Valerie Jarrett Leading From Behind Barack Obama — A Big Failure In Both Domestic and Foreign Policy — A Legacy of Failures — Videos
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Who is Valerie Jarret?
Obama’s “Other Half”
Eye To Eye: Obama’s Key Advisor
Obama Admin Bad Blood? – Sources Cite Friction With Valerie Jarrett
In Conversation with Valerie Jarrett
Obama’s Wormy Brain Talks out of School: Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett’s battle plan for Obama’s second term
Valerie Jarrett Obama Knows What’s Best For America
Jonathan Alter rips Valerie Jarrett: ‘She’s not well-liked’
THE LATEST NEWS : Valerie Jarrett taking on White House complaints
Obama Admin Bad Blood? – Sources Cite Friction With Valerie Jarrett
Cornel West: Obama A ‘Rockefeller Republican In Blackface’
Professor Cornel West Discusses Obama’s Impact on African American Voters Part 1
Professor Cornel West Discusses Obama’s Impact on African American Voters Part 2
Tavis Smiley, Cornel West Slam Valerie Jarrett, Obama For Insincerity Toward African-Americans
Cornel West: Sharpton Sold Soul for Obama
Benghazi-Gate ‘Source’: “Obama Refused Clinton State Dept Request For Security in Benghazi”
Valerie Jarrett Truly Defines the “Culture of Corruption” – Michelle Malkin – Sean Hannity 8-1-12
Valerie Jarrett’s Stand Down Order
Valerie Jarrett Is The Other Power In The West Wing – The Other Half Of Obama Brain
Valerie Jarret Obama’s Senior Advisor l Obamas Position On The Public Option
Valerie Jarrett Recruited Van Jones
Valerie Jarrett’s Thoughts on Barack Obama
Valerie Jarrett Was Slum Lord in Obama’s State Senate District
Obama’s Valerie Jarrett: Often Whispered about, But Never Challenged
By John Fund
President Obama’s aides went to extraordinary lengths to uncover the identity of a senior official who was using Twitter to make snarky comments about White House staffers. Suspicion gradually centered on Jofi Joseph, the point man on nuclear nonproliferation at the National Security Council. So at a meeting in which everyone was in on the scam an inaccurate but innocuous news tidbit was revealed. When Joseph used his anonymous Twitter handle #natlsecwonk to broadcast the tidbit he was caught and promptly fired. He was not fired for revealing any secrets, but for making disparaging comments about thin-skinned administration players ranging from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.
What apparently intensified the campaign to identify the “snarker” was a comment about Valerie Jarrett, the senior Obama adviser who has her own Secret Service detail and appears to exercise an inordinate amount of power behind the scenes. Joseph tweeted “I’m a fan of Obama, but his continuing reliance and dependence upon a vacuous cipher like Valerie Jarrett concerns me.”
Jarrett, an old Chicago friend of both Barack and Michelle Obama, appears to exercise such extraordinary influence she is sometimes quietly referred to as “Rasputin” on Capitol Hill, a reference to the mystical monk who held sway over Russia’s Czar Nicholas as he increasingly lost touch with reality during World War I.
Darrell Delamaide, a columnist for Dow Jones’s MarketWatch, says that “what has baffled many observers is how Jarrett, a former cog in the Chicago political machine and a real-estate executive, can exert such influence on policy despite her lack of qualifications in national security, foreign policy, economics, legislation or any of the other myriad specialties the president needs in an adviser.”
Delamaide believes the term “vacuous cipher” that was applied to Jarrett stung so much because it could be used as a metaphor for the administration in general. He writes that what “has remained consistent about the Obama administration is that vacuity — the slow response in a crisis, the hesitant and contradictory communication, a lack of conviction and engagement amid constant political calculation.” The stunning revelation that President Obama wasn’t kept properly apprised of problems with Obamacare’s website is just the latest example of how dysfunctional Obama World can be.
Whether Jarrett’s influence is all too real or exaggerated is unknowable. What is known is the extent to which she has long been a peerless enabler of Barack Obama’s inflated opinion of himself. Consider this quote from New Yorker editor David Remnick’s interview with her for his 2010 book The Bridge.
“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
Up against a court flatterer of that caliber it’s no surprise that Jarrett has outlasted almost everyone who was in Obama’s original White House team — from chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to political guru David Axelrod to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. All are known to have crossed her, and all are gone. As one former Obama aide once told me: “Valerie is ‘She Who Must Not be Challenged.’”
When the revealing histories of the Obama White House are written it will be fascinating to learn just how extensive her role in the key decisions of the Obama years was.
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Rush Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday Pt 1 of 3
Rush Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday Pt 2 of 3
Rush Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday Pt 3 of 3
Background Articles and Videos
Sean Hannity interviews Rush Limbaugh Part 1a
Sean Hannity interviews Rush Limbaugh Part 1b
Sean Hannity interviews Rush Limbaugh Part 2a
Sean Hannity interviews Rush Limbaugh Part 2b
‘We See Americans’
Rush Limbaugh on Hannity: Does Rush Want Obama to Succeed?
Rush Limbaugh on Hannity: Does Rush Want Obama to Succeed?
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Rush Limbaugh–Ditto Heads Delights–Videos
Rush Buries Barack–Videos
Rush Right–Obama Destroying the Economy on Purpose–Limbaugh Lambastes Leftists!
Obama’s Record $1,417,000,000,000 Budget Deficit –The Real Reason Obama Does Not Call Larry Summers? The Summers Video On Taxes and Budget Deficits!
Obama’s Trick On The American People: Health Insurance Reform=Huge Hikes in Taxes and Premiums for Health Insurance and Massive Medicare Funding and Payment Reimbursement Cuts–Congressional Coercion–It’s Alive!
Rose Colored Glasses:The Economy Is Recovering–Where Are The Jobs? When Will Inflation Hit? 2012–Election Year!
The Coming Inflation and A New Money Supply Backed By Real Estate?–Free Enterprise To The Rescue?
White House Teamwork–The Chicago Way–Who Will White House Wackos Wack?–Watchdogs!
President Obama Lies Again On Sunday Shows–Breaks No New Tax Promise–Compulsory Health Insurance Is A Tax Increase–Cut The Weasel Words Mr. President!
Obama’s Mao Mao Mopsters Red Bucket Brigade aka Red Guards Spreading the Wealth Around
Obama’s Socialist Mopster Red Bucket Brigade for The Rockefeller and Soros Agenda of World Socialist Government–A New World Order!
Obama’s Progressive Radical Socialist Democratic Party’s Propaganda War On Freedom of Speech
Anita Dunn–White House Communications Director–Exposed By Beck As Mao Tse-Tung Admirer On Video!
Progressive Radical Socialist Canned Criticism of American People: Danger, Profits, and Wrong Thinking
The Obama Depression Continues–Official Unemployment Hits Rate 9.8% (15,142,000 Seek Full Time Job) and Real Unemployment Rate Hits 17.0% (26,181,000 Seek Full Time Job)!
Guns and Butter–War and Peace–Victory or Defeat–Commander-in-Chief or Cheer Leader?
“We Can Reverse Climate Change”–President Barack Obama–Liar or Fool–Or Both–You Be The Judge!
Obama–Corruption Kingpin–Campaign Contributions and Support for Government Payoffs and Subsidies–Stealing From The American People To Payoff Obama’s Pals
Hype: The Obama Effect–Videos
Crime–Corruption–Organized Crime–ACORN–Taxes–Obama Connected And Trained
The Arrogance of President Obama: Hectoring Habitual Liar
Broom Budget Busting Bums: Replace The Entire Congress–Tea Party Express and Patriots–United We Stand!
Obama’s Civilian National Security Force–Youth Corp Wave–Friendly Fascism Faces–Cons–Crooks–Communists–Communities–Corps!
Obama’s Hidden Agenda and Covert Cadre of Marxists, Communists, Progressives, Radicals, Socialists–Far Left Democrats Destroying Capitalism and The American Republic
Apollo Alliance and Obama’s Green Czar Van Jones: Greens on The Outside–Reds On The Inside–Big Greens, Big Unions, Big Foundations, Big Business, Big Bucks, Big Taxes–Videos
Public Option = Government Option = Pathway to Single Payer = Single Payer = Socialized Medicine = Blue Pill = Poison Pill
Obama: First We Kill The Babies, Then We Kill The Elderly, Then We Kill The Veterans–Your Life, Your Choices–Your Time Is Up!
This Joker Is A Lost Cause: Keeping President Obama Honest on Health Care–Let’s But A Smile On That Face–Staying Alive
The American People Believe The Government Public Option Plan Is The Path To The Single Payer Government Plan–Socialized Medicine–Obama Caught Lying To The American People!
The American People Confront Obama’s Red Shirts (ACORN) and Purple Shirts (SEIU)–Bullhorns and Beatings Over Obama Care!
The Obama Depression Has Arrived: 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 Unemployed Americans–Stimulus Package and Bailouts A Failure–400,000 Leave Labor Force In July!
Obama’s Marching Orders For His Red Shirts (ACORN), Purple Shirts (SEIU) and Black Shirts (New Panther Party)–Progressive Radical Socialists
The Economic Consequences of Barack Obama’s Radical Socialist Agenda–Videos
The Bush Recession Is Over–The Obama Depression Has Begun!
Cap and Trade
Glenn Beck, John Bolton, and Lord Christopher Monckton On Copenhagen 2009 Treaty, Climate Change and World Government–Videos
Lord Christopher Monckton–Climate Change–Treaty–Videos
“We Can Reverse Climate Change”–President Barack Obama–Liar or Fool–Or Both–You Be The Judge!
Time To Sound The Alarm: Call Your Representative and Senators–Cap and Trade Bill to be Voted in U.S. House on Friday–Kill The Cap and Trade Energy Tax Today! UPDATED
Green Government Gestapo Goons: Global Warming Police Force Invades Your Home And Living in Your Home May Be A Crime!
White House Memo: Carbon Dioxide Is Not A Pollutant and A Cap And Trade Program (Carbon Dioxide Tax) Serious Economic Impact –The Smoking Gun Video!
Save Your Job and Life–Abolish The Environmental Protection Agency!
President Obama–Killer of The American Dream and Market Capitalism–Stop The Radical Socialists Before They Kill You!
MAJOR REDUCTIONS IN CARBON EMISSIONS ARE NOT WORTH THE MONEY DEBATE–Videos
Facing Fundamental Facts
Let Them Eat Cake Act: American Elites Killing and Starving The American People
Clinton’s Cap and Trade Tax on The American People for Consuming Electricity and Driving Cars, SUVs and Trucks!
The Heidelberg Appeal: Beware of False Gods and Prophets
Saving The World: The Importance of Getting The Priorities Right
Global Warming/Climate Change
The Climate Wars–Videos
Lord Christopher Monckton–Climate Change–Treaty–Videos
“We Can Reverse Climate Change”–President Barack Obama–Liar or Fool–Or Both–You Be The Judge!
