Even the AMA thinks the Obama health plan stinks. Not that they have much leverage. With government run health care, they’ll be forced to participate or else. And if you haven’t seen this video yet, you need to watch it…….

Mussioi…could or may actually prevail…

Yep. Part of the Founders’ genius was recognizing human frailty and working around it. Checks and balances, etc.

Worked pretty well so far. We’ll see if Obama is able to pull of his “benevolent dictator” schtick.

Uh oh. Under ObamaCare those with a chronic mental illness are euthanized to keep costs down. Well, she kept yapping about being a patriotic American and not greedy, so she shouldn’t complain about taking one for the team.

Blake on June 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM

;-)

Liberals understand greed and know that class warfare is a way to get votes.

So what you’re saying Rae is, that the government broke the private medical coops…

“…The final death blow to lodge practice was struck by the fraternal societies themselves. The National Fraternal Congress — attempting, like the AMA, to reap the benefits of cartelization — lobbied for laws decreeing a legal minimum on the rates fraternal societies could charge. Unfortunately for the lobbyists, the lobbying effort was successful; the unintended consequence was that the minimum rates laws made the services of fraternal societies no longer competitive.”

Yesterday they decreed legal minimums and today they are attempting to impose legal maximums.

That’s the absolute epitome of all governmental interventionist irony.

“I’m from Washington and I’m here to help you!”

She’s crying one moment and laughing out loud the next. She’s obviously bi-polar.

Puddleglum on June 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM

Uh oh. Under ObamaCare those with a chronic mental illness are euthanized to keep costs down. Well, she kept yapping about being a patriotic American and not greedy, so she shouldn’t complain about taking one for the team.

getalife and strangelet were mere mild predecessors.
Schadenfreude on June 11, 2009 at 6:46 PM

So sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but getalife is back with a new name “gotmylifeback”

-)

I am crying right now.

SouthernGal on June 11, 2009 at 4:56 PM

LOL

SouthernGal on June 11, 2009 at 5:00 PM

She’s crying one moment and laughing out loud the next. She’s obviously bi-polar.

…at least, that’s my plan.

Apparently the trolls drive up comments, so the mods are incredibly patient with them. Only a few hotbutton phrases seem to get them ejected.

Of course, if long-term commenters complain in the comments, AP hyperventilates in his Twitter feed. He’s had a couple of interesting “HotAir Comment of the Day” tweets lately.

He can run the site however he wants to. My only advice is- If multiple commenters talk about how you are unbalanced on a particular topic (Palin, anyone?) or that troll infestations make the site less enjoyable, he might want to consider the possibility that some of them are right.

FWIW.

getalife and strangelet were mere mild predecessors.

HA should send them all, but SG (the not Gent version) monetary rewards for increasing traffic and for concurrent free entertainment.

The rest of you, stop paying taxes – this is where they’re going, into complete ciphers, with their chief at the pinnacle.

How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis
Medical Insurance that Worked — Until Government “Fixed” It :

Eighty years ago, Americans were also told that their nation was facing a health care crisis. Then, however, the complaint was that medical costs were too low, and that health insurance was too accessible. But in that era, too, government stepped forward to solve the problem. And boy, did it solve it!

Know what else? Harry Truman insisted any government health care plan should be optional for patients, doctors and hospitals, and that maintaining free-market medicine was essential. The Democrats today do not want either, no matter how they’re spinning it. They will kill off private insurance and free-market health care because nothing can compete with the government’s endless resources or its ability to make laws to benefit the gov’t option in order to harm the private option.

Put everyone not covered on Medicare already and be done with it.

[A]“think tank study told him around a hundred and nineteen million people would opt out of private health insurance and join it”.

What does that say about the present health care system in America? If more than 75% of the people are supposedly satisfied with the insurance they now have; why would so many leave it for a public option?

Has it come down to purely a pocket book issue?

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/17/newsweek-goes-nutroots/

Reid/Pelosi wanted to use Graeme Frost as a posterchild for SCHIP, and Michelle actually had the Malkins to ask a few questions about the family’s income, assets etc. and whether they were actually “the poor” who needed healthcare assistance.

Not quite a Prop 8 type of “donate and I’ll publish your info/ostracize you” kind of campaign, but the libs run with what they can dig up.

I read in Newsweek that she stalked some family because they dared to support healthcare.

SouthernGal on June 11, 2009 at 5:43 PM

Proof please. Link to the article please.

For people so concerned about the poor, I notice that they seem to spend a tremendous amount of time online, not doing a damned thing to “help” them.

NoDonkey on June 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM

They don’t really have the neurons to do anything significant. However, anybody could work in a soup kitchen, so you’re right.