Tag: healthcare

ObamaCare 2009 versus Soylent Green 1973

Is it just us or is the plotline for ObamaCare starting to sound a lot like the plotline of Soylent Green? Medicare will be cut. Medicaid will be cut. End of life care will be denied. Bodies of the elderly will begin piling up and the government will have to figure out how to get rid of them.

Remember Soylent Green? It was a 1973 science fiction movie set in a future, fascist, overpopulated world.

“Soylent Green” was a food product provided by the government to its starving citizens. Police detective Charlton Heston discovered that people were mysteriously disappearing and attempted to find out why. In the end, as shown in this clip, he revealed the horrible secret of Soylent Green as he was being taken away by authorities.

Is it just us or is the plotline for ObamaCare starting to sound a lot like the plotline of Soylent Green? Medicare will be cut. Medicaid will be cut. End of life care will be denied. Bodies of the elderly will begin piling up and the government will have to figure out how to get rid of them.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.

Emanuel thinks doctors’ decisions on who gets care should be based on “communitarianism.” Medical care, he said in a Hastings Center Report in 1996, should be reserved for the non-disabled and kept from those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens … An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”

What’s the difference between Soylent Green and ObamaCare?

Soylent Green is people, but ObamaCare is anti-people.

Source: New York Post

Obama’s doctor offers his diagnosis: ObamaCare is too damn expensive

Dr. David Scheiner was Barack Obama’s doctor for twenty years. But the good doctor is not happy with ObamaCare. Not happy at all.

Dr. David Scheiner is not happy with ObamaCare.
Dr. David Scheiner is not happy with ObamaCare.

Dr. David Scheiner was Barack Obama’s doctor for twenty years. But the good doctor is not happy with ObamaCare. Not happy at all.

“I look at his program and I can’t see how it’s going to work,” Scheiner said. “He has no cost control. There would be no effective cost control in his program. The [Congressional Budget Office] said it’s going be incredibly expensive … and the thing that I really am worried about is, if it is the failure that I think it would be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time.”

Now don’t get Scheiner wrong. He’s no conservative. In fact, he wants a more progressive approach to healthcare reform.

“His pragmatism is what is overwhelming him,” Scheiner said “I think he’s afraid that he can’t get anything through if he doesn’t go through this incredibly compromised program.”

Obama’s pragmatism? Forget everything we said in the above article. This Scheiner character is an obvious fraud who has never met the President.

Source: HuffingtonPost.com

Congressman Paul Ryan bitch slaps MSNBC hosts in healthcare debate

Republican Congressman Paul Ryan schooling two MSNBC hosts about ObamaCare. It’s not just that they’re ignorant, it’s that they’re proudly ignorant.

This is a thing of beauty – Republican Congressman Paul Ryan schooling two MSNBC hosts about ObamaCare. It’s not just that they’re ignorant, it’s that they’re proudly ignorant. If you want to skip ahead to minute 03:28, it really gets good when Katrina Vanden Heuvel joins the discussion to demonstrate her complete ignorance.

Katrina Vanden Heuvel: You have good government-plan health care. Why shouldnt all Americans have what you have?

Congressman Paul Ryan: I have good private-sector healthcare. We do not have a public option. The federal employee plan lists a number of private plans to choose from to select and my employer, the taxpayer, pays for a portion of these private plans. There is no public plan option in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program. You are mistaken on that point. My Patients Choice Act that I’ve introduced with Congressman Nunes, Senators Burr and Coburn actually proposes just what youre suggesting: give people the ability, in State-based exchanges, to have a plan just like what we have here in Congress. A private health care plan that’s actuarially equivalent to what we in Congress have. We actually had a vote in the House Ways and Means Committee on an amendment I offered with Congressman Dean Heller which said, “Let’s put members of Congress in this public health care plan so that we can experience the same thing we want to impose on the rest of the country.” You know what? That amendment failed on nearly a party-line vote.

Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Competition is at the heart of America. To deny Americans competition by denying them the option of a public plan seems to me to be un-American.