John Holdren–Science Czar–Videos
John Holdren: Global Warming: What Do We Know and Should Do–Videos
The Obama Depression Has Arrived: 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 Unemployed Americans–Stimulus Package and Bailouts A Failure–400,000 Leave Labor Force In July!
Facing Fundamental Facts
Gore Grilled & Gingrich Gouged–American People Oppose Massive Carbon Cap and Trade Tax Increase–Videos
National Center for Policy Analysis–A Global Warming Primer
Global Warming is The Greatest Hoax, Scam and Disinformation Campaign in History
Global Warming Videos
Global Warming Books
Global Warming Sites
The Heidelberg Appeal: Beware of False Gods and Prophets
Global Warming/Climate Change
Lord Christopher Monckton–Climate Change–Treaty–Videos
“We Can Reverse Climate Change”–President Barack Obama–Liar or Fool–Or Both–You Be The Judge!
John Holdren–Science Czar–Videos
John Holdren: Global Warming: What Do We Know and Should Do–Videos
The Obama Depression Has Arrived: 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 Unemployed Americans–Stimulus Package and Bailouts A Failure–400,000 Leave Labor Force In July!
Facing Fundamental Facts
Gore Grilled & Gingrich Gouged–American People Oppose Massive Carbon Cap and Trade Tax Increase–Videos
National Center for Policy Analysis–A Global Warming Primer
Global Warming is The Greatest Hoax, Scam and Disinformation Campaign in History
Global Warming Videos
Global Warming Books
Global Warming Sites
The Heidelberg Appeal: Beware of False Gods and Prophets
Health Care
Obama’s Trick On The American People: Health Insurance Reform=Huge Hikes in Taxes and Premiums for Health Insurance and Massive Medicare Funding and Payment Reimbursement Cuts–Congressional Coercion–It’s Alive!
Second Opinion: Doctors Speak Up On Proposed Health Care Reform–And A Third Texas Opinion!–Videos
American Citizens Want Jobs and Criminal Alien Removal, Not Criminal Alien Census and Health Care!
Illegal Aliens Can Buy Health Insurance Plans–No ID Needed:–Demand Criminal Alien Removal and Deportation!
Congressman Paul Ryan–Townhall Meeting–Health Care Reform and The Patients Choice Act–Videos
The Arrogance of President Obama: Hectoring Habitual Liar
Broom Budget Busting Bums: Replace The Entire Congress–Tea Party Express and Patriots–United We Stand!
Public Option = Government Option = Pathway to Single Payer = Single Payer = Socialized Medicine = Blue Pill = Poison Pill
Obama: First We Kill The Babies, Then We Kill The Elderly, Then We Kill The Veterans–Your Life, Your Choices–Your Time Is Up!
This Joker Is A Lost Cause: Keeping President Obama Honest on Health Care–Let’s But A Smile On That Face–Staying Alive
Fact 1. Federal Government Health Insurance Is Compulsory–Kill The Bill–H.R. 3200
Patient Empowerment: Health Savings Accounts–High Deductible Catastrophic Health Insurance–Affordable, Portable, Fair, Individual Health Care Plan–Consumer Driven Health Care Reform!
The Dangers Of A Single Payer Health Care System: Ronald Reagan On Socialized Medicine and Friedrich A. Hayek On State Monopoly
The American People Believe The Government Public Option Plan Is The Path To The Single Payer Government Plan–Socialized Medicine–Obama Caught Lying To The American People!
The American People Confront Obama’s Red Shirts (ACORN) and Purple Shirts (SEIU)–Bullhorns and Beatings Over Obama Care!
The Obama Depression Has Arrived: 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 Unemployed Americans–Stimulus Package and Bailouts A Failure–400,000 Leave Labor Force In July!
Obama’s Marching Orders For His Red Shirts (ACORN), Purple Shirts (SEIU) and Black Shirts (New Panther Party)–Progressive Radical Socialists
Health Care Resources
Republican Health Care Reform: The Patients’ Choice Act
Medical Doctor and Senator Tom Coburn On Health Care–Videos
The Senate Doctors Show–Videos
Obama’s Waterloo– Government Compulsory Single Payer Socialized Medicine!–Videos
President Obama’s Plan of Massive Deficit Spending Is Destroying The US Economy–The American People Say Stop Socialism BS Now!
The Bum’s Rush of The American People: The Totally Irresponsible Democratic Party Health Care Bill and Obama’s Big Lie Exposed
Chairman Obama’s Progressive Radical Socialist Health Care Bill Kills Individual Private Health Care Insurance–Join The Second American Revolution!
The Obama Big Lie and Inconvenient Truth About Health Care–The Public Option Trojan Horse–Leads To A Single Payor Goverment Monopoly of Health Care and The Bankruptcy of USA!
The Obama Public Option Poison Pill For A Government Health Care Monopoly–Single Payer System–Betting Your Life and Paying Though The Nose
Government Bureaucracy: Organizational Chart of The House Democrats’ Health Plan
Dr. Robert W. Christensen–Videos
John Stossel–Sick In America–Videos
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Obama Truth–The Nowhere Man With The Nowhere Health Plan–Going Nowhere!
Posted on September 18, 2009. Filed under: Babies, Blogroll, Communications, Demographics, Economics, Films, Fiscal Policy, Health Care, Immigration, Law, liberty, Life, Links, media, Medicine, People, Philosophy, Politics, Rants, Raves, Regulations, Talk Radio, Video, Wisdom | Tags: Barack Obama, Beatles, Health Care Bill, Nowhere Man, President Barack Obama, Progressive Radical Socialists, Public Option, Single Payer System, Socialized Medicine |
Obama Truth
The American People Are Asking–Where is the beef? Put-Up or Shut-up Mr. President! Where is the Obama Health Care Bill?
Glenn Beck: Barack Obama Doesn’t Know What’s in His Own Health Care Bill
Glenn Beck on Obama’s Universal Health Care
SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS saying His Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance
Obama on single payer health insurance
The Public Plan Deception – It’s Not About Choice
Glenn Beck on Obama’s ‘Health Care’ Plans, Czars, The Emanuel Brothers (Two Judas forthe PriceOfOne)
DeMint Discusses Health Care and Creating Jobs With Cavuto
The American people do not want to be compelled or forced to buy a health insurance plan designed by a Federal Government czar and bureaucrats with the assistance of the large health insurance companies.
The American people do not want the public option or a single payer system where the Federal Government has a monopoly on health care–socialized medicine.
The American people do not want to pay for health care plans that cover abortions and illegal aliens.
The American people do not want illegal aliens to be given amnesty so that they can qualify for a health care plan.
The American people do not want massive deficit spending in the trillions of dollars.
The American people do want the the Nowhere Man’s Nowhere Health Bill.
Boehner on PBS Newshour: GOP Leader Discusses Democrats Health Care Proposals
He’s a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn’t have a point of view,
Knows not where he’s going to,
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man please listen,
You don’t know what you’re missing,
Nowhere Man,the world is at your command!
(lead guitar)
He’s as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Nowhere Man, don’t worry,
Take your time, don’t hurry,
Leave it all till somebody else
lends you a hand!
Doesn’t have a point of view,
Knows not where he’s going to,
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man please listen,
you don’t know what your missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command!
He’s a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody!
Beatles – Nowhere man – Live in Munich 1966
Background Articles and Videos
Obama’s Dog of a Health Care Message
Health Reform and the Polls
Obama’s biggest obstacle is the 68% of voters who rate their health coverage as good
“…The most important fundamental is that 68% of American voters have health-insurance coverage they rate good or excellent. That number comes from polling conducted this past weekend of 1,000 likely voters. Most of these voters approach the health-care reform debate fearing that they have more to lose than to gain.
Adding to President Barack Obama’s challenge as he sells health-care reform to the public is the fact that most voters are skeptical about the government’s ability to do anything well. While the president says his plan will reduce costs, 53% believe it will have the opposite effect.
There’s also the reality that 74% of voters rate the quality of care they now receive as good or excellent. And 50% fear that if Congress passes health-care reform, it will lead to a decline in the quality of that care.
Advocates of health-care reform on Capitol Hill are up against something bigger than voters’ reactions to a variety of specific proposals. Our polling in February found that by a 2-1 margin, voters believe that no matter how bad things are Congress can always make matters worse. That’s one reason 78% believe passage of the current congressional health-care proposals is likely to mean higher taxes for the middle class.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574330442429438938.html
Health Care Reform
Opposition to Health Care Plan Hits New High of 56%
“…Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are Strongly Opposed.
Just 43% now favor the proposal, including 24% who Strongly Favor it.
But the overall picture remains one of stability. While the numbers have bounced a bit following nationally televised appearances by the president to promote the plan, opposition has generally stayed above 50% since early July. Support has been in the low to mid 40s.
The number who Strongly Oppose the plan has remained above 40% and the Strongly Favor totals have been in the mid-20s. This suggests public opinion is hardening when it comes to the plan that is currently working its way through Congress. …”
By Sammy Benoit
“…Having spent much of the past thirty years of my life in the advertising industry, the flaws of President Obama’s health care message are apparent and massive. Most people outside the ad business will tell you that commercials try to beat you over the head to make you buy what you don’t need or want. In truth advertising that doesn’t address the public’s needs or wants does not work. On top of that, if a consumer keeps being exposed to a message that does not meet a need, they begin to tune it out quickly; it’s called wear-out. Finally if the message keeps changing, consumers get suspicious.
Sound Familiar? That’s because almost since his inauguration the POTUS has been beating us over the head with a heath care message that does not address the needs or wants of the majority of American voters. His heath care effort is designed to make sure everyone has heath care, pre-existing conditions are covered and there is a public option to ensure greater competition to keep prices low.
Voters don’t have a perceived need for the president’s health care plan. Polls show that between 85-90% of voters are satisfied with their present health care coverage. Covering everybody is a noble effort, but voters are feeling the effects of a deep recession and are worried about the federal deficit. Just like a commercial for a new Mercedes Benz, most see universal coverage as something nice to have, but maybe another time. …”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/obamas_dog_of_a_health_care_me.html
What happens when you ask politicians how they’ll pay for Obamacare
By Michelle Malkin
“…A simple question for Democrat Obamacare supporters: How are you going to pay?
Three snort-inducing responses caught on tape (via hourglass1941, h/t the Jawa Report):
1) Walk away.
2) Babble.
3) Wellness programs.
Watch it. No question the politicians consider the citizen questioner a rude, unruly mobster/Talibani/right-wing terrorist. How dare she challenge authority! …”
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The American People Are Asking–Where is the beef? Put-Up or Shut-up Mr. President! Where is the Obama Health Care Bill?
The Arrogance of President Obama: Hectoring Habitual Liar
Broom Budget Busting Bums: Replace The Entire Congress–Tea Party Express and Patriots–United We Stand!
