ObamaCare: Democratic healthcare reform

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Youtube helps Obama find useful idiot questioners for his healthcare town hall - 6/29/2009

Steve Grove of Youtube writes (youtube.com/blog?entry=20h2yiH79Tc): President Obama is taking your questions this Wednesday in a special online health care town hall event. With health care at the top of the President's agenda, he is opening up the White House to questions via YouTube... He'll answer some of the most popular questions during the event, which we'll stream live from t...

David Cutler of Harvard keeps lying about who's covered under universal healthcare (Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, CAP) - 6/24/2009

Professor David Cutler of Harvard University and Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin of the Rand Corporation offer a report entitled "The Two Trillion Dollar Solution/Saving Money by Modernizing the Health Care System" (published by the Center for American Progress, americanprogress.org/issues/2009/06/2trillion_solution.html). It contains a major lie, and one that Cutler has engaged in before: The f...

NCLR: universal healthcare should include illegal aliens; Janet Murguia's transparent plea - 6/22/2009

Via this, the National Council of La Raza has issued a new, completely transparent plea to include illegal aliens in universal healthcare (nclr.org/content/news/detail/57979). They're "strongly urg[ing] President Obama and Congress to make every effort to ensure that health care reform reaches all communities", and they don't want there to be any citizenship or related eligibil...

ABC News gives Obama healthcare infomercial, refuses opposition ads (and what you can do) - 6/18/2009

Per this: ABC is refusing to air paid ads during its White House health care presentation, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, including a paid-for alternative viewpoint! The development comes a day after the network denied a request by the Republican National Committee to feature a representative of the party's views during the Obama special. Needless to say, that's similar to the way things...

Obama healthcare plan apparently covers illegal aliens - 6/12/2009

After it was released, I searched through Obama's healthcare plan for anything relating to immigration matters. I didn't find anything that set off any alarm bells and there were a few things that seemed to indicate that at least part of it was only for those eligible. On the other hand, he spoke yesterday in Green Bay, Wisconsin and said [1] among other things this: All we're sayin...

Live coverage Obama press conference April 29, 2009 - 4/29/2009

[UPDATE BELOW] Asked very weak question by Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press whether he will close the border with Mexico in regards to the swine flu. He's giving a two minute answer that boils down to what anyone should have expected he would say: no. She also asked whether he'll be ordering quarantines and he didn't answer that. Now he's engaging in what he refers to as ...

Janet Napolitano refuses to close or even tightly secure the border despite health risks (+Eric Massa) - 4/27/2009

Rep. Eric Massa - Democrat of New York state - is calling for the Mexican border to be closed. Meanwhile, Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security is refusing to close the border and does not appear to fully appreciate the risks of a loose border during a pandemic. At a press conference today, she said: "We're already doing passive surveillance at the border... You would c...

As flu pandemic threatens, Obama admin still doesn't have HHS Sec'y, Surgeon General, FDA head - 4/27/2009

From this: The Obama administration declared a “public health emergency” Sunday to confront the swine flu - but is heading into its first medical outbreak without a secretary of Health and Human Services or appointees in any of the department’s 19 key posts. President Barack Obama has not yet chosen a surgeon general or the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His choice t...

Regional White House Forums on Health Care Reform visiting California, Iowa, MI, NC, VT; ask questions - 3/06/2009

Later this month and in April, the Barack Obama administration will be conducting "Regional White House Forums on Health Care Reform" in California, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Vermont [1]: In keeping with the Obama administration’s commitment to a transparent, accountable government, the forums will be an opportunity for Americans from all over the country to voice their concer...

Obama budget 2010: healthcare reform reserve fund; $1.75 trillion deficit; e-Verify; blames GOP, Wall Street - 2/26/2009

You can download a PDF containing Barack Obama's 2010 budget from here. John Boehner responds here, raising issues with taxing during a recession, the size of the deficit, and increasing the size of the federal government. 1. The budget puts us on the path to healthcare "reform": The Budget establishes a reserve fund of more than $630 billion over 10 years to finance fundamental ref...

CBO evaluates healthcare plans; uninsured could reach 54 million by 2019; watch for liars - 2/25/2009

Earlier today, Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf testified to the Senate Finance Committee about various healthcare proposals, and his remarks are here ("Options for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage and Controlling Costs"). Evaluating the various claims is left for those more familiar with these issues, however one issue in our purview is this:

SCHIP passes House; lifts five year waiting period for legal immigrants; can be abused by illegal aliens; anchor baby provision - 1/14/2009

The Democrats are trying to give Barack Obama an early signature accomplishment of sorts by pushing the SCHIP (H.R.2, S-CHIP, State Childrens' Health Insurance Program, link). It just passed the House; a Senate version will apparently be debated tomorrow in the Senate Finance Committee; it will probably reach Obama's desk in one form or another. Previously, legal immigrants weren't ...

Jeanne Lambrew lies about uninsured (deputy director of Obama Office of Health Reform) - 1/13/2009

Jeanne Lambrew - University of Texas professor, former Bill Clinton aide, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress - has been named the deputy director of the Office of Health Reform for the upcoming Obama administration (link). Her biography is at [1]. She contributed a chapter [2] to the just-released book "Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President&...

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