Say it ain’t so…

Posted on August 3, 2009 by ChrisA

Here’s a Second Opinion

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.

3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries

4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.

5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.

6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.

7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.

8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.

9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.

10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.

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Just a friendly reminder….

Posted on August 2, 2009 by ChrisA


Someone should start a list… and if I was really good at this blogging thing I would link to that list!

… and the people, those that live outside the 25 square miles surrounded by reality, are beginning to wipe the fog off their glasses.

This was not the image that enabled Obama to win the presidency. Last year he beat John McCain by somehow convincing the public that he was the moderate, the fiscally prudent one, and the voice of “pragmatism” — that catchphrase meant to assure voters the candidate is not an ideologically crazed extremist.

It was a good thing Obama ran that way. Exit polling showed that the electorate self-identified as 44% moderate, 34% conservative, and 22% liberal. Obama was right to recognize that the public simply wouldn’t have embraced an ultra-liberal planning a huge spending spree, a government takeover of health care and a massive energy tax and regulatory scheme. In other words, if voters knew what they know now they might not have put him in the White House.

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Sense of entitlement perhaps?

Posted on August 2, 2009 by ChrisA

College Grad Can’t Find Job, Wants $$$ Back

Thompson, a graduate of Monroe College, is suing her school for the $70,000 she spent on tuition because she hasn’t found solid employment since receiving her bachelor’s degree in April, according to a published report.

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Good news on Obamacare

Posted on July 30, 2009 by ChrisA

Poll: Obama loses ground on health care

Pluralities now say that the president’s health care plan is a bad idea, and that it will result in the quality of their care getting worse. What’s more, just four in 10 approve of his handling on the issue.

The poll also finds that Obama’s overall job-approval rating has dropped to 53 percent. And it shows a public that has grown increasingly concerned about the federal government’s spending as the administration defends its $787 billion economic stimulus and supports a $1 trillion-plus health-care bill.


Hopefully this is momentum that’s hard to turn around. I suspect it has a lot of intertia. One can only hope.

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CHANGE

Posted on July 28, 2009 by ChrisA

Change, what is it good for?.

h/t to Instapundit.

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Harry meets Sally at the Daily Camera

Posted on July 27, 2009 by ChrisA

Harry and Sally Hempy apparently sat down at the kitchen table (or computer!) in Jamestown and wrote letters to the editor to the Daily Camera.

Meet Harry

Meet Sally

I say “kudos” to Jarad Polis, and to Sally this simple message, “It doesn’t get any better than this”.

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Good grief….

Posted on July 27, 2009 by ChrisA

“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”



Sounds like a giant problem to me.



Shame on your Mr. Conyers (and I’m sure many other politicians on both sides of the aisle). Are “We the People” asking too much of you? Perhaps Mr. Conyers and others with this same type of mindset need to find another line of work. Unfortuntaely, that’s almost as big a fantasy as Obamacare.

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“Self serving fantasies and exagerations”

Posted on July 27, 2009 by ChrisA

Obamacare.
And the trouble is….

The most misused word in the health care debate is “reform.” Everyone wants “reform,” but what constitutes “reform” is another matter. If you listen to President Obama, his “reform” will satisfy almost everyone. It will insure the uninsured, control runaway health spending, subdue future budget deficits, preserve choice for patients and improve quality of care. These claims are self-serving exaggerations and political fantasies. They have destroyed what should be a serious national discussion of health care.

(bold is mine).
We should be having a serious well thought out and vigously debated conversation about health care. Instead, the Obama administration creates an immediate crisis and proposes the fantasy of Obamacare to solve all the problems.

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Astronaut checks his memory

Posted on July 27, 2009 by ChrisA

Well, the real story to me is the Reuters Headline…

Earth bears scars of human destruction – astronaut

And this headline is based on the following scientific statement from Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk:

“This is probably just a perception, but I just have the feeling that the glaciers are melting, the snow capping the mountains is less than it was 12 years ago when I saw it last time,” Thrisk said. “That saddens me a little bit.”


Can someone explain to me how such a qualitative statement justifies such a sensational headline? I’m sure Reuters doesn’t have a problem with this type of reporting, which is actually a pathetic, but not surprising statement. Wonder what would have been reported if Astronaut Thirsk had orbited the earth in March of 1959 and compared it to today?

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Scamming the American people

Posted on July 27, 2009 by ChrisA

That would be the President with, yep you guessed it, Obamacare. Powerline comments here.

