President Obama Announces New HHS Pick, 126 New Health Centers to be Built

Why not make it a cool 150 new health centers? It’s not like we don’t have the money.

Every time the Smartest Clueless PB0 speaks, or does something, the Dow goes down hundreds of points. Dow is below 7000 at the range of 6800 as of the first trading day of March. It has tanked 40% since he was elected.
Confidence in the government’s leadership ability is in desperate need.

anonymous:”It not like we don’t have the money to built the 126 new health centers. Where is the money coming from???? ”
And we can afford to keep treating people with minor infections by waiting until they show up in the emergency room and require a stay in the ICU? We have universal healthcare, it’s just currently very ineffective and frankly stupid. Give away free $10 antibiotics and keep the $10k/day ICU beds for real emergencies.
Or get rid of universal healthcare, allow hospitals to literally leave people to die on their doorstep, and take our place among the third world nations.

Where is the money coming from????
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From you of course.

Concerned in OH:”He says this but then does the exact opposite. “I won”.”
You keep quoting his one off joke (from what Republicans described as a productive and respectful meeting) and ignoring reality. Contraceptive funding was cut in response to Republican requests. National Mall renovation was cut in response to Republican requests. Aid to states was cut and replaced with the $70 billion AMT tax cut for upper middle class taxpayers in response to Republican requests. Several amendments were proposed by Republicans, debated and included as part of the final bill – this is documented fact.
But all you can offer is a useless one-off repeating of a joke line, somehow fitting actually.

Yes more health centers, even though we have TERRIBLE shortage of health professionals in each and every state of this country. Not sure who he hope to employ. Check out a Community Health Center for jobs if you are a health professional you can get a job at anyone of them. Then again you can get job anywhere.
Sue unemployed people can go to school to be a nurse…but there aren’t enough places to train them so they can’t accept everyone that applys.
Now add…where is this $$$ coming from for these centers (average $650,000 per year!) We are in such a mess, with Mr. spend, spend, spend.

42% of Americans don’t pay federal income taxes. Maybe if Obama had them pay into the system instead of taking from the system, he could pay for his healthcare plans.
No…he will expand community health centers just like Bush did because if you can’t pay they will provide you primary, dental and mental health care FREE….
I totally agree with you, just imagine what our country would be like if everyone had to pay something, every single person…teenagers, etc included. Pay something even $1 per month.

jhw:Do you consider Social Security tax? What about Medicare? Federal gas taxes? Corporate income taxes rolled into every item you purchase?
Just curious how narrow your personal definition of taxes is.
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What definition do you think Obama was using when he promised 95% of Americans would not see one dime of their taxes raised?
As for payroll taxes, I find it curious that Obama doesn’t address that directly, rather than trying to offset them via income tax policy.

My favorite unintentionally hilarious headline from the weekend.
“13 year old spells out conservative principles at CPAC receives standing ovation”

MayBee:”What definition do you think Obama was using when he promised 95% of Americans would not see one dime of their taxes raised?”
He made his definition very clear if you bother to actual listen to his real quote, “I will cut taxes — cut taxes — for 95 percent of all working families.” He was talking of taxes in the aggregate, and this seems consistent with the Whitehouse position that carbon ‘taxes’ that are passed through will be counterbalanced by cuts and earned income credits.

My favorite unintentionally hilarious headline from the weekend.
“13 year old spells out conservative principles at CPAC receives standing ovation”
Posted by: Ryan C | Mar 2, 2009 3:24:49 PM
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Hilarious. Not knocking the kid but ROFL at this elaborate “think tank” taking notes from a 13yearold.

Next step: finance anyone who’s qualified through medical school and flood the market with doctors. Artificial scarcity has kept prices too high for too long. In return, a national health plan, so that doctors don’t have to hire “medical billing specialists”. Then, we can move to abolish health insurance, the biggest waste of money in the history of civilization.

jhw-that are passed through will be counterbalanced by cuts and earned income credits.
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Do you think a household with earnings of $240,000 will receive a tax cut to offset corporate taxes that are passed on to them (a category you included) in their purchases? Do you think they should?

Did Bush ever mention Keith Olbermann and his very special comments?

