Obama '08?

Obama: My hope was a year ago today when I was being sworn in that reversing that process was going to be easier partly because we were entering into a crisis situation and I thought that the urgency of the moment would allow us to join together and make common cause. That hasn’t happened. Some of it, frankly, is I think a strategic decision that was made on the side of the opposition that… I think that some of it had to do with a sense that the best political strategy was to simply say no.

hotair.com:
Here, in a nutshell, is the heads-we-win, tails-you-lose mentality that keeps the State plodding blindly forward, crushing a formerly vibrant economy beneath it. If you don’t answer Obama’s trillion-dollar health-care plan with your own trillion-dollar program, you’re an obstructionist – not an opponent to be debated, but an obstacle to be swept aside. The middle class is frustrated because they understand the basic concept of fiscal responsibility, and they know they – and their children – will be expected to pay for these titanic solutions.

Many middle class families who do not have the money to visit a doctor do not go to the emergency room for care.

Why Men Do Not Visit the Doctor

"If a woman does not feel well, she will go to a doctor, but if a man is unwell, he will normally try and ignore it."

According to the Greek physician Hippocrates 'a wise man ought to realize that his health is his most valuable possession, unfortunately most men fail to take this advice seriously. The fact is that a man’s average life is shorter than that of a woman’s average life and for fifteen years of that life he can expect to be chronically ill.

A survey states that over a third of American men have not had a medical check up last year, while around nine million men have not visited a doctor in five years. These statistics are staggering. It is estimated that men make a 150 million fewer trips to the doctor than women, every year!

Researchers explain that this is very common in most men across the world. Most men feel that a visit to the doctor is a threat to their masculinity.

Added to this are fear, denial and embarrassment. Researchers believe that from a young age men are taught to hold their heads high and ‘get tough’. Admitting to pain or any other problems is seen as a confession to being weak and threatens male pride and machismo.

How Seniors Will Pay for ObamaCare
In many areas, Medicare Advantage enrollees will lose about one-third of their health insurance benefits. The cuts will finance new subsidies for younger people.

By JOHN C. GOODMAN

Today marks the six-month anniversary of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, widely known as ObamaCare. It is a day when the first significant round of benefits kicks in, and the Obama administration is taking every opportunity to tout them to the American public.

Insurers, we are being told, will no longer be able to impose annual limits or lifetime caps on benefits, and they will face a higher standard before than can drop anyone's coverage. Children will be guaranteed access to insurance, regardless of health condition. And there is more to come in the future.

Yet the administration is strangely silent about who will bear the cost of these benefits. Search the government's own health-reform website and you'll get the idea that the whole thing is one big free lunch.


The reality is that the cost of ObamaCare will be quite high for some people. By 2017, thousands of people in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio will be paying more than $5,000 a year in lost health-care benefits to make ObamaCare possible, according to a study published this month by Robert Book at the Heritage Foundation and James Capretta at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. For some New York City dwellers, the figure will exceed $6,000 a year. Unfortunate residents of Ascension, La., will pay more than $9,000 in lost benefits.

You continue to look at individual costs instead of total costs. I can't help you if you can't see the forest for the trees CI.

The greatest share of the "cost reductions" associated with the plan were associated with the Medicare reimbursement reductions that the Administration has - for obvious political reasons - decided not to pursue, an action that makes it fairly clear that they never really intended to do so and were engaging in a financial shell game.

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The greatest share of the "cost reductions" associated with the plan were associated with the Medicare reimbursement reductions that the Administration has - for obvious political reasons - decided not to pursue, an action that makes it fairly clear that they never really intended to do so and were engaging in a financial shell game.

And when did they decide to not pursue the reductions in payments under Medicare Advantage?

I think you are confusing the smoke with reality george.

I believe it is obvious thart that they were either incredibly naive and lacking in insight in a political area in which they had otherwise demonstrated at least a normal level of proviciency, or were engaging in a rather common form of political deception.

Monday, November 29, 2010; 10:31 PM
One of the most significant savings envisioned in the new health- care law - limiting payments to the private health plans that cover 11 million older Americans under Medicare - is, so far, bringing little of the turbulence that the insurance industry and many Republicans predicted.

It isn't an accounting trick if it didn't happen george. I think you are confusing the failure to cut payments to Drs under Medicare with a reduction in payments under Medicare Advantage.

My points about the deceptive exclusion of cost increases to state Medicaid budgets and nearly all private insurance plans from the total cost propaganda were entirely correct.