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February 10, 2009
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Posted by Van Helsing at February 10, 2009 10:35 AM
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Stealth Health?
Rush Limbaugh may have been the first to go public with a feature of the stimulus bill buried deep in its 778 pages that is more consequential for Americans’ health than any other part of that monumental proposal.
The plan is to begin rationing medical care ala the U.K system in which patients are evaluated and a government bureaucrat determines if and when medical treatment is necessary.
“The bill’s health rules will affect ‘every individual in the United States’ (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. . . . One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and ‘guide’ your doctor’s decisions (442, 446).” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs.
National health care is on the way, folks, that same national health atrocity which Hillary tried to perpetrate on the American people in 1993. She flopped miserably but it’s baaaack!
The same types who run the Postal Service will be determining whether we really need that apendectomy, that stent, that transplant, that gall bladder surgery or whether it can wait a few months–by which time we may be dead and will save the system a bunch of money.
(http://genelalor.com/)
Posted by: Berlet98 at February 10, 2009 10:45 AM
WTF!!!! This is coming to light on the day of the vote!? If this doesn't cause uprising, nothing will. My senators' phone lines continue to be busy.
Posted by: Karin at February 10, 2009 11:15 AM
Sorry Karin...nothing will. Oh, we the PEOPLE are "uprised" alright. But THE BILL MUST BE PASSED. (And so it was). THE MESSIAH SAID SO.
There must be hell to pay for those three turn-coats who stabbed free market capitalism and the Republic in the back.
We have been screwed. Just look at the Dow...as of now (10.20 a.m. pacific) it's down 308 points. Change you can believe in, baby.
Posted by: matt at February 10, 2009 11:21 AM
"Holly Shit...Batman...the Earth is to fry before I can grow into your leotards."
"Hang on there, little cunt-piece, your ever-lasting life as a crime fighter and environmental whore can be ensured by butt-fucking your hero, AlGore.
OH...OK...
Posted by: Eneils Bailey at February 10, 2009 12:20 PM
Oh look the sign of all the green poppycock GREENS STOP GLOBAL WHINNING
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at February 10, 2009 12:22 PM
Looks like the law may be hot on the heels of the traitorous John Murtha.
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/09041/948155-100.stm
"Taxpayers for Common Sense, a watchdog group, said Mr. Murtha obtained $38 million in federal earmarks for PMA's clients in the last fiscal year. The firm was founded in 1989 by Paul Magliochetti, a former top aide on the subcommittee Mr. Murtha chairs."
With qualifications like that he should be the next Secretary of Defense. He would fit in with the othe traitors, crooks and tax cheats.
Posted by: Name at February 10, 2009 1:00 PM
"Stop Global Warming"
Mission accomplished. You can take down the sign now.
Posted by: Jimbo at February 10, 2009 1:11 PM
That sign is nearly completely buried under several inches of irony.
Posted by: cbischof at February 10, 2009 1:16 PM
not to alarm anybody, but now is a very good time to stock up on tradeable goods. it may take a few months, but things are going to get very bumpy.
this stimulus suckx to high heaven.
Posted by: nancz at February 10, 2009 2:09 PM
Stealth Health--Updated
Rush Limbaugh may have been the first to go public with news of a feature of the stimulus bill buried deep in the bowels of its 778 pages that is far less stimulative and more consequential for Americans’ health than any other part of that monumental proposal.
The plan is to begin rationing medical care ala the U.K system in which patients are evaluated and a government bureaucrat determines if and when medical treatment is necessary.
“The bill’s health rules will affect ‘every individual in the United States’ (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. . . . One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and ‘guide’ your doctor’s decisions (442, 446).” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs.
National health care is on the way, folks, that same national health atrocity which Hillary tried to perpetrate on the American people in 1993. She flopped miserably but it’s baaaack!
The same types who run the Postal Service will be determining whether we really need that appendectomy, that stent, that transplant, that gall bladder surgery or whether it can wait a few months–by which time we may be dead which will save the system a bunch of money.
