Obama Lies… You Could Die
- Scott Miller Well, the Obamarxist was out in full demagogue mode today as he lied and spun his way through his press conference on Socialized ... it touches. Look at Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the National Health plans in Canada, France ... Heathcare today. Don’t believe me? Read what Pravda is saying… this from ABC News: Medical [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 01:46:18
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Health care summit
President Obama opens the White House Forum on Health Reform today: “The same soaring costs that are straining families’ budgets are sinking our businesses and eating up our government’s budget, too. Too many small businesses can’t insure their employees. Major American corporations are struggling to compete with their foreign counterparts [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 20:39:03
Mark Weisbrot: Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever
With the U.S. economy's downward spiral still accelerating and the federal government looking at its largest budget deficits since World War II, ... stimulus. In included $87 billion for Medicaid payments to the state governments, $25 billion towards helping unemployed workers extend their employment-based health insurance after being laid off, and $19 [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 21:53:49
Industry Coalition Launches Health IT Security Plan
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A coalition of more than 50 healthcare companies and technology vendors on Monday unveiled a common security framework designed ... significant is security in healthcare IT,” said John Figueroa, president of U.S. pharmaceutical ... providers, insurers, pharmacies, biotech firms and device manufacturers.The coalition’s plan creates [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 00:08:32
Debating Health-Care
Sally Pipes: Another common argument for more government insurance is that the uninsured shift costs to private payers when they avail ... ("Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals, " December 2008) is clear on one issue ... from the government programs Medicare and Medicaid, which reimburse providers at rates roughly 20 [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 12:34:05
Comparing Our Way to Rationed Health Care
The federal stimulus package included $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research of medical treatments. Of course, no one wants to use less rather than more effective treatments, but such research can lead to one-size-fits-all medicine. This is particularly ironic as the age of personalized medicine in which treatment regimens will be [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 16:10:00
National Security Challenges For Obama Administration
By Michael P. Noonan PANEL 1: How Will We Fight? Colonel T.X. Hammes, USMC (ret.), author of The Sling and the Stone , opened by noting that the U.S. has no national strategy, but rather a series of goals with no ways or means assigned to them. He argued that the Department of Defense must return to threat-based analysis after the past decade of [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 13:00:17
Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing
Re Alan Wolfe's The Future Of Liberalism, whose mushy reviews Jonah and I were rolling our eyes over the other day, The New Criterion offers a more hostile critique from William D. Gairdner. He includes this thigh-slapper by Wolfe in which the professor asks us to try to imagine a world without "liberalism": Imagine a world in which religion ( [more...]
Date: 2009-03-01 13:04:52
Saturday Broadcast: Busting The Oba-Myth
On his website and in his radio broadcast today Barack Obama claims to be ready for a fight and issues what amounts to a defense of his big spending ... to the status quo in Washington. I know that the insurance industry won’t like the idea that they’ ... taxpayers will have to carry to get there. Obama wants to squeeze Medicaid and Medicare spending — [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 17:22:54
Geronticide… What Krauthammer Missed
There are only two categories of people that cross (s)words with Dr. Charles Krauthammer: geniuses and damned fools ... health care (especially for our aging society): Patient Family Doctor Government (Yeah… ... Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy — worthy [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 18:20:30
Mr Obama’s Piggy Bank: The Stark Reality of the US Budget
When my daughters were young children, both had “Piggy Banks”. These were for coins which they had been given and which would not be spent on sweets ... . Two issues arise from this simple requirement that taxpayers funds have to be spent on healthcare ... universal healthcare. It is patent from the figures that healthcare funded by federal government [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 08:47:39
Socialism? We Already Have It, Fool
President Barack Obama launched a summit of health field representatives Thursday in the first step to reform the nation’s beleaguered health care ... : We already have a form of socialism in our health care system. It’s called Medicare and Medicaid. These government-run programs offer a safety net to seniors and the impoverished most private insurance [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 22:28:43
GOP Still Imploding As Limbaugh Attacks Lesser Conservatives
You don’t have to be foaming at the mouth mad to be a solid conservative willing to fight. I fight the knuckleheads left and right every day. I am sick with overly simplistic rhetoric supported by fear mongering and demagoguery. For some reason conservatives have decided vapid emotion is better than rallying strategy [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 22:14:37
Dems need to drop culture of caution
You would think that with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Democrats at least would get that we need to make big, ... Obama’s economic recovery bill and budget — as well as calls for fundamental reform of health care ... . Not so much for a small minority of Democrats in the Senate. In Wednesday’s POLITICO, 14 Democrats [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 09:27:17
IN THE STATES: Should We Wait for the Federal Government to Act?
