Socialized Medicine

Senate Votes 60-39 To End Debate on Landmark Health Bill http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34574421/ns/health-health_care/ ^ | December 23, 2009 Posted on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 4:44:46 PM by Steelfish WASHINGTON - Exultant Senate Democrats pushed President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul past a final procedural hurdle Wednesday, setting up a Christmas Eve vote to pass the legislation extending coverage to 30 million Americans...  

The only real chance of defeating the health care legislation came when the bill was lacking a majority of votes for passage in the House. A lot is being said and written about why national health care legislation is becoming a reality. The simple fact, available for all to see, is that the U.S. Catholic Bishops ensured passage of the bill in the House, enabling the Senate to move forward with its version.  

Hugh Hewitt: Will the Tea Party Patriots help reverse the vote? The Washington Examiner ^ | December 21, 2009 | Hugh Hewitt Posted on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:08:00 PM by 2ndDivisionVet Sen. Ben Nelson's, D-Neb., abandonment of his alleged "pro-life" commitment brought Harry Reid within reach of a Christmas Eve vote to approve a Senate version of Obamacare. When that happens, the political battles over the future of American medicine and...  

Cash For Cloture: Obamacare Bill is So Bad It Has to Be Rammed Through In Middle of The Night WSJ/The Lid ^ | 12/21/09 | The Lid Posted on Monday, December 21, 2009 12:34:39 AM by Shellybenoit So it comes down to this, Senator Nelson trades his pro-life position for a couple of bucks...Gee, if he thought abortion is murder on Thursday, why isn't it murder on Friday. For another couple of million for his home state maybe he will come out saying...  

Nelson: Health bill to stand ‘test of time' as historic reform Omaha World-Herald ^ | December 20, 2009 | By Joseph Morton Posted on Sunday, December 20, 2009 9:55:44 AM by Oldeconomybuyer WASHINGTON — Ben Nelson has spent his life negotiating big deals, but never one this big. Now he must face the consequences of his decision. It may make him popular at the White House and among some of his fellow Senate Democrats, but his announcement...  

GOP senators to block defense bill in bid to delay health-care vote Washington Post ^ | December 18, 2009 | Paul Kane and Lori Montgomery Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:50:26 PM by americanophile Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama's health-care...  

Britain's socialized medical system once again demonstrates what we will find when we go over Chairman Zero's "precipice" into government-run healthcare. Verena Burns, a midwife who recently escaped from the National Health Service into private practice, tells tales of horror:...  

Zomblog has written the real, very un-PC reasons for Why America Hates Universal Health Care,and why you should too. If the bill for your foolishness shows up in the form of higher taxes on me, then I unwillingly start to care what you do. And, trust me on this, you don’t want me turning my heartless judgmental eye on your foolish lifestyle. Because I’d have no qualms criticizing half the stuff you do.Do you want that? No. Do I want that? No...  

This is a story that I originally posted in a thread a while back and it was suggested to me to make my own thread. Sorry it took so long.... I was kinda busy ;) If this is in the wrong place or I have broken any rules, I apologize in advance. UPDATE: Jack is home now and getting better IN SPITE of the NHS, NOT BECAUSE of it. I really felt the need to share this... it is not just a story in a newspaper or word of mouth tale. We are real life...  

(Wes Vernon) - Almost any other presidency would by embarrassed by a report from within its own administration that exposes its number one legislative priority as an anti-family fraud. But not the Obama White House. Its response to a negative study of its Health "Care" bill resembles Al Gore's reaction to contradictions to the "sky-is-falling" hysteria over "man-made Global Warming": Ignore it and hope it goes away...  

So it's come down to this. Republicans and some Democrats wouldn't vote for a government-run health plan that competed with private insurers -- though it would enjoy no special taxpayer subsidies...  

Observing the Nov. 5 protest march against Obamacare on Capitol Hill, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post momentarily turned his attention from signs that said "Stop Obamunism" and "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945" to "a man standing just beyond the TV cameras" who "apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after [the] event began." Here's what happened next:[more ...] Washington Post - Dana...  

There might be an argument for taking care of the old and the poor. That argument had been won by liberals over 40 years ago, when medicare and medicaid was passed into law by the "Great society" Johnson administration. I would have thought that that argument would also be lost, as both programs, especially medicare, are disasters.  Would you personally trust your money to the government to make important medical decisions for you? Would you...  

So it's come down to this. Republicans and some Democrats wouldn't vote for a government-run health plan that competed with private insurers -- though it would enjoy no special taxpayer subsidies. That's socialism. But as a compromise, they may agree to push aside the so-called public option and instead let people ages 55 to 64 buy into Medicare, which is both government-run and taxpayer-supported. That's not socialism. If you say so. This is...  

From a socialist doctor friend, of course. Gateway Pundit has the details:New Zeal reported this week on Barack Obama’s Marxist neighbor and doctor friend who taught him about the single-payer health care system.The push to socialize US Heathcare came, not from from the “people”, but from small clique of Marxists, led by a man with close persional ties to president Barack Obama.This group’s goal is fully socialized, government run “single...