ObamaCare: Facts are Stubborn Things

The White House Blog on Tuesday, August 4th titles an entry “Facts Are Stubborn Things.” In it is posted a video of Linda Douglass, the Communications Director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, trying to diffuse criticism of the Obama Health Care takeover by showing two clips of President Obama re-stating his oft-heard yet irrelevant contention that the new Health Care “Reform” bill will not take away the health care options of anyone who likes his or her current provider.  Of course, facts are stubborn things, and the facts (read: common sense) stubbornly refuse to support Obama’s talking point.

Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of economics knows that what he is saying is patently false.  The moment the government nationalizes medical insurance, it will undercut all other insurers since the Government doesn’t need to make a profit, whereas insurers do.  Employers, always mindful of their bottom line, will immediately transfer over to the Government plan and all ability of the insured to choose their provider will be lost.  The resultant overload of the government system will force the rationing of health care services.  Soon, the other insurers will be forced out of business and Voilà!, we will have arrived at the goal, previously stated by the President and others like Barney Frank, of a single-payer, Government-run system–just like the failing, overburdened socialized medicine systems of Canada and England. (more…)

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Posted Aug 7th 2009 at 5:06 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 202034122 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ebalogh/2009/08/07/facts-are-stubborn-things/ObamaCare%3A+Facts+are+Stubborn+Things2009-08-08+00%3A06%3A24Endre+Balogh

The Crisis of Crises

Now it’s the swine flu.  People are running in the streets, scared, screaming, in total panic.  Oh, no, wait – sorry, that was downtown New York City the other day when the President’s Air Force One 747 buzzed Manhattan and set off a wave of urban terror amongst city-dwellers; who well remember the true calamity of that September morning seven-and-a-half years ago.  But it was a beautiful day for a $328 thousand dollar photo-op for the President’s website.  So New Yorkers should understand and be tolerant; even though the citizens on the ground weren’t alerted in advance of the stunt, not even Mayor Bloomberg. 

Hey, stuff happens.  Yes we can.

No, it’s the Swine Flu which is the new crisis-in-the-making and it’s quickly becoming the Crisis du Jour.  Texas Governor Rick Perry declared ‘a Disaster’ in his state after a two-yr-old boy tragically died after returning from Mexico.  Seems a bit of an overreaction, but maybe not.  It’s shaping up to be a pandemic of epic proportions, for as of this writing, ninety-one cases of Swine Flu have already been diagnosed in this country.  Ninety-one.  At this rate, in a week, there may be, literally, several hundred outbreaks reported. 

In a nation of 300 million. (more…)

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Tags: Air Force One scare, crisis, Obama, Rick Perry, swine flu
Posted Apr 29th 2009 at 2:31 pm in Politics | 120994No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/04/29/the-crisis-of-crises/The+Crisis+of+Crises2009-04-29+21%3A31%3A47Gary+Graham