Category: Health

VIDEO: Four Key Minutes from Obama’s Failed Healthcare Summit

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A great video from the Heritage Foundation that shows how the Republicans really made Obama look the fool at his healthcare summit last week. My favorite is Louise Slaughter (D, NY) who was all upset that a women in here district was “wearing her dead sister’s teeth” because the woman could not afford dental care. […]

 

Real Reason for Beer Summits Discovered

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Turns out, not only was Obama told to stop smoking (meaning he still does. Which only bothers me due to his rank hypocrisy) but the man who fancies himself a health expert and everyone’s doctor was also told to “moderate his alcohol intake.” Besides wondering just how much he does drink that he needs to […]

 

Obama Still Smoking ‘Em If He’s Got ‘Em

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

President Obama had his first physical as President today. I’m surprised he couldn’t perform the physical himself, since he fancies himself a doctor and all. Obama told to quit smoking for good at health check-up Under his recommendations, Kuhlman urged the president to “continue smoking cessation efforts” and noted Obama was medicating himself with nicotine […]

 

Up to 1,200 Killed at One Hospital by British Version of ObamaCare

Posted on by Dave Blount

From Airstrip One, yet another indication as to why the Dems are encountering so much resistance in their attempt to impose socialized medicine: Up to 1,200 people lost their lives needlessly because Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust put government targets and cost-cutting ahead of patient care. But none of the doctors, nurses and managers who failed them […]

 

ObamaCare Includes Massive Tax Hike

Posted on by Dave Blount

Electing an outrageously unqualified community activist who has spent his entire life surrounded by communists would result in lower taxes for the vast majority of Americans, we were repeatedly and emphatically promised. But the hype that installed our socialist kakistocracy is over. Now come the tax hikes: The White House’s new health-care proposal promises the […]

 

Canadian Politician Who Had Heart Surgery In U.S.A. Explains Decision

Posted on by William Teach

Remember Danny Williams? He’s the Newfoundland and Labrador Premier who decided that the Canadian socialized health care system just wouldn’t cut it for his health. Why? An unapologetic Danny Williams says he was aware his trip to the United States for heart surgery earlier this month would spark outcry, but he concluded his personal health […]

 

Kamikaze Attack on Our Healthcare System Is Still On

Posted on by Dave Blount

In case anyone was under the misperception that Hopey Change has anything whatsoever to do with the consent of the governed, the moonbats controlling Washington are still trying to ram through ObamaCare, despite massive public resistance: A mere three days before President Obama’s supposedly bipartisan health-care summit, the White House yesterday released a new blueprint […]

 

If Obama’s Not A Socialist, Why Is He Now Targeting Insurance Rate Control?

Posted on by William Teach

Dictionary definition of Socialism a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. Obviously, in practice, it is a bit more complicated than that, however, not much, and the primary point […]

 

Ezra Klein Trots Out The Left’s Best Argument Against Cross-State Insurance

Posted on by William Teach

By best, what is meant is a sad, lame, ridiculous, pathetic, weak, and grasping at straws argument The big Republican idea to bring down health-care costs is to “let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.” Jon Chait has some commentary here, but I want to simplify a little bit. Insurance is currently […]

 

Obama Getting Desperate On Health Legislation, Convening Summit

Posted on by William Teach

In a sign that smacks of incredible desperation regarding his signature, and outsourced, legislation – and also shows that he still does not comprehend that the economy and jobs are the top issues facing this country – Obama made a big announcement during his little interview with Katie Couric, a time period in which most […]

 

Democrats: What’s The Plan? Obama: A Rousing Speech!

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, most Democrats were a wee bit scared of asking Obama tough questions during his live televised questions and answers session, but, woops! The media was still present afterwards Senate Democrats held back from asking President Barack Obama about healthcare reform during a carefully scripted question-and-answer session in front of television cameras. With the cameras […]

 

Hey, Mr. Canadian Premier, Where Do You Go For Heart Surgery? USA, USA!

