“It’s still tough to know whether this behemoth government takeover of heath care will actually pass. But two key markets are betting against it. First, over at the Intrade pay-to-play online betting parlor, the bid for the U.S. government health-plan contract is only 38 cents. That’s down from 50 cents in late July. Second, the share prices of big private health insurers have rallied in recent weeks. UnitedHealthcare is up 13 percent, Humana is up 12.4 percent, and Aetna is up almost 10 percent. These firms will be decimated if the government insurance plan passes. But investors are now predicting it won’t.

For the sake of economic freedom, liberty and fiscal sanity, let’s hope the markets are right. ”

http://townhall.com/columnists.....ase?page=2

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My more cynical self doubts it will do any good, but I’m hoping at least a couple of those so very much in love with Mr. Obama and anything he does will actually read the bill and start to get a clue about what is in there. We’ll see.

I do, by the way, fully expect to be reported to the snitch website for this as well. C’est la guerre, I suppose.

Department of Education is usually the first one that comes to mind when I think of useless and expensive.

Precisely, the sinister thing is that when Obamacare passes, people will be quite pleased with it at first. The destruction of innovation in healthcare will certainly not be felt right away. Even older Americans will probably not see things change much in their remaining years.

It is for my children that I fear most, and myself, at 30 years of age. I am confident that a 70 year old alive right now with cancer will have a better outcome than I may have should I be diagnosed with cancer in 40-50 years. And my grandma had a hip replacement at 75, and was overweight (she was gaining weight partly because the knee problems slowed her down.) Wonder how the QALY would have worked out for her, considering she had heart valve replacement surgery prior to the double knee replacement as well as glaucoma and had been a smoker since age 11.

The fact is that my children are likely going to live healthier lives than their great-grandma because they are being taught to make better choices. However they may not live any longer than she will (87 this month) because of socialized medicine.

“Health care in the US is covered by three main systems– Medicare, medicaid, and private insurance.

two of these systems are bankrupt, and will be unable to make payments beyond 2032 (insert correct date here, I don’t know).

the third is solvent, and can make all of its payments for the foreseeable future.

Barack Obama’s plan is to take the one system meeting its obligations and fold it into the two systems that are bankrupt.”

http://ace.mu.nu/

I didn’t check the numbers, but it hardly matters. We know that Dept of Energy is useless, expensive, corrupt, and a drain on all of our lives.

Even if Death Care is the greatest thing since sliced bread at the beginning, in a few short years it will be an octopus that will strangle all of our lives. When not killing us by rationing and Death Counseling, it will be strangling us with beaurocratic paper-work, and consuming hundreds of hours each year for each of us as we move from line to line to line to line to comply with the ever increasing rules preventing us from getting medical treatments.

Daniel Hanning said the other day that UK Death Care is the 3rd largest employer IN THE WORLD. Behind the Red Army, and the Indian Railroad. And he also said that doesn’t count the doctors!! But Death Care will eclipse them within 5 years.

The Death Care being rammed down our throats is a plague that will complete the destruction of the United States of America, and replace it with a socialist dictatorship that will be the plaything of a handful of Commissars (Pelosi, Obamy, Drooling Barney) who will live in splendor as they move their game pieces (us) merrily around their game boards.

Have you noticed that most of the Teaparty/Townhall protesters are better informed than the Congressmen sponsoring the Townhall? They have shown to have more knowledge of what is in the House Bill.

This seems to be the Whitehouse/Liberal Congressmen’s message right now. As if they can determine the rules/guidelines for the protesters. In other words: “You can be angry but, not too angry. You can speak out but, we need to tell you how loudly you can speak and we will tell you, who/when. You can make protest signs but, they will be screened at the rally/townhall for appropriateness (any inappropriate signs will promptly be removed from the event). LOL He wishes that we were, “the stupid bunch of adult babies”.

Great story & hi! artboy! You hit the nail on the head.

