Obama Not So Smart on Healthcare

- Scott Miller

My apologies for being “out of the pocket” the past couple days… between the job that pays, two great kids that deserve a Dad’s attention, and a couple days of R&R where I started reading the Great One’s, Mark Levin’s, newest masterpiece “Liberty and Tyranny” (book review coming soon… let me just say, you have to buy this book) … getting in front of the laptop was tough to do.

That said, I’m back and ready to take on the statists, as they are on the verge to attempting to ram through socialized healthcare and a huge national energy tax that the eco-commies are pushing hard.

Today Obama held (surprise) another press conference where he said amongst other things, this:

Now, I’ve always though that Obama was a relatively bright guy, but I gotta’ tell ya’, I’m not so sure after hearing this answer. Can it be that his blinding love for all things government has his common sense this cloudy?

He thinks he’s being clever when he mock the critics saying that ‘they’re afraid of competing with a public option and yet they say government can’t run anything… that doesn’t make logical sense to him’… I really don’t think he gets it.

Of course anyone with a shred common sense can see that if a so-called “public option” (read government healthcare) were allowed to compete with private insurers, private insurers will be out of business in no time. Why? It’s simple…. the government doesn’t have to make a profit to stay in business. Period. Look around… Obama thinks he can spend and print as much money as he wants, national debt be damned. So what’s to keep the government insurance company (who said Obama’s not a socialist) from putting up a gold-plated plan at a very low cost, subsidizing the cost through government debt… which will ultimately force private profit-driven insurance companies out of business.

This is their real plan… this is how they plan to backdoor a national, one size fit all, rationing, poor quality, socialized medicine plan in America. They know the American people wouldn’t go for a Canadian/Britain style plan if they try to do it on the up-and-up, so the statists scheme to backdoor socialized medicine through the innocuous sounding “public option” plan.

Don’t believe me? Here’s a Democrat Congresswoman, Jan Schakowsky from Chicago, saying essentially the same thing… from Breitbart.tv:

Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry

“I know many of you here today are single payer advocates and so am I … and those of us who are pushing for a public health insurance don’t disagree with this goal. This is not a principled fight. This is a fight about strategy for getting there and I believe we will,”

Interesting that the YouTube video of her admitting the strategy has been pulled down… hmmmm.

Here’s the Heritage foundation explaining how their backdoor plan is currently structured:

Morning Bell: The Unprincipled Fight for Government-Run Health Care

Recent SCHIP expansion and additional Medicaid funding in the stimulus package made a substantial down payment on major expansion of government run health programs. Established research shows that a public health plan will ”crowd out” private insurance, forcing millions of Americans off their current plans, and away from their family doctors. A public health plan, coupled with Comparative Effectiveness Research, would engineer artificially lower prices for medical services through the imposition of Medicare-style price controls. Such Medicare-style payment levels would undercut the market share of existing private health plans, and, combined with a mandate on employers, stack the incentives against workers in private employer-based health insurance by encouraging their employers to dump them into a new government-run health plan. Watch the video of Rep. Schakowksy’s statements on The Foundry. She clearly admits that the purpose of the government run option is to kill private insurance so everyone eventually is forced into government-run health care.

Moving all Americans into a government-run health care system will not only bankrupt our country, but will lead to less innovation in the health care sector and lower quality care for all Americans. There is an alternative. Some of which the Obama Administration even supports like removing the tax benefit of employer-sponsored health care coverage which will untie Americans health care coverage from their employers and help move the country towards a truly market based consumer driven health care model. Health care coverage can be expanded in a cost efficient manner, but only by empowering Americans to make health care decisions with their doctors.

