Aug 30, 2010 6:10pm

Sebelius: Time for ‘Reeducation’ on Obama Health Care Law

ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: 

With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats’ health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration has “a lot of reeducation to do” heading into the midterms.

While some surveys – namely the Kaiser Family Foundation monthly tracking poll  – have suggested an uptick in support for the reforms, most other surveys continue to show a steady level of opposition to the new law that remains higher than the favorable opinions of it.

“Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn’t,” Sebelius told ABC News Radio in an interview Monday. 

With several vulnerable House Democrats touting their votes against the bill, and Republicans running on repeal, Sebelius said “misinformation given on a 24/7 basis” has led to the enduring opposition nearly six months after the lengthy debate ended in Congress. 

“So, we have a lot of reeducation to do,” Sebelius said.

The administration is particularly concerned about the views of senior citizens – who “have been a target of a lot of the misinformation,” according to the health secretary.

As of Monday, one million seniors have received $250 rebate checks to help them fill the “donut hole” in Medicare’s prescription drug coverage.  Sebelius says by the end of the year, as many as four million Part D participants may get checks.

“Once people understand that [the rebate checks are] just one of the new features for Medicare beneficiaries, they become increasingly more enthusiastic,” Sebelius told ABC News.

In an ABC News/Washington Post poll, taken in July, 50 percent of Americans disapproved of the president’s handling of health care, with 45 percent saying they approved.  The level of disapproval was stronger than approval of the Obama administration’s actions.

But the latest Kaiser poll – also taken in July – shows 50 percent of those surveyed had a favorable view of the health care reform law, with 35 percent holding an unfavorable view.  Support in the Kaiser poll was up four points from the organization’s April tracking poll, with opposition down five points. 

However, among those 65 years and older, 43 percent said in July that Medicare would be “worse off” under the reforms, compared to 25 percent who said the program would be “better off.”

Sebelius says she understands the concerns of American seniors.

“They’re worried about what happens to their benefits in the future, worried about what happens to the overall stability of Medicare.”

The secretary says she “strongly” disagrees with what her immediate predecessor, former Health and Human Services secretary Mike Leavitt, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last week suggesting the changes to Medicare in the health care law merely create the “illusion” of reform.

“It does not ease cost pressures but papers over them with unsustainable price controls,” Leavitt wrote.

Sebelius argues the reforms “strengthen” Medicare, extending its solvency by 12 years through 2029.

“My view is actually supported by independent actuaries, by economists and by the Congressional Budget Office,” Sebelius said.

-Steven Portnoy

User Comments

Bad choice of words…. Does this mean we need to go to “reeducation camps” to be “reeducated” to the fact that valuing logic over peception is no longer “politcally correct?”

Posted by: CBA | August 30, 2010, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

All submit to glorious re-education camp sponsored by Kommissar Sebelius and other members of the Politburo for the greater glory of Chairman Obama.
Are these people serious? Re-education time is coming November 2nd for certain members of the Politburo.

Posted by: Stevie D | August 30, 2010, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm

Whadya know, 2000 pages of Soviet style tyranny is not popular! We need “reeducation camps” too????
Obama death care already is rotting under its own corruption.

Posted by: seidy68 | August 30, 2010, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm

I wonder if “Reeducation” includes prison sentences and asset seizures for non-compliance like the Obamacare bill does.
The idea that our initial education was in any way deficient is questionable. Like most Tea Party members, I was better educated than the majority of the general public, having actually read much of the bill in many of its iterations (more than I can say for my un-representative leftist pol Gabby Giffords).
Arrogance leads the ignorant to speculating far from reality, to suggest that we simply “don’t know enough” is to discount the millions like me who invested many hours in research for no reason than to discount the vile accusations from the likes of this administration.
Unlike the Dems, we did it without the same preconceptions that Mz. Sebelius has about “the opposition”.

Posted by: American Sharecropper | August 30, 2010, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm

Voters are holding “re-education” for politicians and their cronies on November 2nd. Watch and learn!

Posted by: Craig | August 30, 2010, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm

This is not just a poor choice of words, it’s how the governing elite think of us. It clearly conveys their s contempt for the average american who is out there working hard to generate tax dollars for the government’s overpriced union salaries, and who is wishing they could keep a little more for themselves and their kids. I think Sebelius needs re-educating, not the american public.

Posted by: AnneP | August 30, 2010, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Geez louise. Is she being payed by Rush Limbaugh to say idiotic stuff like this?

Posted by: mesquito | August 30, 2010, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Re-educated??? Now that is rich. We were never educated to begin with. Back door deals, got to pass it before we know what is in it etc etc….what a bunch of bull. I am from Kansas and you Kathy are the biggest embarrassment from this great State!

Posted by: Midwestgirl | August 30, 2010, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

When is a bribe not a bribe?
“Once people understand that [the rebate checks are] just one of the new features for Medicare beneficiaries, they become increasingly more enthusiastic,” Sebelius told ABC News.
Looks like a bribe, smells like a bribe, operates like a bribe. Guess it’s just a check in the mail. La de da.
What DON’T these fools do that they do not do unlawfully?

Posted by: JimInMT | August 30, 2010, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm

“So, we have a lot of reeducation to do,” Sebelius said.
ACTUALLY.. Obamacare is one more “Re-Distributionist” Legislation the wise citizens have judged to be “SHOVEL READY”..
Hear Us..! BURY THIS DEAD LEGISLATION
There is NOTHING you can say to “sell” this package of legislative THEFT to us.

Posted by: LightManSA | August 30, 2010, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm

Time for “reeducation” on Obamacare? Nope, Sebelius. It’s time to repeal that monstrosity, which is the first order of business after your party is shown the door at elections this fall.

Posted by: Obamacare is History | August 30, 2010, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

We need “reeducation” about Obamacare and “therapy” for our 9-11 “trauma.”
Actually, we need an elction. Soon

Posted by: mesquito | August 30, 2010, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm

I love Obama care. I truly do.

Posted by: seidy68 | August 30, 2010, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
My God, can they make it any more obvious?

Posted by: Contrairian | August 30, 2010, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm

Anyway, all health care problems are GW Bush’s fault. I still love Obama care. Warm fuzzees fill my belly…

Posted by: seidy68 | August 30, 2010, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm

Wow I haven’t heard that statement since Stalin and Mao , and Che just before they killed millions

Posted by: student of the founding fathers | August 30, 2010, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

“What’s up kitty cat? Meow meow meow”

Posted by: plainsm | August 30, 2010, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

it’s truly sad we let our country get to this!

Posted by: steve | August 30, 2010, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

why would the american public need education on the healthcare bill…THE LEGISLATORS DID NOT READ THE BILL BEFORE SIGNING IT AND NOW THEY THINK THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS STUPID FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING…THE LEGISLATORS STILL DO NOT GET IT….WE DO NOT LIKE IT AND WE UNDERSTAND IT. EDUCATE ALL YOU WANT, IT IS BAD FOR MOST PEOPLE AND FREE TO THE REST OF THE PEOPLE.

Posted by: dot | August 30, 2010, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm

The KGB used to do the same thing. Any same citizen would of course support the communist government. What, you are against the communist government?? Then, ipso facto, you must be insane since only insane people would not support communism. Here, have some thorazine, maybe some electro shock therapy perhaps??
Put a white hat on her, and Sebellius would make a great Nurse Ratched for the remoake of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.

Posted by: sunnyroberto | August 30, 2010, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

Well, that’s it…I love Big Sister!

Posted by: J.T. | August 30, 2010, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

“Reeducation” has unfortunate connotations, Ms. Sebelius, in case you didn’t know. Millions of South Vietnamese were sent to “reeducation” camps after our pullout in 1975, and many of them were never seen again. But O.K., let’s use your term. The electorate plan to “reeducate” both the Democrats in Congress and you executive department heads and unelected-and-unvetted czars come November, so don’t get too comfortable.

Posted by: Kinnison | August 30, 2010, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

These criminal federals need re-education vis-a-vis the Constitution they swore an oath to!

Posted by: Joe Average | August 30, 2010, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

I would love to hear the acceptance speach for when the Repubs take back the House and Senate…. and I would also like to thank the Left for handing us the election…without their help it would have been a close race…
Come on Novembers both of them

Posted by: Triple A | August 30, 2010, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

Comrade Sebelius has spoken “The Word”

Posted by: The analyst | August 30, 2010, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

It is absolutely unbelievable !!!! These arrogant Communists no longer feel the need for any pretense to hide the depth of their Marxist convictions.
Kathy the Commie has shown her true colors. Will America really stand by while she becomes the most powerful woman in the world? The totalitarian power that is (Unconstitutionally) vested in Commisar Sebelius is a frightening, frightening prospect.
READ THE BILL !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes | August 30, 2010, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

What’s next? “Psychiatric care” for “dissidents”?

Posted by: mesquito | August 30, 2010, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

I think it’s time the entire administration went to a reeducation camp because they haven’t learned a thing in 18 months. The lesson: The American people don’t want your communist crap.

Posted by: Jeffrey | August 30, 2010, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

Oh, GREAT! Just what we want: a member of the government talking about how we have to be “reeducated.” I’m sure there’s NOTHING to worry about from this big government using THAT term. Let’s all go back to sleep.

Posted by: Kath & Jim Fitz | August 30, 2010, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

We were never “educated” on the bill in the first place!

Posted by: HG | August 30, 2010, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

Somewhere Chairman Mao is smiling. Never would he have thought he would be quoted so gloriously by a U.S. Cabinet member, ever. So the great unwashed masses just don’t understand what’s good for them, huh? The stupid, uneducated rubes need to be re-educated? Brilliant! Yeah, that’ll translate into votes. What complete morons. Keep the unscripted talking going, Obama Administration. Please, keep talking.

Posted by: Woody | August 30, 2010, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

Government re-education starts November 2010, it is a 24 month course and America grduates in November 2012.

Posted by: Triple A | August 30, 2010, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

Sebellius needs mental health care, she just doesn’t get it!!!

Posted by: Nancy | August 30, 2010, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm

It’s always special when Sec. Sebelius gets in touch with her inner Pol Pot.

Posted by: wise rick | August 30, 2010, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

Maybe she should start with the supreme court. I believe more than 16 states have now filed suit against the new law.
Hopefully, many seniors watch 60 minutes a couple of weeks ago as one person in the administration explained how the gov. will no longer be able to afford healthcare for elderly in their last few years of life. Tax payers won’t want to pay for costly drugs with tax increases.
Well, the big bad insurance compaies did. Guess they’re not so bad now!

Posted by: clay | August 30, 2010, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

i.e., we will (continue) to re-pack your “donut hole” w/$250 cheques!

Posted by: vic | August 30, 2010, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

I was actually reeducated today. My insurance sent me a letter stating that my premium would be going up by $145 a month. When I called and asked why, they stated the new health plan the government is implementing.
Fabulous. I am not surprised.

Posted by: hatehealthcarereform | August 30, 2010, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm

my gosh!, who are these people?, really!

Posted by: vic | August 30, 2010, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

Don’t the communist Chinese also do Reeducation?

Posted by: imakebeer | August 30, 2010, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm

She needs to shut up, we have had enough lesson on coughing into your sleeve. Time to take pen to paper and tender her resignation.

Posted by: extremegop | August 30, 2010, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm

too bad you news people didn’t read the bill and report it’s content before it passed. but why should you do what you are paid to do. REPORT THE NEWS
Bias or not you should have read it.
you are shameful.

Posted by: merle | August 30, 2010, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

One could write a book on propaganda using the Obama administration as a case study.

Posted by: Cadfael | August 30, 2010, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm

Sebelius, Reid, Pelosi, Obama, and all the dems that delivered this abortion known as Obamacare are the ones that need to be re-educated.

Posted by: Blorg | August 30, 2010, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

If only a majority of Americans could regurgitate the Democrats that have set out to destroy this great nation.

Posted by: Susan | August 30, 2010, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm

No thank you Ms. Sebelius. We know too much about Obamacare. My party’s promised result dynamics of HR3950 were intentional lies perpetrated by Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid, you, President Obama and on and on. I voted for President Obama based upon his promises. This is the straw Ms. Sibelius and no, we bumpkins don’t need to be reminded what a straw is.
Good evening…

Posted by: Tina Ferrer | August 30, 2010, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm

I agree with one of the previous posters who said that the ruling elite actually DO think of the American people as a bunch of dumb rubes who need the government to hold their hands. This is what happens when we put our faith in people who have spent their entire careers in government jobs: They see everything through the narrow prism of their own little world. Worse still, they can’t even CONTEMPLATE that they might have over-reached in passing this legislation. No, it’s OUR fault. The dumb rubes. And, if they lose an election, it’s because we DIDN’T UNDERSTAND their policies — not that they didn’t work. Because they’re Progressives. They knew better than we do what’s good for us. Rrrrrright.
There are other terms for these kinds of people: Petulant Children. It’s time to take the government out of the hands of children, and put it back in the hands of adults. That is, people who won’t pin our future on fairy tale hope and change rhetoric, and will actually do something real; rather than hand our treasury over to the unions.

Posted by: Tom O | August 30, 2010, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm

FACT: Obama promised, yes boys and girls, PROMISED “you can keep your existing insurance”. Now up to a quarter of a million elderly will be FORCED to change plans. Promise Broken. FACT: this travesty was ‘sold’ as a cost saving measure, yet costs and premiums are sky rocketing every where. Seems the Insurance companies got behind this garbage so they could jack up rates even more. FACT: 500 Billion will be bled out of the medicare fund which WILL negatively impact seniors and the disabled. We have been sold a load of manure and told it was gold!

Posted by: Bill Dapille | August 30, 2010, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm

It is getting harder to find any positive comments relating to any Obama policies. I read from Left wing to right wing(ABC, NBC, CNN, AND FOX)and more and more people are disgusted and angry with all of the legislature…..I’m just saying

Posted by: Sadie | August 30, 2010, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm

“Reeducation” is code for lying.

Posted by: Nurse Ratched | August 30, 2010, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

Of course when Sebelius was KANSAS GOVERNOR, she witheld millions of dollars of FEDERALLY recieved medicare payments for services renders months even years past to facilitys all over the state some of which nearly had to file for bankrupcy all because the state of KANSAS was not able to meet its buget obligations. No one speaks of this, it never made the news but was swept under the rug like a shamed sibling or black sheep…….

Posted by: Richard | August 30, 2010, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

Seriously! This left wing twit is going to use the term “re-education” with impunity. If she’s not hounded out of her position….. but she won’t be, because the media is predominantly left-wing too. I can’t wait for November. It’s time to take the country back from the “progressive” marxist left-wing idiots who have held sway for far too long. It’s a pity we can’t vote out the media also, but I guess that’s already in process since the viewership for the MSM is in a death spiral.

Posted by: TEXman | August 30, 2010, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

November is not far away and the administration and Dems in Congress are about to get a re-education.
They will soon see what happens after treating the American public like servants, slaves, idiots and fools.
Payback will be sweet.

Posted by: Jeff in Alpharetta | August 30, 2010, 9:28 pm 9:28 pm

What a joke! As if $250 is supposed to buy Sr.’s acceptance of Obamacare. Insurers and ObamaCare are in league with each other. The State of CA just approved Health Ins. premium increases of 14 to 21% on average ONLY FOR INDIVIUAL POLICY BUYERS/HOLDERS! (appx. 800,000 of these).
Government employees, Unions, Indoctrination/Education dept. members, etc. are EXCLUDED!

Posted by: mirted | August 30, 2010, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm

What, did Commisar Sebilius swallow Bidens Brain?
Reeducation? The commies in this administration are outing themselves and coming out of the closet.

Posted by: Kelvin | August 30, 2010, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm

What part of the word NO do they not understand? We do NOT want Obamacare! NOT one bit of it!

Posted by: Pamela J | August 30, 2010, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm

Kathleen:
Read the Constitution!
The eighteen powers granted to Congress by the Constitution are as follows;
1. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
3. To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
4. To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5. To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
6. To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
7. To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
8. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
9. To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
10. To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
11. To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
12. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
13. To provide and maintain a Navy;
14. To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
15. To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
17. To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
18. To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
With the tenth amendment which states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” It is clear that Congress is in an area where the states have the power not the federal government. In simple to understand term, healthcare belongs to the individual states not the federal government.

Posted by: Sandcrab99337 | August 30, 2010, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm

Then explain why some religions are exempt from the penalty of not having insurance – like Muslims, Scientologist, Amish, Christian Scientists and Native American Indians. Christians and Jews bear the penalty.

Posted by: Gee Whiz | August 30, 2010, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm

Breaking News! I just entered the doughnut hole. My medicine for Sept. cost me $400.00. I am not impressed by that tiny @250.00 that I will supposedly get for extra coverage. Tough times-No Sale on ObamaCare.

