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Subscribe to RSSRick Perry's campaign went up today with a highly produced Web video hitting Mitt Romney on health care.
Ben Smith points out that Romney's gubernatorial portrait features his Massachusetts health-care plan. It's that folder to his left on the desk:
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I LOVE IT!
Don't you find the teeny-tiny wife kind of funny?
And who actually keeps a flag at the back of their desk?
That portrait looks as phony as Romney himself.
What about this?
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/spin-meter-obamas-disconnect-1197664.html
Perry's done......so is Obama.
Let's move on.
You can bash Romney and Perry all you want. Obama's poll numbers are falling like a boulder. It's time to wake up America. We need a thriving economy again, not more food stamps .
Most people today feel like Herman Cain said ......"I got off the Democrat Plantation many years ago."
@Leona-2986819- yes, we need a thriving economy again versus the shattered one that Obama inherited from George Dubya Bush. Remember him? You know, the one that led us into two unending-billions-of-dollars-costing wars and a train-wreck of an economy that the current administration has to now grapple with?
I don't know where you live but "thriving" isn't exactly what I call it. That's why this election is so important, we really should look at who we elect because we aren't out of it yet. We need Health care reform, and tort reform with it. I won't elect on the premise of "change", religious zealots, lifetime politicians or lawyers, lets get Huntsman or Romney, Paul and I am looking to Cain to show us how to get big government out of our lives.
Well, now that he's got that out of the way, maybe Governor Perry can begin speaking about what he believes needs to be down to start reigning in health care costs.
Mitt Romney is going to win the Republican nomination and this ad, and others like it, will help contribute to his loss. There are so many really great anti-Romney ads out there the only hardship will be selecting which ones to reuse.
I really like some of the ads from his run against Teddy. All those people that Romney, through Bain Capital, fired so he could send their jobs oversea...
Romney really is the guy who fired you or your dad. He's great at creating jobs in India and China, not so much in the USofA though.
No - we created those jobs through our greed, shopping at Walmart, and creating multi levels of taxation and fees to send companies out to other countries or go under.
This shows you how sick the arguments have become.
Canada just over the border, has a classic western socialist system. They have universal healthcare for all. Everyone pays in a nominal fee and they are taken care of. They feel valued and so they take care of each other and like each other.
Folks are healthier, happier for it.
Healthcare is a GOOD THING folks! Good health is a good thing. Folks deserve to be happy & healt
This is a very rich country. The 1% is the wealthiest group ever in the history of the world.
We can have Universal healthcare just like the other western industrial countries.
We all need healthcare.
And we can have it.
That ad is really disgusting!
Will Slick Rick explain why Texas has the highest number of uninsured!?
As long as we maintain the current plutocracy, banana republic, what ever term you care to describe our current governmental system that only responds to corporate/rich demands, we will never have a decent health-care system. We need a political system that represents the wishes and needs of the people and we currently don't have one and have no political means to implement one, bad things happen in countries in our situation, because they have to.
Backhouse, if everyone feels so good about the Canadian Health Care system and ours is so lousy, why isnt everyone driving over the borders to have their heart surgeries? What is preventing us from taking advantage of their great system? I am actually proud that our wealthy are the wealthiest in the world arent you? Do you know they pay the most tax of any country in the world too? I guess you forgot that part. So they contribute back into the federal, state and local coffers more money than any country by a large margin so they are doing their part. Fixing our healthcare delivery system has nothing to do with the wealthy and Obamacare didnt fix it either.
Some things available in the US, such as the Mayo clinic, has cutting edge stuff to offer.
Other than that, even little ol' Justin Bieber said he'd never live in the US, "because you don't have responsible health care".
Justin Bieber is Canadian.
Kirk, what you say makes no sense. The problem with health care in the US is not with the quality of care, it's with ACCESS to that quality of care. Canada has a single-payer (government) health care system and it works, quality is high, available to all and it is affordable. Why would people from the US go to Canada -- they would still have to pay what they pay now. What works for Canadians in Canada could work for Americans in the US.
First he'll deny it, like he denied having the highest number of minimum wage jobs.
And then he'll blame it all on President Obama.
To figure out what Perry will say on any issue, I apply a very simple rule of thumb:
It's all to his credit when he can twist the numbers to work, and it's not his fault when they don't.
