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Home Front: Politix
Sebelius: Health care repeal would take away personal freedoms
2011-01-05
President Barack B.O. Obama's top health care official says Republican repeal of his overhaul law would take away personal freedoms and put power back in the hands of insurance companies.
Oh, noze! Not somebody who knows something about insurance!
Previewing the administration's counterattack, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that new benefits under the law have freed millions of Americans from worry that they'll lose or be denied coverage, while making it easier for small businesses to sponsor a policy for their employees.
Posted by:Fred

#16  I have watched Sibelius over the years and think she would be equally at home in an SS uniform putting people on a train to Dachau or in Commissar clothing sending the ideologically impure to work on Siberia's Road of Bones. Just has that special quality.
Posted by: Sgt. D.T.   2011-01-05 23:37  

#15  right up there with "arbeit macht frei"? eh?
Posted by: Frank G   2011-01-05 21:35  

#14  So according to Sebelius, a tool of the abortion industry and the collectivists and socialists of the far left in the Dem party: "Freedom is Slavery".
Posted by: OldSpook   2011-01-05 21:33  

#13  John Boehner grew up poor in Cincinnati. The family bar is currently being run by his sister, but it's still the neighborhood dive it was then -- not much to support such a large family. He worked third shift jobs to pay for college. Quite unlike Secretary Sebelius, who went to quite one of the nicest private schools in Cincinnati. I don't think our new Speaker of the House will have any trouble facing down a highly educated Summit Country Day girl.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-01-05 21:13  

#12  So far, Boehner is really stepping up. He is sure making the Kos kiddies howl, that's for sure. The new rules are also looking good. Hopefully he continues on this course. And this really makes me glee: Finally, and perhaps most controversially, Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, will have the authority to set the top line budget numbers for the year -- a change from the previous process, which went through the Budget Committee.

Looks like the Republicans are serious about de-funding Obamacare and several agencies.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-01-05 19:29  

#11  Boehner Tells Off DingyRUSH LIMBAUGH: John Boehner -- I don't know if you know this or not.  This is really cool.  Harry Reid told Boehner, (paraphrasing) "Don't bother to repeal Obamacare in the House. Don't even bother, because it's gonna fail in the Senate.  Don't even bother with it."  So there you have the Senate majority leader telling the new speaker, "Forget it, don't even mess with repealing Obamacare. It's just gonna fail over here, why you gonna waste your time, don't even do it."  From TheHill.com, here's Boehner's response: "Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Murray and Stabenow:  Thank you for reminding us -- and the American people -- of the backroom deal that you struck behind closed doors with 'Big Pharma,' resulting in bigger profits for the drug companies, and higher prescription drug costs for 33 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D, at a cost to the taxpayers of $42.6 billion.  The House is going to pass legislation to repeal that now.  You're welcome."  Whoa!  Whoa-ho-ho!  Right back atcha, Dingy Harry.  You know, this is the kind of thing you and I would say.  Boehner actually did it.  It's in TheHill.com, he actually wrote that reply back to them.  He basically said, "Up yours," in polite lingo, of course.  




Posted by: wr   2011-01-05 18:45  

#10  It is an opportunistic infection of Cronys' Disease.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-01-05 16:30  

#9  Except that nobody is buying. Bad karma, that. Tends to undercut the proposition.
Posted by: mojo   2011-01-05 16:05  

#8  How about this for personal freedom? I would prefer to put my health care into a private insurance company's hands where I can move to another company if I am not happy with the service or choose to drop them all together rather than be on a government program where I have no choice to precipitate or not and what is covered or not.

Still don't understand? Then go back to Soviet Russia bitch and leave us alone before we throw you out forcefully.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-01-05 13:24  

#7  How would she know? She still probably hasn't read the damn thing. The only people who have, apparently, are those that question it, and they come away horrified.

Was that bill computer generated or something? If it was, likely by the same "Al Gore"-rithms that predicted that by now, because of MMGW, the surface of the Earth would be uninhabitably hot.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-01-05 12:41  

#6  "Freedom from worry" is not a right.

"Freedom from Government" IS.
Posted by: Ptah   2011-01-05 12:08  

#5  Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that new benefits under the law have freed millions of Americans from worry that they'll lose or be denied coverage

What a spinmeister! Nice name for liar. More like it has broken the country and enslaved all of us to the Federal government. Washington takes our money and maybe doles out part of it back to us and then they call it a good deal. Health care costs were not supposed to increase. That didn't happen. You were supposed to be able to keep your insurance and your doctor. That didn't happen either.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-01-05 10:26  

#4  I think Sebelius is referring to her personal freedoms.
Posted by: Matt   2011-01-05 09:10  

#3  If Obamacare is so excellent - why isn't Congress, Obama and his cabinet, and Sebelius on it?

BTW: Sebelius sounds like a real nasty disease....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-01-05 01:01  

#2  Also, it's YOU PEOPLE that say the exact opposite of what things really are with your "doublespeak".

Your healthcare plan is a bag of shit. Repeal it.
Posted by: newc   2011-01-05 00:59  

#1  Problem is lady, the Federal Government is not really competent in anything it is actually supposed to do, it is not run by 20 year med students or accountants. Another problem lady is people like you that are not competent in anything at all.
Posted by: newc   2011-01-05 00:55  

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