Note: Read the whole article please. -Cindy
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52429
“Obama in 2003: ‘I Happen to be a Proponent of a Single-Payer Universal Health Care Plan;’ Obama in 2009: ‘I Have Not Said That I Was a Single-Payer Supporter’”
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
Music Break:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nuEY6fQgzk
“The Marvelettes Please Mr. Postman - Original version”
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President Obama Speaks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5SGo8MiuAo
“Obama on Health Care being Like Post Office, Private Insurance like UPS and FedEx”
(Added August 12, 2009)
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This blogger says: “Please Mr. Postman (ObamaCareRemix)”
http://jimtreacher.com/archives/002109.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315409/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315409/posts?page=6#6
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cpusa.org
cpusa.org/link/category/21/
www.moveon.org
www.moveon.org/augustrecess/town_hall_materials.html
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“MoveOn.org is Trying to Mobilize Activists to Attend Town Hall Meetings to Push for ‘Public Option’ Health Care”
Thursday, August 13, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) - While President Obama has focused attention on “special interests” that are mobilizing to try to defeat his health-care plan, the liberal group MoveOn.org is trying to mobilize people to attend congressional town hall meetings to push for the plan, and especially to push for a government-run “public option” insurance program.
MoveOn.org is even suggesting brief statements people can make in favor of a “public option” health care plan if they attend a town hall, and gives people the opportunity to download signs indicating their approval of the “public option” that they can print and carry into the meetings.
The lead article on MoveOn.org’s Web site yesterday and this morning is headlined, “It’s Getting Ugly.””
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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-94Y5CqEU8Q
“FOX’s Major Garrett vs White House Press Secretary Over Emails”
Video Description - Quote:
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs vs FOX’s Major Garrett Over David Axelrod Emails - 08/13/09
Category: News & Politics
Tags: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs vs FOX Major Garrett Over Emails 08/13/09 David Axelrod
Great work on this thread, Cindy!
Lots of pertinent info Re: HR3200 (Healthcare bill) here, folks!
Ping! Ping! Ping!
LOL!
“We haven’t read either bill but here’s why what you’re reading is wrong.”
Linda.....The President doesn’t know what the program is. What he says and what specifics are in the various bills are not the same.
When congress passes a monster, he will sign and say thy did it
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMrU0RRH0ts
“The Prez At A Town Hall In Montana Gets A Hard Question - Money”
Video Description - Quote:
patriotsandheroes
August 14, 2009
http://patriotsnetwork.com
He answers the question.I have no idea what the answer is but he answers it.
Category: News & Politics
Tags: The Prez Town Hall Montana Hard Question Money
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52529
“House Health Care Legislation May Lead to ‘Unintended Consequences,’ Republican Senator Says”
Friday, August 14, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) –
SNIPPET: “Grassley announced on Thursday that the Senate Finance Committee has dropped end-of-life provisions from its health care legislation — “entirely because of the way they could be misinterpreted and implemented incorrectly.”
That’s apparently what many town hall attendees fear.
While Democrats insist that concerned American citizens are “spreading lies” about health care reform legislation, Grassley speaks for those who worry that end-of-life provisions in the House bill will be interpreted in a way that encourages the elderly and infirm to forego life-sustaining treatment.
Section 1233 of the House bill 3200 has been a target of particular wrath at town hall meetings across the country.
What the bill says
Section 1233 deals with “advance care planning consultations” between Medicare patients and a doctor, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant – someone who is legally authorized to sign orders for life-sustaining treatments.
Section 1233 says Medicare will cover such consultations once every five years, or more frequently – “if there is a significant change in the health condition of the individual, including diagnosis of a chronic, progressive, life-limiting disease, a life-threatening or terminal diagnosis or life-threatening injury, or upon admission to a skilled nursing facility, a long-term care facility, or a hospice program.”
“A consultation under this subsection may include the formulation of an order regarding life sustaining treatment,” the bill says.
