Daily Gut: Why Obama Hates Obamacare
by Greg GutfeldSo Obama is holding a townhall meeting right now (cue hearty applause from a sea of clapping seals) to tout his monstrous health care overhaul – more evidence that we’re entering the hard sell phase of something so unnecessary it’s actually turning our President into a sweaty huckster. But thankfully for him, he doesn’t have to do it all himself–the networks are doing Obama’s pitching (and catching) for free.
Look, with this sort of thing, you gotta go with your gut: when someone is trying to sell you something way too hard, the thing he’s selling ain’t good.
And the only thing you have to remember about health care is this: if Obama had to choose between the current system and the system he’s envisioning for all of us, he’d run screaming to the former. You saw him in that ABC infomercial – when asked by a neurologist (which is a real doctor, I think) what he would do if his wife or child got seriously ill. Wouldn’t Obama want the best damn care possible, nationalized health care bureaucracy be damned? At that point, Obama started thinking like a human again, not a teleprompter, and could no longer defend his plan. Instead, he said, “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.”
What, nothing about controlling costs?
In effect, what’s good for Michelle and Malia is not good for the rest of us.
No wonder Obama needs to sell us this thing.
Even he doesn’t even want it!
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How can people not see through this whole agenda? It amazes me.
When will the American public wake up? When he's on his 3rd term? When ACORN rigs the election? When he's in charge of the census? When he stages town halls with pre-planned questions and answers? When he shoves cap and trade down our throats with a 3am amendment? All this has already happened or will happen next year, again what does it take? When will the wimpy Republican Party start challenging these easily challenged ideas? When When WHEN!!!!!????
if it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.”
The key word there is always. What happened to his previous statement.
Maybe you’re better off, uhh, not having the surgery, but, uhh, taking the painkiller.
What am I thinking. His family always gets the best while the rest of us get the pain killer.
I can hardly wait.
Supply and Demand. Insure everyone with someone else's money. Demand increases, supply does what?
If supply stays the same then prices do what? Anyone, anyone? They go up. Well, that certainly saved money.
So, how do we dampen demand; fix prices and kill supply. Result, anyone?
Rationing by interdiction. Yes, Wash DC will certainly do this well.
Game, set, match.
Bueller, Bueller?
He's a snake oil salesman, travelin' through town with his wagon full of goods, and marks in the audience to make the first buys, swear to the crowd how effective the snake oil is and how it's a miraculous cure. Then the people will pony up their money, and salesman beats it out of town, counting the money secretly in the back of the wagon and smirking over it all.
If Obamacare is not good enough for the politicians and the government employees, why is it good enough for the rest of us? Keep your snake oil to yourself Obama.
Remember that labor unions will also be exempt; especially his close political allies, the UAW.
Use the snake oil to lube your crankshaft, Mr. President.
I said crank.
And shaft.
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False argument. It assumes that reducing Healthcare expenses will also reduce the quality of Healthcare. That's not a given.
Guess again:
<A href="http://www.americanissuesproject.org/blogs/columns/archive/2009/06/30/if-the-us-passes-obamacare-where-will-canada-send-their-preemies.aspx
The next time socialized healthcare works, will be the FIRST time…..
Oh good Lord! Did FDR have this many "fireside chats" in his entire 200 years in office? Is this jerk ever going to spend some time doing his job instead of making celebrity appearances on TV ad nauseam?
I am willing to bet my life that no where in those 1,200 some odd pages does it put Govt. employees and elected officials on this plan.
I feel so special!
I am an internist and see the issue with a few things necessary if there is to be any meaningful reform.
1. Patients should have more responsibility for minor complaints. This may or may not cut down on unnecessary visits.
2 Tort reform. Lawyers and huge awards only suck money into their pockets. I am not advocating no liability but there has to be some sanity in the system.
Answers:
1. Health savings accounts. This allows everyone to ration their own care. Catastrophic problems would be covered by insurance.
2. Set up boards to hear grievances and if a malpractice case has merit let it go forward. Then cap awards to rational amounts.
It's a numbers game… that is all it is… Our healthcare system looks bad because we have rising costs (for both preventative care AND emergency/chronic care) AND we have a large number of people uninsured… To the bureaucrats nothing matters but the numbers…. Nothing will change, not the cost, not the number of people that can afford to go to the doctor, nothing… but the number of those insured…
If FDR had this many fireside chats, DC would have burned to the ground.
This is sounding a lot like Jones Town
The only difference is only conservatives will be forced to drink the KoolAide
Jim Jones=Obama Hussein ?
We are so screwed
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We gotta take a stand
So far I have not heard a word about these 2 issues and can't begin to buy into the Obama solution and conclude he is not trying at all to address healthcare but only to control a large percent of our economy. He is setting the plate to control every aspect of our lives is the name of health. For example, if the government decides sugar makes us overweight the it will either be taxed or banned, inthe name of reducing healthcare costs.
Don't buy into the sales pitches, don't.
Never.
Ain't that the truth? But look at all the new jobs that would be created by federalizing the fire departments.
I ask the same question, redux. Same F&#&%in question. All I end up with is a headache.
Sam Walton would never allow this
Wal-Mart backs employer health insurance mandate
Charles Babington / Associated Press
Washington — Wal-Mart is the latest in a line of traditionally Republican-leaning businesses to embrace key portions of President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul health care, a trend that could complicate opponents' efforts to build a united front when Congress ramps up its work on the issue this summer.
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090701/BIZ/90701...
Greg, you gotta get with it brother, Barry is most wise he was a community organizer and all, dude.
Nope… because he is a community organizer to the core and that is what community organizers do… go door to do to try and sell ways of the thinking that will make our "community" better…
I *don't* think he knows what his job as POTUS is supposed to be. I *do* think he believes his job has something to do with rubber gloves and the American people. This must be what socialized medicine will be like…I fear the next four years are going to be one long, painful visit with "Obama the proctologist".
Obama and the unions aren't the only ones behind this hard sell. I found this article and nearly lost my mind!
<a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/06/red-aler…” target=”_blank”>http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/06/red-aler…
I always heard there were "plants" in the government, I just didn't really believe it , until I read the information here. I clicked on this reps name in the article and brought up his website. Leave an email comment on his site, like I did, and let him know that Americans are finding out what he's up to.
I hear he really, really likes to roast marshmallows.
They don't want to see thru global warming..er, global cooling..er, climate change either. It's called willfull (sp?) blindness
Hank, Sojourner get his healthcare at the Health Department, he’s a true believer.
heh heh………..exactly.
The MSM has the word hypocrisy so twisted that they no longer know how to apply it where it fits – it fits Obama:
Obama wants to force Americans to use a government health care system that he will never agree to use for his own family. Now that's hypocrisy!!!
I have been trying to get my head around exactly what Obamacare will be and it is amazing how few details they have released. How the heck can you re-work 15% of the US economy with a stealth bill?
Oh wait. . . never mind. Compliant media, lapdog Congress. Yeah. . . I get it now.
Don't they hand out VD pills and that's about it?
Oh Please! At the rate that this is going I will be the only non govt employee just before I croak.
Let him ahve all the fireside chats he wants. The Bible says, in Proverbs "Seldom set foot in your neighbors house, or he will come to hate you." The more people see this guy the more they will come to loathe his very image.
That sounds like the business model for Fuller Brush Company.
Sorry, this is the link that works for the article. My apologies….
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/06/red-aler...
From an English version Swedish news outlet: http://www.thelocal.se/20392/20090701/
Be sure and read the reader's comments after the article.
I see what you're saying and I can agree with the Grievance Board concept. Major problem is, the average Alderman in Chicago will look like a saint compared to the members of those boards. The payoffs, bribes and settlement kickbacks would be biblical. If they would implement loser pays the winners legal fees, that would be a start. Trail lawyers would go ballistic.
That part of Chicago that the Obama gang made its own used to be where my family lived. Somehow, it doesn't seem to be exactly the same "community" that it was then (mid-40s).
Mix that in with condoms and, ta… da …you have universal healthcare : )
Dom: You're right. The modern version is "familiarity breeds contempt."
We are so screwed
blued & tatooed
So the goal of Obamacare will be to end VD in our time. What a lofty goal.
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Generally, I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories – simply because people puported to be involved in such things like talking too much to keep the big things a secret for too long.
However, with the Education aparatiche's systematic dumbing down of the populace coupled with the rise in celebrity for no good reason & the "historically based" movies (Oliver Stone, etc), which have helped create a generally apathetic and undereducated voter bloc, then with inane "get-out-the-vote" pushes that increase uneducated decision-making, and finally resultinig in our MSM annointed, celeb, say-nothing pres… I am beginning to rethink my conspiracy stance. SIGH.
Vainamoinen: And every time that face shows up on TV, I hear the sound that the gloves make when the doctor has finished putting them on. "Snap!"
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He and Ray Nagin from New Orleans could make s'mores.
link isn't working for me.
But look at the bright side. We'll all be one big happy family, living in a very large cave.