Congressman Paul Ryan: What’s weird about that line right there, Katrina, is that I know you and others are very much in favor of a single-payer plan, which is obviously to deny competition and have the government run it all. What’s concerning about this debate with me is that you’re using capitalist rhetoric to try and move a plan that is inherently anti-market. The problem is that the facts tell us this: A public plan option quickly becomes a government-run monopoly. The actuaries are telling us is that in a few short years, the public plan option displaces the private sector, employers dump their employees on the public plan and then they have no choices but the public plan. And so, let’s not try to sell a government-run plan using free market rhetoric. Let’s have an honest debate about what this bill is all about.

Honest debate on MSNBC? Get serious, Congressman Paul Ryan.

Would you trust Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad
with your health care?

Appointing Chris Dodd as head of the banking committee and Kent Conrad as chair of the Budget Committee didn’t help the real estate market; now they are in charge of health care?

Senator Kent Conrad indicating how much interest he paid on his Countrywide mortgage
Senator Kent Conrad indicating how much interest he paid on his Countrywide mortgage

Why did America’s real estate market crater?

Appointing Chris Dodd as head of the banking committee and Kent Conrad as chair of the Budget Committee didn’t help.

According to testimony from an official at Countrywide’s VIP division, while millions of Americans struggled to make their house payments, those two Democrat Senators were getting sweetheart mortgage deals from the soon-to-fail bank. And, while they blamed the Bush administration and tax policies for the cratering real estate market, Dodd and Conrad swore they had no idea they were getting a good deal on their mortgages.

After all, who pays attention to things like interest rates when you’re financing a home purchase? Or payment terms? Or the monthly payment amount?

Now, these are the guys that are in charge of a health care fix (fix being the operable term here).

Wonder what health care will be like for U.S. Senators under a Dodd-Conrad health system? Maybe private hospitals will run specials for VIPs:

Free ACL surgery with every kickback.

Bribe one, get one liver transplant free (The Kennedy special).

Ear, nose, and throat visit for earmarks.

Written by Sven Waring of DotPenn.com

Source: Associated Press

Does an illegal alien deserve “free” medical coverage your mother can’t get?

That’s what ObamaCare means. A 20-year old Illegal alien and his family will be covered, but your elderly mother might not be. What has happened to America?

That’s what ObamaCare means. A 20-year old Illegal alien and his family will be covered, but your elderly mother might not be. What has happened to America?

Source: Newsmax.com

Obama sees the future of healthcare, says “The stars are aligned and we need to take advantage of it.”

Swami-in-Chief Barack Obama used the stars to look into the future during Wednesday night’s press conference. Here is your Obamacare horoscope.

The Swami Obama sees all, knows all, taxes all
The Swami Obama sees all, knows all, taxes all

Swami-in-Chief Barack Obama used the stars to look into the future during Wednesday night’s press conference. He sees all, he knows all, he taxes all who make over $250,000.

The moon is in the seventh house. Jupiter’s aligned with Mars. So this is as good a time as any to peer into your future under ObamaCare as divined by the stars.

Aries (March 21-April 19)
Say good-bye to your family. You will soon catch Swine Flu. Although the government is preparing 190 million doses of vaccine, you will not be able to get one.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Be prepared for disappointment. Your primary care physician will ask you to get an MRI, but an ObamaCare bureaucrat will overrule him.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)
While some people say ObamaCare will kill capitalism, others think it will kill patients. As a Gemini, you will be able to see both sides of the issue.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)
A new child will soon enter your life. Despite the fact that it’s not your child, you will pay for its healthcare for the rest of your life.

Leo (July 23-August 22)
You will have a moment of clarity today when you ask yourself, “If ObamaCare is so good, why aren’t Congressmen demanding it for themselves?”

Virgo (August 23-September 22)
You will suffer from a sinus infection, but your doctor will insist on removing your tonsils.

Libra (September 23-October 22)
Travel is in your future. You will take a trip to Mexico in a desperate attempt to find a doctor.