In his speech to Congress, President Obama stated unequivocally: “Let there be no doubt, health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, ... is especially critical in the area of making health care affordable for everyone. Since current federal ... healthcare system, they will only gradually alter the way that healthcare is financed and delivered [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 18:20:06
Provisional Predicting
The Corner on National Review Online In reality, this budget will likely bring about the largest peacetime government in American history, permanent $1 trillion budget deficits, and no solution to the coming costs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. There’s no spinning that. And there is no way to maintain that. The result [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 20:08:37
Now It's Their Turn: Tax on Affluent Will Fund Health Care Reform
I had the strangest feeling when I read this - I felt sorry for the people who would be paying this tax increase ... to make health care more accessible and affordable, calling for stricter limits on the benefits ... Thursday, to use revenues from the centerpiece of his environmental policy — a plan under which [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 21:00:43
Obama declares war on healthcare
President Barack Obama is planning a $634 billion "down payment toward what he calls a more efficient health care system ... reimbursements from insurance companies, Medicare, etc. now. The government takes a third of their money off the top. Let's not forget the huge amounts of money physicians must pay for mal-practice insurance [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 03:44:05
Obama to open healthcare summit
US President Barack Obama will Thursday make an “opening argument” on a perennial crusade that has thwarted previous presidents — making affordable ... on a campaign promise to offer “quality, affordable healthcare” to every American. “Fixing what’s wrong ... healthcare available to all Americans. Obama, who made healthcare reform a centerpiece [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 10:11:40
Lobbyist Cat Fight over Health Care Reform: PhRMA vs. AHIP
As the Obama health care summit gets under way today a bit of a schism is erupting, with the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) on one side and and insurance industry lobbying outfit America's Health Insurance Plans ... bought through Medicaid. On balance, they figure with expanded coverage they'll make out pretty [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 17:30:33
Going Galt - Present and Past
by cactus Going Galt - Present and Past There seems to be some chatter among right wing blogs about "going Galt" - i.e., ceasing to do paying work, shuttering one's business, etc. - given Obama's plan to let Bush tax cuts on those with the highest levels of income expire. (This new movement is covered beautifully by TBogg here and here [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 10:00:00
Hopefully Obama understands
Bob Doherty reports on the White House Health Care Summit - What a difference a 15 years makes! ... the economy or sustain entitlement programs, like Medicare and Medicaid, without controlling health care ... : 1. This President really, really wants health care reform. He believes - as he said in his opening remarks [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 11:57:48
AFL-CIO Executive Council: Economic Recovery Package Good First Step
IBEW President Ed Hill, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney meet with workers at an IBEW training facility in Miami. In the AFL-CIO Executive Council’s first full day of meetings in Miami , union leaders today addressed vital aspects of reviving the nation’s economy for working families, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 23:54:19
Adding Up Obama?s Plan to Save $300 Billion in Medicare, Medicaid
We all know by know that the $630 billion health-care “reserve fund” described in President Obama’s budget relies on a combination of tax increases and savings in Medicare and Medicaid spending. But just what do those spending cuts look ... , overall spending on the programs is expected to rise in the next decade; these are projected “savings” [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 15:36:35
Sebelius at HHS
Overhauling our health care system is going to take the will to fight entrenched special interests and lobbyists, ... from special interests. And before being elected governor, she served as Kansas Insurance Commissioner ... administration, where she handled health care budget issues and managed Medicare and Medicaid. Along [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 18:11:00
Medicare decision demonstrates the true future of rationing
