Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Democrats libel 'Kill the Bill' crowd as racist, violent crackpots when 99.99% are patriots concerned with the evisceration of the Constitution

Leftist blog Drink Progress offers an ironic take on these two signs.

"Tea Party sign threatens gun violence if health care passes."

And the author somehow takes offense at this Hitler analogy for President Obama.

Gee, after every Democrat in the country alluded to Bush as a Nazi or approved of the representation, this seems a bit -- how you say? -- hypocritical. For just a small taste, do a search on "Bushitler".

Seems a tad curious that Stink Progress is complaining when, in fact, the Democrat Party is orchestrating a government takeover of a full 48% of the economy (health care, the banks, AIG, GM, Chrysler, the student loan business...).

Meanwhile, The Huffington Post breathlessly reported an anecdote that made it appear Tea Partiers are racists -- without audio, video or even named attribution.

A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) had been spat on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a 'ni--er.' And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," as protesters shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president's speech, shrugged off the incident.

But Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed such treatment since he was leading civil rights protests in South Carolina in the 1960s.

Of course, the last time this sort of incident happened, it turned out that the so-called racists were actually Democrat plants helpfully seeded by the SEIU. Remember this golden oldie from last year?

This screenshot was used in reports by the [media] who painted the protesters as Nazis. Here's the thing, though - that black man is a Dingell supporter!

Last Friday, Frank Beckmann on his show broadcast on WJR 760 AM interviewed an eyewitness that said not only were union thugs let in through a side door before anyone else was let into the venue, but that he clearly saw from his vantage point that very Obama as Hitler poster in that back hallway after the union thugs took their seats.

So take every report of "racism" with a grain of salt.

I'll eagerly await the video to see if (a) this incident really occurred; and (b) whether the perpetrator was a union member hired for the occasion.


Update from Neomom:

I was there. I saw the CBC group walk both from the Office Building to the Capitol and then again from the Capitol to the office building.

Were they boo'd? Yep. Rude? No more than ignoring the will of the people. Was the "N" word said? Yep.... "Vote NO!" and "NOVEMBER 2" Along with a raucous chorus of "Kill.The.Bill."

Update II from Gateway Pundit: Media Lying About Racist Attacks on Black Reps By Tea Party Protesters… VIDEO PROOF.


Related: "Manufactured Outrage of the Day: Left Horrified Over Alleged Gay Slur at DC Rally ." Linked by: Michelle Malkin, Jammie Wearing Fool, Protein Wisdom and Memeorandum. Thanks!

Microcosm of all that's wrong with Demcare: Former Impeached Judge Alcee Hastings (D-FL) Defends New Taxes on Medical Devices and Innovation

Here's an example of everything that's wrong with Democrat Health Care Reform: the Chairman of the Rules Committee's Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process -- Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) -- just debated Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN) over a 2.9% "medical innovation tax" introduced by the Demcare bill (streaming video on C-Span). So let me make sure I understand: a former impeached judge (Hastings) is going to decide the ramifications on medical innovation through the introduction of new taxes on health care manufacturers?

Democrats believe that central planning -- a la the Soviet Union -- can somehow work for one-sixth of the American economy when we all know it can't work... and has never worked. This ludicrous excuse for a political party is not simply a polar opposite to the American founding and experience; its leadership is a poisonous pack of economic illiterates who ruin everything they touch. But I suppose that goes without saying, given everything this Congress has accomplished since November of 2006.

Best Photos from the 'Kill the Bill' Tea Party Rally in DC

Great coverage from InstaPundit, Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, The Other McCain, Nice Deb and Business Insider. Some of the best photos spotted thus far:






















Keep Calling.

RED ALERT: Obama Will Sign Senate Bill First; House Democrats Be Warned - Your 'Fixes' Will Likely Never See the Light of Day

11:46am ET: A stark admission was just made in the Rules Committee. President Obama will sign a Senate Bill that was "deemed passed" in the House, but has never been voted on. The House fixes will likely be picked apart and destroyed, one by one, in the Senate during this outrageous abuse of the reconciliation process.

As an aside, the idiotic Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) just said that using the Slaughter Rule Is "like buying a house on contingency and you find it has a leaky roof".

Update: Mark Levin on Cavuto -- this has never been done before.

Update II: Michelle Malkin: Reports: Deem and Pass is dead; keep the no-mentum going.


Call Congress Now: 1-877-SOB-U-SOB (1-877-762-8762)

Screen-caps from C-Span's hearing in the Rules Committee. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been a hero.




Friday, March 19, 2010

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on the Most Irresponsible, Dishonest and Malevolent Congress in U.S. History

Interviewed on The Mark Levin Show, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) described the Democrats' cynical attempts to game the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate for their brand new entitlement program. As a reminder, our existing entitlement programs -- Social Security and Medicare -- are only $100 trillion in the hole right now.

Ryan: I've got CBO working on a letter for me to hopefully get tonight or tomorrow to just re-verify the facts.

Number one: they're taking $522 billion out of Medicare -- but not to get to Medicare solvency -- but to pay for this new government takeover of healthcare. This new entitlement. You can't count those dollars twice, yet they're claiming it twice. So we call that 'double-counting': either the $522 billion goes into the Medicare trust fund to make it more solvent or to this new program; not both. And they're claiming both...

They are taking ten years of tax increases and Medicare cuts to pay for six years of spending.

They're taking the 'Cadillac Tax' and shoving it outside the [ten-year, CBO] window.

They added a brand new tax on investment income [Ed: well, that should help the economy!] that's must higher... that's $210 billion of new taxes that we just got an hour or two ago.

And they're moving money out of this ten-year [CBO] window so much to manipulate this score to try and make it look like this thing comes in under a trillion dollars and actually reduces the deficit.

They don't count the 'Doc Fix', that's $371 billion right there... Medicare physicians are slated to get a 21% cut in their payments next month and everyone is proposing to prevent that from happening. Congress, for the last seven years, has prevented these Medicare cuts from occurring... and all of these bills said, "We're going to prevent these Medicare cuts from hitting the doctors" because we know about 25% of doctors will just drop taking Medicare patients if this cut occurs. And so... they took this spending provision out of the bill and left it as a separate piece of legislation. So they took $371 billion of spending and took it out of this legislation!

[There's] $72 billion in Social Security taxes that they're counting twice; that's supposed to go to Social Security, but is a raid on the Social Security trust fund.

There's $50 billion in premium for a new entitlement for long-term care insurance; these premiums, like any insurance, should go to insurance, but they're taking them to go to this new entitlement!

Levin: So they're taking money out of Social Security; they're taking money out of Medicare; new [LTC] premiums, they're taking that money; ...so we're at a trillion dollars of Madoff-style fiscal fraud!

Ryan: That's right. And the Congressional Budget Office can't tell you this. Because their statute is that they estimate whatever you put in front of them. And if you put in front of them garbage in, you'll get garbage out.

If you put in front of them a manipulated bill and all of the smoke and mirrors, they have no choice but to score the bill as you wrote it. And if you write it intentionally to disguise all of this, then you'll get a disguised estimate, and that's what we have here.

Precisely the reason I'm organizing the Impeach & Convict Tour 2011. Because you can't be too careful with Democrats: they're like cockroaches.


Update: Reps. Stupak and Cantor: Democrats Still Don’t Have the Votes.

Keep calling!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Obama administration unveils 'Cash for Codgers' program; aims to save billions on Medicare and Medicaid payments

As part of the federal government's efforts to rein in health care spending, the Department of Health and Human Services has instituted a generous offer to all U.S. citizens. It will pay you cold, hard cash for any seniors in your family who are 65-years old and over. Said seniors will be dispensed with humanely, in accordance with the recommendations of Ezekiel "Doctor Death" Emanuel.


In these tough economic times, what's better than solving the entitlement crisis and addressing senior health care issues -- simultaneously? It very well could be the final solution to the fiscal challenges of government-run health care.



Obamacare Protest Sign o' the Day


Hat tip: Soylent Green.

How Do You Say "Crappy Health Care" in Canadian?

Nahanni points us to a first-person account of the Canadian health care system written by a Times of London correspondent. Visiting Quebec, a friend's young son had his leg severely slashed in a boating accident. An ambulance showed up quickly, the young lad was bandaged up, and off to the E.R. they went.

...nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.

It didn’t seem desperately busy. One woman had lost her face somehow — probably a bear attack — and one kid appeared to have taken rather too much ecstasy, but there were no more than a dozen people in the waiting room. And no one was gouting arterial blood all over the walls.