Scorpio (October 23 – November 21)
You are a born worrier and are prone to stress and tension. With good reason.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)
Congratulations! The doctor will see you now. You will reach the top of the waiting list and your turn for medical care will finally arrive.

Capricorn December 22-January 19
Eat better, exercise, relax, stop smoking and soon you’ll be glowing with health. It will make no difference because ObamaCare will tax you to death.

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)
Take plenty of vitamins and minerals. You’ll feel better than ever after the 2012 election.

Pisces (February 19-March 20)
Keep a positive attitude and remember that you’re no more depressed than the rest of us.

Good news! We’ve finally found a member of Congress dumber than Nancy Pelosi

Missouri’s Democrat Congressman Russ Carnahan, for his role as Barack Obama’s pathetic bootlicking Obamacare lacky, is the dumbest congressperson.

And the award goes to…Missouri’s Democrat Congressman Russ Carnahan for his role as Barack Obama’s pathetic bootlicking lacky.

Carnahan recently held a meeting in his home district to drum up support for ObamaCare.

“The overall cost of the package has been estimated at about a trillion dollars over ten years,” Carnahan said. “About half of that comes from savings and efficiencies in the system.”

The audience broke into laughter.

Undeterred by reality, Carnahan continued. “The congressional budget office most recently came out and analyzed the current plan and said that it was not only deficit neutral, which has been one of the important factors for the president and congressional leaders,” Carnahan continued, “but also that over ten years would create a six billion dollar surplus.”

The audience broke into even more raucous laughter.

Carnahan continued his unintentional laughfest when someone – apparently blogger Kevin Jackson of TheBlackSphere.net – hollered out the logical question, “If it’s so good why doesn’t Congress have to be on it?”

Why, indeed, Congressman?

Source: TheBigFeed.com

Most transparent administration in history burying midsummer economic update

In what appears to be an effort to postpone the day of reckoning for President Obama’s insane spending spree, the administration is delaying the release of updated economic numbers for 30 days.

It doesn't take Sigmund Freud to figure out that all this federal spending is insane
It doesn't take Sigmund Freud to figure out that all this federal spending is insane

In what appears to be an effort to postpone the day of reckoning for President Obama’s insane spending spree, the administration is delaying the release of updated economic numbers for 30 days.

The Associated Press reports:

The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today’s bleak landscape.

The administration’s annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama’s budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through Congress.

The release of the update – usually scheduled for mid-July – has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.

The administration is pressing for votes before then on its $1 trillion health care initiative, which lawmakers are arguing over how to finance.

Got that? The president is going to delay release of the bad numbers until after congress has a chance to approve ObamaCare, an additional trillion dollar expenditure.

We think we just figured this out.

Obama’s got a gambling addiction. ObamaCare is his attempt to double down on the trillion dollars he’s already lost. He’s knows he only has a few chips left on the table and he’s willing to make wilder and wilder bets, thinking to himself, “If I just win this bet I’ll be even and the wife will never know I’m gambling with the kids’ college money.”

This explains why he came out so strongly against Las Vegas conventions. It’s what psychologists call projection – ascribing his own personal attributes onto other people.

Of course, we are able to make this diagnosis because we are highly-trained clinical psychologists.

Which also allows us to say that this guy’s spending is absolutely insane.

Source: Associated Press via Ace of Spades

The poison pill in ObamaCare: 12 million illegal aliens to receive free medical coverage

Democrats think your hard-earned tax dollars should provide free medical coverage for 12 million illegal aliens living in the United States.

Illegal aliens will be running to the nearest American medical facility for free healthcare
Illegal aliens will be running to the nearest American medical facility for free healthcare

Democrats think your hard-earned tax dollars should provide free medical coverage for 12 million illegal aliens living in the United States.

Last week Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee voted down a Republican amendment that wouild have made legal residence a requirement for coverage under ObamaCare.

The 1,018-page bill passed Friday morning by a 23-to-18 margin. Three Democrats jumped ship to join Republicans in voting against the plan.

Democrats seem committed to this fiscal fiasco despite the fact that it flies in the face of public opinion. A recent Rasmussen poll indicated that 80% of Americans oppose providing medical coverage for illegal aliens.

