What This Health Care Debate Needs Is a Better Font
Members of Congress are spending the August recess holding town hall meetings about health care, and that is not going so well, what with wingnuts shrieking about Nazis and all. Meanwhile, over in the media, people are saying that if we pass health care reform Barack Obama will kill large babies and old people, and then he will star on a soap opera, and then he will kill more seniors, and then he will put his hands on Jim DeMint, and then he will bureaucratize bureaucracy, and then he will fall to the Prussians. Did I forget anything?
Oh yes, he will also stick a bone through his nose.
The reason for all this insanity, of course, is very simple: Barack Obama has not made enough shiny websites…
"They got caught up in the act of governing, and what health-care reform needs right now is the kind of campaign that only President Obama and his team can deliver," said Democratic consultant Steve McMahon.
"They've been caught slow," said Harvard University pollster Robert Blendon, who has tracked attitudes about health care for decades. "If you're not quick, your opponents get there first."
Stupid government, always getting caught up in the act of governing! Why does Barack Obama think we elected him in the first place?
Come on, Mr. President, stop trying to distract us with all these policies and ideas and things, and get back to what really matters: graphic design.
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Fix healthcare by throwing self-serving politicians out of office
Why is it that when Barack Obama was running for President he attacked pharmaceutical companies and now he has teamed up with them to promote his health care plan? Why are all the tort lawyers big democratic supporters and multi-millionaires? Obama’s true intentions are so obvious that even the left is starting to express concerns. For example, on August 10, CBS Evening News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson filed a report stating that “the White House agreed not to seek price controls on drugs for seniors on Medicare and would not support importing cheaper drugs from Canada.” According to Attkisson, “The pharmaceutical industry is now so firmly in the President's camp it's developing plans to spend up to $150 billion promoting it with TV ads.”
According to the acting president of Public Citizen and founder and director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, Dr. Sidney Wolfe, “An all sort of off the record deal was reached that is very bad for the American public.” Other experts say that for their cooperation, Obama is allowing pharmaceutical companies to charge $50 for a $2 pill and is assuring them that there will be no changes to the laws that make it near impossible for less expensive generic drugs to reach the American market.
Unless tort lawyers, the pharmaceutical lobby and other special interest groups like the AMA, ADA and the AARP are dealt with to preserves the Constitution and the free market system, while also protecting the medical provider and consumer, no healthcare plan can work.
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