Posted by: Lizzy s | August 30, 2010, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm

Yes indded, we need reeducation, but for liberals, not the American voters. Since liberals seem to like illegal immigration so much, let me put it this way for November:
Adios, Democrats!

Posted by: noseitall | August 30, 2010, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

It’s not a big step to 1984. The only thing that stops it is the great people of this country removing these elitists who feel so entitled to reign over us. November 2 can’t come soon enough.

Posted by: TheyComeInPeace | August 30, 2010, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

Funny, this pathetic twit speak of re-education and misinformation when she, obama, the white house staff and democrats were THE WORST OFFENDERS of misinformation on the poorly named healthcare law.
The fact is, you corrupt ignorant woman – when the American people find out how bad this thing is the re-education will be that of you and your cohorts on the way out the door on your idiotic a$$e$… and with any luck, long prison terms!

Posted by: DJH | August 30, 2010, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

She says the oldsters will like it when they get their $250 checks. How stupid do they think we are?

Posted by: Fritz | August 30, 2010, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm

Let me translate for Kathleen—ahem—-’we got lots of lying to do!’

Posted by: astralweeks | August 30, 2010, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm

Kathleen Sebelius can be the first one in line to be “re-educated”. Maybe she will actually find out what is in this 2000-page bill.

Posted by: KG1 | August 30, 2010, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm

I find it really disturbing what are supposed to be educated responsible people continue with their lies and pushing an agenda that the majority of Americans disagree with. The level of disdain they carry towards the average American is horrific. Unless of course you are in a Union or a Government employee. Do they really think we believe the garbage they are selling. No matter what party we need to elect people who will do what is right for our country and PROTECT the constitution as our law not a living document to be used for convenience.

Posted by: Sadie | August 30, 2010, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm

SO ARE WE GOING TO BE REQUIRED TO SIGN UP FOR REEDUCATION CAMPS? OK….The law is the law, i guess I’ll attend…I’ll try to reeducate as many as I can….THE KING HAS NO CLOTHES, JUST A LOVE FOR MONEY AND POWER!!!!!!!!!!Hint; you must submit yourself, otherwise he has no power or wealth, he must plow his own fields, harvest his own crops, peddle his own bike, if he has enough strength at the end of the day for recreation!!! WE ALL KNOW HE DOES, because we provide everything else for him, he asks/demands and he receives, from US(A)!!! They love the complacent!!!

Posted by: DEF | August 30, 2010, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm

If Medicare insolvency is not extended 12 years, will she cut off her hand? Her finger? Is she so confident that she will cut off her arm? Her response: “Well, there may be intervening events.” Kathleen, I thought this was a slam dunk?

Posted by: dave | August 30, 2010, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm

How about we waterboard every person that voted for or had a hand in writing that bill? And with Pigolosi, just take her for a nice boat ride around the Channel Islands. Here, old chum, take this bucket and go for a short swim… The majority of the American population didn’t want this abortion, the bulk of Congress closed their eyes, held their noses and signed without reading it, and we have a government twit saying the people have to be re-educated about the bill? Fire them all.

Posted by: Jubal Harshaw | August 30, 2010, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

Yes, we’re too stupid to understand the wonders of Obamacare so we won’t just ged education but reeducation. Perhaps once all the terrorists are out of GITMO, maybe that will be the Obamacare Reeducation Camp with free waterboarding, shackles and cages until we give up our desire to make our own health care choices.

Posted by: Chris | August 30, 2010, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

I don’t think a lack of government propaganda is the problem here. Everybody knows what disasters Britain’s national Health, Canada’s single-payer, and other government-run health rationing systems are. And remember – their bureaucracies are far more efficient than ours. They recruit from the best – we recruit from the worst.

Posted by: obamanation | August 30, 2010, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

“Now let me be clear. You all need reeducation. Change!”

Posted by: B.O. | August 30, 2010, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

If this program is so flaming great, how come CONGRESS IS EXEMPTED FROM HAVING TO PARTICIPATE? Don’t ‘re-educate’ us: prove that it is great by making all of the Government participate in it. Like showing the kid that the medicine isn’t nasty by taking a spoonful yourself.

Posted by: Jubal Harshaw | August 30, 2010, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm

Shove a bill down the throats of the American people against their will without reading it. Well see who gets reeducated…in November.

Posted by: BellTolls | August 30, 2010, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm

Are they kidding! Those of us older folks who have seen communism at work in the soviet union, Vietnam and China reel at the words “re-education”. Good luck trying to re-educate sr. citizens who know history, unlike Obama and friends who don’t seem to have a clue. Way to step in it yet again.

Posted by: Steven | August 30, 2010, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm

These self-anointed monarchs (aka dictators) in the Obama administration have yet to realize that any patriotic American with an IQ above 10 will never, ever accept these dictators attempts to turn our country into a Socialist society.
Consequently, we will aggressively fight their attempts to “transform” our country until such time as we remove each and every one of them from office, replacing them with moral, ethical, law-abiding public servants Vs the George Soros puppets currently enshrined in D.C.

Posted by: Kathleen | August 30, 2010, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

It has been my experience that when stupid people are unable sell their stupid ideas that they blame it on the people that are unwilling to accept the stupidity.
Sebelius is an ignorant person that is in charge of something that she does not have the mental capacity to understand.

Posted by: Spotlight | August 30, 2010, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm

An now we learn that even Max Baucus the chief Senator pushing this fraud on the public never read this bill. So Kathleen Sibelius, did read this bill??
The crazy part of this fraudulent legislation is that it does not make specific legislation about healthcare but instead requires reams of additional bureaucracies
to actually define what will be done. so it is even worse than Nancy Pelosi saying “we have to pass this legislation to know what is in it”.
The frightening “details” are not yet known and need to be resolved by these new entities of behind the scenes actors that will control our lives.
Lets dump this legislation and start over!

Posted by: taxedupthewazoo | August 30, 2010, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm

So are we going to have a “reeducation” czar appointed?

Posted by: Dee | August 30, 2010, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

So, we still need to get informed as to what is in the ObamaCare Law? Didn’t Obummer promise that the debate on ObamaCare would take place on C-SPAN, and be wall to wall coverage? Wouldn’t that have given us more information? Seems what Sebelius means, is they needs to find better lies to tell us.
Repeal, Replace.

Posted by: Norman56 | August 30, 2010, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm

Translation: We have to find some new lies to try to make the sheep feel this terrible bill isn’t as horrible as it really is.

Posted by: lukuj | August 30, 2010, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm

Translation: We have to find some new lies to try to make the sheep feel this terrible bill isn’t as horrible as it really is.

Posted by: lukuj | August 30, 2010, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm

Re-education is a communist term. We don’t need re-education. She needs to be fired as the card carrying communist evil monster she really is. (communist=monster)

Posted by: TomS | August 30, 2010, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

I’m from Kansas and we suffered under 6 years of Sebelius as governor. She is a dim bulb and a disaster. We were so glad that she left. Have you ever heard one of her speeches…..me either, you’re asleep 4 minutes into one. She was Obamas what, 6th choice? now u see why.

Posted by: amy | August 30, 2010, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

If the press had actually done anything approaching actual journalism the approval would be under 10%.
I’d love to see this woman put in a position where she’d have to answer questions about what’s in the bill – she’s the one who needs an education.

Posted by: AlbertG | August 30, 2010, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

Have no fear, congress critters and Obumbler admenstruation miscreants. Your first re-education seminar is scheduled to start in early November. Your re-education will be complete and you’ll receive your exit diplomas in November 2012. After that, you’ll never be heard from again.
That’s a promise.

Posted by: Max17 | August 30, 2010, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

I remember that picture of Sebelius during a hearing with a bandage covering an open wound and holding a pen as if it were a cigarette. Conservatives look polished and clean cut. Liberals look beat up and ragged, a reflection of tension in their phony lives. Sebelius fits the bill.

Posted by: ADM | August 30, 2010, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

She wants to re-educate us. That’s like saying “the beatings will continue unti morale improves.” I think she, her boss and the others with liberal blinders will get one hell of an education in a couple months.

Posted by: Tom | August 30, 2010, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm

“Reeducation”. She actually used the term “reeducation”.
November can’t come soon enough.

Posted by: Benson | August 30, 2010, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm

Good luck. We had our first Congressional candidate debate here in PA-3 and the seniors on hand are thoroughly PO’d. They hooted and ridiculed our Democrat Congresscritter and they sure as hell don’t believe that cutting $500 billion from Medicare is going to somehow make it “stronger”.

Posted by: DocinPA | August 30, 2010, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm

Good luck. We had our first Congressional candidate debate here in PA-3 and the seniors on hand are thoroughly PO’d. They hooted and ridiculed our Democrat Congresscritter and they sure as hell don’t believe that cutting $500 billion from Medicare is going to somehow make it “stronger”.

Posted by: DocinPA | August 30, 2010, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm

you know, whenever a government starts to talk about the opposition in terms of misinformation (‘dezinformatsiya’) and about the people in terms of reeducation, it’s time to sit up and take note. Chase these dangerous people out of DC come November and 2012!

Posted by: So Do They Call Me A Dissident Now in Europe? | August 30, 2010, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm

Re-education. Right out of the old communist playbook.

Posted by: Ken | August 30, 2010, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

Tell ya what! You open your reeducation camps and we’ll bring out the guillotines again. Fair Trade! Off with their heads.

Posted by: DeputyMarshal | August 30, 2010, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm

Hey Sebelius we know the Death Care is a piece of garbage. Take your brainwashing to North Korea. You and the Manchurian candidate Otraitor can stay there. I am sure you would fit in nicely.

Posted by: Harley2002 | August 30, 2010, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

The picture you have of the GMA hosts is not at all flattering. It makes me want to watch another morning show.

Posted by: Harry | August 30, 2010, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

And if the administration can’t “reeducate” these senior citizen, then what? Do these people then go before the “Death Panel” and then off to the death camp?

Posted by: JMcCarthy | August 30, 2010, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

I do not think the people who will get rebate checks are the ones who don’t like Obama Care. I think it is the people who have to pay for them that don’t like it!
Amazing don’t you think, how their answer to anone who does not like Obama Care is “reeducation”.
The Obama administration never misses a chance to tell us how stupid they think the American people are!
When will they figure out that people just don’t like this law!

Posted by: Heather | August 30, 2010, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm

The educational process should be given to the House and senate. It would probably be the first time theyve read it. They might back the people of America who dont want it.

Posted by: Bob K | August 30, 2010, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

YES, MORE PROPAGANDA IS NEEDED.
No one understands the plan. The reports of higher rates, doctors refusing to see medicaid patients etc. are all just lies. Just like everything the president does, this plan was and is brilliant, we just need to understand how brilliant it is.

Posted by: Greg Buls | August 30, 2010, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm

Can you say Stalin?
Modern day Liberals are the Big Brother

Posted by: AmericanJim | August 30, 2010, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

You can bet this “reeducation” will have nothing to do with the truth about the Obama healthcare bill passed months ago. They lied before passge. They formulated misspeak and spin to fool everyone into thinking it might be something good for the country. Then they, the Imam’s administration, found out that the people of the United States actually think for themselves. The people of the United States can actually read about and do research into government programs that might affect their lives. The people of the United States can actually make up their own minds and know when the government is trying to shove a bill down their throats against their will. Now the Imam and his administration feel they have been “found out” by an electorate that is not as dumb as the Imam thought so they have to “reeducate” us. Sounds a lot like Soviet gulags or cummunist reeducation camps. You can bet there will be lots and lots of speeches by the minions of the Imam telling us how good his healthcare is for us regardless of the costs, which are just Republican exaggerations. Think of Joe Biden telling us how many jobs the Imam has saved and how well the “recovery” is going this summer.

Posted by: kimdi01 | August 30, 2010, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm

If she can sell the worst piece of legislation ever passed by Congress she can sell snow to Eskimos. Obamacare is an unmangeable piece of socialist crap. If its implemented the body count will make any war we fought seem bloodless.

Posted by: Flyoverman | August 30, 2010, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

Don’t you mean indoctrinate??

Posted by: norinos | August 30, 2010, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

Folks. If this bill were so ‘great’ as she says, there would have been no back room deals. The bill would have sold itself based on its merits. I can see November from my house!

Posted by: Joe | August 30, 2010, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm

In their efforts to control Americans these clowns have lost control of the country. How stupid are these obama clowns really.

Posted by: tymtrvlr | August 30, 2010, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

LMBO @ the idiot’s comment regarding senior citizens. If anyone understands the gravity of this horrible bill, it is seniors. Just when you think this administration can’t make anymore really stupid comments up pops one of the idiotsticks.

Posted by: Rowwdy | August 30, 2010, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm

God’s will it’s the majority of seniors..

Posted by: norinos | August 30, 2010, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

Would this be the same Kathleen Sebelius who last year insisted the “swine flu” was a pandemic of epic proportions and, when the faux shortage of vaccines didn’t send the sheeple running to get vaccinated, hinted that immunization would become compulsory?
WHO needs to be reeducated, Kathy?

Posted by: Al | August 30, 2010, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

No Ms. Sebelius,
Unlike the current Democratic congress, some of us actually read the bill and understand exactly how much it ruins our personal and economic freedom.
We know exactly how much it stinks and have absolutely no confidence in your ability to complete the rulemaking as mandated by the bill.
You ma’am are a major reason why the economy is slow and unemployment is high. While you fiddle with the rules, business has no choice but to wait on the sidelines before deciding what their total payroll costs will be.
Perhaps your “re-education” includes putting keeping us medicated on Valium while teaching us how the greatness of Obamacare, all the while robbing our pockets through high taxes. Only then would we find it a good idea.

Posted by: Andrew | August 30, 2010, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

Re-education? That must mean one of two things: the bill has changed since it passed earlier this year and we need to be told what provisions have changed, or the education the public has been getting from Paul Ryan/others who have read the bill doesn’t match the promises/propaganda we heard in the Health Care speeches and debates.

Posted by: Val631 | August 30, 2010, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm

I wondered when the wicked witch of the west would resurface! Anyone have a bucket of water handy?

Posted by: arg2015153 | August 30, 2010, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm

FIRST EXPlain the huge tax increase on business and indivisuals first. Moving insurance to employee income subject ot income; SS and other taxes. Business now loose health insurance costs as an expense.
To get into one of the new government programs one has to be uninsured for 6 monthsjsut the opposite of what we were told.

Posted by: JOHN MONTE | August 30, 2010, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

“Re-education? That must mean one of two things: the bill has changed since it passed earlier this year and we need to be told what provisions have changed, or the education the public has been getting from Paul Ryan/others who have read the bill doesn’t match the promises/propaganda we heard in the Health Care speeches and debates”
Me dost think thou protest too much
-K.Sebelius

Posted by: norinos | August 30, 2010, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

This is a load of crap from a load of crappy government employees.

Posted by: Tommy | August 30, 2010, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

I support the health care act. I suffer from a disorder that results in an inability to concentrate.I read that they/Obama will help me when I get to the concentration camp they are preparing for me. Thank You, Obama

Posted by: tim nettekoven | August 30, 2010, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm

Calling Dr. Howard,Dr. Fine Dr. Howard. Please report to White House surgery room. “STAT”

Posted by: tom | August 30, 2010, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm

bad news

Posted by: melancholy | August 30, 2010, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm

So “misinformation” is now defined as something the Administration disagrees with?

Posted by: average_american | August 30, 2010, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

Where do these traitors plan to hide when the sleeping giant wakes up.
JWD

Posted by: James Duck | August 30, 2010, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

Remember when we were told we would understand the bill after it passed.
Still Waiting for your brilliant insight Congressman Pelosi. Have you had time to read the bill yet.
By the way have you and your family signed up for this great deal you are forcing on us.

Posted by: Silversalmon | August 30, 2010, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm

Elite power lords believe that when the rabble gets too stirred up, it is simply a matter of resetting the template. They need to send us for reprogramming. Once the brains have been cleansed in re-education camps, a new dawn will come, and the glorious lords will shine their countenance on the masses once again.

Posted by: ZipZap | August 30, 2010, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm

There is already a general 10 point lead in favor of Republicans, I would LOVE it if people would start informing everyone what is in the health care bill. lol maybe we can make it a 20 or 30 point lead and end up with a total wipe and the end of Liberalism/Progressivism.

Posted by: Nik | August 30, 2010, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm

LOL…a lot of re-educating to do? Our representatives don’t even know what’s in it! These people in DC are just plain jack @sses, there is no kind way to say it….

Posted by: tampamom25 | August 30, 2010, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm

This announcement seems like a replay of a Class B Movie about Communism where people are sent to “Re-education” Camps to learn the Party way of doing business. Those that pass are allowed to continue their ugly dull life as a drone for the State but those that don’t knuckle under disappear, never to be heard from agian. Who says that those at the helm are not Marxists!

