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As ObamaCare looms, Americans´ healthcare satisfaction slips
Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By:SurferLad, 12/21/2012 9:16:14 AM
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| A new annual survey of Americans´ satisfaction with their healthcare finds the percentage who deem it good or excellent has slipped five points during the past election year, down to 67%. Now, according to the new Gallup Poll, the percentage who feel their healthcare is good has dipped from 43% to 40%, while those saying it´s excellent has dropped from 29% to 27%. The survey taken last month finds a familiar split personality among American adults.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/21/2012 9:26:03 AM (No. 9077465)
Tis isn´t a very good indicator since the teeth of Obamacare hasn´t really sunk in yet. Then you have to seperate health care with people having their hours reduced so the company can avoid the higher costs. This could be more devastating to people than the lack of health coverage.
I go to a local clinic on a sliding scale,so I´m relatively happy with that considering what I would have to pay for even a catastrophic plan.
I have to count on God to keep me out of an operating room.
I could always dress up like an illegal and hit the emergency room.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
wendybird, 12/21/2012 9:38:15 AM (No. 9077495)
People aren’t liking “cook book medicine” very well, and it will get much worse. They aren’t liking spending an hour or two answering questions that some government expert dreamed up before they are given something for a sore throat, or that the physician, or more likely, a “P.A” looks at their computer screen rather than listening to their heart. They aren’t appreciating that the hospital is more interested in meeting “core measures” than in answering the call light because their IV Pump is bleating, or they have to get up to the bathroom. But take heart. In a few years, today will look like the “good old days”.
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ocjim, 12/21/2012 10:11:01 AM (No. 9077581)
I still can´t believe the apathy and/or the acquiescence of the majority of Americans to the passing of, and now the activation of ObamaCare. Giving up rights and control like lambs to a liberal utopian slaughter. When do we apply to the European Union?
The weak underbelly of America is that a hellbent, motivated and organized minority can push the rest of around. And we all grouse a bit, but gradually knuckle under to the new Leftist rules. An American tragedy. Alas, we´ve, as a nation, become too fat and stupid to save ourselves, Mr. Hayek.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
sanjuro, 12/21/2012 10:29:36 AM (No. 9077629)
What´s there to complain about? This is the new normal. Forget about the past and embrace the now. s/o
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fembot, 12/21/2012 11:40:34 AM (No. 9077848)
It´s true that O-care hasn´t yet sunk its teeth all the way into our jugulars. However, many existing insurance companies have already accommodated themselves to it in their "Changes for 2013" -- hence the beginning of the drop in satisfaction, from those who read the changes. It will get much, much worse as people discover what it is going to do to THEM personally.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hotrod, 12/21/2012 11:53:03 AM (No. 9077879)
The takers in our society already had free health care (including abortions and birth control.) Nothing changes, except that government now has expanded its control over the citizens...
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lylacat, 12/21/2012 12:11:47 PM (No. 9077927)
My 73 year old cousin was just told she only needs to get a mammogram for two more years, and then she will not need them anymore. She asked if the incidence of cancer is less after age 73; well, no, actually the incidence of breast cancer is higher for 75+ women. But 0bamacare does not pay for a woman over 75 to have a mammogram.
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Posted By: SurferLad- 4/11/2013 9:15:53 AM
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Late as usual, President Obama unveiled his budget Wednesday for the next fiscal year, a 5.5-pound document that outlines $3,800,000,000,000 in spending, another $100 billion whacked from national defense, billions more poured into (union) construction and another $580 billion in additional taxes squeezed from the country´s wealthy because they still have some. Obama´s budget is politically DOA, of course. Tired of waiting, the House has already passed one. Last year´s Obama Opus didn´t garner one single vote from any member of either party in either chamber. But stacks of budget books make good B-roll for TV cutaways.
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Despite the endorsement of President Obama, Robin Kelly easily won election Tuesday night in a special House election to represent Illinois´ troubled Second Congressional District. The sprawling urban-suburban district, containing Chicago´s ugly South Side, was formerly represented by Jesse Jackson Jr., who like a number of Illinois politicians will be residing in a federal penitentiary for a while. In fact, the last three incumbents of the Second District´s seat have moved on to prison cells, as have some recent governors. But that’s probably coincidence.
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Obama continues his traveling gun show charade
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Posted By: SurferLad- 4/9/2013 9:27:15 AM
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President Obama was on again Monday about gun laws, not enforcing the existing ones. But getting some new ones, any new ones so he can claim some kind of political victory after all of the promises and vows he made in the emotional days last December. But Obama wasn´t working on the senators from his own party who will actually determine the fate of these measures. That would be political leadership. No, Obama was out of town again, up in Hartford for a photo op with Connecticut legislators and some Newtown families.
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: SurferLad- 4/8/2013 9:23:29 AM
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It´s a good thing this column is available online, so that residents of Memphis, New Orleans and Riverside, California can learn how unsafe their city is without having to venture outside. Those are the bottom three metropolitan areas where residents said they felt least safe walking alone at night in their neighborhood. From the safety of their little work cubicles somewhere, the number gnomes over at the Gallup organization have been accumulating data on perceived human well-being as part of their polling calls on many subjects. From that data comes the 50 most and least safe cities.