Public Option = Government Option = Pathway to Single Payer = Single Payer = Socialized Medicine = Blue Pill = Poison Pill
Obama: First We Kill The Babies, Then We Kill The Elderly, Then We Kill The Veterans–Your Life, Your Choices–Your Time Is Up!
This Joker Is A Lost Cause: Keeping President Obama Honest on Health Care–Let’s But A Smile On That Face–Staying Alive
Fact 1. Federal Government Health Insurance Is Compulsory–Kill The Bill–H.R. 3200
Patient Empowerment: Health Savings Accounts–High Deductible Catastrophic Health Insurance–Affordable, Portable, Fair, Individual Health Care Plan–Consumer Driven Health Care Reform!
The Dangers Of A Single Payer Health Care System: Ronald Reagan On Socialized Medicine and Friedrich A. Hayek On State Monopoly
The American People Believe The Government Public Option Plan Is The Path To The Single Payer Government Plan–Socialized Medicine–Obama Caught Lying To The American People!
The American People Confront Obama’s Red Shirts (ACORN) and Purple Shirts (SEIU)–Bullhorns and Beatings Over Obama Care!
The Obama Depression Has Arrived: 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 Unemployed Americans–Stimulus Package and Bailouts A Failure–400,000 Leave Labor Force In July!
Obama’s Marching Orders For His Red Shirts (ACORN), Purple Shirts (SEIU) and Black Shirts (New Panther Party)–Progressive Radical Socialists
Health Care Resources
Republican Health Care Reform: The Patients’ Choice Act
Medical Doctor and Senator Tom Coburn On Health Care–Videos
The Senate Doctors Show–Videos
Obama’s Waterloo– Government Compulsory Single Payer Socialized Medicine!–Videos
President Obama’s Plan of Massive Deficit Spending Is Destroying The US Economy–The American People Say Stop Socialism BS Now!
The Bum’s Rush of The American People: The Totally Irresponsible Democratic Party Health Care Bill and Obama’s Big Lie Exposed
Chairman Obama’s Progressive Radical Socialist Health Care Bill Kills Individual Private Health Care Insurance–Join The Second American Revolution!
The Obama Big Lie and Inconvenient Truth About Health Care–The Public Option Trojan Horse–Leads To A Single Payor Goverment Monopoly of Health Care and The Bankruptcy of USA!
The Obama Public Option Poison Pill For A Government Health Care Monopoly–Single Payer System–Betting Your Life and Paying Though The Nose
Government Bureaucracy: Organizational Chart of The House Democrats’ Health Plan
Dr. Robert W. Christensen–Videos
John Stossel–Sick In America–Videos
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Public Option = Government Option = Pathway to Single Payer = Single Payer = Socialized Medicine = Blue Pill = Poison Pill
Posted on August 21, 2009. Filed under: Blogroll, Demographics, Economics, Employment, Fiscal Policy, government spending, Health Care, Law, liberty, Life, Links, Medicine, People, Philosophy, Politics, Quotations, Rants, Raves, Strategy, Taxes, Video, Wisdom | Tags: Blue Pill, Poison Pill, Public Option, Red Pill, Single Payer, Socialized Medicine |
Democrats self implode over public option
Dems Taking on Reform Alone?
Michael Steele on ObamaCare: “Up or Down, Baby! Put it on the Table.”
Sean Hannity – Does Obama Still Support Public Option on Health Care Reform
Ann Coulter’s On Health Care Reform
Glenn Beck Clips 08-20-09 Seg2- No Example in History Shows HC Bill Will Work!
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Hannity
Glenn Beck Clips 08-20-09 Seg4- Frank Luntz- Cash for Clunkers Stirs Up Focus Groups!
The vast majority of the American people do not want either a public option/government health insurer or a single payer/government monopoly of health care–socialized medicine.
President Obama and the progressive radical socialist Democratic Party want the public option because they believe that it would eliminate over time insurance companies and lead eventually to a single payer government monopoly of health care–socialized medicine.
If a health care bill is passed that includes the public option, the Democratic Party can expect to lose control of the House of Representatives and lose a few Senate seats in 2010.
If the health care, cap and trade energy tax, and comprehensive immigration reform bills are all passed, the Democratic Party can expect to lose control of the House, Senate and White House in 2012.
So what does President Obama do?
Barack Obama is first and foremost a front man, he will do what his campaign contributors and suporters expect him to do–the unions and socialists want the public option to eventually get to a single payer system:
AFL-CIO Pushed Public Option
SEIU’s Anna Burger On MSNBC: Public Option, Not Co-Ops, Necessary To Hold Down Health Costs
President Obama will push for the public option and as a result the Democrats will lose between 25 to 40 seats in the next election and another 25 to 40 seats in 2012.
What happened to the Republican Party in 2006 and 2008 will happen to the Democratic Party in 2010 and 2012.
Call it hubris or the arrogance of power, I call American people payback.
The time is ripe for the formation of a third political party, call it the American Citizens Alliance Party, that will actually listen to and reflect the wishes of the majority of the American people .
The Amercian people want the FairTax, stopping and reversing illegal immigration, affordable, fair, portable, individual health insurance, energy independence with nuclear electrical power, balanced budgets, and yes–full employment by creating wealth not destroying or redistributing to a political supporters such as union, trial lawyers, and Wall Street commercial and investment banks.
Time to take the red, white and blue pill and not the the poison pill–compulsory health insurance with a public option that leads to a government monopoly of health care–socialized medicine.
Red or Blue Pill You Decide?
Background Articles and Videos
Obama’s Hearth Care Deception – “Public Option” will end up “Single Payer”, per their Plan
Paul Ryan Offers Amendment to Strike Government-Run Health Care Plan
The “Public Option” Myth
Letter from a Whole Foods worker Updated
By Michelle Malkin
“…You may have heard about the nutroots boycott of Whole Foods, whose CEO John Mackey is an outspoken critic of Obamacare and advocates market-based alternatives.
Their food is pricey, but if you have a chance/opportunity to help counter the boycott, go out and buy a few Whole Foods items. I think it’s worth it.
Reader Tara, a Whole Foods employee, e-mailed me last night:
Hey Michelle, just got your book, and can’t put it down! But anyways, I’ve attached the lovely flyer that picketers from UFCW were hanging out at my Whole Food Market today. Thought you’d get a kick out of it!! I work for Whole Foods, and I am a long time loyal employee. I love our company, and our CEO! John Mackey stands for what he cares about and believes in! This company offers awesome benefits and puts us team members first! I had to email everyone this flyer and get the word about because this is ridiculous. Any help getting the work out that this is ridiculous would be great! I’m sure you probably know all about his craziness, so any help would be great! Thank you!
The flyer is quite a piece of work. Check out how they make Mackey look like a convicted criminal:
Headed to my local Whole Foods later today. Their 365 whole wheat naan is the best.
***
Update: From reader John… …”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/21/letter-from-a-whole-foods-worker/
Rasmussen Report:
Without Public Option, Enthusiasm for Health Care Reform, Especially Among Democrats, Collapses
“…These results suggest that the president has difficult choices ahead. A solid majority of unaffiliated voters are opposed to passing health care reform legislation with or without the public option. However, failure to pass a plan of any kind could create additional difficulties for the president, and a plan without the public option does not have the enthusiastic support of his base. This helps explain why, according to the New York Times, senior Democrats are considering going it alone on the reform plan without trying to get any Republican support for it.
Other recent Rasmussen Reports polling highlights the underlying political challenges. Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters favor a single-payer health care system. These voters make up a heavy majority of those who favor passage of health care reform. They view the current legislation as a baby step along the way to a single-payer system. Most Americans oppose a single-payer system and are seeking reassurance that the current plan will not head in that direction.
Overall, when it comes to health care decisions, 51% fear the government more than private insurance companies while 41% hold the opposite view.
Most Americans support the concept of reform, but cost control is seen as the most important aspect of reform. Also, voters simply don’t believe the legislation will deliver the benefits that its advocates claim. Few believe it will increase patient choice or make health care affordable. In fact, most voters believe the passage of the current health care reform effort will lead to higher costs and lower quality of care. …”
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This Joker Is A Lost Cause: Keeping President Obama Honest on Health Care–Let’s But A Smile On That Face–Staying Alive
Fact 1. Federal Government Health Insurance Is Compulsory–Kill The Bill–H.R. 3200
Patient Empowerment: Health Savings Accounts–High Deductible Catastrophic Health Insurance–Affordable, Portable, Fair, Individual Health Care Plan–Consumer Driven Health Care Reform!
The Dangers Of A Single Payer Health Care System: Ronald Reagan On Socialized Medicine and Friedrich A. Hayek On State Monopoly
The American People Believe The Government Public Option Plan Is The Path To The Single Payer Government Plan–Socialized Medicine–Obama Caught Lying To The American People!
The American People Confront Obama’s Red Shirts (ACORN) and Purple Shirts (SEIU)–Bullhorns and Beatings Over Obama Care!
The Obama Depression Has Arrived: 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 Unemployed Americans–Stimulus Package and Bailouts A Failure–400,000 Leave Labor Force In July!
Obama’s Marching Orders For His Red Shirts (ACORN), Purple Shirts (SEIU) and Black Shirts (New Panther Party)–Progressive Radical Socialists
Health Care Resources
Republican Health Care Reform: The Patients’ Choice Act
Medical Doctor and Senator Tom Coburn On Health Care–Videos
The Senate Doctors Show–Videos
Obama’s Waterloo– Government Compulsory Single Payer Socialized Medicine!–Videos
President Obama’s Plan of Massive Deficit Spending Is Destroying The US Economy–The American People Say Stop Socialism BS Now!
The Bum’s Rush of The American People: The Totally Irresponsible Democratic Party Health Care Bill and Obama’s Big Lie Exposed
Chairman Obama’s Progressive Radical Socialist Health Care Bill Kills Individual Private Health Care Insurance–Join The Second American Revolution!
The Obama Big Lie and Inconvenient Truth About Health Care–The Public Option Trojan Horse–Leads To A Single Payor Goverment Monopoly of Health Care and The Bankruptcy of USA!
The Obama Public Option Poison Pill For A Government Health Care Monopoly–Single Payer System–Betting Your Life and Paying Though The Nose
Government Bureaucracy: Organizational Chart of The House Democrats’ Health Plan
Dr. Robert W. Christensen–Videos
John Stossel–Sick In America–Videos
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Posted on August 19, 2009. Filed under: Art, Babies, Blogroll, Comedy, Communications, Economics, Employment, Fiscal Policy, government spending, Health Care, Law, liberty, Life, Links, Medicine, Music, People, Philosophy, Politics, Quotations, Rants, Raves, Resources, Talk Radio, Taxes, Video, Wisdom | Tags: Ann Coulter, Bill Ayers, Cloward-Piven Strategy, Glenn Beck, Health Care Reform, Joker, Lying, medicare, Obama, Paul Ryan, Poster, President Barack Obama, Public Option, Rush Limbaugh, Single Payer, social security, Socialism, Townhalls |
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
~Saul Alinsky’s, Rules for Radicals
Joker vs Joker (Jack Nicholson vs Heath Ledger)
President Obama, the Joker of the Progressive Radical Socialist Democratic Party, has a character flaw–he lies habitually.