Obviously, you don’t have to be a genius to figure out that free medical coverage will lure more illegal aliens across the border.

And just as obviously, you don’t have to be a genius to get elected to congress.

Source: Newsmax.com

If Obama’s feeling a little sick to his stomach this morning, blame the Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic does not like Obama’s Obamacare healthcare plan.

The president is discovering that socialism is hard to swallow
The president is discovering that socialism is hard to swallow
Mayo Clinic! Mayo Clinic! Mayo Clinic!

Over and over again, President Obama holds up the Mayo Clinic medical center up as his role model for American healthcare.

“The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota is famous for some of the best quality and some of the lowest cost,” Obama said on June 11. “People are healthier coming out of there, they do great.”

“Now what we’ve seen is that there’s some communities and some health systems that do this very well,” he said on June 24. “Mayo Clinic, a classic example, in Rochester, Minnesota. People go there. They spend about 20-30 percent less than some other parts of the country and yet have better outcomes.”

“People fly in from everywhere to go to Mayo Clinic to get treatment,” he said on July 1. “It turns out Mayo provides care much more cheaply than a lot of other health systems, even though it’s better care.”

So the President has been showing the love for the Mayo Clinic. Unfortunately, it’s unrequited love.

Here’s what the Mayo had to say about ObamaCare:

Although there are some positive provisions in the current House Tri-Committee bill – including insurance for all and payment reform demonstration projects – the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher-quality, more affordable health care for patients. In fact, it will do the opposite.

In general, the proposals under discussion are not patient focused or results oriented. Lawmakers have failed to use a fundamental lever – a change in Medicare payment policy – to help drive necessary improvements in American health care. Unless legislators create payment systems that pay for good patient results at reasonable costs, the promise of transformation in American health care will wither. The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.

That hurts. But don’t worry – the Mayo Clinic probably has an outstanding pain management program.

Source: WeeklyStandard.com

Bad news for Democrats: Republican congressman thinks they should be covered by ObamaCare, too

Congress will be exempt from whatever ObamaCare healthcare plan congress foists on the rest of the American people. And Congressman John Fleming has the guts to call them on their hypocrisy.

Republican Congressman John Fleming has some nasty-tasting medicine for congress
Republican Congressman John Fleming has some nasty-tasting medicine for congress

In a remarkable case of “Do as I say, not as I do,” Congress will be exempt from whatever ObamaCare plan they foist on the rest of the American people. And one congressman has had the guts to call them on their hypocrisy.

Republican Congressman John Fleming of Louisiana thinks the people who vote for ObamaCare should give up their perk-laden congressional healthcare plan and live under the same plan they foist upon the rest of us:

“Under the current draft of the Democrat healthcare legislation, members of Congress are curiously exempt from the government-run health care option, keeping their existing health plans and services on Capitol Hill. If Members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way. Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.”

Fleming is also a physician, so he might just know what he’s talking about.

If you agree with Congressman Fleming, you can sign a letter of support at his website.

If you disagree with Congressman Fleming, we hope that psychiatric care is included in ObamaCare. Because you definitely need it.

Source: Fleming.house.gov

Hilarious music video simultaneously parodies R&B singers and ObamaCare

“Boyfriend With Health Benefits” tells the touching story of a young woman who’s searching for true love. Well, true love and a healthcare plan that covers lasik eye surgery. And shiatsu massage. And prescription drugs. And acupuncture. And podiatry.

“Boyfriend With Health Benefits” tells the touching story of a young woman who’s searching for true love. Well, true love and a healthcare plan that covers lasik eye surgery. And shiatsu massage. And prescription drugs. And acupuncture. And podiatry.

As the song says, “If you really wanna be my man, boy, you gotta put me on your health care plan.”

This is 2009, honey. You don’t need a boyfriend, you need ObamaCare.

President admits that ObamaCare is all bucked up

Here’s President Obama talking about his healthcare plan, telling people “We need to buck up people a little here” and “It’s time for us to buck up.”

