Fact of the Day
By PoliPundit ~ August 14th, 2009 @ 11:38 am
Obama says he’s prepared to be a one-term president over healthcare “reform”:
Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) told a local town hall meeting that President Obama told him he would deal with health care — even if it cost Obama re-election. Said Boswell: “And he said, ‘No, if it makes me a one-term president, I’m going to, we’re going to take it on because the country is in need of us taking this on.’ I respected that very much.”
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August 14th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I am prepared to assist Obama in his sacrifice to be a one term president.
August 14th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
My congresswoman Melissa Bean is charging $25 to attend her townhall.
She defeated Phil Crane in a fluke in 2004,then got lucky that 06 and 08 were Democrat years. the district(Schaumburg,Palatine,most of Mchenry county is still Republican. She is done.
August 14th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Obama is walking along a beach one day and stubs his toe on a lamp half-buried in the sand. Curious, Obama rubs it and *poof!* a genie appears. “President Obama, I will grant you one wish. What will it be?” Obama thinks for a moment and finally says, ‘I wish to take on health care reform, even it makes me a one-term president.”
The genie bows, claps his hands and says, “It shall be so.” Four years later, his health care plans having been beaten back by an angry public, and having just been defeated by Sarah Palin in his bid for a second term, Obama is walking along the same beach and discovers the same lamp buried in the sand. Obama picks up the lamp, rubs it, and *poof!* the genie once again appears. Obama yells at the genie, “What the hell happened? I thought you were going to fulfill my wish!”
The genie chuckles and says, “What the hell are you complaining about? You DID get to take on health care reform and you DID become a one-term president. Your problem, my platitudinous friend, is that you never specifically asked to be SUCCESSFUL.”
August 14th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Sure glad your company is paying for your insurance! It is a good thing. Get out here on your own and see what this system is like. Insurance companies just want your $$$. They won’t insure you if you have ever been sick. They list what they will not cover, then they charge you and leave you for dead if something happens. Good for you. If your on your own with these corporations you could be party to the biggest settlement ever: United Health Care (aka The Lewin Group) 4 million for defrauding patients. Yes, the GOP’s favorite insurance company!
Those on Medicare. You are on the Federal health care dole. It seems to work pretty well for most. The biggest cheaters caught so far: Columbia/HCA Republican TN Bill Frist’s company. Yes he is against, they were fined over 3 mil, he needs to make it back! GOP please !
Sarah, you death squad awaits. You declared it as Governor. In Alaska Ms Sarah proclaimed April 16, 2008 Health Care Day. The focus, talking about living wills. Ah death to Alaska. It is only good if the idea is for someone you know Sarah! GOP evil one Ms. Sarah
August 15th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Well, insurance companies just want my $$$. Sorta like Obama just wants my money. Is there a big difference?
Yup, I know what I get with the insurance company but I have no idea what I’m going to get with Obamacare.
August 15th, 2009 at 7:19 am
A living will decided between the sick and their families is one thing. Between the cold hearted Obama and you is altogether different.
August 15th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Deal with the illegal immigration problem in this country first, then health reform will be easier.
August 15th, 2009 at 9:41 am
I am a British citizen and live in the UK
I continue to be utterly incredulous at how the USA, undisputedly the most powerful country on the planet, can have so high a percentage of badly informed naive simpletons among its population.
Until the US fashions for itself a nation health system which leaves no-one without medical treatment in times of need, the USA cannot deserve the appellation “Civilized, predominantly Christian State.”
August 15th, 2009 at 9:49 am
We are held hostage by insurance companies and many stakeholders (including physicians) in healthcare. This is not unexpected.
All will have to sacrifice. That is the only way to reduce the 17% of GDP now spent on healthcare. This is 30% more than our next economic competitor.
Adding more money to induce stakeholders to participate in reform is giving-in to the hostage-takers.
Those concerned about our debt, (like Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats) should strenghten the President’s hand and not undercut the adminstration by demagogueing reform.
August 15th, 2009 at 9:49 am
The Uk ceased being a great country when they went to all out socialism. Americans are a different breed,a better breed. We may get socailism,but we will fight it.
August 15th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Those concerned about our debt, (like Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats) should strenghten the President’s hand and not undercut the adminstration by demagogueing reform.
Yes, all praise 0bama. He’s using rational argument in the debate. He counters every false claim thoroughly, factually and succinctly by saying, “That’s not true”.
Thank goodness he’s not appealing to popular desires by offering us free stuff and he’s not appealing to our prejudices by pointing out how demonic insurance companies are and those darn doctors cutting bits and pieces off our bodies in order to make some extra cash. Yep, no demagoguery there. /sarcasm
demagogue |ˈdeməˌgäg|
noun
a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
August 15th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
To all Christians, who did Jesus heal?