Posted by: JerryinTampa | August 30, 2010, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

“Re-deducation” should begin with the dimwitted Senators and Reps that voted in favor of this tyranical legislation. May God have mercy on us and grant us the opportunity to end the tyranny inflicted on us by our elected representatives and their appointed administrators.

Posted by: Mitch Just North of the Kansas Line | August 30, 2010, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm

I’m curious about how much it costs to send out 1 million checks for $250. 250,000,000 plus a small (uhum) administrative fee.

Posted by: darren hart | August 30, 2010, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

The re-education needs to be for Congress and the other two branches. They need to learn what limited government by the people and for the people means.

Posted by: Rob in Katy | August 30, 2010, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm

Sebelius: “You’re getting sleepy; sleepy, sleeepy….” “You’re asleep! And you’re completely under my control! Now repeat after me…I like Obamacare…I like Obamacare…I want Obamacare…I want Obamacare…. Now, when I snap my fingers, you’ll wake up, and you won’t recall anything except how much you want and like Obamacare”!

Posted by: Guest | August 30, 2010, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

Maybe Ms. Sibelius should read the bill. Rather, she just somehow ‘knows’ in her ignorance that we need ‘reeducation’ in order to be coerced into agreeing with her arrogantly political and ignorant positions.
The facts are that country after country that have state run health care systems have longer wait times for appointments, more crowded facilities, and lower survival rates for cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases. They also have chronic cost overruns (like our post office and other big government bureaucracies), and save money not by minimizing inefficient overhead and bureaucracy, but by cutting benefits.
I recommend that Ms. Sebelius, and anyone else interested in facts and reality use this thing called the internet and Google ‘cancer survival rates by country,’ and ‘heart disease survival rates by country’. She and UK health care loving Medicare chief Donald Berwick should also Google ‘UK health care overcrowding’.
But wait. This isn’t really about facts and information, is it? Reeducation is an effort to convince you that facts should be ignored. Rather, it is Ms. Sebelius and her ilk who should be ignored.

Posted by: DanAustin | August 30, 2010, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm

I’ve read this article twice just to make sure that I’m not missing something here, and I’m not. This article is written apparently to make the IMPRESSION that we need re-education but other than the $250 bribe, there’s not a single mention of any fact or tidbit of info or even a hint of what new knowledge that we are suppose to gain concerning this creepy bill. How about it Steven Portnoy? Did I miss something?

Posted by: John | August 30, 2010, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

Re-educate my butt! What do we need to know that we already are unaware of? That we are “all” going to be forced to have health “insurance”? How about this: Go “re-educate” yourselves on how health insurance works! I pay some schmuck some excessive amount per month on the possibility that I may need to see a doctor at some point in the future for some as of yet “unforeseen” reason. He takes my money, and the money of a few thousand other people. Then when I need “care”, he pays the hospital some excessive sum that’s been hyper-inflated (because an insurance company can ALWAYS afford to pay more than you or I can) to cover the cost of 20+ people who didn’t pay anything for their care. And now you want the federal government to be an insurance provider too? Gosh, I bet the average insurance company can’t afford to pay more for services than an entity that PRINTS MONEY!!! So now not only can I not pay for my own care because insurance companies have priced me out of the ability to pay out of my own pocket, but the insurance companies can’t afford to either and all go broke…Wonder what will happen to the price of Obamacare per month when all of it’s private competitors go belly up? Same thing that happens when any entity has a MONOPOLY…they increase prices as they choose. And due to the fact that it will be a federal mandate to have insurance…You can’t bet your buns that the fed will raise your rates without reason, and possibly without warning on a yearly (if not monthly) basis!!!
-Oz

Posted by: Ozlanthos | August 30, 2010, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

We are coming for you in November you stinking Marxists. This horrible healthcare bill will be defunded for two years and then repealed when replace the Marxist in the White House in 2012.

Posted by: Ranger_Ric | August 30, 2010, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm

I wonder if Secretary Sebelius has recently traveled in North Korea, China, on the former Soviet Union? Maybe she went to Cuba or Iran. She must have gone somewhere because she is not smart enough to know what the word “reeducation” means.

Posted by: jimonthebeach | August 30, 2010, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

Sounds like the old soviet Union or current day China with re edu.centers
There is no doubt where they get their
ideas from.

Posted by: tomd | August 30, 2010, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

Sebelius is the one that needs a “Reeducation.” What a twit! We are seeing, literally…absolute power currupting absolutely!

Posted by: Buford | August 30, 2010, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

Another teachable moment for the Vacationer in Chief and his pals. No doubt a beer summit is imminent. I don’t need to be re-educated; I need you to quit spending my money and get the heck out of my life.

Posted by: CodeWarrior | August 30, 2010, 11:33 pm 11:33 pm

When is she scheduled to take her first course on the subject??

Posted by: arj190 | August 30, 2010, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

When I heard the word “reeducation”, I thought about “1984″ and all the lovely euphemisms used for total brainwashing. I never thought I would miss the Bush years but I do. At least, he never tried to “reeducate” us. Does she have any idea how this sounds? What universe do they live in? Apparently, Obama and his crew think we’re all ignorant gits that have to be shown “the way” (their way). I am truly angry at this hypocrisy and “elitism” gone mad.

Posted by: CAF | August 30, 2010, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Posted by: BellTolls | August 30, 2010, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

“Re-education” is the term the commies used after the fall of Saigon. Amazing how the ‘progressive proliteriate’ manages to use socialist terms.

Posted by: j2 | August 30, 2010, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Posted by: BellTolls | August 30, 2010, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

Duh…like the plan was going to reduce costs?
Duh….never have to change your plan… Double Duh….

Posted by: desert3030 | August 30, 2010, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

The “re-education” will start on November 2nd!
Washington & Odumbo are going to be surprised
with what they will learn…

Posted by: Htz | August 30, 2010, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan

Posted by: BellTolls | August 30, 2010, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm

Can I just eat my waffle? ~ Barack Obama

Posted by: BellTolls | August 30, 2010, 11:59 pm 11:59 pm

We’re gonna re-educate nurse Sebellius and all the reds come November.

Posted by: James Hansen | August 31, 2010, 12:02 am 12:02 am

Stalin had re-education camps, so did Mao and the Commie leaders of Vietnam and Cambodia–hand in glove with their killing fields.
Obama’s true colors are showing now.
Impeach Obama.

Posted by: JCM-51 | August 31, 2010, 12:03 am 12:03 am

ROFLMAO, they really do think all of us are stupid.
Hurry up November, get here so we can start voting these socialists out of office.

Posted by: LoveMontana | August 31, 2010, 12:04 am 12:04 am

Oh and lest I forget, ABC News who helped elect this messiah has been paying for their attempt at reeducating America in their falling poll ratings. You’ll continue to pay so long as you are a tool of the Reds.
Maybe Obama will bring chairman Anita Dunn back to reeducated us about Obamacare

Posted by: James Hansen | August 31, 2010, 12:10 am 12:10 am

“Re-education” is code for brainwash, just as “leveling the playing field” is code for ‘From those based on ability, to those based on need.’
Karl would love this Leftist stuff.

Posted by: Cogito | August 31, 2010, 12:15 am 12:15 am

How about a show of hands in Congress? Who’s finally gotten around to reading it?

Posted by: Greg | August 31, 2010, 12:15 am 12:15 am

I want to appeal to all the seniors out there..I am limbing it (as in, out on a limb..)..remember how free you were as a boy/girl? Help us get that back. Please.

Posted by: norinos | August 31, 2010, 12:15 am 12:15 am

Re-education YES! BUT under the New Republican Controlled Congress.

Posted by: Sebastiian Woof | August 31, 2010, 12:20 am 12:20 am

Yes Ms. Sebelius, this Kansan is going to do my part to re-educate you and your corrupt thug pals in November. You all should be ashamed of yourself. Do what the smart ones are doing now, get out of that Administration while you can.

Posted by: Obamaisanamateur | August 31, 2010, 12:24 am 12:24 am

Sibelius the moron has spoken. Any questions?

Posted by: Phillips | August 31, 2010, 12:25 am 12:25 am

I am 52 & absolutely refuse to comply w/the mandate. Nor will I pay their Fine/Tax. If our gallant Boys’n'Girls can risk their lives defending freedom on the battlefield, then I am willing to forego ALL MEDICAL CARE until this is repealed. I expect, at best, 24months of life w/out my meds. So. Be. It.
Give me Liberty… or Give me Death.

Posted by: CatHerder | August 31, 2010, 12:27 am 12:27 am

That’s right, we’re too stupid to figure it out…

Posted by: IraqVet | August 31, 2010, 12:36 am 12:36 am

“As of Monday, one million seniors have received $250 rebate checks to help them fill the “donut hole” in Medicare’s prescription drug coverage”–actually they were given $250 checks in an attempt to get them to forget that Obamacare takes away their Medicare Advantage programs, which were very popular w/the elderly. Are they going to forget that? I hope not and I hope they help vote out those who voted for the bill…

Posted by: clara | August 31, 2010, 12:38 am 12:38 am

Kommissar Sebelius doesn’t need to educate me. She needs the education and she will get one this November.

Posted by: stupid citizen | August 31, 2010, 12:39 am 12:39 am

I’m 59 years old, and I cannot remember in my lifetime a bigger bunch of arrogant, elitist, out of touch morons that think THEY know what’s better for us than we do. Can they get any stupider? REALLY?!
Good Lord, Nov can’t get here soon enough, then these inept buffoons will know what re-education is…

Posted by: LarGint | August 31, 2010, 12:47 am 12:47 am

@ midwestgirl: you have to remember, Toto and Kathy are not in Kansas anymore.

Posted by: Grumpy | August 31, 2010, 12:54 am 12:54 am

“misinformation” my hind foot…You do not have read more than a few pages of this monster to know that the whole concept is flawed…covering 50 million more people with less money and fewer doctors will not result in a cost “savings”…and there are so many other fantasy “facts” and assumptions that are totally unrealistic that no sane person would want to sign on to this disaster.

Posted by: ringmaster76120 | August 31, 2010, 12:54 am 12:54 am

Congress should set the reeducation example. Let them be given a reading comprehension test. They can each separately read the healthcare bill they passed, and describe in their own words the most relevant points. Those who voted against the bill are excused from this assignment.

Posted by: picomanning | August 31, 2010, 12:59 am 12:59 am

After the economy collapses, leaders of each neighborhood militia can share information on the whereabouts of those responsible for the American economic collapse. Then when found these criminals can be reeducated as those gangs deem fair.

Posted by: picomanning | August 31, 2010, 1:03 am 1:03 am

REeducation=FEMA CAMPS!!. MIAC REPORT.
veterans are first in line.

Posted by: spc T | August 31, 2010, 1:05 am 1:05 am

WOW. I am so glad the president and his lackies are planning to “re-educate” me on his health care bill. Does that mean that they have actually read the bill??????!!!

Posted by: Daniel DeLong | August 31, 2010, 1:07 am 1:07 am

When the bourgeois left and their weaker minded acolytes started using “politically correct” as a catch phrase back in the 80s, at first I thought it was because they were ignorant of the freight that particular phrase carried, especially among those who were oppressed by Mao and his followers. I was further shocked when I realized that it was openly used without so much as a wink to the camera by those engaging in academic purges of political enemies. I attributed its use to the ignorance of a sheltered parochial mind. And maybe it was ignorance and perhaps a cultural tin ear, not to limit that phrase to lampooning the left, but these were indeed committed academic leftists, essentially accusing themselves of imitating the worst excesses of Southeast Asian leftist tyrants, if bloodlessly.
But here we go again with more from the Kim Il-Sung playbook. “Re-education” as a concept has no place in American public life. That term has a monstrous pedigree. The very idea that someone in government (however marginal her intellect) should toss it off in a casual way – in reference to action taken against her opponents – is utterly sickening. Being shuttled off to labor camps in the freezing winter until your political lessons take hold is the correct connotation for that term.
Surely this imbecile Sibelius cannot mean to imply that those who oppose mindless interference in private decisions by talentless government hacks should be shipped off like so many cattle? And yet…

Posted by: John M | August 31, 2010, 1:07 am 1:07 am

No sweetie, it’s YOU that will need to be re-educated when osamacare is repealed. By then, you and your ilk will be sufficiently neutered and rendered irrelevant. You work for US, not the other way around.

Posted by: Martifr | August 31, 2010, 1:15 am 1:15 am

Debate! What debate? I followed the Obamacare fiasco and I con’t recall there ever being any debate over the contents of the bill. In fact, if I recall correctly not one senator or congressperson had read the bill before it was passed. So, Ms. Sebelius is correct…we need to start educating on this bill. The first round of education will begin in November of this year and then our elected representatives (and professional bureaucrats such as Ms. Sebelius) will be educated on the issue of passing legislation that the public does not want and that the elected representatives do not read before passing.

Posted by: jeff gerber | August 31, 2010, 1:22 am 1:22 am

WE THE PEOPLE Are going to Hammer and to Repeal You seBelle and your health reap off this Nov-2nd, and that’s the best reeducation process you are going to find and have it for your self. It happens only once that you found the votes of the freeloaders and most of US, WE THE PEOPLE watched on the side line you spoiling the party. A lie is a lie and you can’t lie anymore. You can go to Hell’s kitchen with your reeducation and try the soup there too.

Posted by: WE THE HAMMER ....I mean THE PEOPLE | August 31, 2010, 1:39 am 1:39 am

re-education = brainwashing

Posted by: bengali | August 31, 2010, 1:40 am 1:40 am

Yes, I agree. Its time for Sebelius to get re-educated on Obamacare, especially since she misunderstood it so badly the first time around. But what’s really disappointing is she’s wasted all this time when she could have made an effort to re-educate herself. Pride is tough indeed.

Posted by: Duude | August 31, 2010, 1:59 am 1:59 am

Will Uuoogo cha cha Chevez be our “principal” at this here re-education camp?

Posted by: Lusty Infant | August 31, 2010, 2:00 am 2:00 am

I’m buying shrimp, Cmon!

Posted by: Scrumptious_Lad | August 31, 2010, 2:04 am 2:04 am

The Obama administration needs to be “reeducated” on the impact of their hideous legislation.
Let’s start with the cost of this legislation on small businesses and then we can address the wisdom of allowing the fed to tell us we must (under penalty of law) purchase specific products from the private sector as a condition of living in this country.
After we’re through, we can reeducate them on the fact that the constitution exists to place limits on the power of government.

Posted by: Dale | August 31, 2010, 2:09 am 2:09 am

Let’s just hand out $250 checks to everyone ahead of the election, maybe that’ll work! Never mind that it’s coming out of the taxpayer’s pocket and taxes are being raised across the board to compensate… Anyone who falls for this is a complete and utter moron.
Obamacare does nothing but attempt to redestribute a finite (and shrinking) amount of healthcare to a larger number of people. The end result is loss of efficiency and LESS people served, especially middle-class taxpayers because their healthcare is being taken away and handed to illegals and poor people. This is obviously not a solution. What we actually need is a reduction in the cost of healthcare through tort / liability reform, and an increase in supply through subsidization of nursing and medical schools. Only when we get more healthcare will more people be taken care of.
Obamacare will, in the short term, pull more and more people away from private insurance (hugely raising costs for us in the process – it’s already happening), while spending MORE Of our money so non-taxpayers can compete with us for what little healthcare there is. In the long term it will mean the total collapse of private insurance and a takeover by the government, with the inevitable massive waste and rationing you see in some other countries (Britain and Canada have already admitted failure and are looking at possibly privatizing somewhat). Again, the answer is not to steal what little healthcare we have, the answer is to produce more healthcare.

Posted by: TJP | August 31, 2010, 2:18 am 2:18 am

Yeah, yeah… we all need to spend some time in Room 101, being reeducated.
Seriously, the scorn that progressives feel for us bitter clingers is not only insulting, but it’s baffling. Our ruling class, those who would herd us around like sheep, are completely incompetent, and everybody knows it. It’s about time that lefties stopped putting on airs of intellectual and moral superiority.

Posted by: STB | August 31, 2010, 2:43 am 2:43 am

Reeducation? First we need to educate the senators and congressmen who never read the health care bill what they voted on.

Posted by: C Tinnin | August 31, 2010, 2:52 am 2:52 am

Wow, be sure to duck and stay there, because the BS is flying like crazy from the White House.
Re-educate this, Kathleen…
Recovery summer needs to go back to rehab, and November is the intervention.

Posted by: b kaye | August 31, 2010, 3:25 am 3:25 am

I have a question? With the unemployement rate being so high why are we enacting all these new taxes that not too many people seem to understand under this new “reform”. Right now so many small businesses are making do with what they have or making cuts to prepare for this. Just seems that if we actually wanted to encourage job growth maybe we shouldn’t be upping taxes. To say we can’t afford tax cuts that they have to be paid for some how well may be Washington should learn to do with less instead of hard working Americans. How about cutting goverment waste and earmarks before asking us for more money.

