Posted on 03/08/2010 7:51:43 PM PST by socialismisinsidious
Medicare Part B Therapy Caps: A Preview of Life under Obamacare
The American Thinker ^ | March 08, 2010 | Anthony Ughetti
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 6:44:18 AM by Scanian
Many Americans are justifiably leery about health care reform, fearing that reforms will lead to arbitrary government rationing of health care, denial of services, and choice taken from consumers and placed under government control. What many Americans may not know, however, is that we don't have to wait for Obamacare to experience these effects. These conditions hang over the lives of the institutionalized elderly due to Medicare Part B therapy caps.
Health Care Is Heavily Taxed Now
The American Thinker ^ | March 08, 2010 | John Donaldson, MD
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 6:48:39 AM by Scanian
Congressional plans for financing the proposed health care legislation include provisions to tax health insurance of non-union citizens and medical devices vital to the delivery of medicines. We never hear that health care is already heavily taxed, but that these taxes are hidden from the consumer and have the greatest impact on the sick.
With outcome of health care overhaul uncertain, President Obama to appeal for public support
cox news ^ | 3-8-10 | JULIE PACE, Associated Press Writer
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 9:43:43 AM by cajuncow
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- With the fate of his signature legislative initiative far from certain, President Barack Obama is taking his last-ditch push for a health care overhaul on the road.
Specter: Democrats getting 'angry,' will pass healthcare bill
The Hill ^ | 03/08/10 02:09 PM ET | Eric Zimmermann
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 3:40:29 PM by Jean S
Democrats in Congress are getting "angry" enough to push through healthcare reform, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) said today.
Obama to appeal for public support on health care (Please make it stop!)
AP ^ | 3/8/2010 | JULIE PACE
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 6:59:18 AM by tobyhill
With the fate of his signature legislative initiative far from certain, President Barack Obama is taking his last-ditch push for health care reform on the road.
In a speech Monday in Philadelphia, Obama will try to persuade the public to back his plan to remake the nation's health care system, while also urging uneasy lawmakers to cast a "final vote" for a massive reform bill in an election year.
Weighing the Promise of Healthcare and Finding it Wanting
Townhall.com ^ | March 8, 2010 | Joseph C. Phillips
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 7:01:41 AM by Kaslin
Speaking on ABC's "This Week", House Speaker Nancy Pelosi commented, "I think everybody wants affordable health care for all Americans. They know that this will take courage. It took courage to pass Social Security. It took courage to pass Medicare. And many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are at work again against this bill."
Obama Bribes, Threatens, and Rewards Congress to Pass Health Care
Townhall.com ^ | March 8, 2010 | Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 7:10:31 AM by Kaslin
All aspects of President Obama's Chicago-style tactics are on display as he cajoles, bullies and bribes the House to pass his health care proposals despite the overwhelming public rejection with which they have been met.
President Obama attacks insurance companies in bid for public support on health overhaul
cox news ^ | 3-8-10 | JULIE PACE, Associated Press Writer
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 11:37:03 AM by cajuncow
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- President Barack Obama ratcheted up his attacks against insurance companies Monday in a last-ditch attempt to get a reluctant public and skittish Democrats behind his health overhaul legislation.
Obama: Greedy health insurers show need for reform (200 Tea Partiers Counter!)
Philly.com ^ | 3/8/10 | Thomas Fitzgerald and Kristen Holmes
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 1:11:36 PM by dirtboy
President Obama began an important political week for his health-care legislation with a passionate argument for its urgency Monday at Arcadia University in Glenside, blasting the insurance industry for skyrocketing premiums, canceled coverage – and suffering Americans.
Obama Targets GOP in Last-Ditch Pitch for Health Care Bill
Fox News ^ | 3/8/10
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 2:51:48 PM by antidemoncrat
President Obama, launching a last-ditch push to pass health care legislation in the next 10 days, left no doubt Monday that he was ready to roll over any opposition by taunting Republicans that they had 10 years to fix health care and didn't
That Fabulous Cuban Healthcare (Part II)
Townhall.com ^ | March 8, 2010 | Humberto Fontova
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 7:56:48 AM by Kaslin
“My nation is hardly perfect in human rights. A very large number of our citizens are incarcerated in prison, and there is little doubt that the death penalty is imposed most harshly on those who are poor, black, or mentally ill. For more than a quarter century, we have struggled unsuccessfully to guarantee the basic right of universal health care for our people. …but Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education.” (Speech by Jimmy Carter at the University of Havana on May 14, 2002 which was broadcast throughout Castro’s island-wide fiefdom and trumpeted worldwide by all “news” agencies that earned Havana Bureaus.)