Obama’s advisor, Rahm Emanuel:
“The more severe the crisis, the more opportunity for power.”
The administration is deliberately tanking the markets.

MayBee:”Do you think a household with earnings of $240,000 will receive a tax cut to offset corporate taxes that are passed on to them (a category you included) in their purchases? Do you think they should?”
Funny you should ask that. Thanks to the $70 billion AMT tax cut the Republican crammed into the stimulus bill, yes my wife and I will be seeing a net tax reduction this year. No, I don’t really think we need it and I intend to donate it to charity. But you don’t really care about REALITY, do you? The fact that even $240k earners ARE getting a tax cut doesn’t change your opinion at all since you are merely looking for facts to support your opinion, which appears based on fantasy.

At least I know where my tax dollars are being spent. For 8 years I was told in essence, “Don’t question anything, or you’ll be un-patriotic, just keep working more and more hours at what we have offered you at McDonalds and Walmart, and pay your taxes”. And when we asked specifics and questioned that, Mr. Cheney would say, “SO WHAT”, and continue to “grease his palms”. Now this was Communism.

MayBee – good point! Maybe an enterprising reporter will ask.

Concerned in OH: what part of “we have absolutely no interest in nationalizing the banking industry” is unclear to you? I know that you are from OH, the state that put Bush over the top for his second term, but even Ohioans ought to be able to understand that. Maybe it should be repeated very, very slowly so Ohioans can try to get it.

jwh: No, I don’t really think we need it and I intend to donate it to charity. But you don’t really care about REALITY, do you? The fact that even $240k earners ARE getting a tax cut doesn’t change your opinion at all since you are merely looking for facts to support your opinion, which appears based on fantasy.
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My opinion is his new tax policy is unsustainable and cannot fund everything he wants.
My opinion is he drew an arbitrary line over which he defined people as “wealthy” and decided he could fund all of his changes on their backs.
So if indeed your family is going to get a tax cut (you should consider donating it back to the treasury) while people who make $10,000 more than you are called “greedy” by Obama’s supporters for not wanting to pay more taxes, my opinion is strengthened.

Obama’s advisor, Rahm Emanuel:
“The more severe the crisis, the more opportunity for power.”

The US is “nationalizing” an average of two banks a week, and has been doing so since last august. Their deposits are secured, their stockholders and officers lose everything, and the government moves the remaining assets back into private hands. Most people simply pay attention to the largest institutions, so they miss what has been happening in the banking sector as a whole. The process is so unremarkable that it receives little attention. If only the big players didnt have the clout they did, they would have already been through this too.

jhw: I do not call those who make more greedy, and I honestly know few who find going back to the income tax levels of the 90′s AMONG THE LOWEST OF ANY FIRST WORLD COUNTRY a problem.
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I said many Obama supporters are calling upper income earners who complain about new taxes “greedy” for not wanting to pay them. If you doubt me, check the comments section here the past few days.
We are not returning to the income tax levels of the 90′s. Obama is returning only people above a certain income to the income tax levels of the 90′s.
The rest are staying with the lower rates from the Bush tax cuts.
I’m not saying simply everyone hates paying taxes -although it’s true! I’m saying the relatively few taxpayers Obama has targeted simply cannot fund everything he wants to do. That doesn’t seem like such a confusing point.

I am seeing this right? barry is introducing Sebelius by reading the teleprompter???? he can’t even say a couple of words by heart about one of her early supporters????? The smartest president in the history of USA???? A Harvard graduate??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… What a disgrace….

Lydia:And if they did sacrifice and work 12 hour days for years, neglecting your family to make really big money, what does that really say about them?
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Oh, this is getting good now.

I don’t understand why, if the federal government wants to ensure greater availability to medical services, it doesn’t coordinate with experts in the field – medical clinics (like NexCare and those in some Wal-Marts and Walgreens or even with private practices) to help them expand their clinics and get federal reimbursement for care. These clinics first of all understand the concept of profit. They deliver good care at low cost and they’re already using electronic filing systems and most even have their own pharmacy. It just seems like a better use of federal funds — people get health care (for free), the government gets to save the day and companies (and the shareholders who invest in t hem) all make money.
Building 125 new health centers to compete with these businesses seems like a horrible waste of money.

let it go, perhaps the reason the feds don’t want to fund Wal-mart is because of the way they make profits. They buy mainly imports and underpay their workers.
Too often corporate decisions put quality after profit.Not the best way to be running a health clinic.
Look at all the out-sourcing done by the U.S. in Iraq and the poor quality given to our servicemen for everything from electricity improperly installed electrocuting them, to bad food.
Health clinics should not be run by people who live for the biggest profits.