Does anyone really doubt that the government will use rationing to control medical “costs”. Here is a timely example just within the last two weeks of CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ... to insurance variations in coverage. They can now add CMS to that list. Is it hard to imagine [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 06:31:21
Health care reform : What we can learn from Costco
By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN The most telling point about health reform in President Obama's budget is that, "Some researchers believe that healthcare costs could be reduced by a stunning 30 percent -- or about $700 billion a year -- without harming quality if we moved as a nation toward the proven and successful practices adopted by the [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 13:14:42
Reforming a health care system that’s too big to fail
American taxpayers already have spent more than $2 trillion bailing out banks and insurance companies. Can we afford to reform health care, too? ... care as we were with banks and insurance companies: Too heavily invested to let it fail, with too much ... insurance in 2007, before the economic meltdown. That number had, by one authoritative estimate, grown [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 03:01:42
Just Between You and I
File this one under, "Are You Kidding Me With This?" I didn't see this one coming, but apparently grammarians have pounced on Obama already, just one month into his presidency. WHEN President Obama speaks before Congress and the nation tonight, he will be facing some of his toughest critics. Grammar junkies [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 05:41:43
A $2.1 Trillion Spending Increase
Here's the bottom line on President Obama's budget: It's a massive spending increase when what the country desperately needs is a plan for fiscal discipline. According to the Administration's own projections, the federal budget deficit will fall no lower than $533 billion over the next ten years and the country will add an astounding $7 [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 14:16:20
Dems Oppose Obama Tax Plan
I was wondering hoiw they would justify opposing the tax thing on the wealthiest people…and now I have my answer…at least in part ... to make a down payment on health care reform and to limit future budget deficits . But, he said ... for setting aside $634 billion over the next 10 years as a down payment on health care reform. Half the money [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 07:07:11
The "Summit" and Obama's (TBD) Plan
Yesterday, just days after holding a "summit" on "fiscal responsibility," President Obama hosted another hours-long confab with a cast of thousands (ok, one-hundred and fifty), this time to talk about health-care reform. What's all this summitry ... they got what they wanted from a compliant media. Bipartisanship and openness on health-care? Check [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 17:22:18
More Doom and Gloom
A record 31.8 million Americans received food stamps at the latest count, an increase of 700, ... . All annuities will be defaulted to the state insurance protection (if any) on them. The state insurance ... zero, be ecstatic if you do better. All insurance companies with material exposure [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 19:19:52
Santa Claus is Chinese
I know, I know. It's not December. This is an old article published in December of 2006. But, if you read it, you will see that the author, Lester R. Brown, president and founder of Earth Policy Institute, of “Santa Claus is Chinese, or Why China is Rising and the United States is Declining," [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 12:12:00
Presidential Cold Cuts
Look who's talking now ... ), 5 involve some form of rationing health care. The biggest savings ($37 billion) comes at the expense ... and corporations ship jobs overseas". Health care consumes roughly 16% of GDP. Unless you can harness [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 13:25:00
Mankiw’s GOP Talking Points on Obama’s Budget
Greg Mankiw writes: Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff, has said, “You don’t ever want to let a crisis go to waste: it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.” What he has in mind is not entirely clear [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 16:04:00
“Universal” vs. “Affordable” Health Care
This morning, President Obama will be hearing from a variety of viewpoints on the state of health care in this country ... such as the U.S. And then we move on. Because here’s the thing: if you have health insurance, you really only care about … the cost of health insurance. You can’t even get your head around the fact [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 14:36:30
Biden’s speech to AFL-CIO – who banned the cameras anyway?