The bill specifically says that advance care consultations shall include the following:
(A) An explanation by the practitioner of advance care planning, including key questions and considerations, important steps, and suggested people to talk to.
(B) An explanation by the practitioner of advance directives, including living wills and durable powers of attorney, and their uses.
(C) An explanation by the practitioner of the role and responsibilities of a health care proxy.
(D) The provision by the practitioner of a list of national and State-specific resources to assist consumers and their families with advance care planning, including the national toll-free hotline, the advance care planning clearinghouses, and State legal service organizations…
(E) An explanation by the practitioner of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice, and benefits for such services and supports that are available under this title.
House bill 3200 further says that explanations of life-sustaining treatment shall include:
— reasons why the development of such an order is beneficial to the individual and the individual’s family and the reasons why such an order should be updated periodically as the health of the individual changes;
— information needed for an individual or legal surrogate to make informed decisions regarding the completion of such an order; and
— resources that an individual may use to ensure that his or her treatment wishes will be carried out if the individual is unable to communicate those wishes. (i.e., health care proxy).”
stepping back in time...
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
“Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine”
Video Description - Quote:
From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association
Category: News & Politics
Tags: Ronald Reagan Socialized Medicine
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316535/posts
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Where_Civic_Republicanism_and_Deliberative_Democracy_Meet.pdf
http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/os/cerbios.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_doctors_180941.htm?&page=1
http://aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/redirect-safely.php?fname=../pdffiles/phprW.pdf
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/2297628/posts?page=16#16
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
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Blog:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/death_panel_is_not_in_the_bill.html
August 15, 2009
“’Death panel’ is not in the bill... it already exists”
By Joseph Ashby
SNIPPET: “What both outlets fail to point out is that the panel already exists.
H.R. 1 (more commonly known as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, even more commonly known as the Stimulus Bill and aptly dubbed the Porkulus Bill) contains a whopping $1.1 billion to fund the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. The Council is the brain child of former Health and Human Services Secretary Nominee Tom Daschle.
Before the Porkulus Bill passed, Betsy McCaughey, former Lieutenant governor of New York, wrote in detail about the Council’s purpose.
Daschle’s stated purpose (and therefore President Obama’s purpose) for creating the Council is to empower an unelected bureaucracy to make the hard decisions about health care rationing that elected politicians are politically unable to make. The end result is to slow costly medical advancement and consumption. Daschle argues that Americans ought to be more like Europeans who passively accept “hopeless diagnoses.”
McCaughey goes on to explain:
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.
Who is on the Council? One of its most prominent members is none other than Dr. Death himself Ezekiel Emanuel. Dr. Emanuel’s views on care of the elderly should frighten anyone who is or ever plans on being old. He explains the logic behind his discriminatory views on elderly care as follows:”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YVQQ3ARkzM
“TV AD: Oppose ObamaCare”
Video Description - Quote:
OurCountryPAC
July 22, 2009
From: http://www.OurCountryPAC.org
Television ad citing the dangers of Barack Obama’s socialized health care plan. We must defeat this big-government montrosity that would bring havoc to our health care system in America. Join our fight against ObamaCare at: http://www.OurCountryPAC.org
Category: News & Politics
Tags: Barack Obama health care healthcare Obamacare OurCountryPAC Our Country Deserves Better Committee
Off [Thread] Topic, but FYI:
Thanks to fanfan for pointing to the dotmet link:
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http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=18327
August 14, 2009
“ISOTOPE SHORTAGE MEANS A HEALTH CARE CRISIS”
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http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/9900/
“Canadian Isotope Reactor to Be Shuttered Until Next Year”
August 14, 2009
by Lynn Shapiro, Writer
SNIPPET: “Dealing a blow to downstream suppliers and to the medical community alike, the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) said it will not reopen its National Research Universal (NRU) reactor in Chalk River, Ontario until the first quarter of 2010, as a result of repairs that forced the 52-year-old plant to shut down in May.
