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Posted in Healthcare, Stuff on Jan 7th, 2010
Anyone thinking of getting married better think twice. Obama Care is going to discriminate in favor of single people living together over married couples. According to the Wall Street Journal: “The built-in “marriage penalty” in both House and Senate healthcare bills has received scant attention. But for scores of low-income and middle-income couples, it could [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Tom Carper on Jan 6th, 2010
Sen. Tom Carper (D-De) was a studio guest on The Bill Colley Show on local talk radio station WGMD on Monday afternoon. The hot topic with callers to the show was of course health care. As you can most likely guess, the callers were a majority against health care reform that is currently being rushed [...]
Posted in Election 2012, Healthcare, Stuff on Dec 30th, 2009
It appears there are a number of really good people in the State of Nebraska. The good people of Nebraska don’t care for the “my vote is for sale to the highest bidder,” Democrat Senator Ben Nelson. The latest Rasmussen poll of Nebraska voters show that 62% disapprove of the vote that Nelson made in [...]
Posted in Abortion, Healthcare on Dec 21st, 2009
Statement by the National Right to Life Committee on the new Reid abortion language (Reid “manager’s amendment” to H.R. 3590) WASHINGTON (December 19, 2009) – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states, strongly opposes the abortion language contained in the “manager’s amendment” (amendment no. 3276) that [...]
Posted in Deficit, Healthcare on Dec 21st, 2009
When I had a chance to watch a half hour of Meet the Press between duty calls, I heard the Democrat talking heads saying that the Senate health bill cut the deficit because it only cost 871 billion or so. Every time Gillespie said that it increased the deficit, they would say but CBO says [...]
Posted in Abortion, Healthcare on Dec 19th, 2009
Senator Nelson from NE finally got close to his language restricting abortion funding. He also got some language to get more funding for medicaid in his state. The problem with the compromise is that it is not the same language as the house Stupack amendment. The reason the senator offered the same amendment originally is [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Mike Huckabee on Dec 19th, 2009
The Democrats continue to push their health care scheme. They continue to craft a bill in secret, behind closed doors, while telling the rest of the Senate and the American people that they will pass a bill before Christmas. It’s not too late!! Don’t give up the fight. The Senators listed below are important to [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Stuff, Tom Carper on Dec 19th, 2009
Delaware’s senior senator is right in the mix of any healthcare compromise. It pays to keep up with his thinking. Here he is unedited. His press release is on First drafts and below the fold. Reforming Our Nation’s Health Care System — Americans will spend over $2 trillion on health care this year and that [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Dec 11th, 2009
In still more bad news, the report starkly warned that a new long-term care insurance plan included in the legislation could “face a significant risk of failure” because it would attract people in poor health, leading to higher and higher premiums, and eventually triggering an “insurance death spiral.” Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., brushed that aside, [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Satire on Nov 28th, 2009
Posted in Abortion, Healthcare on Nov 27th, 2009
Senate Democrats have included a monstrous pro-abortion mandate in health deform legislation. According to the NY Times, the senate bill has a requirement that an insurance plan covering abortion be available in every market. The so-called funding ban is viewed as an accounting sham. It may use private money for the abortion part and subsidize [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 26th, 2009
This article challenges the misnomers being spread about American Medicine.
Posted in Healthcare, Mike Castle on Nov 25th, 2009
House health reform proposal misses target of curbing costs (The News Journal – Editorial) www.castle.gov Wilmington | November 7, 2009 – The U.S House of Representatives is tentatively scheduled to vote this weekend on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. It is an attempt to reform the country’s health care system, to [...]
Posted in Election 2010, Election 2012, Healthcare, Polls, Stuff on Nov 24th, 2009
The steady downward trend of Barack Obama’s approval ratings steadily goes on. According to Rasmussen, Obama’s newest Overall Job Approval ratin is set at a new low of 45%. Rasmussen was the most accurate of polls in the off year elections of 2009 and correctly predicted Obama’s percentage of the nationwide vote in 2008. Obama [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 22nd, 2009
Well, it took out-and-out bribery of fellow Senators, one hundred million dollars of pork for Louisiana alone , but Senate Majority leader Harry Reid was able to cobble together the bare minimum of sixty votes to move the health care debate to the floor of the U.S. Senate. Sen. Reid has rushed to [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 22nd, 2009
The Harry Reid-Senate version of ObamaCare will start operating at massive budget-busting deficits starting in 2015, according to an Americans for Limited Government analysis of Congressional Budget Office data. By 2019, the “public option” will have spent some $361 billion more than it took in via new taxes. So, how then does the bill earn [...]