Posted by: Jess Griffith | August 31, 2010, 3:57 am 3:57 am

THERE’S a commie buzzword for ya. Anyone NOW have any doubts what kind of obommunist administration we have?

Posted by: Ursus Indomitus | August 31, 2010, 4:16 am 4:16 am

Ms. Sebelius is a wretched liar. And what contempt she shows the people. Seniors will get a check for $250.00? She spends that much on lunch – and then expenses it to us. The people want freedom, and it’s not going to be sold for $250.00 or any amount. We don’t want to go hat in hand to some panel who tells us what we can and can’t have or do. We not only hate the health plan for its anti-freedom, anti-research character — we want it repealed. We also want FDA rolled back in its powers. Imagine where computer electronics would be today if they’d been developed under government supervision. And while we’re at it — we don’t want FCC control of the internet. Sebelius and all the rest of the collectivist totalitarians should understand this is America. We love freedom. Get off our backs. Get your hands out of our pockets. And shut the hell up.

Posted by: rod | August 31, 2010, 4:44 am 4:44 am

Actually it is you Sebalious and Obama who need to be sent to Re-education camp and that will be happening in NOVEMBER!!!! SHORTLY THEREAFTER Obama care which was illegally RAMMED THROUGH CONGRESS WILL BE REPEALED!!!!

Posted by: canyoudoanybetter | August 31, 2010, 4:45 am 4:45 am

Delusionary fool, this Sebelius. She fits the typical prototype like Napolitano and the rest of the Harpies. Herr Komrade, you will report to the re-education center at Stalag DC next week to set your mind straight. Americans just aren’t thinking straight, time for more oppression. Vote these idiots out.

Posted by: bahmi | August 31, 2010, 4:48 am 4:48 am

Funny how this administration seems to naturally fall back on their socialist/communist view of the world to explain their positions and solutions to their self inflicted problems.

Posted by: backliner | August 31, 2010, 5:07 am 5:07 am

Reeducation? This is the mentality of the administration if office, this is why they all must go otherwise we will loose more of our freedoms.

Posted by: Marco | August 31, 2010, 5:08 am 5:08 am

This administration treats “we the people” like morons. Their agenda is to rule over a bunch of morons that depend on big government for every aspect of their lives. That is the “death panel” – death of our freedoms. Of course there is a reason for Progressives to think of “we the people” as morons – who on earth would have elected Barack Obama in the first place. Thanks fellow Americans.

Posted by: RAltiere | August 31, 2010, 5:45 am 5:45 am

Reeducation? Will they put stars of david’s on our clothing and load us into boxcars to send us to these centers to become reeducated?

Posted by: John Morgan | August 31, 2010, 5:46 am 5:46 am

You can keep your reeducation Ms. Sebilius. I know all I need to know. No Thank you.

Posted by: juls | August 31, 2010, 5:59 am 5:59 am

What’s there to know? IT WILL SAVE US LOTS OF MONEY AND EVERYONE WILL NOW HAVE HEALTH CARE INSURANCE EXCEPT ILLEGAL ALIENS, RIGHT? Oh you mean, THOSE ARE ALL DEMOCRAT LIES? STOP LYING TO THE PEOPLE DEMOCRATS!!!!!!

Posted by: sailordude | August 31, 2010, 6:16 am 6:16 am

Apparently, the fact that few to none read the CrapCare bill before they voted for it, Sebelius’ idea is entirely misplaced. It is not we the people who don’t understand this mess, nor who made the mess in the first place.
Sebelius should abandon her social-justice Marxist KoolAid and resign. She’d be doing everyone a great big favor if she just went away this November along with Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats and let the American people toss their terrible work out afterward.

Posted by: AmericanCitizen | August 31, 2010, 6:18 am 6:18 am

Off to the gulag for re-education. I reject it. The Democrats are facists.

Posted by: Jack Coyote | August 31, 2010, 6:22 am 6:22 am

The first newsletter I received from my insurer after CrapCare passed, it included a paragraph “thanking” Nancy Pelosi (for CrapCare only the newsleter didn’t call it that, they wrote about Pelosi as if she was the Fairy Godmother).
I knew all was lost when I read that. The insurers either have their hands tied (not likely) or they’re very happy to be able to do business with the Democrats. That means, we the insured are the losers.
America, please vote these terrible people out of office this Fall and let’s start restoring this nation to decency. Sebelius and Pelosi are the marxist social-justice types among the Cafeteria Catholics (Leftwingers who claim to be Catholic but who radicalize Christianity to such a point that it no longer associates with Christianity but assumes a Marxist political movement).
Even the Pope deems Marxism antithetical to Christianity. And says that the social justice movement is “demonic”.

Posted by: AmericanCitizen | August 31, 2010, 6:23 am 6:23 am

this is the broad who was showing us how to caugh into our arms to avoid the swine flu,,this chic is a swine..do we really need these over paid, usless czars and politicians to stick they long noses into our daily lives…NOVEMBER IS COMING,VOTE THEM ALL OUT

Posted by: william sadler | August 31, 2010, 6:27 am 6:27 am

And, the CrapCare legislation DOES provide public funding of abortions.
So there goes Sebelius’ credibility as a Catholic. Same as to Pelosi. And many other Democrats who claim to be Catholics and yet who voted for this disaster of a legislation.
Obama says he’s “a Christian” and yet he’s deemed “the most ardent supporter of abortion and partial-birth abortion” in the SEnate (when he was in the Senate) due to his voting record. The man is an abortion-fevered hack, all abortion, all the time, more of it, more here, there, partial-birth, hey, more of that abortion.
These people are not Christians. They’re not people of faith and it does not matter how many times they declare themselves so in public, they’re liars.

Posted by: AmericanCitizen | August 31, 2010, 6:27 am 6:27 am

YES BY all means lets discuss obama care and how it will destroy our health care system,,,these harvard nit wits keep comparing us to canada and france,,canada has a population of 30 million, we are 300 million plus, please tell me my liberal democrat enemies,,, how can we give free health care,who will pay for it,,we are broke, our kids and grand kids will be broke before they are out of the womb…jesus

Posted by: william sadler | August 31, 2010, 6:30 am 6:30 am

obama is a failure, maybe he was a great community organizer, and if sounding good qualified one to run for president, then I guess Mario Cuomo or
Rush Limbaugh will be president one day. Its what you say, not how one sounds saying it,,i am tired of hearing this guy, obama..Let him play golf, ride his girls bike, do whatever a community organized from chicago does,but he is destroying our economy, causing hate and division in our country…NOVEMBER IS COMING, VOTE THESE FRAUDS OUT OF OFFICE, AND THE CZARS WILL FOLLOW THEM OUT

Posted by: william sadler | August 31, 2010, 6:33 am 6:33 am

It would be incredibly satisfying to see Pelosi, Sebelius, Axelrod, Anita Dunn, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Bob Bauer and a number of others responsible for this disaster of legislation in jail cells. Incredibly satisfying to see them behind bars. And remaining there for a long, long time.
The American people have been used, abused and hideously harassed and harmed by this bunch. They do not deserve any further understanding or patience from this nation, but judgement.

Posted by: AmericanCitizen | August 31, 2010, 6:34 am 6:34 am

Hey Sebelius-ZIP IT! If she walked up to me and said one word about healthcare, I would kick her in the shin!

Posted by: CMS | August 31, 2010, 6:45 am 6:45 am

Will the Obama dictatorship be sending us to re-education camps to learn the glories of this health care bill? What kinds of punishment will they use on us to get us to like it? Will the health care bill cover injuries sustained in the upcoming civil war? The threats from these liberal fascists who are instituting Stalinist / Marxist principles need to be taken seriously as an internal threat of terror. Sebelius is one of those threatening domestic enemies that some are sworn to defend us against.

Posted by: Bob | August 31, 2010, 6:49 am 6:49 am

sunnyroberto stated “Put a white hat on her, and Sebellius would make a great Nurse Ratched for the remake of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.” I totally see the resemblance!! LMAO And Obama is the janitor!

Posted by: CMS | August 31, 2010, 6:49 am 6:49 am

Just from watch the man on TV yesterday gives one the impression BO does not care about the USA or it people.

Posted by: Gunner | August 31, 2010, 6:53 am 6:53 am

And he loved big brother!

Posted by: Mac | August 31, 2010, 6:53 am 6:53 am

After being told by Queen Nancy that we have to pass this bill before we’re told what’s in it, I think it’s technically education, not re-education and it should start with how this bill is un-Constitutional. It gives powers to the executive branch never intended, removes states rights, violates privacy, and makes the legislature a pawn of the
president . There isn’t a lot more I need to learn from this pack of liars. When you admire socialist principles like this administration, it’s not surprising to hear the “re-education” foot in mouth terms applied. How stupid are these people?

Posted by: Beenaroundyaknow | August 31, 2010, 7:03 am 7:03 am

The wicked witch of the east doth lie!

Posted by: John M | August 31, 2010, 7:04 am 7:04 am

I don’t need a “re-education” on ObamaCare!!!!! I already know that it has caused:
* My in-laws on Medicaid/Medicare to suddenly go from paying $0/month for premiums to $800/month for premiums out of their SS Disability income. My MIL is rushing to have surgery she needs, my FIL needs a tumor removed and may not be able to get it done now.
And then, too, I wait in dread for the Gov’t to eventually convince everyone through Sebelius’ “re-education” to be brainwashed into getting on ObamaCare, gov’t-dependent, and then drive private insurers out of business. When that happens, my disabled husband will likely lose his “elective” procedure, a Baclofen pump that helps him get out of bed in the morning. My husband is disabled. We’re just 31 and 30 years old. We don’t want ObamaCare to ruin our lives!!!
I also fear for my parents. My mom is in good health at the moment, but what if, when she reaches her 80s, her care becomes too “expensive” for Uncle Sam? And what if they determine my dad doesn’t need heart surgery because he’s “too overweight?”
ObamaCare will cause DEATH for our nation. The Panel will decide who gets to live and who has to die. This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!! No, we don’t need no “re-education!” We need an ELIMINATION of ObamaCare!

Posted by: Christina | August 31, 2010, 7:10 am 7:10 am

Obviously, she misspoke. I’m sure that, in hindsight, she realizes that”Re-education” was a bad choice of words.
INTERNMENT CAMP is probably what she meant to say. Or, perhaps she was thinking of those PSYCHATRIC FASCILITIES that the SOVIETS used to use on people who didn’t UNDERSTAND the Program? Perhaps a little Hard Work would make these people see the light? After all… “Harte Arbeit Wird Euch Frei Machen”
Sieg Heil!

Posted by: Timothy L. Pennell | August 31, 2010, 7:10 am 7:10 am

We need REPLACEMENT not REEDUCATION!
Replace Obama!
Replace Sebilius!
Replace Holder!
Replace Nepalitano!
Replace Reid!
Replace Pelosi!
Replace Frank!
Replace Dodd!
Replace Rahm Emanuel!
Replace Gibbs!
ETCETERA, ETCETERA, ETCETERA!

Posted by: ssquared | August 31, 2010, 7:11 am 7:11 am

Do they think that senior citizens are so dumb that they do not remember the government gave us a $250 check but then took away two years of COLA’s & intend to raise the amount we pay for Medicare ?
Come on November…we are ready to have our voices heard at the polls!

Posted by: Justin | August 31, 2010, 7:13 am 7:13 am

Everyone is going to have great coverage for affordable healthcare.
I see updates from insurance companies everyday on changes from Obamacare. Latest for pre-exisiting conditions? You can’t be insured for 6 months and have to be denied coverage from a standard carrier. Then you can apply from the state for coverage.
Cost? 0-35 is $370 to over $750 per month. Prescription $10 for 2 refills, 50% of cost for subsequent. These are Florida rates.
Recent AP article a week ago I read on NJ.com is several hundred applications downloaded from the state website but when it went into effect last week, only two people in NJ had applied and approved for coverage.

Posted by: JanSilverstein | August 31, 2010, 7:16 am 7:16 am

“Once people understand that [the rebate checks are] just one of the new features for Medicare beneficiaries, they become increasingly more enthusiastic,” Sebelius told ABC News.
Gee, people are happy when they get something for nothing.
BUT WHO IS PROVIDING THE $250.00? Our kids and grad-kids. Stop this nonsense!

Posted by: FedUp389 | August 31, 2010, 7:19 am 7:19 am

And don’t forget the journalist’s clear bias here – he cites the one poll with a “slight uptick,” makes an incredible claim about there being only “several vulnerable Democrats” and is on another planet when he discusses the “lengthy” debate in congress – this was rammed through so fast no one even read the dang thing (Pelosi: we need to pass it to find out what’s in it!) Finally, where is the Rebublican response? no Republican would ever be quoted this long without having his or her assertions challenged one at a time.

Posted by: Michael | August 31, 2010, 7:22 am 7:22 am

Silly old Americans – they don’t buy the BS so its their fault. Come November, let’s take our country back from these socialists.

Posted by: Edward Will | August 31, 2010, 7:25 am 7:25 am

Save it Sebilius..you and your radical friends can take your plan and shove it..you hid the true costs of it from the public and thought Americans would just keep on chanting for Obama. The enthusiasm has stopped..hes a disaster..and you will be out of a job soon enough…
We needed real health care reform..not a total transformation of it into a socialized experiment.

Posted by: jimbo | August 31, 2010, 7:35 am 7:35 am

The administration supported this bill and Congress voted on this bill without reading it, and WE are the ones that need “re-education”? How out of touch with reality is this administration?Sebellius is either joking or completely clueless.
November 2 cannot get here soon enough.

Posted by: Frank W | August 31, 2010, 7:36 am 7:36 am

Maybe JUST maybe IF any of those that VOTED on the bill had ACTUALLY READ the bill they would know that THE PEOPLE have done the work our POLITICIANS are to LAZY and OVERPAID to do and KNOW what is in the bill and they DON’T LIKE IT.. It would seem that we vote for those to REPRESENT us and then those REPS leave the WORK to their staffers which is why DUMMY Pwlosi said “We have to PASS the bill to find out what’s in it”.. what was the bill a GRAB BAG?? it effects the taxpayers lives and pockets think maybe our elites could have at least read it.. FUTURE excuses from our elected officials.. “I didn’t know that was in the bill” like they didn’t know that jobs connected with health care were in the STIMULUS bill.. what a bunch of DING BATS..we at least all those who voted for it..

Posted by: Independent | August 31, 2010, 7:37 am 7:37 am

Good GOD! When will these people learn to JUST LEAVE US ALONE??!! I have all the education I need on Obamacare, and yet more “reeducation” will not change my view one bit. I’m just waiting for November when we can begin the process of dismantling Obamacare and reversing this Socialist course we are on. Sebelius, please go away….far, FAR away. Just. Shut. Up. and Go. Away.

Posted by: Bill in Tennessee | August 31, 2010, 7:39 am 7:39 am

I’m 70 years old and my wife and I are both on Medicare and if I get one of those checks I’m going to send it back. All the politicians are liars. Last year (2009) we each received a $250.00 Economic Recovery check. This year (2010), they wanted them back. I asked them why and the IRS answer was, “That’s the way it was set up.” My Congresman couldn’t even find me a straight answer. I don’t know if it had anything to do with it, but one month after the health bill was signed, both of our insurance supplement cost went up $30.00 each per month. What a world we live in now!!

Posted by: Merlin582 | August 31, 2010, 7:47 am 7:47 am

Sebelius needs to take her “lack of credibility” butt back to KS and let Congress repeal this bill. It is nothing more than a soviet manifesto….

Posted by: hempstead1944 | August 31, 2010, 7:47 am 7:47 am

for reeducation, read BS

Posted by: Jim | August 31, 2010, 7:50 am 7:50 am

The first reason to oppose the so-call health care (AKA ObamaCare) bill is the use of reconcillation to pass it. This shows it did not have good support by legislators and The People. (We need to get back to the US Constitution and eliminate reconcillation.)
The second reason is the federal government forcing individuals to purchase health insurance, or pay a fine.
Worse than this is the government will tell individuals what coverage they must purchase, which will probably include things they don’t need, don’t want, and are morally opposed to (like abortion coverage).
Yet even worse is that the federal government will make individuals go through a government “exchange” which assigns a health insurance company to them to purchase from.
Yet worse, is the federal government deciding for each individual what health care they and cannot have, regardless of an individual wanting to spend their own money.
Now the federal government really has fine control over The People. This will no doubt be abused for political purposes and the control freaks in government.
I believe the federal government puts effort to eliminating private business by bad taxes, bad fees, bad regulations, bad paperwork and other bogus means. Even then candidate Obama said on the campaign trail he would regulate coal electric plants out of business.
I believe once the federal government puts private health insurance companies out of business, they will say to fix this crisis they will make the single payer system.
This problem of the federal, state, and local governments bogus opposition to private business is a big problem, which, in general, Democrats perform and Republicans don’t do enough to stop. Until we The People fix this problem in the goverment, we can expect our economy to faulter, which the engine of liberty, and our God given freedoms and liberty to diminish into communism, where The People are kept poor to keep those in power, in power.
Sebelius, how accurate is my information? Regardless of what you say, the truth will start to come out when it is implemented in full force in some years from now, 2014 I believe.
REPEAL OBAMACARE!
REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW!
VOTE FOR THOSE WHO WILL REPEAL OBAMACARE.
SUPPORT THOSE ORGANIZATIONS WHO WILL PUSH TO REPEAL OBAMACARE.

