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Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Jul 26, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Lobbyists the silver lining in health care storm?

Full story: The Washington Post

In this July 15, 2009 file photo, Sec. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left, watches as President Barack Obama speaks on health care reform in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.

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leo from cornelia

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Jul 26, 2009
 
wife of indiana sen. evan bayh picks up $2,100,000.00 over 2 years "serving" on boards of big healthcare.

“1/20/2013..Obama 's last day!! ”

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YOU LIE!!

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Jul 26, 2009
 
It's not going to pass and if it miraculously does it will be the end of the Democrat party..when the GOP wins in a major landslide in 2010 and 2012 we will immediately repeal this Nazi bill and rescue America from the tyrannical dictator in the WH.

“It's about the American People”

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Jul 26, 2009
 
Americans, beware of the healthcare conspiracy by the ruthless dictator Obama who represents new world order with socialistic America ruled by him the Acorn minority gangsters and the organized labor mafia of the unions.
Since he took control office in the White House by lying to the American people that he was a Christian, the Islamic born native of the Kenyan Luo Tribe who studied the radical Islamic culture in Madrassa in Indonesia is taking over the rule of US economy like never before.
With the healthcare Marxist revolution, Obama will rule more than $65 out of every $100 of US multi-trillion dollar US economy by ruling the banks, insurance, transportation, military, education, energy, healthcare, and what not without even showing his birth certificate and Indonesia passport.
The American people are going to sacrifice their own life health and health of the elderly and sick to the ruthless fraudulent dictator Obama who rush to push a taking over the healthcare private providers, causing Doctors to become slaves of the ruthless trial lawyers who keep enriching themselves with deceitful frivolous law suites.
Obama is behind an 1100 pages deceitful healthcare bill that no congressmen will ever read and which is stuffed with socialistic medicine for the "mentally retarded" Americans in page 389.
The most deceitful bill that will allow Obama rule the American people for the rest of his life as dictator like Fidel Castro with the teachers union, Fed employees unions, Acorn gangsters and the UAW unions as his loyal hordes.
This is a power grab bill and take over by the Democrats that will become the Marxists rulers of America together with tens of millions of illegal immigrants and their families who will cross the border to get free healthcare in return for supporting the dictator Obama.
Beware Americans of the coming bankruptcy and destruction of our country for generations to come. This healthcare bill will destroy the existing successful healthcare that is the best in the world only to bring a failed medical chaos that will desert the elderly and sick and letting them die without any help of any doctor or hospital that will be gone forever.
Only the American people must stand up to the corrupt anti-America Congress under Pelosi and Reid and stop the America hating dictator Obama running amok to push America off the cliff.
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Jul 26, 2009
 
http://www.wnd.com/index.php...

Obamacare for old folks: Just 'cut your life short'
Health plan provision demands 'end-of-life' counseling

The version of President Obama's universal health care plan pending in the U.S. House would require "end-of-life" counseling for senior citizens, and the former lieutenant governor for the state of New York is warning people to "protect their parents" from the measure.

At issue is section 1233 of the legislative proposal that deals with a government requirement for an "Advance Care Planning Consultation."

Betsy McCaughey, the former New York state officer, told former president candidate Fred Thompson during an interview on his radio program the "consultation" is no more or less than an attempt to convince seniors to die.
__________

This is government mandated death for seniors aka legal government murder.

This IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Guess Who

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Jul 26, 2009
 
leo from cornelia wrote:
wife of indiana sen. evan bayh picks up $2,100,000.00 over 2 years "serving" on boards of big healthcare.
Any comments from Most?
life or profit

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-welsh/ameri...

Americans Lives vs. Insurance Company Profits: The Real Battle in Health Care Reform

Ian Welsh
The horizon is not so far as we can see, but as far as we can imagine
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Americans Lives vs. Insurance Company Profits: the real battle in healthcare reform
2009 JULY 20

by Ian Welsh
Lying about healthcare, indeed fear-mongering about healthcare, has ramped up as insurance companies attempt to keep their profits. Those profits are created by a system where the US spends 5% more of its economy on healthcare in exchange for the worst results of anywestern nation. To insurance company executives, their profits, their executive salaries, and their bonuses, are not just worth lying for, but also worth killing for—or at least letting people die.

http://www.ianwelsh.net/lying-liar-attempt-to...

Health-insurance ills increasingly hurt middle-income families in U.S.
America's health-care crisis, which has left millions of poor without insurance or adequate medical care, has new prey — the middle class.

In Kentucky and Indiana, two of the nation's sickest states, roughly 40 percent of privately insured adults — those who get coverage through their jobs or buy it on their own — skip care because of the cost. That's about 2 million people.
And nearly 30 percent of 20- to 30-year-olds in both states — roughly 426,000 people — have no health insurance, even though many are college educated and have good jobs.... the Clinton administration's proposed overhaul failed in 1994. ref internet news: courier j.
Millions in U.S. can't afford health insurance

TUESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News)-- Most people in the United States who try to buy an individual health insurance policy on their own never end up getting coverage, often because the premiums are just too expensive, according to a new study....In our current system, millions of people without access to employer coverage have no affordable option for health insurance... Called "Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market Is Not a Viable Option for Most U.S. Families," the report compared the experiences of working-age adults with individual- and employer-based private health insurance. REF internet news-fox-wave 3---

It also found that people who bought health insurance in the individual market spend a lot more on premiums and deductibles than those with employer-based coverage.

