TA: Why Hasn't Anyone Signed Up For the High-Risk Health Insurance Pools?

THE ATLANTIC, 6/2/2011 by Megan McArdle - "I've predicted that lots of parts of Obamacare will not work the way they're expected to. But here's one I wouldn't have predicted: the high-risk pools, which were meant to tide people over until 2013, have signed up just 18,000 people as of March. ∴ There were supposed to be millions of people who were uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions. We heard lengthy testimony about their terrible plight. I don't think it's too strong to say that this fear--that you could get sick and no one would insure you, that's right, you, Mr. & Mrs. Middle-Class Voter--was one of the main reasons offered for the health care overhaul. It was estimated by Medicare's Chief Actuary that around 400,000 would sign up (the CBO estimated 200,000, but only because they assumed that HHS would use its authority to limit enrollment in order to stay within the $5 billion budgeted for the program). So where are all the uninsurable people?" Read more at The Atlantic...

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Pattern of Corruption: Robert Creamer's blueprint

In an earlier post, we linked to Big Government's report on left-wing activist, Bob Creamer and his wife, Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, who attended President Obama's White House State Dinner. Creamer is the author of the 2006 book, written while serving a prison term for fraud, Listen to your Mother, Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win. David Axelrod described the book as, "...a blueprint for future progressive victories." On 12/7 and 12/8/2009 Glenn Beck featured 11-steps of Creamer's blueprint on his FNC show. See if this blueprint strikes you as an earnest attempt to improve health care in America or a strategy to take absolute control of health care (or any segment of the U.S. economy using a strategy such as this) to acquire immense immutable power? Blueprint follows:

THE BLUEPRINT (per Beck)
Passages from Creamer's Listen to your Mother, Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win are in "quotes". Rough notes on Beck's commentary or clips are in italics. --bc

1. RIGHT – “We must create a national consensus that health care is a right, not a commodity; and that government must guarantee that right.”
   
   
2. CRISIS – “We must create a national consensus that health care system is in crisis.”
   
   
3. DISCREDIT - “Our messaging program over the next two years should focus on reducing the credibility of the health insurance industry and focusing on the failure of private health insurance.”
   
   
4. DEALS – “We need to systematically forge relationships with large sectors of the business/employer community.”
   
   
5. SCARE POLS – “We need to convince political leaders that they owe their elections, at least in part, to the groundswell of support of universal health care, and that they face political peril if they fail to deliver on universal health care in 2009.”
   
   
6. CONSENSUS – “We need not agree in advance on the components of a plan, but we must foster a process that can ultimately yield consensus.” (Just pass it quickly – it doesn’t matter what’s in it [do legislators know what’s in the 2000+ page bills?], we can tweak it later.)
   
   
7. ORGANIZE – “Over the next two years, we must design and organize a massive national field program.” (Unions, Organizing for America, ACORN, HCAN, AARP, SEIU, etc. / SEIU? has been delivering political beat downs to Wal-Mart and most recently Comcast)
   
   
8. CHURCH/UNIONS – “We must focus especially on the mobilization of the labor movement and the faith community.” (Check church websites – three clicks and you’re on the HCAN website.)
   
   
9. ACORN, ETC. – “We must systematically leverage the connections and resources of a massive array of institutions and organizations of all types.” (Barack Obama on Chicago Public Radio in 2001: “…One of the, I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing… and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.” )
   
   
10. MONEY - “To be successful, we must put in place commitments for hundreds of millions of dollars to be used to finance paid communications and mobilization once the battle is joined.” (Tides Foundation, SEIU spent $60M to elect Obama, HCAN has contributed heavily to promote Obamacare)
    
    
11. CREATE FEAR – “To win we must not just generate understanding, but emotion, fear, revulsion, anger, disgust.” (Obama leveled this at doctors… ripping out tonsils and cutting off feet for money. Calling Tea Party goers angry mobs, etc. Pelosi and Obama administration has stirred up all these tactics while pointing at the right and accusing them of fear tactics.)

Do you recognize these steps? Have they happened? Yah, they have... every stinking one! --bc Read More......

Pattern of Corruption: Bob Creamer, Architect of ObamaCare

BIG GOVERNMENT, 12/2009 by Capitol Confidential - Before left-wing activist Bob Creamer escorted his wife, Illinois Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky to the Obama state dinner, before he penned his blue print for the socialist agenda from his federal prison cell, before he committed felony bank fraud and was indicted on 34 counts involving misuse of $2.4 million, this Saul Alinsky disciple reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars from a campaign finance scam that illegally funneled money from deep-pocket Democrat donors and labor unions to targeted congressional campaigns. Read more at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government...

Capitol Confidential: Anonymous sources in the halls of power at the federal, state, and local levels. Big Government double-checks their stories and provides them the cloak they need to reveal the truth.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: A report on Robert Creamer's 2006 book, Listen to your Mother, Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win, has been moved to Pattern of Corruption: Robert Creamer's blueprint. Read More......