Posted by: Lawrence | August 31, 2010, 7:50 am 7:50 am

The progressive/socialists won’t be happy until the populace agrees with them that 2 + 2 = 5. Can I have my number embedded into my skull now, please.

Posted by: melondrone | August 31, 2010, 7:52 am 7:52 am

They just don’t get that we don’t want their interference. We just want the federal government to leave us alone. We’ll keep our money and buy our own things. If our neighbors need help we’ll help them.

Posted by: Knews5 | August 31, 2010, 7:56 am 7:56 am

They just don’t get that we don’t want their interference. We just want the federal government to leave us alone. We’ll keep our money and buy our own things. If our neighbors need help we’ll help them.

Posted by: Knews5 | August 31, 2010, 7:56 am 7:56 am

Sebelius argues the reforms “strengthen” Medicare, extending its solvency by 12 years through 2029.
Does that consider the $.5 trillion dollar savings from underpaying the doctors and rations Medicare benefits will be used to extend Medicare or will it be used to create new health benefits? We don’t know because Sibelius prefers to double count those numbers.
The Medicare trustees report specifically says it assumes doctor’s pay will be cut by 29.5%. Does Sibelius expect we will get an influx of doctors who want to take new patients for 30% less pay? Of course not. The only one needing reeducation is Sibelius. She and Toto need to go back to Kansas.

Posted by: Rick Caird | August 31, 2010, 7:57 am 7:57 am

It states “As of Monday, one million seniors have received $250 rebate checks to help them fill the “donut hole” in Medicare’s prescription drug coverage.”…… was there any other way than to send everyone money in this program???. Again with the checks!! Most of this money once the check is cashed will end up elsewhere other than the donut hole they are reporting to fix. The only donut hole I see here is in the thought process of just handing out MONEY which cannot be tracked once the check is cashed. Can’t wait to get mine, I need some beer and beef jerky and then I wait around to complain to the goverment that the $250 was not enough to cover my medication again.
How stupid can a program be? Ya!! who needs the re-education on this ObamaCare program? Not Us!

Posted by: Nugac | August 31, 2010, 7:59 am 7:59 am

Why not re-educate the folks the did not even read the bill? Oh, that will happen in November.

Posted by: Confucious | August 31, 2010, 8:02 am 8:02 am

This entire administration needs “reeductation” regarding the Constitution!

Posted by: Yosemite Sam | August 31, 2010, 8:02 am 8:02 am

A gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
“Reeducation” is an excellent term for what the administration is trying to do on healthcare.
Please report to your local reeducation camp so that Kathleen Sebelius can give you the correct, government approved opinion of ObamaCare.

Posted by: Sylvester McMonkey | August 31, 2010, 8:04 am 8:04 am

Ironic, I just received a notification from my employer stating that my healthcare costs will shoot up 10% and will likely go up again each following year! It also will go up more if you have a higher salary! Fortunately, my employer has elected to keep their healthcare plans for the time being. They don’t even know what it’s going to really cost in 2011!
How is this reform? Where are the savings? I guess it’s all just a sham to pay for the care of others while our costs skyrocket and our care is rationed!
Yeah, They passed the bill without reading it! Let’s re-educate the politicians by throwing the bums out! Let them get a real job! Vote against every single incumbent politician, scrub the floors of the house and senate clean!

Posted by: James | August 31, 2010, 8:05 am 8:05 am

“Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn’t,” Sebelius told ABC.
Another person who hasn’t read the bill. The Fuhrer and Gerbel redux.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe | August 31, 2010, 8:05 am 8:05 am

Reeducation ? You mean like relearning what a piece of garbage this healthcare bill is? You mean like reeducation on where in the United States Constitution this Congress and this President finds the authority to force Americans into a deal like this?
Perhaps, when they find they can’t reeducate or indoctrinate the sovereign American citizens, they’ll round up those who don’t drink the Koolaid and put them into the HR645 camps until we learn that these progressives know what’s best for us.
Gee, I wonder when they’ll begin the soylent green program? For God’s sake I’d rather eat cake!

Posted by: vpats | August 31, 2010, 8:10 am 8:10 am

I have as much contempt for Sebelius as she has for me. She wants us all in “re-education” camps. Our government is corrupt to the core. Our politicians are self serving liars. When they offer me a medical plan it should be identical to theirs. If they will not do that then they need to sit down and shut up on health care. They have nothing to offer but lies.

Posted by: lara47 | August 31, 2010, 8:10 am 8:10 am

Health and Human Services, headed by Sebelius couldn’t even get the Swine Flu vaccination program right. As an R.N. I can tell you that very few doctors and nurses who actually work in their fields, unlike the policy wonk Docs in the AMA who support this government takeover of our health care system, support these changes which Ms. Sebelius wants to shove down the throats of the people.

Posted by: Bathsheba | August 31, 2010, 8:12 am 8:12 am

2 plus 2 equals 5
2 plus 2 equals 5
I’m beginning to understand what Winston went through in 1984… but these rats are not in the cage, they’re running the show.

Posted by: LymanHall | August 31, 2010, 8:12 am 8:12 am

The word re-education is a term made famous by Mao,Stalin and most Communist Dictators. Now the Marxist Obama Regime uses it. The term means to impose your views on those who disagree. They would love to impose penalties if they could.
This should be a wakeup call.

Posted by: John Dodge | August 31, 2010, 8:15 am 8:15 am

Kathy Dear,
ObamaCare rations care, has death panels,covers abortion, and according to the CBO costs more than if YOU did nothing at all. Obama lied and now YOU are lying…After November 2nd you will hear what Americans feel about ObamaCare

Posted by: champsummers | August 31, 2010, 8:17 am 8:17 am

In other words, she is saying, as the dems keep saying, that the average American is too stupid to discern what is in the bill.
That’s as good as “we have to pass the bill in order to know what’s in it”.

Posted by: John | August 31, 2010, 8:18 am 8:18 am

“Reeducation?” The public hasn’t been “educated” on Obamacare yet. As a matter of fact, Nancy Pelosi is still trying to read the bill to determine what is in it. I daresay, Sebellius hasn’t a clue about its contents either.

Posted by: John G | August 31, 2010, 8:19 am 8:19 am

She is the same slug who, while governor of Kansas, whined, upon orders from the DNC Chairman, Rahm Emmanuel, that she could not respond well to the flooding and storm damage in her state because George Bush had taken all her National Guard rolling stock and heavy equipment to Iraq.
Her own National Guard commander in Kansas immediately contradicted her.
When asked about her lie, she said that she had been asked by party leaders to blame Bush for anything she could imagine….to take advantage of the natural disaster to always Blame Bush.
She actually giggled a bit and finished with some lame statement about how she had called the White House to apologize for any misunderstanding. That last little giggle also turned out to be a lie.

Posted by: privatouring | August 31, 2010, 8:26 am 8:26 am

Uh…Kathy…
How in God’s name can you RE-educate us dumb hicks if you never read the bill you signed into law, begged dumb ol’ can’t-think-for-themselves seniors to help it pass so we can see what’s in it, paid bribes to congress members (who KNEW the bill as a bad one, for their vote, and hoodwinked the public about abortion and illegal immigrant healthcare funding????
And now let’s talk about the debt this monster will create, the addition to the deficit and most important of all, the JOB-KILLING nature of this horrible bill!
RE-Educate us as to which of the above known, provable facts???

Posted by: Rick | August 31, 2010, 8:29 am 8:29 am

The $250.00 check were a TREMENDOUS waste of taxpayers money!! If a senior has reached the donuthole, $250.00 will not be more than a drop in the bucket to help them pay! This is a cruel joke on all the taxpayers who are FUNDING this $250.00 joke!!!

Posted by: M. Smith | August 31, 2010, 8:33 am 8:33 am

“Reeducation” = More Goverment Lies!

Posted by: Joe M. | August 31, 2010, 8:35 am 8:35 am

Fraudian slip? Yeah no doubt the re-education camps are in the works, I mean anyone who does not approve of the Obama agenda must be a Racist or mentally unstable so either way they will need to be confined or eliminated.
All Hail Obama, All Hail The State

Posted by: Ron Green | August 31, 2010, 8:35 am 8:35 am

Now it’s “Re-Education ” ! I know the only people in need of “re-education” is the elitist ruling class in this country ! Wow they are really emulating the commies and the nazis !!! By my count we have Washington outnumbered a million to one ! I like our odds !!!

Posted by: diablodiverdown | August 31, 2010, 8:42 am 8:42 am

“re-educate” this!

Posted by: edgar friendly | August 31, 2010, 8:46 am 8:46 am

What we need is an act of massive civil disobedience! A refusal to pay taxes next April might get their attention. We work drones need to rise up. They will not put tens of millions of working Americans in jail; and if they try, good; let them try feeding and housing us, as well as providing free (i.e., government speak: “nothing” is free, it’s actually at the expense of other workers) medical care for a frigging change. Obama makes King George look both reasonable and benevolent.

Posted by: Mahone Dunbar | August 31, 2010, 8:46 am 8:46 am

More propoganda from the regime!

Posted by: jon | August 31, 2010, 8:49 am 8:49 am

Finally, the Democrat Congress may try to change a horrible Law, but it will essentially be superficial and the dark unknown part of it will be implimented withput comment. What these clowns will do to keep their “well Paid” jobs and their “back pocket” pay; lieing to and Cheating America. They all need to “go into the outter darkness where there shall be knashing of teeth”
Sebellius is the Appologist for them all. Kind of a weak sister to be doing thissort of thing. I think the order of the House and the Senate too will all be changed in a “twinkling” if SEIU isn’t on the job.

Posted by: john smith | August 31, 2010, 8:52 am 8:52 am

Congress hasn’t read the bill. Obama hasn’t read the bill. Sebelius hasn’t read the bill. Yet, it was shoved down our throats. We aren’t the ones who need re-educating. They do and, hopefully, that will come this November.

Posted by: Roxanna | August 31, 2010, 9:03 am 9:03 am

rather than “re” education, there needs to be an “initial” education – starting with the author of the bill.
“I don’t think you want me to waste my time to read every page of the health care bill. You know why? It’s statutory language,” Baucus said. “We hire experts.”

Posted by: Michael | August 31, 2010, 9:06 am 9:06 am

Sounds sort of Orwellian to me, but then Obamacare always did sound like that.

Posted by: Jasonn | August 31, 2010, 9:09 am 9:09 am

Dear Earl,
Please drop a house on Kathleen Sebelius this weekend. Thanks.

Posted by: Stephanie | August 31, 2010, 9:12 am 9:12 am

“It’s re-education time”. Line up to receive your dose.

Posted by: MostlyDisgusted | August 31, 2010, 9:14 am 9:14 am

And the cost of re-educating us little people?????

Posted by: SG | August 31, 2010, 9:21 am 9:21 am

Here is your education on health care that Sebelius will not tell you. Most of us are not healthy under their definitions, i.e, if you smoke or over weight or any other little thing you are considered unhealthy. And your doctor will rat you out if you lie, because of the electronic medical filings. If you are 54 or older you will pay $688 per month for this year; no telling what it will cost by 2014. If your husband is on medicare and you are not, then add his premium on top of yours for another $115 per month. And if you took in a older family member during this horrible economy, you cannot get a family plan. Each must get a separate plan so it is an additional $688. You have not even walked into a doctor’s office and are paying $1,491 per month. Now you must pay the co-pay and the deductible which is another $2,250 per person on regular insurance and $1,800 on medicare. So if this party of three experiences catastrophic illnesses, a family structured like mine could face a medical bill of at least $25,000 per year on a pretax income of $2,438 per month. Then let’s not forget the insurance on your home and car. So it is a win-win for the insurance companies and a lose-lose for the American citizen, because the $2,438 a month puts our family just over the 150% poverty level and tops it off with a tax increase on income and school taxes. Ironic won’t you say.
If you doubt any of what is here, go look it up on the Internet like I did. I am one of those teachers that just filed for unemployment that was always rated exceptional. So much for the stimulus for teachers, which is why the legislation says that have been laid off OR will be retained for the 2010-2011 school year. That is a big “OR”. What the politicians and media tell you is so far from the truth, they should all look like Pinocchio.
I suggest they all buy some calculators and retake their math classes, because I give them a big F.

Posted by: DoTheMath | August 31, 2010, 9:21 am 9:21 am

To hell with you and your “Reeducation”
Sebelius!

Posted by: Tejas | August 31, 2010, 9:22 am 9:22 am

If only these poeple would realize how moronic they sound to the average voter.
How do people like this rise to the positions they are in?
An obvious case of public education gone bad.

Posted by: Dave | August 31, 2010, 9:23 am 9:23 am

Dearest Barry,
Now that you have removed your birth certificate from your forehead, you might try imagining that Americans don’t want socialism.

Posted by: catherwood | August 31, 2010, 9:23 am 9:23 am

It is a shame!
You have to read it before you can educate anyone on it.
I would bet she still hasn’t read it!
Someone needs to educate the leadership of this great nation.

Posted by: M Walters | August 31, 2010, 9:24 am 9:24 am

Reeducation – isn’t that a word from Orwell’s 1984?

Posted by: Kurtiss | August 31, 2010, 9:26 am 9:26 am

FTA: “Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn’t,” Sebelius told ABC News Radio in an interview Monday.
No there isn’t Sebelius. ObamaCare is nothing more than Redistribution of Wealth from Working Americans to Democrat Constituents(mainly the Mexicans and Blacks, seeing as how they bloc-vote democrat). You know, if theseSob’s can take over the HealthCare Industry, the Banking and Financing Industries and Auto Companies, where does it stop ? They will be going after our guns next, mark my words. We need to seriously start planning for Civil War II, because even if we can take both Houses back in November they will not stop, plus the Media is nothing more than an extension of the Democrat Party. All Liberal Journalist should be tarred and feathered and run out of town along with their favorite politician.
Comon November. We will Remember.

Posted by: Ratt | August 31, 2010, 9:27 am 9:27 am

And the first Tuesday in November 2012 will be deemed Reelection Day.

Posted by: Kurtiss | August 31, 2010, 9:28 am 9:28 am

The media should check with the hospitals around the country. They are all worried about keeping their doors open. Sebelious is a clueless. She is just another democratic hack.

Posted by: bobkal | August 31, 2010, 9:28 am 9:28 am

First we had to pass the bill to find out what was in it and now we need to be re-educated. NOVEMBER IS NEAR!!! Let’s re-educate all who voted for this piece of )#($.

Posted by: james a | August 31, 2010, 9:28 am 9:28 am

We don’t want re-education, Sebilius, we want repeal. Anyone that would trust government with their healthcare needs a shrink. Re-education? Thats the term communists use for those who disagree with their policies. Then again, I guess that says it all, doesn’t it? Hey, did you pay your taxes or are you ripping us off, AGAIN?

Posted by: kenema | August 31, 2010, 9:30 am 9:30 am

Is twelve years an acceptable answer?! I thought the issue was solvency. I’m not hung up so much on the payments. I think its good when the American people get their money back. But the way this thing works and the max they can get for selling us down the river is 12 years! That’s awful.

Posted by: Graham | August 31, 2010, 9:31 am 9:31 am

Sebellius is as stupid and illiterate and unintelligent as people come. Maybe more stupid and illiterate and unintelligent than her is barack.
Do you suppose she purposely used the term “reeducation” on purpose? You know, just like the communists and nazis needed to ‘reeducate’ in their reeducation camps?

Posted by: annie | August 31, 2010, 9:31 am 9:31 am

So we gave the Seniors a $250.00 check while cutting thousands in benefits. Man o Man what is $250.00 towards medicine these days..nothing. Give the Seniors a check while letting the drug companies rape them.

Posted by: GSH | August 31, 2010, 9:35 am 9:35 am

don’t you have to educate before you reeducate? I’m just sayin’

Posted by: tb | August 31, 2010, 9:40 am 9:40 am

The government is the last place to go for a fiscally and medically sound health care system. Obamacare is a train wreck of one-sixth of the American economy that will happen if the American people do not spew it out of their mouths. Health care is one of the few industries left in the world for which the U.S. leads the world and the progressives like Sebelius are destroying it. The polls should be even higher against Obamacare.

