Monday, February 22, 2010

UPDATED ... They're Going to Starve the Beast


That's right. And regressives think Obamacare is about them.

Hardly.

It's about throttling the health insurance industry to the point where no one can get coverage for treatment of even a hangnail, causing enough of us middle class morons to scream to the top of Capitol Hill for a government net to save us, in the form of a public option, so they can shove us unceremoniously into the stew among the welfare and social security entitlement classes, cooking our asses for good, forever yoking our lives to the Zombiecrat Party, our benevolent demons of lower prices for all.

Allah has more:
They’re going to starve the beast, to borrow a line that’s suddenly back in vogue on the NYT op-ed page, and then replace it. That’s one easy point for the GOP to make at the summit on Thursday; another, anticipated last night by the Times and already in full swing this morning among GOP aides, is that having a price-control mechanism in place even before O-Care’s up and running tells you a lot about what the Dems expect will happen to premiums once this debacle passes. But those are big-picture long-term critiques whereas The One’s thinking short-term, i.e. whom does he need to demagogue to kick up just enough popular support to finally get this thing through Congress and off the table. The boss emeritus saw this coming two weeks ago after the uproar in California over the Anthem rate hikes and now here it is, just in time for the 60-day push. It’d be lovely to think the GOP will challenge him on this come Thursday, but let’s face it: Defending free-market insurance rate-setting while anti-Anthem populist outrage is roiling is a poison pill, particularly given their wariness of carrying the “party of big business” label into November. Expect them to challenge him on cost instead — estimated pricetag: $1 trillion over 10 years — and of course on unintended consequences to Medicare. We are, after all, the party of AARP now.
Welcome to the new slavery.


UPDATE: Below is a list of swingvote Congresscritters (who probably swing AC/DC, too) that Opie from MAinfo dropped in the comments and deserves promotion here.

If you live in any of the states from which these swing Congresscritters come, please call them. Let them know your opposition to health care changes. The phone number for Congress is 202-224-3121.

Here’s the list:

Vulnerable Democratic Congressmen Who Voted FOR Obamacare The First Time Around

These are the folks we need to pressure to switch their votes!

Arizona:

Harry Mitchell (Phoenix suburbs)
Gabrielle Giffords (Tucson)
Ann Kirkpatrick (most of rural Arizona, NE part of state)

California:

Jerry McNerney (Stockton and Pleasanton)

Colorado:

John Salazar (Pueblo)

Connecticut:

Jim Hines (Fairfield County)

Florida:

Alan Grayson (Orlando)

Illinois:

Bill Foster (Dixon, Batavia, and Geneseo)

Indiana:

Baron Hill (from Kentucky border up to Bloomington)

Michigan:

Mark Schauer (Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee & Washtenaw counties)
Gary Peters (Oakland County)

Nevada:

Dina Titus (Las Vegas)

New Hampshire:

Carol Shea-Porter (Portsmouth, Manchester, Lakes Region)

New York:

Tim Bishop (Suffolk County)
John Hall (Northern Westchester)
Bill Owens (Plattsburgh up along Vermont border to Canada)
Mike Arcuri (Utica and south central NY)
Dan Maffei (Syracuse)

North Dakota:

Earl Pomneroy (at large)

Ohio:

Steven Driehaus (Cincinnati west to Indiana border)
Mary Jo Kilroy (Columbus and west to Indiana border)
Zach Space (Dover, Zanesville, Chillicothe)

Pennsylvania:

Kathy Dahlkemper (Erie)
Patrick Murphy (Bucks County)
Christopher Carney (NE Penn)
Paul Kanjorski (Scranton, Wilkes-Barre)

South Carolina:

John Spratt (rural SC between Columbia and Charlotte)

Virginia:

Tom Perriello (Charlottesville, Bedford, Timberlake, Martinsville & Danville)

West Virginia:

Alan Mollohan (Wheeling, Morgantown)
Nick Rahall (Huntington)

Wisconsin:

Steve Kagen (Green Bay)

Let’s get busy to save health care in America!

11 comments:

Opus #6 said...

This is bad.  I have a list of swing vote congresspeople to call.

<span>If you live in any of the states from which these swing Congressmen come, please call them. Let them know your opposition to health care changes. The phone for Congress is 202 224 3121. Here’s the list:

Vulnerable Democratic Congressmen Who Voted FOR Obamacare The First Time Around

These are the folks we need to pressure to switch their votes!

