A “Must Read” » American Thinker: “Back to ACORN General Hospital” | Obama’s Single-Payer Health Care Nightmare
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on June 19, 2009
I’ve written a number of posts, supported or corroborated by myriad news stories and other articles about the disasters of socialized, single-payer health care. And why socialized health care is wrong for America for so many reasons.
Carol Peracchio at American Thinker has written one of the best pieces I’ve come across in a while that effectively illustrates exactly why Obama’s proposed health care plan is to be rejected and discarded by the American people.
Not only is there not a single example of any country that has adopted a successful single-payer (government-run) health care system, but this pending, grossly expensive version—our government’s proposed socialist version—is supported in the murky shadows by a cunning, duplicitous propaganda machine that, in lieu of any gentler term, resembles the racketeering business.
I had no idea about the insidious depths of infiltration of ACORN’s and unions’ tentacles in the nursing and medical industries, and how Obama and his union cronies will financially benefit beyond their wildest dreams from the passage of ObamaCare. How Americans will lose out monumentally. It makes even more sense now.
And, it scares the hell out of me.
If you think American healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it’s “free.”
Be prepared and be armed with information. On June 24, ABC News will hand the broadcasting reins over to Pres. Barack Obama so that he can make an impassioned pitch to the American public to embrace his nebulous health care plan (which still hasn’t been fully drafted nor finalized). There will be no opposition, no “flip side,” no balanced debate. An Obama infomercial. Even Democrats in Congress are now backing away from his now $4-trillion plan (a moving-target, growing-like-a-cancer price tag, likely to increase again), but he steadfastly plows forward.
If you read anything else today, read this American Thinker article. If you share any article with a friend or family member, share this American Thinker article.
Here’s the opening of Peracchio’s revealing piece:
American Thinker: Back to ACORN General Hospital
By Carol Peracchio
Guess who’s going to be much better off thanks to President Obama’s health care scheme?
I read a fascinating survey recently. According to Rasmussen,
Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans say every one in the United States should have free health care. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% disagree.
Wait a minute! Obama says we all want nationalized healthcare now, if not sooner. A survey asking if everyone should have free healthcare is like asking if Christmas should come again this year. Yet, it appears more Americans actually favor the evil healthcare status quo.
The survey had another shocker:
However, by a two-to-one margin (60% to 27%), Americans reject free health care for all if it means changing their own coverage and joining a program administered by the government.
America, I’m sorry. For months I have been convinced that you are uninformed, uninterested in the survival of the greatest healthcare system in the world. But I was wrong. Most of you get it. “Free” healthcare is too big a risk if it means giving up your private insurance for ObamaCare. The survey results are especially stunning because the healthcare the participants reject is free. Americans love the word “free.”
I myself joined a gourmet coffee of the month club to get the Free $98.00 Value Coffee Maker. I discovered something: Even the best coffee in the world tastes horrible after passing through a free coffeemaker. And it would appear most Americans realize that the best medical care in the world will stink once it passes through a “free” healthcare system.
But survey results aside, television and newspapers are replete with stories and images of America in a healthcare crisis. Where does the media find all those average Joes demanding a government-run system? I think I found the answer at Obama’s health care website.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, past the heart-wrenching tales of health insurance lost, and the frightening predictions of how we’re all about to die, or if we’re very, very lucky, merely go bankrupt. Check out the video link of HHS Secretary Sebelius at the AFSCME Nurses Association.
To the average nurse, the term “nurses association” brings to mind the American Nurses Association (ANA), or the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN): professional organizations based on a particular nursing specialty, such as the operating room or ER. I’d never heard of the AFSCME Nurses Association. I couldn’t think of any nursing acronym that would fit those letters, so I googled them.
It’s a union!
The AFSCME nurses’ union, United Nurses of America, (UNA) has 60,000 members, both RNs and LPNs. In America today there are approximately 2.9 million RNs. There were over 730,000 LPNs in America in 2008. Therefore, UNA represents 1.6 percent of America’s licensed nurses. The UNA is the Obama administration’s favorite nursing go-to group for healthcare reform cover. And they’re quite the resource when crafting those oh-so-important media images of nursing support for socialized medicine.
~~~ Click here to continue reading “Back to ACORN General Hospital” — also read the comments at the end of the article, as readers with nursing or union backgrounds offer additional insight and feedback. ~~~
Related reading on socialized / universal / government-run / nationalized / single-payer (take your pick, they’re all the same) health care:
Founding Bloggers: Horrific Health Care Headlines From UK – Our Socialized Medical Future!
Patterico’s Pontifications: Dialing 911 for Obamacare
Brandon Darby, Big Government: Former Leftist Activist, Turned FBI Informant, Pulls Back the Curtain On ACORN
Jill Stanek, Big Government: Community Organizing with Barack, ACORN and SEIU: An Eyewitness Account, Part I
Bret Jacobson, Big Government: Would Red Cross Pimp Out Children?
Hot Air: Hot Air: Statist health care, by the numbers and Dems retreating on healthcare and Video: ObamaCare an “Old Joke”; Update: Cost now $1.6 trillion and White House throws Kennedy under the bus? and Obama: Let’s work together to destroy American health care by year’s end and Video: Are the elderly cost effective?
