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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Health Scare
by Rich Galen
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


Even in 2009 that's real money. And, Obama has no idea how to pay for it.

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Ia), ever the big thinker, has proposed "a special tax on soda and junk food." Does diet soda count? And if you order a salad at McDonald's is that exempt from the "junk food tax?"

Sometimes you have to sit back and wonder just how some of these people got to be where they are and how they stay there.

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In the green room at CNN yesterday there were two women waiting to be interviewed. I asked them what they were going to talk about and they said they were there on behalf of some nurses who had been arrested for acting out at a Senate hearing on single-payer health insurance.

I asked them whether the nurses thought they would be arrested if they made a scene and the two women said they did.

ME: Then what's the problem? They wanted to get arrested. They did get arrested, so everyone's happy. Or am I missing something?

THEM: It's a punitive arrest. They're being held even though in California nurses have their fingerprints on file and they should have been released.

ME: It seems to me that getting arrested is, by definition, punitive.

THEM: No other country in the world would have arrested them for free speech.

ME: Every other country in the world would have arrested them for speaking out against the government. They weren't arrested for speaking out. They were arrested for disrupting a Senate hearing.

THEM: Well…

Is this a great country, or what?

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: May 16, 2009 - 8:30 AM EST
Oust Obama and All Liberals
Great Article Mr. Blackwell. You describe it so sublimely how corrupt and amoral Obama, Sebelius and the entire Liberal Establishment in this country are. And, these same Humane Liberals, will sit outside prisons and cry, chant, pray and moan over the impending death sentences of some who have tortured, raped and murdered children, but fully support the torture and dismemberment of unborn children without shedding a single tear for the fetus or for the would-be mother who has lost her soul, and in most cases, the taxpayers are forced to pay for these procedures that most civilzed people do not agree with.

God, help us all, if Obama and his diabolical schemes actually succeed. Obama and his entire administration and his cohorts in the U.S. Congress need to be exposed and removed from office. The only means that, We The People, have to do that is to Unite and Vote in Record numbers to replace these morally bankrupt individuals from office, and for the MSM and their talking heads such as Oprah Winfrey, The Nags on The View, and others, they need to be boycotted and their miserable shows that support and promote these Scoundrels and the Despicable Acts that they condone, will also disappear from the airwaves, and then Oprah and these other Immoral Feel Good performers can disappear into the dark shadows where they belong.
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Date: May 14, 2009 - 4:16 PM EST
Foxyloxy
I have a friend I've known since Viet Nam that lives in London and an Aunt who lives in Canada. They both say the same thing about the health care in their country. Long waits for scans, long waits to see a specialist and people having to delay treatment till they are inoperable. Why do you think there are so many people coming here from Canada for diagnosis and treatment? Why did the Shah of Iran come here years ago for heart treatment? Why do so many dignitaries come here for treatment? The answer is quite simple, with all it's faults, we have the best health system in the world. Is it perfect? no! Do people fall through? yes! But if you regulate it to death the cream of the crop are going to migrate to where they can make more money.
Also you are not going to see the washington
crowd get the same medicine as us. Are they more important to you than anyone in your family? I think not.
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