In This Dimension

The One, SOTU, Healthcare….

Many many articles and columns have been written on The Failure of the Messiah to understand what is going on, and the consequences of his seemingly demented demand for something America doesn’t want, and his complete inability to change course. (Leopard, spots, etc.)

Here is one of the best on the real meaning of what’s happened and the toll on his next three years.

Petition Against Obamacare

Grassfire Nation is on the very edge of setting a new petition record — ONE MILLION signers opposing ObamaCare.

Please link to this and sign their petition if you want to stop the socialization of our medical system - against the wishes of over 60% of American, the country and citizens Congress is paid to REPRESENT America, not DICTATE TO Americans.

This is from their email:

Imagine the message we will send to Congress on Monday
when we hand-deliver ONE MILLION signatures from seniors
to young people — all standing united in their opposition
of socialized health care.

We are so close — roughly 30,000 petitions shy of
this unprecedented total!

One millon[…]

The “Healthcare” Bill Vote

Did you know that the bill the Senate’s been debating — isn’t even the one on which they’ll be asked to vote?

I guess this is the Democrats’ version of “transparency.”

Completely Reckless, Completely Irresponsible
from the Office of Senator Mitch McConnell

Thursday, December 17, 2009

‘And here’s the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader’s conference room has even seen. That’s right. The final bill we’ll vote on isn’t even the one we’ve had on the floor. It’s the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to[…]

How Stupid is Obama? This Stupid

Either he actually believes what I have highlighted below - which means he is stupid beyond hope…

Or he is just lying to the American people - which means he is totalitarian AND stupid beyond hope.

Can’t be anything else:

Obama said Democrats were “on the precipice” of victory, not breakdown.

The president said differences still remain over details but described the bill as an accomplishment for the history books.

The legislation includes “all the criteria that I laid out” in a speech to a joint session of Congress earlier in the year, he said. “It is deficit-neutral. It bends the cost curve. It covers 30[…]

So Let’s Debate the Real Healthcare Bill Issues

Is it too much to ask our Senators and Representatives to debate the real issues in the healthcare bills? To be honest about both the probable outcome - and their actual goals - of this legislation?

Why?

The following column covers the largest issues in the debate. If our representative Congress wants to pass this bill, why not debate these issues honestly? If you support Obamacare, why do you decline to do so? Why do you support those who refuse to discuss these issues? If it’s a good plan, show us by debating - honestly - these issues.

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You Will Lose Your Private[…]

Great Moments in Socialized Medicine

Great Moments in Socialized Medicine

“British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS”–the National Health Service–reports London’s Daily Mail:

1. British cancer and heart attack victims are more likely to die than almost anywhere in the developed world
2. Asthma and diabetes patients are more than three times as likely to end up in hospital as their neighbours in Germany
3. Life expectancy in Britain–79 years and six months for a man–is far worse than in France, where men expect to live until 81. The deficit is similar for women
4. Britain performed only marginally[…]

NYT is less accurate on Obamacare than on Nonexistent Global Warming

Here is an amazing set of stories - starting with the New York Times - on Obamacare, why the NYT Pulitzer-wining columnist Nicholas Kristof thinks we need it, etc.

Please read all three links, as that’s the only way to know what the true story is. You won’t get it in Kristof’s original column.

Original column.

Original dissection of the inaccuracies and badly-sourced “journalism” (read the comments from doctors, as well).

Follow-up dissection of lies and nonsense… Once any investigation is done into the origianl story, it just gets worse and worse and worse.

And then once other intelligent journalists (i.e. NOT the NYT) get ahold of it, the Kristof’s[…]

Remember - We’re Doing this to SAVE Money… ROFLMAO!!!!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has finally unveiled his massive 2,074-page health care bill. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the insurance-expansion provisions would cost the feds $848 billion over 10 years, says Michael F. Cannon, director of health policy studies with the Cato Institute.

To raise those funds:

• The bill would tax wages, medical devices, prescription drugs, sick people, health insurance premiums (twice), health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), and cosmetic surgery.
• The remainder would supposedly come from $491 billion of Medicare cuts, even though Medicare’s chief actuary says such cuts are “unrealistic” and “doubtful.”
• The $848[…]

Doctor Shortage, Healthcare and Mass.

From THE HILL today.

Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors’ group in the country — confirms that “the supply of doctors just won’t be there” for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is “already a catastrophic crisis,” Stubbs noted that underserved areas in the U.S. currently need almost 17,000 new primary care physicians even before Obama’s proposals are enacted.

In the meantime, according to Bloomberg News, a 2009 survey by Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a recruiting and research firm in Irving, Texas, found that “the average[…]

A Few Details of Pelosi/Obama-care

I know there are many who support the concept of Obamacare or Pelosicare - whatever you call it. But do you think these people are aware of the following that are IN THE BILL passed by Pelosi’s House?

NO?

Then perhaps we should ensure they know about things like a MANDATORY $15,000 policy for their family, or a fine of 2.5% of their income for not buying one?

Do YOU have FIFTEEN GRAND to give to the government in the midst of this government-caused recession?

Do YOU really believe that lowering your standard of living to provide healthcare benefits to people too dumb or too[…]