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Hi I’m Kansas Governor Sam Brownback. A week ago nearly a third of the world’s population celebrated Easter, the resurrection of Jesus. New life. Well, we need new life in our nation and economy. Washington is broke. Big spending programs are running out of money and change is coming. The ideas on how to fix the federal government are now percolating in the states, 30 of which are led by Republican governors. You see, you don’t change America by changing Washington. With video.
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Back from fundraising, Obama says the economy is still his top priority
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: SurferLad- 4/6/2013 9:28:30 AM
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Hi, everybody. Our top priority as a nation, and my top priority as President, must be doing everything we can to reignite the engine of America’s growth: a rising, thriving middle class. That’s our North Star. That must drive every decision we make. Now, yesterday, we learned that our businesses created 95,000 new jobs last month. That’s about 500,000 new jobs this year, and nearly 6.5 million new jobs over the past three years. But we’ve got more work to do.
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Fearful of agitating North Korea, Obama officials back off tough talk
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: SurferLad- 4/5/2013 9:29:44 AM
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In a swift and strange reversal, Obama administration officials Thursday rushed to play down their own recent announcements of defensive U.S. military movements in response to threats and provocations from North Korea. The hereditary Communist dictatorship of the Kim family that took over the North after World War II has always been quirky, unpredictable and, well, mentally unbalanced by any modern governing standards. The country would be cinematically comical and worthy of a Peter Sellers role were the rogue regime not actively developing nuclear weapons and long-distance missiles to deliver or orbit them.
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Ted Cruz vows total repeal, no piecemeal fixes for failed ObamaCare
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: SurferLad- 4/4/2013 9:16:17 AM
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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has called for the complete legislative repeal of ObamaCare and its replacement by comprehensive healthcare reforms that actually increase patient choice, decrease the role of government bureaucrats and disconnect health insurance from employment. "If you lose your job," Cruz said, "you don´t lose your house, life or car insurance. They go with you wherever you go." It should be the same for health insurance. In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with IBD´s weekly M&M podcast, the Texas freshman said, "Our first priority is repealing ObamaCare and repealing it in its entirety.”
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As ObamaCare crumbles, Obama returns to--Can you guess?--fundraising
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: SurferLad- 4/3/2013 9:34:43 AM
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Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after complaints from students about controversial comments concerning same-sex marriage. The withdrawal came less than a week after medical school Dean Paul B. Rothman chastised Carson for his comments and met with graduating students concerned that the famed physician was an inappropriate commencement speaker.
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Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the skin of the wholesome college students he craved: He relishes being Mayor Weiner. Please, shut up this clown. These days, the genitally obsessed Weiner has nothing much to do, except sit in his lavish Manhattan apartment and — the inhumanity! — change the poopy diapers of his 16-month-old son, Jordan. Worse, Weiner is living under a kind of house arrest, sentenced to take extreme grief
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 12:23:49 PM
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The Senate voted to move forward on gun control Thursday, clearing the first of what is expected to be many 60-vote hurdles for the legislation. (Snip) Sixteen Republicans voted in favor of the motion, while two Democrats — both from states President Obama lost in the 2012 election — voted against it. The two Democrats were Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska) and Mark Pryor (Ark.), both of whom face reelection next year.The 16 Republicans who voted to proceed were
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Seven hundred Military Special Operations professionals. And one insistent and very angry Mom. This is becoming a deadly combination for the political game players in the Obama Administration. Sean Smith, the young State Department computer wizard who was brutally murdered that September night in Benghazi, was Pat Smith’s only child. Let’s say that again. Sean Smith was Mrs. Smith’s only child. To listen to her recent radio interview with another Sean… Sean Hannity… is to have the heart break.
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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AG sues florist who refused flowers to gay wedding
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer [WA], by Joel Connelly
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State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Tuesday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Arlene’s Flowers & Gifts, a Richland florist that refused to supply flowers to the same-sex marriage of a longtime customer. Ferguson said he sent a March 28 letter to owner Barronelle Stutzman asking her to reconsider and supply flowers to customer Robert Ingersoll. Through an attorney, Stutzman declined to change her position.“As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws of the state of Washington,” said Ferguson. “Under the Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to discriminate
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Philadelphia abortion clinic horror: We´ve forgotten what belongs on Page One
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USA Today, by Kirsten Powers
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Posted By: toledo- 4/11/2013 7:39:08 AM
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Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven´t heard about these sickening accusations? It´s not your fault. Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page. The revolting revelations of Gosnell´s former staff, who have been testifying to what they
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Biden criticizes gun owners who are not hunters: ´They like the way it feels... it´s like driving a Ferrari´
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 10:41:58 AM
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During a conversation about gun violence on MSNBC this morning, Vice President Joe Biden explained that there was a growing group of gun owners that might not understand guns as well as hunters. “There is a whole new sort of group of individuals now who – I don’t know what the numbers are – that never hunt at all,” Biden said. “But they own guns for one of two reasons, self-protection or they just like the feel of that AR-15 at the range. They like the way it feels.” Biden imitated holding a weapon and added, “You know,
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