Quotes of the day

Won’t they need something like a 2/3 majority and the President to sign it? Obama will veto it. He doesn’t give a damn what the people want. We’d have to wait until after 2012 if we want to repeal it – if we elect a President who will sign it.

atheling on March 14, 2010 at 11:18 PM

May not have to wait until 2012. As long as both houses override his veto by 2/3s each. You don’t think that surviving blue dogs will be happy to vote with the majority, when the tide shifts?

Main thing is that those running in 2010 now need to campaign explicitly on repealing this monstrosity. If those campaigners win overall across the country a la Scott Brown, then that is a bonafide mandate. What the donks won in 08 was no mandate by any stretch of the imagination.

AH_C on March 14, 2010 at 11:24 PM

2 of my doctors here, both from India, been here for about 40 yrs, will be moving back to India.
Reason : They know they’ll be driven out from this country , one way or the other by a thuggish government.
And the best part is most of their patients say they won’t mind going to India to get their surgeries / followups from them. Hospitals and clinics in India are looking forward to a slight increase in doctors moving there from here. They know their patients will follow.
Is there something they know and we don’t ?

macncheez on March 14, 2010 at 11:52 PM

Yeah, medical tourism. There’s a bunch of 5-star hospitals going up in India, South Korea and Carribean to cater to us. And why not? For 1/4 to 1/2 the cost of comparable surgeries, i.e. organ transplants to cancer treatment, joint replacement, you can fly somewhere, check into a hospital more like a luxury hotel with hi-speed internet, big screen TVs in private rooms, spa etc and get fixed up by highly trained doctors — none of that affirmative action crap.

I read such an article on United Airlines’s flight mag, either Dec or Jan issue. I think medical tourism was the theme, as there was a bunch of ads from all over and several articles. One story related how it was so “cheap” that a woman brought her friend w/her to spend a couple of weeks for the surgery and post-surgery rehab. Which makes sense, when a stranger in a foreign country, that you’re not alone.

So I guess if you’re looking for something to invest in, invest in airlines that fly to such destinations (UA didn’t fail to embed a small ad noting they can fly you there) and in those hospitals. Oh yeah, another article mentioned employing a variety of payment options from insurance to payment plans. That is until the donks figure to outlaw medical tourism. If so, we’d all be outlaws if we could afford it.

AH_C on March 15, 2010 at 12:51 AM

SEC. 123. HEALTH BENEFITS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
There is established a private-public advisory committee which shall be a panel of medical and other experts to be known as the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to recommend covered benefits and essential, enhanced, and premium plans.

This will consist of 9 political appointees by POTUS & 9 by the Comptroller General. Then to even the score, another 8 federal employees will be appointed by POTUS.

This is just one of the panels to include compensation, per-diem etc. If that’s not enough, there’s this gem:
SEC. 141. HEALTH CHOICES ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CHOICES COMMISSIONER.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is hereby established, as an independent agency in the executive branch of the Government, a Health Choices Administration (in this subdivision referred to as the ‘‘Administration’’)….

That’s just 2 panels out of ?? dominated by POTUS. What, the HHS cabinent ain’t enough?

Since when does any organization improve or lean out by creating not one, but a bunch of panels?

In a way, I’m looking forward to tar, feathers & rails. Methinks it will be quite cathartic for many of us after the abuses we’ve endured from both donks & rinos to purge them out.

AH_C on March 15, 2010 at 1:10 AM