Obama’s Health Care that Is NOT Healthy for Anyone!

“Like the old joke goes, President Obama isn’t a doctor, but he plays one on TV — giving Americans a discomforting glimpse of life under ObamaCare, with government leaders and bureaucrats dispensing medical opinions that are better left to doctors, medical professionals, and patients,” said House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH).

From House Republican Leader John Boehner
THE TRUTH:
• “Maybe Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus should put a gag order on Douglas Elmendorf too. On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office director told Mr. Baucus’s committee that its plan to cut $123 billion from Medicare Advantage—the program that gives almost one-fourth of seniors private health-insurance options—will result in lower benefits and some 2.7 million people losing this coverage. … Seniors have a right to know how they may be affected by Washington’s health-care planning.” (Wall Street Journal editorial, 9/24/09)
• “Probable” That Seniors “Would Indeed Need To … Change Plans.” FactCheck.org found that under H.R. 3200, “it’s probable that some unknown number of the 22 percent of seniors, or more than 10 million individuals, who participate in Medicare Advantage programs would indeed need to pay more out of pocket, change plans or face reduced benefits…”
• “Democrats seek cuts in Medicare Advantage. … Democrats want to cut Medicare Advantage by more than $120 billion over 10 years. It could leave seniors with fewer boutique Medicare options offered through private insurance companies or with private plans that offer fewer of the extra benefits such plans provide. … The White House is scrambling to fight back.” (The Boston Globe, 9/24/09)
NOT HANDLING THE TRUTH:
• The Senate Finance Committee “rejected a Republican effort to keep the agency that administers Medicare from interfering with contractors that express their views about the healthcare bill to their elderly customers. … Democrats also defeated a Republican amendment to ensure the bill did not result in benefit reductions in the Medicare Advantage program.” (Reuters, 9/23/09)
• “Where is Pelosi when First Amendment needs her? … Bureaucrats in one of the federal government’s biggest departments have issued a gag order against what they deem to be unfair criticism of President Barack Obama’s health care reform proposals. Not only are these bureaucrats making a mockery of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech, they are also denying information millions of elderly Americans have a right to receive.” (San Francisco Examiner editorial, 9/24/09)
• “Former Baucus Aide at Center of Flap Over Insurer’s Mailings on Health Reform. Jonathan Blum, the administration official at the center of a growing flap over alleged efforts to ‘muzzle’ insurance companies critical of Democratic health care reform efforts, is a former senior aide to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) — who originally asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to investigate the companies critical of his bill.” (Roll Call, 9/23/09)
• “Democrats have a Medicare problem… Not even the AARP, which has spent millions of dollars to promote healthcare reform, can put older Americans at ease.” (The Hill, 9/23/09)

Seniors uneasy over Medicare cuts in overhaul
AP
Democrats are pushing for Medicare cuts on a scale not seen in years to underwrite health care for all. Many seniors now covered under the program don’t like that one bit.
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But Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Republicans aren’t going to drop the issue. “I think there’s going to be a rebellion in this country when seniors find out,” he said.

Democrats push for health benefits to start by 2010
Politico
Democrats are pushing Senate leaders and the White House to speed up key benefits in the health reform bill to 2010, eager to give the party something to show taxpayers for their $900 billion investment in an election year.
The most significant changes to the health care system wouldn’t kick in until 2013 — two election cycles away. With Republicans expected to make next year a referendum on health care reform, Democrats are quietly lobbying to push up the effective dates on popular programs, so they’ll have something to run on in the congressional midterm elections.

“Democrats will be the party that passed health care reform, and Republicans will be the party that tries to repeal it,” said Jim Kessler, vice president for policy at the centrist Third Way.

Michelle Obama made a video to push for the nationalized health care this weekend.
The First Lady made sure to focus on the horrors facing women in the United States under the present private system.

Wild Thing’s comment……….
THEY DON”T CARE that the MAJORITY of AMERICANS DO NOT WANT THIS. sorry about yelling. I’m just so tired of these jerks telling us what we can and can’t do. Unfortunately we are going to have this monstrosity jammed down our throats no matter the cost and no matter the dislike for it.
Regarding Michelle America hater. You knew they were going to turn HER loose before it was over… right?? It’s all about abortion, and that’s it. She can say whatever – but it all boils down to the same thing – hence her fearmongering to women. Prepare yourself for an ugly assault on your intelligence and integrity!

….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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