Posted by: Mark Sutton | August 31, 2010, 9:41 am 9:41 am

Re-educate? And Obama wonders why the public has the wrong image of him? This administration has tried to “re-educate” us since it took office! On healthcare, I think the public is better educated than the politicians. This is nothing but a power grab by Obama and his czars. The public will not stand for it!

Posted by: MaggieLyn | August 31, 2010, 9:43 am 9:43 am

That is the mentality of these Leftist narcissists; “put the ignorant sheep into a camp”.
Wake up America you have lost your country!!!

Posted by: Peteo | August 31, 2010, 9:44 am 9:44 am

Please tell me what flavor Kool Aid I should now drink. I don’t remember and can’t think for myself.

Posted by: Tim | August 31, 2010, 9:49 am 9:49 am

I will not participate.
I will not pay the fines/taxes.
I will not be caged.
If you think you can “re-educate” me Ms. Sebelius I invite you to personally come and try. I know you won’t though. You are a coward and a tyrant wanna-be. You will send thugs.

Posted by: WY_Not | August 31, 2010, 9:49 am 9:49 am

Doggie snack, doggie snack,
yum, yum, yum
give’m to the elderly
and watch them run
Snack, snack, crunchy snack,
yum, yum, yum
robbing from their children cause they’re
dumb, dumb, dumb!
Eat’em up, eat’em up, lickity split
we’ve got more for you
ya’ brainless twits!
Reader: If this doesn’t make any sense to you, then I suggest that you read “Don’t shoot the dog” by Karen Pryor.

Posted by: Mike from Texas | August 31, 2010, 9:49 am 9:49 am

They assume that if we don’t like the bill that it’s because we’re uneducated about it. How arrogant and condescending! No, Ms. Sebelius, we don’t need more indoctrination. We understand the plan, and that’s WHY we hate it.

Posted by: Aimee | August 31, 2010, 9:50 am 9:50 am

This woman operates in fantasy land, making up her own reality as she goes along. She acts shocked that the plebes didn’t just fall in line when they received their “rebates” (a.k.a. bribes) from the statists. Now, in typical arrogant elitist fashion, she says the plebes need to be “re-educated” — they just don’t understand.
We understand fine. You, Ms. Sebillius, are unhinged. Any self-professed Catholic that can stridently advocate murder of the unborn (a.k.a. abortion) is either a liar or so horribly confused that they can not recognize objective reality.

Posted by: _ALDEBARAN_ | August 31, 2010, 9:53 am 9:53 am

How can they reeducate on something that hasn’t been read? What they should be doing is repealing, not reeducating. By the way government, I don’t need an education by you on healthcare or anything else.

Posted by: Leanne | August 31, 2010, 9:54 am 9:54 am

How can the people who say we need re=education when they themselves don’t even know what is in this marxist communist maifesto of a takover of our liberty and freedoms under the name of a healthcare bill. It has nothing to do with improving care and reducing costs for the average american it is goverment takeover of a large part of the economy and cost shifting to those who work and pay their taxes. First the auto industry then the banking and finacial industry and the third part to the puzzle was and is healthcare.This bill does NOTHING to improve care it is infact going to turn our system into a system of long waits, subortimal care and yes rationing of care with some BS panel somewhere in Washington deciding whether your 80 year old mother or father is entitled to a procedure or a drug based only on the fact that they are no longer a contibuting tax payer! Why do people think the Glen Beck rally in Washington had the turnout it did? Simple people are fed up with the current trend in Washington but hey you get what you vote for when you vote for someone with no experience and not one single accomplishment worthy of even being considered for the office of president. I’m sure our founding fathers are rolling in their graves with the way this country is moving not towards socialism but really call it what you like it is marxism/communism. If it were not then why would people be fined if they didn’t buy the prescribed health care plan of the goverment and be forced to buy anything under the threat of a fine if they did not. The man is a follower of Saul Alinsky a self proclaimed Communist and check out Hillary and her connections to this same guy back when she did some type of internship with Mr. Alinsky. Just read Mr. Alinsky’s Primer on turning this country into a communist nation and see the fcat that it is a playbook ffor what is going on right now!

Posted by: PATROIT OF LIBERTY | August 31, 2010, 9:54 am 9:54 am

“As of Monday, one million seniors have received $250 rebate checks to help them fill the “donut hole” in Medicare’s prescription drug coverage. Sebelius says by the end of the year, as many as four million Part D participants may get checks.”
They’ve got to be kidding! $250 doesn’t even cover ONE of my mothers prescriptions for a single month!!! Of course if left up the president, I’m sure Mom would be one of those he said to give a pain pill to and allow to expire.
The determination of this administration to cram this bill down our throat is truly frightening. I never imagined so much damage could be accomplished so fast.

Posted by: Rose | August 31, 2010, 9:57 am 9:57 am

It amazes me that the only perspective in the article is that of the regime. No real reporting, just propaganda. When I took journalism class in HIGH SCHOOL, over 25 years ago, they tought us to present all sides of the story. And giving out $250? Just a little payment for you to replace the thousands of dollars or healthcare you just lost. Sorry.

Posted by: John Morning | August 31, 2010, 9:58 am 9:58 am

Good thing FEMA built all those camps.

Posted by: rle737ng | August 31, 2010, 9:58 am 9:58 am

The Obama Health Care needs to be flushed back into the sleazy sewer from which it came. These Elitist Bafoons need to understad the American People are not Idiots!

Posted by: DG11 | August 31, 2010, 10:02 am 10:02 am

Oh, I’m getting a hands on education right now. About 3 months ago, my insurance company increase our premiums by 30% (I have never had an increase more than 5% in the past). Last month, I hurt my back. After 2 weeks of not being able to work, my doctor scheduled an MRI for me. Two days later, I find out that my insurance company now outsources radiological procedures to a third party and that third party denied my MRI. Because of this healthcare “reform”, my insurance that I liked before this is now horrible. I now have someone between me and my doctor who is telling us what I need to do with my health, which is take ibuprofen for 6 weeks, do some PT and then we may qualify you for an MRI if you are still in pain. I have 3 kids and a wife. My wife is a stay at home mom. I am the bread winner and can hardly work. We are very middle class and because of this “reform”, I will now have more out of pocket expenses, higher premiums and less service. Once Obamacare has run the insurance companies into bankruptcy, then we will be forced to have government run healthcare. Wake up America! We are losing our Liberties each day. Once government has taken over, then we will have no liberties!!

Posted by: mike11111111111 | August 31, 2010, 10:06 am 10:06 am

There was no debate in Congress, lengthly or otherwise.

Posted by: Al | August 31, 2010, 10:07 am 10:07 am

It sounds like Sebelius thinks the American people might be stupid since we need to be reeducated. The arrogance is unbelieveable. Sebelius does not understand we did learn about the new Healthcare System and we begged at Town Hall Meetings and anywhere we could that we did NOT want it, but democrats refused to listen to the people and passed the bill anyway. Even after all this time, Sebelius does not realize what is going on. Democrats must live in a bubble and think Americans are stupid. Well come election time, the people will show Washington just how stupid we are.

Posted by: justavoter | August 31, 2010, 10:09 am 10:09 am

If the socialists-leftists come to re-edgamacate me I will take as many with me as possible. Uh …hey lefties we do understand obamacare! We need to reduce non esential government employees (state and federal) by 80%!

Posted by: David | August 31, 2010, 10:14 am 10:14 am

I just got a “re education’ moment form my doctor. He is taking no more medicare patients. You’ve got to love that Obamacare.

Posted by: ron | August 31, 2010, 10:14 am 10:14 am

Not even on my worst bender would I believe the crap coming from ABC or the U.S. Government ! They couldn’t buy credibility !

Posted by: Haroldthedog | August 31, 2010, 10:16 am 10:16 am

Obama spent a YEAR trying to EDUCATE the American people about his Healthcare law and the more people learned the more they didn’t want it. It’ll be a glorious day when we can repeal this horrible law that was FORCED onto the American people who resoundingly said NO..
Isn’t it funny how the Libs get all righteous when they’re trying to force legislation that a majority of the American people didn’t want. And after they force it on us then they go into denial when people say repeal it.
Obama is an idiot and it’ll be a great day when we vote him out of office.

Posted by: Jack D | August 31, 2010, 10:16 am 10:16 am

free money, free health care, free “reeducation,” hidden $7500/year cost – what isn’t to like about this system? I like mostly what Sebelius says here – it shows that P-BO’s administration and he really know what governing in a Democracy is all about:
“Once people understand that [the rebate checks are] just one of the new features for Medicare beneficiaries, they become increasingly more enthusiastic,” Sebelius told ABC News

Posted by: Mel | August 31, 2010, 10:17 am 10:17 am

“Once people understand that [the rebate checks are] just one of the new features for Medicare beneficiaries, they become increasingly more enthusiastic,” Sebelius told ABC News.
Should actually read, “Once we start giving out mo’ money, those old peeps’ll be lining up to get us re-elected!”

Posted by: ErricZ | August 31, 2010, 10:18 am 10:18 am

How many folks voted to toss out their incumbent representative(via the primaries)? Oh really, so your rep is ok, its the other guys that are bad. Until we have a complete change of congress things will continue the same. Current Republican leadership = current Democrat leadership, both are collectivists, both despise the Constitution, and neither could care less about what you think. One more thing, these people in office are NOT stupid. They are agenda driven, smart, and dangerous.

Posted by: Mike from Texas | August 31, 2010, 10:21 am 10:21 am

Either she is (a) a communist and really means it,(b) an idiot with no concept as to what “reeducation” connotes in its historical context, or (c)an idiotic communist. I’m leaning towards (c).

Posted by: nick | August 31, 2010, 10:24 am 10:24 am

Reeducation or brainwashing? Or is this the time we all finally find out to our horror that the nightmare many of us knew Obamacare would be is in fact true (and there ain’t nothing we can do about it)? One way or another, it will just confirm all the lies that rolled off the Kenyan’s purple lips during his hard sell campaign and the state-controlled media refused to expose. Not only does this illegal act need to be repealed, but those who lead the effort to crap it down our throats, need to be tried, convicted and sentenced to such long terms that they will die in prison.

Posted by: typicalwhiteguy | August 31, 2010, 10:24 am 10:24 am

Go to youtube and search Yuri Bezmenov, if you have never seen his talks on subversion you are truly missing out, Obama uses Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals” tactics to get results, every advance made is done at the expense of someone else and is a source for later trouble, the economy is stalled because buisness does not know what health care legislation will do, if the republicans repeal it then we will come out of this socialist nightmare, obama is not a bad prez, thanks to him im a black/female/tea partier born and raised in chicago, i knew that guy was a top shelf crook, Chicago Style Politics- blago is a nun compared to the obama bunch

Posted by: Vivianonimouse | August 31, 2010, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Yes, thank you Ms Sebelius, we have been thoroughly re-educated and we will be taking a midterm exam in precisely 62 days!

Posted by: bandjnca | August 31, 2010, 10:26 am 10:26 am

I am nauseated and disgusting by this language of re-education ……LEAVE MY HEALTH ALONE ! Good will prevail in the end . from this sick sick system .. I dont want the GOVT control my damn health choices period !!!!

Posted by: RF | August 31, 2010, 10:27 am 10:27 am

The first statements from the Obama administration were “healthcare will be expanded and costs will fall” was a bold faced lie. Why should we believe anything that they say anymore? Now is our health care premiums going up or down this year? The answer is THEY ARE GOING UP! All the “reeducation” won’t change that fact.

Posted by: jackieaxe | August 31, 2010, 10:32 am 10:32 am

Here is your education on health care that Sebelius will not tell you. Most of us are not healthy under their definitions, i.e, if you smoke or over weight or any other little thing you are considered unhealthy. And your doctor will rat you out if you lie, because of the electronic medical filings. If you are 54 or older you will pay $688 per month for this year; no telling what it will cost by 2014. If your husband is on medicare and you are not, then add his premium on top of yours for another $115 per month. And if you took in a older family member during this horrible economy, you cannot get a family plan. Each must get a separate plan so it is an additional $688. You have not even walked into a doctor’s office and are paying $1,491 per month. Now you must pay the co-pay and the deductible which is another $2,250 per person on regular insurance and $1,800 on medicare. So if this party of three experiences catastrophic illnesses, a family structured like mine could face a medical bill of at least $25,000 per year on a pretax income of $2,438 per month. Then let’s not forget the insurance on your home and car. So it is a win-win for the insurance companies and a lose-lose for the American citizen, because the $2,438 a month puts our family just over the 150% poverty level and tops it off with a tax increase on income and school taxes. Ironic won’t you say.
If you doubt any of what is here, go look it up on the Internet like I did. I am one of those teachers that just filed for unemployment that was always rated exceptional. So much for the stimulus for teachers, which is why the legislation says that have been laid off OR will be retained for the 2010-2011 school year. That is a big “OR”. What the politicians and media tell you is so far from the truth, they should all look like Pinocchio.
I suggest they all buy some calculators and retake their math classes, because I give them a big F.

Posted by: DoTheMath | August 31, 2010, 10:33 am 10:33 am

“Reeducation”…code name for communist methodology

Posted by: Rationalist | August 31, 2010, 10:34 am 10:34 am

Comrade Stalin is standing on the parapet above Lenin’s mausoleum, waving to the crowd in Red Square. A little Jewish man pushes through and runs toward Stalin, waving a letter: “Comrade Stalin! Comrade Stalin! I have a message for you from Leon Trotsky!” Stalin asks that the letter be brought to him, and he reads it aloud: “You are right. I am wrong. I should apologize! Signed Leon Trotsky.” The Jewish man is beside himself. “No! No! Comrade Stalin. That is not the correct way to read this. Please let me read it to you the way Trotsky intended.” Stalin hands the letter to a soldier, who gives it to the little man, who reads it with the intended inflections: “You are right?! I am wrong?! I should apologize?!”

Posted by: Joel | August 31, 2010, 10:40 am 10:40 am

Too bad that Congress doesn’t actually have the authority to pass this law. Too bad that 70% of America said No and they shoved it down our throats anyway. Now they’re going to “reeducate” us?!?! They’re the ones that need a reeducation…..they’ll get it too, in November!

Posted by: Elliott | August 31, 2010, 10:40 am 10:40 am

Gee, why does the term “reeducation” make me cringe? Are you democrat supporters happy being Deltas?

Posted by: sick_of_zero | August 31, 2010, 10:41 am 10:41 am

By “reeducation” she means that if they explain it to the uneducated masses enough, using small, easy to understand words, using benign sounding, double-speak statements, we just might see the light.

Posted by: WereTurtle | August 31, 2010, 10:43 am 10:43 am

Amazing that she would say something so Communist, amazing that ABC would actually get it into print. The arrogance and insensitivity of the Obama gang are beyond belief. Post-Mao China had the Gang-of-4, Obama has his gang of 400.

Posted by: Danny Ross | August 31, 2010, 10:45 am 10:45 am

“Re-education” is the Communist practice of brainwashing their opponents using torture, depriving food, water, and light, until said opponent “caves in” from physical and mental exhaustion…and agrees to go along with their torturers and cause them no more trouble. This is usually accomplished in “Re-education Camps” where said opponent is held until they comply with the Communist overlord’s wishes or until the DEATH of said opponent!

Posted by: seenbetterdaze | August 31, 2010, 10:46 am 10:46 am

You see, the problem is that average Americans are just too stupid to understand the greatness of this bill. Thank God, Obama’s team will continue to re-educate us until we all understand his point of view. I am willing to be that Sebelius hasn’t even read the bill but she is certain that average Americans just don’t understand it and will require continued re-education until they do.
Nancy Pelosi even said that we’ll just need to pass the bill and then find out what is in it. Yet, you dumb average Americans just aren’t getting it.

Posted by: Illini Steve | August 31, 2010, 10:46 am 10:46 am

I wonder if Sibelius sees the irony of her words: re-education I ask you!
So totally, so utterly, so completely out of touch with the US people.

Posted by: Ellen O'Day | August 31, 2010, 10:50 am 10:50 am

I guess we will all have to become Muslim in order not to be effected by the health care bill. Amish is not a choice, because we would have to live in the dark. After all that was Obama’s intent.

Posted by: DoTheMath | August 31, 2010, 10:51 am 10:51 am

No reeducation camps for me. No leftist, communist, socialist, Marxist, treasonous, camps for me. This Obama and his minions from hell are the worst thing to happen to this nation since the Vietnam War. He is a complete disaster for the country.

Posted by: walter12 | August 31, 2010, 10:52 am 10:52 am

I get enraged at the utter, arrogant contempt that these leftist elites hold for Americans. Reeducation? Of COURSE they would have mandatory reeducation sessions if they thought they could get away with it. Never, in my wildest nightmares, did I ever think this republic would be controlled by marxists and socialists as it is.