After a couple of hours, I asked the receptionist how long it might be before a doctor came. In a Wal-Mart, it’s quite quaint to be served by a fat, gum-chewing teenager who claims not to understand what you’re saying, but in a hospital it’s annoying. Resisting the temptation to explain that the Marquis de Montcalm lost and that it’s time to get over it, I went back to the boy’s cubicle, which he was sharing with a young Muslim couple.

A doctor came in and said to them: “You’ve had a miscarriage,” and then turned to go. Understandably, the poor girl was very upset and asked if the doctor was sure.

“Look, we’ve done a scan and there’s nothing in there,” she said, in perhaps the worst example of a bedside manner I’ve ever seen.

“Is anyone coming to look at my son?” asked my friend politely. “Quoi?” said the haughty doctor, who had suddenly forgotten how to speak English. “Je ne comprends pas.” And with that, she was gone.

At midnight, a young man who had been brought up on a diet of American music, American movies and very obviously American food, arrived to say, in French, that the doctors were changing shift and a new one would be along as soon as possible.

By then, it was one in the morning and my legs were becoming weary. This is because the hospital had no chairs for relatives and friends. It’s not a lack of funds, plainly. Because they had enough money to paint a yellow line on the road nine yards from the front door, beyond which you were able to smoke.

And they also had the cash to employ an army of people to slam the door in your face if you poked your head into the inner sanctum to ask how much longer the wait might be. Sixteen hours is apparently the norm. Unless you want a scan. Then it’s 22 months.

At about 1.30am a doctor arrived. Boy, he was a piece of work. He couldn’t have been more rude if I’d been General Wolfe. He removed the bandages like they were the packaging on a disposable razor, looked at the wound, which was horrific, and said to my friend: “Is it cash or credit card?”

This seemed odd in a country with no private care, but it turns out they charge non-Canadians precisely what they would charge the government if the patient were Céline Dion. The bill was C$300 (about £170).

The doctor vanished, but he hadn’t bothered to reapply the boy’s bandages, which meant the little lad was left with nothing to look at except his own thigh bone. An hour later, the painkillers arrived.

Seven hours after the accident, in a country widely touted to be the safest and best in the world, he applied 16 stitches that couldn’t have been less neat if he’d done them on a battlefield, with twigs...

Rumor has it that Stephen King's next novel will feature the Canadian health care system though, if Obamacare passes, the setting could easily be your local hospital.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Schoolhouse Rock Slaughter Edition: How a Bill Becomes a Law

Boy: Whoa! You sure gotta climb a lot of steps to get to this Capitol Building here in Washington...

But I wonder who that sad little scrap of paper is?

I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.

Well, it's a long twisted story
with lots of crime and not much glory.
Secret deals and billions in pork
Hey, there's Ben Nelson, in whom you can stick a fork!

But I know I'll be a law someday
At least I hope and pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill.

Boy: Gee, Bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage.

Bill: You ain't kidding, Einstein. The idea for me got started about 80 years ago when FDR had the crackpot idea that you could grant "rights" by stealing people's labor. Never mind the idea ain't even constitutional. That didn't stop the Democrats...

Constituents h'been flyin', bussin', railroadin', callin', emailin', telling their damn Congress-critters to stop with the crazy Socialist crap.

So what's their Congressman do? Lock their doors and shut off their phone systems, that's what!

But lately, I been gettin' closer than ever. Y'see, the Senate passed me by a single vote, which got Scott Brown elected Senator from Massachusetts!

Well, that freaked out the Marxists in the House that realized they'd never get another health care takeover through the Senate.

And because I'm so dang unpopular, Democrats have to figure out how to pass me without actually voting! Pretty cool, huh?

I'm just a bill
Yes I'm only a bill,
And I got as far as Capitol Hill.
Now I'm in the Rules committee
Where the head-mistress is pretty sh***y

And they're threatening and bribing
Thieving and conniving,
Just trying to get me to float
Without even havin' a vote!

Boy: Listen to those congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debate about you?

Bill: Sort of. They're trying to pay off as many people as they can with special deals, kickbacks, earmarks, guaranteed jobs if they get kicked out of Congress in November, you name it! And all so they don't have to vote on the real bill!

Boy: But that's not what we studied in Civics class! A bill's supposed to be passed, identically, through both chambers of Congress! That's in the Constitution!

Bill: Don't be a chucklehead. The Democrats destroyed the Constitution decades ago.

Now get lost. You bother me. And don't come back until you've got some money to grease the wheels of the legislature. Dummy.