Today, the Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 to release a malodorous gas into the halls of Congress:
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, with the vote of a lone Republican, approved Chairman Max Baucus’ $829 billion health care bill 14-9, kicking off what’s expected to be a long and arduous path through Congress for final legislation.
The “long […]
Health Care BS
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NOXIOUS VAPOR RELEASED FROM SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE
CALLING OUT O ON HIS HEALTH CARE BS
The folks at the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition have a few health care questions for the latest Nobel laureate:
And they expect answers before tomorrow’s Senate vote on the Baucus bill. Here they are again for you readerly types:
10 - At a town hall meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina on July 29 you said ” I will be […]
PWC BOMBS BAUCUS BILL
Last week, we were told that Max Baucus had magical powers. The CBO said that his health “reform” bill, in essence a new entitlement, would actually reduce the federal deficit.
Now that a hearty laugh has been had by all, PricewaterhouseCoopers brings us back to planet Earth with an audit (commisioned by AHIP) whose findings aren’t pretty:
The day before […]
DEMS BETRAY HEALTH CARE QUISLINGS
For anyone not familiar with the term “quisling,” it means “traitor or collaborator.” It entered the vernacular after WWII. Wikipedia provides the following etymology:
After Norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany to conquer his own country
This is why the term is so apposite for the people at the AMA, Big Pharma and other health industry players who collaborated with […]
THE PRESIDENT GETS A TCHOTCHKE
I wasn’t going to write a post about the whole Nobel Prize thing, but I stumbled across a good metaphor that I hate to waste. Today I played in a charity golf tournament and, as they always do at these events, the organizers handed each player a bag of tchotchkes.
It contained the usual junk: a beer koozy, […]
THE “MCCAUGHEY KILLED HILLARYCARE” MYTH
Yesterday, I wrote about the latest round of ad hominem attacks on Betsy McCaughey, but I didn’t have time to expand on the main reason progressive pundits and bloggers revile her.
It’s less about her commentary on Obamacare than her alleged role in the debate over Hillarycare. It’s an article of faith among these people that she killed the Clinton health reform effort.
In 1994, McCaughey […]
THE BILL FOR THE BAUCUS BILL
The CBO finally gave us the price tag for the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill, and it’s a mere $829 billion. But that’s not what you’ll hear from the “news” media. What you’ll be hearing them is that the Baucus bill is “budget neutral.” In fact, it will (guffaw) reduce the deficit:
According to CBO and JCT’s […]
AD HOMINEM ATTACKS ON MCCAUGHEY
You can always tell when a conservative critic of Obamacare is having a significant influence on the reform debate: she will be personally attacked by the advocates of government-run health care, who will also (with their usual gift for unintentional irony) claim that she is irrelevant. Thus Ben Smith (via Sullivan) dismisses Betsy McCaughey:
Some of McCaughey’s claims have been […]
OBAMA & THE GUYS IN WHITE COATS
In the President’s latest insult to the public’s intelligence, he lined up a bunch of shills doctors for a photo op meant to suggest that the medical community is behind Obamacare.
Unfortunately some of these pimps physicians neglected to show up wearing proper sock puppet medical attire. So, the Obots made sure they were properly dressed:
This charade […]
“CHOICE” UNDER GOVT HEALTH CARE
One promise that the President consistently makes is that Americans will have “choice” when his brand of health reform is enacted. Well, I guess that depends on what the meaning of “choice” is.
It apparently doesn’t mean that seniors can spend their own money for their own health insurance without losing their Social Security benefits. Per […]