Posted by: SlyOldDog | August 31, 2010, 10:56 am 10:56 am

WOW! Look at all the “far right wingers” who are posting here. (Irony). If you were a member of the Obama regime or a Democrat politician, you might think that a sizeable majority of Americans are actually AGAINST ObamaCare and the Obama agenda. THAT could not possibly be, could it???
November 2 will tell.

Posted by: acriticalthinker | August 31, 2010, 11:00 am 11:00 am

New Headline:
We need new and improved lies.
What’a joke!
let’s get rid of the whole BHO crew, ASAP

Posted by: Buck N Farack | August 31, 2010, 11:03 am 11:03 am

A socialist administration using the term reeducation? No surprise there. When will stimulus funds be used to build the camps?

Posted by: Mahakala | August 31, 2010, 11:04 am 11:04 am

Even if Odumbo tries to re-explain it, no one will listen because Odumbo has lost all credibility because he lies all the time.

Posted by: Darrell | August 31, 2010, 11:11 am 11:11 am

So someone has actually read it?

Posted by: Terry | August 31, 2010, 11:16 am 11:16 am

So, let’s see if I get this straight..I’m supposed to give a moment of my time to legislative “reeducation” on a bill that impacts almost one-fifth of the nation’s economy conducted by pontificating asses who didn’t even read it before it was passed?
Perhaps it isn’t the American public that needs to be “reeducated”? It’s the mental defectives in Congress.
Sounds like Uncle Joe Biden and all his friends at the Capitol Hill Chuckle Academy dreamed this one up after they forgot to take their meds.
Maybe they need some more time in their rehab cooking class repairing Obama’s waffle maker?

Posted by: MDWhite | August 31, 2010, 11:17 am 11:17 am

The most amazing thing to me, is the almost universal criticism of the Obamaites, on an ABC news website!
A Farmer

Posted by: Lawrence Boccardi | August 31, 2010, 11:17 am 11:17 am

first they dumb down public education and then they want to re-educate us???
laughed so hard I wet myself!!!!

Posted by: Nun Ur Biz | August 31, 2010, 11:18 am 11:18 am

maybe if we don’t get “re-educated” they could just send us to the gas chamber…

Posted by: Powhatan | August 31, 2010, 11:22 am 11:22 am

Being one of those seniors, I am powerfully aware that in the long term, the only way you will extend the viability of Medicare under that legislation is to not give us senior citizens as much as access as we have been used to in the past.
This article truly should substitute brainwashing for the term re-educate fro that is what you have to do.
The mis-information is coming from the government and many of us are simply sick and tired of the lies.

Posted by: Sane American | August 31, 2010, 11:25 am 11:25 am

Hail Comrade Sebilius! Where would the great leader Obama like us to appear? Will he be issuing us a red book as well?

Posted by: Craigter | August 31, 2010, 11:27 am 11:27 am

So let me get this straight. A program that is broke or dam close to it is sending out $250 rebate checks?

Posted by: Chris | August 31, 2010, 11:29 am 11:29 am

“Re-Education”? Isn’t that what Pol Pot called throwing people in slave camps for a bowl of rice a day?

Posted by: Mr. Ikar | August 31, 2010, 11:29 am 11:29 am

I think the Pol Pot Reeducation Camps are currently vacant…

Posted by: Constitutional Insurgent | August 31, 2010, 11:29 am 11:29 am

I wonder if this statement (and its history) will lead ABC’s news coverage tonight? Inquiring minds will never know; they get their news off the internet.
But hey, at least the commie rats in DC no longer feel that they have to hide their contempt for all of us mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers here in flyover country.

Posted by: Dr Nick | August 31, 2010, 11:30 am 11:30 am

I don’t like the sound of these ‘ere boncentration bamps

Posted by: SueDonim | August 31, 2010, 11:32 am 11:32 am

this gal needs to go back to kansas, and bring her flying monkeys with her. i’m sick of this administration trying to tell us how to live our lives, and trying to punish us just for breathing. take a look at all of the things the fda is doing right now – pulling back on using certain cancer meds, and pain meds – hoping we’ll all choose to die quickly. i can’t wait until november, and i so look forward to shipping these people back to wherever they came from in 2012.

Posted by: violet | August 31, 2010, 11:34 am 11:34 am

“I wondered when the wicked witch of the west would resurface! Anyone have a bucket of water handy?”
Posted by: arg2015153 | Aug 30, 2010 10:43:41 PM
The community organizer has a bucket. Unfortunately, it’s full of Greece.

Posted by: Dr Nick | August 31, 2010, 11:35 am 11:35 am

I think Sebelius should start her reeducation efforts with Congress as most of them have no idea what was in the bill they voted for.

Posted by: had it up to here | August 31, 2010, 11:52 am 11:52 am

“Reeducation?” They still think they didn’t explain it well enough the first time. Note to Dems: WE KNOW WHAT OBAMACARE IS!!! AND WE STILL DON”T WANT IT!!!! There. That’s my reeducation for them.

Posted by: morganm | August 31, 2010, 11:56 am 11:56 am

Oh, yeah. The old “reeducation camps” for us that have the audacity to think and the hope for this nightmare to end.

Posted by: Joe | August 31, 2010, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

This is how the left sells this snake oil. They make a little piece to satisfy one group, another piece to satisfy a different group, package it all up, give it a nice name, and it becomes accepted not because it’s good, but because everyone got a little piece of an overall plan. This legislation is killing our country, dividing us like never before, and destroying our economy. It ain’t hard to see people. Other countries are growing, we aren’t. Health care and stimulus are DISASTERS. We don’t need re-education, we need to CLEAN HOUSE!

Posted by: scott | August 31, 2010, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm

“re-education” can be translated to “the american people are wrong, I”m right”

Posted by: bill | August 31, 2010, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm

“Once people understand that [the rebate checks are] just one of the new features for Medicare beneficiaries, they become increasingly more enthusiastic,” Sebelius told ABC News.<<
Just out of curiosity, where did all the money come from for those rebate checks? The liberal $$ fairy?
Seniors aren't stupid Ms. Sebelius.

Posted by: Steve | August 31, 2010, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm

Just had my yearly ob/gyn visit and was informed that since I’ve had so many “normal” pap smears that I should think about not having them annually anymore. Maybe once every 3-5 years. My doctor said they are just “planting the seed”. Yeah, the seed of crappy, cost-saving, socialist medicine. Women’s health is ALWAYS diminished by socialism. Elderly care is next. I’d like to send Sebelius to “reality camp”. So much for caring and sharing liberalism! We’re all much easier to control when we are unhealthy, socially shackled and poor. Of course Sebelius won’t have the same healthcare as the hoi polloi must adopt. She’s horrid.

Posted by: arva | August 31, 2010, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

Of course, ABC news fails to mention the failure of Obama to get the majority of Americans to support Obamacare, yet maintains the false premise that us Americans are not smart enough to understand it enough that lead us to reject Obamacare. Steven Portnoy is just another ABC hack carefully writing down the dribble of the regime void of critical thinking and/or fear of pissing them off. A profile of either fear and/or dumbness.

Posted by: Joe | August 31, 2010, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm

The problem is that people are becoming educated on the plan. That’s why opposition to it grows daily and the call to repeal it increases. Isn’t there a Pregnant woman somewhere that Sebelius needs to talk into having an abortion. She is disgusting.

Posted by: DJ | August 31, 2010, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm

Why are seniors crying? Before the drug plan, they had to pay for everything, so what’s $250?

Posted by: jimmy37 | August 31, 2010, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

What she means is it is time for re-indoctrination of a public that is really not all that capable of understanding the complexities of this very import reform to a badly neglected and corrupt collection of private enterprises. After all, like all leftist ideas, if the common man really understood them, they would obviously support them. Lack of support HAS to be a sign of ignorance.

Posted by: Victor | August 31, 2010, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

A gaffe is a moment when a politician actually tells their true thoughts.

Posted by: Tony | August 31, 2010, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

‘Reeducation’ ??? Blessid be, the one, Obami !

Posted by: Mitch | August 31, 2010, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

Sorry……
But you can take your “Reeducation”……
whether in a CAMP OR NOT……
and…….
STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE……

Posted by: ed357 | August 31, 2010, 12:34 pm 12:34 pm

The Propaganda Press could use a re-education camp. Let’s send them instead of us.

Posted by: Kala | August 31, 2010, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

Obama and his clown posse are the gifts that keep on giving. On to November.

Posted by: Ted | August 31, 2010, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

RE-Education? Few if any of our esteemed politicians were educated about the contents of this train wreck when THEY voted for it! Don’t treat us like ignorant schoolchildren, you pompous, elitist phonies!

Posted by: Motivated2Vote! | August 31, 2010, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

I think I’ll wait for the government to tell me what I should think. That’s as patriotic as paying taxes, right?

Posted by: iowabill | August 31, 2010, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm

These are the best American elite universities can produce.
OR
They are handing out PhD’s to anyone who can afford them, no matter the character or intention of the person.

Posted by: JJ | August 31, 2010, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

Sebelius is absolutely correct about needing reeducation. The key question is “Who is it that needs reeducating?”

Posted by: CG | August 31, 2010, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm

The November re-education to which many of you are referring is actually just the first step. What we really need to be planning for is the election of 2012 when we will have the chance to get rid of this lying piece of crap and all these idiots that go along with him

Posted by: Victor | August 31, 2010, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

For those who prove immune the re-education it is clear they will need stronger treatment. Special facilities can be funded to provide these added services at no charge to the consumer no doubt. /sarc

Posted by: Jake | August 31, 2010, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

So the $250 rebates are a “feature” of the bill? How does that work?
If every year, senior citizens get a check, the question is is that financially viable?
If the rebate is a one time deal, how is this a “feature” and not a payoff?

Posted by: Jetch | August 31, 2010, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

Back in the old USSR, when they suggested ‘re-education’, it meant a trip to the gulag. Where do the dissenters get sent to these days in the USA?

Posted by: Sam Adams | August 31, 2010, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

Reeducation as in misinform, deceive, lie, spin and otherwise propagandize Obamacare so as to fool the public into supporting it in time for the elections.
The truth is that come January when many of us will find ourselves being knocked off our employer’s health insurance plans, we will be dreaming of a tarring and feathering of Kathleen Sebelius and the rest of the Obama regime for destroying what was the best health care system in the world.
Way to go democrats for trampling on the Constitution and ruling authoritatively against the will of the people.
Come November and 2012 you will find yourselves reminded that you work for us and not the other way around!

Posted by: Mark | August 31, 2010, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm

Hmmm….the “small people” are in revolt. Sixty three days until this administration gets “re-educated.”

Posted by: Miles Monroe | August 31, 2010, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

If I don’t comply my property will be seized- my God, what country am I living in? Re-educate me on that one, you low-down marxist shill. You ought to be run off.

Posted by: gb/nyc | August 31, 2010, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

The math doesn’t add up. Figures don’t lie, but liars figure…

Posted by: Spongebob4Prez | August 31, 2010, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

I was just ‘Re-educated” by NJ BlueCross/BlueShield. A premium increase of $10,000.00 for 4 people.

Posted by: Rich | August 31, 2010, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Translation: “The American are so dumb, they have to be re-educated (commonly called brain-washed)…again and again and again. We are grateful they have very short attention spans and memories.”

Posted by: TxnByBrth | August 31, 2010, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Repeal begins with the 2010 elections. Repeal the healthcare bill, repeal the stimlus and claw back any unspent money, repeal and unwind all of the bank bail outs and auto bail outs. Roll back socialism 2010!

Posted by: Joey Bag O Donuts | August 31, 2010, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

To re-education camp with you… Thinking you have the right to disagree with your masters. Foolishness.
Clearly the Secretary of the HHS is starting to read the Obamacare bill including all the passages “the Secretary will decide how”… and has decided she gets to do anything she wants.
Given the wording of the bill, she’s not far off. But I don’t think she gets to decided I have the wrong opinion and need “re-educated”. Unless they’ve added new provisions while I wasn’t looking.
She is given the right to refuse treatments to anyone and place them in State wards for the “transition” to death,
I’m not ill. In fact I’m feeling better. I don’t want to go on the cart… *THUMP* Bring Out Your Dead!

Posted by: Ertdfg | August 31, 2010, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

Perhaps they can send some of us to “reeducation camp” never to be heard from again.

Posted by: sicandtired | August 31, 2010, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

How are they gonna re-educate us? None of them know what’s in it anyway. Remember the Hon. Speaker Pelosi saying we have to pass it before we can find out what’s in it? Well, we did pass it and we still don’t know what’s in it – except for the drips and drabs that have been coming out, and those are scary enough. Remember them saying health care was going to cost less, well as it turns out they’re having to back off of that one already.

Posted by: Rob B. | August 31, 2010, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

Oh PUHLEESE Ms. Sebelius…no one in gov’t has read the bill..so how could you even begin to know all the nasty surprises that are in it? Must be terrible because the hospital where my husband works is holding a CE seminar on the “Ethics of Healthcare Rationing”. That should be a clue! A helluvan oxymoron…as if rationing could ever truly be ethical!

Posted by: momcasmi | August 31, 2010, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

DA! COMRADE SEBELIUS!
Open up the gulags for the dissenters of Obomunism!

Posted by: GunnyG | August 31, 2010, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

I, Imam O-Blamea-Bush, support this message!
REEDUCATE THE MASSES!
Da! Da! (Start Soviet Anthem here)

Posted by: GunnyG | August 31, 2010, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm

Hmmmm….”re-education”…Now where have I heard that word before????

Posted by: Eugene | August 31, 2010, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

I guess I must trudge off to the “re-education camp.”
Post-Vietnam Stress Disorder? No.
Post-Election Stress Disorder? Yes, and we’re all contagious.
How much cheaper would this health care fiasco have been if $250 checks were just sent out to all applicable Medicare folks without the other 2700 pages of regulations and nonsense?

Posted by: Rick20112 | August 31, 2010, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

Who the #ell did they survey ?????
Did they go straight to Nancy Pelosi’s staff and ask them to fill out a questionnairre.
Give me a break.

Posted by: jm | August 31, 2010, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm

We will re-educate you government employees in NOVEMBER

Posted by: pathenry | August 31, 2010, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm

Did she really say ‘reeducation.’ REEDUCATION!? Can this woman be any more clueless and out of touch?

Posted by: ChurchSox | August 31, 2010, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

terrific, the govt is going to double it’s efforts to tell us what to think, so much for liberty. does this mean they finally read the bill?

Posted by: JGALT | August 31, 2010, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

Remember that PA Townhall meeting she had with Arlen Spector where the people gave them a piece of their mind?
She whispers something to Spector.
It’s likely she said, “These dummies need to be re-educated.”
I pray there is such an electoral tsunami this Nov. that she and her ilk are stopped in there tracks.
And to the Repubs and Libertarians…..don’t screw us again turning in to dem-lite.

Posted by: Dane Wayne | August 31, 2010, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

Reeducation implies we knew something in the first place. An even larger comedy (sad as it may be), enforcement by the IRS. Really? Good luck with that! It’s amusing that Sebelius chose to withhold actual Obamacare cost estimates, because it “would confuse people too close to voting”

Posted by: freedomsjustanotherword | August 31, 2010, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

For every “independent” actuary who agrees with her, I can find two who don’t. For every “economist” who agrees with her, I can find 3 who don’t. Simply because she can trot out a couple of “house trolls” who will nod their heads in agreement every time she opens her pie hole does NOT mean she is either correct or even knows what she’s talking about. The only re-educating that’s needed here is a serious education in unemployment for these criminals we have in government today.

Posted by: Stephen Conant Johnson | August 31, 2010, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

Are government officials going to start knocking on our doors telling us we have to attend this “re-education?”

Posted by: craigmk1974 | August 31, 2010, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Posted by: Sashi | August 31, 2010, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm

If the liberals had their way all americans would be in reeducation camps being force fed the socialist mantra.
Death panels and reeducation camps. The liberal way.

Posted by: reason | August 31, 2010, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm

But big government handing out entitlements to them IS Socialism. Plain and simple. Let the market adjust itself, it always has and it always will much quicker and more effectively than when big government meddles with it. Then let the “unfortunate” get themselves a damned job, like I did to get my butt off welfare, and contribute to society instead of living off of it.

Posted by: Stephen Conant Johnson | August 31, 2010, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm

A bribe is a bribe is a bribe…… You can paint it anyway you want liberals it’s still a bribe just like Obie did to the hold out states. It amazes me how low these Demogods will go to buy a vote – Did I say buy shame on me..The American public should write it’s own law that all politicians will be covered under the same health plan – no exceptions as the general public plan that they have ramed up …Watch how quick they would find a fix. Follow the money America you may be surprised where the trail leads. Go America! Oh I almost forgot it’s still Bush’s fault!