Keeping up with Obama’s daily lying is a full time job.
Correcting him is an endless and thankless task because you will be called a racist for pointing out the lies by his Kool Aid Kids.
I’d Rather Be Called Racist than Comrade…
The American people are slowly but surely catching on that the Joker is truth challenged and the joke of health care reform is on the American people.
Take for example the often repeated line in the health care debate that the government public option insurer is there to increase competition with the insurance industry and to keep the insurance companies honest.
Obama on single payer health insurance
SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS saying His Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance
Really.
If you are for a single payer or a government monopoly of health care–socialized medicine–then you do not want to do anything that increases competition or choice among health care insurance providers–you want to eliminate or destroy competition.
The author of the public option idea, Jacob Hacker, makes it very clear that the real purpose of the public option is drive the insurance companies out of business over a period of time.
Hacker admits Public Option is Trojan Horse for Single Payer
The Real Goal of the Public Plan Option – Squeezing Out Private & Employer-Based Health Insurance
What would be the results over time of a “public option insurer”–less competition and eventually a government monopoly of health care:
Obama’s Hearth Care Deception – “Public Option” will end up “Single Payer”, per their Plan
Paul Ryan Offers Amendment to Strike Government-Run Health Care Plan
The “Public Option” Myth
Ann Coulter’s On Health Care Reform
Cato Experts Dissect Obama’s Health Care Town Hall Meeting
Robert Moffit testifying on Health Care
The American people want affordable, portable and private individual health insurance plan that they chose to buy that meets their needs.
The way to accomplish this is to first make premiums paid for such health insurance coverage tax deductible.
Then allow individuals to purchase individual high-deductible health insurance plans offerred in any state.
The result would an immediate increase in competition in the health insurance market and declining premiums.
Encourage the purchase of catastrophic or high-deductible health insurance plans and the opening and funding of a health savings account that would be used to pay medical bills under the deductible amount.
DeMint on Health Savings Accounts
Health Savings Accounts
The Democratic Party blocked the above reforms and are out to destroy private insurance and health savings accounts. The last thing the Democrats want is more competition that would bring the price of health insurance down.
The Democractic Party are trying to kill both private individual health insurance and health savings accounts.
The Democratic Party does not give a damn about the American people’s health care.
President Obama, the unions such as SEIU and AFL-CIO, and the progressive radical socialist Democratic Party are out to destroy jobs, wreck the US economy and kill the American dream by proposing a health care reform bill with the goal establishing a single payer government monopoly over health care.
HOPE AND CHAINS 2
HOPE AND CHAINS 3
Glenn Beck ACORN Cloward-Piven
Medicare is running large unsustainable deficits and the Democratic Party wants to expand this program and make it universal–are they joking?
I.O.U.S.A. Bonus Reel: Social Security+Medicare Projections
I.O.U.S.A. Bonus Reel: A $53 Trillion Federal Financial Hole
Stop Spending Our Future – The Crisis
Obama Healthcare Underwater in Philly
Stop Spending Our Future – STOP
No, they are deadly serious–this is their plan and strategy.
Both the public option and the co-ops are two ways of accomplishing this goal over time.
This is financially irresponsible and immoral.
The vast majority of American people like their health care insurance plans.
The vast majority of American people do want a public option nor a single payer system nor so-called government funded, controlled and run insurance co-op.
The vast majority of American people no longer believe nor trust the joker Obama.
Do not let the Joker fool you with his smile and lies.
You will be betting your life if you do.
Only the American people can stop the jokers in Washington!
Judge Napolitano on Government vs Private Enterprise
Live another day by stayin alive!
The Dark Knight – Hospital Scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRG1tWQN6e8
Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive (Full Version)
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I’ve been kicked around since I was born.
And now it’s all right, it’s O.K.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
Whether you’re a brother
Or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Feel the city breakin’
And ev’rybody shakin’
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin’ alive.
Stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin’ alive.
Well now, I get low and I get high
And if I can’t get either I really try.
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes
I’m a dancin’ man and I just can’t lose.
You know it’s all right, it’s O.K.
I’ll live to see another day.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
Whether you’re a brother
Or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Feel the city breakin’
And ev’rybody shakin’
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin’ alive.
Stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin’ alive.
Life goin’ nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin’ nowhere.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Stayin’ alive
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I’ve been kicked around since I was born.
And now it’s all right, it’s O.K.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
Whether you’re a brother
Or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Feel the city breakin’
And ev’rybody shakin’
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin’ alive.
Stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin’ alive.
Life goin’ nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin’ nowhere.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Stayin’ alive
Life goin’ nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin’ nowhere.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Stayin’ alive
Background Articles and Videos
Opportunity Is Knocking
Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me
by David Horowitz
“…Glenn Beck will be on vacation this week but when he returns on the 24th he has invited me to come to New York to talk to him on camera about Saul Alinsky, the strategy guru of the Obama era. For the the Hillary-Soros generation of johnny-come-lately radicals and their ACORN footsoldiers, Alinksy is their Sun-Tzu and his book Rules for Radicals is the field manual for their struggle. I thought while I’m refreshing my acquaintance with this destructive fellow and re-reading his text, I would share my thoughts with you, serially over the next week. …”
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/08/16/alinsky-beck-satan-and-me/
Barack Obama as The Joker: A New American Phenomenon?
Obama Speech Police Shutdown This Video – Obama JOKER $1000 Video Contest
Obama Joker Poster Popping Up In Los Angeles
“…Apparently, it’s beginning to appear in odd places in Los Angeles, but nobody seems to know who’s responsible for it.
Radio host Tammy Bruce posted some pictures of this odd creation at her blog Saturday morning (h/t Pamela Geller) leading me to investigate further.
At this point, all I could find on the subject was an April 25 article from Bedlam Magazine:
A poster of Barack Obama in Heath Ledger-style Joker make-up with the legend ‘Socialism’ beneath it has been popping up recently on surfaces around L.A. It does not appear to be in the same category as the many benign take-offs on the Shepard Fairey ‘Hope’ poster, such as the one by Australian James Lillis (more of a straightforward spoof that merely substituted a Shepardized image of Heath Ledger as Joker on the Obama poster). …”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/01/obama-joker-poster-popping-los-angeles
FIN Special Report MSNBC Asks Is Obama Joker Socialist Poster Racist
Hannity and Malkin Discuss DNC Health Care Web Ad
The Alinskyite’s Big, Fat Governance Failure
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
Pros and Cons of Catastrophic Health Insurance
“…Catastrophic health insurance plans—more formally known as High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs)—were created as a way to lower overall medical costs by providing a lower monthly premium in exchange for a higher annual health insurance deductible. With catastrophic health insurance plans, you pay for almost all medical care until you reach the annual deductible amount. After that, traditional health insurance coverage begins.
http://www.insurance.com/article.aspx/Pros_and_Cons_of_Catastrophic_Health_Insurance/artid/43
Inconvenient links of the week: Obama and the LaRouche poster
By Michelle Malkin
“…John McCormack: CNN Fails to Report Woman Comparing Obama to Hitler is a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat.
Here’s the CNN video: …”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/how-quickly-they-forget/
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/19/inconvenient-links-of-the-week-obama-and-the-larouche-poster/
NBC, CNN and MSNBC All Assign Communist LaRouche’s Obama-Hitler Poster to Conservatives, Limbaugh
By Seton Motley
“…The media have repeatedly stated how “angry,” “hostile” and “ugly” town hall meetings across America are becoming. They are of course largely ascribing the nastiness to conservatives voicing their opposition to (among other things) President Barack Obama and Congress’ proposed government takeover of the health care system.
The press has been particularly offended by the “extreme” use of references to Adolf Hitler specifically and Nazis generally. One image they have repeatedly used as an example of this alleged right-wing extremism is a poster of President Obama – on whose face a Hitler mustache has been Photo Shopped – bearing the caption “I’ve Changed.” …”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/seton-motley/2009/08/12/nbc-cnn-msnbc-all-assign-communist-larouches-obama-hitler-poster-conse
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
By James Simpson
“…The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis
In an earlier post, I noted the liberal record of unmitigated legislative disasters, the latest of which is now being played out in the financial markets before our eyes. Before the 1994 Republican takeover, Democrats had sixty years of virtually unbroken power in Congress – with substantial majorities most of the time. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable?
Why?
One of two things must be true. Either the Democrats are unfathomable idiots, who ignorantly pursue ever more destructive policies despite decades of contrary evidence, or they understand the consequences of their actions and relentlessly carry on anyway because they somehow benefit.
I submit to you they understand the consequences. For many it is simply a practical matter of eliciting votes from a targeted constituency at taxpayer expense; we lose a little, they gain a lot, and the politician keeps his job. But for others, the goal is more malevolent – the failure is deliberate. Don’t laugh. This method not only has its proponents, it has a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It describes their agenda, tactics, and long-term strategy.
The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. …”
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. …”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
Barney Frank Is At His Own Town Hall Meeting
Alex Jones Tv 1/3 “Special Broadcast” Alex as THE JOKER!!
Alex Jones Tv 2/3 “Special Broadcast” Alex as THE JOKER!!
Alex Jones Tv 3/3 “Special Broadcast” Alex as THE JOKER!!
Larry Grathwohl on Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground
Larry Grathwohl on Ayers’ plan for American re-education camps and the need to kill millions
Obama & Friends – “Will Re-educate or Eliminate 25 Million Resistors”? “Re-education Camps”?
Obamas ReEducation Camps
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President Obama’s Cloward-Piven Strategy of Controlled Crisis Creation Crippling Capitalism–Coup D-Etat On America
Fact 1. Federal Government Health Insurance Is Compulsory–Kill The Bill–H.R. 3200
Patient Empowerment: Health Savings Accounts–High Deductible Catastrophic Health Insurance–Affordable, Portable, Fair, Individual Health Care Plan–Consumer Driven Health Care Reform!
The Dangers Of A Single Payer Health Care System: Ronald Reagan On Socialized Medicine and Friedrich A. Hayek On State Monopoly
The American People Believe The Government Public Option Plan Is The Path To The Single Payer Government Plan–Socialized Medicine–Obama Caught Lying To The American People!
The American People Confront Obama’s Red Shirts (ACORN) and Purple Shirts (SEIU)–Bullhorns and Beatings Over Obama Care!
The Obama Depression Has Arrived: 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 Unemployed Americans–Stimulus Package and Bailouts A Failure–400,000 Leave Labor Force In July!
