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Steve Mac Donald

Entries in Health Care (49)

Friday
Feb252011

If "Reproductive Rights" means...


tilesWord games are fun so let's play some...

If by "reproductive rights" the left means that a woman has the right to destroy a person just because it is still in her womb...

Do animal rights mean that we have a right to kill animals?

Do civil rights give us the right to be uncivil?

Do Marriage rights allow us to commit domestic violence and murder upon our spouse?

Environmental rights....?

The right to health care...?

Gender rights...?

 

Feel free to add your own.  The democrats make word games fun.

 

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Tuesday
Feb222011

Democrats Prepare to Defend The NH Health Insurance Monopoly

Democrat monopolyThe hearing for SB 150 is today at 9 AM.  SB 150 is similar to a House bill (HB 241- also here) that would allow anyone to contract with any insurer outside the state with the exception that the Senate version allows the State Commissioner some rule making, documentation and dispute resolution powers.

The commissioner cannot, however, define what must be insured. 

Democrats hate this bill as well.  It allows small business owners and individuals to seek arrangements and coverage to meet their specific needs.   So a young male who feels that they should not be paying for hearing aids, abortion services, or any host of state mandates for things they have no current need for, those crammed down costs will never appear in their premiums.

Lower premiums, portability, less government control--democrats hate that. You know what else they hate? Actual choice?  You can choose to get a cheaper plan, or opt for any buffet of services 50 states worth of competing insurers can come up with whenever you decide you want a change.

So expect the wacky left to come out and defend the two largest providers in the state.  Harvard Pilgrim and Anthem have a near-monopoly status, together controlling 80% off all health care insurance inside New Hampshire.  They do not want competition.  And neither do the democrats.

The hypocrats in the progressive left and their deep pocketed insurance cronies are going to defend that monopoly because it is a direct result of legislation by former State Senator, former NH governor, and current US Senator Jeanne Shaheen; one that reduced competition in the state, reduced access, and increased cost.

And they simply do not trust you to make decisions about your own coverage, or who will provide it.  That is for them to decide, and they like the monopoly the way it is.

Go to the hearing.  Tell the State Senate to bring competition to New Hampshire.  And tell the democrats you are a grown up capable of making your own choices, and are more than willing to risk paying significantly less for them.

 

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Tuesday
Feb152011

What Zandra Rice Hawkins Was Really Selling At Her "Fake" Sale

cupcakeZandra Rice "The Huckster" Hawkins of Granite State Progress (an out of state funded left wing group) staged a bake sale based on words she put in State Rep Jeanine Notter's mouth.   

Hawkins just decided that because Notter had more faith in individual responsibility and more local control that this guaranteed that people would suffer; that Notter's solution meant people would need to have a bake sale to raise money to pay for cancer treatments if New Hampshire tried to opt out of the unconstitutional Health Insurance mandate.

I think this says a good deal about Zandra the Huckster's world view and it's not all that flattering.

First, if you live near Zandra you might want to move.  She clearly cannot be expected to help you out unless there is a state or federal mandate in place and a well paid bureaucracy to manage it at your expense. 

Second, if she shows up at any local town meetings, kick her out.  Local control is clearly not her forte and given her position on its ineffectiveness, what you do in your town is none of her damn business.

Third, while Zandra was selling $10,000.00 cookies at her 'Fake' sale why didn't she double down and try to sell the ravaged uterus's of girls and young women misled (I'm sorry 'empowered') by the lefts obsession with the over sexualization of children?  She could put those next to the lifeless fetuses from millions of innocent aborted babies.  Those should be big sellers with the liberals, almost impossible to keep the shelves filled the way they go on about it.

How about emotional trauma in a can--killing the unborn isn't as easy for everyone as people like Hawkins would like you to believe.  And then there are the jars of sexual abuse salve--a disappearing cream that hides statutory rape and serial sexual abuse.  Planned Parenthood might not like the competition, but she can just give the money right back to them.  She could also have a separate table covered with small gilded cages in which parental rights are locked away.

Democrats love that.  And they make great paperweights.

Oh, and don't forget to pick up the literature that lists all the other things the federal government can make you buy now that it can force you to buy Health Insurance.  Things like thermostats or meters the government can control, or vehicles that run on sunshine and bullsh*t that you can't fit two people in, let alone a family.  There's  a special menu of foods you are not allowed to eat, (like all the stuff she is pretending to sell at her 'Fake").  There is also a list of shows you are not permitted to watch, organization's you are prohibited from donating too, people you are expected to hate, and words you cannot use (unless you hate them).

Zandra The Huckster's world view is all about choices--made by experts far away (and useful idiots like herself) that you should just shut up and follow.

One other thing.  Zandra also want's to make sure the government can tax the crap out of you to pay for all these things you can't be trusted to deal with on your own.  And that's really the problem  Zandra has.  She put the words bake sale in Jeanine Notter's mouth because the Huckster cannot and will not trust you, your families, your friends, or your local government to do anything.  Only the almighty state should decide these things.

So for the record, Jeanine Notter never used the words Bake Sale.  Rice-Huckster made that up.  So I figure we can probably do the same thing to her the next time it seems convenient to do so, now that she has set (or re-set) the standard.

Thanks for the gimme Zandra, can't wait to start using it.

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Friday
Feb112011

Another Wheel Off The Bus

Usually the wheels come off the bus before it goes into the ditch. But here we go. Another wheel falls off the Obama bus. (Must be one of the Dr. Seuss buses, given all the wheels this thing is losing). Obamacare, the Patient Unaffordable and Un-accessible (all we really) Care (about is government power) Act will require another 800,000 Americans to give up their jobs. Put another way, it will cost 800,000 jobs.

So when are Shaheen, Ex-Porter (That's ex congresspersonista Carol Shea-Porter) and Paul 'Hot Dog' Hodes going to come out and clear up the record?  They have all argued that the loss of jobs was some right wing fear mongering.

The same CBO the left swore was non-partisan when it claimed the bill would save money, then that it would cost money if we ended it, can't suddenly be partisan can it?

Obama StoogesThese are democrats.  Of course they can.  So should we wait for the "Big Pharma, and Big Health care" bought the congressional Budget Office narratives?

And how will Obama's Bureau Of Laboring Statistics every hide another 800,000 lost jobs?  Though they are doing a fine job with the millions they are hiding now--except from the people who are actually unemployed.

So many unanswered questions.

While you are waiting.  Here's some video courtesy of Town Hall.com where the CBO admits there will be employment casualties in the war for universal coverage.  Which makes you wonder what would happen if Obama waged war on universal employment?

My bad. He's already waging that war.

One more distraction before you jump. Queen, the Band? Song--"another one bites the dust;" change the lyrics to.."another wheel off the bus." CArry that around in your head until November 2012. Ok. Go ahead. Watch the video. I'll keep quiet. (for a minute)



Thursday
Jan062011

Guinta Not Taking Health Care From The Federal Government

In an interview with Think Progress, New Hampshire Congressman Frank Guinta states that he will not be taking the Health Care portion of the benefits package afforded to members of Congress.

Snippet taken mid-interview.

TP2: He’s referring to the Federal Employees Benefits Plan that all members receive.

GUINTA: Well, I think there’s a difference between the benefit package and dictating to every American that they have to purchase health care. That being said, I am not taking the health care portion of the benefits.

TP: You won’t be taking the health care portion?

GUINTA: No.

 

The one minute interview available at the Think Progress link above.

 

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