B. Hussein Obama's Healthcare Plan |
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| Posted by: Roids1 Jul 21 2008, 06:05 PM |
| O'S HEALTH RX: COVER ILLEGALS By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published in The New York Post on July 21, 2008. Democrats' single most important domestic proposal - universal health insurance - may blow up in Barack Obama's face when voters are exposed to the deadly details. Obama has said, proudly and often, "I am going to give health insurance to 47 million Americans who are now without coverage." But are they "Americans?" That 47 million statistic includes illegal immigrants - who virtually all lack insurance. In fact, about one in four of those lacking insurance is here illegally. And they are, by far, the group most in need of health insurance. About 15 million of the remaining uninsured are eligible for Medicaid but haven't signed up - mainly because they haven't gotten sick. When they do, they enroll in Medicaid and we pick up the full tab for their health care relatively cheaply. (About 80 percent of each Medicaid dollar goes to nursing-home care for the elderly, only about 20 percent for the medical needs of the poor.) The rest of the uninsured pool? Virtually all the children are eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Some aren't enrolled because the parents haven't bothered, but most are eligible. That leaves about 20 million uninsured adults who are US citizens or legal immigrants. There are far better ways to handle their needs than to turn our entire health-care system upside down. Care for illegals is the biggest unmet medical need in our nation, and Obama's program targets it squarely. But do we really want to give them federally paid coverage equal to what US senators get, as Obama proposes? Covering illegals adds dramatically to the cost of any program - and would encourage more folks to enter America illicitly. Obama's plan will likely have a horrific effect on some local health-care systems. Illegals now get free emergency-room treatment for life-threatening conditions - as any other American who's entered an ER in an area with lots of illegals recently well knows. (Three-quarters of the illegal-immigrant population is concentrated in five states: California, New York, Florida, Texas and Illinois.) But now they'd be eligible for the entire range of medical services, all free of charge. That would trigger severe rationing: bureaucrats deciding who gets to see an oncologist, who can have an MRI - and even who can have bypass surgery and who'd die for lack of it. These decisions would be made not on the basis of legal status but on the brutal facts of triage: Treat the 37-year-old illegal with his whole life to live before you spend scarce resources on an overweight, diabetic, 80-year-old citizen with high blood pressure who smokes. John McCain hasn't raised this issue, perhaps for fear of offending the Latino vote. But polling suggests the case against rationing of health care would be as persuasive to Hispanic-American citizens as it is to the rest of us. Nobody wants to die waiting in line - especially not behind someone who snuck in ahead of us. McCain needs to hit the Obama plan for treating illegal immigrants to free, federally subsidized health insurance - and hit it hard. |
| Posted by: Will109090 Jul 22 2008, 11:59 PM |
| More and more I read about this stupid ass dem, the more and more I believe he truly is a fucking idiot. The only thing I like about this loser is that he wants out or Iraq. |
| Posted by: JW32Hoops Jul 23 2008, 12:08 AM | ||
I hear ya bro. Y'know what I do like about him though? His middle name. |
| Posted by: Roids1 Jul 23 2008, 08:14 AM |
| Finally we know why you like this muslim so much! |
| Posted by: Lorken Jul 23 2008, 08:18 AM |
| It needs to cover animals too! My poor mouse isn't covered! What if he herniated his anus doing deadlifts??? I hate to think what would happen without insurance! Socialism has never worked in the history of the world. Why does this arrogant douchebag think he can pull it off? Or any arrogant socialist democrat. I'm sick of it. Guess what douchie, TAX REVENUE IS THE HIGHEST IT'S EVER BEEN, AND IT'S BECAUSE TAXES ARE LOW. Low taxes = higher tax revenue. He wants to raise taxes. Does this make ANY sense??? I want to pull my hair out!! |
| Posted by: Roids1 Jul 23 2008, 08:21 AM |
| B. Hussein Obama's energy plan = no more oil, no nuk-lar, no shale, no drilling, just raise taxes on oil companies and that'll solve everything. In the meantime, we'll explore alternative energy so your car can run and your house can be heated by pig dung by the year 2025. |
| Posted by: Bryan60275 Jul 23 2008, 06:26 PM | ||
no, he wanted out of Iraq when he was campaigning for the Dem nominee. He was very adamant about "out by such and such a time" but now he's singing the typical politician tune in Iraq: not sure when we'll be out and wants to make sure we get the job done. |
| Posted by: Roids1 Jul 23 2008, 06:37 PM |
| Werd. He's says he would still be against the surge if he had it to do over again, and credits Al Sadar and other locals with the decrease in violence, which just happens to miraculously coincide with the time of the troop surge. The decrease in violence may give him the opportunity to argue for his 16 month time table, but it sounds like he wants to have it both ways. Admit the violence is down and get his time table, while giving no credit to the surge (i.e. the US military). |
| Posted by: JW32Hoops Jul 24 2008, 12:34 AM | ||||
http://www.agi.it/world/news/200807220948-pol-ren0007-art.html |
| Posted by: Roids1 Jul 24 2008, 10:34 AM |
Werd. Now that the violence is down after the surge, that may be possible.  Of course, if B. Hussein Osama had had his way 2 years ago, thing would be different. |