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POPS Charles Krauthammer :: Fox Wars only disburses more than $3 trillion every year but is extending its reach ever deeper into private industry -- finance, autos, soon health care and energy. Think twice before you run an ad on Fox. At first, there was little reaction from other media. Then on Thursday, the administration tried to make them complicit in an actual boycott of Fox. The Treasury Department made available Ken Feinberg, the executive pay czar, for interviews with the White House "pool" news organizations -- except Fox. The other networks admirably refused, saying they would not interview Feinberg unless Fox was permitted to as well. The administration backed down. This was an important defeat because there's a principle at stake here. While government can and should debate and criticize opposition voices, the current White House goes beyond that. It wants to delegitimize any significant dissent. The objective is no secret.
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POPSThe Public Option Deception (New Audio) P. Klugman explains how it will be regardless of what it's called. Private health care people will be paying higher premiums along with the increased taxes and eventually the government system will "look" more practical and people will succumb. (I think that's what I got out of it)
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POPSLatest Kabuki Production From Team Obama's Manufactured Support for Government-Run Health Care Dr. Tracy Nelson: $1,500 in donations to Barack Obama. Dr. Stanton McKenna: $1,000 in donations to Democrats since 2001. Dr. Jason Schneider: $600 in donations to Democrats since 2001. Dr. Biron Baker: $500 donated to Barack Obama last year. Dr. Nick Perencevich: $500 in donations to Democrats since 2008. Dr. Elaine Bradshaw: $500 in donations to Barack Obama last year. Who unveiled “Doctors for America” earlier this spring? No, not ordinary citizens outside the Beltway. YouTube (0:28)
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POPS If You Donate A Kidney To Dad, You Won't Get Insurance Again. Mr. Waddington has polycystic kidney disease, or PKD, a genetic disorder that leads to kidney failure. First he lost one kidney, and then the other. A year ago, he was on dialysis and desperately needed a new kidney. Doctors explained that the best match — the one least likely to be rejected — would perhaps come from Travis or Michael, his two sons, then ages 29 and 27. Travis and Michael each had a 50 percent chance of inheriting PKD. And if pre-donation testing revealed that one of them had the disorder, that brother might never be able to get health insurance. As a result, their doctors had advised not getting tested. After all, new research suggests that lack of insurance increases a working-age person’s risk of dying in any given year by 40 percent. “At the time David needed a transplant, the people closest to him couldn’t even offer a lifesaving donation — for insurance reasons,” said Mr. Waddington’s wife, Susan.
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POPSSeasonal flu shot may increase risk of H1N1 Hmmm, this little piece comes from Canada. The land of socialized health care. As an indication of how poor Canadian health care and their doctors are, I'd venture a guess this article is a bunch of balony. This "Dr. Lu" is probably a Chinese hack who paid his way to move to Canada and now practices his pseudo medicine up there in the worker's paradise.
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POPSRead the Union Health-Care Label There's more. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has suggested that the federal government could pay for health-care reform by taxing American workers' existing health-care benefits—but he would exempt union-negotiated health-care plans. Under Mr. Baucus's scheme, the government could impose costs of up to $20,000 per employee on nonunion businesses already struggling to afford health care plans. Mr. Baucus's proposal would give union officials another tool to pressure employers into turning over their employees to Big Labor. Rather than provide the lavish benefits required by Obamacare, employers could allow a union to come in and negotiate less costly benefits than would otherwise be required. Such plans could be continuously exempted. ObamaCare is a Trojan Horse for more forced unionization.
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POPSSeaweed suspected in French death Environmentalists say decades of misuse of Brittany's agricultural land is to blame for the explosion of algae, due to the high levels of nitrates used in fertilisers and excreted by the region's high concentration of livestock. They have called for tighter controls on farming.
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POPSSentenced to death on Britain's National Health Service Here you see what Obama has in mind for you. I am not too worried about this as I plan to go to Asia for the final years of my life - where they respect and revere the elderly. For the rest, including you bozos who voted for this muslim trojan horse, you can look forward to a team of liberal doctors huddling together to decide when and how to end your miserable existence.
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POPSNO PUBLIC OPTION! NOTHING should be allowed to pass. This will be a massive trojan horse. There are too many progressive Republicans.
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POPSCruel and Neglectful Care - a Glimpse at ObamaCare You want national health care? Think again. Just look at what Britain has to endure: over one million patients subjected to neglect and cruelty, often to the point of death. I say, if those who don't want to work, and want government handouts, just scurry over to England and don't let the door slap your behind on the way out. And don't come back.
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POPSHighly unusual meeting between CBO & President At best, this looks like a move made out of ignorance of the constitutional checks and balances of the federal government. It appears more like an attempt to browbeat the CBO into more sympathetic scoring of presidential initiatives. Congress should act quickly and forcefully to remind Obama about the boundaries of his executive power. This feels like an attempt to either intimidate or co-opt the CBO, neither of which would be a good thing. The entire meeting seems highly inappropriate. Update II: This seems mighty familiar to Brian Faughnan, who recalls Senator Max Baucus demanding that the CBO stop playing independent arbiter and start throwing the numbers to support a government takeover of the health-care industry.
