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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Links For Health Care Reform Ideas & Updates

Healthcare reform - no place for racial quotas:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=640904

CEO of Whole Foods Offers Alternative to Obamacare:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

New Report Examines Out-of-Network Charges by Docs:
http://www.ahiphiwire.org/News/Default.aspx?doc_id=373852&utm_source=8/12/2009&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HiWire_Newsletter&uid=TRACK_USER

States Gear Up For Fight Against Health Reform Mandates:
http://www.ahiphiwire.org/News/Default.aspx?doc_id=373769&utm_source=8/12/2009&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HiWire_Newsletter&uid=TRACK_USER

Numbers USA: Immigration Part of the Health Care Reform Debate:

Numbers USA Ad: American Workers Losing Jobs & Foreign Workers Continue to Pour Into USA:
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/resources/video/commercials/elevator-commercial.html?jid=233408&lid=9&rid=928&tid=381311

Numbers USA Roy Beck Encourages People to Contact Congress During Recess:
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/resources/video/recommended/help-unemployed-americans-suspending-immigration.html?jid=233408&lid=9&rid=2065&tid=381311

From Investment Business Daily Editorials:
Markets Bet ObamaCare Won't Survive:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=334967784974971

From National Association of Health Underwriters NewsWire:
Survey suggests town-hall protests may be influencing some Americans' views on health reform:
USA Today (8/13, Page) reports that in "unwelcome news for President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders," the "raucous protests at congressional town-hall-style meetings have succeeded in fueling opposition to proposed healthcare bills among some Americans, a USA Today/Gallup Poll finds," especially "among the independents who tend to be at the center of political debates." Specifically, "in a survey of 1,000 adults taken Tuesday, 34 percent say demonstrations at the hometown sessions have made them more sympathetic to the protesters' views; 21 percent say they are less sympathetic"; while "independents by 2-to-1, 35 percent-16 percent, say they are more sympathetic to the protesters now." In any event, "the forums have grabbed public attention: Seven in 10 respondents are following the news closely." Meanwhile, "a study by the non-partisan Pew Research Center concluded that 59 percent of the airtime last week on 13 cable TV and radio talk shows" was "devoted to the healthcare debate."

Diane Mahoney

6 comments:

Paul said...

It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people (honestly where can they go with a pre-condition). And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.

How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a “lynch mob” advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types AKA “screamers” are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.

Anonymous said...

Well said 1:52...ditto.

Anonymous said...

1:52 can you say BRAINWASHED!!?

it's obvious you've never been in a VA hospital, and Medicare and Medicaid IS handled by the private sector with our money, money we worked for and put aside for our care.

Is anyone else tired of reading/hearing these liberal loons spewing lies they think will convince people to drink up?

Anonymous said...

2:09 (pot)...tell me, is the kettle black?

Anonymous said...

2:09 "liberal loons spewing lies" like death panels?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
2:09 "liberal loons spewing lies" like death panels?

3:35 PM


Yeah! like that,
That came from an irrelevant source, someone that's NOT in office and the libs like the nazi kieth olbermann took it, blew it way out of proportion and context, then fed it to the libs and that's all the libs have to hold onto. sad, really sad.