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

Monday, November 01, 2010

Last Call for Liberty

"You would think they’d be saying thank you" -- Barack Obama, 4/15/2010

When they spent a trillion dollars of your money to repay union bosses for their support, they were laughing at you.

When they put 25,000 small businesses at risk by banning non-unionized shops from bidding on government construction projects, they were laughing at you.

When they nationalized the auto companies and flouted bankruptcy law to pay off the UAW bosses, they were laughing at you.

When they shoved the wickedly unpopular ObamaCare bill down your throats using bribes, cajolery and strong-arm tactics -- without even bothering to read their own disastrous bill, they were laughing at you.

When they passed a financial reform bill, spearheaded by the same men who had helped create the crisis in the first place and had shielded corrupt, Democrat-controlled institutions like Fannie Mae from oversight, they were laughing at you.

When they publicly demonized the nation's biggest banks while privately taking millions in contributions from them, they were laughing at you.

When they opened up the borders to murder, rape and mayhem -- disregarding the safety of citizens across the country -- to increase the odds of their reelection, they were laughing at you.

When they tried to tell you that "We Are All Socialists Now", they were laughing at you.

When they paid illegal aliens to openly canvas for Democrat votes, they were laughing at you.

When they called you racists, though you supported Allen West and 37 other wonderful black conservatives running for national office, they were laughing at you.

When they relentlessly tried to corrupt the voting process with amnesty for illegals, permitting felons to vote, and ACORN's skulduggery, they were laughing at you.

When they used your tax dollars to tar you as "tea-baggers", when your philosophy is that of America's founders, they were laughing at you.

When they tweeted birthday wishes to this era's Hitler while he builds nuclear weapons and plots America's destruction, they were laughing at you.

When they hand-delivered ballots to prisoners in jail but couldn't find a way to get military ballots to our armed forces in time for this election, they were laughing at you.

I will walk on f***ing broken glass to get to the polls tomorrow.

Are you fired up to save this country? Are you?? Well then I want to see you at the polls at zero-six-thirty-sharp. Hooah!


Tuesday, October 26, 2010

I've Got Mail!

A delightful individual using the moniker "Further than you" offers his well wishes for the coming election.

This kind of trivial focus on a similar video style when there are HUGE issues not being addressed by the RIGHT, is exactly why the entire country (and world) are laughing at the conservative (bowel) movement. All you "patriots", listen up:

We have an insane amount of "patriots" in this country talking about "watering the tree of liberty with blood" and carrying guns to rallies, exuding hate, intimidation, and calling their opponents traitors, socialists, communists, nazis, whatever damning title they can think of, all while dancing perfectly as their puppet masters planned, in order to distract us all from their constant game of bubble inflation and fraudulent profiteering that left our country in shambles. A few crooks deregulating markets to buy a few islands to retire on is simply criminal. But a systematic raping of our nation's wealth, a calculated funneling of money from the poorest to the richest, from Americans to foreign entities, resulting in class wars and violent division? That's called TREASON. And those that defend said treason, through blind ignorance or willful greed, are enemies of the state, in my book.

THIS MEANS YOU, ignorant teabagger, protesting Dems who want to tax companies for sending our jobs overseas. YOU ARE A TRAITOR.

THIS MEANS YOU, conservative sycophant, crying about Obama's wasteful spending (which keeps teachers in the classroom trying to teach your smug offspring something besides the bible) whilst on YOUR watch, spending reached UNPARALLELED HEIGHTS in order for your puppet masters to rake in oil profits and war contracts and tax cuts for the richest. YOU ARE A TRAITOR.

