Day: October 2, 2009

School Clinics Equates Abortions

Have you heard all the lies, slander, BS and anything else you want to call the crap being spouted by politicians concerning the health reform bill.  Grandma is gonna die!  ACORN will fund abortions for the government!  Repubs want you to die quickly!  And the hits go on and on and…….but just when I thought that I heard the most absurd rant, I am almost always proven wrong.

This time it is from my old friend (not really but sounds good)  Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota when discussing HR 3200 she said this:

And as a matter of fact, the bill goes on to say what’s going to go on — comprehensive primary health services, physicals, treatment of minor acute medical conditions, referrals to follow-up for specialty care — is that abortion? Does that mean that someone’s 13 year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night? Mom and dad are never the wiser.

Where does it say that?  Please, I realize their is a certain way to politi-speak, but that is a bit over the top.

And then I found this on mediamatters.org after reading the above story.  Yet another Repub makes another anal statement that has no validity what so ever.

Boehner claimed, with a semi-straight face, that he has yet to meet a regular “American” who favors the option — despite polls showing that a majority of voters support to the idea of having the choice of a government plan.

“I’m still trying to find the first American to talk to who’s in favor of the public option, other than a member of  Congress or the administration” said Boehner, whose sole recent foray into a public discussion of health care reform was a tea-party-style event in Ohio a few weeks back.

Media Matters also points this out:

65% Of Americans Want A Public Option

65% Of Americans Support The Public Option. According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, 65% of Americans favor “the government offering a government administered health insurance plan – something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get – that would compete with private health insurance plans.” Only 26% of respondents said they were opposed to such an option.  [New York Times/CBS News poll, 9/19-23/09]

57% Of Ohioans (Hey, Isn’t Boehner One Of Those?) Want A Public Option

57% Of Ohioans Support The Public Option. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, “57% of Ohioans support ‘giving people the option of being covered by a government health insurance plan that would compete with private plans’ and only 35% are opposed. In fact, over 50% of voters in every age, income and education level support the public option.”

I told you so!  Just when morons cannot get any worse, they then get worse…..these two representatives are making up stuff to fit their position.  None…..I repeat…..NONE of these claims are ACCURATE.  But sad to say their will be a handful of idiots that buy into the BS.

These are some of the people that you sent to Washington to handle the country’s business…..if the lie about this…then what else is not true?

Is There Optimism About Health Reform?

With the defeat of the public option, not once but twice, in the Senate Finance Committee there seems to be no optimism left among progressives.  So, my question is….is there any optimism left in health reform?

After the two defeats the Dems came out all smiles and cheerful saying that all was looking good…..optimism….good…..

But after all that, is there any real optimism?

Huh….and in a place that should be very telling to anyone that wants to look…..and thanks to thinkprogress.com:

Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee voted down both the Rockefeller and Schumer amendments, which would have added a public insurance plan to the committee’s bill. As the Wall Street Journal reports, shares in health insurers Humana and UnitedHealth shot up following the votes:

Shares of companies that operate private health plans turned higher or trimmed losses in afternoon trading Tuesday after a Senate committee rejected an amendment that would have created a government-run insurance option. Humana Inc. (HUM) shares, which had been down earlier, were recently up 1% at $38.41. UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) shares gained 3 cents to $25.83.

Private health insurers have bitterly fought the creation of a public insurance option, fearing that such an option would cut into their profits. Yesterday, Life And Health Insurance News reported that the insurance industry has responded positively to the defeat of the public option amendments. “We are pleased by the rejection of both the Rockefeller and Schumer amendments,” said Tom Currey, president of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Janet Trautwein, president of the National Association of Health Underwriters, also told the press that her organization is pleased by the failure of the Schumer and Rockefeller amendments.

There is optimism….but it is not about the well being of the American people, but rather to continuation of the status quo in the health sector.  May I suggest that if you are concerned with the state of the reform then watch the stocks after each vote….that will be more telling than anything you will hear on the MSM.

Here Is The Future Without Health Reform

The debate rages…there are setbacks and some forward movement….but if the special interests have their way and no health reform is coming, what can we look forward to in the near future?

We have heard all the arguments pro and con of the health care debate, but there are a few things that will be certain without reform……costs will keep going up, people will DIE and the uninsured will be a drag on the economy.

Rep. Boner, my bad Boehner, has been a staunch critic of reform but this is what happens even in HIS district:

A 22-year-old woman from Oxford, Ohio, died from swine flu on Wednesday. Kimberly Young graduated from Miami University in December and continued to live in Oxford, Ohio, within Minority Leader John Boehner’s congressional distrct. Reports now indicate that after initially getting sick, Young put off treatment because she was uninsured:  (thanx to thinkprogress.com)

There are always horror stories when the health care debate is raging here is another one:

One of the worst abuses of private insurance companies is the practice of using spurious reasons to deny claims. In April, Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez awoke and found her shirt soaked in blood. Realizing that her “her left breast [was] bleeding from the nipple,” she rushed to the emergency room.

Today, CBS-5 reports that this San Francisco Department of Public Health employee has had her claim denied because her insurance company, Blue Shield of California, didn’t consider her situation to be an “emergency.” Even though her doctor told her it was likely a tumor, Blue Shield said that Miran-Ramirez should have known it wasn’t:

But Miran-Ramirez said the real shock came when her insurance company, Blue Shield of California HMO, which had initially approved the claim for the emergency room visit, reversed course and sent her a new bill three months later requiring her to pay the total charges for that visit: $2,791.00.

Once again thanx to thinkprogress.com for the content.

And within the debate are those people that are using the Constitution as an argument to proposed health reform, the tenthers as they are called because they say the 10th amendment says that it should not reform health care.  The worst indication of just how far these dipsticks will go, Sen. Ensign is saying:

A popular right-wing objection to federal health care legislation is that it’s unconstitutional. These “tenthers” argue that since the U.S. Constitution never explicitly gives the federal government the right to regulate health care, the 10th amendment leaves that power to the states. Texas tenthers have held pro-secession rallies, and officials in various states have raised the possibility of legislation to exempt their residents from federal health care.

ENSIGN: We’ve allowed exceptions for religious and various other reasons. But some people hold the Constitution pretty high in their lives, and if they believe that this thing is unconstitutional, and they then say, “I choose not to have health insurance, I’m not going to buy it,” we could be subjecting those very people who conscientiously — because they believe in the U.S. Constitution — we could be subjecting them to fines or the interpretation of a judge, potentially, all the way up to imprisonment. That seems to me to be a problem.

These types just amaze me….they quote and hold-up the Constitution to make their point but yet want to violate the same document to further their agenda…like inserting themselves into people’s private lives….WHAT A PILE OF CRAP!

Everyone needs to decide what it will be in conjunction with the Constitution…either we go by strict adherence to it or it is up for interpretation.  But to fluctuate between the two is just plain IGNORANT!  And I mean that in EVERY sense of the word.