Here’s The One talking about his healthcare plan, telling people “We need to buck up people a little here” and “It’s time for us to buck up.”

No problem, Mr. President. We’re pretty sure that if ObamaCare gets passed, we’ll all be bucked up.

Attack of the tax man: Top rate to hit 57% in New York

A massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state’s top earners and possibly pressuring small-business owners to shed workers.

(click to enlarge) What Obama Healthcare plan means to New Yorkers

(click to enlarge) What Obama Healthcare plan means to New Yorkers

No matter what President Obama may say, almost no one still believes taxes will only increase on those earning more than $250,000. Especially the New York Post:

Congressional plans to fund a massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state’s top earners and possibly pressuring small-business owners to shed workers.

New York’s top income bracket could reach as high as 57 percent — rates not seen in three decades — to pay for the massive health coverage proposed by House Democrats this week.

Three words: Trickle down taxes.

Source: New York Post, RasmussenReports.com

Republican chart shows bureaucratic nightmare of ObamaCare

Republican Chart of Healthcare showing the bureaucratic nightmare of ObamaCare, the House Democrats healthcare plan, was revealed today. Pray to God you never get sick again.

House Democrats Healthcare Chart (CLICK TO ENLARGE IMAGE)

(CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE REPUBLICAN CHART OF HEALTHCARE BUREAUCRACY)

Welcome to ObamaCare, ladies and gentlemen. This is where the separation of church and state will fall apart, because you’re going to pray to God you never get sick again.

PDF available here.

H/T: DrudgeReport.com

Cheaper alternative to ObamaCare: Swearing makes you feel better

So why spend trillions on ObamaCare? Just cuss out the President and his #$%! healthcare plan and you’ll feel better almost immediately.

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

The latest research from England’s Keele University says that swearing makes you feel better.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that “Swearing can lessen the feeling of physical pain, scientists have discovered.”

“Richard Stephens, who led the study, believes it may explain why most languages contain swear words.”

So why spend trillions on ObamaCare? Just cuss out the President and his #%$&* healthcare plan and you’ll feel better almost immediately.

It always works for us.

Source: Andrew Bolt

President lays on hands, cures woman’s cancer

The highlight of President Obama’s town hall meeting in Annandale, Virginia was when he called on Debby Smith, a cancer victim whose voice cracked and tears flowed as she told the President about her struggle with unemployment and lack of insurance.

The highlight of President Obama’s town hall meeting in Annandale, Virginia was when he called on Debby Smith, a cancer victim whose voice cracked and tears flowed as she told the President about her struggle with unemployment and lack of insurance.

The President called her forward, gave her a big ol’ bear hug and said he’d have his people look into it. It was a warm, tender moment except for one thing:

Debby Smith is actually an Obama campaign worker who had been surreptitiously planted in the audience. She’s a volunteer for a wing of the Democratic National Committee. She also works for the Virginia Organizing Project, which has been hyping health care forums around the state. A December news report revealed that Smith moderated a “a community discussion on health care issues” in Appalachia, Virginia and told her local paper that the meeting ‘would be reported back to former Sen. Tom Daschle, who has been directed by President Elect Barack Obama to form a committee to report on health care issues.’”

So how much help can Smith expect now that the President has told his people “to look into it”? Not much if recent history is any guide.

You may remember the name Henrietta Hughes. Her 15-minutes of fame began during the campaign when Obama called on her during another town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida.

Here’s how HuffingtonPost.com reported it:

One questioner in particular brought to life the dire situation. “I have an urgent need,” she said, revealing that her family was homeless and needed a place to live. Obama asked for her name — Henrietta Hughes — and told her, “We’re gonna do everything we can to help you…I’ll have my staff talk to you after the town hall.”

Apparently, talk is all she got from Obama’s staff. The HuffPo story continues:

…she did get the loan of a house owned by Representative Nick Thompson (a Republican), whose generosity was widely applauded. However, as soon as the house sells, Henrietta and her son may be out on the streets again. And lack of affordable housing is one of the major factors in homelessness.

