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GOP Health Care Proposal Scored
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE —
From HotAir: CBO director Douglas Elmendorf scored the new proposal from House Republicans on health-care reform and gave them plenty of ammunition to use against expansive and expensive Democratic plans for government takeovers. Their plan, which relies on interstate competition, HSAs, and tort reform, would only cost $61 billion in the first ten years of the plan — or slightly less than 6% of what Democrats plan to spend to overhaul the entire system. From CBO Director's Blog: CBO anticipates that the combination of provisions in the amendment would reduce average private health insurance premiums per enrollee in the United States, ...
Major National Ad Buy Ties Vaccine Shortage to Health Care, Gitmo
Weekly Standard Blog —
A major national ad campaign is set to launch tomorrow tying the Obama administration's failure to provide flu vaccine on time and in quantity to fears of a government takeover of healthcare. The American Future Fund has produced and plans to put significant money behind the ad that is set to appear on both CNN and Fox News, and to play nationally, starting tomorrow. THE WEEKLY STANDARD understands that the group has plans to buy air time on network television as well to coincide with the Sunday talk shows.
The script for the ad reads:
In July, the government said we would have 120 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine by October.
But only 27 ...
Conservative group's ad ties health care, flu
Ben Smith's Blog —
The American Future Fund, one of the constellation of conservative independent media funds, is going up with this ad tying flu vaccine shortages to President Obama's health care plan.
It's a volatile issue that most Republicans have tiptoed around amid accusations of playing poltics with public health, and the long-term power of the issue will depend largely on how bad the flu is this season -- something beyond anyone's control.
But the vaccine shortages are currently a source of major jitters, and the ad -- which the Standard reports has "significant money" behind it -- aims at at a real emotional chord.
Video: Challenging ObamaCare on competence
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Video: Challenging ObamaCare on competence posted at 3:00 pm on November 6, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Share on Facebook | printer-friendly If Democrats want to push through a massive government intervention in the health-care industry, they have to make the case that the government can do the job more competently than the private sector. As this new ad argues, which the Weekly Standard says will run on CNN and Fox starting today, the idea of federal competence took a big hit with the emergency response of the White House and HHS on the H1N1 flu. Despite proclaiming a public-health emergency and promising to move Heaven and Earth to deliver 120 million ...
Can We Trust The Government To Run The Health Care System?
Flopping Aces —
Flu Vaccine Shortages and Government Healthcare
Stones Cry Out —
A new ad will begin to run nationally today that makes the case that the government has no business getting any further into running healthcare given how they’ve handled the H1N1 flu vaccine shortage (as well as sending vaccine to Gitmo detainees before American citizens) (hat tip: Michael Goldfarb):
It’s a great ad and makes a very salient point. For all the talk about how widespread the H1N1 pandemic was supposed to be, the government sure seems to have been caught woefully unprepared in developing sufficient supplies of the vaccine. The ad reinforces what we already know: everything ...
If The Government Can’t Run A Flu Program, Why Would We Think They Can Run Health Care?
Say Anything —
Good question:
