What are you if you don't support Sen. Barack Obama's health care plan? Well, a "bad person" according to Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. Sticks and stones may hurt your bones but words can always be blogged:
"Hillary has fought for universal health-care for all her life. The McCain plan is respectfully a joke. Sen. Obama has a real good plan to bring health care to every American," Rendell told CBS "The Early Show" co-host Harry Smith on August 25. "She cares about that. If she didn't she'd be a bad person and she's a very good person."
Rendell, who supported Clinton in the primary, said Obama's proposal to offer a government-run health insurance program should persuade Clinton supporters to back Obama.
There are plenty of female opponents of Obama's plan who might not appreciate being called "bad."
"I think that a lot of women, when they think about moving towards government run system of health care, which is really what Sen. Obama is talking about, they're going to be a little bit cautious," Carrie Lukas, Vice President for Policy and Economics at the Independent Women's Forum, said to the Business & Media Institute.
"They recognize that while free health care, or however Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama wants to bill it, could be really expensive at the end of the day and create lower qualities of care and higher quality of care is really what most women are concerned about," Lukas said.
"He touches all the bases, so he very definitely is targeting women and he needs to because without consulting Hillary or even pursuing her for the vice president position, he's lost ground with women and he obviously thinks his health-care plan will be something that will get women on board," said Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, the think tank for Concerned Women for America.
Obama has struggled to win over Clinton's supporters after defeating her in the Democratic primaries.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll revealed Aug. 24 that in June, 75 percent of registered Democrats who wanted Clinton as the nominee, backed Obama. Now the number is at 66 percent. Sixteen percent of these voters said they would support McCain last June, but that number has jumped to 27 percent.
Rendell took a shot at the media Aug. 24 at a media panel, calling coverage of the Obama campaign, "embarrassing."
—Paul Detrick is a research analyst at the Business & Media Institute.
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that's what's got us in this healthcare mess in the first place
August 25, 2008 - 17:52 ET by wizardjrAll this government interferrence in the market place has gotten us HMO's, overpriced insurance, exorbitant fees, lawsuit lottery states, etc., etc., etc.
Now these idiots want more???!!!
Socialism and Communism bring everyone equality. We'll all be equally dead from the crappy government dictat healthcare. Just ask the Candians and the Brits how much they love it. Even the Candian Supreme Court (equivalent) said it sucks (and allowed market place health insurance and providers).
Sigh, here I go again. I'm
August 25, 2008 - 18:09 ET by mandrakeSigh, here I go again. I'm a Candian (as you would have it). So why don't you ask me how I feel about it?
I will give you this however. There was a story about a burn victim this summer in Ontario who was airlifted directly to New York State because no Toronto hosiptal was equipped to deal with it.
But that's a very rare exception.
BTW..It's Canadian..so go ahead and ask how I feel about our system.
Apology accepted. However,
August 26, 2008 - 12:59 ET by Tim the EnchanterApology accepted. However, being from the Buffalo, NY area, I already feel half Canadian (esp. on the weekends near the shopping malls).
I have my hand raised....
August 25, 2008 - 18:31 ET by JTPBad person here. No UHC for me thank you very much..
"I need more cowbell!" SNL
Guess I'm a bad person, for
August 25, 2008 - 18:32 ET by soulpileGuess I'm a bad person, for I believe in keeping the government out of my health care as much as possible. And out of my pockets.
Typical judgmental Democrat
August 25, 2008 - 18:40 ET by motherbeltTypical judgmental Democrat attitude. If you don't like our plan, you're not just wrong, you're a bad person.
A CNN/Opinion Research
August 25, 2008 - 18:52 ET by bigtimerA CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll revealed Aug. 24 that in June, 75 percent of registered Democrats who wanted Clinton as the nominee, backed Obama. Now the number is at 66 percent. Sixteen percent of these voters said they would support McCain last June, but that number has jumped to 27 percent.