On radio show, Massa says Dem leaders railroaded him because he voted against ObamaCare
The Washington Examiner ^ | Mar. 8, 2010 | David Freddoso
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 8:13:55 AM by The Old Hoosier
Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., under investigation for alleged sexual harassment of a male staffer, accused House Democratic leaders of lying about the charges against him and using them to run him out of Congress because he voted against health care reform when it last came before the House.
Eric Massa slams Democrat leaders for ethics probe (investigated for voting against Obamacare)
Politico ^ | March 8, 2010
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 9:21:46 AM by Zakeet
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) says the House ethics committee is investigating him for inappropriate comments he made to a male staffer on New Year's Eve — and that he's the victim of a power play by Democratic leaders who want him out of Congress because he's a "no" vote on health care reform.
WBHO and WBHO FM in the Nation's Capital (Obama lies about health insurers)
American Spectator ^ | January 8, 2010 | Daniel Oliver
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 9:26:22 AM by reaganaut1
It may not be news that politicians dissemble. But that's no reason not to care about what a president says. Let us, therefore, unpack last Saturday's presidential radio address.
President Obama said he had met with some of the insurance companies two days earlier and said that "they couldn't give me a straight answer as to why they keep arbitrarily and massively raising premiums -- by as much as 60 percent in states like Illinois."
Health Care Battle Near an End?
Accuracy in Media ^ | March 5, 2010 | Roger Aronoff
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 9:28:18 AM by AIM Freeper
President Obama went into the East Room at the White House on March 3rd and talked about bringing the health care "journey to a close." He is giving the Republicans one more chance to sign on to the Democrat's health care legislation, or else he is prepared to move forward without their cooperation. And this time, apparently, he really means it, in spite of the fact that an overwhelming number of polls show, several by as much as 15 or more points, that the public is opposed to such legislation.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ObamaCare Is the White House playing a double game with House Democrats?
wsj ^ | 3/7/10 | wsj
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 9:53:40 AM by milwguy
Last week President Obama sanctioned "reconciliation," a complex tactic that would jam ObamaCare into law on sheer power politics. But what if this gambit is really a false-flag operation, meant to lure House Democrats into voting for a bill that they would otherwise oppose? That's the question many rank-and-file Members are now asking themselves, and they're right to be worried.
Top Republican predicts big health care poll hit for Obama (RATS hope to ram it down by March 26th.)
Yahoo News ^ | 3/7/2010 | WASHINGTON (AFP)
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 10:48:27 AM by SeattleBruce
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The top US Senate Republican predicted Sunday that President Barack Obama would pay a hefty price in upcoming mid-term elections if he forces his health care reforms through Congress.
Mitch McConnell warned Democrats, fearful of big losses in November from their majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, not to ram through reforms fiercely opposed by the Republicans.
Kathleen Sebelius Misleads on Abortion Funding in Health Care Bill
LifeNews.com ^ | March 8, 2010 | Steven Ertelt
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 11:32:00 AM by julieee
Kathleen Sebelius Misleads on Abortion Funding in Health Care Bill
Washington, DC -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius contradicted herself on abortion funding in the Senate health care bill in a Sunday interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." Sebelius applauded the Senate language before and talked about mandatory abortion fees, but now she claims there is no funding.
W.H. put health odds at 51 percent (Olympic Copenhagen repeat?)
politico ^ | 3/8/2010 | glenn thrusg
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 1:14:43 PM by milwguy
Team Obama predicted health care had a 51 percent chance of passing at the beginning of March, according to a preview of New York Times reporter Peter Baker’s Rahm opus, the last in a train of profiles on the tempestuous White House chief of staff.
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD: Counter-protest the Obamacare Road Show; St. Louis Oba-Kabuki event..