Good point. I ran out of characters and my next post wasn't allowed to be posted. Basically this is a power grab and all of us should be VERY afraid of it for a number of reasons. End of liberty as we know it.
Does Doctor Obama use latex gloves? Feels lately like he prefers rough cowhide leather.
I hadn't thought of that. They probably have metal studs too.
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Nothing is a "given." How does that make any point whatsoever.
However, to suggest that expenses will go down when more folks receive an insurance card is simply not in the cards, UNLESS, SOMETHING rations care. Without price as a rationing agent, then WHO will decide if you get your care or not?????
Think about it.
The phrase, "townhall meeting", when used in reference to Obama, causes my sphincter to uncontrollably spasm.
Your problem is that you know too much and are too rational. You actually know where to reduce expenses that add NO VALUE.
That is NOT the POTUS' agenda. Sorry, but we need more of you and less of him.
This is true. We are just clueless compared to the Big Moca.
I know where you can direct that dischage. Have you been to the White House?
Sure have. It's not so white anymore.
Now there is a thought!
A dark, damp, drafty, crowded hole in the ground. Now that is progress!
It almost sounds like parts of LA.
But you guys forgot the most important thing – what about Sasha?!?
We're stuck on the hills up here in San Francisco. But after the next earthquake, we'll have plenty of holes down in the Marina District. And if the last two big ones are any indication, we'll have plenty of fire to roast the marshmallows over.
Those must be the RINOstones. (methinks I'm trying a bit too hard here)
Would that make Obama The RINOstone Cowboy? Or are only Republicans cowboys?
i've been in the waiting room at the University of North Carolina cancer treatment center. You park half a mile away, take a number, wait, check-in, wait some more, get called into a tiny room and receive treatment. I have a very hard time imagining Elizabeth Edwards (a major proponent of national health) going through that process for her treatment. And this system is now, before Obamacare. Those that profess to want the best for everyone really mean only for themselves at the EXPENSE of everyone.
Wow. Almost an actual argument from a troll.
Sorry Sojourner, but it IS a given that "Reducing Healthcare expenses" in a "free" Healthcare system can only come about by reducing the quality of the care actually given.
Case in point: Many Canadians travel to the US to recieve chemo and radiation treatments, at great personal expense, because such treatments are not available on a timely basis for Canadian cancer patients. It was in the news last week that a Montreal couple's premature baby had to be transported to Buffalo, NY because there was not a neonatal bed available in the whole PROVINCE.
As PJ O'Rourke said, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait till the government gives it to you for free."
Good one!
My dear, darling parental units were very fond of the saying "Don't do as I do, do as I say." For my brother and myself, it was obviously used as a cautionary statement to help us avoid certain situations or decisions. With this particular individual, however, it means exactly what he says. And sadly, frighteningly, it may be enforced. God help us all.
That's alright…all the ACORN rigging and community organizing and television shows in the world won't save this guy when he's standing in front of God.
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It's all your fault! If the Doctors and Hospitals and Health Care Organizations has paid Obama and the Democrats millions and millions of dollars in campaign contributions then there is no way Obama could target you with the Obamacare. If you had given more than the trial lawyers then tort reform would have been a foregone conclusion.
Remember, the rule is simple. Give the Democrats millions in campaign dollars and you get billions in concessions. And, as the auto unions proved, you can give the democrats other people's money, as long as the check clears.
how dumb are you nit-wits?
especially you Gutfeld.
can you read for comprehension?
NO ONE, NO ONE would force you to change the insurance plan you already have.
you can't have it both ways: either the new Gov run plan would be so terrible that no one would want it, OR it'd be so amazing that it would crush every insurance company and drive them out of business?
which is it dim wits?
again, I have to ask, just how dumb are you?
all of you.
like a bunch of whiney 3 year olds who cry about things they can't understand.
shut up til you grow up.
It starts in your government funded schools at a young age – they are slowly indoctrinated until college, then its full blow liberalism fed intravenously until the brain is turned to a soft stew.
The other culprit would be the MSM, these guys are beyond help..many still believe that journalism is fair
It'll reduce availability and stagnate care. So what we have now is all there will ever be inside these borders once this goes into effect, and the new break throughs and innovation will not happen here anymore. Instead, we'll soon be like Great Britain and Canada with mile long waiting lines for treatments the rest of the world stopped using years ago.
Just make malpractice suits a loser pays all system. No more out of court settlements. When you have out of court settlements, both lawyers make money and everyone else in the deal loses particularly the insurances of those involved causing rising premiums.