Over 40 million in U.S. can't afford health care: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- More than 40 million people in the United States say they cannot afford adequate heath care and go without drugs, eyeglasses or dental treatment, according to a federal report released on Monday.
Millions in U.S. Can't Afford Health Insurance
Obstacles mount when employer-based coverage is not an option, survey finds
TUESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News)-- Most people in the United States who try to buy an individual health insurance policy on their own never end up getting coverage, often because the premiums are just too expensive, according to a new study. A report by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent research on health policy reform, found that roughly three of every four people who tried to buy a policy from the individual health insurance market in the past three years didn't get one. The main reason cited was premium cost. About 57 percent said it was very hard or even impossible to find coverage they could afford.

AFFORDABLE HEALTH COVERAGE IS INCREASINGLY OUT OF REACH IN KENTUCKY

ref: inter net us news
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Jul 26, 2009
 
Is the silver lining the thin skin around a legume?
live die health Ins

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18,000 deaths blamed on lack of insurance

By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — More than 18,000 adults in the USA die each year because they are uninsured and can't get proper health care, researchers report in a landmark study released Tuesday.

The 193-page report, "Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late," examines the plight of 30 million — one in seven — working-age Americans whose employers don't provide insurance and who don't qualify for government medical care.

About 10 million children lack insurance; elderly Americans are covered by Medicare.

It is the second in a planned series of six reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) examining the impact of the nation's fragmented health system. The IOM is a non-profit organization of experts that advises Congress on health issues.

Overall, the researchers say, 18,314 people die in the USA each year because they lack preventive services, a timely diagnosis or appropriate care.

The estimated death toll includes about 1,400 people with high blood pressure, 400 to 600 with breast cancer and 1,500 diagnosed with HIV.
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Jul 26, 2009
 
Or Coloidal silver?
reform

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Kentucky Health Care News
150 protest against private health insurers
--via The Louisville Courier-Journal

Demonstrators urge universal care in U.S.
By Linsen Li
The Courier-Journal

Brent Humes has not had health insurance for 15 years.

"At my past jobs, signing up for health insurance means cutting my paycheck in half," said Humes, who is currently unemployed.

He was among about 150 people who gathered yesterday across from Humana's downtown Louisville headquarters to protest private insurance companies.

The demonstration, organized by Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare and Physicians for a National Health Program, is part of a national effort to establish a universal health-care plan.

"Our purpose is to educate the public and politicians about how the single-payer plan is the best option," said Dr. Ewell Scott, an internist in Morehead, Ky.

"A single, government-sponsored health-insurance company is more efficient and provides coverage for everyone," Scott said. "It is by far and away the best solution to the country's health-care problem."

President Barack Obama has proposed widespread health-care reforms, but hasn't advocated doing away with private insurance. He has called for a public health plan that could compete with private insurers. He also has proposed subsidies to help lower-income people buy coverage.
TAX DEATH PROFIT

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Jul 26, 2009
 
22,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance...
dited on Wed Jun-24-09 05:34 AM by armyowalgreens
Americans die because of Bush Republicans health care plan.
How many a year die BECAUSE they have private health insurance?

-Pre-existing condition denial
-Experimental procedure denial
-Ridiculously high monthly payments
-Excessive co-payments
-Partial coverage
-Ridiculously complicated legal jargon that can lead to patient error and, in turn, no payment by the insurance company.
PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE

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REPUBLICAN PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE
How much suffering comes at the hands of these companies that put profits over people?

The industry has always tried to make Americans think that government-run systems are the worst thing that could possibly happen to them, that if you even consider that you're heading down the slippery slope towards socialism... I think that people who are strong advocates of our health care system remaining as it is, very much a free market health care system, fail to realize that we're really talking about human beings here, and it doesn't work as well as they would like it to... They are trying to make you worry and fear a government bureaucrat being between you and your doctor. What you have now is a corporate bureaucrat between you and your doctor... The public plan would do a lot to keep [health insurance companies] honest, because it would have to offer a standard benefit plan. It would have to operate more efficiently, as does the Medicare program. It would be structured, I’m certain, on a level playing field so that it wouldn’t [have an] unfair advantage [over] the private insurance companies. Because it could be administered more efficiently, the private insurers would have to operate more efficiently.” REF: the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers

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Jul 26, 2009
 
Indiana the Old Family Homestead...
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Jul 26, 2009
 
Where is McAlester Indiana by Evansville?
Waterloo OR LIFE

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REPUBLICANS FOR BIG INSURANCE COMPANIES OR WHAT?
DO THE REPUBLICANS FIGHT FOR BIG INSURANCE PROFITS, THE REPUBLICAN ELECTION OR YOUR HEALTH CARE?
Healthcare Now or Never
For years Americans have been complaining about their healthcare. For years Democrats have been trying to achieve healthcare reform to benefit all. For the same years Republicans have been verbally for reform but in actuality have been working to prevent any real change. Now that Obama is on the verge of achieving true healthcare reform, it is not Republicans but so-called Democratic “centrists” blocking the way.