“I want to thank you all for coming out tonight to this special town hall meeting” read President Obama, his narrow little head scanning the teleprompters in the now familiar left to right slow rotation. “Carefully scripted participation by selected citizens in a tightly controlled environment is a cornerstone of our democracy!”

“Carefully scripted! Tightly controlled!” The crowd of handpicked “ordinary people”, their underpants soaked in Obama-generated love honey and their wallets stuffed with $50 each “expenses money”, howled their grateful enthusiasm back at the President of the World and he smiled that arrogant little smile of his.

“Sure, we can have a national conversation about health care…its good to have a conversation” he continued, lapsing now into that preacher style speaking voice that had served him so well on the long road from Nairobi to Washington. “We know that…but… when we talk to each other…let’s remember… to keep it civil… to use our… Indoor Voice!”

“Indoor Voice! Indoor Voice!” howled the crowd, waving their color coordinated posters and banners. “Indoor voice!”

“Our Indoor Voice and not…our Angry Voice! Dissent is fine! Dissent is okay! But let’s remember that…dissent… has its limits! When dissent threatens to get… in the way of the untold benefits that a progressive agenda of hope and change can bring to our…frightened, exhausted and confused people… then it ceases to be… the highest form of patriotism, as it was under the regime of my…predecessor…and it just becomes…a big fat drag! Its time to say no… to dissent! Just say… no!”

“No dissent! No dissent!”

“Because dissent is fine but consensus is better! Its better to say Yes than to say No, isn’t it? Especially if it’s me doing the asking! You don’t want to…disappoint me, do you? You don’t want me to… feel bad; like you don’t… like me or something, do you?”

“No! No! Never! We won’t let you down, Barack! Govern us, Barack!”

“Sure, it’s easy to listen to those… voices of hate; the Lim Rushbaughs and the Han Seannittys and the… Artboys of this world but I know the American people are better than that; more… helpful and …compliant, more…tractable!”

“Tractable! Tractable!” chanted the crowd, not knowing what the word meant but thinking that it sounded like something to do with farming, so it was probably okay.

“My health care plan, whatever it actually is…and don’t try to pin me down too much on this one…isn’t about… health care. It’s about protection! Protection and security! Protection and security for whom? For the government, that’s who!”

“Who? Whom? Huh?” wondered the crowd.

“I knew you’d understand! Under my health plan thousands of new government jobs will be created, easing the burden on our nation’s unemployed and their families…”

“Families! Families!” chanted the crowd, back on familiar ground now.

“And offer security to our hard pressed administrators and middle managers. A whole new multi-tiered layer of government protection will be put in place, staffed mostly by…Americans…to help other ordinary American working parents… who do such a great job… to deal with the scrapes, boo boos and sniffles that take…such a toll…on our children!”

“Children! Children!”

“Because who knows best how to look after our kids? Not you, that’s for sure! If you did, they wouldn’t have turned out like they did, would they? And they’d phone more often too!”

“Phone more often! Phone more often!”

“And phone they will, under my plan! Once my health care plan, whatever it actually is…because who has time to read a bill in our high pressure modern world? …is in place you can be sure that…once you’re signed up…and I mean signed up or else… as you stand in the line, waiting for your…carefully rationed aspirin…and chemotherapy… and your assisted suicide…you can stand proud and look…Canada…in the eye!”

“Canada! Canada!”

“And Cuba! And the UK! And Romania! And you can say that in our time we set in place a system of carefully rationed health care for all Americans…living and dead…that will amplify the role of government in all our lives – and the lives of succeeding generations, out of all imagining!”

“Amplify! Amplify!”

“You can’t run your own lives – you know that! So let us do it for you! It’ll be better and easier and safer! I promise!”

“Run our lives! Run our lives!”

Hehehehe snickered Obama to himself. They’re falling for it again, the stupid bunch of adult babies…

This (all 1017 pages) is a disaster from page 1 and should be sent to Cuba to help out with their toilet paper shortage. Plain and simple………