Say what you will about Joe Biden, but one thing’s for sure. He’s transparent. Like last week when he was promoting the website he’s overseeing. “We’re going to put every bit of this transparently up on a website,” he said. Then he forgot the name of the website . And the website address [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 21:39:25
Text of VP Biden's once-top-secret union speech (except still no cameras)
Vice President Joe Biden, who's been touting the Obama administration's commitment to government transparency so much that he couldn't remember the recovery [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 01:12:00
Orszag Testimony to Continue Health Reform Debate
Let the games begin. Following yesterday’s high-profile health reform summit at the White House, ... the discussion. Orszag is no stranger to Capitol Hill, nor the topic of health care reform. As director ... lawmakers that the nation’s health care spending — both public and private — is out of control [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 20:04:23
Edgar J. Steele: The Other Other White Meat
www.ConspiracyPenPal.com March 6, 2009The Other Other White MeatMy recent appearance (March 4) on Rick Adams’ Internet Radio show (I’m trying to get a link to the archive for you) covered the basics of where I see America heading in the next few years. I repeated things I have been saying for years, and then some [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 21:08:53
Sebelius and … who?
While nominating Kansas Gov. Katherine Sebelius to be secretary of Health and Human Services, ... it shouldn’t be. She ran the Health Care Finance Administration—now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ... President Obama today also picked Nancy-Ann Min DeParle as health czar, officially known [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 23:09:06
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: Do You Know What Your Screening Options Are?
Prevention through screening for colorectal cancer and removal of precancerous polyps among key factors in saving lives Colorectal cancer, also referred to as colon cancer, is one of the most preventable cancers. Recent statistics show that the incidence (the rate at which new cancers are diagnosed) [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 10:32:02
White House Tries to Spin David Brooks
David Brooks's column today offers the Obama administration equal time to defend its budget ( ... two years); and C) the $634 billion down payment on universal health care will not be expanded ... on the back for eventually bringing spending "down" to 22% of GDP (the health plan brings [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 18:49:29
Stormy Seas, Uncharted Waters…and We’re Adding Ballast?
Let me torture a metaphor for a moment. The Ship of State is currently sailing through stormy seas in uncharted waters ... the country from an agrarian to an industrial economy, and from an industrial to an information ... the retirement age and reducing Social Security, Medicare [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 13:37:52
COULD OBAMA DO MUCH WORSE THE FIRST FEW MONTHS? By Dr. Laurie Roth
March 6, 2009 NewsWithViews.comThe gifts of the first few months Obama has moved to nationalize banks and health care ... for all I care. It’s still socialism and nationalism! Then there is the total betrayal of manipulating health care criteria and payments!We are seeing the payment [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 14:19:14
Taxpayers Arise
united States in Distress I’ve just been reading some interesting articles. Apparently the united States taxpayer is finally waking up to the bloated and ineffectual federal government and the movement is spreading. Angry, these same taxpayers are taking to the streets! [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 19:10:49
Healthcare 2.0: Will Obama succeed where Clinton failed? Read full text of today's speech here
President Obama hosts a forum on healthcare reform today that is intended to open the door ... , Obama is convening today's healthcare summit. And, as the New York Times pointed out, by naming [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 14:25:00
Nursing Home Sued in Man’s Death
The family of a 54-year-old man who wrongfully died after a six-day stay in a nursing home is suing the facility ... or to suction him. The nursing home has faced several federal sanctions in the past two years ... found it in compliance. To read more about the nursing home lawsuit, click here. [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 22:47:20
Are We There Yet?
Karl Denninger posted this at The Market Ticker 03-06-09. Illusion or reality? ... to the state insurance protection (if any) on them. The state insurance funds will be bankrupted ... if you do better. All insurance companies with material exposure to these obligations will go bankrupt [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 00:38:10