Posted on by William Teach

From the case files of “Socialized medicine is great, why, exactly?” Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States. CBC News confirmed Monday that Williams, 60, left the province earlier in the day and will have surgery later in the week. The premier’s office provided […]

 

Obama: Yeah, I Kinda Lied About Health Care

Posted on by William Teach

Time Magazine is stunned! There’s been a remarkable amount of coverage of President Obama’s appearance at the House Republican retreat today, but I haven’t seen anyone focus on the President’s rather stunning admission about the Democrats’ health care legislation (Video): And what is Time Magazine stunned about? This is what Obama remarked The last thing […]

 

Another Example of Backwards Islamic ‘Culture’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

U.S. troops in Afghanistan are having a hard time understanding what is a strange Afghan cultural practice to them. The practice can be summed up in the ages old Afghan phrase, “women are for children, boys are for pleasure.” Yes, that phrase means what you think it means. It has been well known for a […]

 

What Lesson Did Brown Teach Obama/Democrats? Apparently Pass Bad Stuff Faster

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once Scott Brown took away the Democrat super majority in the Senate by becoming the Republican’s 41st vote based in large part on the fact that Massachusetts voters were unhappy with Obamacare, one would think that President Obama and the Democrat Party would learn a vital lesson. A look at a dozen or so stories […]

 

One Giant Step for Socialism

Posted on by Dave Blount

Hard left Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) is good for something after all. He succinctly sums up what ObamaCare means for the future of this country: What this bill does is we finally take that step… from healthcare as a privilege to healthcare as an inalienable right of every single American citizen. Sounds good, doesn’t it? […]

 

Why Taxing Health Care Plans Is A Bad Idea

Posted on by William Teach

And interesting report, found via the DU. Even Physicians For A National Health Program think taxing “Cadillac Plans” is a bad idea The health reform bill which passed the Senate in December would impose a 40 percent excise tax on health insurance plans with premiums above $23,000 a year for families and $8,500 for individuals. […]

 

Bloomberg’s Anti-Salt Crusade May Go Nationwide

Posted on by Dave Blount

In the nanny state dystopia of New York City, shooting heroin is encouraged, with the taxpayer forced to pay for instructions on how to do it. But the authorities won’t long permit eating salted food: Participation in New York City’s new anti-salt campaign, which aims to reduce the sodium content of restaurant and packaged food […]

 

The Bad News Just Keeps Rolling In For Obamacare

Posted on by John Hawkins

The more you know about the healthcare plan rammed through Congress, the more there is to hate. It raises taxes, raises premiums, increases the cost of care, adds to the deficit and will lead to taxpayer funded abortion, longer waits, rationing, death panels, and a decreased quality of care — and that’s probably underselling it. […]

 

…Yet Not ALL Unions Willing to Bend Over for Obamacare Tax Hike

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Yesterday I posted a story about how the two big public employees unions were looking the other way on Obamacare and helping Obama to pass his socialist take over of our healthcare system even though the plan would hike taxes on their very own members and would devastate their helathcare plans. Well, not all unions […]

 

Unions to Rake in $19 Billion Per Year From Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Over at BigGovernment.com, Don Loos posited an excellent reason about why the big public employees unions are falling all over themselves to help Obama force Obamacare down America’s throats even though their members would lose their lavish healthcare plans as a result. The reason? $19 billion in likely dues money that these unions will get […]

 

Sen. Ben Nelson: Say, Maybe We Shudda Waited on Healthcare ‘Reform’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every week we are seeing another Democrat deciding not to run for re-election or one that is switching parties to the GOP all due to the wild, left-wing overreach indulged in by the Obama Administration and its cohorts in Congress. Connecticut’s Senator Chris Dodd is only the latest heavy hitter Democrat that is looking for […]

 

David Price (D-NC): Passing ObamaCare Easier If We Restrict You Morons From Seeing Our Deliberations

Posted on by William Teach

OK, that is not exactly what he said, but, if we apply Politicianonics to it, that is what he means There is talk about opening up the House and Senate negotiations on the health care proposal to public hearings. C-SPAN is pushing to broadcast those conferences over its network. Not all legislators like the idea. […]

 

Dems Look To Finalize Health Bill In Secret

Posted on by William Teach

Shocking, eh? Democratic leaders are looking to forgo a formal, public conference to merge the House and Senate’s health care overhaul bills, giving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House free rein to hammer out the final measure behind closed doors and thwart Republican efforts to stymie it. Not […]

 

Suprise! Democrats Not Going To Conference On Health Care Bill–UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Wow, the Democrats really want this bill at all costs. They’re going to get it. From The New Republic: Now that both the House and Senate have passed health care reform bills, all Democrats have to do is work out a compromise between the two versions. And it appears they’re not about to let the […]

 

13 State Attorneys Threaten Lawsuit Over ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

The question is, is this something they will actually do, and, why are they doing it now? Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care overhaul bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. “We believe this […]