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Video: The ObamaCare Ad That NBC And ABC Refuse To Run
They state controlled media won’t show you this ad, but we will:
(hat tip Red State)
Dana Loesch: Meet The Mob
Dana Loesch wants you to meet the angry mob resisting government run health care.
The Public Option is Nothing to Worry About
One of the most controversial parts of President Obama’s healthcare proposals is the public option. It’s also badly needed. Nonetheless, the insurance industry and conservatives and Congress are fighting it tooth and nail.
The public option makes sense economically. Healthcare costs, as Obama noted in his press conference last week have risen 50% in 10 years. This is a crushing burden for businesses, large and small. Even in good times, high premiums cut into wages for workers. They also increase the cost of doing business, which make American companies less competitive with foreign firms. That’s the last thing a company needs in the midst of these challenging economic times. Why do pro-business Republicans want to oppose something that would lower costs for businesses?
Even people who choose private insurance will benefit from a public option. In order to draw people to their plans, private insurers will have to do one of two things. Either they will have to offer more affordable premiums, or they will have to offer greatly expanded services at current rates to convince consumers that their plans have an added value. That could mean reduced instances of private insurers doing all they can to deny legitimate claims.
I can understand concerns about expanding the size of the budget deficit at a time when we have so much debt already. But the money we currently spend on healthcare is a huge burden as it is. In 2008 alone, we spent $2.4 trillion on healthcare. That number is expected to rise to $4.3 trillion by 2016. In fact, the US spends six times more per capita on healthcare per person as western European countries that provide universal healthcare.
A good public option that provides more affordable premiums and coupled with other reforms like comparative effectiveness research can reduce that number to a more sustainable level.
Of course conservatives say that the public option will mean the end of private insurance in the US. But that need not be the case. They are most likely to point to Canada and the UK in making these arguments. But in the Netherlands and France, private insurers do exist. In France for example, 80% have supplemental private insurance to help cover co-pays.
There is a chance that government ends up being as wasteful and inefficient as conservatives claim. In that case, people will turn to private insurers. And to win over consumers, those insurers will have to offer either cheaper premiums, or better services. True we might have wasted a fair bit of money, but then the way we do healthcare currently is bankrupting us. And at least we’d cover everyone even if costs are high; as it is, we don’t even do that with our high costs.
Then of course, there is the argument about rationing. A government option will lead to some federal bureaucrat in Washington DC deciding whether Grandma gets hip replacement surgery. What those making this argument frequently fail to mention is that we already have rationing. Millions of people a year receive no health insurance because they can’t afford it. Unless Grandma has a gold-plated insurance plan, or lots of extra money lying around, she isn’t getting the hip replacement under the current scheme.
Exploding costs also make us ration in other ways. Having to pay $10,000 a year for family coverage means that working and middle class families must cut back in other ways, such as saving for a child’s college education. A public option could relieve the strain on these families.
The public option is truly nothing to fear.
-Marcus Gadson
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Barney Frank: Public Option Best Way To Achieve Single Payer Health Care
I and many others have said Obama’s “public option” government run health care plan is nothing but a Trojan horse for Canadian style single payer health care.
I’ve been called a conspiracy theorist, a nut, a fascist, a liar, and many other things even though I’ve provided stone cold proof.
However, some Kool-Aid drinking drones need further proof, so I’ll just let Barney Frank take it from here…
(hat tip Mark Levin)
Video: Mark Levin Talks ObamaCare On Hannity
Take a look at Mark’s book Liberty And Tyranny — It’s a great book.
Obama: Pass Health Care — Even Though I Haven’t Read It
Maybe the President should read the crap he’s demanding his Congress pass.
(hat tip Breitbart TV)
Audio: Glenn Beck Goes Ballistic On Caller
Beck gone wild…
I don’t blame Glenn at all for this. It’s so frustrating trying to talk to Kool-Aid drinking drones who think they’re informed because they watched a dumbass Michael Moore movie.
Anybody with an ounce of grey matter between their ears can use the Internet to research what the realities are of government run health care.
I used to be in favor of a government option until I looked into it. It’s a f*cking disaster.
If you’re too lazy to research, then take a look at this 20-minute video from Steven Crowder over at PJTV.
Crowder was raised in Canada but now lives here. He traveled back to Canada to get medical treatment and brought his camera along.
It’s the most revealing documentary I’ve seen about the Canadian health care system. Watch it and experience the joys of free health care.
(hat tip Hot Air)
House Health Care Bill Outlaws Private Insurance
You know how president Obama keeps saying if you’re happy with your health care plan you can keep it? You know how president Obama keeps saying his “public option” is meant to increase competition and exist alongside private insurance? He’s a liar.
This from Investor’s Business Daily:
Congress: It didn’t take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House’s "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:
"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington’s coverage.
Like everything else, this is no surprise. Proponents of ObamaCare have said outright that the “public option” is merely a Trojan horse for eventual single-payer health care.
Take a look:
(hat tip Gateway Pundit)
Video: ObamaCare Explained
(hat tip Red State)
Obama’s Own Doctor Thinks ObamaCare Reeks
President Barack Obama’s doctor of 22 years until he entered the White House thinks the Obama health care plan sucks.
Dr. David Scheiner doesn’t think Obama really understands what’s happening on the ground in the medical profession.
…he worries about whether the health care legislation currently making its way through Congress will actually do any good, particularly for doctors like himself who practice general medicine. "I’m not sure he really understands what we face in primary care," Scheiner says.
Scheiner takes a few other shots too. Looking at Obama’s team of health advisors, Scheiner doesn’t see anyone who’s actually in the trenches. "I have a suspicion they pick people from the top echelon of medicine, people who write about it but haven’t been struggling in it," he says.
Scheiner also takes issue with the president’s choice of abortion extremist, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be the Health and Human Services secretary. He says Sebelius used to be the chief lobbyist for the Kansas trial lawyer’s association.
After making a lot of sense, Dr. Scheiner himself goes off the rails and begins rapidly losing credibility…
What should the president be focused on? Scheiner thinks that a good health reform would be "Medicare for all," a single-payer system where the government would cover everyone and pay for it by cutting out waste in the system. "A neurosurgeon gets paid $20,000 for cutting into the neck of my patient. Have him get paid $1 million a year instead of $2 million or $3 million. He won’t starve," Scheiner says.
I agree that Obama’s current health care proposal is a disaster. However, replacing it with “Medicare for all” is about the nuttiest damn thing we could do.
Single-payer has proven to be a failed system in Europe. Old people are denied certain treatments to save money if a bureaucrat decides the treatment may not save them anyway.
Many of the top life-saving cancer drugs are not available to people in the U.K., because they’re too expensive.
I could spend the entire day listing the pitfalls of a socialized medicine.
Single-payer systems ration health care and deny everyone the kind of quality health care that the United States has always been known for.
Having said that, anyone with a lick of sense knows the ObamaCare public/private plan is nothing but a Trojan horse to lead us to a single-payer system.
Here’s proof:
Dr. Scheiner should keep his spirits up, because Obama still has three and a half years left to make this great nation into a failed state.
-Chris Jones
Video: Penn Jillette Says Stop The War On Drugs
Video: A Look At Canadian Health Care
(hat tip Hot Air)
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