THIS MEANS YOU, forgetful republican: YOU whine about freedom while constantly treading on others'. YOU rave about your founding fathers, who started this country to have religious freedom for all, then fail to uphold that same freedom for others based on your own bigotry and fear. YOU support wars to "spread democracy" with a boot heel on one neck and a bullet in the other, exponentially increasing the very terror you claim to be fighting against. YOU preach Christian Family Values while engaging in a never-ending parade of scandals, affairs, molestations and sex acts that you rail against. YOU clap as your elected frauds block every single move to improve the damage they did during BUSH, not because they truly believe it's the right thing to do, but because crippling America into a panic-turned-hate-fest is the ONLY way to make enough of our country forget how HORRIBLE 2000-2008 was for your team to win back seats. And that's their only chance of winning. And you lick every bit of that s--- right off their boots, like starving retards at all-you-can-eat s--- buffet.

YOU ARE ALL TRAITORS.

YOU are endangering OUR country's global standing and future, our health care needs, our financial safety , and the rights of our women. And OUR PERSONAL LIBERTIES, which you SCREAM ABOUT, are most at risk when YOU are in charge.

We are a family in America. And you are the senile grandpa who's storming about the house with a loaded rifle, threatening the children. Too stupid to see the damage you cause, too blind to glimpse your own role in the travesty that enrages you . We no longer care if it's because you were raised that way or you're just brainwashed by Faux Noose or whatever. If you don't pass away from natural causes soon, we may have to put you down for the safety of everyone.

So when it comes time for blood to water that tree of liberty, WHO'S BLOOD DO THINK WILL BE SPILLING? Because all fingers (and sights) point at YOU, TRAITOR.

Breathtaking!

I know I shouldn't bother, but let's clear a few things up -- not for the rocket scientist author -- but for the (thankfully) few Democrats remaining that have a willingness to learn.

• Yes, I blame those gun-carrying teabaggers, too. Carrying all of their guns at rallies (shhh, humor him), exuding hate and intimidation by begging their representatives not to pass thousand and thousands of pages of massive new entitlements sight unseen... quite unseemly, that. As for calling people Nazis, you're right. Unlike the tolerant left, conservatives are awful, nasty extremists.

• Yes, I blame deregulation, too. That is, if George W. Bush had actually created Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the FHA, OFHEO and every other job shop for well-connected Democrats that completely destroyed the housing market by manufacturing a trillion-dollar market for subprime loans.

• Say, and about that spending that "keeps teachers in the classrooms"... how are those Blue State Utopias of California, Illinois and New York doing? Oh. You say they're bankrupt? And the federal government's bankrupt? Well, gee-zel-pete, who's gonna pay the tab? You say we should let our grandchildren pick it up? Oh. Okay.

• And you're right -- that "never-ending parade of scandals, affairs, molestations and sex acts" by those hypocritical Republicans are awful. Can't think of any recent ones, but you're right nonetheless. I like it that liberals don't have any family values or moral principles. That way they can't be considered hypocritical when they, say, get fellated in the Oval Office, then perjure themselves and end up disbarred! Or when they run a male prostitution ring out of their condo. Or when they abuse a series of male Congressional pages. And they don't suffer any reputational damage! Genius!

And speaking of "trivial focus", why concentrate on a wide stance when we can discuss illegal immigrants canvassing for votes, ACORN, Project Vote, the New Black Panthers, Black Liberation Theology, crushing charter schools, increasing the power of public sector unions at the expense of the taxpayer, paying off trial lawyers and increasing the Democrat core constituencies of felons, illegals, and the dead?

• And you're so right. President Obama has greatly improved our "global standing and future, our health care needs, our financial safety, and the rights of our women." It's our allies' fault that they think our relationships are at new lows. And who cares if Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are at least $50 trillion dollars underwater -- we've got wealth to redistribute in the form of socialized medicine -- the better to control the populace with. And it's Bush's fault that even though Nancy Pelosi vowed "no new deficit spending" in January of 2007, she's added $5 trillion to the national debt. As for the "rights of our women" -- yes, that abortion clause in the Constitution is a real page-turner.

As for the idiotic threats? Well, given that you're a doughy Internet troll who lives in Mommy's basement, it's kind of touching, really. But I'll offer nonetheless: three rounds in the ring or the octagon. Your call.


