STIMULUS PLAN – details

WHAT WE DON’T HEAR ABOUT THE STIMULUS PLAN *50 De-Stimulating Facts *Budget people at CBO Predict Recession Will End in 2009 Without Stimulus *CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul *Why do they call it ‘pork’? *Democrats’ 40-Year Wish List? (WSJ) *Stimulus Bill Includes ‘Smart Monitors’…Hello, Big Brother! *Stimulus to aid illegal immigrants? STIMULUS PLAN INCLUDES SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE Are they following the recommendations from Tom Daschle, Obama’s choice for health czar (who already resigned due to tax problems) For unpopular legislations, Daschle recommended “to pass the legislation early in the first year of the president’s first term, when he is most popular and is least likely to be resisted….The other strategy, which is very smart, is to leave the nasty details out of the bill.” *Will the Stimulus Plan ruin your health? (Bloomberg): -It will make public your private medical records -It will ration health care according to age (seniors not cost effective) -Government bureaucrats to decide your medical treatment. Katrina anyone? *Socialized medicine in Cuba

*Cuba’s “advanced” preventive health care?

*Australia’s health care is basically broke *U.K.’ Socialized Health Care: “In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests before the board reversed its decision. ” (Bloomberg)

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~ by Iv Ettew on 2009/02/10.