This is good political advice from a friend of mine you need to pay strictest attention to on healthcare reform:

Keep this point in mind when evaluating articles concerning public opinion polls about likeliness to vote based on a Congressman/Senator’s vote on ObamaCare:

The crucial detail is the over-55 group. Older people are so disproportionately likely to vote relative to younger age cohorts that overall poll results mean nothing. Unless the article about the poll specifically lists results of the over-55 group separately, it isnt worth reading. There is clear evidence that over-55′s are particularly energized by this issue, so the vulnerability of incumbents based on their votes on ObamaCare must be evaluated in terms of likely voters, not the public at large, and that means knowing the opinions of the over-55 group.

Any poll on healthcare reform that does not break out the over 55 age cohort is not worth the paper or electrons it is printed on.

Rangel: Health bill harder after Obama speech
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlMpJGn28kqCcgU-aGcYE_ZHW-ywD9ANTUO00

Grassley releases statement, critical of bill
http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0909/Grassley_releases_statement_critical_of_bill.html?showall

So, who in the “gang of six” really supports the Senate bill? Sounds like Baucus rushed it through because of Obama’s deadline…..no real bipartisan consensus.

By Robert M. Goldberg on 9.15.09 @ 6:06AM

Coming to a neighborhood near you: nonprofit health coops administered by ACORN designed to use state Medicaid programs to usher in single payer health care.

A Tea Party conspiracy theory? Hardly. While the catfight over the cost of reform and the nature of the public plan escalated as details unfolded, no one paid attention to what the harmless sounding exchanges actually do.

Best of all, the establishment of and enrollment in these exchange-sponsored public plans would be aided by a familiar nonprofit organization.

Exchanges have to contract with “navigators” — nonprofit organizations that know health care and know how to enroll hard to reach people. Enter Nets2Ladders, “a powerful, automated benefits enrollment platform” designed to “increase the efficiency and effectiveness of enrolling low-income families in federal and state benefits programs” such as Medicaid and SCHIP. By January 2010, all 50 states will be covered by this platform. And nearly 26 states have contracts with the group that administers the program already.

The organization? ACORN of course. No organization is better suited to be a health exchange “navigator.” Which tells you everything you need to know about the real intent and impact of health exchanges.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/acorns-public-option

Also, Michelle Malkin gives the link to an IBD/TIPP poll that is shocking:

45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506199

Would your auto insurance carrier insure a new car you drove into his lot with severe front end damage without excluding the damage that is obviously there? Would he sell you a policy at normal rates and tell you to drive on down the block to the repair man and send him the bill?
Why demand the same of Private Health Insurance Companies, increasing costs for all, whilst declining care by the Government programs to sick at end of life?
Disengenuous Liars are what the President and his healthcare supporters are!

Will the Senate remove these too?

They haven’t done it because they know it won’t work. (There’s been some good posts on the net elsewhere detailing exactly why this will blow up in their faces if they try it)

This is the next step that the mindless, unthinking supporters of this fiasco need to realize….once government gets full control (of 1/6 of the economy) they will then regulate behaviors that contribute to rising health care costs. If I have to pay any more for anyone’s health care I am going to insist all dangerous behaviors be verboten—that means no skateboarding or talking on the cellphone while driving (or walking) or eating saturated fats or listening to all those talk show radicals (and internet bloggers) who raise everyone’s stress levels.

Medicare, a government mandated system, has forced private insurers out of the market, now can dictate how you live or don’t live your last years. Tell me why I’m forced to support a system with every pay check that has the authority to end my life to save money?

A political party who will abort children for convenience, should not be incharge of healthy solutions.

(look all around carefully)

Whispering: “tort reform.”

naaah, too radical, no one’s THAT desperate!!!