Our paternal Big Brother on NBC’s Meet The Press:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well— I— I’ve already made some— pretty substantial changes in terms of how I was approaching health care. When I was —
DAVID GREGORY: Like the public option. You effectively said to the left, “It’s not gonna happen.”
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well what I — no, no, that’s not true. What I — what I’ve said is the public option, I think, should be a part of this but we shouldn’t think that, somehow, that’s the silver bullet that solves health care. What I’ve said, for example, on — what’s called an individual mandate. During the campaign I said, “Look, if — health care is affordable, then I think people will buy it.” So we don’t have to say to — to folks, “You know what? You have to buy health care.”
So if you make it affordable you won’t make it mandatory. But every bill out there alleging to make it “affordable” makes it mandatory.
So which is it Mr. Orwell?
“And — what — when I talked to health care experts on both the left and the right what they tell me is that, even after you make health care affordable, there’s still gonna be some folks out there who — whether out of inertia, or they just don’t want to but — spend the money — would rather take their chances.
Unfortunately, what that means, is then you and I and every American out there who has health insurance, and are paying their premiums responsibly every month, they’ve gotta pick up the cost for— emergency room care when one of those people gets sick. So what we’ve said as long as we’re making this genuinely affordable to families then you’ve got an obligation to get health care just like you have an obligation to get auto insurance in every state.”
So now it’s your obligation to society and his, for your greater good, to make it mandatory.
During the campaign I said, “Look, if — health care is affordable, then I think people will buy it.” So we don’t have to say to — to folks, “You know what? You have to buy health care.”
Orwellian Doublethink at it’s finest.
If we make it affordable people will buy it.
But if they won’t buy it, then we must make it mandatory, for their own good, because we don’t have to make it mandatory if we make it affordable!
So then, does it have to be affordable if it’s mandatory?
And as has been pointed out before in auto insurance portability (you can buy auto across state lines) is not illegal as it is in health insurance.
I live in Arizona. I can only buy insurance from a company licensed and regulated in Arizona. Period.
And if I move to, say Idaho. My insurance has to be trashed and restarted from scratch.
Not with auto. So not the same thing.
And how’s that whole more choice thing working when it’s MANDATORY and your civic duty to your fellow comrades to by health insurance or else.
You evil selfish bastard. You don’t want to pay for health insurance.
You want to make every sick and make them pay for it.
You heartless bastard!
You say you can’t afford it. You say you don’t think you need it.
Well, let Mama Government force you to buy it anyways, it’s “cheap”.
It’s “fair”.
It’s “Competitive”
and it won’t raise the deficit “not one Dime”
And it’s your duty to your fellow comrades to buy it. Isn’t it Citizen…
Oh… and In the interviews taped on Friday, he said they would not lead to middle-class tax increases.
Obama said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” he could still keep his campaign pledge not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000. He said much of the cost of the overhaul could be funded by eliminating waste and abuse.
“I can still keep that promise because as I’ve said, about two-thirds of what we’ve proposed would be from money that’s already in the healthcare system but just being spent badly. And as I said before, this is not me making wild assertions,” Obama said.
So where is the other 1/3 coming from? Since the government has no money unless it takes it from someone….
And I reiterate, doesn’t it just fill you heart with massive warm fuzzies to know that he’s going to pay for 2/3 of this massive new entitlement program with the waste,fraud and abuses of the other entitlement programs. Like this one will be immune from that forever. It will do something magical. A government entitlement program that never costs you “not one dime” and never raises your taxes.
Because, after all, the waste fraud and abuse that is going to pay for this new one must continue for their to be a revenue stream to use to pay for this one. So how is that reforming the other programs again?
I have a Bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you. It’s Affordable!
A Gallup poll last week found that by 60 percent to 38 percent, Americans do not believe the government can expand healthcare coverage without raising taxes on the middle class or affecting the quality of care. (Reuters)
But, They’re the Political Elite, they not only know what’s good for you, they are going to do it anyway!
Because it’s what THEY want.
And what about the Illegal Aliens, um I mean “immigrants”
Let’s not talk about that one.
Oh, and if you don’t have insurance (starting in 2013) we’ll fine you, your employer, and sick the IRS on you.
Rejoice.
More of Meet The Press:
“You know, I — I have said — that it is very important that we take into account the concerns of doctors and nurses who, by the way, support our efforts. And I— and that’s something that doesn’t get noticed much.”- President Obama
Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found.
The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors’ own lobby — the powerful American Medical Association — both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul.
• Four of nine doctors, or 45%, said they “would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement” if Congress passes the plan the Democratic majority and White House have in mind.
