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By David Edwards
Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Monday asserted that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was “uniquely unqualified” for the GOP nomination because of the similarities between health care laws in Massachusetts and President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, including the repeatedly debunked claim that “death panels” would ration care to seniors.
Speaking at a ballroom across the street from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Santorum pointed to a report (PDF) from the the non-partisan organization Families USA that found at least 15 major similarities between Obama’s Affordable Care Act and the reforms Romney enacted in Massachusetts.
“Both create government panels to dictate quality and cost containment,” Santorum explained. “Some of you may be familiar with the Independent Payment Advisory Board — which is a board separate from Congress, independent of Congress — that President Obama created to control health care costs. How? By cutting reimbursements to doctors and hospitals under the Medicare program. Well, Gov. Romney has a similar program called the Council on Health Quality and Costs.”
“Some people refer to these types of boards as death panels,” he added. “Why? Because they ultimately decide to ration care to those procedures and people because they don’t believe these procedures are effective in providing care, that the utilization isn’t worth the costs.”
“So, again, you have government making decisions and rationing and apportioning care based on research that shows what outcomes are dictated by the research that’s out there.”
In 2009, Politifact named “death panels,” a term thought to have been first used by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), as their “Lie of the Year.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/06/santorum-romney-and-obama-both-created-death-panels/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Feb. 6, 2012.
"Funny how he says "Some people refer to these types of boards as Death Panels" to the best of my recollection only His Party does!!!"By David Edwards
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During a town hall in Keene, New Hampshire this morning, Rick Santorum told a mother whose son survived cancer that people with pre-existing conditions should pay more for health care coverage because they make poor health care choices. While specifically exempting the woman’s child from personal blame, Santorum insisted that the sick cost more to insure and insurers should charge them higher premiums:
At today’s event, Santorum claimed that the pre-existing conditions clause in the Affordable Care Act — which will prevent insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions or charging them more for coverage — would increase health care costs because people would wait until they’re sick to purchase coverage and refuse to heed the mandate. But as the Massachusetts health law demonstrated, the mandate will likely encourage younger and healthier people to purchase coverage before they fall ill and help reduce the number of so-called “free riders.” Reform also expands the risk pool so the costs of the sick people are paid for with the premiums of the healthy. Once they fall ill, their costs will be borne by the next generation of healthy beneficiaries.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002130068
"It's not his Fault you have to feed your Family on the Dollar Menu!!!"During a town hall in Keene, New Hampshire this morning, Rick Santorum told a mother... more
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Hackers say to publish emails stolen from Stratfor
Iran threatens to stop Gulf oil if sanctions widened
Preventive care: It’s free, except when it’s notHackers say to publish emails stolen from Stratfor
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If Obama wins, what will his second term look like? Will he become the messiah we all thought he would be or at the very least grow a stronger backbone when dealing with Republican recalcitrance? Will his Health Care bill stand up in the Supreme Court? Or will the ruling passed down by a Roberts-led court serve as another spanking to an American populace that re-elected George W. Bush?
http://veracitystew.com/2011/12/23/2012-a-fear-of-things-to-come/If Obama wins, what will his second term look like? Will he become the messiah we all... more
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By David Edwards
Friday, December 16, 2011
Millionaire Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney admitted Friday that he wasn’t sure what Medicaid was before being elected as governor of Massachusetts at the age of 55.
“Medicaid, you wonder what Medicaid is, those that are not into all this government stuff,” Romney told voters at a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa. “You know, I have to admit I didn’t know all the differences between these things before I got into government.”
“Then I got into it, and I understood that Medicaid is the health care program for the poor,” he explained.
The candidate said that as president, he would work to turn Medicaid over to the states in a block-grant program.
“We’re not going to have the federal government tell you how to care for your own people,” Romney declared. “Let states craft their own program, and then grow that program at inflation plus 1 percent. If we do that, by the way, we save about a hundred billion dollars a year.”
Romney’s plan is similar to one offered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Responding to Ryan’s plan for Medicaid earlier this year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded that “[t]o maintain current service levels in the Medicaid program, states would probably need to consider additional changes, such as reducing their spending on other programs or raising additional revenues.”
“Alternatively, states could reduce the size of their Medicaid programs by cutting payment rates for doctors, hospitals or nursing homes; reducing the scope of benefits covered; or limiting eligibility,” the CBO said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/16/romney-i-didnt-know-what-medicaid-was-before-i-got-into-government/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Dec. 16, 2011.