I am telling you...tonight the leftist networks are doing their very best to diminish the numbers and this fact...especially msnbc from what I have seen, I wished some of you could of seen Matthews interviewing this one group of gals that are Hill supporters that really pissed him off with their facts they put out there about Obama going to a Muslim school in Indonesia and his problem with his birth certificate...he was still angry later on in the show when he and Keith came on...only problem is he omitted some of what the woman said to him about an hour earlier...
One other thing about this gal...she asked him, what do you want me to wash put your ears...something to that effect, it was great, adn this is a dem gal...
I loved it!
He didn't...obviously!
Typical left...say it ain't so...and it just will not be.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
I, for one, hope that the
August 26, 2008 - 13:01 ET by Tim the EnchanterI, for one, hope that the LSM continue to oversell the Obama brand. Bet they've never heard of the "Underdog Effect".
Liberals always label
August 25, 2008 - 20:15 ET by kgLiberals always label people with different beliefs than their own. Most of the time it is not fit to print.
"Forget change, I want improvement!"
Everytime I hear this
August 25, 2008 - 20:17 ET by CJK51Everytime I hear this blathering gasbag open his mouth, I wince knowing he is my governor. He's on his way to making Pennsylvania a socialized medicine heaven, continues to rake residents over the coals with taxes and what's funny is the shock expressed by people at Rendell's actions. Did you not pay attention to his past, and yet voted for him twice!?!?!
And I love that with the busy job of running a state as large as Pennsylvania, he still finds time to do a regular spot on Comcast Sportsnet come football season. I guess that would explain why he was stopped doing over 100 mph on the highway not long ago.
It comes as no surprise that someone as shady as Rendell would be cozy with the Clintons.
Like the ZZ Top song
August 25, 2008 - 22:22 ET by jefflebowskiI'm bad, I'm nationwide!
Lebowski is a bad mutha!!
Jeff Lebowski
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Below find how doctors view
August 26, 2008 - 01:18 ET by jdhawkBelow find how doctors view their profession today and ask yourself. Do you want even more of this ridiculous, burdensome, costly, meddling with even greater government control of the profession of medicine? Remember, your life may depend on the answer you make!
Medicine: The Death of a Profession
In medicine, above all, the mind must be left free.
Medical treatment involves countless variables and options that must be
taken into account, weighed, and summed up by the doctor's mind and
subconscious. Your life depends on the private, inner essence of the
doctor's function: it depends on the input that enters his brain, and
on the processing such input receives from him.
What is being thrust
now into the equation? It is not only objective medical facts any
longer. Today, in one form or another, the following also has to enter
that brain: 'The DRG administrator [in effect, the hospital or HMO man
trying to control costs] will raise hell if I operate, but the
malpractice attorney will have a field day if I don't--and my rival
down the street, who heads the local PRO [Peer Review Organization],
favors a CAT scan in these cases, I can't afford to antagonize him, but
the CON boys disagree and they won't authorize a CAT scanner for our
hospital--and besides the FDA prohibits the drug I should be
prescribing, even though it is widely used in Europe, and the IRS might
not allow the patient a tax deduction for it, anyhow, and I can't get a
specialist's advice because the latest Medicare rules prohibit a
consultation with this diagnosis, and maybe I shouldn't even take this
patient, he's so sick--after all, some doctors are manipulating their
slate of patients, they accept only the healthiest ones, so their
average costs are coming in lower than mine, and it looks bad for my
staff privileges.
Would you like your case to be treated this way--by
a doctor who takes into account your objective medical needs and
the contradictory, unintelligible demands of some ninety different
state and Federal government agencies?
If you were a doctor could you
comply with all of it? Could you plan or work around or deal with the
unknowable? But how could you not? Those agencies are real and they are
rapidly gaining total power over today's doctors and their minds and their patients.
I'm suprised Rog the Shrub
August 26, 2008 - 12:57 ET by Tim the EnchanterI'm suprised Rog the Shrub hasn't horned in on this already. Isn't "Fast Eddie" one of his favorite politicians?