Arizona:

Harry Mitchell (Phoenix suburbs)
Gabrielle Giffords (Tucson)
Ann Kirkpatrick (most of rural Arizona, NE part of state)

California:

Jerry McNerney (Stockton and Pleasanton)

Colorado:

John Salazar (Pueblo)

Connecticut:

Jim Hines (Fairfield County)

Florida:

Alan Grayson (Orlando)

Illinois:

Bill Foster (Dixon, Batavia, and Geneseo)

Indiana:

Baron Hill (from Kentucky border up to Bloomington)

Michigan:

Mark Schauer (Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee & Washtenaw counties)
Gary Peters (Oakland County)

Nevada:

Dina Titus (Las Vegas)

New Hampshire:

Carol Shea-Porter (Portsmouth, Manchester, Lakes Region)

New York:

Tim Bishop (Suffolk County)
John Hall (Northern Westchester)
Bill Owens (Plattsburgh up along Vermont border to Canada)
Mike Arcuri (Utica and south central NY)
Dan Maffei (Syracuse)

North Dakota:

Earl Pomneroy (at large)

Ohio:

Steven Driehaus (Cincinnati west to Indiana border)
Mary Jo Kilroy (Columbus and west to Indiana border)
Zach Space (Dover, Zanesville, Chillicothe)

Pennsylvania:

Kathy Dahlkemper (Erie)
Patrick Murphy (Bucks County)
Christopher Carney (NE Penn)
Paul Kanjorski (Scranton, Wilkes-Barre)

South Carolina:

John Spratt (rural SC between Columbia and Charlotte)

Virginia:

Tom Perriello (Charlottesville, Bedford, Timberlake, Martinsville & Danville)

West Virginia:

Alan Mollohan (Wheeling, Morgantown)
Nick Rahall (Huntington)

Wisconsin:

Steve Kagen (Green Bay)

Let’s get busy to save health care in America!</span>

Bungalow bill said...

You nailed exactly what they are trying to do. Destroy the system and get Americans begging for the government get provide healthcare.

Opus #6 said...

You made that so nice and pretty.  Thanks, O Snarky One. :-D

Snarky Basterd said...

Thank you for putting together and sharing the list.

Ron Russell said...

Beck was talking about just this today, pointing out that the profit margin of insurance companies was just over 3% making them 88th overall in that catagory. Its a crazy world and the democrats rely on that insanity.

Matt said...

Well done Snarky.  Someone more creative than I needs to write the Cloward-Piven song to describe what this crap really is. 

MK said...

"<span>forever yoking our lives to the Zombiecrat Party"</span>

Well, to be accurate it won't always be the democrats in power, but yes you will be yoked to the party that will ensure the continuing dependence on the nanny state. The parties will essentially be same in some regards.

Always On Watch said...

After the hell we went through to get private health insurance for Mr. AOW, I'm going to me mighty pissed if we lose the policy we have -- as much as I bitch about it.

BTW, one reason that private policies' premiums go sky high is that policies purchased by certain blocks, i.e., government and unions, (1) get a premium discount and (2) have members who abuse their policies in that members go to the doc "for free" at the drop of a hat and insist on expensive tests such as CT scans and MRI's when such tests aren't at all warranted.

The government is rushing as fast as possible to enslave us via healthcare.  Thank God Mr. AOW and I are old enough that we'll probably die before the worst of the enslavement sets in!

Always On Watch

Always On Watch said...

After the hell we went through to get private health insurance for Mr. AOW, I'm going to me mighty pissed if we lose the policy we have -- as much as I bitch about it.

BTW, one reason that private policies' premiums go sky high is that policies purchased by certain blocks, i.e., government and unions, (1) get a premium discount and (2) have members who abuse their policies in that members go to the doc "for free" at the drop of a hat and insist on expensive tests such as CT scans and MRI's when such tests aren't at all warranted.

The government is rushing as fast as possible to enslave us via healthcare.  Thank God Mr. AOW and I are old enough that we'll probably die before the worst of the enslavement sets in!

Always On Watch

Always On Watch said...

After the hell we went through to get private health insurance for Mr. AOW, I'm going to me mighty pissed if we lose the policy we have -- as much as I bitch about it.

BTW, one reason that private policies' premiums go sky high is that policies purchased by certain blocks, i.e., government and unions, (1) get a premium discount and (2) have members who abuse their policies in that members go to the doc "for free" at the drop of a hat and insist on expensive tests such as CT scans and MRI's when such tests aren't at all warranted.

The government is rushing as fast as possible to enslave us via healthcare.  Thank God Mr. AOW and I are old enough that we'll probably die before the worst of the enslavement sets in!

Always On Watch

HoosierArmyMom said...

How can it be about them... they made themselves "immune from Socialized Health Care".  But of course, we go to jail if we don't sign on to it!!!

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