molson_golden2002 Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Now if Obama could only fix Tim Connelly http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commer...nservatism.html The GOP strategist had been joking about the upcoming presidential election and giving his humorous assessments of the candidates. Then he suddenly cut out the schtick and got scary serious. "Let me tell you something, if Democrats take the White House and pass a big-government healthcare plan, that's it. Game over. Government will dominate the economy like it does in Europe. Conservatives will spend the rest of their lives trying to turn things around and they will fail." And it turns out that the fearsome harbinger of free-market doom is the mild-mannered ex-U.S. senator with the little, red glasses, Tom Daschle. He'll be the guy shepherding President Barack Obama's healthcare plan through Congress via his probable role as secretary of health and human services. At the core of Daschle's thinking on the subject is the creation of a "Federal Health Board that would resemble our current Federal Reserve Board" and ensure "harmonization across public programs of health-care protocols, benefits, and transparency." (Forget secretary of state, Hillary Clinton should shoot for chairman of Fed Health and run one seventh of the U.S. economy.) And the subject of that "harmonization" would be a $100 billion to $150 billion a year plan that would let individuals (and small businesses) buy insurance from private companies or from a government plan. Daschle and the Obamacrats certainly have the momentum: a near-landslide presidential election victory, at least 58 Democratic votes in the Senate, and a nasty recession that will make many Americans yearn for economic security. Already the health insurance companies seem set back on their heels. The industry's trade organization now says it would accept new rules requiring them to cover pre-existing conditions as long as there was a universal mandate for all Americans to have health insurance. On top of all that, Obama clearly wants to make healthcare reform a priority in his first term, as evidenced by the selection of a heavy hitter like Daschle. And even if he wasn't interested, Congress sure is, with Max Baucus and Ted Kennedy readying a plan in the Senate. A few observations: 1) Passage would be a political gamechanger. Recently, I stumbled across this analysis of how nationalized healthcare in Great Britain affected the political environment there. As Norman Markowitz in Political Affairs, a journal of "Marxist thought," puts it: "After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under religious and other influences who tended to support the Conservatives were much more likely to vote for the Labor Party when health care, social welfare, education and pro-working class policies were enacted by labor-supported governments." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Now if Obama could only fix Tim Connelly Is that why Mancari's playing? http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commer...nservatism.html I thought this was common knowledge. Each party formulates its policies on keeping and expanding its base of support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molson_golden2002 Posted November 23, 2008 Author Share Posted November 23, 2008 Is that why Mancari's playing? I thought this was common knowledge. Each party formulates its policies on keeping and expanding its base of support. Partly, but its also because no one else, and I mean no one else, is scoring. It's basically if Pomminville and Vanek don't score the Sabres don't score lately. Stafford, Paille, Hecht and even Roy just really are not getting it done. Five game losing streak with Boston, Pittsburgh and a trip to Montreal up next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East Brady Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Federal Health Board = Federal Reserve Board ...... Now Thats a recipe for success. Can't ya feel that dab, dab, dab, on your bung hole,........that would be some one applying vase-o-line. Well I guess some fellers like that, especially around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Truly catastrophic. A national health insurance plan would be the death blow to our American experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molson_golden2002 Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 Truly catastrophic. A national health insurance plan would be the death blow to our American experiment. This is the end, my only friend....the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Truly catastrophic. A national health insurance plan would be the death blow to our American experiment. America is already reeling from health costs. Both patients and hospitals. Via Newsweek... More than two in five American adults under 65 had trouble paying their medical bills last year, according to a recent study by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based health policy research group. Of those people, 39 percent had used up all their savings, 30 percent had racked up credit-card debt and 29 percent said medical bills left them struggling to pay for basic necessities like food and heat. (snip) Doctors and hospitals are also struggling to survive the health-care credit crunch: they endure some $60 billion in unpaid medical bills each year, according to a report last year from the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. With out-of-pocket health costs rising (the $250 billion price tag in 2005 is expected to exceed $420 billion by 2015), the percentage of unpaid bills will likely increase as we head into a new year and a new economic reality. No one in America should be one catastrophic illness or accident away from financial ruin for themselves and their family. No one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finknottle Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 America is already reeling from health costs. Both patients and hospitals. Via Newsweek... No one in America should be one catastrophic illness or accident away from financial ruin for themselves and their family. No one. Does this goal apply to uninsured illegal immigrants? They are a key driver in the rise of medical costs, after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 No one in America should be one catastrophic illness or accident away from financial ruin for themselves and their family. No one. Why's that? Give me one good LOGIC-driven reason why that statement is what it is. Most of this argument is driven by emotion, and emotion alone. "Think of the children!!" The Constitution doesn't have a "free health care for all" clause the last I checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 ah yes. What a great idea for a country hopelessly in debt. Take on more expense by socializing health care. How moronic can the American people and it's politicians get. Truly sinister. Maybe the idea is for the US to fail. To be weak. So the good ole USA is forced to become part of the new world order. No way our politicians can be this stupid. Can they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tux of Borg Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 America is already reeling from health costs. Both patients and hospitals. Via Newsweek... No one in America should be one catastrophic illness or accident away from financial ruin for themselves and their family. No one. Except the illegals which are a major cause of the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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