Obama’s Marching Orders For His Red Shirts (ACORN), Purple Shirts (SEIU) and Black Shirts (New Panther Party)–Progressive Radical Socialists
Health Care Resources
Republican Health Care Reform: The Patients’ Choice Act
Medical Doctor and Senator Tom Coburn On Health Care–Videos
The Senate Doctors Show–Videos
Obama’s Waterloo– Government Compulsory Single Payer Socialized Medicine!–Videos
President Obama’s Plan of Massive Deficit Spending Is Destroying The US Economy–The American People Say Stop Socialism BS Now!
The Bum’s Rush of The American People: The Totally Irresponsible Democratic Party Health Care Bill and Obama’s Big Lie Exposed
Chairman Obama’s Progressive Radical Socialist Health Care Bill Kills Individual Private Health Care Insurance–Join The Second American Revolution!
The Obama Big Lie and Inconvenient Truth About Health Care–The Public Option Trojan Horse–Leads To A Single Payor Goverment Monopoly of Health Care and The Bankruptcy of USA!
The Obama Public Option Poison Pill For A Government Health Care Monopoly–Single Payer System–Betting Your Life and Paying Though The Nose
Government Bureaucracy: Organizational Chart of The House Democrats’ Health Plan
Dr. Robert W. Christensen–Videos
John Stossel–Sick In America–Videos
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 28 so far )The Obama Big Lie and Inconvenient Truth About Health Care–The Public Option Trojan Horse–Leads To A Single Payor Goverment Monopoly of Health Care and The Bankruptcy of USA!
Posted on July 7, 2009. Filed under: Blogroll, Communications, Computers, Employment, Health Care, Links, Medicine, People, Politics, Quotations, Rants, Raves, Regulations, Science, Technology, Video, Wisdom | Tags: ACORN, CBO, CBO scores Obama Health Care Bill, Congressional Budget Office, Cost Shifting, E-Verify, Financial Crisis, Grave Diggers, Health Care, illegal immigration, Individual Health Insurance Plans, Medicaid, medicare, Portability, Public Option, SEIU, Services Employee International Union, Shovel-ready, Single Payer Systme, Single Payor System, social security, Socialized Medicine, Universal Health Care |
UPDATED
M3, longer term chart
“…M3 consists of M2, institutional money market mutual funds, time deposits in amounts of $100,000 or more, repurchase agreement liabilities of depository institutions (in denominations of $100,000 or more) on U.S. government and federal agency securities, and Eurodollars.
For reference, and as of early 2007, M3 is about $11.5 trillion, M2 about $7.1 trillion, institutional money markets funds about $1.4 trillion, jumbo CDs about $1.7 trillion, repos about $.67 trillion ($670 billion) and estimated Eurodollars are about $.61 trillion ($610 billion).
11/30/2007 – Note that much of the large growth in M3 lately has been in flows into CDs and Money Market Funds, a normal occurrence during financial turmoil. See our financial crisis page for more detail, and a picture of the current level of a U.S. financial crisis. …”
http://nowandfutures.com/key_stats.html
Glenn Beck on the US Financial crisis
U.S. Headed For Fiscal Crisis?
I.O.U.S.A.: Byte-Sized – The 30 Minute Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo
Stop Spending Our Future – The Crisis
The leaders and political elites of both political parties, Democrats and Republicans, are not telling the American people the truth–the United States is broke and cannot afford any new entitlement programs.
The United States cannot grow its way out the financial crisis to provide the funding for the liabilities the Federal Government already promised to pay for Social Security and Medicare entitlement programs.
Any politican who proposes either new entitlement programs or the expansion of existing programs such as Social Security or Medicare is fiscally irresponsible and is pandering and lying to the American people.
Both former President Bush and now President Obama are two of the most fiscally irresponsible Presidents this nation’s voters foolishly elected to the office of President.
Stop The Spending and Deficits
US Federal Government Deficits
Our first Green On The Outside and Red On The Inside President Obama only makes a huge and unsustainable entitlement problem and crisis infinitely worse.
By proposing a new entitlement program–universal health care with a public option of a government insurer–Presidemt Obama is now threatening all those Americans who are satisfied with their health care and insurance plan.
A public option leads slowly and surely to Socialized Medicine or a Government Single Payer health care system and the bankruptcy of the United States!
The cost of such a new entitlement program is beyond the means of the American people and the US economy to pay for and sustain.
It would add trillions of dollars to the already bloated US deficits.
Kill the Obama Universal Health Care bill before it kills you and bankrupts the United States of America.
Both the Federal Government Medicare and Medcaid pay less than the cost of the services provided by doctors and hospitals.
This results in doctors and hospitals shifting the unreimbused cost to private insurers.
Rep. Paul Ryan points out that Health Care Reform will be the most Important Vote
Rep. Brady (R-TX) asks CBO Director Elmendorf if we know the cost of the Dems Health Care Bill
The Federal Government is the problem not the solution.
One of the primary reasons private insurance premiums are rising is the Federal Government does not pay the full bill.
Will Fox testifies before Congress
Government caused the uninsured
When you need medical care for a serious condition, the Government will make you wait until it is too late.
Dead men tell no tales.
The Federal Government will use rationing and long waits to cut the cost of medical care.
Yaron Brook’s Call to Action – July 2009
This will result in the killing and torture of old people and those with serious medical conditions that would be too expensive to treat.
The old and infirm will have to sit and wait for care, surgery and drugs that are never provided in a timely manner, if at all.
The Downside Of British Health Care
This is exactly what happens now in countries that have socialized medicine or a single payer system.
The government simply waits you out so that they do not have to pay for your health care in a timely manner.
Canada Is A Perfect Example Of The Free Health Care Failing
Canadians to Americans: Don’t make your healthcare like ours
The Down Side of the Canadian Healthcare System
Why do you think people from all around the world come to the United States for treatment?
They know that if they wait for their country’s health care system to provide the care, they may die or be in pain for months or years.
In the United States they will be treated quickly to avoid unnecessay pain and suffering.
Obama’s Health Care Deception
Obama on single payer health insurance
SEIU, the White House & ACORN
Health Care Forum: Barack Obama (1 of 3)
Health Care Forum: Barack Obama (2 of 3)
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Health Care Forum: Barack Obama (3 of 3)
Any candidate of any political party that gives any indication to the American people that they are going to replace, tax, or threaten the American people’s health care and insurance coverage, can deservedly expect to be defeated in the next election.
The progressive radical socialists lead by President Obama are a clear and present danager to your life, health care and current insurance plan.
Send a message both to President Obama and your Senators and Representative by signing the Free Our Health Care Petition:
http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/
Please take a minute to sign this petition keeping Government control OUT of healthcare.
http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/
When you are not treated for a heart attack, the red line will flatten out on the monitor.
You may very well die if you do not stop the passage of President Obama’s universal health care plan.
The American people and economy cannot pay for the medical care of illegal aliens who work in the United States.
The United States Federal Government could go a long way in lowering the number of Americans unemployed now exceeding 15,000,000 as well as lowering the number of uninsured Americans by simply enforcing the immigration laws.
Require all businesses to use E-Verify to determine the legal status of a person to work in the United States.
Attempt to Block E-Verify
E-Verify & Border Fence may be canceled
Obama Admin wants to kill E-Verify
Obama Adm Favors Illegal Immigration
All illegal aliens now working in the US would be replaced by American citizens.
All illegal aliens would be removed from their work place and deported to their country of origin.
All illegal aliens would have to pay upfront the cost of medical care.
Unless the Federal Government starts enforcing immigration laws, more and more hospitals will be closing throughout the United States.
Again the Federal Government is the problem for not paying their medical bills in full and not stopping illegal aliens from working in the United States.
Health care and illegal immigration TV ad in California
Giving Up California to the Illegal Invaders
With the Federal Reserve rapdily increasing the money supply as measured by M3 (green line)–inflation will soon be coming back as measured by the CPI-U–Consumer Price Index (black line).
The result is your own money is worth less as its purchasing power declines.
This is a hidden tax.
Time for the American people to get mad and tell off their Representatives and the Senators.
Time for the Representatives and Senators to earn their pay and actually read the billl, balance the budget and pay down the national debt with budget surpluses and not massive deficits.
Time for the Federal Government to close down entire Departments not expand their budgets and programs.
The Federal Government like families and businesses needs to live within its means.
Reform and save both the Social Security and Medicare programs by letting the American people have ownership over their retirement and health insurance program instead of relying upon the mere promises of the Federal Government.
Stop messing with the American people’s health care insurance plans and running up huge budgetary deficits by spending more than the tax revenues collected each year.
If the progressive radical socialists of the Democratic Party really wanted more competition in the health care insurance market to “keep them honest”, they would provide the same tax-advantages to individuals that employers have in providing a group plan by making individual premium payments tax deductible.
Next the Federal Government should permit employers to offer as an option of an individual health insurance plan as an alternative to group health insurance.
Health savings accounts should be encouraged with higher annual contribution limits and letting individuals and families with individual health insurance plans to have a health savings account.
These three reforms would encourage more people to become insured that currently elect not to purchase coverage and would address their portability concerns as they move from job to job.
Individuals would be permitted to purchase individual health insurance from companies doing business in any state and not just the state where they call home.
Insurance companies would provide individual plans that could be customized to the needs of the individual and their families.
Act responsibly for a change and keep the Federal Government out of the insurance business.
UPDATED
Like the backloaded stimulus bill, the proposed healthcare bill is also backloaded with most of the cost impact taking place after 2012 with a five year cost of $979 billion or nearly $200 billion per year:
“…It’s important to keep in mind that the most costly aspects of the legislation involve providing subsidies to individuals to purchase health care ($773 billion) and to expand Medicaid ($438 billion), but it takes several years for those provisions to kick in. As you can see from the chart below, that means that the costs start out relatively modest but ramp up over time. In the first three years of the plan the cost of the subsidies and Medicaid expansion is just $8 billion; in the first five years, it’s $202 billion; but in the last five years, it’s $979 billion. Put another way, 17 percent of the spending comes in the first five years, while 83 percent comes in the second five years. What this means is that the American people see $1 trillion over 10 years and they think that means the bill would cost about $100 billion a year — but the reality is more than double that. In the final year of the CBO estimates, 2019, the spending hits $230 billion….”
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/07/14/10-year-time-frame-obscures-fu
Put this kill the old people with health care rationing out of its misery by defeatiing the bill now.
The life you save may be your own.
Do not let Obama kill you softly with his song of socialized medicine.
Roberta Flack-Killing Me Softly With His Song
Background Articles and Videos
Document drop: CBO scores the health care takeover
By Michelle Malkin
“…A Senate staffer passes along the CBO/Joint Committee on Taxation report scoring the House health care takeover.
Bottom line from the staffer:
$1.042 trillion over “ten years”, though the program really gets going in 2015 so its more like a 5 year score. Also, don’t forget most bills carve out unions so that they have a reprieve. Who needs card check [with] US government health insurance as a recruiting tool.