Regarding not busting the budget, not to mention Medicare and Social Security, let’s take a look at how well the Universal/government run healtcare plans worked in Massachussets, Hawaii and Tennessee (Tenncare option to Medicare).

Why is everything a crisis with Obama. SLOW DOWN. Also, I certainly expect our elected officials to be part of this plan.

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Something we can live with

Posted on July 27, 2009 by ChrisA

Obamacare that is.

And top House leadership official told POLITICO that the plan is “something we can live with [link added].”


Yea, especially since they AREN’T going to live with it!

I agree with what Instapundit says.

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Yes…..

Posted on July 26, 2009 by ChrisA

CBO deals new blow to health plan

For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat’s health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan touted by the White House as crucial to paying for the bill would actually save almost no money over 10 years.


Perhaps Obama can fire them all or take away their seat at the table?

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3,000 Low Temp Records Set This July!

Posted on July 26, 2009 by ChrisA

Any indication of the cool Summer from our climate change models? Does it matter?

Last I saw, James Hansen and Al Gore are still predicting global warming Armageddon. Perhaps they should get out more often? Well, we already know what happens when Al get out and about, it snows!

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More good news (again)

Posted on July 26, 2009 by ChrisA

Read the details here.

I’m sure Obama ranks much better in Boulder.

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The President and a “Cop”

Posted on July 24, 2009 by ChrisA

What an idiot.

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Wow!

Posted on July 24, 2009 by ChrisA

Bill Kristol’s analysis of Obama’s press conference last night on, what else, Obamacare, includes this gem…

Obama promised us health care this (that? ed) is at once better and cheaper, with both more regulation and more freedom to choose, featuring an assurance that government won’t limit our care and a commitment to a government panel that will save money by restricting care.


Sounds exactly like something liberal and progressive Boulderites would support wholeheartedly. What a beautiful world it will be…

Standing tough under stars and stripes
We can tell
This dream’s in sight
You’ve got to admit it
At this point in time that it’s clear
The future looks bright

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It’s the best they can do…

Posted on July 24, 2009 by ChrisA

California’s budget that is.

The most damning aspect of this tiresome situation is that the best budget our political system can produce is deceptive and fundamentally dishonest. It should tell us that we have a much bigger problem than an unbalanced budget.


Common sense is such a rare commodity.

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It isn’t accurate

Posted on July 24, 2009 by ChrisA

So say the Democrats about the Republicans graph or flow chart depicting Obamacare. If it’s anywhere CLOSE to accurate it’s pathetic.

Hell if I were a Democrat, and I have been to vote in the primaries for local reason, I’d do the same thing. The bright side is it appears someone is at least reading the bill. I was beginning to what the literacy rate was on Capitol Hill.

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Oh Canada, show us the way

Posted on July 24, 2009 by ChrisA

NOT!

But once again the star of the show was Holmes, who related in detail her experience and gave some insight into what government-run health care looks like. She was forced to leave Canada for a “timely diagnosis,” along with 24 other people during that same month who crossed the border to access the U.S. health care system for brain tumors. Canadian health care, it seems, is not the nirvana it is made out to be by U.S. liberals. As Holmes explained, one in six Canadians do not have a primary care doctor. She could not obtain a simple blood test because the government mandates lab hours and her schedule could not be accommodated.

She continued with a litany of facts. Two premature babies born in her town could not have received adequate care; one was taken to Buffalo and the other seven hours away to Ottawa. The government tries to adhere to “targeted wait times” to access doctors but “they are never near the targets.” Prescription drugs, eye exams, and casts and crutches, to name a few items, must be paid for out-of-pocket in the supposedly “free” health care system. And if you want to see an ophthalmologist the wait is a year.

Of course there’s this pro Canadian health care aritcle in the Denver Post that I would have expected to find in the Boulder Daily Camera. The main issue I have with the Post article is they so often do a Point and CounterPoint. Obviously socialized medicine is such an important issue that the Sunday Perspective section should only present one side.

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Bad guys in medical care?

Posted on July 24, 2009 by ChrisA

My kind of czar comments…

But the President might have accidently revealed his hand last night when he started talking about doctors trying to make money. He is clearly saying that he does not want doctors making decisions about patient care because they are only interested in profit. If Obama believes that doctors can’t be trusted to make good decisions about what a patient really needs, then why should we believe him when he says he wants to make sure that it is doctors who make those decisions?

Anything for “free” medical care. Geez, all we have to do is print money, no problem man, or tax the rich. It’s all so simple. Of course printing money will cause inflation and the rich will “go John Galt” but don’t worry be happy.

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