Overall I don’t think the specific concern (“if doctors would be required to accept forced-on-us healthcare plans”) would become a huge problem. I know what this argument is getting at though. Medicare doesn’t pay doctors as much as private insurance. If their was a government option, it would pay as much as medicare. Cuts in medicare spending are a constant threat to control costs. “Cuts in medicare spending” translates exactly to paying physicians less for specific services. I’d be a lot more concerned if the government option was still part of the bill.
The uniqueness of the summit was that it was on TV. Presidents have always gathered up congressmen and tried talking them into this or that.
It’s fairly obvious that the summit was a symbol. Obama knows that his only chance of passing this now infamous bill after Brown won is to abuse Reconciliation. The summit was a symbolic show of bipartisanship to try and make the Reconciliation effort look less dastardly.
I just need this quick rant. Diane Reims read a letter a moment ago. It went something like this, in regard to the new Afghan offensive: I think Obama is taking big gamble. Success is fleeting. The solution is not guns and rockets. I think we should buy the opium harvest outright.
There is an email going around and posted in other places on the web with some supposed quotes by Thomas Jefferson:
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe .
Thomas Jefferson
Scott Brown elected Massachusetts State Senator
Do you think a woman who had posed nude could ever achieve national political office?
Disaster in Haiti
It’s fine for passive citizens whose allegiance is more or less irrelevant. If you were a functioning part of the framework –
allegiance would be different. A soldier, for example, can’t question his orders. He must obey them, unless of course they are illegal. Our current climate nearly has solders requiring basic training in military law – with all the appeasement we’ve been attempting in Iraq when civilians get killed.
“Everyone would consider himself a patriot by Kevin’s definition, but though the definition sounds nice, it is functionally incomplete.”
Interesting. We each seem to nurse a different though similar definition of patriotism. Dr. Dove, I don’t think you strayed at all. Do I understand correctly that patriot for you equals someone in total agreement with the current powers that be?
I’m not a big believer in stimulus. But if you give their economic theory the benefit of the doubt – Keynesian economics – it doesn’t matter. The bills the Dems have passed that they are calling stimulus doesn’t follow the model. Most of the money is used to pay for government – rather than cut the fat like everyone else is doing – and infrastructure projects. Neither do the job Keynes calls for, which is to replace the lost purchasing of the population that’s stowing their cash
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