I can not for the life of me understand why anybody would not want health-care for everyone. Some say uninsured, hungry, homeless people should rely on charities to help, not the government. If this worked how come we still have these problems? The government is the only answer as they do not discriminate against individuals as some consider immoral. It is the only way we can take care of everyone fairly.
Kate, because people like Anna Molly tell me all the time that the US health care system isnt very good so I was just asking a simple question and its interesting because I agree with you that the quality of US care is fantastic probably the best in the world because of the profit motive inherent in the system. I have no problem with delivering quality health care to everyone who would be against that? But there are two truths that we need to come to grips with and that is first in order to provide the improved quality of health care to the 45 million people that currently have less quality of care than the other 85% of us have, thats going to mean the other 85% pay substantially more for their care. Its just math. Second, the amount of care and benefits we currently get in the 85% have to be reduced in order to fit the other 85% into the system. Obamacare addresses neither of these issues nor do we want to discuss them because people dont want to give up their current care nor do they want to pay more and neither is possible.
Let me answer for Bathouse: First the sys em is open to Candians, not Americas. Second it is a state runsystem not a national system operated more like a federation than a central operating system. Third it covers only 16million people wihich is chld's play-Texas al lb yitself hasas 24 million folks. Thirdly it has drugs hat are made inAmerica that are one third cheaper tha American drugs because they do systemwhide bulk buys-thatamericansdon't do. If we had adopted the Canadian drug purchase system our drug would be one third cheaper too. Drug profits alone went fro $3 billion in 2002 to $15 billion in 2009 .
Another point is theCandians aremiserly onequipment use.The US has more CAT Scans in the Atanta to Charleston corridor than Canda had nation wide. Canda used CAT scan machine 24 hours a day-intheUS the average machine is used less than 3 hours a day.
In other words they used equipment intellegincly-we don't.
Another point to consideris the pay rate forCandian doctors is less than ours by alomst a third. But like the US,primarycare docters make far less than specialists-and this is becoming a major problem as doctors migrate to spcialties, and the same priary care doctors are just as short as inthe US. The real probleminMassachustetts todayin not thenumber ofdoctors; that, fine-what's wrong is most of them are specialist inlung or heart care-not in front line doctoring. InMassacutsetts most primary care doctors turn awaypatients-just as in the US Medicare doctors do so-because thepay is lousy.
Thi is true in Canada too.Canada make farmore use of nursinghomes than theUS does. In the US themovement is away fromthat to home health care which is cheaper and inmany cases better. I am a living case of that-suing elctronic monitoring youdon't ned nusing care except incases of dementia and hospce care. But few state have as good care a we in Minesota do because the leadership of theMayo clinc and theUniversity of Minnesota.
If the Mayo Clinc prctices were followed nation wide we could save $1 trillion dollars accoriding to David Leonhart ofthe New York Times bassed on ecomoinc analysis.
Yes,single payer works. For smalllstate like Nebraska or Tenneseee. It reamins to be seen if it canhanle Florida or New Jersey.
As an Obama supporter I love this video.
But First Read and Chuck Todd's "Daily Rundown" MSNBC show are so blatently in Scary Perry's corner over Romney or Cain or anyone else that it is becoming almost laughable.
This morning on "Daily Rundown" Chuck had at least three flattering segments on Perry. Today on First Read it is almost like a Perry campaign ad.
What gives??
I can just hear the palavering that we will be exposed to here and on "Daily Rundown" after tomorrow's GOP debate about the fantastic Scary Perry turnaround!! All he will have to do is show up and stay awake and he will be crowned the winner!
Monetfan? I couldn't agree more. I've found switching to the Today show during Chuck's time slot is preferable, and you get Savannah again! Smart lady... I think Chuck must have chosen the name for his show - he 'runsdown' just about everything... I wish they had given it to Savannah with the title 'Daily Runup'...
Lyn, I'll watch the Today show tomorrow instead of Chuck " Perry-Leaning" Todd! Thanks for the tip! But I'll probably DVR "Daily Rundown" and play it back very quickly with no sound just to see how many Perry stories there are! Chuck's pro- Perry bias is so transparently obvious and has been ever since Perry entered the race. And he definitely has never been a fan of President Obama. He rarely misses a chance to get a snarky dig in against the President. How I miss Tim Russert!
