More deadwood stupidness, this time brought to us by none other than the hate motivated Moveon.org. A favorite “movement” from atheist George Soros.
Ferrell, who makes at least $20 million per movie shows us that you don’t need a brain to make a lot of money. In one shot of the moveon.org propaganda Ferrell implies if someone has a typo on his or her insurance policy, the policy gets revoked. Curious… did Will Ferrell know someone this has happened to as fact? Is he absolutely positive this has happened? Or, is this more fear mongering coming from moveon.org?
Gotta hand it to moveon.org, they know their audience. They rely on the far left being star struck and lazy minded enough to believe what they hear. Most far left leaners will just gloss over and nod at the absolutely absurd video. They’ll sneer, sniff in, and then agree with whatever hollyweird says is so. “The Government Option Is Good.” – “Listen To My Voice.” – “Health Care Reform Is Better Than A Job.”
Barack Obama must not be as popular as the “stars” though. He tried to do nearly the same fear mongering but he made a mistake. A big mistake. He wasn’t vague like the hired actors and actresses in the video. Plus, he misjudged the American People… that we would take him at his word.
September 09, 2009. Barack Obama Speeches on Health Care
“Another woman from Texas was about to get a double mastectomy when her insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot to declare a case of acne. By the time she had her insurance reinstated, her breast cancer had more than doubled in size. That is heart-breaking, it is wrong, and no one should be treated that way in the United States of America.” (Applause.)
YOU LIE
Turns out, the insurance company didn’t cancel Robin Lynn Beaton, 59, of Waxahachie, Texas because of acne. Her health insurance suspended and then canceled her coverage because she failed to mention in her application for insurance that she had a heart condition.
It’s horrible enough that this woman was denied insurance a few days before treatment was scheduled. It’s even more awful that Obama and his administration have to make it seem worse than it even was. It was bad enough Mr. President. We get it.
Mrs. Beaton did receive treatment for her cancer. Beaton’s Republican congressman in Texas, Joe Barton, fought the insurer until it restored her coverage, enabling her to get the surgery 10 weeks after it was postponed. She told The Associated Press she owes Barton and his aides her life.
Hmmm, I don’t think that was mentioned in the speech.
In the same speech, Obama misspoke again. This time of a man in Illinois who Obama claimed died because his insurance company found an undisclosed case of gallstones in his past, canceled his insurance and delayed a stem-cell transplant for his cancer.
The man did lose his insurance, but got it back retroactively and had treatment that his family says extended his life for nearly four years.
The time between losing their insurance and getting it reinstated again for these two individuals must have been absolutely devastating. We don’t need panic speeches for that. We are smart enough.
There is no question the system needs to be reformed.
Medicare, Medicaid, the VA. These are all Government programs. Has there ever been one medicaid or SSI patient that has been denied coverage or care? Absolutely there has.
Treatment Denied: State Formularies and Cost Controls Restrict Access to Prescription Drugs
by Linda Gorman, Ph.D., Adjunct Scholar
WashingtonPolicy.org
According to the Kaiser Commission, Florida’s prescription drug control program does not include any mechanism for evaluating it. When researchers at the University of Florida’s Center for Medicaid Issues conducted the first independent evaluation in June 2001, they found that the drugs with the highest denial rates were agents that “are often appropriate for use by patients with multiple illnesses, and persons who are medically complex and at high risk from adverse effects of drug therapy or inadequate treatment of their disease.” Physicians reported that their Medicaid patients were not getting the brand name medication that they needed, and that denials had resulted in negative clinical outcomes. Patients denied drugs went without treatment until the situation was resolved, and multiple trips to the pharmacy posed a particular burden for recently discharged hospital patients and the elderly.
Disabled Kids Denied Healthcare Treatment
Children who need specialized in-home healthcare are being denied treatment because Medicaid isn’t paying its bills. More than a hundred parents are left wondering where to turn after their medical provider turned them away.
The in home health care provider says it’s a tough choice, but the state hasn’t paid them the hundreds of thousands of dollars they’re owed. Without payment, it’s a service they can no longer afford to provide.
Poor children denied treatment by state’s low reimbursement rates.
There are an estimated 250,000 children from poor families in Connecticut who do not have regular access to dental care because the state’s Medicaid reimbursement rates are so astonishingly low. Only an estimated 100 dentists in the entire state even see substantial numbers of children covered by the HUSKY Medicaid program.
What in the world would lead anyone to believe that a government mandated health plan would be ANY different? Would you want your children on that?? Has it been tested? Even people who start new advertising campaigns test the waters first. The drug companies do tests on drugs first. Has any one state tested a program like ANY of the ones proposed… successfully?
Mitt Romney tried in Massachusetts. And it totally flopped (He lied about it and said it was successful. Shamey-shamey) [article here]
Also in the George Soros, ermmm, moveon.org movie, some actor states that 80% of the American Public support the public plan. REALLY?
YOU LIE
In a recent Gallup survey, 89% of Republicans, 64% of independents, and 61% of Americans overall say Americans themselves — rather than the government — have the primary responsibility for ensuring that they have health insurance. Six in 10 Democrats say the government should be primarily responsible.
On September 28, 2009 Rasmussenreports.com’s poll states… Just 41% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s down two points from a week ago and the lowest level of support yet measured.
More Lies… More Fear Mongering… More Confusion
But, what more can we expect from a ready, fire, aim administration which has failed to do one thing right since it began? Opening up Insurance across state lines, putting no cancel clauses in effect, and no pre-existing condition limitations on the board should put an end to health insurance woes. And, if we want to see the charges for medical care come down, Tort reform would do the trick. Why change a system completely?
Oh yeah, might want to get a system in place to fight Medicare and Medicaid fraud. The Government doesn’t even have THAT in place and it’s said in the last decade that $600 billion was lost due to Medicare fraud, waste & abuse.
Yeah, we’ll trust you have the capability to handle our health care.
Over our dead bodies.
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