This is the greatest country in the world. That is my opinion, not our President's. In the past couple of days (while the Messiah is in Asia apoligizing for anything and everything), the government minions are screwing up more than usual. Why? you ask? Well, this mammogram 180 degree reversal, Eric Holder bringing the circus to New York, testifying in front of Congress, healthcare reform moving forward when the polls say no one wants it and job creation lies and fantasies. President Obama granted Senior White House Correspondent Major Garrett, an interview in China. He mentioned that he was concerned that if his government keeps spending money and blowing out the budget, the American citizens will lose faith in the government. Just a minute, let me stop laughing. Is he clueless? Earth to Obama, it's already happened. Back to Holder, he met with some family members of 911 vitims and they pleaded, begged and cried attempting to persuade AG Holder not allow the terrorists to have their trials in civilian court in N.Y. city, a few blocks away from where the twin towers once stood. One lady commented that Holder didn't seem to care much about their plight and seemed to be thinking about something else. Everyone knows that Holder is carrying Obama's water. AG Holder's law firm, Covington and Burling, represented numerous terrorists at Gitmo, which to me, is a conflict of interest? Also, Holder made a comment that finally after eight years, the victim's families of 911 and the USS Cole will get justice. Eric Holder was the Deputy Attorney General when the USS Cole attack happened in 2000. Why didn't he indict the terrorists then? They weren't indicted until 2004, under the Bush administration, hypocrite. Today, I must say, I was in agreement with Lindsay Graham, who manhandled Eric Holder in the hearing this morning. I am very skeptical when someone is testifying who studders on every answer. I have a tendency to not believe them. This will have a unbelievable negative impact on the citizens of New York City. I pray to God that there isn't a terrorist attack in the Big Apple. But, of course, the Obama administration knows what is best for the country. Right? Save our sanity!
I'm bringing the circus to town:
Grahamesty grilling Eric:
Headline of the day:
Obama Calls Stimulus Data Errors 'Side Issue,' Says Focus Is on Job Growth.
Senate Healthcare Bill:
CBO says $849 billion. I say more. Improper payments hit 98 billion. And they want to run our healthcare. Harry (Dr. Smith) Reid wants to ram this down our throats and General McChrystal has been waiting 83 days! Call your Representatives now, we need you more than ever!
Daft statement of the day:
“We’ve restored America’s standing in the world.”
Barack Hussein Obama
Obama's teleprompter malfunctions, causes family near emergency:
Founding Father:
Robert Byrd, D-WV, is the longest serving member in Congress. He was reminiscing about the old days when Thomas Jefferson used to play jokes on John Adams. Patrick Henry used to joke about Ben Franklin's gas problem. Byrd said he used to pull George Washington's knickers down in the Senate Chamber and everyone got a big laugh out of it. Those good 'ol days.
Health 'Reform' Gets a Failing Grade:
The changes proposed by Congress will require more draconian measures down the road. Just look at Massachusetts.
By JEFFREY S. FLIER
As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I'd give it a failing grade.
Instead of forthrightly dealing with the fundamental problems, discussion is dominated by rival factions struggling to enact or defeat President Barack Obama's agenda. The rhetoric on both sides is exaggerated and often deceptive. Those of us for whom the central issue is health—not politics—have been left in the lurch. And as controversy heads toward a conclusion in Washington, it appears that the people who favor the legislation are engaged in collective denial.
Our health-care system suffers from problems of cost, access and quality, and needs major reform. Tax policy drives employment-based insurance; this begets overinsurance and drives costs upward while creating inequities for the unemployed and self-employed. A regulatory morass limits innovation. And deep flaws in Medicare and Medicaid drive spending without optimizing care.
Speeches and news reports can lead you to believe that proposed congressional legislation would tackle the problems of cost, access and quality. But that's not true. The various bills do deal with access by expanding Medicaid and mandating subsidized insurance at substantial cost—and thus addresses an important social goal. However, there are no provisions to substantively control the growth of costs or raise the quality of care. So the overall effort will fail to qualify as reform.