Michelle Malkin ^ | 03/08/10 | Michelle Malkin
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 2:46:02 PM by American Dream 246
This is it, Tea Party people. This is the week for your on-the-ground mobilization to help drive a final nail into the Obamacare coffin. The perpetual campaigner-in-chief will be in Philadelphia today and St. Louis on Wednesday to rally his troops/stage props on a taxpayer-funded road show.
Trouble for Mitt Romney? Mass. Health Plan Covers Abortion
CBS News ^ | 2010-03-08 | Brian Montopoli
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 3:56:48 PM by rabscuttle385
Mitt Romney's role in overseeing passage of a universal health care plan in Massachusetts appears likely to cause headaches for the former Republican governor should he make his widely-expected run for the White House in 2012.
(Missouri Rep.) Cleaver: Obama doesn't have the votes to pass health care reform (201 out of 216)
Kansas City Star ^ | March 8, 2010 | Steve Kraske
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 4:45:10 PM by Second Amendment First
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver said today on KCUR's "Up to Date" that President Barack Obama doesn't have the votes to pass health care reform in the U.S. House.
Altmire May Switch To Yes On ObamaCare
BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 3-8-10
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 5:03:16 PM by Tribune7
Congressman Jason Altmire (D-Pa4) said in an interview on Fox News Sunday that he may vote in favor of the Obama Health-Care socialization bill.
LOCKED OUT!… Obama Won’t Let Public In to Hear His Health Care Speech in St. Louis
Gateway Pundit ^ | March 8, 2010 | Jim Hoft
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 6:00:24 PM by opentalk
President Obama is coming to St. Louis on Wednesday to push his “angry mob unpopular” nationalized health care bill. But, you won’t get to see him. HE’S LOCKING THE DOORS ON THE ST. LOUIS PUBLIC.
Obama Invokes His Death in Health Care Talks
Fox Nation ^ | March 8, 2010 | Fox News
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 6:09:57 PM by re_tail20
In private pitches to Democrats, President Barack Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn't have the power to keep.
In final push, Obama stresses reforms will rein in healthcare costs. [BARF ALERT]
thehill.com ^ | March 8, 2010 | Michael O' Brien
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 6:22:03 PM by bjorn14
President Barack Obama said his healthcare plan takes into account "every single serious idea" on cost containment from both parties.
Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated Health Care Savings by $868B
FOX ^
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 7:50:50 PM by Sub-Driver
Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated Health Care Savings by $868B
White House Pegged Chances for Health Reform at 51%, Report Says ("less ballerina ... more LBJ")
CBS News ^ | March 08, 2010 | Stephanie Condon
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 6:56:05 PM by maggief
EXCERPTS
"That 49 percent chance of failure could devastate Obama's presidency, weaken Democrats heading into the fall midterm elections and trigger an even fiercer, more debilitating round of finger-pointing inside the administration," writes Peter Baker of the Times, in a profile of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
ABC News: Obama Seeks to Vilify Health Insurers, Give Them $336 Billion Check
http://www.breitbart.tv/ ^ | March 8, 2010
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 7:22:03 PM by Free ThinkerNY
ABC News: Neither [President Barack Obama or HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius] mentioned that the Senate health reform bill, which is the basis for Democrats' last best chance at comprehensive reform, would give the insurance companies millions of new customers required by law to buy health insurance.
Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved ('optimistic' on Commiecare™)
KSBY ^ | 3/08/10
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 8:12:56 PM by Libloather
Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved
Health Care A Right? More Like A Wish
Investors.com ^ | March 8, 2010 | WALTER WILLIAMS
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 8:24:33 PM by Kaslin
Most politicians, and probably most Americans, see health care as a right. Thus, whether a person has the means to pay for medical services or not, he is nonetheless entitled to them. Let's ask ourselves a few questions about this vision.
Obama Warns Democrats of Urgency of Health Bill
NY Times ^ | HELENE COOPER
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 9:00:49 PM by Phlap
President Obama challenged wavering members of his own party on Monday not to give in to their political fears about supporting health care legislation, asserting that the urgency of getting a bill through Congress should trump any concern about the consequences for Democrats in November.