Lydia, Wal-Mart follows federally mandated guidelines regarding wages and benefits. I know people love to complain about Wal-Mart, but the fact is few (if any) of those complaints have anything to do with them breaking federal employment laws. Thousands of people work for Wal-mart and a small percentage have complained (most companies have at least a few complainers).
As for buying products made in other countries — the key word is that Wal-Mart buys the items. Other companies have the products made in other countries and WalMart buys those items. Wal-mart is one of the few major employers that DOES NOT outsource. We live in a global world. Thanks to NAFTA and other trade agreements, the simple fact is that it is cheaper to make computer parts and big screen televisions in Mexico or China. That’s the reality that all businesses in this country accept, and no one – not even Obama, is challenging that because we’d all rather pay less for products.
And I never said they should “fund” Wal-Mart — I said they should learn from the successes of people in the health care clinic industry, including Wal-Mart and work with them rather then against them. And, I challenge you to find one complaint of a WalMart clinic putting profit ahead of good care.
By the way, profit is not a bad thing. Profit means keeping customers as well as shareholders happy — in a profit-based clinic, that means providing good quality care, often without an appointment, at affordable cost.
The fact is, the federal government should not be competing against private industry — ever! There is no reason for it. In an effort to help the poor, they will spend a lot of money, hurt an industry and hurt the people who invest in that business.

Opening free health care clinics in the same town as a for-profit clinic will be similar to opening a public county hospital in the same town as a private, for-profit hospital. This happens quite a bit throughout this country — but compare the quality of care provided at a for profit hospital with that of the public hospital. Private hospitals tend to be better, cleaner and less crowded. Rather then competing with them, seems it is more practical to work with them — help them meet demand and improve access rather then trying to compete against them.
I can’t think of any instance where a government agency does anything better then a private company!

Some news media when listing items about Sebelius point out that she is a pro-choice Catholic. As Pelosi just found out in no uncertain terms, you can not be pro-choice and Catholic. So please media you can say she is pro-choice but she is not Catholic. In this time of lent Catholic are to go to confession or not recieve holy communion. Sebelius, Pelosi, Kerry, Biden, all never to observe this or quit saying they are Catholic.

Let’s see, it’s been about a month since Obama’s failed bid to put Daschle in the position. I guess she’s had enough time to clean the skeletons out of her closet too. Since Obama’s team has done such a dismal job of it so far, LET THE VETTING BEGIN!

160 new health facilities? He’ll need them when he drops the “blanket amnesty” bomb on the citizens of this country. Se Habla Espanol?

I find the hypocrisy of most chritians and Catholics in particular to be so offensive that I say unto them “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” I recently left my catholic faith because the powers that be at my church forbid any of the teachers from allowing the innauguration of the first black president (Clearly an historic event) from being viewed by the children. The wisdom was they The men in charge of guiding the faithfull did not support Obama on particula views. So in their infinate piety they believed their judgement of his untested Presidencey to be rightious… and Jesus would say this … “‘Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2For with the judgement you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. 3Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s* eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your neighbour,* “Let me take the speck out of your eye”, while the log is in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s* eye” I feel sorry for people who are swayed by manly intentions so much that the forget their faith.. Yet proclaim it to the rooftops..

Kat- I agree with your concern.
The day which Obama had announced HHS, Kathleen Sebelius who has radically supported “ABORTION”, Dow plunged, dropped and downed over and over again below lowest 6,850 points since 1997.
Obama, Joe Biden, Pelosi and Kathleen Sebelius are all Christian, but they have obsessed “ABORTION, ABORTION”. Even
they’ve tried to influence “ABORTIVE SPIRIT” to all of the world, because Obama had already signed the bill, 1,000 Millions Dollars to help abortion for the some countries in Africa, Asia
and some Eastern Europe. They should stop it, then 1,000 Millions should be spent for funds of American Health Care System.