Hmm: 83% Of Doctors Have Considered Quitting Thanks To Obamacare

By William Teach July 10, 2012 – 7:41 am

The obvious solution is to mandate that doctors keep working under Comrade Obama

(The Daily Caller) Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

The DPMA, a non-partisan association of doctors and patients, surveyed a random selection of 699 doctors nationwide. The survey found that the majority have thought about bailing out of their careers over the legislation, which was upheld last month by the Supreme Court.

Even if doctors do not quit their jobs over the ruling, America will face a shortage of at least 90,000 doctors by 2020. The new health care law increases demand for physicians by expanding insurance coverage. This change will exacerbate the current shortage as more Americans live past 65.

Well, O-care will simply deem that people are doctors. If we just gave more money to Obama donors those medical jobs would magically appear. Obviously, though, these darned doctors who get themselves in enormous debt to earn their licenses are big meanies who are refusing to do their part for The State.

The DPMA found that many doctors do not believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will lead to better access to medical care for the majority of Americans, co-founder of the DPMA Kathryn Serkes told TheDC.

“Doctors clearly understand what Washington does not — that a piece of paper that says you are ‘covered’ by insurance or ‘enrolled’ in Medicare or Medicaid does not translate to actual medical care when doctors can’t afford to see patients at the lowball payments, and patients have to jump through government and insurance company bureaucratic hoops,” she said.

Doctors are already refusing to take more Medicare and Medicaid patients. Even before O-care this was happening, thanks to the red tape, idiotic paperwork, low reimbursement costs and slow reimbursement times. It isn’t going to get better, especially when the “death panels”, ie, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, starts telling doctors how to treat their patients.

No one should be shocked that doctors weren’t consulted as to the effects of O-care.

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Team Obama Admits It’s Campaign Will Be Mostly Negative

By William Teach July 10, 2012 – 7:15 am

But, then, what else does Obama have to run on? A failed economic stimulus plan that wasted a billion dollars? A highly unpopular healthcare bill? The Lilly Ledbetter Act, which was so wonderful that the Democrats tried to pass legislation that did the same thing again this year? Drone strikes that make his base insane(r)? Raising taxes? What?

(ABC News) Both candidates say this election is about the economy. But the Obama campaign has done its best to make everything about Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney’s Swiss bank accounts. His vast wealth. His vacations.

Ann Romney said the Obama campaign is trying to “kill” her husband.

Here’s how President Obama put it during a campaign speech on Friday in Ohio, the same day a government jobs report showed little growth and an unchanged unemployment rate:

“Mr. Romney’s experience — because he always says, ‘I’ve got a lot of business experience; I know how to create jobs,’ — well, look, his company that he started were called the pioneers of business outsourcing. The pioneers of outsourcing. So that’s his experience.”

Obama’s campaign speech was a model for what has become his strategy: talk about the economy only when necessary, and spend as much time as possible chipping away at Romney’s secretive and corporate background.

All his peeps have taken the same track, going after Romney on a personal level, despite those attacks having been proven completely false. Obama has to attempt to shift the message, because his time in office has been one where he has presided over some of the worst economic conditions in the United States ever. And it’s not getting better. Obama has done such a wonderful job that many Democrats have publicly announced that they won’t be attending the DNC in September.

As for the attacks on Romney, does Team Obama have any evidence? If they did, they’d trot it out.

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Warmists Concerned With How To Communicate A Dying Cult

By William Teach July 9, 2012 – 3:15 pm

Warmist Adam Corner is quite concerned just how to communicate to people who really aren’t that concerned with the dying cult of Gore. I have a great idea, but, we’ll get to that (I bet you can guess what I’ll offer)

(Guardian) As the dust settles on another disappointing international sustainability summit, many who work on the myriad of issues around climate change and sustainable development are taking stock. And for those who are involved in promoting public engagement with climate change, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that times are tough.

The enthusiastic, hopeful – almost urgent – buzz of public awareness and expectation that existed five years ago has long since transformed into a low, background hum. There has been no weakening of the scientific evidence that climate change – attributable to human activity – poses a range of serious risks. But there has been some weakening of the social consensus that is essential for meaningful action to minimise these risks. While claims of a collapse in public opinion are exaggerated, there is no denying that scepticism about the nature and seriousness of climate change has increased – rather than decreased – in recent years.

Where public opinion about climate change could once be characterised as a state of mild concern, it has now become an amiable – or even disinterested – shrug. The more sophisticated analyses of trends in public opinion point to a clear link between the priority with which politicians and the media have treated climate change (linked to the economic crisis), and the weight it is assigned by members of the public. The issue has moved from centre stage to somewhere barely visible in the wings. Is it any surprise people have stopped paying attention?

And the solutions offered by Corner? The same old mule fritters about about spreading awareness, indoctrination, whining about Conservatives not buying into the Warmists malarkey (we know that it isn’t about science, but about increasing taxation and governmental control).

Without a focus on better communication, the danger is that the gap between the scientific and the social consensus on climate change will continue to grow.

How about, instead, Warmists actually practice science? They should release the raw data and show how they came to their conclusions so that others can attempt to replicate the so-called climate science. That is the way science works. Oh, and if they really believe, Warmists should practice what they preach. Show us the way.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 9, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is a shameful waste of water that will kill the planet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sister Toldjah.

