Posted on 08/16/2009 5:03:02 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; J. James Rohack, president of the American Medical Association; John Rother, executive vice president for policy and strategy at AARP.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): FreedomWorks chairman and former Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas; Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.; former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.; Gov. Bill Ritter, D-Colo.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House press secretary Robert Gibbs; former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Sens. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sebelius; Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.; Reps. Mike Ross, D-Ark., Tom Price, R-Ga., and Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas.
Walmart has a great Dell laptop on sale right now.
I am surprised.
Chris Wallace is actually challenging the AMA guy by using facts that contradict the Doc’s claims.
Remember they, including OBOZO especially, fought with all of their might to have Terri Shiavo murdered in the MOST TORTUROUS of all ways, far worse than Beheading and Far Worse than Stoning or amputating arms and legs with no anesthesia! OBOZO and his Death Squads fully supported and encouraged starving and dehydrating an Innocent, Brave and Courageous Woman, whose family begged to take care of her!, to the Most Horrendous Death anyone can imagine in their most horrible of Nightmares! Check the Facts and the Euthanasia Groups that were in the middle of this outrageous Atrocity!!! Give him a chance, and OBOZO will do it again in a nanosecond and to thousands and millions if given the chance:-(
You’d think it was the dog days of August, but look—they’ve stacked every panel with as much Obama-tilted firepower as they can. Chuckie’s on there as the milquetoast, really-on-their-side, fig leaf to balance, but they’ve got everyone from Gibbsy to the bought-off special interests (AARP and the AMA) on spinning.
Rush pulled it out of his reading of the bill last week.
One of your best brayings - lots of great points to be used in casual conversations with friends, neighbors, people in the check-out line at the supermarket, etc....
It amazes me how they vilify the insurance companies, which are the same ones set up in the 70’s by the HMO bill. This is a question I would love to see asked of the congressional idiots.
Could you not have transferred him to another hospital and paid for the additional care there?
Tom, if that happens, then I predict all Hell breaking loose. If they think the public is angry now (despite the public spin they put on it as a small group of paid-for-Rightwing extremists), as Reagan said, "You ain't seen nothing yet!"
Part of my hopes they'll do so. It will lead to a public deluge of Congress come November 2010. The only thing that makes me hope they lose now is how terrible this bill or bills are for the nation.
Color me duh.......I saw it referred to as a tweet.
Being totally unfamiliar with facebook or tweet, I have no clue.
LOL......sorry.
Agreed.
The thread is at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316989/posts if anyone wants to see the rest of the posted pictures.
snugs, those on Medicare can only have what Medicare is willing to pay for. If the family wants the patient to stay longer in the hospital and is willing to pay for it, they are not allowed to do so.
Doctors can only take what fees Medicare will reimburse. If they try to recoup their actual costs they end up in trouble with the law. This is why some doctors won’t take Medicare patients. Others (like my orthopaedic guy) make up the shortfall by charging higher fees to insurance companies who pay for younger patients, hence the higher medical costs. Medicare is actually the cause of much of the higher insurance costs for under 65 Americans.
Rocklobster (what a delicious name!) you are NOW on the ping list.
Anyone else who wants to be on the ping list simply let me know.
The AMA and AARP are either in denial, or are lying,
or are in cahoots. They both must know there is rationing,
and proving that they both either change the subject,
or slying peel to a nuanced something else.
FNS
Oh! The new health reform will do away with the Medicare prescription ‘donut hole’ where patients have to pay full price.
I’m thinking about changing my position. This plan may not be so bad.
[Will Medicare cover the ‘making Gran-folk shovel ready’ shovel for us old geezers?]
Two Pro-Obama guests in studio, two senators by remote link; only Senator Shelby is against the Obama plan.
Thank you for your grandson. We have friends here with kids in Afghanistan and Iraq and each one is precious to all of us.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316989/posts is the link if you want to send the other pictures.
Really, you should see the Ad's that Jon Corzine is running against Cris Christie here in NJ for Gov. (Bush Cronies, Bush Cronies, Bush Cronies, Yada, Yada, Yada )
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