Henrietta has actually received some help from homeless service organizations and some career help from the Career Center in Fort Myers. A few days ago, WINK News in Fort Myers did a follow up story on Henrietta. Not surprisingly, but still sad, is the fact that Henrietta still has no job and is running out of options. She has been taking computer classes, along with her adult son Corey, in the hope that they would be more qualified, but they are both in a job market that is likely filled with other applicants.

Bottom line: Barack Obama talks real pretty when the cameras are on, but doesn’t deliver. The only real help Henrietta Hughes received came from a Republican. She got nothing from the President but empty promises and that’s exactly what Debby Smith should expect, too.

But to end on a positive note, at least he treats us all equally.

Source: TriCities.com, HuffingtonPost.com

Three random strangers at Obama’s town hall meeting not quite random after all

President Obama called on three complete strangers at his healthcare town hall forum. Not so random though.

The next question will come from that complete stranger in the second row."
The next question will come from that complete stranger in the second row."

President Obama called on three complete strangers at his healthcare town hall forum get-together and ice cream social, three random Americans who just happened to be in the neighborhood.

As the Washington Post reports, “The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.”

Yup. A whole roomful of people showed up and our Fearless Leader coincidentally calls on three who just happen to be members of organizations that back his healthcare legistlation.

That’s not a coincidence, it’s a friggin’ miracle. What are the odds? No wonder this guy wanted to speak at Harry Reid’s fundraiser in Las Vegas. Let it ride, baby. When you’re hot, you’re hot. Baby needs a new pair of shoes.

Either that or the whole damn thing was as pre-planned as a White House press conference.

Make your own decision.

Source: Washington Post via Ace of Spades

Special Moment of the Week: Joe Biden sends us an email asking for our help

We got an email from Vice President Joe Biden asking for our help to pass the president’s health care plan.

Joe Biden answers the quesstion, "How many trillion will the President's health care plan cost?"
Joe Biden answers the quesstion, "How many trillion will the President's health care plan cost?"

Well, now, don’t think we aren’t feeling pretty puffed up with pride today. We got an email from Vice President Joe Biden asking for our help to pass the president’s health care plan.

Finally, someone has realized that we are major movers and shakers and opinion makers. To that, we say, “It’s about damn time.”

From: Vice President Joe Biden
Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2009
Subject: You’ve got to read these
To: The Guys at IHateTheMedia.com

Guys —

A few weeks ago, President Obama asked you to share your personal story about how the health care crisis has affected you and the ones you love. Hundreds of thousands of stories poured in from every corner of the country. The President and I have read through many of them ourselves — and now I’m encouraging you to do so as well.

Read these powerful, personal stories from people in your area and around the country.

And after you do, please forward this note on to as many people as you can.

For folks who don’t yet understand why health care reform is such an urgent priority, these stories make the case far better than any statistics ever could.

For those who support health care reform but haven’t yet found the time to join our campaign, these stories provide more motivation than any speech any politician could ever give.

So please read these stories, pass this note on to everyone in your address book, and help us show everyone in America why fixing our broken health care system is a necessity that just can’t wait:

http://healthcare.barackobama.com/stories

Thank you,

Vice President Joe Biden

Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee — 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

We don’t mind telling you that we feel pretty special because we got a personal email from the Vice President of the…What’s that? Everyone who signed up got a copy of this email?

Well, in that case, we’re against this stupid, socialist, bankrupting measure.

Associated Press redefines “flipflop.” It’s now called “presidential flexibility”

The Associated Press has reworded flipflop to Presidential flexibilty, just for Obama.

If George Bush had done a 180 on any issue, he would have been skewered for his flipflop. But when it comes to Barack Obama, the Associated Press praises him for his remarkable “presidential flexibility.”

head-up-ass

The embedded video clip shows Obama excoriating Republican opponent John McCain during the campaign for saying he would tax healthcare.

And here’s how the Associated Press reports the President’s new position on the issue:

“At the White House, Obama sidestepped when asked if he was open to taxing health care benefits — a proposal he opposed vigorously in the campaign for the White House…It was the latest in a series of signs of presidential flexibility.”