Associated Press
In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it. Likewise, nearly all agree that the legislation would do little or nothing to improve quality or change health-care's dysfunctional delivery system. The system we have now promotes fragmented care and makes it more difficult than it should be to assess outcomes and patient satisfaction. The true costs of health care are disguised, competition based on price and quality are almost impossible, and patients lose their ability to be the ultimate judges of value.
Worse, currently proposed federal legislation would undermine any potential for real innovation in insurance and the provision of care. It would do so by overregulating the health-care system in the service of special interests such as insurance companies, hospitals, professional organizations and pharmaceutical companies, rather than the patients who should be our primary concern.
In effect, while the legislation would enhance access to insurance, the trade-off would be an accelerated crisis of health-care costs and perpetuation of the current dysfunctional system—now with many more participants. This will make an eventual solution even more difficult. Ultimately, our capacity to innovate and develop new therapies would suffer most of all.
There are important lessons to be learned from recent experience with reform in Massachusetts. Here, insurance mandates similar to those proposed in the federal legislation succeeded in expanding coverage but—despite initial predictions—increased total spending.
A "Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System" recently declared that the Massachusetts health-care payment system must be changed over the next five years, most likely to one involving "capitated" payments instead of the traditional fee-for-service system. Capitation means that newly created organizations of physicians and other health-care providers will be given limited dollars per patient for all of their care, allowing for shared savings if spending is below the targets. Unfortunately, the details of this massive change—necessitated by skyrocketing costs and a desire to improve quality—are completely unspecified by the commission, although a new Massachusetts state bureaucracy clearly will be required.
Yet it's entirely unclear how such unspecified changes would impact physician practices and compensation, hospital organizations and their capacity to invest, and the ability of patients to receive the kind and quality of care they desire. Similar challenges would eventually confront the entire country on a more explosive scale if the current legislation becomes law.
Selling an uncertain and potentially unwelcome outcome such as this to the public would be a challenging task. It is easier to assert, confidently but disingenuously, that decreased costs and enhanced quality would result from the current legislation.
So the majority of our representatives may congratulate themselves on reducing the number of uninsured, while quietly understanding this can only be the first step of a multiyear process to more drastically change the organization and funding of health care in America. I have met many people for whom this strategy is conscious and explicit.
We should not be making public policy in such a crucial area by keeping the electorate ignorant of the actual road ahead.
Dr. Flier is dean of the Harvard Medical School.
Opposition to Senate Healthcare Bill: Call your Senators!
"We the people" must stop the Obamacare Proposals:I am formally asking (pleading) with you to muster up the initiative and enthusiasm to fight the healthcare bill that will emerge in the next couple of weeks. First, there are 5 bills (proposals) that will somehow be merged into one bill. Liberals are adamant about some form of "Public Option." (Government Run Option) I think the democrats believe they can push this bill through while we are sleeping. The democrats have blocked many bills that would allow the final bill to be posted on the internet 72 hours prior to a vote. Why? you know why. We must oppose this more than we did over the summer. Let them know, we are not against healthcare reform, just not a total makeover. Call and email your representatives. I have emailed and called mine so many times, they are referring to me by my first name. Write an old fashioned letter, it has a lot of importance. Attend your local tea parties and townhalls to voice your opinions and make a overwhelming presence. Below, is a little list how you can get involved. It is our civic duty. "It is our Country."
Congress.org
go to: Find your Representatives
Type in your zip code
joinpatientsfirst.com
Freedomworks.org
Resistnet.com
teapartypatriots.com
teaparty.org
taxpayer.org
taxpayer.net
info@cmpi.org
Fairtax.org
Conservativeamericansunited.org
CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS! CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS!
Quote du jour:
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
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References:
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WSJ.com
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CatoInstitute.com
Townhall.com
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Snopes.com
Quotationspage.com
Jeffrey Flier, Dean of Harvard Medical School
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