Since AECL produces approximately 40 to 50 percent of medical isotopes used in North America, the extended shutdown has suppliers scrambling for new sources.
In July, AECL said that the generator would be back online by late 2009. AECL shuttered the 52-year-old reactor in May, after a leak was found in the reactor’s vessel.
The plant is the only one in North America, and one of five in the world, that makes molybdenum-99, which decays to become technetium-99m, an isotope used in an increasing number of medical imaging tests.
Michael Graham, PhD, SNM’s President, and director of nuclear medicine at the University of Iowa, commenting on the shortage, told DOTmed News in June that “the bottom line is that patients needing nuclear medicine tests may not get them, and may even have to undergo exploratory surgery in some cases.”
He noted radioisotopes are used for such tests as: looking at blood flow in the heart; for bone scans, and for many other studies, like lung scans and uptake of excretion in the kidneys.
Nine Sites Need Repair”
Linda Douglass seems to be pure evil.
Note: Video included.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Health-Insurance-Reform-and-Disability/
THE BLOG
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13TH, 2009 AT 2:02 PM
Health Insurance Reform and Disability
Posted by Katherine Brandon
Recently, you may have heard one misunderstanding that the President’s plan will mean children with disabilities will not receive the care they need. On the contrary, reform will eliminate health insurance discrimination against people with disabilities. Under the President’s plan, insurance companies will no longer be allowed to deny coverage based on a pre-existing condition, which will allow those with disabilities to receive the quality, affordable care they deserve.
We asked Mike Strautmanis, Chief of Staff for Valerie Jarrett and the father of a child with a disability, to set the record straight. In this “Reality Check” video, he explains more about how the President’s plan will help, not hurt, those with disabilities:
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=116979483434
Sarah Palin: Troubling Questions Remain About Obama’s Health Care Plan
Sarah Palin’s Notes
Troubling Questions Remain About Obama’s Health Care Plan
Thu at 10:11pm
I join millions of Americans in expressing appreciation for the Senate Finance Committee’s decision to remove the provision in the pending health care bill that authorizes end-of-life consultations (Section 1233 of HR 3200). It’s gratifying that the voice of the people is getting through to Congress; however, that provision was not the only disturbing detail in this legislation; it was just one of the more obvious ones.
As I noted in my statement last week, nationalized health care inevitably leads to rationing. There is simply no way to cover everyone and hold down the costs at the same time. The rationing system proposed by one of President Obama’s key health care advisors is particularly disturbing. I’m speaking of the “Complete Lives System” advocated by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the president’s chief of staff. President Obama has not yet stated any opposition to the “Complete Lives System,” a system which, if enacted, would refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential. [1] Why the silence from the president on this aspect of his nationalization of health care? Does he agree with the “Complete Lives System”? If not, then why is Dr. Emanuel his policy advisor? What is he advising the president on? I just learned that Dr. Emanuel is now distancing himself from his own work and claiming that his “thinking has evolved” on the question of rationing care to benefit the strong and deny the weak. [2] How convenient that he disavowed his own work only after the nature of his scholarship was revealed to the public at large.
The president is busy assuring us that we can keep our private insurance plans, but common sense (and basic economics) tells us otherwise. The public option in the Democratic health care plan will crowd out private insurers, and that’s what it’s intended to do. A single payer health care plan has been President Obama’s agenda all along, though he is now claiming otherwise. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what he said back in 2003:
“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan.... A single payer health care plan – universal health care plan – that’s what I would like to see.” [3]
A single-payer health care plan might be what Obama would like to see, but is it what the rest of us would like to see? What does a single payer health care plan look like? We need look no further than other countries who have adopted such a plan. The picture isn’t pretty. [4] The only way they can control costs is to ration care. As I noted in my earlier statement quoting Thomas Sowell, government run health care won’t reduce the price of medical care; it will simply refuse to pay the price. The expensive innovative procedures that people from all over the world come to the United States for will not be available under a government plan that seeks to cover everyone by capping costs.