Obama is the Evil Insurance Company CEO He Rails Against (Medicare denied 6.85 percent of claims)
Rush Limbaugh .com ^ | 3/08/10 | The Maha
Posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 7:31:43 PM by Libloather
Obama is the Evil Insurance Company CEO He Rails Against
“Code Red” - House Target List on Health Care
The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.
Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
Rep. John S. Tanner 202-225-4714 Jackson office: 731-423-4848
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467046/posts
From this morning:
Obama is the Evil Insurance Company CEO He Rails Against (Medicare denied 6.85 percent of claims)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466763/posts
Shaming of the NHS: Patients STILL treated in kitchens, abandoned in mop cupboards
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466933/posts
Obama Misrepresents Healthcare Cost Savings in Speech Monday
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466959/posts
Road to redemption... (Mitt Defends RomneyCare)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466986/posts
State Insurance Experts See Flaw in Obama’s Plan to Curb Health Premiums (will cause insolvencies)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466996/posts
Bam is Dr. Desperate: Stakes presidency on health-care ‘campaign’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467003/posts
Stupak ‘More Optimistic’ Abortion Fight Will End (Everyone has their price)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467005/posts
Pelosi’s grip on House slips
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467034/posts
Stupak: Health Bill Abortion Fight Can Be Resolved [Stupak Caving?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467043/posts
On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467046/posts
The endemic rot in government run health care (Not Just the Environment, Healthcare Has Gangrene)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467465/posts
Changes in ObamaCare will require businesses to count part-time workers for coverage penalties
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467460/posts
Healthcare Hardball? Bart Stupak Gets a Primary Challenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2467452/posts
Reconciliation bill will be hard for GOP to derail
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467448/posts
Boy who lost mom takes health-care story to D.C.(Patty Murray uses a child as a prop!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467443/posts
Nancy Pelosi: “We Have to Pass Our Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2467438/posts
(Rush) Limbaugh Vows to Leave US Over Health Care
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467431/posts
Will Stupak be bought on Demcare?
Side NOTE: Stupak supports current level of funding for Planned Parenthood the major performer of abortions in the USA.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2467420/posts
Stupak Touts Sidebar Bill Banning Abortion $, Pro-Lifers Skeptical
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467409/posts
Updated TODAY: Meet the 18 House Dems whose votes matter most on health care
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467398/posts
A dizzying array of options to pass health care
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467386/posts
Morning Bell: Dead Legislation Walking
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467384/posts
Business groups launch ad against health care bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2467382/posts
Official Calls For Mandatory STD Testing Of Teens Starting In 8th Grade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467367/posts
Washington Is More Likely to Shrink Wallets than Waistlines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467352/posts
ObamaCare Means a Two-Tier Health Care System
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467350/posts
WHIP COUNT: House Democrats’ positions on the healthcare reform bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467344/posts
Health care costs open $1.7 billion hole in Texas budget
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467337/posts
Dodd sees mood shift in health care debate (He thinks people are coming around to Obama)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467334/posts
Hoyer rebuffs Gibbs on Mar. 18 deadline (Translation: We ain’t got the votes Barry!) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467323/posts
Rasmussen: 57% think ObamaCare will damage economy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467318/posts
Moderate Dem says opposes fast-track health bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467309/posts
Rep. Kucinich Confirms No Vote on Dem Health Care Plan (video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467281/posts
Obama adviser pushes health-care reform in Columbus visit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467272/posts
A Complicated Enemy: Obama Seeks to Vilify Health Insurers, Give Them $336 Billion Check
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467267/posts
Americans Say Stop Obamacare, It Will Screw Up The Economy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2467266/posts
Health care activists protest in downtown DC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467264/posts
Turn The Light Off For ObamaCare, Inky Covers Tea-partyers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467235/posts
For Key Democrats, Health Care Becomes Ego Trip
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467230/posts
Health Reform Passes the Cost Test $600 B over next decade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467223/posts
Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467213/posts
A patient’s death prompts a doctor to assess ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467201/posts
AP Source: Health bill to affect part-time workers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100308/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_business
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467180/posts
A reminder of the Marxist garbage in the healthcare bill Emanuel is threatening Democrats to pass
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467077/posts
Gas Prices May Reach $7 Per Gallon
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/3087-gas-prices-may-reach-7-per-gallon
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