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Deroy Murdock's Three Charts To Make Your Blood Boil

Deroy Murdock nails it. He presents three jaw-dropping illustrations that should infuriate every taxpayer in America.

Number 3: Who got stimulated by the Stimulus bill?

This graph’s whiff of Marie Antoinette should boil every patriot’s blood. While the American people live increasingly ascetic lives, and even city halls and statehouses have displayed some restraint, Washington, D.C., increasingly resembles Versailles — an out-of-touch, extravagant, and callous place that fuels little beyond the nation’s disgust, fury, and organized rebellion.

Number 2: The rich (by that I mean: the public sector workers) get richer.

These nauseating numbers show federal employees earning 201 percent of the average private worker’s compensation. Federal benefits equal 395 percent of private-sector benefits.

Number 1: This is your brain on Obamacare.

Staff members at the Congressional Joint Economic Committee “spent four months, night and day, and weekends” assembling this amazing graphic, Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas) tells me by phone. “They vetted it based on all 2,801 pages of the Obamacare legislation. They captured this new law’s stunningly complexity... "

[But the JEC] personnel could not fit all of this new law’s boards, commissions, mandates, and other elements onto this chart, [therefore] 151 additional items within Obamacare do not appear individually on this diagram. As Representative Brady explains, "If we included all of these units, this chart would be three times larger."

...The JEC’s 25-megabyte creation is difficult to transmit via email. However, a convenient link opens a PDF that allows readers to zoom in and explore this chart in amazing and shocking detail...

Even those who believe that government actively should heal the American people must wonder if that goal really required something this staggeringly convoluted.

Read the whole thing. And forward the link today to your entire mailing list. The time for action grows very short indeed.


Hat tip: Adrienne.

Monday, October 18, 2010

This Week in ObamaCare -- Connecticut Edition

Check out this hilarious string of events:

• Connecticut Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield requests permission from the state to raise premium rates as much at 47 percent citing ObamaCare's new dictates as prime drivers (e.g., forcing companies to cover non-dependent "children" up to age 26).

• The state's Department of Insurance approves the rate hikes, noting that Anthem's actuarial calculations are reasonable and proper.

• Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal -- who is running a truly pathetic campaign for the Senate Governor, so I'm sure his motives are pure -- attacks the Insurance Commission, demanding to know why they hadn't fully reviewed Anthem's rate request.

• Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan fires back at Blumenthal stating, "[t]he rates that were filed and approved reflect the current cost to deliver care and the impact of more comprehensive benefit designs required under the federal healthcare reform law ... If the attorney general wants to complain to someone, he should complain to Congress."

• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services then slams Sullivan, screeching that "[ObamaCare] cannot be used to justify this huge rate hike and, in fact, includes provisions to empower States to shed light on and guard against this type of excessive insurer behavior."

HHS also threateningly mentioned a $1 million grant (more taxpayer funds, mind you) made in August to the Connecticut Insurance Department (CID), implying that there wouldn't be any more bribes payoffs financial assistance coming if they couldn't get their story straight.

• HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also launches an audit of Thomas Sullivan's income tax and health records through her enhanced enforcement arm, which you may also know as the IRS.

Okay. I made that last one up. But you were buyin' it, weren't you?

This government is completely out of control. ObamaCare needs to be defunded and repealed. And every Democrat in Congress needs to get a pink slip in November.

I can dream, can't I?


Saturday, October 16, 2010

Hurtling to Single-Payer: A Reference Guide to ObamaCare's Trail of Destruction

Everything they said about this bill was a lie. And that includes the word "the", "patient" and "protection". Worse still: the bill hasn't truly kicked in yet.

President Obama, March 8, 2010: "Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most people’s premiums."

CT: Anthem Approved For Health Rate Hikes As High As 47 Percent.

FL: Blue Cross Blue Shield: Rates Up 10% in 8 Months. Excerpt: "President Obama told us that under his plan, health insurance premiums would go down. I think he forgot to tell Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida."

