Archive for September, 2009
From little Acorns grow large unreported stories
How can the MSM be so aggressive on the attack of something like the health care reform town hall meetings and at the same time totally ignore the Acorn story which is in full bloom?
Check it out from Ed Morrissey…
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/15/great-moments-in-gatekeeping/
N.I.C.E. is not nice
The United Kingdom has a single payer health care system. One of the integral parts of the system is NICE. The National Institute For Health And Clinical Excellence assigns a value to a year of life that is based on the age and existing conditions of the patient.
This is rationing.
The Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission for medical issues was funded within the Stimulus package in house bill HR1. It is not authorized yet but will be as part of house bill HR3200.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has made his views known through numerous articles and activity on many commissions. However, lately he seems to be backing away from a previously hard line stance on forced euthanasia.
Peter Singer has made his views known on the subjects of non-voluntary euthanasia and infanticide.
These are the people who are forming the broad tenets of the Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission with regard to health care.
Death panels may be a little over the edge, but are these people representative of the views of the American public. Does Uncle Sam believe in non-voluntary euthanasia and infanticide if the economic values of those lives do not meet some arbitrary government standard?
States rights, Federal rights
Maybe I am confused but I thought that Insurance was a the purview of the individual states. As of last night it sounds like the federal government is taking over health insurance.
How would you like to be the insurance commissioner for Alabama after the President pointed out very critically the health insurance environment in Alabama? I have no ideal how efficient and effective the current health insurance is in the sovereign state of Alabama, but I would love it if it were exactly what Alabamians what. Where’s a poll when you need one?
Show Me The Money
President Obama delivered a very impassioned speech yesterday evening. Many issues were covered. Many pleas for patriotic behaviour and support were made.
For 3 months I have been hearing about how the health care reforms will be financed through savings. It has been claimed that these savings will be found in Medicare/Medicaid inefficiencies. Other savings will be discovered as redundant testing procedures used by doctors to protect themselves against malpractice lawsuits. Others claim that savings will originate within the drug and health insurance industries – both in their inherent bureaucracies and the excessive profit motives.
There are probably a few more sources of savings but I was so flabbergasted by this list I might have missed some. Is the President telling us that he is going to finance $900,000,000.00 by finding savings? If these fraudulent and wasteful items are so obvious, then why do they still exist? Where are the government auditors? Why have we not reversed this waste already?
Probably working as well as the SEC boys who investigated Bernie Madoff for about 15 years while he bilked the public for billions. Bernie was very efficient. He just told everyone a fairy tale and did no trades whatsoever. Perhaps we should have Medicare tell everyone they are healthy and do nothing at all. If the SEC audits and investigates them, Medicare will get the green light and we could basically shut down all of the REAL side of medicine in Medicare and just deal with the GOVERNMENT side … I am obviously making an attempt at humour. However, there is one small truth here. If a government oversight Commission like the SEC could not uncover Bernie Madoff giant con, why would you think that another government oversight commission will be able to find savings in Medicare, drug companies, insurance companies, doctor offices, whatever?
Back to the title, show me the money.
Religion – In or Out?
We have “In God We Trust” on our money. Most of the country follows Judeo/Christian traditions for our western legal codes and morality.
Most of us do not think that Islamic political figures and countries should be given preference over any other religious persuasions. Perhaps Christian political figures and countries should be granted some preferential treatment as they are our roots. More importantly, most of the President’s support comes from citizens who agree with the section of the constitution which makes a very definite separation between Church and State.
How does that work when their choice for President sends out a message to the Islamic nations of the world as almost his first act as President. He ignores one of our prime allies – Israel. He is disrespectful of British leaders and their Queen. Then he apologizes for our behaviour as a nation – as being overly aggressive, imperalistic, and disrespectful – all this during two wars waged within Islamic nations – one of which he is winding down and one of which he is escalating. Why was Bush’s war so vile? Why is Obama’s war so righteous?
It’s as easy as A, B, C
Our republic was designed with checks and balances. The purpose of this design was to make change take time. Time allowed for a healthy debate with all sides having a voice. Also no precipitous changes could be made in the very fabric of our land except in the case of a dire emergency.
It was certainly not the intention of this design to attack all facets of our republic – finance, environment, major industries (brokerage, cars, insurance), health care, and so on. I understand that President Obama has his vision of our country. Perhaps he forgot that it is not his country, it belongs to all of us. Perhaps he should try to fix one thing at a time. To my reckoning, he has not fixed anything.
Several catch phrase have emerged…
This administration is like the dog who barks at the passing car, when he catches the car he has no idea what to do with it.
Life is made up of 3 steps
- A – identify the problem
- B – present solutions and solve the problem
- C – enjoy life with the problem solved.
Our President needs to work on B.
I guarantee that our Founding Fathers did not envision a speed reader zipping through thousands of pages of legislation so that a committee vote could be called.
Furthermore, tabling over 500 pages of amendments to a bill with numerous place markers (will be filled in later?????) at 3 AM to try to avoid legal and revealing debate on a bill which will cost our country millions of manufacturing jobs in coming decades.
Hope, change, transparency – more like bs.
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