"Get up, Chuck, and fight us like a man!"
Posted on 11/27/2009 11:20:20 PM PST by Rufus2007
Well, it's not quite as bad as Paul Krugman critiquing the Fox Business Network, but a little troubling because tax dollars are being spent to undertake such an effort.
A Nov. 27 post by incoming White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer on the The White House Blog attempted to fact check a Nov. 27 column by Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, proving the left-wing noise machine isn't the only shop in Washington, D.C. criticizing conservative voices (h/t Amanda Carpenter of The Washington Times).
"In today's Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer takes great pains to paint a bleak picture of health care reform as ‘monstrous,' ‘overregulated,' and rife with ‘arbitrary bureaucratic inventions,'" Pfeiffer wrote. "The columnist's argument may be cogent and well-written, but it is wholly inaccurate."
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Pravda for a new generation.
Anyone with brains knows better than to get into an intellectual pissing match with Charles K.
“The columnist’s argument may be cogent and well-written, but it is wholly inaccurate.”
One would suspect that Charles is sitting there and grinning from ear to ear. They’ve attempted to knock down his writings...but they still had to give him a ton of credit on a cogent and well-written piece. Not even Glenn Beck can get that kind of pat on the back.
Charles Krauthammer is probably the intelligent mind in America today. And the best thing...the guy can write a five-star piece almost daily.
Pass the popcorn—this oughta be good.
Not very cogent or well-written. Wholly a sack of carp.
Comment snippet from post no. 1: “Ladies and gentlemen - I present you more taxpayer-funded propaganda. Enjoy.”
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Reality Check: Column Ignores Facts about Health Reform
Posted by Dan Pfeiffer on November 27, 2009 at 05:14 PM EST
In today’s Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer takes great pains to paint a bleak picture of health care reform as “monstrous,” “overregulated,” and rife with “arbitrary bureaucratic inventions.” The columnist’s argument may be cogent and well-written, but it is wholly inaccurate.
Krauthammer describes a “better choice” for health reform as having three elements: tort reform, interstate purchasing and taxing employee benefits. All three elements are part of the current effort.
President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the Secretary of HHS to move forward with an initiative to give states and health systems the opportunity to apply for medical liability demonstration projects. Section 2531 of the House bill also includes a voluntary state incentive grants program to encourage states to develop alternatives to traditional malpractice litigation.
Section 9001 of the Senate bill does impose a fee on high-cost health care plans. (A PDF of the Senate bill is available here.) To clarify: This is a fee on insurance companies that offer high-cost plans that drive up the cost of health care for all Americans, not a tax on individuals.
Section 1333 of the Senate bill allows for interstate health care choice compacts. Coupled with insurance market reforms to ensure individuals are not discriminated against, this policy will expand health care choices to millions of Americans.
And while Mr. Krauthammer may try to label reform legislation as a package of programs linked only by “political expediency,” the legislation actually is designed to take health care off the unsustainable path it is currently on by improving the health of all Americans and reducing costs for families, small businesses and the government. Some examples from the Senate bill:
An independent Medicare Commission that would develop and submit proposals to Congress aimed at shoring up the long-term financial health of Medicare, slowing Medicare cost growth that is hurting seniors and the budget, and improving the quality of care delivered to all Medicare beneficiaries. (Section 3403)
A program to ensure that uninsured individuals with pre-existing conditions can buy affordable health coverage. (Section 1101)
New programs to expand the health care workforce so we can ensure there are more doctors and nurses in this country. (Sections 5102, 5201, 5202, 5203, 5204, 5205, 5206, 5207, 5309, 5310, 5311, 5312)
New prevention and wellness programs such as tobacco cessation and programs to combat childhood obesity. (Sections 4001, 4002, 4003 and 4004, 4107, 4306)
I think it interesting that Charles Krauthammer is a psychiatrist and has remarked a number of times about Obama’s narcicism
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/11/27/kill_the_bills_do_health_reform_right
“KILL THE BILLS. DO HEALTH REFORM RIGHT”
by Charles Krauthammer
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON — The United States has the best health care in the world — but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill (as with its 2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds the complexity by adding hundreds of new provisions, regulations, mandates, committees and other arbitrary bureaucratic inventions.
Worse, they are packed into a monstrous package without any regard to each other. The only thing linking these changes — such as the 118 new boards, commissions and programs — is political expediency. Each must be able to garner just enough votes to pass. There is not even a pretense of a unifying vision or conceptual harmony.
The result is an overregulated, overbureaucratized system of surpassing arbitrariness and inefficiency.”
SNIPPET: “In the 4,000-plus pages of the two bills, there is no tort reform. Indeed, the House bill actually penalizes states that dare “limit attorneys’ fees or impose caps on damages.” Why? Because, as Howard Dean has openly admitted, Democrats don’t want “to take on the trial lawyers.” What he didn’t say — he didn’t need to — is that they give millions to the Democrats for precisely this kind of protection.”