NC: Celtic: Half of 18% Premium Increase Due to ObamaCare.

NY: Insurance for New York City small businesses rise as much as 74% in 2011. Excerpt: "[The company CFO] wants to know why [the] health care provider, GHI, is asking state regulators for permission to hike insurance premiums by 50% to 74%. ...The only solution he sees to rising rates is maintaining his current staff of 10 employees, instead of expanding—which does nothing to reduce the city's 9.4% unemployment rate."

OR: Regence BlueCross BlueShield: Expect Up to 17% Rate Hikes.

WI: Celtic Insurance Premiums To Rise 18%.

"Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you," the president told residents of the Garden State. "First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan."

IA: Principal cuts 1,500 jobs, exiting health business. Excerpt: "Principal Financial Group said Thursday that it will leave the medical insurance business, further reducing competition among health insurers in Iowa... Principal will transfer the renewal rights for its health insurance customers in Iowa and 30 other states to UnitedHealthcare over the next 36 months."

MA: Firms cancel health coverage. Excerpt: "The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead."

WA: Regence BlueShield to drop child-only coverage in Washington.

US: WellPoint, CoventryOne to Drop Child-Only Coverage. Excerpt: "In anticipation of the law that will take effect this Thursday, insurers in at least 4 states announced that they would be dropping the child only type coverage... WellPoint and CoventryOne, two of the nations largest insurers, announced that the individual coverage for the children would be discontinued in California, Colorado, Ohio and Missouri."

US: Dozens of Companies Dropping Coverage May Get Waivers. Excerpt: "As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law’s standards."

On Monday, President Obama touted his healthcare reform plan, which he emphasized was supported by the American Medical Association (and the 150 physicians in white lab coats behind him)

CT: Squeezed And Blamed: Insurance Increases Aren't Going To Doctors. Excerpt: "On Dec. 1, Medicare physician fees will decrease by more than 24 percent, followed by another decrease of more than 6 percent on Jan. 1. These drastic fee cuts will force many Connecticut physicians either to accept no new Medicare patients or to drop out of the Medicare program entirely, with major implications for Connecticut seniors."

FL: Healthcare reform hitting physicians hard. Excerpt: "Healthcare reform is hitting physicians in private practice hard, said Robin Fielding, CEO of Orthopaedic Center of South Florida in Plantation... 'And the lack of tort reform will continue to push the cost of malpractice insurance through the roof.'"

NY: "It's not going to be easy or cheap". Excerpt: "...employers [are] 'being squeezed'... 'It's not going to be easy or cheap'... adding questions remain how already-distressed medical facilities will handle reforms that can carry financial penalties."

US: Study: ObamaCare will make doctor shortage 50% worse by 2015.

US: Mental Health Crisis. Excerpt: "...it creates a problem for the city's mental health-care providers, who said this week that they are faced with serving thousands of new clients they are not prepared to manage... The complaint by Hall and local mental health providers echoes general concerns about the health-care overhaul raised by hospitals, doctors, nurses and their advocates nationwide who say the mammoth program is being built on a network that cannot support it."

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The disastrous monstrosity known as ObamaCare must be de-funded and repealed. It is a catastrophic piece of legislation in every way. The federal government is poised to control your body: to reward and punish constituents by granting or withholding tests, medicines, and care.

If you want to stop this steaming pile of manure, vote the straight Republican ticket in November, at every level of government. It's the only way to be sure.


Thursday, October 14, 2010

Join Me On The Impeach & Convict Tour 2011

I posted the following article on March 22, 2010, the evening after the Democrats jammed their enormous socialized health care law down the American people's throats without even taking the time to read the bill.

I want you to remember how angry you were then.

I want you to recall your frustration, your powerlessness.

Because November is coming.

Dear Democrats,

I don't think you have any idea how angry we are.

