A Real Doctor’s Opinion Of Obamacare
Dr. Fred backs up the point many have made; doctors should be writing the healthcare bill, not politicians. He also reminds the District of Criminals that come November, we will not have forgotten.
Obama Comes Down The Mountain (Fox Interview With Bret Baier)
It appears the temperature in hell has just gone down a degree or two since Bahana Obama has deigned to come down the mountain and give an interview on Fox News. When video is available, I will post it here.
Bret Baier to Interview President Obama Wednesday on Special Report
Special Report’s Bret Baier will interview President Obama on Wednesday in an exclusive conversation scheduled just days ahead of the House of Representatives’ critical vote on landmark health care legislation.
The interview will run uninterrupted in its entirety on Wednesday’s Special Report at 6 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel.
Baier will discuss with the president the policy, politics and head counting behind efforts to pass Obama’s signature domestic priority. The two will also talk about other key issues facing the Obama administration and the country.
Viewers can submit their suggestions for a question for President Obama by clicking here.
“This is a real opportunity to try to get some firm answers from President Obama on lingering questions about specifics in the health care legislation, the process Democrats are using to try to pass it, and the politics of its passage,” Baier said. “And it’s an opportunity to try to pin the president down on a few other hot topics. We welcome the opportunity and think it will be a benefit to our viewers.”
Special Report will broadcast from the White House. After the interview, the Fox News All-Star panel of Steve Hayes, A.B. Stoddard, Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer will offer expert analysis.
Following the show, check FoxNews.com for transcripts and video of Baier’s one-on-one interview with the president.
UPDATE:
One has to give Bret a hand for going after this fraud and not letting up. As for Bahana Obama, he is spinning this into setting the terms of the dialogue for the debate. I am paraphrasing, ‘if you vote against the bill, you are voting FOR the status quo’. Last time I checked, Americans WANTED healthcare reform – JUST NOT OBAMA’S!
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Paul Ryan: Passing Obamacare The Washington Way
Pay Attention! Mr. Ryan breaks down Obamacare in a way that has not yet been done; simply and concisely.
Obamacare: Time To Slay The Dragon
We all knew that any healthcare proposals put forward in the District of Criminals were just the beginning of the shakedown. Always get tape…
Pelosi: ‘Once we kick through this door,’ more reform will follow
If you have any doubt that the Democratic leadership of the House views passing the current health care reform bill as the beginning, not the end, of the process of creating a national government health care system, just note what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of bloggers on Monday. “My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive,” Pelosi said, according to an account by Washington Post reform advocate Ezra Klein. “We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there’ll be more legislation to follow.”
But since the current bill is unpopular, and Pelosi at the moment does not have enough Democratic, much less Republican, votes to pass it, the door she will be kicking through is the back door. Pelosi told the bloggers she favors using the “self-executing rule” strategy in which the House would pass the Senate health care bill without going on the record as specifically voting for it. “I like it,” Pelosi said of the scheme, “because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.” The strategy of passing the Senate bill while avoiding a direct vote, writes Klein, “is all about plausible deniability for House members who don’t want to vote for the Senate bill.”
In a particularly Alice-in-Wonderland moment, Pelosi argued that the debate over health care reform can begin after the bill is passed. “Pelosi said passing the bill would allow Dems to undertake a ‘debate’ with Republicans over ‘what is the balanced role that government should have,'” writes another pro-reform blogger at the Post, Greg Sargent. According to Sargent, Pelosi explained, “We have to take it to the American people, to say, this is the choice that you have. This is the vision that they have for your health and well being, and this is the vision that we have.” Again, in Pelosi’s scenario, that debate would occur after the bill is passed.
Finally, Pelosi downplayed statements from her own team that she does not yet have the votes to pass the national health care measure. On “Meet the Press” Sunday, Democratic Whip Rep. James Clyburn said, “No, we don’t have them as of this morning.” Meeting with the bloggers, Pelosi said, “The reason [Clyburn] said that is we don’t have a bill yet.” In the end, the Speaker declared, “I have no intention of not passing this bill.”
With Obamacare, YOU WILL Lose Your Doctor (To Retirement)
Doctors should be assisting with the creation of a common sense healthcare bill, but that would require too much logic for Obama’s crew.
I’m not quite sure where O’Reilly is getting his numbers, but CNS had this earlier today:
Nearly One-Third of Doctors Could Leave Medicine if Health-Care Reform Bill Passes, According to Survey Reported in New England Journal of Medicine
(CNSNews.com) – Nearly one-third of all practicing physicians may leave the medical profession if President Obama signs current versions of health-care reform legislation into law, according to a survey published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The survey, which was conducted by the Medicus Firm, a leading physician search and consulting firm based in Atlanta and Dallas, found that a majority of physicians said health-care reform would cause the quality of American medical care to “deteriorate” and it could be the “final straw” that sends a sizeable number of doctors out of medicine.
More than 29 percent (29.2) percent of the nearly 1,200 doctors who responded to the survey said they would quit the profession or retire early if health reform legislation becomes law. If a public option were included in the legislation, as several liberal Senators have indicated they would like, the number would jump to 45.7 percent.
The medical journal published the results in its March and April edition, saying: “While a sudden loss of half of the nations physicians seems unlikely, a very dramatic decrease in the physician workforce could become a reality as an unexpected side effect of health reform.”
Kevin Perpetua, managing partner for the Medicus Firm, reported that a reform bill could be “the final straw” in an already financially precarious industry.
“Many physicians feel that they cannot continue to practice if patient loads increase while pay decreases,” Perpetua said in the study. “The overwhelming prediction from physicians is that health reform, if implemented inappropriately, could create a detrimental combination of circumstances, and result in an environment in which it is not possible for most physicians to continue practicing medicine.”
“With an average debt of $140,000, and many graduates approaching a quarter of a million dollars in school loans, being a doctor is becoming less and less feasible,” Perpetua said. “Health-care reform and increasing government control of medicine may be the final straw that causes the physician workforce to break down.”
It appears that David Buckner had it right.
The Economics Of Dem Healthcare Reform For Dummies
Fact #1:
If you increase the demand for a product without increasing the supply, there will be a shortage. Let me say that a different way: if you increase the number of people buying a product without increasing the number of products (suppliers) there will be a shortage. There is no way around this.
Application:
If you insure 15 million more people without adding any doctors, there will be a shortage. Say what you will, promise what you may, all the kings horses and all the kings men will never be able to put 15 million more humpty dumptys together again, UNLESS you increase the number of doctors!! Nothing in the current legislation offers such an incentive or allowance–if anything, quite the opposite. Time and again the question has been asked and each time the response is “everyone will be covered,” as if that answers the question.
Bottom line:
Shortages WILL occur until there are more doctors, more nurses, more hospitals, more clinics. Promises of “universal coverage” cannot overcome the reality of “universal shortages”. One might accurately argue we will have equal opportunity shortages. That statement would be true. Nevertheless, there will be shortages and the sellers KNOW IT!
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