Whose right is health care? Do you think it's yours?Congressman Anthony Weiner has said that health care is not a commodity. If it isn't a commodity then do doctors and nurses have rights? Assigning health care the status of a right makes health care workers slaves to that right who must serve it. On what ground could a health care worker refuse to provide their products and services since that would violate the patient's "basic human right to health care."
That is a direct loss of individual rights for health care providers. The collective right of the people to receive health care would supersede the provider's individual right to set fees and hours or to change their occupational status or even decide how to apply their skills and knowledge if taken to its logical extreme. A collective right, by practical definition, is a state right because it is a right that is created and given by the government to those it chooses to give it to. It is not a natural right possessed by each person protected by the Constitution from the government. It is also a collective/state right by virtue of the fact that it would supersede individual rights when the two come into conflict. How else would the government view a right that it created and administers vs. one it has no control over?
Of course it isn't stated in any bill that a patient's right to care supersedes a provider's right to set fees and hours etc, but it doesn't need to. Rights, as always, are adjudicated in the courts. The Health Care Reform bills simply establish the foundation for the courts to rule in favor of the collective right.
Weiner’s view is collectivist, fascist and totalitarian. Collectivist because it has to be described as being a right of the many instead of the one and superior due to that fact. Fascist because ultimately the sole authority for its creation and oversight is from one entity the Federal government. Totalitarian because the Federal government is the enforcer of this collective right as well. State and local jurisdictions will have little say about it.
Congressman Weiner's view is the underlying philosophy of all of the Health Care Reform legislation in the House and Senate. Consider this section in the Senate version of the bill; the setting up of community watch dogs that will monitor citizens for various health parameters. Read pages 382 - 393.
TITLE I—QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS pps 382 - 393
So, even citizens themselves will be subject to Federal regulations on their behavior in order to fulfill the "human right" of universal health care. It isn't the individual's liberty that is being protected by that it is the government's control over its own health care system that is being guarded. How much clearer can it be that these bills abrogate the concept of individual rights? Someone will be checking your lifestyle, according to gov regulations, to be certain you serve the best interests of the "basic human right to health care" ie. "the Public Option."
HCR is not just about rationing care and wealth redistribution. It's about the end of individual rights as the corrosive effects of the new collectivist "basic human right to health care" spreads throughout the legal and political systems like a virus.
I think that the main purpose of Health Care Reform (HCR) is as a direct assault on individual liberties.
Health Care is a Liberty Issue
Conservative Underground - 18 August 2009 - Tim DunkinAnother Stupid Argument: Heath Care is a Right
Obama's Authoritarian, Unconstitutional Health Care Proposal
To Americans Who Believe Healthcare is a Right
OBAMA: HEALTH CARE DESTROYING FREE SPEECH
Mandated health insurance threatens freedom, privacy
Second Bill of Rights aka FDR's economic bill of rights
(An early attempt to embed collective rights into American politics and society.)
That is just an out and out lie. None of those things is part of any current effort.
are these the sections that enforce minority preference for medical/nursing/aide/technician training school applications and hirings?
Reminds me of that SNL skit:
How exacly is extending health care coverage to 30 million people going to save you money?...I am noticing that each of your plans to save money involve spending more money..will you kiss me?...I like to be kissed before SOMEONE IS DOING SEX TO ME!
Oh, come on.
This’ll be a great deal!
We’ll all have health insurance, at somewhere between two and three times the current payment rate. After all, somebody has to pay for the uninsured...
Of course, since there’ll be no increase in the number of doctors, and probably a decline, we’ll have no access to actual care.
But limited access will, I guess, cut costs, so the insurance rate will only increase to four times the current rate.
How could things be better?
This should make for interesting debate material.
Please keep the pressure on these mental patients, Dr. Krauthammer.
You are one of the few grown-ups still remaining in the Washington DC area.
I will listen to a seasoned psychiatrist discuss the mental illness of Obama any day of the weak so long as the psychiatrist is willing to be honest about it.
I wonder how many other mental health professionals are out there who also know that Obama is a narcissist?
I especially like the part about jail sentences and turning doctors into robots with programming from the pill companies as it is UNPRECEDENTED anywhere, anytime.
The American dream is now a nightmare.
That is where we Conservatives will most likely be sent.
"Get up, Chuck, and fight us like a man!"
We have the overthrow of legitimate government and no defiance to speak of.I don’t know how the word treason is not coming from everyone. It has to be the synergism of fluoride and television. I thought Homeland Security was supposed to protect us from changing the economic and social order. Isn’t this enslavement doing that? Well, maybe not. It looks like Dickens was right in saying the American experience will end in failure.
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