I understand why some Republicans are ready to discard the needs of Americans and try their best to stymie Obama's most important initiative: Republicans feel that if Obama loses on healthcare his political star is shot, thus opening doors to the return of Republicans to power. These Republicans don't care about the people; they are concerned only with gaining power. Here is exactly what Senator DeMint said with reference to healthcare: Ref: Inter net news

If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.
DeMint could not make his position any clearer.

July 17, 2009
Categories: Healthcare

Health reform foes plan Obama's 'Waterloo'
Conservative leaders will push delay any vote on health care reform until after the August recess to capitalize on what they say is a growing tide of opposition to reform measures, they said on a conference call with "tea party" participants today.

"I can almost guarantee you this thing won't pass before August, and if we can hold it back until we go home for a month's break in August," members of Congress will hear from "outraged" constituents, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint said on the call, which was organized by the group Conservatives for Patients Rights.

"Senators and Congressmen will come back in September afraid to vote against the American people," DeMint predicted, adding that "this health care issue Is D-Day for freedom in America."

"If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him," he said.

The founder of Conservatives for Patients Rights told the 104 participants in the call, which was organized to coincide with the National Tea Party Patriots group's protests at the offices of members of Congress today, that polling suggests majorities oppose a "government take-over," which is how Scott's group casts the Obama plan.

Rep. Mike Pence, also on the call, also said the tide is turning.

"Every single day more dems are expressing op to government-run health care," he said.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/H...
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Without the government as competition, the private sector has little incentive to improve. Senior Citizens CANNOT AFFORD Insurance! HAVE AT ANYTIME ---SENIORS CITIZENS FIGHT FOR TREATMENT AND DIE UNDER PRIVATE MEDICAL HEALTH CARE INSURANCE? HAVE SENIOR CITIZENS BEEN TOLD NO BY CONGRESS AND BY HEALTH CARE INSURANCE CO.
Tea wrote:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?f a=PAGE.view&pageId=104719
Obamacare for old folks: Just 'cut your life short'
Health plan provision demands 'end-of-life' counseling
The version of President Obama's universal health care plan pending in the U.S. House would require "end-of-life" counseling for senior citizens, and the former lieutenant governor for the state of New York is warning people to "protect their parents" from the measure.
At issue is section 1233 of the legislative proposal that deals with a government requirement for an "Advance Care Planning Consultation."
Betsy McCaughey, the former New York state officer, told former president candidate Fred Thompson during an interview on his radio program the "consultation" is no more or less than an attempt to convince seniors to die.
__________
This is government mandated death for seniors aka legal government murder.
This IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Health-insurance ills increasingly hurt middle-income families in U.S.
America's health-care crisis, which has left millions of poor without insurance or adequate medical care, has new prey — the middle class.
BUSH REPUBLICANS

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HOW LONG HAVE CONGRESSMAN GRASSLEY BEEN IN OFFICE AND HOW LONG HAVE AMERICANS HAD HEALTH CARE INSURANCE PROBLEMS?
Grassley Tells Constituent if He Wants Affordable Insurance, "Go Work for the Government"
http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2009/07/grassley ...
It's ironic isn't it? Politicians like Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) rail against public health insurance as an option, yet they seem just happy as clams with their own publicly run health insurance.
During a townhall in Waukon, IA Tuesday, Grassley was asked by a constituent of his:
“Why is your insurance so much cheaper than my insurance and better than my insurance? I think I should have the same insurance that you have.”
When Grassley pretended to not know the details of his own health care plan, another person on the same plan as he did gave him the details. The elderly man followed up,“Okay, how come I can’t have the same thing you have?”

Grassley said:“You can. Just go work for the federal government.” A pretty ridiculous statement. He was basically telling the guy to "suck it."

I personally would love to see Grassley go his own in the private individual health insurance market. Any pre-existing conditions are cut out. Of course, one prime example is Dick Cheney. Sure he's rich, and so he can afford to pay what insurance companies would want for someone with his cardiac problems, but without riches, there's no way he could afford health care with his history.
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American_Infidel wrote:
It's not going to pass and if it miraculously does it will be the end of the Democrat party..when the GOP wins in a major landslide in 2010 and 2012 we will immediately repeal this Nazi bill and rescue America from the tyrannical dictator in the WH.
NO ONE WIN! AMERICA NEED HEALTH CARE REFORM
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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leo from cornelia wrote:
wife of indiana sen. evan bayh picks up $2,100,000.00 over 2 years "serving" on boards of big healthcare.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESS WHAT IS YOUR PROMISE?
PROFIT OR LIFE?
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

“illegals running over our USA”

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quote OH Bumma

"NO" Lobbyists

Oh Bumma......= LIAR ( Period )
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