more reflective and expansive in her critique of why the Obamessiah's administration has imploded with San Fran Nan's help... it is brilliant...

CLICK HERE for more

[CatDancer]

The conservative women, Sarah, Ann, Michelle, Laura et al are carrying the ball.

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Yes, and Liz Cheney. Where are the men? Good question.

[Tax-chick]

I don’t mind Ann’s website. It’s not like townhall.com, that craps up my computer for the rest of the day until my husband gets home and ungunks it.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Here's a pic I haven't seen before: