THE CANCER OF LIES

When the right wants to deny healthcare for the vast majority of Americans they point out to the incredible cost asking how would we balance the budget? No mention (of course) of tax cuts for themselves which really helps imbalance the budget. But what they talk about is the high cost of lingering diseases, not mentioned by name but of course cancer is right up there with those. Interestingly, the American Cancer Society has just come out with figures (and so far they are not disputed) that cancer is only 5% of the healthcare in this country. Interesting, and while it’s been more expensive than it was decades ago, we shouldn’t consider the expense, we should consider the savings.

HEALTH AND SUFFERING

The Senate passed the health care reform bill 60-39, and Sen. Harry Reid was so tired that he mistakenly voted "no" and had to be corrected. Interestingly, on Wall St. the health care stocks have dropped a small amount in share price. Does this mean that they wont have the 480% profits anymore and might have to settle for 300%? How terrible. The ones getting helped here are American humanity. Our latest naming nomination for the health care bill is the "American health humanity bill".

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THE RIGHT LEFT EARLIER

In a pre-Christmas vote, the Senate passed the Obama health care reform bill. The last time a Senate vote was done on Christmas eve was 104 years ago in 1895. Like social security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965, this will one day be considered a "groundbreaking" piece of legislation. Unlike in those votes however, this time were no Republican crossovers who voted to support this bill. What does that tell us? That the needs of the American people (however slowly) are being met, and those needs are not left, and it tells us what the right has left namely the American people. Interestingly,m the vote was 60-39 (not 60-40) because 1 Republican left early for Christmas and didn't even bother to vote. Surely he would tell you that the future of this nation hangs on stopping this bill, as long as he didn't have to be there to do it.

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THE GOP GETS TO NO BY BEING SLOW

Senator Mitch McConnell is of course criticizing the Obama administration's efforts to reform health care and admitted that the Republicans did everything they could to slow down the process of passing the bill. They wanted to go slowly (if at all) prompting us to nickname them the "party of slow". Interestingly, a bit of history about the party of slow and particularly Sen. McConnell; One of his major objections is that this bill will cut Medicare (actually it's a 21% drop in doctors fees in the coming year). Yet Mr. McConnell's record as a leader of the party of slow regarding Medicare; In 1995 he voted for 270 billion dollars in cuts over 7 years. In 1996 he voted for an additional 158 billion in cuts over 6 years. In 1997 he wanted to slow the growth some more and voted again for 393 billion in cuts. In the party of slow Mitch McConnell is the lead turtle.

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THE NAME IS THE GAME

A couple months ago on Meet The Press, Thomas Friedman stated what might be the golden rule in politics. He said "when you can name an issue you own the issue". Look at how the Republicans have called the inheritance tax the "death tax", and look at the way they have been able to call the womans right to choose "anti life". With regards to health care, what been lacking sorely on the right is frankly a good name from the left. So we thought up a couple choices and they all come down to security. How about the "health security act" or the "American security act" or the "insurance security act". To name it is to claim it and for health care (as will everything in politics) that's the name of the game.

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DIABETES REDUCTION, SWEET

Research has shown that for every cup of tea or coffee that you drink daily, you lower the risk if getting diabetes by 7% You get your caffeine, you get your jolt, and you are improving your health.

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NEWS SHOCKER; RIGHT WING REMARKS ON MEDICARE BASS ACKWARD

The right wing has actually gotten a fact wrong on the health care debate (who would have guessed?). According to the AARP, the Republican remarks that Medicare is going to be cut back in the Obama plan were either mistaken or deliberate lies. There are no recommended cuts in benefits, in fact according to AARP there are major increases in Medicare. Also, the so called "doughnut hole" will be filled and seniors will be able to buy drugs at cheaper prices. This is shocking; who could have thought the Republicans could have been so bass ackward on the health care debate? Could it happen a 2nd time?

