Paul Ryan Drives for Full Repeal of Obamacare
Paul Ryan of Wisconsin spoke about the Republican plan of repeal and replace on CNN this week. Republicans want to push a patient-centered bill to replace Obamacare, keeping a promise they made to voters last year during campaigning:
Just 18 Percent of Voters Like Obamacare
If Barack Obama intends to run for re-election in 2012 and campaign on his laurels of passing his key piece of legislation, Health Care Reform – aka Obamacare, he better start to ramp up the positive spin. Because the only people that like this POS are the 222 unions and politically connected businesses and Congress and staff who are exempt from it. The rest of us – looks like about 82% – who have seen our premiums increase up to 30 percent just in one year, aren’t so happy with it.
“…not being able to get even 20 percent support for your signature legislation in its current form, less than a year after it was passed, is really quite amazing. In politics, one would hope to be able to hit at least .500, but at this point Obamacare isn’t even cracking the Mendoza Line (.200).”
Read The Weekly Standard.
The Coming Medicaid Disaster
This is your country on Obama Medicaid: 
If it is allowed to be implemented, Obamacare will eventually do deep and irreparable harm to our nation’s budget deficit. But while Obamacare is more of a long-term threat to fiscal health at the federal level, it is a clear and present danger to the states. Of the 34 million Americans who gain health insurance through Obamacare, over half (18 million) will receive it through Medicaid. Read: Half of all States now Suing to Stop Obamacare.
House Votes to Repeal Obamacare
In a 236-181 vote that included 4 democrats along with the majority body of republicans, the House voted to repeal the “jobs killing” health care bill.
The language: “Providing for consideration of H.R. 2, to repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; and providing for consideration of H.Res. 9, instructing certain committees to report legislation replacing the job-killing health care law.”
It can be blocked by the Senate, and vetoed by Obama, but it is a first step in fighting back against marxist rule.
Paul Ryan: Hiding spending does not reduce spending
Rising political star and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) issued this statement about the disaster that is Obamacare:
The Democrats’ health care law is a budget buster. Misleading claims on its deficit impact exclude the $115 billion needed to implement the law and over $500 billion in double-counting Social Security payroll taxes, CLASS Act premiums, and Medicare reductions. The law was written to measure 10 years of tax increases to offset 6 years of new spending. The Democrats stripped costly provisions that were included in [the] initial score, and enacted them separately to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit. Hiding spending does not reduce spending. There is no question that the creation of a trillion dollar open-ended entitlement is a fiscal train wreck.
To be clear, our dispute is not with the hard-working, non-partisan professionals at the Congressional Budget Office. CBO scores what is put in front of them – and what Democrats put in front of them last year was legislation packed with smoke and mirrors to hide the impact of trillions of dollars in new spending. Unless repealed, this law exacerbates the spiraling cost of health care, explodes our deficit and debt, and will forever alter the relationship between the government and the American people. I look forward to voting for the repeal of this law and continuing to advance fiscally responsible, patient-centered reforms.
Obama’s Doctor Cousin: Palin Was Right
Dr. Milton Wolf, who is a second cousin to Barack Obama, is opposed to Obamacare. Here’s his latest op-ed in the Washington Times – “Lies, Damn Lies, and Death Panels”:
The liberal intelligentsia, prisoners of their own conditioned reflex response, mocked Sarah Palin when she warned America in a Facebook post of the Obamacare death panels. The excitable Keith Olbermann even crowned it a 2009 “Lie of the Year.” Specifically, the ex-governor of Alaska referred to the Advance Care Planning Consultation provision in the Affordable Care Act, Section 1233 of H.R. 3200, which specifically called to pay doctors to discuss – some say encourage – withholding end-of-life care with their elderly patients once every five years. The White House denied impropriety but removed the provision when fellow Democrats balked. Only then did the bill pass by a single vote.
