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EXCLUSIVE: Disaster plans leave disabled behind - Washington Times

Report finds little progress since Katrina
By Audrey Hudson (Contact)
Originally published 04:45 a.m., August 12, 2009, updated 04:02 p.m., August 12, 2009

Four years after Hurricane Katrina exposed major deficiencies in the capacity of governments to evacuate and care for the disabled during a natural disaster, America's most vulnerable citizens are barely considered in most emergency plans, according to a report being issued Wednesday by the National Council on Disability.

The report says huge gaps exist in those emergency plans despite an executive order issued by President Bush in 2004 urging federal and local governments, as well as private organizations, to consider the unique needs of the disabled when planning rescues and preparing to provide emergency shelter.

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Obama's Chicago-style intimidation

Posted: August 12, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
© 2009

Obama's staff and retreads from the Clinton administration are using Chicago-style intimidation to rescue his extravagant health care bill from its decline in public opinion polls.

A congressional town hall meeting on Aug. 6 reminds us of a memorable political moment when Bill Clinton and his chief aides were in Little Rock celebrating his 1992 election. Heady with victory, Chicago staffer Rahm Emanuel demonstrated how he planned to punish political enemies by plunging his steak knife into the table and screaming, 'Dead!' as he named each target.

At Rep. Russ Carnahan's, D-Mo., town hall meeting on Aug. 6, SEIU (Service Employees International Union) thugs, clad in purple shirts, punched in the face, brutally beat and kicked in the head when he was down an African-American named Kenneth Gladney, while hurling a torrent of racial slurs. The SEIU goons were following White House advice: 'Don't do a lot of talking,' and if they encounter resistance, 'punch back twice as hard.'

The Purple Shirt Brigade picked on Gladney because he was passing out historical American flags with the inscription 'Don't Tread on Me,' and the left won't tolerate African-Americans as conservatives. Gladney was taken to the hospital, and six people were arrested."

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What is the cost....

After a weekend of listening to the news and and listening to the radio I somehow have gotten the idea that the folks in Washington think we are stupid.
Now I am not going to say the everything about our health care is peachy. What I am going to say is that their can be room for improvement.
Our doctors, nurses, facilities are first rate.
Our Pharmaceutical companies come up with wonder drugs to help people. While there is debate here that is not what I am discussing in this post.
Most everyone agrees that the biggest area of improvement for our health care is cost. What troubles me most is no one seems to what to discuss what goes into our health care costs.
We hear about insurance companies charging so much for coverage, but insurance companies base their premiums on loss experience since they have to pay claims, to pay the claims they have to collect premiums. So to determine those premiums the have to have a defined benefit that they can statistically calculate cost.
We don't hear anything about what the legal costs to the health care industry is, how much goes in to Medical Malpractice insurance for doctors, nurses or hospitals or even clinics. How much goes in to the cost of Product Liability insurance for Pharmaceutical Companies, Medical Devices or equipment.
Now I am not saying their should be no recourse for negligence but negligence is something that is definable. Suing members of the medical profession with out proof of negligence should be banned.
Think how crazy this is, a drug is approved by the FDA with defined side effects, the product is released, the individual has a know side effect and sues the Manufacture. this is wrong, Recourse should be to the FDA for approving the drug in the first place.
We hear how drugs are cheep in Canada, their is no recourse in Canada if you have a problem with the drug in Canada, hence the price is reduced. The same can be said of Mexico or any number of companies that have State Sponsored medicine.
Let's have a debate of where the costs are then we can address that for everyone.

EXCLUSIVE: Panel sees race bias in health care bill - Washington Times

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says some little-noticed provisions in the House health care bill are racially discriminatory, and it intends to ask President Obama and Congress to rewrite sections that factor in race when awarding billions in contracts, scholarships and grants.
The commission also fears the programs, which are designed to improve health care in underserved areas, will not be effective.
In a draft of a letter the commission approved Friday, the group raises constitutional questions about giving preferential treatment to minority students for scholarships, and about favoring medical schools and organizations that have a record of sending graduates to areas with inadequate health care services.
'These programs are unlikely to reduce health care disparities among racial and ethic groups,' according to the draft letter obtained by The Washington Times. 'A growing body of evidence indicates that increasing access to high-quality physicians - whatever their racial or ethnic ancestry - is the best way to mitigate such disparities."

