Time for a bit of levity.
Some fun stuff. Too much seriousity gives you gas.
BZ
Hitler finds out he can’t keep his doctor under Obamacare:
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The biggest Pinocchios of 2013
From the WashingtonPost.com:
by Glenn Kessler
It’s time for our annual round-up of the biggest Pinocchios of the year. This was not a presidential election year, so in some ways the subjects that needed to be fact checked were more substantive. In reviewing The Fact Checker’s more than 200 columns in the past year, we found an interesting evolution from statistics about gun violence to claims about President Obama’s health-care law. Our general rule of thumb held: the more complex a subject is, the more tempted politicians are to make misleading claims.
President Obama ended up with three of the most misleading claims of the year. But, despite the urging of some readers, his statement that “I didn’t set a red line” on Syria is not among them. We had looked closely at that claim and had determined that, in context, it was a bungled talking point, so that statement actually earned no rating.
That said:
NUMBER ONE:
This memorable promise by President Obama backfired on him when the Affordable Care Act went into effect and millions of Americans started receiving cancellation notices. As we explained, part of the reason for so many cancellations is because of an unusually early (March 23, 2010) cut-off date for grandfathering plans — and because of tight regulations written by the administration. This was our most popular fact check of the year — and Obama’s pledge also was also named PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year.”
An insertion: if Mr Obama hadn’t insisted upon that statement again and again and again, there could have been some leeway proffered. Absent that, Mr Obama is nothing but a — wait for it — LIAR.
Pretty simple. Even journalists now realize: liar.
BZ
Gay GOP Group Blasts New Obamacare Ad for Exploiting Gay Stereotypes, Says ‘Liberals Would Be Apoplectic’ If Right Tried Anything Similar
Another point referencing Captain Obvious:
From TheBlaze.com:
by Dave Urbanski
Log Cabin Republicans, an advocacy group for gay conservatives and allies, is ripping a new Obamacare video ad that it says employs homosexual stereotypes to persuade gay men to enroll in Obamacare.
The ad from Out2Enroll — an Obamacare LGBT outreach group — depicts well-toned shirtless men in tight bathing trunks dancing, hugging, opening presents, and enrolling on the Obamacare website. There is one woman with the men in a few shots and a female singer, but they’re far from the focus.
And then there’s the video itself:
No stereotyping there at all, yes?
Can you imagine had the GOP or the RNC or any Conservative group created a like video?
BZ
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
— Abraham Lincoln
70% Of Calfornia’s Doctors Expected To Boycott Obamacare
From ZeroHedge.com:
Submitted by Tyler Durden
“We need some recognition that we’re doing a service to the community. But we can’t do it for free. And we can’t do it at a loss. No other business would do that,” exclaims the president of the California Medical Association.
As The Washington Examiner reports, independent insurance brokers estimate 70% of California’s 104,000 licensed doctors are boycotting the exchange. “The Covered California board says we have plenty of doctors, and they allege they have 85 percent of doctors participating, but they’ve shown no numbers,” and if a large number of doctors either balk at participating in the exchange or retire, the state’s medical system could be overwhelmed. “Enrollment doesn’t mean access, because there aren’t enough doctors to take the low rates of Medicaid,” warns one health director. “There aren’t enough primary care physicians, period.”
An estimated seven out of every 10 physicians in deep-blue California are rebelling against the state’s Obamacare health insurance exchange and won’t participate, the head of the state’s largest medical association said.
“It doesn’t surprise me that there’s a high rate of nonparticipation,” said Dr. Richard Thorp, president of the California Medical Association.
California offers one of the lowest government reimbursement rates in the country — 30 percent lower than federal Medicare payments. And reimbursement rates for some procedures are even lower.
“Some physicians have been put in the network and they were included basically without their permission,” Lisa Folberg said. She is a CMA’s vice president of medical and regulatory Policy.
“They may be listed as actually participating, but not of their own volition,”
“This is a dirty little secret that is not really talked about as they promote Covered California,” Waters said. He called the exchange’s doctors list a “shell game” because “the vast majority” of his doctors are not participating
Imagine that.
But, you see, there’s a niggling little problem that no one seems to be addressing in the first place, completely absent ObakaKare.
My personal doctor, who is himself 65, said that he is retiring soon, as are a large number of physicians in Fornicalia. He is retiring because he has become an automaton, he says, and paperwork takes a vast amount of his time. He no longer cares for the physicians’ environment in general, and says that many of his colleagues, some much younger than himself, are “disappointed and disgusted” with the way they are treated by their administrations, by the government, by the press and sometimes by the public — which has come to believe they are overpaid and underworked elitists driving Bentleys and playing golf every day.
There will be, he says, a large sucking sound next year when doctors throughout the nation — who don’t have to — opt for either early retirement or a career change. Or, he says, they’ll choose to work strictly for cash in a concierge fashion and totally eschew dealing with insurance.
The second problem regards nursing staff and the lack thereof. The number of nurses and assistants are dwindling. That includes the number of nurses who speak English (as opposed to a corrupted form of Engrish). In the correctional aspect of my own LE department, the nurse who speaks actual decipherable English is the exception and not the rule. Good luck on your dressing change.
Because of this, it is certain that additional demands will be made on the various classes of nurses/assistants remaining, in order to, necessarily, bypass doctors who no longer exist in sufficient quantity to perform some future tasks. This is guaranteed.
Now add ObakaKare on top of that hot and frothing mess.
As to Fornicalia’s “Covered California,” it too is soon to be revealed as one additional hot and frothing mess. The lies will be exposed like shit in a box from a cat with Parkinsons.
Anyone besides me believe that Governor Brown’s current 58% approval rating might be a bit tarnished in the next few weeks?
BZ
P.S.
Also, please check out the comments in the source article.
Obamacare: deconstructed
Two extremely important videos to watch (thanks Geeeez) regarding the facts and fallacies of Obamacare.
The second video has Paul Ryan shredding Obamacare in a mere six minutes.
Yet Obamacare was thrust through literally in the dead of night, on a weekend, with purely partisan support. Not even one Republican — despite the plethora of RINOs within — voted for Obamacare.
Obamacare killed individual and private plans this year. In 2014 my health insurance coverage will get killed, via my employer.
This is perfectly in keeping with Mr Obama’s plan to place the US government into the Single Payer framework, enabling the government to control over 1/6th of the entire economy.
He’s going to “Cloward-Piven” the entire nation, starting with healthcare first.
BZ