Here is a fun little Mitt Quiz to share with your friends and family...
http://www.democrats.org/which-mitt?source=20111010_BW_Mittquiz_nd
and a video from Occupy Wall Street, poor Geraldo!!! LMAO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxQHys4Tmf4&feature=player_embedded
This from one(Perry) who openly courts evangelicals who call Romney's religion a "cult"! This from one who openly courts Tragic Economic Anarchist(TEA) party! This from someone who supports Terroristic Economic Anarchist(TEA) party do not care about the children born here in the United States, who are citizens, and the tearing apart of family units to no one's benefits! This election should be a referendum on the incompetence and inability of the 112th Congress to pass bi-partisan legislation! Yep! many of the sane Republican party are trembling in their boots about the direction their party is going! If everyone of the TEA party field were to put their heads together, they would not enough to go to the top floor!
Just think the old days will soon be back. Preexisting conditions, running out of money in your policy, getting turned down for having a disease that you overcame in the past. Thats what I'm waiting for. All this because health care became a for profit business. Its hard to take that someone is making a profit by someone's pain.
Rick Perry's commercails scare the crap out of me. Could be a bad thing -
What do YOU feel when you see the candidate's commercials? Let me know PLEASE! Here is what I think...
Rick Perry - I have seen this and one other ad. Both left me feeling scared! They show today as this crazy post apocolyptic world and then they show Perry's hopefull speech AND it's scenes of space and horses running and it scares me too! LIke I keep expecting to see Rick Perry in an F-16 ready to shoot down the Alien Invaders on Independance Day...
Herman Cain's music video - I liked it. It made me wanna invite the neighbors over for a BBQ or something.. Great FUN! He made and interesting case for himself. I just wanna give him a high 5! even if I am not sure if he is my favorite....
I like Ron Paul's ads - but SOME (not all) of his supporters unoffical ads are pretty cool too. The ron paul blackout ads make you want to punch an evil journalist in the face and slap a "don't tred on me" sticker on their forheads.. I lost a little faith in my favorite recently, but I these make me reconsider.
i'm so scared of the commercial it makes me scared of Perry. Did he actually sign off on this thing? If so, that automatically disqualifies him from entering the office of the President.
To make healthcare seem so scaryis foolish. And what it does is give Romeny an opening he needs to tout giving equal acess to health care-and get more people to vote in republican primaries. He coulds ay "My opponmt doesn't ant people with diabete to have healthcare. My opposnet doesn't want prenant women to have health care. He's against cancer patients having acess to health care"
If you want bad health vote for Rick Perry-you'll get exclt ythe health you deserve-none at all.
The sad, sad state of our politics depends, not upon your ethics or credentials, but upon your ability to raise money - most likely from a few wealthy donors looking for a return. (Remember, corporations are people too)
With your coffers full, you can inflame your base with what they want to hear. Just remember, the facts are irrelevent against the big prize:
*Healthcare reform was not necessary
*Socialized medicine does not work
*The stimulus was a failure
*Tarp lost money for the taxpayers
*Obama is a Kenyan born Muslim who has done nothing in his first three years
*The global economy has no effect on America
Our great country wallows in the time and money spent propogating puppets whose vision is limited to an election cycle and paying back their masters. Both sides are guilty and the media is not motivated to suggest it change.
The sad, sad state of our politics depends, not upon your ethics or credentials, but upon your ability to raise money - most likely from a few wealthy donors looking for a return.
With your coffers full, you can inflame your base with what they want to hear. Just remember, the facts are irrelevent against the big prize:
*Healthcare reform was not necessary
*Socialized medicine does not work
*The stimulus was a failure
*Tarp lost money for the taxpayers
*Obama is a Kenyan born Muslim who has done nothing in his first three years
*Letting the auto industry fail would have been a good thing
*The global economy has no effect on the US
Our great country wallows in the time and money spent propogating puppets whose vision is limited to an election cycle and paying back their masters. Both sides are guilty and the media is not motivated to suggest it change.
Sorry about the double post
I guess it is interesting to find out if the people in Texas were happier, better served and cared for than people in Massachusetts in terms of Health care. But I am sure we already know the answer.