This afternoon (Tuesday, 2-10-09) Sen. Arlen Specter (nominally, a PA. Republican) told Fox News, “We are not going to let the federal government monitor what doctors do.”
Specter, one of only three Republicans to succumb to pressure and vote for Obama’s pork-laden, nearly-trillion dollar stimulus bill added, “This is one of a number of provisions that has popped up that we have to revise and be very careful about.” ...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
Posted by: Berlet98 at February 10, 2009 3:56 PM
Just when you think their religion can't get any creepier, it does. Their Obamassiah is leading them into the promised land of socialism, but now it's leaning towards National Socialism , i.e. Nationalsozialismus.
Posted by: Lyle at February 10, 2009 5:22 PM
Posted by: BURNING HOT at February 10, 2009 8:20 PM
Hey were getting snow where i live here in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA so where is AL GORE and his HOT AIR?
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at February 10, 2009 10:30 PM
Posted by: BURNING HOT at February 10, 2009 11:38 PM
Interpreting the News: Stimulus Or Boondoggle?
So much news, so little time. So much deception, so little truth.
“News” of its very nature should not require interpretation. If it’s news, it should be factual, unvarnished, and objective. Regrettably, politicians of their very nature, wallow in shading the facts and/or lie outright about what is fact and, aided and abetted by disgraceful excuses for a mainstream media, often get away with it, at least if they are lib politicos.
Take the stimulus bill. As Rodney Dangerfield may have said, Please!
This record-setting boondoggle continues on its merry way through congress, thanks to the 3 RINO’s, Republicans In Name Only, Senators Specter, Snowe, and Collins, and now goes to conference with the House.
Specter, who was shocked, shocked, I tell you, over the presence in the stimulus of a stealth feature that would allow government lackeys to decide the type and extent of health care Americans would receive, (See “Stealth Health,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=815). When clued in, he said, ““This is one of a number of provisions that has popped up that we have to revise and be very careful about.”
Of course, it didn’t pop up at all. He just didn’t read the damned thing. Now, just hours after expressing that concern, he’s whistling a different melody and has become more carefree. Now, the “stimulus bill must emerge from a House-Senate conference committee ‘virtually intact’ to win his support for final passage:” http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=43297.
Methinks I smell a rat or is that just a RINO stench?
Meanwhile, back at the White House, the Stimulator in Chief lays it on thick and heavy for passage of his bill, suggesting that if you’re not wit’ me, yer ag’in me on this and then you’re nothing but lousy, rotten, SOB obstructionists and you all suck!
Obama didn’t quite use that rhetoric. He couched his anger with dissidents in more diplomatic terminology but the thought came though loudly and clearly in his Monday night press conference: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=43327.
As CNS headlined that piece, “Obama Frames the Argument As Those Who Want to Do Something vs. Those Who Want to Do Nothing.”
What the whole so-called stimulus bill will actually do is now being downplayed.
It’s been touted as a jobs bill. America needs more jobs, and not just because GM has announced thousands of layoffs to comply with government demands for re-structuring. But, how many jobs will it create? Two million? Three million? None?
Recall that Obama has said it will create or save millions of jobs, which essentially meant that if no concrete figures on new jobs can be manufactured, the president can always say, “Yeah, but look how many we saved!” Needless to say, “saved” jobs are not quantifiable.
Obama’s Democrat cohorts are already backtracking on the issue of job creation. In the words of Sen. Max Baucus, (D. MT),
“That’s very hard to get nailed down, of course,” he said, “but it certainly passes the smell test.”...
(Read the rest of the smell at http://genelalor.com/.)
Posted by: Berlet98 at February 11, 2009 12:36 AM
Posted by: V the K at February 11, 2009 5:49 AM
This pic summarizes the entire liberal movement.
Posted by: TED at February 11, 2009 8:06 AM

