He tells you what he wants you to hear, whether or not it’s true or beneficial.

The more conspiratorial may believe that the overpromise was deliberate, setting up the AHA for failure so that Obama can impose his government-dictated system on the country while blaming the AHA.

Obama did this intentionally to give Congress some fake numbers they can use to help “pay for” health care reform.

Earlier this week, President Obama announced that American health providers had pledged to cut costs by 1.5% each of the next ten years as a means to stave off an economic crisis in the industry. Now Obama’s partners say that the ……

And that was overlooked because he was obviously exaggerating to sell the stimulus bill.

This, however, is a replay of what he’s done to the banks. I suggest health care buckle up. It won’t be the policy shifts that destroy them. It will be Obama’s rabble-rousing tactics.

Every patient who is mildly unhappy will file suit.

Rae on May 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM

I agree that it’s corporatism/fascism. But mandating health insurance under Obama’s plan doesn’t help the insurers. The insurers will get stomped on if they have to “compete” with the U.S. Government.

Buy Danish on May 15, 2009 at 12:16 PM

He mentioned the insurers only in passing because:

The insurers’ interest here is obvious: Half their business is reducing health care costs. Plus, Kennedy’s plan would mandate everyone maintain health insurance.

Bailey wrote a good piece on it too. ObamaCare is just more filthy economic fascism.

Health Care Corporatism Arrives :

Corporatism represents an ugly deal between governments and producers. The hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and health care labor unions hope that the corporativist bargain will guarantee future profits while eliminating competition. Perhaps it will, perhaps it won’t. But there’s absolutely no question that corporativist health care will increase inefficiencies, stifle innovation, and reduce consumer choice. That’s a disastrous deal for the rest of us.

President misstated their agreement,

The extortionist are a’ coming.

Good for you, I have dealt with docs for years and it most of the time is a one way street.

It’s not so bad when dealing with people I’ve known for years (I can actually be blunt and ask them why the hell they aren’t writing my product), but the egos I deal with on a daily basis are staggering. Some just can’t fathom that I know more about my own products than they do.

Unfortunately the pharma companies themselves are partially to blame for the one-way street. Many companies flood the market with reps (I’m one of six people that carries my first-position product in my territory), and if doctors haven’t curtailed contact with reps they might see as many as 20-30 in a single day. Some of them are the nicest people in the world to deal with but they simply can’t dedicate more than ten seconds with any one person.

Add to that some of the bubble-headed Barbies they send out there in short skirts and low-cut tops, and it’s not surprising we’ve lost respect among some docs.

Interesting how the spokesman phoned back after an hour to suddenly say that Obama didn’t misrepresent the agreement.
I smell a rat.
mr.blacksheep on May 15, 2009 at 11:10 AM

I smell a gangsta setting her straight.

The Obama is using “commitment tactics”: a dishonest technique for getting projects started.
These tactics generally work a maximum of one time, because all involved will never trust the perpetrator again.
landlines on May 15, 2009 at 11:16 AM

It doesn’t matter because there will not be a second chance. They will do what Obama’s and his thugs command and once that malignant “entitlement” program has been established it will be virtually impossible to get rid of it.

I’d be interested in knowing what “cutting costs” actually means, and to whom.
Queen0fCups on May 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM

It means the elderly will be treated like babies awaiting their own abortion. See this op-ed by Peter Orszag for some clues of how they are defining medical care down (to paraphrase D.P. Moynihan).

Rae on May 15, 2009 at 11:44 AM

I really like that writer, but I think he’s wrong on this one, and it is Chrysler-esque thuggery at work here. Moreover, that story is limited to the pharmaceutical companies.

Before the campaign of intimidation against Chrysler senior creditors, I would have scoffed.

Really?!!! Seems to me the time to stop scoffing was somewhere around the day after inauguration. There’s been a new heavy-handed outrage nearly every day since then.

Tongueboy on May 15, 2009 at 11:57 AM

And thats not even counting in the 4% historical inflation rate, which is about to skyrocket.

So a 1.5% actualy CUT in costs, would equate to a 4-5% decrease in spending power of their budget…

Can’t be done. Especialy for 10 years or so. Only way that could happen is for everyone to become Medicare types, where the Government dictates prices.

Konan Michel Yao, microbiologist stole 22 Canadian Ebola and HIV active research vials from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab, and smuggled them into the United States via North Dakota, Canadian and US officials said Wednesday. He was taking them to his new job with the National Institutes of Health at the Biodefense Research Laboratory in Bethesda, Maryland. Suddenly, the story tone changes, and all is well. “But tests later showed “they are not hazardous,” said Jordheim.

Deceit, thieving, biohazards being smuggled without proper containment in transit, federal NEW HIRE under Obama’s watch, so no threat posed.

a willing suspension of disbelief

Good for you, I have dealt with docs for years and it most of the time is a one way street.