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THE TRUTH WILL SET YOUR FEE

There is something called the health blue book which is a website that tells you how much your health care actually costs the insurance companies so we can get a feel if the markup is anything close to reasonable. We think the health care markup is similar to the stadium beer markup. In Yankees stadium, Citifield, and Fenway park they sell a cup of beer for $8.00 and their cost is 25 cents per bottle. What this blue book can do is make a lot of states feel blue or turn blue on the the health care matter; We have a feeling that the insurance companies will have their superb profits insured. This is an industry that devoted 20% of its workforce to NOT serving its function, their sole job is to DENY claims.

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FROM WEALTH CARE TO HEALTH CARE

Could the same people who resisted social security and Medicare (and have been historically proven wrong, as we at the Faux have often pointed out) really attempt it again? Please understand that when real health care reform happens there will be tumult, threats, socialism, people will cry that the sky is falling, communism, fascism, Nazism, but ultimately it will become sacred. In future generations, the same people that are against the Democrats and Obama now will be then, only they will claim to support his health care policies as they do now with social security and Medicare. We are offering a special prize for whoever can come up with the originator of the following saying; "true conservatism is to believe that nothing should ever be done for the first time". This country is all about doing things for the first time, and that's why we support health care, not wealth care.

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FAHRENHEIT 480

No developed country on earth has a private insurance industry that is so profit driven and so high priced that it eats up such a huge percentage of every dollar that Americans earn. In the last 8 years they have ad a 480% profit, and 20% of their workforce is devoted to denying claims. Its as if 20% of the police or fire departments were devoted to stop the call answering of the other 80%. Why is this sustainable? Well, lets just say for starters they donate heavily to political campaign, and mainly to Republicans. Not to say that other parties are free from their own glitch, as we know that "independent" Joe Lieberman's wife is on the payroll of the insurance industry. For 70 years there has been no major health reform, and the Republicans now claim that they have their own bill with better options (under the "fair as they gotta be" doctrine). We ask, what stopped them from putting together this bill when they had a Republican President, house, and Senate? We answer, its because of the Republican donors, and its burning up the economy!

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A JOE LIEBERMAN WAKE UP??

Yesterday on Meet the Press, Joe Lieberman (I-CT) may have lost some cred for the anti-insomniac Jo-Do's, which of course is a recording of his voice. He said he would not vote for a health care bill that would raise the deficit. To his credit David Gregory responded by asking Joe if he would vote for the Afghanistan troop increase which is unfunded, and Joe has voted for them throughout the Bush years even though they were never funded. Joe candidly admitted that until Bush we had never gone to war without having a plan to fund it, Joe acknowledged that because of the wars we are in the economic hardships that we currently face. This admission is a wake up by Sen. Lieberman, and while we still endorse Joe as a cure for insomnia, his words yesterday actually had a waking up effect.

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HEARD FROM 'DELAY KAY'

Senator Kay Hutchinson (R-TX) has tried to explain away Sen. Dick Durban's assertion that the Republicans have slowed down the debate on the health care reform bill. She said "we just saw the bill Thursday". Obviously. And you never knew what was in it, and you never knew that a health care bill was even coming, huh? Where were the clues Kay? It was in all the papers! We may hear more and more from good 'ole delay Kay.

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FRIDAY FAUXLOSOPHY

What do you think about this quote "Medicare is socialized medicine, soon doctors will be told where they can move and soon they will tell your son where he can work". What kind of radical, fringe and historically wrong politician would come up with this? Well that was Ronald Reagan in 1961. When do they ever get it right? So many people from the left and right agree that once the health care bill gets passed it will become sacred and appreciated. It will become untouchable just like Medicare. The same Medicare the Republicans tried to defeat in the 1960's.