Will the quality of care for seniors improve under health care reform currently being considered by Congress?
A recent IBD/TIPP Poll shows that a majority of physicians think the answer is no.
Of the 1,376 physicians who answered our survey, 65% said that government reform would lead to lower-quality care for seniors.
But will you here these results from the Ministry of Truth, of course not.
And there’s that “human face”. That cynical political ploy of false empathy and manipulation.
When Obama spoke to Congress about health care reform on Sept. 9, he attempted to put a human face on his push for a provision barring insurance companies from dropping patients with pre-existing medical conditions.
While not citing the person’s name, the president said: “One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn’t reported gallstones that he didn’t even know about. They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it.” It’s just not true, which I pointed out in my Chicago Sun-Times column. I confirmed with the White House that the man Obama was referring to was Otto Raddatz, from a Chicago suburb. His insurance company did indeed yank his coverage in April 2005. But after a fight led by his sister, Peggy, an attorney and the Illinois attorney general, Raddatz got his coverage reinstated in a few weeks and never missed any needed treatments. And he did not die until Jan. 6, 2009. I raised questions about the Obama claim with the White House on Sept 10. The White House told me that Obama’s speechwriters picked up the story from Slate and never vetted the facts independently. If they had, they would have realized that the Slate report was erroneous. Presidents need everyday Americans as examples to bolster their initiatives, of course, and in a speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday Obama continued to cite real examples of people being mistreated by insurance companies. He did the same at a rally last Saturday in Minnesota. But he’s no longing looking to the late Otto Raddatz to help him make his case. (Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times) Well, since vetting the facts don’t matter. You can be confident when your President says that the new government entitlement that isn’t a “Public Option” (which is one in disguise) won’t cost you “one dime” and will not will raise your taxes is absolutely truthful! More Meet The Press:PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, listen, I — I think I was awfully clear — and — and I’m surprised — David, maybe you haven’t been paying attention to what both the left and the right have been saying about my speech to Congress. I laid down some pretty clear parameters. And what I said was we’re gonna take ideas from both sides.
Was this before or after his AFL-CIO picnice speech recently where he said that the Republican have “no ideas”??
Or is he referring to the Max Baucus bill that even the Ultra Massive Super Left Liberals hate?
Or the push by many Democrats for “reconciliation” (where they just ram it through with legislative trickery and without “bi-partisan” support).
So which is it?
Obama: “But I do think that we all have an obligation to try to— conduct this conversation in a civil way. And to— recognize that each of us are patriots. That each of us are Americans.”
So that’s why I’m a gun-totting, toothless, Un-American, stupid, manipulated Racist hick who doesn’t know what’s good for me…I was wonder about that….
“I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this myself in the late ’70s in San Francisco,” Pelosi told reporters. (aka assassination)
But let’s be civil… and just call them “Un-American” instead, isn’t that Mrs. Speaker Pelosi
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, look— I think that we have an obligation in Washington, as leaders, to make sure that we are sending a strong message. That we can disagree without being disagreeable. Without— you know, questioning each other’s motives. When we start caricaturing the other side— I think that’s a problem.
And— unfortunately, we’ve got, as I’ve said before, a 24-hour news cycle where what gets you on the news is controversy. What gets you on the news is the extreme statement. The easiest way to get 15 minutes on the news, or your 15 minutes of fame, is to be rude.
And that’s— that’s— something that I think has to change. And it starts with me. And I’ve tried to make sure that I’ve sent a clear signal. And I’ve tried to maintain an approach that says, look, we can have some serious disagreements but, at the end of the day, I’m assuming that you want the best for America just like I do.
Was that before or after:
“I’ve got a question for all these folks who say, you know, we’re going to pull the plug on Grandma and this is all about illegal immigrants — you’ve heard all the lies,” Obama said. “I’ve got a question for all those folks: What are you going to do? What’s your answer? What’s your solution?
“And you know what? They don’t have one. Their answer is to do nothing.”
Or :
“Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare tactics. Some have dug into unyielding ideological camps that offer no hope of compromise. Too many have used this as an opportunity to score short-term political points, even if it robs the country of our opportunity to solve a long-term challenge. And out of this blizzard of charges and counter-charges, confusion has reigned.”
“the time for debate is over”
Yep, that’s civility and open to other ideas. Absolutely.
We’re from the Government and we’re here to help you.
You want to do what’s right for everyone don’t you, Citizen?
It’s your duty.
Put down that can of soda, it’s bad for you.
Quit Smoking.
Stop eating those fatty foods.
Junk food is bad for you.
Lose Some Weight.
Start Exercising.
It’s for your own good…and you want to do what’s right for you, don’t you Citizen…
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