The liberal talking class continued to mock Mrs. Palin and her supposedly mythical death panels, that is, until liberal icon and former Enron adviser Paul Krugman let the cat out of the bag that death panels are indeed a reality and, in his ghoulish vision, killing off senior citizens and taxing the survivors is a solution to America’s debt problem: “Some years down the pike, we’re going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes.” This gives a chilling new meaning to death and taxes. Suddenly the inharmonious left fell silent.
Read the rest at conservatives4palin.com
Obama’s One Man Death Panel
Sarah Palin warned people about this a year ago and was vilified for it. Now it has coming to pass – Obama has named a new head of Medicare, Harvard’s Dr. Donald Berwick, who thinks there is “better use” for funds than to spend it on lifesaving drugs and procedures for the elderly:
He [Berwick] has praised the U.K’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which he says has “developed very good and very disciplined, scientifically grounded, policy-connected models for the evaluation of medical treatments from which we ought to learn.”
Last year, the Orwellian-named NICE unveiled plans to cut annual steroid injections for severe back pain to 3,000 from 60,000. “The consequences of the NICE decision will be devastating for thousands of patients,” Jonathan Richardson of Bradford Hospital’s Trust told London’s Daily Telegraph…
If Berwick wants to imitate Britain’s model, perhaps he can explain why breast cancer in America has a 25% mortality rate while in Britain it’s almost double at 46. Prostate cancer is fatal to 19% of American men who get it; in Britain it kills 57% of those it strikes.
“Donald Berwick is a one-man death panel,” said David O’Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee. “While Americans may not remember the agency he heads, he will quickly become known as Obama’s rationing czar.”
Berwick has opined: “We can make a sensible social decision and say, ‘Well, at this point, to have access to a particular additional benefit (new drug or medical intervention) is so expensive that our taxpayers have better use for those funds.”
Sounds like Death Panels to me. Read the full article at IBD: “The President’s One-Man Death Panel“
The Case Against Romney Builds
The Republicans have been desperate for leadership these past 14 months since Obama took office. While the GOP leaders may think former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is “next in line” to head the 2012 ticket, there’s is a growing awareness among the unwashed barbarians: If Romney is the de facto leader, why isn’t he leading?
It’s been Sarah Palin doing the interviews, writing articles & Tweets, making appearances, taking the grief from the left and MSM. Ditto Paul Ryan and Jim DeMint and Newt Gingrich. But Mitt? He kind of shows up weeks later and says, I’m your man, just tell me where you want me to lead you…
With the passing of Obama’s health care plan, Mitt can’t shake the fact that he was the author of Romneycare – the model for Obamacare that is bankrupting Massachusetts just 4 years after it was launched. (Although, Mitt says the plan is working well, despite the fact that it is costs over $2 billion more than what was budgeted”!)
For more on this, check out Say Goodbye to Mitt Romney
Palin Was Right. Again.
Alan Reynolds of the Cato Insititute wrote about the criticism that was leveled against Governor Palin’s term “death panel” and the ruckus it caused. Specifically, he took apart PolitiFact’s criticism and how the “death panel” term evolved in the MSM. He opines:
The claim that Governor Palin confused one-on-one counseling between doctors and patients with any sort of “panel” was always ridiculous on its face. Indeed, that claim should itself have been a leading candidate for “Lie of the Year.” Yet Palin’s critics kept on equating death panels with counseling throughout the year, as though they could not even begin to understand plain English….
The shameless hoax that Palin had confused individual consulting with rationing by a panel was repeated endlessly. By November, the Washington Post was treating this obvious canard as a established fact: “Proposed health-care reform legislation includes a provision that allows Medicare to pay for “end-of-life” counseling for seniors and their families who request it. The provision — which Sarah Palin erroneously described as “death panels” for seniors — nearly derailed President Obama’s health-care initiative.”
Palin wrote: “Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course.”
The horror of what Palin described is currently being enacted by the Congress – who wish to give us Death Panels in this mess of a health care “reform” bill that’s unconstitutional. Rationing for all, and end-of-life “consultations” for the elderly. Read Reynolds’ piece here.