Now watch that clip again, and see if you find Obama credible when he say ‘oh yeah… you’ll be able to keep your private plan… no problem’…

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Iran erupts

Iran has erupted into full-scale chaos. Former Iranian President Rafsanjani has been slaughtered and his family arrested. Thousands of protestors crowded the capital yesterday, where police met them with batons, water cannons, and… tear gas. Injured protestors are being arrested…

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Fiscal Irresponsibilty Reins Supreme with Obama Administration

- Scott Miller

Let’s take a look at our current federal government finances:

 - Obama 2009 Budget projects a $1.75 TRILLION dollar deficit

- As of June 2, 2009, the federal debt stands at $11,382,737,715,925, that’s over $11 TRILLION in case you’ve never seen so many digits strung together like that.

- Obama’s Administration projects that our total federal debt load will double to $20 TRILLION over the next 6 years

- Obama projects that his spending plans will take the federal debt to 100% of America’s GDP (gross domestic product), or the value of everything produced by our economy. A level that hasn’t been seen since 1940’s.

- The federal government has another $53+ TRILLION in unfunded obligations created by our massive social welfare programs and lavish public pension programs…. that $53 TRILLION is  in addition to the federal debt

- That means that our total debt and funding obligations stand at an incomprehensible $73+ TRILLION

So any normal, rational thinking adult, looking at these staggering numbers would start to do some serious budgetary reforms, and start drastically cutting federal spending across the board (save our national defense)… but not the Obama administration.

Instead, they set out to nationalize another 17% of our economy with a massive new socialized medicine  healthcare entitlement. An new entitlement that will cost us another $3.2 TRILLION over the next 10 years. Here are some highlights of the rank irresponsibility of the party of Statists (aka Democrats) when it comes to their socialized medicine plan:

Several officials said the Congressional Budget Office had issued a cost estimate of $1.6 trillion, with only about $560 billion paid for. They spoke on condition of anonymity, saying the matter was confidential

Question: These central planners in government are scheming to spend a ton more of our money, and their plans are “confidential”? Talk about arrogance and gall!

Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said that with cost estimates coming in so high, “It is clear there have got to be changes made to make the whole package affordable.”

Sen. Conrad, the government is BROKE! We can’t afford the pot you piss in, let alone a massive new entitlement program… a program that will include free healthcare for illegal aliens! Wake the F-up!

At the Senate Health panel, officials said that after penciling in subsidies for families with incomes as high as $110,000, or 500 percent of the federal poverty level, they would limit the help to families up to $88,000 in income, or 400 percent of the poverty level

Subsidies for families making over 100 Grand?!!  Are these people freakin’ nuts? Why the hell would some poor waitress be subsidizing a family making over $100K? How stupid is that? 500% of the federal poverty level? Have we become this much of a pansy-nation? Where we expect momma government to take care of our every little need? $100k… pay for your own damn health insurance! Don’t reach into my pocket to pay for your healthcare… if you can’t take care of your family’s health, then you shouldn’t be having kids in the first damn place.

Now some of you may say, “but Scott, that article says Obama’s healthcare plan will be $1.6 trillion, not $3.2 trillion”. Folks, if you haven’t learned by now, you need to take every figure that the politicians give you, and at least double it to get to what will be the true cost of any government program.

Just look at the Medicare program created by the socialists in 1965… in 1965 the government projected that medicare, in the year 2003, would cost taxpayers $26 billion a year; the actual cost came in at… get this… $245 billion, or 10 times what the politicians promised…. still want 535 central planners in Washington DC taking over your healthcare?

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CBS Hypocrisy: Imus Fired, Buck-Tooth Pervert Letterman Not So Much

- Scott Miller

I’m sure most of you have seen this outrageous clip of the buck-tooth, sexist, pervert David Letterman attacking Sarah Palin’s 14 yr old daughter… here is a pretty fair recap from NBC (if you can believe it):

So here’s the bottom-line problem… with the “Women’s Rutgers Basketball” incident, Don Imus made a “joke” as well, a far more innocuous joke, and CBS summarily fired him. The sexist , buck-tooth, unfunny, sexual pervert, makes a rape “joke” about Sarah Palin’s 14 yr old daughter… and we get crickets out of CBS. If that station has any integrity, which I seriously doubt, they would fire Letterman tomorrow and issue an apology to Sarah Palin and her family.

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