[SmartInsight]

How can a political organization be tax exempt?!

And -- do they think people are so stupid, that they won't realize that a one time $250 handout does NOT make up for the tax increases, higher costs and rationiong of the healthcare -- with a lot of cuts coming from Medicare?

[mo]

We need to cram this up his bu&*!!

[Man50D]

People need to keep in mind throughout BO/BS trying to sell this dog and pony show is that any federal version of health care is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate health care! The people are not bound to comply with an unconstitutional act!

[AlexW]

“And — do they think people are so stupid,”

Yes, and 45 percent of “voters” ARE so stupid, if you watch Rasmussen.

[Venturer]

Wheaton, in Montgomery County. The most liberal County in the State. Think that has any effect on why Wheaton was chosen?

[sergeantdave]

“a one time $250 handout does NOT make up for the tax increases, higher costs and rationiong of the healthcare..”

This is like the robber who steals your wallet and gives you back a dollar for bus fare.

[Madame Dufarge]

Not surprisingly, enthusiastic Mao admirer Anita Dunn's leading the propaganda campaign.

The president will have plenty of help. A veritable army of outside groups — including an ambitious new initiative by Anita Dunn, Mr. Obama’s former communications director, and Andrew Grossman, a top Democratic strategist who spent 2009 coordinating advocacy groups in support of the overhaul — are orchestrating campaigns to echo the White House message.

[JohnLongIsland]

Lets get one thing straight: DeathCare® is a tax bill, not a health bill...

[silverleaf]

they think most seniors will sell their votes next November for a one-time $250 rebate.

Maybe they are right- guess we will see. Most of their consituency can be bought on election day for a $20 bill, free cigarettes and sammiches.

[backhoe]

Seen this?

ObamaCare to Doctors: Accept our prices or face jail [Darleen Click]

…and don’t you DARE even have lunch with your peers to “talk shop”, ’cause we will charge you with conspiracy.

As I’ve long suspected, “health care reform” has emboldened the Justice Department to take a more active role in enforcing government price controls against physicians. Today the Antitrust Division, joined by Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, forced a a group of Boise orthopedists to accept price controls for worker’s compensation and HMO contracts as part of a settlement accusing the doctors of “price fixing” [...]

The proposed settlement prevents the Idaho Orthopaedic Society and the named orthopedists from agreeing with their competitors on fees and contract terms. The settlement also prohibits them from collectively denying medical care to patients, refusing to deal with any payer or threatening to terminate contracts with any payer.

This case is a watershed for two reasons:

First, until now the Federal Trade Commission, not the Justice Department, has taken the lead in prosecuting physicians. Since 2000, the FTC has brought about three dozen cases against physicians (all but one of which settled without any trial). But the FTC only has civil and administrative jurisdiction; the Antitrust Division has civil and criminal jurisdiction. The Sherman Act makes no distinction between civil and criminal “price fixing,” so in a case like this, it’s entirely a matter of prosecutorial discretion whether to charge the doctors with a civil or criminal offense.

Based on the descriptions in the Antitrust Division’s press release, there’s certainly no reason they couldn’t have prosecuted the doctors criminally and insisted upon prison sentences — and there’s little doubt such threats were made or implied to obtain the physicians’ agreement to the proposed “settlement.”

The second reason this is a landmark case is that the Justice Department has unambiguously stated that refusal to accept government price controls is a form of illegal “price fixing.”

So, it’s ok for SEIU or Teacher’s Unions or any other labor entity to strike, threaten to strike, or get the Obama government to do their dirty work (take over GM, toss investors to the curb and hand over an equity share to the Union), but if a doctor says “hey, I’m not going to accept any more Medicare/Workers Comp/Blue Cross patients” that doctor is engaging in criminal behavior and, by golly, Barry will have none of it!

Oh, btw, Obama’s DOJ also says Doctors don’t have Constitution right of Free Speech, either:

The DOJ has released the proposed order and other documents. It’s a naked censorship order that restrains the physicians from

(A) encouraging, facilitating, entering into, participating in, or attempting to engage in any actual or potential agreement or understanding with, between, or among competing physicians about:

• any fee, or other payer contract term or condition, with any payer or group of payers, including the acceptability or negotiation of any fee or other payer contract term with any payer or group of payers;
• the manner in which the defendant or any competing physician will negotiate with, contract with, or otherwise deal with any payer or group of payers, including participating in or terminating any payer contract; or
• any refusal to deal or threatened refusal to deal with any payer;

Oh, yeah. Take out student loans of $100,000 or more to become a doctor and become a second-class citizen.

Yeah, that’s going improve both the quantity and quality of future physicians.

(h/t Simon at Classical Values)

Posted by Darleen @ 10:19 am
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"Medical schools are already reporting shortages of incoming students. ObamaCare will “have no choice” but to ban all private practice and go the full Brit/Canada socialist model."

[SmartInsight]

Canadian health care falls short of what we deserve

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/canadian-health-care-falls-short-of-what-we-deserve/article1592694/

“The doctor shortage is a major problem with our health-care system. Unfortunately, it’s just one of many. Our patients wait too long for basic care. The system is plagued by too much bureaucracy. And despite a massive infusion of money - the Ontario health budget has roughly doubled in the past decade - we must acknowledge what no government official is willing to admit: Canadian health care falls short of what we deserve.

Canadians, though, are routinely told how well our health-care system compares to those of other nations. It’s not so. Take the United States. Despite the heated political rhetoric north of the 49th parallel about American health care, their patients are more likely to survive cancer (66.3 per cent over five years for American men, but 58 per cent for Canadian men, based on recent data from national databases). Their outcomes are also better for heart attacks and transplants. And, based on data from the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, Americans have greater access to preventive screening tests and higher treatment rates for chronic illnesses, and the poor under our public system seem to be less healthy relative to the non-poor than their American counterparts. “

[EBH]

$250.00 handout...

Doesn’t even cover grandma’s prescriptions for the month.

Fools, just fools.

[Oceander]

[chainsaw]

Amen....

Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand.

This quote was translated into English from an article appearing in the Czech Republic as published in the Prager Zeitung of 28 April 2010 .

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.”

“The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.

The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool.

It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

[Richard Kimball]

They've already started. On Hulu last night, one of the commercials was for a DVD with some comedian (never heard of him before.) The clip was him riffing that Obama was being attacked because he wanted everyone to have health insurance but the Republicans wanted people to die.

It was underwritten by some group pushing Obama. Had to be. There wasn't even a joke, just a sales pitch for Obama's health care disguised as an ad for a comedy DVD.

[Carley]

Juan Williams said it best. Americans are not buying this dog food called Obamacare.

[blueyon]

This is really called get out the vote...November is coming and the Demonrats are worried...Sell sell Sell

[mellow velo]

Well, there is all of that unspent stimulus money. Is there any doubt that the master plan was to siphon what remains as payoffs & incentives to help the Dims come November?! This is the Quid for the Quo that was their votes.

[GailA]

To much medical care can be harmful

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2529293/posts

[GailA]

More than half a Trillion comes from the Medicare cut & gut.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yes, they actually think we’re too stupid to realize that a $250 dollar rebate doesn’t compensate for the tax burden and rationing.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!