Our senior citizens are right to be wary of this health care bill. Medical care at the end of life accounts for 80 percent of all health care. When care is rationed, that is naturally where the cuts will be felt first. The “end-of-life” consultations authorized in Section 1233 of HR 3200 were an obvious and heavy handed attempt at pressuring people to reduce the financial burden on the system by minimizing their own care. Worst still, it actually provided a financial incentive to doctors to initiate these consultations. People are right to point out that such a provision doesn’t sound “purely voluntary.”
In an article I noted yesterday, Charles Lane wrote:
“Ideally, the delicate decisions about how to manage life’s end would be made in a setting that is neutral in both appearance and fact. Yes, it’s good to have a doctor’s perspective. But Section 1233 goes beyond facilitating doctor input to preferring it. Indeed, the measure would have an interested party — the government — recruit doctors to sell the elderly on living wills, hospice care and their associated providers, professions and organizations. You don’t have to be a right-wing wacko to question that approach.” [5]
I agree. Last year, I issued a proclamation for “Healthcare Decisions Day.” [6] The proclamation sought to increase the public’s knowledge about creating living wills and establishing powers of attorney. There was no incentive to choose one option over another. There was certainly no financial incentive for physicians to push anything. In fact, the proclamation explicitly called on medical professionals and lawyers “to volunteer their time and efforts” to provide information to the public.
Comparing the “Healthcare Decisions Day” proclamation to Section 1233 of HR 3200 is ridiculous. The two are like apples and oranges. The attempt to link the two shows how desperate the proponents of nationalized health care are to shift the debate away from the disturbing details of their bill.
There is one aspect of this bill which I have not addressed yet, but it’s a very obvious one. It’s the simple fact that we can’t afford it. But don’t take my word for it. Take the word of Doug Elmendorf, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. He told the Senate Budget Committee last month:
“In the legislation that has been reported we do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount. And on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.” [7]
Dr. Elmendorf went on to note that this health care legislation would increase spending at an unsustainable rate.
Our nation is already $11.5 trillion in debt. Where will the money come from? Taxes, of course. And will a burdensome new tax help our economy recover? Of course not. The best way to encourage more health care coverage is to foster a strong economy where people can afford to purchase their own coverage if they choose to do so. The current administration’s economic policies have done nothing to help in this regard.
Health care is without a doubt a complex and contentious issue, but health care reform should be a market oriented solution. There are many ways we can reform the system and lower costs without nationalizing it.
The economist Arthur Laffer has taken the lead in pushing for a patient-center health care reform policy. He noted in a Wall Street Journal article earlier this month:
“A patient-centered health-care reform begins with individual ownership of insurance policies and leverages Health Savings Accounts, a low-premium, high-deductible alternative to traditional insurance that includes a tax-advantaged savings account. It allows people to purchase insurance policies across state lines and reduces the number of mandated benefits insurers are required to cover. It reallocates the majority of Medicaid spending into a simple voucher for low-income individuals to purchase their own insurance. And it reduces the cost of medical procedures by reforming tort liability laws.” [8]
Those are real reforms that we can live with and afford. Once again, I warn my fellow Americans that if we go down the path of nationalized health care, there will be no turning back. We must stop and think or we may find ourselves losing even more of our freedoms.
- Sarah Palin
[1] See http://www.scribd.com/doc/18280675/Principles-for-Allocation-of-Scarce-Medical-Interventions
[2] See http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/14/white-house-adviser-backs-off-rationing/
[3]See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hsqzSKuC44
[4] See http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2M0ODk0OTNkZjkwNGM4OGMyYTEwYWY3ODUzMzFiOTc=
[5] See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080703043.html
[6] See http://www.gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=1094&type=6
[7] See http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/cbo-sees-no-federal-cost-savings-in-dem-health-plans.html
[8] See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204619004574324361508092006.html
Blog:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_array_of_wh_obamacare_tact.html
August 17, 2009
“The Array of WH ObamaCare Tactics Grows”
By Lee Cary
Blog:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/on_being_ruled_by_fanatics.html
August 17, 2009
“On being ruled by fanatics”
By James Lewis
SNIPPET: “On the contrary. It is a plan so single-minded, so monomaniacal, so disruptive, grandiose and blind to the alternatives that it is even now crashing in the minds of a shell-shocked public.
