Say it ain’t Snowe.

If one lone Republican supporting your socialist bill indicates “bipartisan” support, then Max Baucus and the Democrats got that yesterday as the first hurdle to a government takeover of our insurance industry was cleared.
Here’s Liberal in Republican clothing Olympia Snowe ruminating on whether a “public option” might be the thing to fix “what’s wrong” with [...]

Bumper sticker.

The following is part of a longer piece published by Doug O’Brien over  at biggovernment.com (the site on which all those delicious ACORN videos originated) that unfortunately is too long for a bumper sticker, but which nonetheless captures the spirit driving a majority of Americans in opposition to Obamacare these days:
Every day, the administration’s promotional [...]

Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Someone named Noam N. Levey penned this wonderful little bit of misinformation in today’s LA Times:
Imagine the debate over healthcare legislation on Capitol Hill as a tussle among three friends out for dinner.
All three have been struggling to pay their bills lately. When the check arrives, they try to figure out how to divide it. [...]

Is there anything that the Federal Government is good at?

The title of this post is almost as long as the post itself.
Consider that the Washington DC Public schools are the only public schools in the country that are completely administered by the Federal Government.
Want to take a guess at what they spend per student?
You got it. $16,540.
Bear in mind that the average cost per [...]

Crisis?

President Obama is fond of saying that there are nearly “46 million Americans without health insurance coverage.”
He’s of course blowing sunshine up all your asses.
Take a look at the real numbers:
[O]f those 45.7 million people:
* 6.4 million are enrolled in Medicaid or S-CHIP and just gave the Census taker the wrong answer. I’m serious. [...]

Insurance.

Sometimes, when you’re arguing back and forth on a topic for too long, it’s easy to sort of lose focus on what all the hub bub is about and it’s worth taking just a few moments to step back and put your hands on the arguments once again.
Health Care reform. Or is it Health Insurance [...]

Keep your eye on the ball.

Ever get the feeling that Democrats can’t possibly be this stupid? To increase deficits to unmanageable levels on purpose under the guise of ‘fixing’ the economy? To cram health care ‘reform’ legislation through congress without even bothering to understand what it means let alone whether it will actually reform anything or make things infinitely worse? [...]

UPDATE

I called it a “misdirection” in my earlier post.
Thomas Sowell calls it a “bait and switch”:
It’s called “bait and switch” when an unscrupulous business advertises one thing and tries to sell you something else. When politicians do it, it is far more dangerous to far more people. Deception is not an incidental aspect of this [...]

Death panels? What death panels?

Here’s Obama in April in an interview with David Leonhardt of the New York Times:
[W]hen Peter Orszag and I talk about the importance of using comparative-effectiveness studies as a way of reining in costs, that’s not an attempt to micromanage the doctor-patient relationship. It is an attempt to say to patients, you know what, we’ve [...]

Because they’ve been so trustworthy before.

The socialists are promising that THIS time it will be different. Forget about that whole Medicare thing where we promised to take care of a small SLIVER of our population (the elderly). Forget that we utterly failed. Focus instead how THIS TIME it will be different and that we’re more effectively manage the health of [...]

You talkin’ to me?

When the socialists get up on the podiums in their townhall meetings and advocate a single payer health care system that will put private insurance companies out of business, who exactly is their audience? Are they talking to you?
Consider the latest poll from Rasmussen:

Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system [...]

An ounce of prevention?

The socialists are telling you that by expanding coverage and paying for millions to have preventive care now, we’ll actually be saving lots of money in the long run since many costly subsequent procedures to deal with diseases will be avoided.  No costly chemo treatments, so the story goes, if early doctor visits reveal a [...]

Obamacare–trojan horse for single payer.

I don’t remember if I ever posted or linked to the following video, but even if I did, it doesn’t hurt to do so again. Please watch this so that the next time you hear the socialists talking about preserving choices, you’ll understand that it’s all a ruse.

Remember that nothing competes [...]

We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

Imagine you’re on a boat, ankle-deep in water. In the center of the boat is a large hole. Someone tells you to fix the boat.
What’s the problem? The hole is permitting water to get into the boat. Unless that hole is plugged, the boat will continue to take on water. Fix the hole and your [...]

First, cause no harm.

The Obama administration and the liberal controlled Congress are obstinately trying to impose their demonstrably inept socialist ideology on America. We’re resisting. This is good. If we hold out until November, we can sweep out the rats and permit US citizens to once again achieve a foothold in their own government. It won’t solve the [...]

Life.

Here’s what you should be most afraid of if the radical left currently in control of Washington get their way on destroying adequate health care in America:
The Congressional majority wants to pay for its $1 trillion to $1.6 trillion health bills with new taxes and a $500 billion cut to Medicare. This cut will come [...]

Represent.

From the “if we don’t want it, what are our elected officials doing pushing for it” file, comes this latest Rasmussen report:
The health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% of U.S. voters are at least somewhat [...]

Wonderful.

Sometimes an apt analogy is the perfect medicine for thick-headedness.
Check this out:

Hide the ball.

There’s a trick play in baseball where the first baseman pretends to throw the ball back to the pitcher after a pickoff attempt, but instead, he actually holds on to it. He hides it in his glove. The idea is to get the runner on first to bite on the ruse and wander off the [...]

Fascinating.

Please, everyone, even if you’re not that “into” politics, I beg you, do not think that there isn’t an agenda behind every word you read in your local paper or see on your local newscast.
Witnesseth:
The following headlines have appeared in newspapers within the last 24 hours. This is not an inclusive list.
• Third of [...]

Bull-SCHIP

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Congress approved on Wednesday a bill expanding a health insurance program for children and raising tobacco taxes to pay for it, giving President Barack Obama a big legislative victory a day after his pick to lead a healthcare industry overhaul stepped aside.
[ . . . ]
Republicans had criticized provisions in the [...]

The health bet.

I havent seen any polling, but I bet “universal” is a word that appeals to most Americans. We all want people to have access to good things like health insurance and quality medical care. Yet Americans should recognize that when politicians talk about “universal” insurance, theyre really talking about “government” insurance. And, as government takes [...]

Obama’s new politics of the echo chamber.

As Obama said at the inauguration, we’re about to be governed by the One, not the many. Say goodbye to petty grievances…despite the fact that our nation was founded under the precept that all of our grievances matter and are entitled to voice. Why bother electing all those congressmen and senators from all those “petty” [...]

What is he talking about? Part II.

More from yesterday’s sermon on the mount:
Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests [...]

Obama omelette recipe—first break a few eggs?

Obama Proposes Eliminating Medicare Advantage, Ousting 9 Million Seniors from Their Health Plans (Cato @ Liberty).
For Obama to suggest eliminating Medicare Advantage outright, however, is extraordinary. First, Obama made a campaign promise that he will let Americans keep their current health insurance. Eliminating Medicare Advantage would force 9 million seniors out of their [...]