I found this YouTube video on C3 headlines.
A couple of items cross my desk that gave me pause.
The first was an excellent IBD editorial yesterday.
There is no free lunch, as the article insists, contrary to the “its free!” cry from some of my Canadian relatives. In France
a Frenchman making a monthly salary of 3,000 euros has 350 of them deducted for health insurance. Then the employer throws in an additional 1,200 euros.
That is a whopping 36% of his total compensation cost going to health care. Thank God it is free, otherwise, no-one could afford it.
Is the care better?
during an August 2003 heat wave — when many doctors were on vacation and hospitals were stretched beyond capacity — 15,000 elderly citizens died.
Second item is this chilling email from my sister-in-law, from Canada.
I know you have been spending a lot time reading and writing about the Canadian health care system and I thought I’d give you an example of a problem we have.
About two weeks ago, my dad accidentally cut off his finger cutting wood. Anyway, he went to the emergency room (he had the finger) and they couldn’t sew it back on because they couldn’t get surgeon to the hospital for 5 hours and the tissue died. Frankly, I don’t think they had the skills or technology anyway, but he did sit there for 5 hours waiting for a surgeon. I don’t know if you find that interesting but I did.
Are you as chilled as I am? Government run health care is not the answer. IT will be MORE expensive (sorry Mr. Obama) and produce poorer results.
My Gosh! At least Howard Dean speaks without a vieled cloak. He says yesterday on Face the Nation that
“Private health care insurance is incredibly inefficient. Not because the private sector is by nature inefficient. But because they are investor owned and a huge proportion of the money they take in has to go to return on equity.”
So in a short sentence, Dean tells us what The Left really thinks. Profits are bad. They are not the reward for providing a good service, but is money removed from the system that could otherwise serve the “public good.”
Is this socialism, or what?
Bob Scheaffer lets Dean spout on without any challenge.
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I have been documenting the on-going use of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals by The Left and the President. Never before have we seen such an ideological White House, so well versed in radical practices. It views the pursuit of its agenda as a crusade, and sees the destruction of opposing views as a means to an end.
Ridicule, polarization and the use of power are employed by the White House to attack those who want to debate issues.
Viz:
- In Montana last week, Obama told us that insurance companies are holding us hostage.
“We are held hostage at any given moment by health insurance companies that deny coverage or drop coverage or charge fees that people can’t afford”
- Next, Obama attacks the media, the same people who provided no critical and balanced analysis of his policies. “TV loves a ruckus. You’ve got to be careful about those cable networks.” I guess even friends can be enemies if they don’t play along.
- The numbers prove that Obama’s polarizing efforts are succeeding. Today’s Rasmussen Poll shows 32% of people Strongly Approve of Obama, 41% Strongly Disapprove. (In G W Bush’s final month in office, 43% Strongly Disapproved.)
- Every media outlet, every Democratic “action”: committee, every George Soros radical organization is demagoguing town hall protesters. David Andersen characterizes the attacks:
“The Democrats are losing ground according to the polls and evidenced by the disquiet at town halls from Oregon to New York to Texas to Delaware. They have decided not to address the issues the people have passionately brought up. They have decided to characterize people who differ with them as a staged mob. This is so outrageous that it is beyond the pail.
Since when are people not suppose to express their agreement with a speaker by cheering? Are they not allowed to express their collective disagreement with a proposal with a collective response to a question by saying just say no?”
- Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economists, who has an unproven theory that we can spend, spend spend our way to prosperity, admits that “Obama will deal with the death of his postpartisan dream”.
- Obama attack dog Nancy Pelosi, well trained in Alinksy Rules, said last week that American citizens that exercise their free speech rights are Un-American. This is exactly the same term she used in March 2009 to describe raids on illegal immigrant work sites!!! So let me get this straight … Free speech is Un-American … Upholding the law is Un-American …
Polarization. Avoid the issue. Attack and demonize the other side. Is this the Change people voted for?
