Thursday, August 13, 2009
Sarah Palin: Concerning the "Death Panels"
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"[3] During those consultations, practitioners must explain “the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice,” and the government benefits available to pay for such services. [4]"
Town Hall Protests, Dubious Studies... Must Be August!
The New Republic "You know what the debate over energy and climate change could really use? The sort of calm, thoughtful, reasoned town-hall discussions that have made the health-care discussion such a delight this summer."
Our Aging Deterrent
IBD "President Obama dreams of a world without nuclear weapons. Unless testing and maintenance of our nuclear deterrent is resumed, it will be a world without American nuclear weapons."
Markets Bet ObamaCare Won't Survive
By Larry Kudlow IBD "UnitedHealthcare is up 13%, Humana is up 12.4% and Aetna is up almost 10%. These firms will be decimated if the government insurance plan passes. But investors are now predicting it won't. For the sake of economic freedom, liberty, and fiscal sanity, let's hope the markets are right."
USA Today fact-checks Obama’s town-hall assertions
HotAir
"One of the best catches from USA Today concerns Medicare Advantage, about which Obama has lied for over two years:"
National Enquirer scoops NY Times - again
AmericanThinker "While the New York Times was wasting its money digging up non scandalous information about Sarah Palin in Alaska, it missed a story more or less under their computers and thus was scooped by...The National Enquirer on a real scandal. "
Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder
WorldNetDaily "He was a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The organization had its roots in a grouping of black people organizing to protest the first Gulf War. STORM was formally founded in 1994, becoming one of the most influential and active radical groups in the San Francisco Bay area."
Obamacare's tax hikes
Washington Times "The bill does contain new taxes -- plenty of them. Pages 167 and 168 impose an income tax of 2.5 percent on any individual who chooses not to buy government-approved health insurance. Pages 149-150 impose a tax of between 2 percent and 8 percent on the payrolls of all companies whose payrolls exceed $250,000. Pages 197 and 198 outline income tax surcharges to be imposed on individuals with incomes over $350,000, rising to a highest surcharge of 5.4 percent."
Nineteen Minutes In a Car With Harry Reid
PoliticsDaily
"Reid left no doubt he intends to get a health reform bill passed in the Senate, no matter what erupts at town hall meetings and whether any Republicans support the end result. "We can't let the insurance industry win another round. We're going to win this round," he said."
Health Care Research By Jamie Dupree
Hat tip: Neal Boortz Jamie Dupree "Even though I have put the links up a number of times, I still get people asking where they can read and/or download the various health care bills that are before Congress. So let's do that again."
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