A man with leprosy(Matthew 8 v 2-3 Mark 1 v 40-42 Luke 5 v 12-13)
An army officer’s servant (Matthew 8 v 5-13 Luke 7 v 1-10)
Peter’s mother-in-law (Matthew 8 v 14-15 Mark 1 v 30-31 Luke 4 v 38-39).
A paralysed man (Matthew 9 v 2-8 Mark 2 v 1-12 Luke 5 v 18-26)
The woman who touched him (Matthew 9 v 20-22 Mark 5 v 25-34 Luke 8 v 43-48)
Two blind men (Matthew 9 v 27-31)
A man with a withered hand (Matthew 12 v 9-13 Mark 3 v 1-5 Luke 6 v 6-10)
A man born blind (Matthew 20 v 29-34 Mark 10 v 46-52 Luke 18 v 35-43)
A deaf and mute man (Mark 7 v 31-37)
A blind man (Mark 8 v 22-25)
A crippled woman (Luke 13 v 10-17)
A man with dropsy (Luke 14 v 1-4)
Ten lepers (Luke 17 v 11-19)
Malchus (Luke 22 v 50-51; John 18 v 10)
The official’s son (John 4 v 46-54)
The paralysed man at the pool (John 5 v 1-9)
A man born blind (John 9)
The rich, the privileged, the homeless, friends, relatives, the disabled, the outcast. Consider whether the “Public Option”, whether “Single Payer”, whether “Universal” Health Insurance, isn’t something more like WWJD than the alternative. You decide.
August 15th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
The rich, the privileged, the homeless, friends, relatives, the disabled, the outcast. Consider whether the “Public Option”, whether “Single Payer”, whether “Universal” Health Insurance, isn’t something more like WWJD than the alternative. You decide.
Now there’s some rational argument. /sarcasm
Typical lefty thinking they’re an authority on WWJD.
August 15th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
would being a one-term president prohibit Maobama from electing himself ‘king for life’?
Just asking…
August 16th, 2009 at 10:34 am
While try to refrain from giving this blog hits while it enters it’s death throws that comment is some of the funniest chit I’ve heard this week, you have got to be chitting me. lol
August 16th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Stealth Health?
Anytime government gets involved where it shouldn’t be involved, things usually tend to get screwed up. Indeed, anytime government gets involved in matters where it should constitutionally be involved, there’s the potential for a mess. Think United States Postal Service.
Likewise, when governmental figures campaign and campaign hard for some scheme or other and then backtrack big time on major features of that scheme, cynic that I am, I smell a rat. Think Obamacare.
In recent days, Obama surrogates seem to have backed off on two previously-essential elements of the Obama health care plan: end of life consults, aka ”death panels,” and now seem to have dumped the whole idea of “single payer,” aka government-run health care.
Today, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebellius dropped that latter bombshell in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Nation,” saying, according to Bloomberg.com, that “government-run insurance isn’t essential to the Obama administration’s proposed overhaul of U.S. health care:” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aRqy6w7DFAB0#.
I suspect something is awry when the Obamaites seem set to abandon that single payer, “public option,” which Obama has advocated for years while denying he has so advocated. It was the most fundamental change in his push for reform and to scrap it at this point is beyond mysterious.
Granted, other factors are in play, including . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
August 18th, 2009 at 7:56 am
someone that reads and some of you other folks know the truth: trying to buy health insurance on one’s own and for a small business is almost impossible. Keep in mind, though, that not every employer plan is good either. I recently stopped working for an employer who paid only half of the employee’s health care. The other half and family coverage under the group plan cost me almost $900 a month, and left me broke. I’ve gone to work for myself, but will not be able to afford health insurance for years I’m sure. Meanwhile, my prescriptions have run out, my wife’s prescriptions have run out and we can’t afford to see the doctor. We are fearful that we will die from our existing conditions because of it.
Health insurance companies are for sure part of the health care “problem,” but so are doctors, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and equipment manufacturers. Somehow the costs within the health care system need to be adjusted (not subsidized) so that average people can realistically afford to see the doctor when necessary. This means that everything from wages for health care professionals, to hospital room rates, to testing equipment costs, to medical test rates, to medicine prices…. it all needs to be “right-sized.” Too many people are sustaining their ultra-wealthy lifestyles on the backs of the insured.
As I’ve already said, health care should not be subsidized as Obama and the Democrats want it. However, I would support government measures to improve accessibility to health care and health insurance. So, whether by allowing more competition (including interstate competition) between insurers to regulating the greed of providers, I think a lot can be done without having the government take over the entire system.
Meanwhile, we will continue to have a society that ensures that only the elite (and the poor who get Medicaid) get adequate medical care. Folks like me who work hard to make a living are screwed… and – like me – likely to die because of it.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Oh yeah, that $900 / month? That was my cost *after* it was taken out as a pre-tax deduction. Raw cost was almost $1,300 / month and the coverage sucked.