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Why Are We Giving Organ Transplants To Illegal Aliens?

via Right Wing News on 8/11/09

There is what's supposed to be a sympathy evoking story about an illegal alien who got a kidney transplant in the Chicago Tribune. This story, when you know all the facts, is actually unbelievably obnoxious: As he pushes his cart...

Racism Isn't About Race

Racism Isn't About Race

via Right Wing News on 8/11/09

Rather, it's about shoving moonbattery down our throats. This is why the Obama Joker poster craze and opposing ObamaCare are allegedly racist. Now we learn from MSNBC's Carlos Watson that calling socialists "socialists" is the same as using the forbidden...

Geithner Asks Congress to Increase Federal Debt Limit - WSJ.com

By COREY BOLES and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN
Washington -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asked Congress to increase the $12.1 trillion debt limit on Friday, saying it is 'critically important' that they act in the next two months.
Mr. Geithner, in a letter to U.S. lawmakers, said that the Treasury projects that the current debt limit could be reached as early mid-October. Increasing the limit is important to instilling confidence in global investors, Mr. Geithner said.
The Treasury didn't request a specific increase in the letter.
'It is critically important that Congress act before the limit is reached so that citizens and investors here and around the world can remain confident that the United States will always meet its obligations,' Mr. Geithner said in a letter to lawmakers.
Mr. Geithner said the that it is 'clearly a moment in our history' that requires support from both Democrats and Republicans for the increase.
'Congress has never failed to raise the debt limit when necessary,' Mr. Geithner said.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Thursday the federal government's budget deficit reached $1.3 trillion through the first ten months of fiscal 2009, on track to reach a record high of $1.8 trillion for the 12-month period."

The Politics of Cost Control - Megan McArdle

10 Aug 2009 08:51 am
Is it fair to worry that the Democrats included an end-of-life counseling provision in the health care bill because they're planning to push Grannie off the ice floe as soon as they can get naional health care passed? No, and yes. No, because I don't believe that they want to bamboozle people into ending their lives before they should. It's quite clear from what Obama has been saying that he thinks there is a great deal of unnecessary care, particularly late in peoples' lives, that makes them worse off, or at least, no better off.

But though the implication that the Democrats are heartless technocrats is thoroughly wrong, I think the worry underlying it is legitimate. First of all, Obama has made a number of missteps that paint a worrying picture of what he thinks an 'unnecessary procedure' is. Or at least worrying for seniors and other important voting blocks. It is actually entirely true that if you're focused on cutting costs, you would never install a pacemaker in a 99 year old woman. The number of quality-adjusted-life-years you could expect to get out of that procedure is not high. Meanwhile, she's very likely to die on the table, wasting thousands of dollars and the last days of her life. If Obama is serious about bending the cost curve, he will create some sort of agency that will say no. And it's no good saying, as you do to under-65's, that this rationing will only apply to bonus care for people who currently lack insurance. Cutting costs means taking options away from seniors. You may think that they would be better off without those options. But they clearly don't."

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Guess who’s funding ObamaCare advocates?

posted at 1:39 pm on August 10, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

Greg Sargent notes that a familiar face will start showering cash on organizations trying to build support for ObamaCare. George Soros, who once pledged his entire fortune in an unsuccessful effort to unseat George Bush, has pledged another $5 million to overcome popular opposition to the government takeover of the health-care industry. Sargent rightly notes that this will become a flashpoint for both sides of the divide:"

Young conservatives told the future is on their nickel (OneNewsNow.com)

In an era of auto company subsidies, bank bailouts, and economic 'stimulus' programs, young people attending the 31st Young America's Foundation's Conservative Student Conference were warned about government subsidies and 'robber barons.'

Dr. Burt Folsom is the author of the book Myth of the Robber Barons: Entrepreneurs vs. the State. Speaking at the conference in the nation's capital, Folsom gave a historical account of how much money has been wasted in subsidizing failed business ventures since the founding of America. He told students that free markets and entrepreneurship historically have always outperformed government-subsidized business.