I’ve uploaded the full report: Read it here.
From the caveats section of the report intro:
Important Caveats Regarding This Preliminary Analysis
There are several reasons why the preliminary analysis that is provided in this letter and its attachments does not constitute a comprehensive cost estimate for the coverage provisions of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act:
• First, our analysis was based on specifications regarding insurance coverage that were provided by the tri-committee group and that differ in important ways from the “discussion draft” version of legislative language that was released on June 19, 2009. The specifications that we analyzed are supposed to be reflected in the draft language released by the three committees today, but we have not yet been able to analyze that language to determine whether it conforms to those specifications. Our review of that language could have a significant effect on our analysis. More generally, as our understanding of the specifications improves, that also could affect our future estimates.
• Second, some effects of the proposal have not yet been fully captured in our analysis. In particular, we have not yet estimated the administrative costs to the federal government of implementing the specified policies, nor have we accounted for all of the proposal’s likely effects on spending for other federal
programs. We expect to include those effects in the near future, but we also expect that they will not have a sizable impact on our analysis.• Third, the budgetary information shown in the attached table reflects many of the major cash flows that would affect the federal budget as a result of implementing the specified policies, and it provides our preliminary assessment of the proposal’s net effects on the federal budget deficit (subject to the caveats listed above). Some additional cash flows would appear in the budget—either as outlays and offsetting receipts or outlays and revenues—but would net to zero and thus would not affect the deficit. CBO and the JCT staff have not yet estimated all of those cash flows but expect to do so in the near
future.2 Those additional cash flows would include the premiums collected by the public plan and its outlays as well as risk-adjustment transfers from plans with relatively healthy enrollees to plans with relatively unhealthy enrollees. …”
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http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/14/document-drop-cbo-scores-the-health-care-takeover/
Warning: More Obamacare/MSM theater on the way
By Michelle Malkin
“…The Democrats’ government health care takeover plans are flailing. What to do? What to do? Enlist every willing MSM lackey, of course.
We had the All Barack Channel special. The Obamacare Theater production. And now a trifecta of dinosaur broadcast media interviews. Noel Sheppard reports: “All Three Nets To Interview Obama About Healthcare Wednesday.”
…”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/15/warning-more-obamacaremsm-theater-on-the-way/
Tax-maniacs backing off health benefits?
By Michelle Malkin
WSJ: “A Senate Democrat involved in negotiations on legislation to overhaul the health-care system said senators may be souring on a plan to tax some employer-provided health benefits. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said that public polls conducted over the July 4 congressional recess and reviewed by senators are causing lawmakers to have second thoughts about limiting the tax exclusion for employer health plans.”
Bloomberg: Senators May Drop Tax Plan for Worker Health Benefits
AP: “Tax on health benefits fading?”
But hey, don’t worry. They’ll find something else to tax. Just give ‘em time.
*** …”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/07/tax-maniacs-backing-off-health-benefits/
Get ready for health care tax-apalooza
By Michelle Malkin

“…The Democrats are preparing for their Big Reveal on how to pay for their trillion-dollar government takeover of health care.
Gird your loins and say goodbye to your wallets:
By the end of this week, House Democrats may have answered the biggest question looming in the healthcare debate – how they plan to pay for their overhaul.
Leadership aides say they will introduce a bill by Thursday or Friday, in preparation for votes in committee next week. And that bill, they say, will include a way to pay for the bill…
…Leadership aides stress that no final decision has been made on how to pay the tab. The Democrats on Rangel’s committee will hold a marathon meeting all day Tuesday where healthcare and the “pay-for,” as it’s called, are sure to come up.
A large portion is expected to come from reductions in Medicare and Medicaid. But that won’t pay for the full overhaul. As for raising money, ideas have included a national sales tax, taxing soda and a “surtax” on people making more than $250,000. …”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/07/get-ready-for-health-care-tax-apalooza/
Not a surprise: SEIU & Wal-Mart unite behind Obamacare
By Michelle Malkin
“… Wal-Mart announced today that it was backing Obama’s government health care plan. The discount retail giant was joined by the Service Employees International Union and the left-wing Center for American Progress. CQ reports:
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced Tuesday that it would support a mandate on businesses to help expand health care coverage, an about-face from other business interests that have strongly opposed any such requirement.
But this is not a sudden “about-face.” Wal-Mart and the SEIU, still bitter enemies on most other policy and employment matters, first joined hands on health care two years ago. The unholy alliance was forged out of mutual desperation and political expediency.
More from Forbes, USAToday. And AP:
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced its position in a letter to congressional and administration officials Tuesday. It was joined by a major labor union that sometimes has criticized Wal-Mart as stingy with employee benefits.
“We are for an employer mandate which is fair and broad in its coverage,” the letter said. “Any alternative to an employer mandate should not create barriers to hiring entry-level employees.”
That was a reference to some proposals in Congress to have employers pay the Medicaid costs of new hires. Critics say that would discourage the hiring of low-income people.
The letter was also signed by Andrew L. Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, which has more than a million members and counts more U.S. health workers than any other union. Also signing it was John Podesta, who headed Obama’s transition team and is president of the Center for American Progress.
Wal-Mart wants the union thugs off its back. Stern wants more power and publicity.
Take this marriage for what it’s worth.
*** …”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/30/not-a-surprise-seiu-wal-mart-unite-behind-obamacare/
The House Health Care Bill: A Blueprint for Federal Control
by Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
“…Like the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill,[1] the House bill would create a new public plan to compete with private health insurance in a national health insurance exchange; impose mandates on individuals and businesses to buy health insurance coverage or be subject to tax penalties; and allow the federal government to control, standardize, and regulate health insurance, defining what is and is not “acceptable coverage” for American citizens.The “Public” PlanThe bill would require the secretary of health and human services (HHS) to establish a “public health insurance option” to compete against private health plans on a “level playing field” in a national health insurance exchange. It would also expand eligibility for the existing Medicaid program up the income scale to 133 percent of the federal poverty level.
The public plan’s payment to providers would be based on Medicare payment rates plus 5 percent. The Lewin Group estimates that, by using the Medicare payment rates and opening up the plan to all employees, as the bill would provide, the House bill could result in up to 113.5 million people losing private coverage.[2] Lewin estimates that cost shifting to private plans from the public plan would amount to an additional $460 per person for those remaining in private insurance,[3] while physician and hospital revenues, under such a scenario, would decline significantly.
Contrary to the House sponsors’ claims, it is hard to imagine a “level playing field” where Congress creates a special government plan to compete against private health plans while also creating the rules for its competitors.
While the House bill would set up an account within the Treasury for the deposit of startup funds and premiums, the bill would also require taxpayers to retain the risks and depend on congressional restraint in the appropriation of additional taxpayer funds for the public plan. In light of recent congressional bailouts of automakers and financial institutions, belief in such restraint would amount to a triumph of imagination over experience. …”
“…Promises, Promises
The President has said repeatedly that if Americans like their private health insurance coverage, they would be able to keep it. But in fact, the incentives built into the House bill–a combination of mandates and the provision of a public plan–would guarantee that millions of Americans would lose their private coverage, regardless of their personal preferences.
In the Senate, the leading bill would add $1 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, while pushing millions of Americans out of their employer-based coverage. While the President insists that health care reform should be “deficit neutral,” the cost of the House bill–both quantifiable and not–is yet unknown. …”
http://www.heritage.org/research/healthcare/wm2515.cfm
Donald S. McAlvany
“…Donald S. McAlvany is an American Christian conservative political and economics commentator, podcaster, and newsletter author.
McAlvany attended the University of Texas. In 1972, McAlvany founded International Collectors Associates (ICA), headquartered in Durango, Colorado. The firm is described as a “securities, precious metals brokerage, insurance and consultation firm serving clients in over 20 countries.” In 1976 McAlvany began publishing the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, a monthly newsletter that analyzes economic, political, and financial issues, globally. in recent years he has also produced a monthly podcast on economic and “hard money” investing.[1]
He has been a lecturer at Christian, political, monetary and investment conferences “in Western Europe, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, Hong Kong, Singapore, as well as all over the North American continent and Latin America.”
He serves on the board of The Conservative Caucus, is a member of the Council for National Policy[2], is chairman of the Council on Southern Africa, was “a founder of the Industry Council on Tangible Assets (ICTA), and one of the founding directors of the fellowship of Christian Financial Advisors.”[3]
He was formerly the editor of The African Intelligence Digest.[4] …”
“…McAlvany gained some notoriety for his prediction of a possible Y2K catastrophe, before 2000. In 1999, McAlvany self-published the book Y2K Tidal Wave: Year 2000 Economic Survival[5]. Like economists Dr. Gary North, Ed Yourdon[6] and Ed Yardeni[7], and many others, McAlvany suggested that a Y2K date-rollover failure of the global Information Technology (IT) infrastructure might precipitate severe disruption and perhaps even an economic collapse. A concerted last-minute effort by IT professionals prevented this catastrophe, but McAlvany later described Y2K as “a close one.” …”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McAlvany
ICA, a McAlvany Financial Company
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McAlvany DVD 2009 “Deflation or Inflation? What’s Next?”
McAlvany Seminar 2008:Protect Your Assets Now, Pt.1
McAlvany Seminar 2008:Protect Your Assets Now, Pt.2
Wall Street’s Schemes Part I: Mcalvany 2008
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Transitions Ahead Part I: Mcalvany 2008
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US Dollar Cave-In Part II: Mcalvany 2008
An Inflationary Recession Part I: Mcalvany 2008
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Posted on June 23, 2009. Filed under: Blogroll, Health Care, Investments, Law, liberty, Life, Links, Medicine, Politics, Quotations, Rants, Raves, Regulations, Resources, Science, Taxes, Video | Tags: Barack Obama, free our health care now, Health Care Reform, Health Savings Account, HSA, Medical Insurance, National Health Insurance, President Obama, Public Option, Single Payer, Single Payor Health Care, Socialized Medicine |
Pay Through The Nose
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
The progressive radical socialist Democratic Party’s goal is a single payer Federal Government Health Care Monopoly where every citizen is required to participate and pay for the the Government provided healthcare–National Health Insurance aka Socialized Medicine:
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Single Payer Health Insurance | PBS
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Obama’s Health Care Reform Goals
Before running and getting elected President, State Senator Obama said when speaking before a union audience that a single payer system is what he favored.
Obama on single payer health insurance
He also said during the campaign that he favored a single payer system if he were going to design a health care system from scratch.
Why did he change his mind?
While the number of Americans having health care insurance varies from day to day, roughly 80-95% of Americans are covered by an health insurance plan, most of them are voters.
Of those who have health insurance coverage, approximately 70%-85% are satisfied with their health insurance plan and care.
This means that the vast majority of Americans do not want nor need a single payer health care system –National Health Insurance–Socialized Medicine.