This is the result of fanaticism, not balanced thinking. That seems to be President Obama’s way. This White House defines a goal like Arab-Israeli Peace in the Middle East, or Health Care for All, and goes hell for leather, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead — without ever pausing to think, or to listening to people who have spent decades dealing with these questions — if they dissent from Obama orthodoxy. Any opposition is interpreted as bad faith rather than reasoned disagreement. Critics must be evil or racist. That is the state of mind of jihadis going on suicide missions. It is not how intelligent policy makers operate.
This White House knows no limits. It is endlessly self-aggrandizing. And it is contemptuous of dissent. Add that to fanatical thinking and huge mental blind spots, and you have a recipe for disaster. The captain is drunk on power and heading straight for the iceberg.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318145/posts
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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/issa-wants-answers-from-white-house-on-emails-2009-08-17.html
“Issa wants answers from White House on e-mails”
By Eric Zimmermann
Posted: 08/17/09 03:34 PM [ET]
SNIPPET: “The ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants more answers from the White House about its e-mail policies.
In a letter to White House counsel Greg Craig, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Monday raised questions about the White House’s request for supporters to forward “fishy claims” about healthcare.
Issa says such a request could have a “chilling” effect on free speech and asked the president to ensure that the e-mails will be stored properly but not used for political purposes.
“To help ease these concerns, please tell us what actions take place or have been discussed in regard to e-mails deemed ‘fishy’ and what safeguards the White House has put in place to insure [sic] no retributive steps are taken against those who express dissent,” Issa wrote.
Earlier on Monday the White House announced it was changing its e-mail policies to ensure that advocacy groups could not sign people up to White House e-mail lists without the recipients’ permission. It also disabled the e-mail account that had caused the problem, but Issa still wants answers about the stored e-mails it had already received.
Some conservatives have suggested the White House was trying to sign people up for e-mails against their will, or was trying to compile an “enemies list.””
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52593
“Once Again Obama Misstates Number of Uninsured Americans—This Time in a New York Times Op-Ed”
Monday, August 17, 2009
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) - President Obama for a third time has misstated the number of Americans who lack health insurance, this time doing it in an op-ed piece published Saturday by the New York Times.”
blog:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/the_enemy_list.html
August 18, 2009
“The ‘Enemy List’
letter to the editor”
SNIPPET: “Last week the WHITE HOUSE had a press release titled “Facts are Stubborn Things” encouraging citizens to report any “fishy” conversations about health care reform to a White House website. They have created an “enemy list.”
Facts ARE stubborn things — If I could tell the President one thing, I would tell him it’s easy to paint the truth because the truth does not fade over time. A lie requires a fresh coat of paint often. A lying artist will stand by his work and “interpret” it for you. The honest artist will hang his painting and leave, allowing the work to say it all. This health care bill is nothing but a bad painting. The color and texture changes daily and every new version smells like dead fish. All that really matters to them is that heath care reform passes, never mind that it will give government control of 20% of our economy, cost $100 billion a year, and cut your quality of care. Never mind that every other social health care program in the world has failed, the fact is, Obamacare is not art. It’s garbage.
Eighty-five percent of Americans have health insurance and access to health care. The balance of the uninsured has access to affordable health care through multiple channels. Community Health Services has 7,000 clinics providing care around the country for the underserved. Multiple hospitals, doctors and municipalities provide indigent care. Today everyone has access to some form of health care. To say otherwise when the truth is evident sounds ‘fishy’ to me.”