"Hmmm, he just said that 'Money was taken by Congress and Spent!!!' Is he telling us what many have already guessed??? I think so, and maybe he thinks that telling the Truth is a better way of winning his parties candidacy??? I am thinking they are going to hand him his head!!! What do you folks think???"By David Edwards
Friday, December 16, 2011
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Poor Mitt(ens) Romney couldn’t get noticed by the Republican party if he set his hair on fire and ran naked through Sarah Palin’s house. To add insult to injury, we thought it would be fun to highlight the reason why his own party hates him as much as the rest of us: he stands for everything and nothing.
http://veracitystew.com/2011/11/19/mitt-romneys-top-five-flip-flops-so-far-video/Poor Mitt(ens) Romney couldn’t get noticed by the Republican party if he set his... more
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"I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass." ~Bill Maher
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Source: AP
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — An influential medical group's change of heart is boosting President Barack Obama's plan to use Medicare to promote higher quality, less expensive care.
The American Medical Group Association represents premier organizations like the Mayo Clinic, the models for the proposed "accountable care organizations" in Obama's health care overhaul law. The networks of doctors and hospitals will collaborate to keep patients healthier.
Just a few months ago, the group said the administration's initial plan was too complex to work.
But in a letter to Medicare chief Don Berwick released Friday, the group said significant revisions changed the final blueprint for the better, and now it warrants serious consideration.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jFvvbvidxEXPC-43NIBgJYFB7jNg?docId=4d4d45ae532a4bfa83e18a50e0d9a329
"Hmmmm, A Change of Heart, you say??? "Source: AP
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It’s the death of an American icon, a working-class woman who stood up for her rights and unionized her workplace. And wouldn’t you know it? She fought the mills, but she couldn’t make her insurance company do the decent thing until it was too late:It’s the death of an American icon, a working-class woman who stood up for her... more
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Nearly 19,000 questions were submitted on YouTube for Thursday's Google and Fox News Republican Primary debate in Florida. More than 100,000 votes were cast to help determine the questions...We took those 19,000 questions, which were asked among nine varying categories, and analyzed the words people used when expressing their perspectives
http://veracitystew.com/2011/09/23/gop-debate-word-clouds-speak-volumes-image/Nearly 19,000 questions were submitted on YouTube for Thursday's Google and Fox... more
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Posted on 09.21.11
By Eric W. Dolan
Categories: Activism, Featured
During a rally at Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that Americans were engaged in one of the greatest political struggles the country had ever faced.
“On one side, we have the wealthiest people in America who have never ever had it so good,” he said. “On the other side, what we are seeing is 16 percent of our people unemployed, and 46 million Americans who are living in poverty and that number is growing every single day.”
“So the issue we have to determine right now is whether that capitol, that government,” Sanders continued, pointing towards Washington, D.C., “is there to represent all of the people, and not just the wealthiest and most powerful.”
The senator added the U.S. should have a single-payer health care system.
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/bernie-sanders-we-are-in-one-of-the-greatest-struggles/
"A true patriot. Thanks Senator Sanders."Posted on 09.21.11
By Eric W. Dolan
Categories: Activism, Featured
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He thinks fondly of the time when millions of Americans did not have insurance and went to charity Hospitals. He doesn't want you to have the best care available, just whatever M.D.s that can be scraped-up to patch you up.
Unfortunately Medicine is big business in America, and is profit driven. I just wonder why someone like Ron Paul who believes in a free-market economy wants to eliminate the competitive medical system in favor of "charity"? Well you guessed it, charity is for the poor and middle class and the rich can enjoy the "best" a fee for service system can provide. What a hypocrite!He thinks fondly of the time when millions of Americans did not have insurance and... more
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What you saw tonight is something much more sinister than not having a healthcare plan. It’s sadism, pure and simple. It’s the same impulse that led people in the Coliseum to cheer when the lions ate the Christians. And that seems to be where we are heading — bread and circuses, without the bread. The world that Hobbes wrote about — “the war of all against all.”
http://veracitystew.com/2011/09/13/gop-death-applause-like-romans-cheering-lions-to-eat-christians/What you saw tonight is something much more sinister than not having a healthcare... more
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"Last year, political neophyte Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money to bring the tea party's anti-government, pro-privatization agenda to the Florida governor's office. Today, the former executive pays just $30 a month for health care—and lets taxpayers cover the rest.
The governor, a proud bearer of the Republican Party's deregulation standard, has spent his first half-year in office decrying government waste: He's laid off thousands of Sunshine State employees, slashed their benefits, turned down (most of) the federal government's health care dollars, and put extra financial pressure on Florida retirees and Medicaid recipients. But Scott and his dependents pay one-fifth what a janitor in the state Capitol pays for health insurance…and less than 3 percent of what a retired state trooper pays for life-saving coverage."
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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/rick-scott-pays-360-year-state-health-insurance"Last year, political neophyte Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money to... more
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He is in insurance, and says he has a better solution to high health insurance premi ums than existing health reform law. I didn't know how many rights we've lost with this law, and I'm certain that he is accurate in his speech. It was amazing to watch, and I'm definitely paying more attention to this issue. Can the government really take money from us now just for being alive? He asks for all of our help in his speech: Democrats, Republicans, Tea Partiers, and Independents. Best speech I've seen since 2008 election by far!He is in insurance, and says he has a better solution to high health insurance premi... more
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