President Obama is misleading the American people, if not actually lying, when he says that he wants to increase competition in the health insurance market by having a Federal Government provided public option for health care insurance.
First, it is not the function of government to run a business such as providing health care insurance.
Second, with hundreds of insurers and providers of health care insurance and care, the last thing the health care industry needs or wants is more competition, especially from the government.
Third, a Federal Government provided public option would overtime not increase competition but actually reduce competition by driving or crowding out private insurers.
How would this be accomplished?
A government health insurance provider would be in a position to dictate both benefit levels and reimbursement rates or the percentage of billable charges that they would pay.
This is exactly what the the Federal Government currently does with Medicare.
As a result private insurers are paying for charges or costs not reimbursed by Medicare or the Federal Government and shifted and charged to patients with private insurance health care insurance plans.
By having a take it or leave reimbursement level lower than what private insurers pay for usual and customarily charges, the public option would have both the lowest benefit levels and reimbusement rates and in turn the lower prices or premiums.
Congressman Ellison Talks About a Public Option for Health Reform
The “Public Option” Myth
The majority of health insurance premiums are paid by employers as part of an employee’s total compensation package.
As private insurer premiums rose relative to the public option insurer, more and more businesses would cancel their group insurance and tell employees to go get their health care coverage with the public option insurer.
Within ten years or less all the private insurers would be driven out of business with the result that you arrive at a single payer health care system.
A single payor system is and remains the aim of the progressive radical socialists of the Democratic Party–a Federal Government monopoly of health care where all Americans would be coerced into the plan.
Once this happens, the Federal government bureaucracy and not the American people would decide what coverage you had, whether your medical conditions would be treated and when.
Socialized medicine will have arrived in the United States.
Government sovereignty not consumer sovereignty would rule the day.
The Path from Public Healthcare Options to Socialized Medicine
The American people want to be able to choose a plan that meets their needs as to the type of coverage included in the plan, price or monthly premiuim, deductibles, co-payments, out-of-pocket maximums, and life-time maximums and affordability.
The American people want consumer sovereignty not government sovereignty in the form of a government health care monopoly–single payer–run by a health care czar!
A public option is a trojan horse for a single payer system.
Both President Obama and his progressive radical socialists in the Senate and Congress are selling the American people a bill of goods.
If the Democratic Party and President Obama truly wanted to increase competition in the health insurance market they should give individuals the same tax advantages as employers have and allow individuals to deduct the cost of their health insurance premiums for individual and family plans.
Competition could also be increased by allowing both individuals and employers purchasing health insurance from companies not licensed to do business in the state.
Also, employers should be allowed to pay for and purchase not only group plans but also individual health insurance plans if that is what an employee wants.
Individual plans have the added benefit of portability so they move with the individual from job to job.
Health Saving Accounts (HSAs) should be expanded to allow them with both group and individual plans with a higher maximum limit on annual contributions of $10,000 per person.
The Democratic Party opposes all of the above for it would not result in a Government monopoly single payer system and would actually significantly reduce the number of the uninsured American citizens.
Affordability, choice, fairness, portability, and plan customization of their health insurance and care is what the American people want–consumer sovereignty not government sovereignty or monopoly.
The Democratic Party’s single payer preferred solution is all about Government control where a government bureaucracy controls what treatments and drugs you can obtain from your doctor and hospital.
A government monopoly single payer system results in rationing and delays in treatment in order to cut cost.
Any candidate of any party that gives any indication to the American people that they are going to replace, tax, or threaten the American people ‘s health care and insurance coverage, can deservedly expect to be defeated in the next election.
Send a message both to President Obama and your Senators and Representative by signing the Free Our Health Care Petition:
http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/
Please take a minute to sign this petition keeping Government control OUT of healthcare.
http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/
NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS
Ten Steps to a Patient-Friendly
Health Care System
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Ten_Steps.pdf
Your very life may depend upon it!
Even President Obama had to step away from his original plan of a mandatory single payer health care system.
For now President Obama supposively supports more competition with insurance companies by proposing a public option or government health care insurance that will lead to a Government monopoly of health care–single payer.
Why make such radical changes?
The reason most often given is to provide medical care or more accuratley medical insurance for the roughly 50 million people living in the United States that do not have insurance.
Who are these estimated 50 million medically uninsured individuals?
20 to 30 Million: Illegal immigrants living and working in the U.S.
10 to 15 Million: American citizens who can afford health insurance but elect not to purchase the coverage
10 to 15 Million: American citizens between jobs and currently unemployed
5 to 10 Million: American citizens who qualify for Medicaid or are uninsurable due to a pre-existing condition but could apply for a state insurance program.
While the actual numbers change from day to day and the ranges are large, the 50 million “uninsured number” used repeatedly by the progressive radical socialists clearly overstates the health care insurance problem.
The American people simply will not abide their current health insurance benefit plan being taxed nor will they pay for illegal aliens and people who can afford to pay for health care but freely chose to buy something else.
This cuts the problem in half.
The sooner the unemployed obtain jobs, the sooner they have enough money to purchase health care insurance on their own or receive coverage through their employer.
This leaves between 5 and 10 million people that are poor, destitute, or uninsurable due to a pre-existing condition.
The majority of these people either qualify for Medicaid and need to apply or can be covered by various state special insurance programs that they need to apply for to obtain coverage.
This leaves less than 5 million people without health insurance and the means to obtain coverage.
This does not mean that the health care system cannot be improved, far from it.
Instead of building a “trojan horse” in the form of a government or public option insurer, serious consideration should be given the Patient Choice Act:
The Patients’ Choice Act (1 of 4)
The Patients’ Choice Act (2 of 4)
The Patients’ Choice Act (3 of 4)
The Patients’ Choice Act (4 of 4)
“…The Patients’ Choice Act of 2009 is the Republican-back healthcare reform strategy. The Act will offer a $5,710 tax cut to families and a $2,290 cut to individuals, while taking away tax incentives to employers that provide healthcare. The plan was introduced on May 20, 2009, by Senators Tom Coburn and Richard Burr and Representatives Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes.
Fast Facts
- Unveiled on May 19, 2009
- The legislation promotes an individual’s choice to get coverage
- Workers will have the option to keep their employer coverage and/or existing insurer
- Individuals and families can also choose to select from a list of participating insurers
- Participating insurers must cover regardless of age or health history
- A separate agency would be established to safe-guard against insurers that cherry-pick people with clean health records
- Supported by John McCain during his bid to for presidency in 2008
- Offers a $5,710 tax cut to families and a $2,290 cut to individuals
- On average, families with health insurance pay $12,300 a year
- Democrats have not unveiled their final healthcare reform strategy
- Introduced by Senators Tom Coburn and Richard Burr, and Representatives Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes
- Looks to create universal access without government-backed policy
- Democratic-adopted idea is to create a insurance exchange program
- Seeks to revamp the Health Savings Accounts system …”
http://www.mahalo.com/patients-choice-act-of-2009
The American people need an insurance plan that is both affordable and portable–they take the coverage with them when they leave one employer to go to work with another employer.
Since government state mandated coverages, the performing of unnecessary tests and procedures as protection against frivolous malpractice lawsuits, and no caps or maximums for damages, can easily add 25% to 50% to the cost of health insurance, these issues need to be addressed in any attempt to try and control rising health care costs.
The progressive radical socialists of the Democratic Party are attacking Health Saving Accounts that American consumers find very beneficial in meeting their health care needs.
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The American people are not in the mood for another entitlement program to help a few million Americans when over 15,000,000 are currently unemployed.
The American people do not believe that illegal aliens should be working in the US and strongly feel that except for emergency care, no tax payer money should be provided for their care.
The American people understand that by providing a public option the progressive radical socialist Democratic Party are trying to destroy their own health insurance plan.
The American people are watching and will closely examine President Obama’s newly designed health care program.
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Single-Payer National Health Insurance
“…Single-payer national health insurance is a system in which a single public or quasi-public agency organizes health financing, but delivery of care remains largely private.
Currently, the U.S. health care system is outrageously expensive, yet inadequate. Despite spending more than twice as much as the rest of the industrialized nations ($7,129 per capita), the United States performs poorly in comparison on major health indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality and immunization rates. Moreover, the other advanced nations provide comprehensive coverage to their entire populations, while the U.S. leaves 45.7 million completely uninsured and millions more inadequately covered.
The reason we spend more and get less than the rest of the world is because we have a patchwork system of for-profit payers. Private insurers necessarily waste health dollars on things that have nothing to do with care: overhead, underwriting, billing, sales and marketing departments as well as huge profits and exorbitant executive pay. Doctors and hospitals must maintain costly administrative staffs to deal with the bureaucracy. Combined, this needless administration consumes one-third (31 percent) of Americans’ health dollars. …”
http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_resources.php
4 reasons why Obama’s health plan is no bargain
Analysis: While a goal of reform is to cut costs, the emerging package may do just the opposite.
By Shawn Tully, senior editor at large
“…The plans contain four proposals that will substantially weaken the ability of the market, already limited by burdensome regulation, to restrain medical spending.
First, they will impose rich, standard packages of benefits, with low deductibles, for all Americans. Those policies, typically containing everything from in-vitro fertilization to mental health benefits, are usually far more expensive than anything most people would pay for with their own money.
Second, the plans would impose on a federal level the doctrine of community rating, in which all customers have to be offered the same rates, regardless of their health risks. Community rating forces young people to pay far more than their actual cost, a main reason for today’s 46 million uninsured, while it subsidizes older patients.
Third, Obama would ban consumers from buying private insurance across state lines, perpetuating the price differences in today’s fragmented market, instead of allowing all Americans to shop anywhere for the best deals.
Fourth, both plans propose what’s known as a “public option,” or a Medicare-style plan that would compete with the private offerings. The previous three proposals would make the private plans extremely expensive. With the same subsidies, the Medicare-style plan could put them out of business. …”
http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/11/news/economy/obama_health_plan_no_bargain.fortune/
Obama’s Health Care Reform: What Will It Do to Seniors?
by heritage.org
Fact Sheet #31
Seniors Pay for It
- Cuts Medicare to Pay for New Public Plan: Some of the projected savings for financing Obama’s health agenda, including the creation of a new public plan, would come by squeezing savings out of Medicare. At a time when Medicare is dangerously close to bankruptcy, it is shortsighted to funnel funds into the creation of another government-run program instead of shoring up Medicare.
- Undercuts Private Plan Options in Medicare: Another key element of Obama’s Medicare agenda is to chip away at current government payments to highly popular Medicare Advantage plans. The program is popular among seniors, especially those on a fixed income, because it offers an integrated benefit package that gives better benefits and better value.
- Price Controls on Prescription Drugs: Under the guise of “negotiated prices,” the Obama agenda also includes the imposition of a price-control regime on the Medicare prescription drug benefit. The government doesn’t “negotiate” prices; it fixes them. Ironically, this part of the Medicare program is the only one that has shown budget savings over the past two years.
