Wouldn’t it be nice if our President would do his homework as faithfully as Jon Stewart and be able to answer, (just once!) succinctly and accurately, questions about the health care legislation?
Instead he just keeps filibsutering, posturing and lambasting the insurance industry, which has a higher approval rating than Congress, and with whom he has already struck a deal.
It also would be refreshing if Mr.Abrams’ website, which could show such promise, were to — at least occasionally — feature some commentary which doesn’t seem straight out the the MSNBC 8-10 p.m. playbook: Democrats=pure, Godly, trustworthy. Republicans= uninformed, hypocritical, Lucifer.

Stewart, alas for him, cannot do what Obama won’t or can’t, and he can’t undo what Obama has already done. No one is looking to Jon Stewart for guidance here, because he’s a shill. The level of trust for Obama has plummeted, in concert with the ratings for the networks that champion him.

Oh… is the egregiously unfunny Democrat shill all we-weed up? The man who puts mug into smug. The guy who cannot see a point without missing it by a mile?

Liebowitz’s tedious shtick works well with the terminally uninformed. But there are way more of us out there who are a lot more informed than the preening Stewart and his dumb-ass miniscule audience. Whoa dude, you sure bitch-slapped that, that, uh — whoa dude, way to go.

Now he may try to mislead and defend Obama’s Death For Clunkers plan, but people are on to the heartless left, who only want to exercise government control over citizens’ lives.

As Charles Krauthammer observes:

We also have to tell the defenders of the notorious Section 1233 of H.R. 3200 that it is not quite as benign as they pretend.

To offer government reimbursement to any doctor who gives end-of-life counseling — whether or not the patient asked for it — is to create an incentive for such a chat.

What do you think such a chat would be like? Do you think the doctor will go on and on about the fantastic new million-dollar high-tech gizmo that can prolong the patient’s otherwise hopeless condition for another six months? Or do you think he’s going to talk about — as the bill specifically spells out — hospice care and palliative care and other ways of letting go of life?

Hey Stewart? Why don’t you do us all a favor and go for it? I’d like to be on that Death Panel.

Not only does the bill NOT specifically spell out hospice and pallative care as topics of an end of life discussion but since when is hospice care a way to “let go of life”? It’s like you are saying that nursing homes are the Obama Administration’s Nazi Death Camps for Seniors.

There is nothing about government control over end-of-life issues in the bill, there is nothing about forced decisions (patients just have the option to make a decision before they become unable to do so) and there is nothing stopping a patient creating a living will that specifically requests everything in the world be done to keep them alive. So do your homework and discuss the facts properly – or continue to live in your own little dream world and start your own death panel, I know I’d like to be on it.

“There is nothing about government control over end-of-life issues in the bill”

Really?

” …a nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant who has the authority under State law to sign orders for …” life sustaining treatment.

If you have the authority to sign them, presumably you have the authority not to.

The difference between the “Nudge” progressives on this and the small government conservatives is that the progressives talk about the exact language of the bill whereas the conservatives talk about what the effect will be.

But basically, this all boils down to the state mandating that everybody buy health insurance through their brokerage, and compels health care providers to provide services on the Government’s terms, or else. Compelling citizens to buy a product, through the federal government or not, is beyond the proper role for the federal government. Further, apparently “free” healthcare will diminish the incentive to live a healthy lifestyle (unless the state begins to coerce that as well — all in the name of the public good, you know, for it will cost “society” money for you to live an unhealthy lifestyle), increase demand for health care services — which will require more doctors and fewer doctors will be compelled to go into medicine because the rewards will be reduced. It’s simply the way human economics work.

On top of all that … everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY knows this bill is a foot in the door. The president and myriad of Dems and other progressives have said it as recently as last week (this is Nov 2010, by the way) in recorded television and radio interviews. This is only the beginning. The goal is single-payer, government-run — and therefore government controlled — health care. The government will have the final say in economic decisions as the government will be paying, and that means — sorry you smug, condescending progressives …. Death Panels. No, those words appear nowhere in the bill, you’re absolutely technically correct on that point. But that is where this leads, without a doubt.