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OPEN THREAD: Who REALLY won the Health Care Summit last week?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 2nd, 2010 at 05:29 PM  | 

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This video pretty well captures the Summit *I* saw. Be sure to watch all the way to the end for the money quote from Gergen.

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  • throwback59

    would spin an Obama victory. I was wrong. It was so obvious that the Republicans kicked butt that even the Obamatons in the press couldn’t deny it.

  • archer52

    I think the republicans won on substance, Obama managed to rope a dope Ryan and Cantor but was surprised by Alexander.

    Obama talked over and around the people he feared the most. But that act is like the ones used by defense lawyers when their clients are guilty. It works for a little while but soon the jury catches on.

  • dio55

    we completly failed the american people . Think about this . Why do you think the liberal media is attacking the tea partiers so vicously? answer because they were expecting a huge uprising of protests with the restarting of Obamacare and were trying nullify it. we spent weeks on CPAC which all but ignored Ocare and not a word from the tea parties . We should have been whipping the country into a frenzy for WEEKS . instead we sat on our hands and handed them this on a silver platter yes WE MISSED THE BOAT and there is not another one coming . The publics anger will now consume us conservatives just like it did in great britain because they see us as DO NOTHINGS . please forgive my bluntness but we have a HUGE backlash coming and we should be prepared

    • writeblock

      Between the march on Washington and the vote in Massachusetts there was a long stretch of downtime as well. Doesn’t mean people aren’t still furious with the spending ways of this Congress and President.

  • zachv

    I’ll make sure to pass it along.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    http://www.theage.com.au/national/rudd-announces-309b-funding-takeover-of-public-hospitals-20100303-phnp.html

    The Rudd government has finally announced its plan to fix Australia’s public hospitals, with a $30.9 billion funding takeover as its centrepiece.

    The giant health and hospital reform program would result in the Commonwealth funding up to 60 per cent of all services, infrastructure and research costs in public hospitals. New “Local Hospital Networks” would pay for services, replacing the traditional model of Commonwealth grants to the states and territories.

    The government would also establish an independent authority to calculate the amount hospitals are paid for each service they provide.

    (Bolding mine.)

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    Coincidence ?…….. I think not.

    Question: Canada’s government-run system collapses approximately when ?

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    (Apologies….. ‘Reply To This’ doesn’t seem to work on my Crackberry.)

    Hands off our hospitals, Victoria tells Rudd.

    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/hands-off-our-hospitals-victoria-tells-rudd-20100303-pj0e.html

    Victoria has taken a defiant stand against Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s push to seize majority control of public hospital funding, arguing it would deliver no new cash to local patients for four years and could jeopardise some local health services.

    But other states, including the health trouble spots of NSW and Queensland and the Liberal government in Western Australia, have either locked in behind the plan or are keeping an open mind.

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    Heh. What a surprise. The liberal/left-of-left Aussie federal government is full of smoke and mirrors too.

    The seize-it-all plan does nothing other than raise taxes until four years in.

    Where have I heard that before ?

    Must have been in a dream…… Yeah, that’s it….. a dream.

    Cheers !