Honesty in Health Care Debate
March 5, 2010 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
Reading the stories in the news about health care for the last few weeks, it had become obvious that no one has a grasp on where we really are, what the real problem is or how we should solve it. The liberal plan has clown car-like reforms in it. Sure,... Read more »
Obama Disingenuous on Health Care Reform Bi-partisanship
February 27, 2010 in Health Care Reform, Politics by Rich Mitchell
Obama has repeated (ad ad nauseum) that he would be willing to meet Republicans in the middle on health care. The GOP says to do that would mean starting over, which is something that the President will not do. So who is being more partisan? The GOP... Read more »
Medicaid an Anchor Around The Necks of States
January 21, 2010 in Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
Medicaid and Medicare were held up as the government-run successes that prove that we can afford universal health care and that it works. In North Carolina and Oklahoma, severe Medicaid budget overruns are being reported and the blame is partly that... Read more »
Senate Passes Health Bill
December 24, 2009 in Health Care Reform, Politics by Rich Mitchell
This year most Americans can add another gift to the list of things we didn’t really want. While fruit cake, socks, holiday themed ties and ugly sweaters have topped that list for decades, the U.S. Senate has placed a new present at the top of... Read more »
How The Republican Health Care Plan Died
November 7, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
John Boehner Presents his health care plan I spent my Saturday evening listening to live coverage of floor debate in the House of Representatives. The difference in philosophies is great and obvious. The opposition view is a request to disavow the... Read more »
Pelosi-Care And Planned Parenthood Create Government Abortion Machine
November 6, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
It is well-reported that the House Democrat plan, H.R.3962 – Pelosi-Care, has provisions that allow federal funds to be allowed to be used to pay for abortions. In section 213 of the bill, it actually explains how all government-collected premiums... Read more »
Analysis of Republican Health Care Reform Bill
November 4, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
John Boehner On November 3rd, the GOP made it’s new health care reform bill available for review. The bill contains many elements of H.R.3400 which was the Republican-sponsored health care bill submitted in the House in July. This new bill is... Read more »
Health Care Reform Will Lead to Poverty for All
October 31, 2009 in Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
I am linking a New York Times article and not doing much to comment.. the author is spot-on and saying everything I have said in other posts. It’s a great read, should be linked to anyone and everyone that thinks that somehow health care reform... Read more »
H.R. 3962: Health Care Reform the Pelosi Way – Highlights
October 30, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi revealed the almost 2,000 page monstrosity of a health care bill from the House of Representatives. I am not sure if our Congressmen will read it, but I knew I had to. I spent nearly 8 hours speed-reading and trying to notate... Read more »
Democrats Merge 3 House Bills: Pelosi-care On the March
October 28, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
Fox news reported that the new House Bill will be formally announced tomorrow morning. The bill does contain many of Obama’s wishes and the resultant costs: “..includes new requirements for employers to offer insurance to their workers or... Read more »
Is the Opt-Out Really an Option?
October 23, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has realized that a robust public option isn’t going to pass, mainly because he can’t even get liberals to agree that it’s a good thing. So now he’s working to find out if a public plan that... Read more »
Voting Against Current Reform Bills Does Not Mean Inaction
October 18, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
Obama President Obama has renewed his argument that we have to pass this legislation or his plan (whatever that is) because inaction is not an option. While most people agree that inaction is not an option, why is voting for the progressive’s... Read more »
Reform: It’s All About the Money – Yours
October 14, 2009 in Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
The Senate Finance Committee passed their health care reform bill. Unfortunately, just as the other bills that have come out of House and Senate committees, it doesn’t fix health care at all – and it costs a fortune. I’ve written numerous... Read more »
Baucus’ Bill Passes Committee, Will be Merged With ‘HELP’ Bill
October 13, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
So much attention has been paid to H.R.3200 and the Baucus bill that the HELP bill has been largely ignored. Now this other Senate bill becomes very important. This afternoon, Olympia Snowe (R-ME) crossed the aisle and helped get the Senate Finance... Read more »
Get Over Nobel Prize, Focus on Health Care or He’ll Win That Too
October 11, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform, Opinion by Rich Mitchell
While I do try to focus on the facts, this is a rant. A plain and simple, jumping up-and-down, pounding and screaming rant. The Nobel prize? Really? Let him have it. Move on. Who gives a crap? That trophy has been a joke for decades. If you... Read more »
What is “The President’s Health Care Bill”?
October 8, 2009 in Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
In every news cast, presidential speech and health care commercial we hear that the President’s bill will.., or the President’s bill won’t… What is the the President’s bill? By Constitutional procedure, a bill may be presented... Read more »
Health Care Reform Close to Becoming Law – How?
October 8, 2009 in Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
The Senate Finance committee has now set a date for their vote – next Tuesday. While the worthless mainstream media talks about “the bill” and there at least five out there, how do we get to a single bill? Congressional procedures are... Read more »
Conservatives Losing Heart? New Poll Shows Increasing Support for ObamaCare
October 5, 2009 in Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
In a Rasmussen opinion poll released today, the latest figures show that support for the big-government style of health care is on the rise. Last week, the opinion poll found that while 41% supported the plan, 56% opposed it. In today’s release,... Read more »
Health Care Reform Update
October 1, 2009 in Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
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Baucus’ Health Future Bill: Updated
September 30, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform, Politics by Rich Mitchell
Max Baucus Chairman Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D-MT), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and member of the bi-partisan “group-of-six”, explained to the press his Chairman’s mark of his health care bill. This 220-page... Read more »
GOP Health Care Bill Analyzed H.R. 3400
September 27, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
As recently as last week, congressional liberals have been saying that republicans don’t have any ideas and therefor have not put any health care legislation on the table. Well, before the August recess, a bill was introduced in the house and is... Read more »
Health Care Reform Does Not Increase Competition
September 25, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
For months we have been fed several mis-truths, myths, and outright lies about health care.  It is certainly worthwhile to evaluate all the individual frauds, but we may be missing the forest for the trees. The major reform that the President and Congress... Read more »
How to Take Care of Your Own Health Care
September 15, 2009 in Finance, Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
Politicians, union leaders, insurance companies and everyone else under the sun is telling us which bill, tactic, initiative, plan or speech on health care we should support. We are told stories and shown reports of people losing their benefits due to... Read more »
Health Care, Tariffs, Tort Reform: It’s Not About You
September 15, 2009 in Featured, Health Care Reform, Politics by Rich Mitchell
The current administration is positioning their policy initiatives as if they are intended to help the working class. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s not about us. SEIU for Obama Pin Trial lawyers and gigantic unions make billions... Read more »
Health Care Reform Update: 10-4-09
September 4, 2009 in Health Care Reform by Rich Mitchell
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Health Care Reform Analyzed: A Critical View of H.R.3200
August 30, 2009 in Health Care Reform, Politics by Rich Mitchell
Health care reform is badly-needed, but I am certain that what is being proposed won’t create a higher-quality system, just a higher-cost one. The current administration is using poorly-vetted statistics to convince the American population that... Read more »