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Save Money On Chevy Volt, Take Fossil Fueled Flight To Hawaii

By William Teach July 9, 2012 – 11:30 am

Tom Nelson picks up this but of climahypocrisy from a Volt owner

Another of our newest Chevrolet Volt commercials now airing on TV features Elissa. She’s TOTALLY in love with her Volt and plans to use her fuel savings to go to Hawaii.

A round trip to Hawaii from Detroit (the commercial says she is from Westland, Mi) puts out 1.25 metric tons of CO2. This doesn’t include the travel to the airport, housing in Hawaii, a rental car, etc. The average CO2 output world wide is 4 metric tons, and the target is 2 metric tons to stop the planet from burning up or something. Climahypocrite.

I wonder what the carbon footprint of a Volt that catches on fire is?

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Hill Poll: Most Feel Obama Has Changed The Country For The Worse

By William Teach July 9, 2012 – 8:50 am

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that most think Obama is ruining the country. And I bet some people are surprised by this poll. They might have listened when Obama said that he wanted to “fundamentally transform America” during his hopey changey run for the White House. And they might have paid attention to his background, policy offerings, and political experience

(The Hill) Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority.

A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership.

The results signal broad voter unease with the direction the nation has taken under Obama’s leadership and present a major challenge for the incumbent Democrat as he seeks reelection this fall.

Amazingly, 92% of Blacks feel that the country has changed for the better, which is strange considering the unemployment rate for Blacks is 14.4%.

59% of men and 56% of women say that Obama has made America worse thanks to Obama. It’s 55% for the 18-39 bracket.

Independent of voter opinions about how the country has changed, The Hill Poll found an overwhelming majority of voters — 89 percent — view the choice between Obama and Romney as important in terms of the future impact on the country.

The poll doesn’t ask why, but, considering that 56% think Obama has changed America for the worse, we can figure out why.

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Washington Post Fact Checker Gives Obama Tweet 3 Pinocchio’s

By William Teach July 9, 2012 – 8:28 am

Let’s face it, Team Obama likes to stretch the truth, if not out right lie, in order to smear opponents. The number of un-truths, stretches, and lies that are going into Obama campaign fodder is a daily occurrence. It would take a giant post to list all the false ads. He can’t win on his record, so Team O is going negative and false. During a 30 day period ending July 2nd 76% of Obama’s ads were negative. And here comes more

(Washington Post) “FACT: In 2010 and 2011, Romney paid less than 15% in taxes on $42.5 million in income—much less than what many middle-class families pay.”

— Tweet by @BarackObama, July 3, 2012

We are avid readers of tweets by @BarackObama, though of course it is not the president himself but his campaign team that posts them. We are also very curious when politicians claim they have uttered “a fact.”

So, is it really true that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who is very wealthy, pays a tax rate “much less” than “many” middle-class families?

In a word, no.

First, one can see that for all the rhetoric about high taxes in the United States, most Americans pay a relatively small percentage of their income in taxes. Second, Romney had an effective rate of 13.9 percent in 2010 and 15.4 percent in 2011, which gives him a higher rate than 80 percent of taxpayers in the first method and puts him just about in the middle of all taxpayers in the second method.

And let’s not forget that under those net tax rates, Romney still pays around $3 million of his earnings to the federal treasury. So, as has become the norm with the Obama campaign

The Obama campaign’s tweet relies on a very slippery “fact.”

Romney, by receiving much of his income in capital gains and dividends and giving millions of dollars to charity, is certainly able to keep his effective tax rate relatively low, especially compared to a wealthy person who earns much of his or her income in salary. But, even so, Romney still pays an effective tax rate that is higher than the tax rate paid by most Americans.

And the Glenn Kessler, the fact checker, gives Team Obama 3 Pinocchio’s.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Watcher Of Weasels Forum Up: Romney’s Running Mate

By William Teach July 9, 2012 – 8:05 am

You’ll remember the other day I wrote a short post regarding who I think Mitt Romney will pick as his running mate. Over at The Watcher’s Council forum many other folks chime in on their picks. Head on over at check it out.

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Yet Another “This Is What Globull Warming Regulations Looks Like”

By William Teach July 8, 2012 – 5:02 pm

A view of the future as globull warming regulations and stuff are passed: After the Storm: The Haves and the Have-Nots

Here’s part of the 1,009-word missive that Bush tapped out on her cell phone:

Over the last 4 and a half days, I’ve seen families struggle over what to eat when most of the food has spoiled. I’ve personally had to wait in line for gas, praying they wouldn’t run out before I got my fill. I’ve taken cold showers because there is no hot water (WT: because there’s no electricity). I’ve gone hunting for elusive ice that has become worth more than gold, and not found any. I’ve seen fights break out over basic necessaries, because nerves are becoming frayed from the stress of the heat and lack of water.

Kate Sheppard pushes the notion that we can expect more of this thanks to hotcoldwetdry because you, dear reader, decided to use your ice maker and record a few shows on your DVR. We can expect long lines for fuel and rolling blackouts and brownouts. I wonder if Kate will complain next week when temperatures are at or below normal?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 8, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful non-carbon powered mode of transportation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jammie Wearing Fools.

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