If the loser in every suit had to pay it all, it wouldn't kill serious and necessary malpractice suits, but it would perhaps make a lawyer stop and think twice before picking up any old grievance that darkened his door.
I could ask you the same question. You do realize that many businesses view their employee health benefit as a burden now. If a public health option is offered, they will drop their benefit plans because they will see no good reason to have them anymore leaving their employees with the option of buying their own private insurance or going public. Additionally, no government plan ever competes fairly against a private market. The government option is endlessly subsidized by taxpayers money and thus is not constrained by profit the way a private business is the government option also is attached intimately to the regulatory machinery of the market itself meaning it plays as a referee and not a player. No private firm has the ability to do either of those things. As such, the government option will ineviitably drive the private market out of business almost entirely – see our public school system and the robust and super accessible private school system that thrives right alongside it … hey, wait ….
Nagin did promise NO would return to its former glory as a "chocolate city" (you can look it up.
Don't forget – government already subsidizes sugar production, so it'll be a lose-lose situation designed more the maximum possible waste of taxpayer dollars
Signed, Another internist.
sorry – thatwas supposed to be "designed to produce"
She's got money – she goes to Duke
To bad the Republican party is not able to stand strong. Helen Thomas in todays press conference was tougher on the transparency and openness issues in the administration than I have seen Republican spokesman. She questioned the town hall meetings and President press conferences as being fixed questions. "A pattern of controlling the press" "Control, We have never had this coming from the White House before."
Helen has more spine than the Republican party has on this issue.
Gibbs did his normal Laugh Dance
Sorry to disrupt your delusional thinking here, but if you look at another "option" – Medicare for those over 65 – you'll soon realize they have about a 99.9% market share, achieved by driving private insurers out of the business because they can't compete with a government-subsidized policy. Thus, the "option" disappears quickly, which proponents are too dishonest to admit is the goal all along. MDs hate Medicare's one-sided manipulation of fees downward every year. Once there is no alternative, look for early retirements – then who will provide all this care to the newly insured?
One hour after Katrina hit New Orleans Ray Naggin also said the city made it through and rebuild. One hour after the levies broke and the city was flooded 2 days later Ray Naggin said he not be lectured for clustering all the school buses where they would be flooded because Grey hound should shut their services down nationwide to bring there buses to him and oh! those engineers let the levies fail. How dare they huh!
Then he wondered why Bush wasn't helping him that minute. Yep ol' Naggin NAgin is a keeper alright. Yeeep!
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They were until Broke Back Mountain came out er… the film was released.
Then things became well the admins won't let me express it so let's just leave it at that!
If you are serious about having private insurance and the government option competing, would you support an amendment to the Healthcare Reform Bill that stated that private insurance was allowed to reimburse doctors and hosptials at the same rate as the government option? If the government option is allowed to pay doctors less than private insurance companies, then no competition is possible and private insurance is doomed. I expect we would then have a two tiered health care system. The majority of the country would use the government option and take what they could get. The minority that could afford it, or have it paid for by some else, would have any medical they wanted or needed. Important People Healthcare, in other words, then Little People Healthcare. I expect you can guess where government officials and their families will be placed.
I don't care what law Obama passes.
I will not sign up for a government health care plan. I will not allow any government bureaucrat access to my medical records, I will not abide by any court order to go see a government doctor even for a physical. I will not allow government controlled medical professionals near me. If I am sick I'll go see a doctor in the Bahamas. The flight is 90 minutes. There is no way I will submit to Obamacare whatever it is.
The Corporatist Third Wayers will get out of my life. They pass a canadian style health plan then consider me uninsured. They have no way to make us Obey. That is the flaw. They've no clue what they are doing as it is.
No need. They were sheep herders, after all.
The trouble with savings accounts is that any kind of problem is too expensive – I saw an item that said a broken leg could cost $12,000 – that is not even a "serious" illness. One hospital visit could take the whole savings account.
it's fine if you make $100,000 a year, but not everyone does. and "Everyone" does not want to go on MEDICAID shich is what would happen every time you had a problem.
It may well be time to invest in cemetary properties right now then because he's going to be killing off a bunch of folks who would normally have longer quality based lives with surgeries and treatments, but once you give them the dope to take away the pain, they're gonna go earlier and earlier. I think it's time for Hope that Change happens soon, very, very soon!!!
His whole townhall was a joke. No details and the questions were so screened he could have written them himself. Too bad that people fall for this. One of our deputies thinks that he's going to save us all with this plan. But he doesn't even know what Obama is talking about. He's just sure it will be good for him. At least more people are starting to figure this guy out.
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