Posted in Healthcare, National Dems, National GOP on Nov 22nd, 2009
UPDATE: Landrieu outraged at $100 million figure. She says it was $300 million and she is proud of it. The Lapdog Democrats have caved yet again. All 58 Democrats and 2 independents formed the bare 60 vote super majority need to bring Reid Health Deform to the floor. Senator Mary Landrieu accepted a 100 million dollar [...]
Posted in Election 2010, Healthcare on Nov 21st, 2009
November 17, 2009 Contact: Dan Miller, Media Director CANDIDATE ENDORSES MAMOGRAMS FOR WOMEN’S BREAST CANCER SCREENING Republican Congressional candidate Fred Cullis was shocked to learn the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) had, on Monday, recommended against routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer in women aged 40-49 and over 74. This comes despite [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 20th, 2009
Senator Reid seems to be having problems getting votes for his crazy health deform proposal. Being a patriotic American, I want to help. My suggestion is that he steals Bobbie Jindal’s plan. You are welcome.
Posted in Healthcare, Looney Left on Nov 20th, 2009
Rev. Jesse Jackson blasted opponents of health care deform, including Alabama Congressman Arthur Davis -D. He is no longer black according to Rev. Jackson. I disagree. He is just no longer controled. Being black does not mean you have a slavish devotion to socialism. Being black in America means that you have overcome oppression, slavery, segregation, [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 16th, 2009
Called nonsense by Physicians, the government’s preventative treatments panel ignores that early protection has resulted in a 30% reduction in death rates and an even greater reduction for the women it would deny screening, those under 40. The according to a Swedish study, the success the U. S. has had in reducing deaths from breast [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Tea Parties, Tom Carper on Nov 5th, 2009
Thousands and thousands (including hundreds from Delaware) came to a house call at the people’s house. The diagnosis was kill the bill. The crowd had a lot of interesting signs. My favorite was if you can’t read the bill, read the Constitution. Congresswoman Michelle Bachman,Congressman Wilson, and actor John Voight fired up the crowd. They [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Healthcare on Nov 4th, 2009
UPDATE by David: Two more buses have been added. Call now if you still have interest. The Rally in Washington on 9/12 was pretty impressive; however naysayers are still trying to downplay it. They like to minimize the size of the crowd and claim the conservatives had their fun but now the momentum is gone. [...]
Posted in Abortion, Healthcare on Nov 1st, 2009
The Stupak amendment banning abortion funding has been dropped from the combined Health Care bill in the House. National Right to Life explained the situation. The full release can be viewed on the first draft page. Forget about bi-partisanship in both houses it seems that they don’t even want to hear from Democrats with concerns. [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Oct 26th, 2009
Yes, some Republicans do have a plan for health care in spite of ruling party lies to the contrary. You are not fully informed without both sides. Watch Senator Coburn in this interview. He critiques the Democrats’ plan to run up deficits and ration care, but more importantly touches on his solution, which we overviewed [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Polls on Oct 26th, 2009
It is almost like the people are reading the audits and CBO analysis of the health bills. They are getting it according to a new Rasmussen poll. If the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats passes, 57% of voters nationwide believe it will raise the cost of health care, and 53% [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Regulation on Oct 25th, 2009
When I was reading an article from Yahoo on the federal swine flu emergency declaration something jumped out. Some hospitals have opened drive-thrus and drive-up tent clinics to screen and treat swine flu patients. The idea is to keep infectious people out of regular emergency rooms and away from other sick patients. Hospitals could modify [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Oct 24th, 2009
Who’s paying?
Posted in Healthcare on Oct 22nd, 2009
British public health experts called out our CDC on making a mess out of flu death statistics. The 36,000 death figure included pneumonia related deaths of which multiplies the Flu figure by 10 to 20 fold. The CDC has admitted that many of the pneumonia cases are not even viral. Some experts have concluded that [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Oct 13th, 2009
The Baucus Health Care Reform Bill is out of Committee. It became the first of the bills to even get a single Republican vote. The problem is Snowe won’t promise to vote for the bill after it is merged with the HELP committee, which is a version she opposes.
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