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POPSObamaCare is a Trojan Horse for Socialized Medicine
Why Medicare-style insurance will kill our health care system The only reason providers haven't been bled out of existence is because they have offset these cuts by raising prices charged to private insurance plans. In effect, then, the good performance of Medicare that Obama and Co. tout has been purchased by beggaring the private plans that they deride. A study last December by Milliman Inc., an independent consulting firm, commissioned by America's Health Insurance Plans, found that underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid accounted for nearly an 11% increase in the health care costs of private plans. This means that on average a privately insured family is forced to pick up about $1,800 extra every year of the government's slack. Private plans, all in all, are subsidizing government programs to the tune of $90 billion annually. "Policymakers, in considering the implications of decreasing Medicare and Medicaid payment rates to health care providers,
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POPSObama Running Scared
Some 47 million Americans are uninsured -- many because some employers have dropped coverage in the economic downturn. Others lack insurance because pre-existing illnesses deny them access to private insurance. There also are millions with no way to pay for soaring health insurance payments because they have lost their jobs. Nearly all Republicans and some moderate Democrats oppose any public plan option. These are the same lawmakers who receive many government-provided perks including health insurance. In his remarks to the AMA, Obama warned against "scare tactics" and "fear mongering" by opponents of the public plan option, which the President said should be available to those who have no health insurance. Obama rejected the "illegitimate concern that's being put forward by those who are claiming that a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system." Obama should tear a page out of LBJ's vote-getting manual and shame the heartless opponents. The hea
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POPSCommanche Commanche is the name of the horse that Captain Miles Keogh of Company I, 7th Cavalry Regiment, United States Army, rode on June 25, 1876. He was the lone surviving living animal on the battlefield on the Little Big Horn River after the battle between the Lakota, Nakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho and Troops C, E, F, I, AND L, of the Seventh Cavalry. Although he was severly wounded, it was decided that he should be nursed back to health and serve as a mascot for the remaining Troops of the Regiment. He died in 1891.
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POPSooo... ohhhh.... US Public "at risk..." THese are the same idiots who believe in "global warming" This whole thing is an attempt by the current liberal "world order" to keep people frightened and dependent on governement for help. There are more cases of bubonic plague in the world right now, and all the attention is focused on this stupid weak flu. The fact is people will always get sick, and people will always die. And Governement isn't the solution... it is the problem.
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POPSVenezuela: Will the Democratic Will of the People Count?!!! Why didn't Bush&Co think of this and restore a third term to the US president, as previously. Think of all the disappointed Bushites that were stopped from voting for the third time for the worst president in living memory. Probably it was believed that as he had driven a horse and four through the American Constitution so often, that bothering with a vote for change of the Constitution was irrelevant. No? It just slipped his mind? "There's many a slip twixt cup and lip." I wonder can the outgoing president sign himself a pardon for war crimes? In secret? Just in case.
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POPSLegal Activities More Harmful Than Some Illegal Drug Use? I'm kind of trippin' on the good professor's name, Professor Nutt. I'm pretty sure he's heard all the jokes. But, he has a good point. If we argue that certain drugs are illegal because it is for the public good and it is to keep health costs down, why not ban otherwise legal activities for the same purpose? I'm jus' sayin'...
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POPSHow The Trojan Horse Bill Set To Be Passed, Could Kill You organization. It is to cut health care costs by preventing Americans from getting treatments that the government decides don't meet their standards for cost effectiveness. In his 2008 book on health care, he explained that such a council would, "lower overall spending by determining which medicines, treatments and procedures are most effective-and identifying those that do not justify their high price tags." Once a panel of government experts decides what is and what is not cost-effective by their definition, the government will stop paying for treatments, medicines, therapies or devices that fall into the latter category. Initially, this will limit access to very expensive treatments for federal employees, veterans, the elderly, members of the military and their dependents and others who rely on the feds to pay for their health care.
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POPSHillarycare's Slow Motion Train Wreck Heading Our Way, Comrades Smoke these for The Children! By Michelle Malkin • February 5, 2009 Now that S-CHIP has passed, smokers will need to do their patriotic duty and fork over those hiked-up tobacco taxes to help ensure that more and more families drop their private coverage and ride the universal health care Trojan Horse. How about lighting up with these? Et tu, President Obama? Caption: A box containing Obama cigars is displayed at the Segovia cigar factory in Nicaragua’s northern province of Esteli February 4, 2009. While U.S. President Barack Obama tries to kick an old smoking habit, a Nicaraguan company has produced the latest in a flood of merchandise trying to cash in on his popularity — “Obama” cigars. Granada Cigars, a small outfit based in Nicaragua’s tobacco-growing north, is using local and Cuban leaves to hand-roll cigars wrapped with a band that says “Obama 44,” to commemorate the 44th U.S. President. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
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