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SAVINGS FROM TORT REFORM? EVEN 1 IS THE PHONIEST NUMBER

Folks we have a new hero and he is Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL). As you may have heard, in the health care debate in Congress he said the Republican plan is to get sick and die quickly. At least, that's what many people think he said. What he really said was to stay healthy and as a "fallback" if you get sick...then die quickly. He also pointed out that when the Bush people were fighting for tort reform, the sent their own committee to get the facts and prove what Mr. Bush wanted to prove, namely that the amount of the health care dollars wasted by trials for damages according to their figures (with all they could throw in) were 1% of the money spent. Others say it was less that .5%.

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TRUST BUSTED

For 60 years the insurance companies have had an anti trust exemption. We at Faux News don't entirely understand all the nuances except that since they are backing out of some of their promises on health care reform at the 11th hour, President Obama in his radio address mentioned that they had gotten these anti trust exemptions for 60 years, and perhaps that should end. What is interesting about the insurance industry (among many things) is that they used to spend 95% of their budget on health care premiums and now they spend 80%. The rest is paid out in ever increasing bonuses while their clients have ever increasing struggles. As David Axelrod pointed out, 10 years ago the health insurance premiums were half of what they are now and 95% of their budget was spent on health care payouts. This has changed, and is a trust busted, and it may force the president to bust the trust. We have said before that our President has some very assassin like qualities. But the British government never minded James Bond because he was THEIR assassin.

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SOME HEALTH PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE

Regarding the approval and choice which medical tests have - choice being whats best for ones health and approval being getting paid for it - please consider the following; doctors have an allegiance to their patients called a Hippocratic oath. HMO's have an allegiance to their stockholders, its called their bottom line.

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GOP= GOOD ON PRINCIPLES

Yes, there are Republicans who are principled. Yes, there are Republicans who would vote for the health care bill that Americans need to stop sick people from losing insurance. We can (and will) give you the names; Former majority leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole, former majority leader Bill Frist, former HHS secretary Tommy Thomson are among those who have come out publicly in favor of the health reform bill. These are recent statements of support, all expressing their support in the first week of October. Here is the funny whimsical part of these good 'ole principles; somehow they all do it when they are out of office or leaving office. Maybe that has to be the secret weapon of the Obama administration, to find those Republicans who are leaving office and get their support...they may be his best bet. Even these 3 have some problems with the plan, but it just seems that Republicans become more principled the less they become Republican. This goes back to Sonia Sotomayor, of the 9 Republicans that voted for her...4 were leaving office.

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FAUX PHACTOLOGY

The following criticisms of Obamas health care plan are It will give health care to illegal immigrants It will use federal money to pay for abortions There will be a government takeover of health care The government will decide on the care for the elderly Now, these faux phactologies can be found in roughly half the country and we will tell you where. 55% of the country believes health care will be given to illegal immigrants. 57% believes federal money will fund abortions. 54% believe the government will take over health care. And 45% believe the government will decide on care for the elderly. Where these faux phacts are found are solely in the minds of people who believe them. An extensive fact check by all major news networks led by NBC has shown that none of these items exist in ANY of the proposed plans. So these fears only exist in the minds of people who haven’t checked the facts, and as we have seen when the fear kicks in the Republicans take over the press. We revisit the line we attribute to Karl “Roosevelt” Rove; we have nothing to fear other than not having the use of fear itself.

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SCATTERSHOT FROM THE GRASSLEY KNOLL

Senator Chuck Grassley (R) from Iowa came out with one of the most fascinating admissions about himself, bipartisanship and the Republican party in general. He admitted there might be a health bill passed which had a compromise on the public option which he basically liked and which would do America a lot of good. But he didn’t say he would vote for it, because he would have to convince his Republican colleagues that what he already knows is right is really right. Just one more scattershot from the Grassley knoll.

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THE DEATH AFTER DEATH PANEL

In 2003 President Bush signed into law an expansion of Medicare which included the same end of life counseling that the Democrats are proposing to make optional in the new health care reform bill. So, in all fairness we would have to consider that the first death panel. What we have now is (not life after death but) death after death. Somehow in 2003 no one seemed to mind this counseling and it was never termed a “death panel”.

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