Category: Health

Harry Reid Wants to Vote on a Phantom Bill (Dem Dirty Tricks Edition)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Either today or later this week, Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev) wants the Senate to vote on a “motion to proceed” on the Senate’s version of the healthcare bill. That wouldn’t be so bad except for the fact that it has barely been seen by anyone in the Senate. At least not as […]

 

Dems: Anti-Abortion Amendment to be Striped Out Later (Stupak Doesn’t Matter)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston At the last minute Representative Bart Stupak (D, Mich.) was successful in getting Speaker Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership to approve an amendment that would prohibit federal spending on abortion added to its nationalized healthcare bill passed and sent to the Senate over the weekend. But a senior Democrat says […]

 

“Sweeping” Health System Plans Pass By 5 Votes

Posted on by William Teach

You have to wonder what the Founders, who shed blood to create a new country, would think about this Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement. I’m […]

 

Buy What Democrats Say to Buy or GO TO JAIL

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It has come to this, America. Democrats have decided that if you don’t agree with their policies, you are to be fined. And if you don’t pay the fine, you are a criminal and will be sentenced to jail. That’s right, Democrats are criminalizing dissent. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to leave […]

 

About That AMA Endorsement

Posted on by McQ

Yesterday President Obama took time out of what one would presume was a busy day to tout the fact that the AMA and the AARP had endorsed the latest House version of health care reform. But it appears that some of the rank and file are none too happy with the endorsement. In fact many […]

 

Some House Dems that Might Be Persuaded to Vote No on Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ken Marrero over at Blue Collar Muse reminds us that there are a few Democrats that could possibly be persuaded to vote against House Speaker Pelosi’s healthcare bill. Word has it that Pelosi is going to try and strong-arm her bill to a floor vote this Saturday, so if you want to stop this bill, […]

 

Current Democrat House Vote Count on Healthcare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the jobs of the “Whip” position in Congress is to count votes so that the leadership has an understanding of what sort of support their legislative efforts have. These Whip counts are often made public knowledge (but not always) and The Hill has reported the latest counting of House Democrats and where they […]

 

Under Obamacare, You’ll Be Paying For Other People’s Abortions Out Of Your Own Pocket

Posted on by John Hawkins

Are you morally opposed to abortion? Do you think it’s the greatest evil in American history? Do you believe it’s absolutely, incontrovertibly incompatible with your religious views? That’s too bad, because under Obamacare, you’ll be personally funding abortions: From House Republican Leader, John Boehner: Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to […]

 

Ezra Klein’s Astonishing New Health Care Charts

Posted on by McQ

Or at least they seem to have astonished Klein. Here’s one as an example: My goodness. As Klein says: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care. Anyone – what’s missing […]

 

Meet Juanita Tillery.

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

Juanita Tillery is an 88 year old WWII Army Nurse veteran suffering from dementia. She is currently residing in The Hamptons in Houston full time assisted living:  in Houston, Texas. Her daughter, Linda Oursler, lives in Franklin, Tennessee and has been handling her mother’s affairs. Juanita’s care is paid for by the VA. Or, well, […]

 

10 Facts Every American Should Know About Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-Page Gov’t Takeover of Health Care

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Representative John Boehner (R-OH), Washington, Oct 29 Members of Congress and the American people are just beginning to look at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 1,990-page government takeover of health care, but it’s already becoming clear just how costly and unsustainable this proposal is. From higher taxes on middle-class families to job-killing mandates on small […]

 

FACT CHECK: Profits for Health Insurance Companies Far From Fat

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press posted an interesting piece revealing that the health insurance industry is far from the image that Democrats and other leftists want to present. Insurance companies are so often presented as rapacious, fat-cats ripping off all their customers and growing fat on profits. But the AP finds that reality does not quite fit […]

 

Doc Quits! $160,000 Per Year Malpractice Costs the Cause

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Doctor Jacquelline Perlman has had it. After a 12-year career as an OB-GYN doctor she his quitting her practice. One of the major reasons is the exorbitant costs of malpractice insurance. “I’ve decided to retire from obstetrics,” said Perlman, 42. “It breaks my heart. Malpractice costs are a big part of it. It’s a very […]

 

House Speaker Lacks Democrat Votes for ‘Public Option’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite assurances to the contrary, Politico.com is reporting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.) does not have the votes to include the so-called public option in the House version of Obamacare making it more likely that a “trigger” will be included instead. Politico also reports that Obama himself announced support for the […]

 

Senate Defeats Dem Leader Reid’s ‘Doc Fix’ Plan

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Roll Call is reporting that the $250 billion extension to the Medicare physician payment program was defeated in the Senate today. Reid couldn’t even get a simple majority losing in a 47 to 53 vote. Naturally Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev) blames the Republicans. Reid complained that the loss was a result of “activities […]

 

About Swine Flu

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

This Swine Flu harms younger people far more disproportionately than the regular flu. Go check out the charts at this link [h/t Instapundit] By the time the vaccinations get fully prepared, Swine Flu will have swept the country. People will either be dead or immune. In the Spring of the year, my kids and I […]

 

Obama’s Capable Of Threats And Trashing Constitution At Same Time

Posted on by William Teach

I guess Mr. Constitutional professor was all out of bubble gum President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of airing “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal anti-trust laws. In unusually harsh terms, […]

 

Senate Health Care Bill Will Put 1/3 Of US On Welfare

Posted on by McQ

That’s a truly stunning number. 90 million will be on either SCHIP or Medicaid (not Medicare … Medicaid) if the Senate Finance version of health care becomes ObamaCare according to the Heritage Foundation: But of those 29 million with new insurance coverage, almost half (14 million), will get their coverage through the welfare programs Medicaid […]

 

CNN: ‘Disingenuous Insurance Companies’ or Disingenuous Reporting?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On October 13 CNN’s John Roberts conducted an interview with purported “insurance industry insider” Wendell Potter who claimed that the disingenuous actions of the insurance industry made him “decide to become a critic of the industry.” Mr. Potter is a former head of Public Relations of the CIGNA Corp and Humana, Inc. but he is […]

 

Brave Mom Fights Forced Unionization and Gov. Quinn

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We’ve been reporting to you of the outrageous under-the-radar actions of Governor Pat Quinn and his Executive Order 9-15. This EO both handed the private information of Illinois citizens to unions and set up a payoff for his union supporters by automatically unionizing hundreds of Illinois home healthcare workers whether they want to be unionized […]

 

Healthcare Conference Call With Representatives Shadegg and Rodgers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Today at 4:30PM eastern a blogger conference call was held by Representatives John Shadegg (R, AZ) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R, WA). The subject we spoke about was that of House Republican’s ideas and problems on healthcare reform issues in both the Senate and the House. The following are my notes of the call, any […]