Seniors Lose Choice and Access
- Jeopardizes Access to Doctors: Medicare savings would largely result from a ratcheting down of existing payment formulas and lowering reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. Cutting reimbursements often encourages medical professionals to increase their volume of services, resulting in higher program costs, undermining the objectives of the original cuts. Cuts in reimbursement also discourage doctors from seeing new Medicare patients.
- Millions of Seniors Could Lose Their Coverage: Today, one in five seniors is enrolled in a Medicare Advantage private plan, including 40% of black seniors and over 50% of Hispanic seniors. In spite of their growing popularity, key congressional leaders oppose these private health plans and want to cut them.
- Limits Access and Choice to Prescription Drugs: Many supporters of government direct purchasing of prescription drugs highlight Veterans Affairs (VA) as a model. As a matter of fact, one-third of veterans who had been in the VA system actually paid to join Medicare Part D to get better access to needed prescription drugs. …”
http://www.heritage.org/Press/FactSheet/fs0031.cfm
Obama’s Health Care Agenda: How it Will Hurt American Families
by heritage.org
Fact Sheet #33
“…What It Will Do
- It Undermines Parental Authority: Instead of empowering parents, President Obama’s health care plan will chip away at the fundamental rights parents have in key health care decisions for their family by centralizing crucial health care decision-making over plans and benefits in Washington.
- It Puts Federal Bureaucrats in Control of Health Care Decisions: The President’s health agenda would result in a major transfer of regulatory authority over health insurance and the kinds of benefits and medical treatments that families get in their health coverage. This could also compromise the rights of families to secure the kind of health coverage that is compatible with their ethical, moral, or religious convictions.
- It Shackles Families with Unknown Costs: President Obama promised American families that under his health plan the average family would save $2,500. But independent analysis shows that less than 11 percent of American families would actually see that level of savings with the reforms proposed by the Administration. …”
http://www.heritage.org/Press/FactSheet/fs0033.cfm
The Obama Health Care Plan: A Closer Look at Cost and Coverage
by Greg D’Angelo and Paul L. Winfree
WebMemo #2114
“…Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has put forth an ambitious health care plan.[1] The plan proposes:
- Expanding eligibility for existing public programs, including both Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP);
- Creating a National Health Insurance Exchange to serve as a federal regulator of private insurance plans that would compete alongside a new National Health Plan;
- Providing income-related subsidies for those without employer-sponsored health insurance while mandating that children have coverage; and
- Requiring that medium and large employers provide coverage or pay a tax, while extending tax credits to small businesses and creating a government reinsurance program to cover businesses’ catastrophic health costs.
Differing Estimates
Analyzing proposals based on campaign documents and media accounts is inherently difficult, as these materials lack the level of detail necessary for a rigorous econometric analysis. Nonetheless, several organizations have done so, using a variety of assumptions and methodologies.[2] Most notable are the Lewin Group,[3] Health Systems Innovations Network,[4] and the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center.[5]
The best independent research shows that the Obama plan would cover roughly half of the 45 million uninsured through an expansion of public coverage; rely on soft methods of cost-savings; and require significant increases in federal expenditures.
Coverage. According to the Lewin Group, the Obama plan would reduce the number of uninsured by 26.6 million in 2010 if fully implemented in that year. The plan would also bring about significant shifts in sources of coverage. While 21.6 million people would lose their private health insurance, 48.3 million people are projected to obtain public coverage through Medicaid, SCHIP, or the new National Plan. Private employer-sponsored coverage would decline by 13.9 million, and private non-group coverage would decline by 7.7 million. Meanwhile, 18.6 million employees would buy into the new public plan through their workplace (as their employers switched to this plan from private coverage), 13.1 million individuals would buy into the public plan in the non-group market, and 16.6 million individuals would become newly enrolled in Medicaid or SCHIP. Therefore, the expansion of coverage under the Obama plan would be driven by enrollment in public coverage. This would entail a crowd-out of existing private non-group and private employer-sponsored insurance.
http://www.heritage.org/research/healthcare/wm2114.cfm
How to Talk to Washingtonians About Health Reform
A presentation by Herndon AllianceDecember 5, 2007
http://www.herndonalliance.org/pdf/states/WashingtonPresentation12-07.pdf
Why Americans Don’t Want Single-Payer
“…But we progressives are not the ones who need to be convinced. In any great national political debate, there are partisans on our side and partisans against us. To achieve victory, we have to persuade people in the middle—and they don’t know what we know about health care.
Consider three central facts:
- Nearly all persuadable voters—those who don’t automatically side with or against us—have health insurance. (In fact, about 94 percent of voters are insured. The uninsured, unfortunately, don’t tend to vote.)
- About 3/4ths of insured Americans are satisfied with their health insurance.
- When Americans hear about a health care proposal, they immediately think “how is it going to affect me and my family.” That’s their overarching, overwhelming concern.
That means when average American voters consider a new health care policy, their paramount concern is that the policy allows them to keep the health insurance they have. Union members—who usually can be counted on to support progressive policy—are among the most adamant that they be permitted to keep their health insurance. Why? Because unions tend to negotiate better insurance for their members than the rest of us have! …”
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/140513/why_americans_don’t_want_single-payer/
Single-Payer Health Care
“…Single-payer health care is a term used in the United States to describe the payment of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers from a single fund. It differs from typical private health insurance where, through pricing and other measures taken by the insurer, the level of risks carried by multiple insurance pools as well as the coverage can vary and the pricing has to be varied according to the contribution of risk added to the pool. It is often mentioned as one way to deliver universal health care. The administrator of the fund could be the government but it could also be a publicly owned agency regulated by law. Australia’s Medicare, Canada’s Medicare, and healthcare in Taiwan are examples of single-payer universal health care systems.
According to the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus, a single-payer system is:
An approach to health care financing with only one source of money for paying health care providers. The scope may be national, like the Canadian system, state-wide, or community-based. The payer may be a governmental unit or other entity such as an insurance company. The proposed advantages include administrative simplicity for patients and providers, and resulting significant savings in overhead costs.[1]
An approach to health care financing with only one source of money for paying health care providers. The scope may be national, like the Canadian system, state-wide, or community-based. The payer may be a governmental unit or other entity such as an insurance company. The proposed advantages include administrative simplicity for patients and providers, and resulting significant savings in overhead costs.[1]
Single-payer health care does not necessarily mean that the government or some government agency delivers or controls health care services. It may pay for health professionals and services that are delivered in either private or public sector settings according to the needs and wishes of the patient and his or her doctor.
Single-payer is one alternative proposed for health care reform in the United States, and as such, has been the subject of active political debate for decades. A national health insurance system, though not necessarily a single payer system, is the reform proposal that has the greatest level of support amongst medical professionals[2] and the general public,[3] though some in Congress and the health insurance industry have tried to deflect calls for such reform by insisting that the U.S. should adopt a “uniquely American solution”[4] that would protect the profits of private insurers, thus ruling out a single-payer system. …”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_payer
Fact Sheet: America’s Uninsured
The media repeat claims of 40 million to 50 million uninsured Americans, but facts from the Census Bureau and research organizations discredit it.
By Julia A. Seymour
Business & Media Institute
6/23/2009
“…The media claim that there are 40 million to 50 million uninsured Americans and use that statistic to bolster calls for universal government-run insurance coverage. The inaccuracy has been repeated by print and broadcast journalists for years, but the true extent of the uninsured “crisis” is much smaller than those reports let on.
Myth: There are between 40 million and 50 million uninsured Americans. President Obama referred to “46 million uninsured Americans” in May 2009.
Fact: Anyone who reports that there are more than 46 million uninsured is exaggerating since the Census Bureau puts the number of uninsured at 45,657,000 people.
Fact: Nearly 10 million (9.7) of the 45.7 million uninsured are “not a citizen.” That makes every media claim of uninsured Americans higher than 35.9 million is wrong. …”
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090623160905.aspx
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007
“…For reporting purposes, the
Census Bureau broadly classifies health insurance coverage as private
coverage or government coverage. Private health insurance is a plan provided
through an employer or a union or purchased by an individual from
a private company. Government health insurance includes the federal programs
Medicare, Medicaid, and military health care; the State Children’s
Health Insurance Program (SCHIP); and individual state health plans.*
People were considered “insured” if they were covered by any type of
health insurance for part or all of the previous calendar year. They were
considered “uninsured” if they were not covered by any type of health
insurance at any time in that year. …”
http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p60-235.pdf
“…Health Insurance Coverage: 2007
Highlights:
- Both the percentage and number of people without health insurance decreased in 2007. The percentage without health insurance was 15.3 percent in 2007, down from 15.8 percent in 2006, and the number of uninsured was 45.7 million, down from 47.0 million. 1
- The number of people with health insurance increased to 253.4 million in 2007 (up from 249.8 million in 2006). The number of people covered by private health insurance (202.0 million) in 2007 was not statistically different from 2006, while the number of people covered by government health insurance increased to 83.0 million, up from 80.3 million in 2006.
- The percentage of people covered by private health insurance was 67.5 percent, down from 67.9 percent in 2006. The percentage of people covered by employment-based health insurance decreased to 59.3 in 2007 from 59.7 percent in 2006. The number of people covered by employment-based health insurance, 177.4 million, was not statistically different from 2006.
- The percentage of people covered by government health insurance programs increased to 27.8 percent in 2007, from 27.0 percent in 2006. The percentage and number of people covered by Medicaid increased to 13.2 percent and 39.6 million in 2007, up from 12.9 percent and 38.3 million in 2006.
- In 2007, the percentage and number of children under 18 years old without health insurance were 11.0 percent and 8.1 million, lower than they were in 2006—11.7 percent and 8.7 million. Although the uninsured rate for children in poverty decreased to 17.6 percent in 2007, from 19.3 percent in 2006, children in poverty were more likely to be uninsured than all children.2
- The uninsured rate and number of uninsured for non-Hispanic Whites decreased in 2007 to 10.4 percent and 20.5 million (from 10.8 percent and 21.2 million in 2006). The uninsured rate for Blacks decreased to 19.5 percent in 2007 from 20.5 percent in 2006. The number of uninsured Blacks in 2007 was not statistically different from 2006, at 7.4 million.
- The percentage and the number of uninsured Hispanics were 32.1 percent and 14.8 million in 2007, lower than 34.1 percent and 15.3 million in 2006.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthin07/hlth07asc.html
The Obamacare Show: Bombed
By Michelle Malkin
“…In a rare show of good taste, America TV viewers turned off the ABC News/White House infomercial on Obamacare.
They should have listened to me and included John Stossel in their programming!
Via The Live Feed:
President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care delivered a sickly rating Wednesday evening.
The one-hour ABC News special “Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America” (4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour. The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network. …”
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/25/the-obamacare-show-bombed/