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THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG THE BLOG TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2009 AT 6:55 AM Facts Are Stubborn Things Posted by Macon Phillips Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, "facts are stubborn things." Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions. In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to...

While Americans were celebrating the Christmas holiday, the Obama administration was reimposing what was called the "Death Panels" that had been taken out of Obamacare after the public protested against them

In a brutal assessment of the Democratically authored healthcare reform bills pending in Congress and the party's approach to healthcare, more than half of the respondents to a new Zogby International-University of Texas Health Science Center poll said that lawmakers should start from scratch. Of the more than 2,500 people surveyed from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, 57 percent agreed with a statement that Congress should start over -- which is exactly what Republicans are demanding and what President Barack Obama insists he will not do. ... Presented with a choice of ways forward, 43.9 percent said Congress should start...

My Friend Kerry Picket of the Washington Times reports that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island believes that the Republicans who are opposing Obamacare are doing so to appeal to the worst elements in the United States: They are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist. That is one powerful reason. It is not the only one." Sorry Senator, I...

Under the Senate bill approved to be moved to the Senate floor this past Saturday night it will be United States Preventive Services Task Force, deciding what tests and procedures getting covered by the government and private health care plans. The US Preventative Services Task Force is not a new agency. The Task Force is part of the Healthcare Research and Quality Agency (AHRQ). The task force is the 'bean counting part of the Dept. Health and Human Services. AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The Senate bill...

The President says the government would not force a change, but of course just like they can do today, a company can force a change. Now follow the logic out, if the government plan doesn't have to make a profit, and if all other costs are the same, it can charge less. So which way do you think companies will go? If You have a group of competitors and one has virtually unlimited resources and does not have to make a profit, how long before the competition is struggling for customers. Eventually you will end up with ONE insurance company...

In between his "after work beers" at the White House, and his trip to Mexico, President Obama has been working hard trying to sell his Obamacare, heath care legislation. The public is resisting as they see a broken medicare and medicaid system and a broken social security system and wonder how the government is going to succeed in running a health care system. Of course the Potus and his allies have the answers to all of our objections, "SHUT UP" and "report your neighbor if he is saying anything fishy about Obama Care." Truth is the only ones saying anything...