Arlen Specter: Stimulus Disgrace
Posted on February 10, 2009
President Obama’s stimulus bill just passed the Senate. A few hours before the vote, we began to get a glimpse of the dangerous health care provisions in this bill.
This is the lamest “reasoning” I think I’ve ever heard from a Presidential podium. The Democrat party…so extremely incensed about the privacy issues surrounding the War on Terror, would like to have unequivocal access to your health information, your treatments, your medications, your private conversations with your doctors.
But, really, this is the least of our health care problems now with Barack Obama as our president.
Bloomberg News is reporting that former Senator Tom Daschle has had a hefty hand in the health care portion of the stimulus bill.
A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. “If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it,” he said. “The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol.”
You must read this report, and keep in mind that the Senate-House conference will begin now, and changes can still be made. If you live in Pennsylvania…well, just read the following concerning the Senator you continue to send back to Washington.
Senator Specter was one of three expected to vote for the stimulus bill. Of great importance is the fact that Senator Arlen Specter was UNAWARE of Bloomberg’s assessment of these provisions.
Here is CNS News reporting on the Bloomberg report:
[Specter said] “If Bloomberg has pointed out a potential problem…there will be clarification to avoid having the government meddle in what doctors do.”
This completely irresponsible Senator laments the rush of the bill, but is unwilling to help his fellow Republicans slow things down:
Specter said one of the “big problems” with the stimulus bill is, “Why the rush? Why are we wedded to [a Feb. 13 deadline for passage]?” Specter noted that Congress never held hearings on the bill, and that has created problems.
This is one of a number of provisions that has popped up that we have to revise and be very careful about,” he said.
There should be a way for the Nation as whole to impeach Senators and Representative who are willing to sign away our personal freedom in the name of bi-partisanship. Specter’s actions and support of this bill are so discouraging. He points out that he has made a “commitment” to the Democrats, and he is :
…not going to go back on my word and on a commitment.
Let me ask you, where are this man’s loyalties – to his friends across the aisle or the country he is elected to represent? Just keep in mind that this Senator, Arlen Specter, knew nothing about these egregious health care provisions.
Here are just a few of the problems:
Bloomberg’s Betsey McCaughey reports that the healthcare provisions are “virtually identical” to those outlined in former Senator Tom Daschle’s recent book (which I will not name here), but it appears that many of Daschle’s recommendations were taken from a British model. One example of that model is that the elderly with macular degeneration had to wait until all sight was gone from one eye before treatment on the second could begin.
(1) A new position within government is planned: a National Coordinator of Health Information Technology who will do the tracking of your medical conditions – AND
will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective
(2) The health care provisions in the stimulus bill affect “every individual in the United States.
(3) If you doctor does not join the electronic monotoring, he/she will be severly penalized. If you need experimental treatments, forget it.
In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make. The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research
The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit.
(4) If you are elderly, you will be culled out of Medicare payments for routine preventative care.
The stimulus bill changes Medicare’s acceptance of treatments deemed safe and effective.
The idea: “individuals benefit in youger years and sacrifice later.”
Beware America, your government has taken over your life.
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The absolutely worst part of what Specter hinted at is that HE apparently didn’t read the bill he agreed to support! How many other Legislators didn’t read this bill? If it is so critical and important, couldn’t they take some of their prescious time to actually read it?
Can we add admitted failure to read the bills you vote for to the list of impeachment reasons?
I am a medical professional and have been for nearly two decades. I’ve worked all over this country – including Indian Reservations and some of the most remote medical facilities in the country. Our medical records have long since been stored electronically – all of them. Each and every one of you knows this, because you see the clerk type your information into the computer when you go into the hospital.
The only medical records that are not stored as a computerized copy are the chart copies of doctor’s notes (these are transcribed into the computer.) The reason these still exist is because they are required by law!
Bravo, Senator Specter. I am so very glad that I voted for you in 2004. Hey all you whining Republicans! Guess what? Eating sh*t is better than starving to death. I’m so glad that some elected officials get this.
It was obvious that the bama has not read the 600+ pages of the bill. Or maybe he is lying that there is no pork in the bill.
As for potty mouth Bravo and his comments: He should ask the bama for a car and a bathroom of his own. Republicans already have those things so we do not have to ask the bama for anything.
Senator Specter by his own admission, not reading the bill. has not honored his compact with the people of Pennsylvania.He should be stripped of any Committee assignments, no monies by the Republican Committee should be issued to his reelection and have him revoke his Republican Party membership.Dear Steve, in the pursuit of dialouge- tell me two things in this package you support and why,and two things you think are not needed.My children ,who will be impacted the most by this bill, are awaiting your resonse.
Arlen Specter is , has been, and will continue to be a left wing nutcase. Why the outrage at this scum bag now when he has always been a worthless piece of dung.
“Of great importance is the fact that Senator Arlen Specter was UNAWARE of Bloomberg’s assessment of these provisions.”
Wow, Specter deserves to be voted out of office just for that. It angered me that he opted to vote for the pork bill and largely cost him my support, but this? Good God! I could at least have some respect for the man if he was voting for something he believed in, but clearly didn’t because he didn’t read it!
“There should be a way for the Nation as whole to impeach Senators and Representative who are willing to sign away our personal freedom in the name of bi-partisanship.”
Yeah. Sheesh, I seem to recall this guy throwing a major fit over the NSA wiretapping program once upon a time. Funny, apparently the rights of terrorist scumbags matter more to him than his fellow Americans.
That settles it. I wasn’t sure I could make this commitment, but unless the Democrats nominate someone really bad, I won’t be voting for Specter in the mid-terms. I shouldn’t have done it in 2004. For that matter, I hope he gets tossed out in a primary. Surely the GOP has a better candidate in my fair state waiting in the wings.
“Guess what? Eating sh*t is better than starving to death.”
Funny how experts like the Congressional Budget Office completely disagree with that assessment.
The proposed stimulus package causes me great concern. I feel like a “used car salesman” is trying to pass a lemon for a diamond. In your support of the current writing of this bill, I feel I can no longer support you Mr Specter. You not only loose my financal contribution, you will loose my vote. Your actions show great disregard for those of us who work hard and believe in the American dream. How disappointed I am in you, and in the fact that I have championed you for years.
I have alsways been a Rep. conservative voter, now sadly; I must become a lobbylst and watchdog. Spending bills are usually put forward when needed, be transparent, debated and voted. Now the Dems are telling all of us that they are in power, and we the voters and TAXPAYER’S have no voice, we are just chatters. By you voting No to this disgraceful, spending financed by our enemies, and paid for by great grandchildren not yet born, is a must. Your vote for me will show leadership and will force a stop to this rush to pass this bill and force an all-new bill or amendments reducing debt. Even half of the proposed spending is a disgrace; we need better from you our representavtive.
I HAVE VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT AND SENATE AND CONGRESS SINCE 1960. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR SPECTER AGAIN – HE HAS DISGRACED HIMSELF AND THE PARTY. I AM VERY VERY VERY ACTIVE IN THE VFW, AMERICAN LEGION, AND AMVETS – IT IS MY PERSONAL GOAL TO LET ‘ALL’ KNOW AND UNDERSTAND WHY NO ONE SHOULD VOTE FOR SPECTER IN 2010. AFTER SERVING IN KOREA AND LOSING FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO PRESERVE OUR NATION AND IT’S BELIEFS…I AM CRUSHED THAT WE NOW LIVE IN A SOCIALIST COUNTRY….TOO SAD! WILLIAM WRIGHT, SPRINGFIELD, PA