So you would institute an authoritarian bureaucracy like the one our founders despised and revolted against? You would completely disregard public opinion? You would bribe, threaten, reward and punish legislators -- with our money! -- to jam through an unprecedented agenda completely antithetical to our founding? You would saddle generations yet unborn with trillions in debt when your unfunded entitlements are already crushing us? You would redistribute trillions of American wealth in futile central planning schemes that can't work and have never worked in the entire history of the world? So you would destroy the greatest health care system in the world?

And, to top it all off, you would blatantly violate your oath to uphold the Constitution?

November will come. And paybacks are hell.

And we promise to pursue you and your ilk to the ends of the Earth. To unearth your crimes. To impeach those in power and to prosecute the rest. To unwind your Marxist schemes. To politically crush the Democrat Party and leave it as much of a force as are the Whigs.

What you are doing is nothing less than child abuse. Punishing the next generation and generations yet unborn. Which seems to be the only skill the Democrat Party possesses.

So enjoy these next few months. Anticipating that ambassadorship to Aruba. Or that cushy job on K street. Or some high-paying job as a bureaucrat in Fannie Mae.

Be warned. We will pursue you. And we will punish you. Guaran-damn-teed. It's not a threat. It's not a promise. It's an oath.


Saturday, October 09, 2010

The Many Moods of Patty Murray (D-WA)

In 2009, Patty Murray was voted the most liberal Senator in the country. Let's capture her many moods as she destroys the greatest health care system in the world, bankrupts your grandchildren, and destroys the U.S. energy sector.

Jubilant.

Bored.

Joyous.

Pensive.

Perturbed.

Delighted.

Confused.

Reflective.

Steaming mad, but hiding it.

Worried.

Harry Reid's puppet.

Stop Marxism in its tracks. Defeat the failed agenda of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Patty Murray.

Support Dino Rossi for U.S. Senate.


Good One!


Update: 10 New Obama Depression Photos.

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Unlike Tricky Dick Nixon, Obama Wears His Enemies List On His Sleeve

A former community organizer, President Obama has aggressively and repeatedly attacked the ultimate community organization: the Tea Party movement.

But the Tea Party is not alone. The man who "acts more like a dictator than a President" has a far wider-ranging enemies list than meets the eye. The following parties are by no means meant to comprise an exhaustive listing, but are simply representative of a troubling mindset, which -- unfortunately -- appears to be shared by many in the Democrat Party. Taxpayers and the private sector are to be hated and vilified, while only government is infallible. That is how they justify the continual growth of government, of regulations, of bureaucracies, no matter how many times they fail in catastrophic ways.




Chamber of Commerce: "President Obama led Democrats in a coordinated attack against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Thursday, painting the business lobby as a corporate interest standing against open elections and U.S. workers."

Seeing as how these are the same guys who support card check -- ending the secret ballot for union elections -- you get a sense for just how desperate the Democrats have become. Coincidentally this attack marked, almost to the day, the anniversary of Obama's first directed assault against the Chamber.

Americans for Prosperity: Obama has tarred the grass-roots AFP repeatedly in speeches, "Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads against Democratic candidates all across the country. And they don't have to say who exactly the Americans for Prosperity are. You don't know if it’s a foreign-controlled corporation. You don't know if it’s a big oil company, or a big bank. You don't know if it’s a insurance company that wants to see some of the provisions in health reform repealed because it’s good for their bottom line, even if it’s not good for the American people."

The AFP's response was a good one: "The farcical attack by President Obama against Americans for Prosperity and our 1.3 million citizen activists is the sign of a desperate administration that is losing the battle to patriotic Americans who oppose Mr. Obama's radical agenda, and who are committed to defending their liberty... The Obama cronies are seeking the names and addresses of Americans for Prosperity donors for one reason: Revenge. All Americans should be threatened by this carefully planned maneuver. They could come after you next."

Health Insurers: "...the Obama administration called on health plans to stop 'misinformation and scare tactics' about the healthcare reform law... The administration's letter to America's Health Insurance Plans comes after several health plans told customers that they were raising rates in part because of the new law. In it, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius warned: 'I want AHIP’s members to be put on notice: the Administration, in partnership with states, will not tolerate unjustified rate hikes in the name of consumer protections.'"