The attached photo is proof of just how flexible the president is on this issue.

Source: Associated Press

White House to mysteriously “save or create” $50 billion in prescription drug costs

The same clever technique used by the White House to save or create 150,000 jobs will now be used to save or create $50 billion in prescription drug cost cuts. In other words, they’re creating it out of thin air.

Introducing President Obama's new <s>Snake Oil</s> Czar
Introducing President Obama's new Snake Oil Czar

The same clever technique used by the White House to save or create 150,000 jobs will now be used to save or create $50 billion in prescription drug cost cuts. In other words, they’re creating it out of thin air.

When asked, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs couldn’t explain $50 billion of the $80 billion in savings promised by the White House.

Gibbs said $30 billion will be saved via price reductions on brand-name prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries who find themselves into the so-called coverage “donut hole.”
But that remaining $50 billion? Well, that’s a bit murkier. He said it will come from “unspecified and unknown” changes to drug costs linked to Medicare and Medicaid.

“They’re still continuing to work through some of the details on that,” Gibbs said with a straight face. “Some portion of this is going to go to the pharmaceutical interest — industry, making good on the savings proposals that the president has outlined to make health care more efficient, which will impact the amount that the government pays.”

We are highly trained medical experts here at IHateTheMedia.com, so we consider it our patriotic duty to explain these things:

The remaining $50 billion will be saved via cost reductions on the snake oil this administration is selling.

Source: FoxNews.com

Democrats want to put private health insurance out of business, think government plan is the right medicine

Angry, liberal (forgive us for the redundancy) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wants to put private health care out of business. And she admits that Obama’s health care plan will do exactly that.

You may have seen this video in which she says:

“And next to me was a guy from an insurance company who then argued against the public health insurance option saying it wouldn’t let private insurance compete; that a public option would put the private insurance industry out of business. (cheers) My single payer friends, he was right. The man was right. Here’s what I told him. I said excuse me sir the goal of health care reform is not to protect the private health insurance industry. And, I am so confident in the superiority of a public health care option that I think he has every reason to be frightened.”

Well, last week the angry, liberal (damn it, we did it again) representative showed up on Fox News, put on a happy face and tried to downplay what she said on the earlier video.

Media bias being what it is, Fox News is the only network that put the angry, liberal (we can’t stop ourselves) representative on the air to put her hypocrisy on display.

If Michael Savage is right and liberalism is a mental disorder, we wonder if it will be covered by Obama’s healthcare plan.

Source: BluegrassPundit.com

Democrat congresswoman wants Obama healthcare plan to destroy insurance industry

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) comes right out and admits it. She wants to see the American insurance industry destroyed. Just like President Obama wants to see the coal industry destroyed.

This is actually an ingenious one-two punch and the cornerstone of President Obama’s economic program. When the coal industry and all its CO2 spewing plants are eliminated, Americans will live forever and there won’t be any need for healthcare.

Deserts will flower. The streets will flow with milk and honey. And beautiful people will throw themselves at your feet.

Ain’t Obamanomics great?

Black Chamber of Commerce leader says Kennedy’s health care ideas “just don’t work”

The problem with liberals is that most of them don’t live in the real world. Not even in the same neighborhood. Hair-brained schemes hatched in the hallowed halls of academe don’t work any more than the professors who concoct them.

Then there’s Harry Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, someone with both feet planted squarely in the real world. Here’s what Alford had to say about lib healthcare concepts:

“Yeah, I love Ted Kennedy. I love what he stands for, but he has come out over the years with some ideas that I think just don’t work. I remember his office called me and they wanted to – any business that had over 100 employers would have to have medical insurance for all the employees. And he was aiming this at fast food chains. And I said, all the McDonald’s and Burger King owners are going to do is make sure he doesn’t have 100 employees because he can’t afford it. You can’t make him do this. They’ll be fewer jobs.”

Fewer jobs? Perfect. That would allow the libs to test some of their equally ineffective job creation theories.

Source: CNSnews.com

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