Category Archives: Healthcare

President Sparky Hoses AARP, Helps Conservative Group

Hey, remember all the times Obama said that AARP has endorsed his health care plan (well, really, the Congressional Democrats health care plans, since Obama basically outsourced the whole thing to them)? Saying that “they were onboard,” despite the fact that, while they endorse health care reform to reduce costs (just like most of us do,) […]

Palin Wins On Death Panels For Fourth Time

‘Memba this from the Wall Street Journal last week? Palin Wins – If she’s dim and Obama is brilliant, how did he lose the argument to her? The first we heard about Sarah Palin’s “death panels” comment was in a conversation last Friday with an acquaintance who was appalled by it. Our interlocutor is not […]

Does Reading The Bill Really Matter?

USA Today makes a few interesting points There’s a growing movement at town hall meetings and online to make sure members of Congress read the entire health care reform bill before they vote on it, and to make it available to the public at least 72 hours before a vote. “Read the bill” is typically […]

Oh, Good, NY Times Features Another Opinion Piece Written By Barry

I have to say, I am getting really, truly, sick and tired of the health care debate. All we tend to hear are the same talking points repeated again and again and again from President Obama and the Democrats, along with their supporters. Most of which are lies and/or covers for slowly implementing single payer. […]

Left Freaking Out Over Whole Foods, Offers Boycott

Back on August 11th, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey had an opinion piece in ye olde Wall Street Journal, outlining his ideas on health care reform, most of which make pretty darned good sense, and will help keep the industry out of government hands. Ideas such as Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation […]

NY Times Says Obama Astroturf Org. Fails To Ignite

All is not well in Obama astroturf land At her home on Tom Sawyer Road here the other night, Bonnie Adkins agreed to begin spreading the word that President Obama’s embattled health care plan needed help. Ms. Adkins, who for the past two years devoted hundreds of hours helping Mr. Obama get to the White […]

No Such Thing As Death Panels Removed From Senate Version

The Hill Is reporting The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday. The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after it was derided by conservatives as “death […]

Obama’s Health Scare Fest Not Even Front Page News At Grey Lady

While other papers may have run the story on Obama’s heavily scripted health system change town hall on the front page of the print and Internet, the Paper of Record, the New York Times, just can’t muster the fortitude to give him the coverage, instead, burying it on page A14. I guess even the cheerleaders […]

HCToday: Democracy Is Sick, Woops, A New Anti-Public Option Poll

Ezra Klein is seemingly all over the map with his latest post It Is Democracy, Not Health-Care Reform, That Is Sick. Too start with As Josh Marshall says, we’ve reached a point in the health-care reform discussion where logic has fallen apart. Consider, for instance, Danielle Allen’s op-ed this morning. Discussing the insistence of some […]

Say, About Obama’s Mandate To Implement Single Payer…..

One of the talking points we keep hearing from Democrat talking heads and other sheeple is that Obama was overwhelmingly elected along with a mandate to completely change the health system. Of course, he only beat McCain 53% to 46%. So, does this Rasmussen poll mean there is even more of a mandate to NOT […]

Pirate's Cove