Hot Air Green Room: Rocks, Hard Places & Obamacare
John Saarikko, Universal Health Care Info: The Truth Nobody Wants You To Know
The B.S. Report: Easy As ABC…President Obama’s Official “State-Run” Media
Senate GOP Doctors: Have a Better Plan for Health Care, Not Socialized
JustOneMinute: KennedyCare
Big Government: ACORN’s Working Family of Democratic Socialists
Clinging to G & G: How the NEW healthcare will effect me. Now, think about how it will effect you.
Michael Tanner, National Review Online: The Obamacare to Come, Dems’ health-care plans do not provide the reform most Americans seek
Hot Air: Lieberman opposes public plan in ObamaCare and Government insurance will kill private insurance and Quotes of the day and Obama: Let’s work together to destroy American health care by year’s end and Video: Are the elderly cost effective?
Roll Call News: Baucus Aides Warn K Street
Daily Herald: Universal health care isn’t universal
Infidels Paradise: Obama/Dems Cutting Tens Of Billions In Medicare After Saying It Was A Sin To Do So
Big Hollywood: Steven Crowder Talks Socialized Obamacare With Neil Cavuto
John Goodman, Cato’s Letter (pdf): Five Myths of Socialized Medicine
The American Spectator: Obama Touts Safeway Health Program, But Dem Bill Would Kill It and Quebec Has Helicopters for Pepe Le Pew But Not Emergency Patients and Obama’s False Choice
Right Wing News: ObamaCare: Who Cares About The Poor And Elderly
Business and Media Institute: CNN Glosses Over Failure of Universal Health Care
Gateway Pundit: State Run Media Won’t Allow GOP to Respond to Obama Infomercial
SWAC Girl: Obama-ABC News propaganda machine team up to jam universal health care down Americans’ throats?
Glenallen Walken, Salon: Ask a Wingnut: The Wingnut explains why socialized healthcare sucks
Peter Roff, US News & World Report: The Growing Case Against Obama’s Healthcare Plan
Adam Baldwin, Big Hollywood: A “Cultural Fix”?: Global Citizen Educators Rethinking Sustainability into Population Control vs. Academic Freedom
Michelle Malkin: ACORN Watch: What happens in Vegas… and Health care tax-apalooza: It’s here! and Document drop: The story behind the “ACORN changed its name” story and Project Vote sues whistleblower: ObamACORN bully tactics exposed and The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear and Caught on tape: SEIU thuggery and Obamacare bogus statistic of the day and Obamacare bogus statistic of the day, Pt. 2 and Bad medicine: Obamacare poster art, Round 3 and Undercover at an Obama health care meet-up and Obamacare poster contest: Coming to a hospital near you!; Updated with new entries and Counterprotesting Obamacare and the ACORN/SEIU mob and Mobilizing against Obamacare and www.facesofgovernmenthealthcare.com and “Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits” and Did Canadacare kill Natasha Richardson?
Chicago Tribune: AMA wary of Obama health plans
Pursuing Holiness: Railroaded Into Nationalized Health Care
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Nightmare: Heritage Foundation Exposes Universal Health Care Myths & Destruction of Free Market and The Sham of Socialism: Save America While There’s Still Time… ’1984′ Prophesy and Heritage Foundation: Myth Exposed – American Health Care System Not Perfect, but Superior to Socialized Health Care and Cautionary Tale: ‘Prime Minister, You Have Run Out of Our Money’
GOPMom: Bring on National Health
World Net Daily: Government health care ‘an abyss’ financially – ‘I think there’s going to be no end for the claims’
Tim Slagle, Big Hollywood: Democrats — Why so Unhappy?
Matthew Moore, Telegraph.co.uk: Sufferers pull out teeth due to lack of dentists
Legal Insurrection: For Crying Out Loud: “Barack Obama Deficit-Slayer”
Jewish World Review: Far East illustrates the limitations and dangers of universal health care
Jim Blazsik: Did Socialized Medicine Have a Hand in Costing Natasha Richardson Her Life? and The Obama road to serfdom and the need for nationalized health care (and unrestricted abortion for that matter)
Pirate’s Cove: Obama Does Still Want A Government Run Insurance Company
NEOVATARA: A Conservative Health Care Solution
Positive Liberty: “If you think health care is expensive now…”
Homeland Stupidity: “Universal Health Care” Has Failed Again
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All I can say is \wow.\ Americans are getting the Obamacare picture! Thanks for putting this up for all to review. It is good news!!
Senator Barbara Boxer should have more respect of a General in the U.S. Army.
He responded to her as ma’am.
That is consistent with the training we received in the military.
We address men as sir, and women as ma’am.
She, in her arrogance interrupted the General, and corrected him as to her title.
She said, and I am paraphrasing “please refer to me as senator”.
She said;,,,,,,
She should be called a “senator”, because she “worked hard for her title”.
He’s got more integrity in his little finger than she’s had in her life.
Sick of it.
2010…we vote again.
Boxer is getting razzed all over the place – YouTube has jumped all over the video of her and her nitwit “entitlement.” Not once did any male senators take offense by being called “sir” instead of “Senator.”
She’s a moron elitist and is enamored with titles and now is a laughingstock. How dare she, a mere elected politician, dress down ANYONE in our military.
How long until 2010 elections? Won’t get here quick enough…
Any bets on whether the California morons will be re-elected ?
Or for that matter, any of the liberal jackals that are systematically taking our country;s economy to socialism
I think 2010 will be the crucible.
COI is the new ACORN,………..international tentacles………..WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!