Companies that provide health insurance benefits to employees: "Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius says a report in the Wall Street Journal that McDonald's may drop its limited benefits health insurance plans for 30,000 workers is 'flat out wrong.' "

But this week it became clear that the story was completely accurate and it was Sebelius, in fact, who had been caught lying again: "As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance from companies like McDonald's and some insurers by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law's standards."

Oil Companies: "U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Wednesday."

Drug Companies: "Obama has said he will hold drug and insurance companies 'accountable for the prices they charge and the harm they cause.' And he has promised to allow Medicare to negotiate with drugmakers for cheaper prices... With less revenue from Medicare, drugmakers may begin charging more for drugs sold outside the program. And lower profits mean less money for R&D - and a reduction in the amount of new drugs on the market in the future..."

Coal Companies: "Environmentalists are a very important voting bloc for the Democratic Party, and they earnestly believe that coal is evil, despite the fact that it generates half of the country’s electricity. That’s why President Obama promised, while campaigning for the Oval Office, to 'bankrupt' the coal industry. He has since unleashed the EPA to fulfill that promise..."

Doctors: "Obama offered this example of how doctors make decisions under the current system instead of doing what's in their patients' best interests: 'Right now, doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there. So if they're looking and you come in and you've got a bad sore throat or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, {You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out.}' ...Does Obama really think pediatricians knowingly order unnecessary tonsillectomies... Isn't this a rather casual slander of a lot of doctors? And in any case, is this what's driving up health-care costs? It's probably as likely health-care costs are high because hospitals have too many vice presidents for government relations making $300,000 a year."

Fox News: "In a town hall meeting in St. Louis on April 29, Obama was asked about fiscal discipline and entitlement reform. In his response, he took a shot at the Fox News Channel and the tea party movement... "

Only one question remains -- what area of the private sector -- aside from the slip-and-fall attorneys -- isn't hated and vilified by the Obama Democrats?


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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Exclusive First Look: The New Miniature Golf Course Custom-Built for the Obama Family on the White House Grounds!

This first look at the Obamas' new miniature golf course, constructed by union members at the low cost of $14 million, is a Doug Ross Exclusive™. Don't hate the playa, bloggers, hate the game.

Celebrate the passage of the Democrats' popular health care reform bill with the challenging first hole. Every 20 seconds, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's gavel slams down in front of the tee!

The BP-sponsored second hole features one of the more challenging obstacles in all of miniature golf: on a random schedule, an exploding rig sets fire to an oil slick on the four thousand gallon water hazard!

The gnarly, burned out row homes represent the successful Summer of Recovery in Detroit, Michigan.

Home of the housing meltdown and favorite employer of well-connected Democrats, this scale model of Fannie Mae's headquarters collapses -- sometimes with the ball trapped in it -- every 90 seconds!

Nothing says economic rebound like the record number of Americans on food stamps. Celebrate the Democrats' Nation of Food Stamps initiative by acing the fifth hole through challenging stacks of giant coupons earmarked for illegal immigrants.

The sixth hole commemorates one of Barack Obama's early successes: the Valerie-Jarret slum known as "Grove Parc" that cost taxpayers millions of dollars and was eventually condemned. Community-organizing at its finest!

Avoid the swinging batons at the challenging par-3 seventh hole, where New Black Panthers block your path to the symbolic voting booth (and hole)!

The Pelosi hole recognizes the most ideologically pure Speaker in American history, who conspired with our historic President to bribe, cajole, arm-twist and beat House members into submission. The tee-mat is an image of Bart Stupak upon which golfers are encouraged to wipe their feet.

The course's final hole is the most challenging: the giant pie-hole of union boss and presidential puppet-master Richard Trumka can literally slice a golf ball in half. Exercise great care if you cross the path of this beast.