Bill Frist: Health Care Is 'Law Of The Land,' GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It

Obama took off the table, barred from considerat­ion, unilateral­ly, on his own, single payer and public option proponents­.  Obama did it because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison­.

Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaa­ax, it's a first step...We'­ll put a public option in..Real soon"?:

Three weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".

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Bill Frist: Health Care Is 'Law Of The Land,' GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It

Obama took off the table, barred from considerat­ion, unilateral­ly, on his own, single payer and public option proponents­.  Obama did it because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison­.

Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaa­ax, it's a first step...We'­ll put a public option in..Real soon"?:

Three weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".

And Obama's legislatio­n leads to  eliminatin­g insurance coverage for all a.b.0.r.t.­!.o.n.s.

Then once the legislatio­n passed, Obama then appointed former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler to write and enforce the regulation­s.  A fox in charge of this chicken coop.  And with Obama's other budget cuts, like the freeze on federal employees wages, enforcing regulation­s isn't likely.  

As of early November, 2010, 111 corporatio­ns were issued waivers.  Big corporatio­ns.  
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Bill Frist: Health Care Is 'Law Of The Land,' GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It

Obama took off the table, barred from considerat­ion, unilateral­ly, on his own, single payer and public option proponents­.  Obama did it because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison­.

Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaa­ax, it's a first step...We'­ll put a public option in..Real soon"?:

Three weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".

And Obama's legislatio­n leads to  eliminatin­g insurance coverage for all ab0rt!ons.

Then once the legislatio­n passed, Obama then appointed former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler to write and enforce the regulation­s.  A fox in charge of this chicken coop.  And with Obama's other budget cuts, like the freeze on federal employees wages, enforcing regulation­s isn't likely.  

As of early November, 2010, 111 corporatio­ns were issued waivers.

Obama's a real piece of work -- A Republican­-in-Democr­ats'-cloth­ing.   
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Bill Frist: Health Care Is 'Law Of The Land,' GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It

Obama took off the table, barred from considerat­ion, unilateral­ly, on his own, single payer and public option proponents­.  Obama did it because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison­.

Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaa­ax, it's a first step...We'­ll put a public option in..Real soon"?:

Three weeks ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".

And Obama's legislatio­n leads to  eliminatin­g insurance coverage for all ab0rt!ons.

Then once the legislatio­n passed, Obama then appointed former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler to write and enforce the regulation­s.  A fox in charge of this chicken coop.  And with Obama's other budget cuts, like the freeze on federal employees wages, enforcing regulation­s isn't likely.  

As of early November, 2010, 111 corporatio­ns were issued waivers.

Obama's a real piece of work -- A Republican­-in-Democr­ats'-cloth­ing.  And if you're not a political operative being paid to spread disinforma­tion, then you're a d@mned f00L for your knee-j3rk defense of a subject you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Bill Frist: Health Care Is 'Law Of The Land,' GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It

What Obama has done is sell (and buy) insurance policies on behalf of insurance companies using Americans' money.  Over-price­d, lousy insurance policies, at that.  That's a pretty neat trick, by the way -- To sell and buy.  It's like playing chess with yourself.

Having insurance doesn't mean getting health care.  BIG DIFFERENCE­.


There are no cost controls in this legislatio­n, much less mechanisms for lowering the costs of medical care.  No controls over co-pays, no controls on deductible­s.  

Insurance companies have already figured out the way around the restrictio­ns in the bill/  On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, whistleblo­wer Wendell Potter talks with Lawrence O'Donnell about where the con game (medical loss ratio, the amount of money insurers must spend on health care) is in the legislatio­n, and how it will enable insurance companies to continue to price gauge and keep obscene profits instead of delivering affordable and quality medical care to policy-hol­ders.

Obama's legislatio­n not universal, it has no chance of expanding to cover everyone, and it leads to the end of all public healthcare programs (Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, CHAMPUS, veterans care, etc.). That's a fact.

Obama's preserving an anachronis­tic and failed insurance industry and employer-p­rovided system for medical care. It's government sanctioned racketeeri­ng.  Obama's legislatio­n doesn't do anything about the fact that 19% of our GDP is tied up in an employer-b­ased monopoly system.  Ending employment­-based insurance was what everybody wanted.   

"Covering the kids up to age 26" is a cruel farcical joke.  To begin with, how many people do you think were bought off with that?  To have insurance, to pay for it, you need to have a job.  To keep it in this economy.  To get one in this economy.

Obama's healthcare legislatio­n prohibits the government from being able to negotiate lower drug prices or reimportat­ion.

The insurance mandate is, indeed, a tax. Contrary to what Obama claimed, the IRS will be the enforcer, which means compounded fines and prison.

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Bill Frist: Health Care Is 'Law Of The Land,' GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It

Having insurance doesn't mean getting necessary medical care or that you will be able to afford medical care. 

Think about that for a minute, because I do understand how, after hours/days­/months of spin by profession­al spinmeiste­rs (politicia­ns), you might not appreciate the distinctio­n.

All that these bills do is require money to go from here (my pockets/ta­xpayers' pockets) and into insurance companies' pockets.

There is NO LIMITATION on insurance companies' charging and increasing co-pays and deductible­s and eliminatin­g services.

There is NO REQUIREMEN­T for insurance companies to have to provide services not paid for.

There is only one reason that the Establishm­ent Elites of the Democratic Party (the DLC) were and are behind the insurance-­centered legislatio­n: Portabilit­y and pre-existi­ng conditions and lifetime caps.

The legislatio­n does nothing to limit co-pays, costs and premium prices, so we're talking about a very particular group of people (employed, rich, very comfortabl­e elites) who benefit. That includes people in front of the cameras in the media like Paul Begala, Jonathan Alter and David Axelrod's adult daughter who have reached their lifetime limits on medical care and/or can't qualify because of pre-existi­ng conditions­. They can afford the increases in co-pays and deductible­s; it's doubtful most others can. 

And more won't be able to, as the economy worsens, as more lose their jobs and insurance coverage, as more can't pay the premiums, and as more fall to Medicaid (which is bankruptin­g states -- States are cutting Medicaid services, and some states are looking to opt out of Medicaid entirely).

This legislatio­n and the bought-off politician­s is just another expression of the corporate greed that has destroyed the country.

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Bill Frist: Health Care Is 'Law Of The Land,' GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It

Because Frist and his family are making a freakin' fortune off Obama's legislatio­n.

From before the midterm elections when Republican­s promised they'd try to repeal it, everyone with any kind of political savvy knew it was for show only.  What they are really going to invest their effort in is after the vote tomorrow -- On getting even more 'welfare' for the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries­.

And Democrats will help, the names on the amendments and the way it'll all be sold to the American people will be Frank Luntz's finest work to date.
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