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NEW HEALTH CARE DEAL: THEY’RE ON THE RUN! By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Posted on December 10, 2009 by

Faced with a massive center-right uprising, the Obama liberals have been forced to abandon a public option. But in doing so, they are throwing the Medicare program under the bus.

Already, we have been asking how you can treat a growing number of elderly with a Medicare program that this bill cuts by $500 billion dollars. Now, by adding tens of millions of people 55-64 to the program, it makes it even more financially untenable.

Nonetheless, a brief congratulations to all on having seemingly killed the public option. Without our efforts, it would be en route to becoming law. Now there will not be a government owned, government run and government subsidized insurance company that will put all others out of business.

But the current proposal Reid is loudly trumpeting is horribly flawed as well.

It has all of the old flaws (minus the public option) in that the government, through the Secretary of Health, will decide who gets what treatment at what cost and will force rationing through an artificial scarcity on all people, particularly the elderly. And it still has such high premiums for young uninsured people that it will compete with student loans for the honor of being their number one headache.

But the compromise itself is flawed. Here’s why:

1. By breeching the historic dividing line between private and public plans now at 65, it opens the door for an expansion of Medicare to become just the single payer we are trying to stop.

2. How can you expand Medicare, potentially to tens of millions more people while cutting it by $500 billion?

3. The cuts in doctor and hospital reimbursement rates written into this bill will force hundreds of thousands of medical providers to refuse to treat Medicare patients. By applying these low reimbursements to patients 55-64, now, you are driving doctors out of the profession and discouraging others from entering it. A permanent scarcity of doctors will be the inevitable result.

4. The expansion of Medicaid to 150% of the poverty level imposes huge new financial burdens on states. It will cost Texas $3 billion, Pennsylvania $2 billion, California $2 billion, and Florida $1.3 billion. It will cost Arkansas and Louisiana $500 million each. This is net of federal aid and only counts the 10% share of expanded Medicaid costs the states must pay.

The federal purchasing program that solicits bids from insurance companies and offers the policies to members of Congress actually functions quite well. It does tend to widen coverage and hold down costs and, at least in its current form, does not pretend to be an insurance company, just a kind of broker.

If the program is unchanged in the new law, its work could be valuable in helping consumers choose adequate and affordable insurance. But who knows whether Reid will try to ramp it up to be a government run and owned insurer?

The strategic message from all of this is that we have them on the run! We have forced Obama to retreat from a very dangerous excursion into socialism. Our pressure is working and we must keep it up.

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Why Is It That I Can’t Stand Obama? Let Me List The Ways.

Posted on November 18, 2009 by

You are quite right Mike. I too was aware of this Welfare Cell Phone issue being a short time before the anointed one. But  it did seem so applicable. He was a senator in 2008 and more than likely did vote for it, unless he was already off campaigning for president. The taxpayers didn’t even get a straight deal from him during his so-called senatorial four years. He’s was campaigning for president 75% of the time.

You see, I have absolutely no use for Obama. Many millions of other good Americans feel the same way. Back in my 30′s I believed that Jimmy Carter was one of the worst presidents that ever walked the face of the earth. He was a deserved one term president. However, Obama, the anointed one, has him beat in all issues. This has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with total incompetence on Obama’s part. He should have never been elected to that office. Hell, he’s never really run anything in his lifetime. Never so much as a soda-pop stand. A hamburger shop or paperboy enterprise. I’m confident he would screw them up too. 80 percent of the public doesn’t want his ObamaCare, but Obama, Pelosi and Reed are determined to ram it down our throats. Maybe we can get it ultimately derailed in the senate. I don’t believe the Senate and House can reach a compromise with their separate abortion and public option issues. At least I hope that’s what happens. I’m praying for it daily.

Obama, Pelosi and Reid, with others, are forcibly driving us down a terrible path towards socialism, approaching communism, from which we might never return. He (they) must be stopped with any tools at hand.

I’m really worried about the state of affairs for this great country. Right now we have 106 trillion dollars of “unfunded debt” staring us in the face for years to come. My great grandkids will have to face these debts. I’m already retired and past that time. Very little of that debt from the Bush years. The majority from the last 11 months. We have 10.2 percent unemployment. In reality the number is over 17 percent, when including the many who have just quit looking for a job, no longer on the unemployment compensation rolls. Obama is selling out this country at every opportunity. That is his agenda.

The Fed is printing money at such a fast rate, I hate to see the inflation Obama and the Congress are pushing towards us. Once again, shades of Jimmy Carter. Good God what a mess they are creating. Do you remember 15%, then 20% etc inflation. It’s not a pretty site. The dollar becomes worthless. That’s why many are buying gold now. The dollar is going to hell. The dollar used to be the world standard. It seems like India just bought around 12 “tons” of gold in the last few days. That’s India, mind you!

Obama has been apologizing or bowing for America at every turn, when he should be talking about the great generosity of the Americans towards all of the world. No country, since time began, has been as generous towards all other nations, as the United States Citizens. Why isn’t he talking about this? Not only with contributed monies, but with thousands of soldier’s lives in democratic pursuits, struggles and wars.

I’m more than just a little bit disgusted with Obama. I’m doing everything I can to see that he and all other “liberal democrats” are voted out of office, when it comes around to each individual’s turn. Starting with the 2010 elections. We can change 1/3 of the Congress then. “Liberal democrats” must go! We must get rid of all the left-wing liberal democrats who are driving this great country right into oblivion. Salazar, Bennett and Udall are all less than worthless. They are pathetic. I thought Salazar was a blue dog. But when it came to ObamaCare, they “all” simply rubber-stamped what Obama and his minions desired. Paying no attention whatsoever to what the “voting public” wants. That being, we don’t want ObamaCare or anything resembling that 2000 page monstrosity. Our great U S Constitution, when printed, is under 20 pages. Obama and the Chicago mob want to cram over 2000 pages down our throats. They want total control of everything we do or say each and every day of our lives. It’s time for the other 20 to 30 percent of the public to wake up. 70 to 80 percent of us are already awake. We are sliding into socialism. God have mercy!

Personally I believe that Obama is a definite “One-Term President”. Thank God for that! He proves my point daily. Having the five Islamic-Jihadist Terrorist Radicals set for trial in New York City is just the latest occurrence, when 65% plus of the public doesn’t want in in NYC. It’s all for left-wing show! More pay back to the left-wing liberals. How can they hate Bush that much? Frankly voting Obama and his Chicago Mob out-of-office is all I want for each one of my birthdays, Thanksgivings and Christmas’ from now until election time 2010, then 2012. Let’s work towards that end. OK?

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