Posted by: Boy Scout | August 31, 2010, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm

Of course there is confusion about this law: even the legislators who passed it didn’t read it. For those few moonbats who get “the warm fuzzies” about Obamacare, consider that the IRS is broadly in charge of its implementation, mandates, enforcement and of course your most intimate personal information — if that doesn’t give you the cold creepies you are not firing on all cylinders!

Posted by: Eric | August 31, 2010, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm

How about “re-educating” obama?!

Posted by: Chisco3 | August 31, 2010, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

“My view is actually supported by independent actuaries, by economists and by the Congressional Budget Office,” Sebelius said.”
Is that the same CBO that offered exactly the numbers Obama needed to persuade the blue dems to vote for the bill then later suggested that this is going to cost an arm and a leg? That same CBO?
Did she happen to speak to the corporations like John Deere who was anticipating 800 Million in costs per year due to the bill?

Posted by: NoneofYourBusiness | August 31, 2010, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm

Reeducation=Brainwashing for the dumb….Sorry, Sebelius but more and more of us are catching on.

Posted by: 86ahb | August 31, 2010, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

All the ‘disinformation’ and lies are coming from Obama, Sebelius, and the Admin. They are the ones who need re-education, not us!

Posted by: Who Wants to Know | August 31, 2010, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm

Let’s “re-educate” Kathleen in what the word “repeal” means and how it is spelled. I can’t believe these idiots continue to flaunt this incredibly flawed bill this close to the election. Stupid? Arrogant? Deaf? Dumb? Blind? The libs can check all of the boxes above.

Posted by: badgerboy23 | August 31, 2010, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm


I was actually reeducated today. My insurance sent me a letter stating that my premium would be going up by $145 a month. When I called and asked why, they stated the new health plan the government is implementing.
Fabulous. I am not surprised.”
Posted by: hatehealthcarereform | Aug 30, 2010 9:01:42 PM
You must have missed the part where Obama said “If you like your insurance you can keep your insurance”, and “Your costs will go down”.
Don’t worry. Reeducation will take care of that for you.

Posted by: ebystrom | August 31, 2010, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm

The single section we can be absolutely certain every legislator who voted for the bill read: the section that doubtless exempts them from all the onerous garbage contained in the rest of bill. Those folks are morally scabrous.

Posted by: Viejoverde | August 31, 2010, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

Selected pages are reviewed by various YouTube users. It’s even worse than we think.
The time for education — and PERSUASION — was when Obama was elected. Americans don’t tolerat fiat lawmaking very well.
It IS about time the socialists managed to gore (no pun intended) EVERYONE’S ox. They’ve taken little bites, with the nationalization of the auto industry and the financial industry. EVERYBODY goes to the doctor, however.

Posted by: Defender | August 31, 2010, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

Sebiculous and friends need to revamp their lies.

Posted by: astatist | August 31, 2010, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

Rebates, bribes? Indeed. It’s OUR money, confiscated involuntarily, then rationed back to us if we’re good little collectivists.
When I said “little bites,” I meant anything but little, but little compare to socialized medicine. 20% and 35% of the national economy, respectively. Now, with healthcare “reform,” the Executive Branch now has direct control — through “czars” — of over half the economy. Congress is superfluous. Not that they’ve been good stewards of public trust, no matter the party affiliation. The PATRIOT Act of 2001 was also one of those “You have to pass it so you can see what’s in it” deals, with a Republican president and congressional majority.

Posted by: Defender | August 31, 2010, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

democrats, republicans all the same. liars, cheats and power hungry. don’t give a rats ass about what is good for the country. look behind every piece of legislation and you’ll find someone is making off with a boatload of money. at least with healthcare it’s more obvious who is benefiting and who is not. health care is going up up up, not down down down and everybody knows it. its just a cash grab before the whole place goes up in smoke.

Posted by: Larry | August 31, 2010, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm

If our “representatives” didn’t bother to read it, and clearly don’t understand what is in it, then who wrote it? Isn’t that their job?
The only time you jam a bill through without all parties having an opportunity to read/discuss/understand it is when you are trying to pull a fast one.
The time for “education” was before the bill passed. Transparency, my sweet bippy!

Posted by: Dimsdale | August 31, 2010, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

“REEDUCATION” — reminds me of Chairman Mao, Stalin and Orwell!

Posted by: Joe | August 31, 2010, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

people people i am laughing so hard it is hard to see the letters.
the more they talk the more they show what they believe and what they will try shove down our throats.
reeducation sounds so orwellian or maoist. if bush was bad? these people are pathetic. no matter how the media kisses up to them! nov cant come fast enough even though i will age another year but it will be a great present to throw every democrat out that voted for this 2000 page travesty!

Posted by: carlb | August 31, 2010, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

Reeducation? So the reason we don’t love this bill is – we’re stupid. I’ve come to expect no less from an administration that cannot connect with the American people. From their view, the only reason we don’t love it is – we don’t understand it.
They’re the ones who will be reeducated. We plan to school them all come November. They have that long, to make it work.

Posted by: Milo Cook | August 31, 2010, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

Does anyone remember “Putting Lipstick on a Pig–still makes it a Pig”
???????????

Posted by: G_Jean | August 31, 2010, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

On page 339 it states that “all death panels must include Paul the Leprechaun and Charlie the Unicorn.”

Posted by: goldmiddlefinger | August 31, 2010, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

1984.

Posted by: Vince | August 31, 2010, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

Visit a Reeducation center near you today!

Posted by: goldmiddlefinger | August 31, 2010, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

Did ABC News ask Sebelius if she has read the full bill? Given the number of members of Congress that voted for the bill without reading it maybe this would have been a good question to ask. Maybe the “reeducation” should start with those members of Congress who did not read the bill. Of course a simpler approach would be to vote them all out of office in November and for the voters to require any newly elected (or appointed – Sebelius!) government officials to read bills prior to turning them into laws! It is time to shut this government down and vote a new one into office!

Posted by: dave | August 31, 2010, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

This is Commie talk. I guess it is time to open the Gulags … opps, I mean the “reeducation camps”.

Posted by: Jim | August 31, 2010, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm

WOW! You mean the Seniors are actually going to get a whopping $250 check every year! Kathy… you guys in Washington are just too generous. The seniors must be just giddy all over to know that you will be there for them with that big, fat check every year.

Posted by: sixgun | August 31, 2010, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm

Isn’t it a eye-opener, whenever there’s an article on Obama and his lackeys, at least 90% are opposed to them. I don’t care which news outlet, it’s the same. In other words, the donkeys will get their collective -sses handed to them in November. Let’s make them squeak as we kick them out.

Posted by: TomS | August 31, 2010, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm

Hey Kathleen, NO means NO! What part of NO do you dems not understand?

Posted by: Craigster | August 31, 2010, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

Kathy… click your heels together 3 times and you’ll be back in Kansas again, away from Washington, NOT causing the country any damage!

Posted by: sixgun | August 31, 2010, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

Ok .. I give. I’ll join in. I’ve dutifully purchased health insurance for the last 30 years, paid off my credit cards, purchased a house 6 years ago that I could afford instead of what the bank said I could.
I give up.
I’m going to start being irresponsible. I want to lower my house payment, but because I’m on time I can’t. So it’s time to stop making my house payment.
I think I need to look more into this health care bill. Maybe if I quit job job I can just go on the public dole and not have to worry about it. Hmmm..that might also help me with reducing my house payment.
I’m tired of being the only responsible person in this country and getting screwed. Wealth redistribution??
Here is what wealth redistribution really is about. Johnny goes to high school. He works hard and gets straight A’s. But Timmy is having a hard time. He isn’t as smart or doesn’t work as hard or has a bad family life, and keeps getting F’s. So let’s take 20 points from Johnny, since a ‘C’ is good enough, and give them to Timmy so he can pass. After all, Timmy deserves to pass, doesn’t he?? And really, who needs A’s, a ‘C’ is good enough to graduate.

Posted by: JohnF | August 31, 2010, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

OBAMACARE WILL BE REPEALED SO DO NOT WORRY.
Sebilius will be going to prison for crimes of high treason. The new Congress will be arresting many Democrats for treason.

Posted by: racialcoward | August 31, 2010, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

can I bring my own sleeping bag?

Posted by: me2 | August 31, 2010, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm

FEMA RE-EDUCATION CENTERS ARE READY.
As soon as you arrive at your assigned FEMA Re-education center, everyone will have to take showers.

Posted by: racialcoward | August 31, 2010, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm

Do these people not understand that we have caught o to them? Maybe they need educating.

Posted by: samiches4 | August 31, 2010, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

No socialism to see here. Move along to the re-education terminal…

Posted by: johneb | August 31, 2010, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

Medicare and Social Security will not survive unless we tweak the current health care reform bill.
It’s a great start but a lousy finish.

Posted by: Pa HSA Plans | September 1, 2010, 12:07 am 12:07 am

1) It’s a healthcare “takeover.” “Reform” is a semantically null politician-word intended to lull the reader into a false sense of security. I expect the politicians behind it to engage in such tactics, but would you “journolists” at least please call it what it is instead of parroting the party line? It is your job to report the truth, after all.
2) It’s just hard to get the help these days, isn’t it? “Reeducation”?! What kind of idiot would use a word with that kind of negative connotation? Ask a hundred literate adults what comes to mind when they hear the word education, and I’d bet 99 of them would say “camps.” If I was president and one of my cabinet secretaries made a gaffe like that, I’d have them dropped down an elevator shaft.

Posted by: David M. Schmidt | September 1, 2010, 12:12 am 12:12 am

Actually, Sebelius and the Democrats are going to be “reeducated”, beginning on Nov 2.

Posted by: TArbiter | September 1, 2010, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm

Send the media dog washing propagandists to re-eduction internment camps.

Posted by: Raul | September 1, 2010, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

Reeducation, a term used by communists for years. If you don’t believe their lies, you must be reeducated.
OBAMACARE isn’t about healthcare, it’s a TAX!
They even had to admit that in federal court.

Posted by: Bill | September 1, 2010, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

May I please have a govt pell grant so I can afford my re-education?

Posted by: nathan | September 1, 2010, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm

“Re-education” is a euphemism used in totalitarian societies for stifiling dissent.

Posted by: bayarea | September 1, 2010, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm

The Obama administration mistakenly believes that they can bamboozle us into believing a dog pile is a rose. Very few even listen to any of them anymore, and even fewer believe a word they say.
Time to clean house in November and throw these “progressives” (socialists) out!

Posted by: SamAdams25 | September 1, 2010, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

Remember way back when when Sarah Palin said something to the effect, “Obamacare is a death sentence for seniors.” and everybody said she was crazy. She sure doesn’t look too crazy now especially since Medicare will be headed up by someone who believes in cutting services to help redistribute wealth.

Posted by: P Venuto | September 3, 2010, 2:47 am 2:47 am

Whenever politicians say the word “education” in ANY context, they actually mean “propaganda and indoctrination”. For Christ’s sake, these people don’t understand the bill that they signed, and now they have the pretense to tell us that WE don’t understand?

Posted by: John | September 4, 2010, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

I am in favor of Obamacare. Last year when I got into the coverage gap( also known as the donut hole) I had to put so much out of pocket for drugs with no generics. Also know someone who has a child with a pre-existing condition that can be covered as of Sept. 23. It can cost a fortune in medical bills without coverage. Also available for adults in a couple of years..There are still many who do not know what is in this Health Bill. After last summer many people relate it to “death panels”

Posted by: Marguerite Vincz | September 10, 2010, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

I like Obamacare. Children can not be excluded because of pre-existing conditions. I have a friend with a child with a serious condition. This can land up costing tremendous amounts of money.
Seniors will begin to close the donut hole. By next year there will be a 50% off of drug costs. Anything helps. Adult children up to the age of 26 can remain on their parents health plan. Within a couple of years the adults will not be declined because of pre-existing conditions also. There will also be free preventive screenings & insurance companies will not be allowed to impose a lifetime limit on coverage.

Posted by: Marguerite Vincz | September 11, 2010, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm

If there is *anyone* that needs “reeducation” ala Soviet Style re-education facilities, it would be Sebelius herself. When she says: “My view is actually supported by independent actuaries, by economists and by the Congressional Budget Office,” she is flat out lying. The CBO, in January, said the style of accounting she wants to use does not work. You *cannot* both spend the money and save it. Funny, but when they are talking about the economy, everything *is* a zero sum game, but if the government is involved, somehow *that* spending of money magically produces *more* money DIRRECTLY IN THEIR COFFERS!!! The CBO and the Chief Actuary of Medicare on 04/22/2010 both issued reports to deny every major claim she makes about the financial benefits these “magical” accounting methodologies are supposed to produce. She is ENRON in the Federal Government, and if she made these kinds of claims on Financial Statements as the CEO of a Publically Traded Company in the US, the SEC would be putting her in jail, and quite easily, I might add!
The Truth is this: One of the actuaries with the greatest access to data where there is, even according to Sebelius herself, a “paucity” of reliable data to make the sweeping conjectures she wishes to promote as the Gospel according to Obama, disagrees quite pointedly with her. And because his methodology is above reproach, even though he is an employee she has the power to fire, she won’t do it because at the point she does so, she opens herself personally up to a Lawsuit that could quite possibly prove her to be a Fraud in the eyes of the LAW!
The CBO does NOT support her claims. Read a digest of the warnings they issued on 04/22/2010. She advises that you “not pay attention” to the person behind the Curtain. So says the great and powerful OZ! Sorry, but I look behind the curtain. I know some of you may not, but I’ll tell you what I see and well, she doesn’t like it!
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Posted by: Clearbrook | September 14, 2010, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm

Isn’t “reeducation” what they did in Russian gulags and in Chinese labor camps during the Cultural Revolution?

Posted by: Gary S | September 16, 2010, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm

Cheney/Gregg’s Deficit Reduction Act 2005, passed in RECONCILIATION, illegally with two different documents in the House and Senate, taxes the middle class elderly the total amount of their life savings if they need a nursing home. Most of these nursing homes are non-profit to boot, as it is in my parent’s case.
In my parent’s case this was $600+ a day for 1.5 years before MassHealth (yes Massachusetts) would consider their application. So my parents paid out their total life savings @ $600 a day to subsidize all the others in the nonprofit nursing home who are already on Medicaid.
This is the Cheney/Gregg’s method of reduction of the deficit…off the back of WWII Disabled Vets (my parents) who remain alive long enough to need a nursing home. If they passed away before they needed the nursing home their life savings would have been inherited tax free (less than 2M).
Now that their life savings has gone to the nonprofit and Medicaid has kicked in, my parents still have to pay the nonprofit their retirement income of $69,348 a year, as it should be!!!!!! …but only after Medicaid demands they continue to pay their Medicare and Federal Blue Cross insurance premiums of $5,505 a year. They have prescription coverage under their Medigap policy, but they still were forced to Medicare D.
Why wasn’t their retirement income of $69,348 (minus the premiums of $5,505 still required of them going to Medicare and Federal Blue Cross) enough for the nonprofit nursing home from the date of their admissions? Ask Cheney/Gregg.
Gregg says now… “ We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses,” Gregg wrote in his letter to Obama this week. “Report after report also confirms that health care costs are a systemic risk to the long-term fiscal health of our nation.”
He apparently forgot about his Deficit Reduction Act 2005 he passed in reconciliation which does exactly this to the elderly needing nursing homes who have saved more than $2,000 in their lifetime and not hidden it.
Cheney/Gregg’s DRA 2005 is the perfect example of how the GOP reduces the deficit off the backs of WWII Vets with a tax of $300+/day…the perfect storm of GOP, health care debate let them eat cake and GOP hypocrisy.
Medicare does not cover nursing homes. My parent’s life savings does.
Watch Sen. Gregg “not” answer the hard questions about what he did here.
The Cheney/Gregg Deficit Reduction Act 2005, passed in reconciliation, is the largest case of Elder Middle-class WWII Disabled Vet Financial Abuse in History!!
Wake up all you elders who are on Medicare or Medicare Advantage and LOVE them. Cheney/Gregg are counting on you and your families to remain hapless while they take your life savings from you if you ever need long-term care.
The gentleman in the next room to my parents purchased long-term-care insurance to protect his assets. It turns out that this policy will not pay for his long-term care now (he was duped by the countless loopholes).
So his and my parents life savings are paying for all the others in that nonprofit nursing home who hid their assets and/or are already on Medicaid.
Pay close attention to how Gregg backpedals from what he did to the elderly with his Deficit Reduction Act 2005 that passed in reconciliation. He counted on the elderly to be and remain ignorant until they are admitted into nonprofit nursing homes…

Posted by: transparency | September 21, 2010, 5:55 am 5:55 am

anybody notice premiums have gone up since the dems got this shoved down our throats?

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