PSB Day 13 - Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

Or maybe I should start asking in my headlines "where is the Scott Brown you thought you had?"

Scott Brown records robocall for John McCain re-election bid

Well, as I've stated in an earlier post in this PSB series: Our leaders are too subject to the influence of the big money gamers of the current health care system. The politicians will not lead in the direction you want to go unless they continually hear from you. And that applies to all those who exhibit RINO behavior. If you wish for them to act more conservatively (for the individual) and less establishmentarian (for the largest sources of money), YOU must lead them.

Undermining the Right from Within

I have long had misgivings about "conservative" talk radio. I still listen, although less now than before, because I need to know of news that I won't hear from  Sinister-Wing Media, but also because I need to know what bad stuff might be said there that could redound to harm our cause for what is right.

Let the following serve as another warning about Michael Medved in particular, and his radio network, Salem Broadcasting, in general.

I reported at the Belmont Club's "Obama at the GOP retreat" thread, the following :

At times combative and confident -- Wretchard [referring to Obama] in original post

McCain at a bit past 3 PM EST, on the Medved show, being offered the opportunity to comment on Obama’s “I am not a Bolshevik” said it reminded him of Nixon’s “I am not a crook.” He avoided further comment.

Why is that news?

John “no, he’s a nice man” McCain said it.

Jan 29, 2010 - 2:13 pm

Well, a few posts later, I notice that some guy I've not seen before at BC reports something different. I immediately checked, found he was right, and corrected the record as shown by the following:

Ragspierre @ Jan 29, 2010 – 3:11 pm:

Obama also made the Nixonian declaration, “I am not an ideologue”. This is an awful mistake, as it is so readily shown to be a lie.

Thanks for setting the record staight.

I was wondering why “I am not a Bolshevik” did not come up with a recent hit. Now I know. I took your clue and changed the search to “I am not an Ideologue” and got many hits.

I listen to Medved primarily to discover in what manner this “former” Leftist agit-proper will next undermine our cause.

To be fair to Medved and McCain, where I suspect neither would be so charitable to most of us, Obama himself, as reported by Reuters, did use the phrase “some Bolshevik plot.”

That could have been the source of Medved’s mangled quote. Still, this misquote of Obama to McCain was how Medved opened his show, and given his history in agit-prop, well… YMMV. You can be sure that Media Matters will hammer us over it while ignoring the true quote which is nearly as damning.

Jan 29, 2010 - 3:51 pm

When my first comment was remembered and later repeated by others on the thread, it greatly saddened me. It means few read my follow-up and remembered the inaccurate report (probably because first one was closer to what the reader wanted to hear). Thus I felt compelled to write additionally about the experience here, on my blog. 

As I noted above, a few minutes after I'd heard Medved, I could not find the phrase "I am not a Bolshevik" on the web that was not years old.


But today, it's different. If you search the web with that phrase, and add 2010 after the quotation marks, you will find very many repetitions of that phrase. And I am in part to blame as witnessed by this guy's quoting me (highlighted here) without attribution:

jennis psycho January 30, 2010 9:41 AM

John McCain, formerly the MSM's favorite maverick/moderate, was on the Medved show, and being offered the opportunity to comment on Obama’s “I am not a Bolshevik” said it reminded him of Nixon’s “I am not a crook.” He declined further comment.

Yes, he changed avoided to declined, but every other word was identical. And I am grateful for his oversight since “I am not a Bolshevik” is inaccurate.

Anyway, the Sinister-Wing takes advantage of every error by us, even when a good faith effort is made to correct the record.

Bottom line: Michael Medved provided misinformation. There is a possibility he is providing disinformation. Be extra skeptical when he says something.

PSB Day 9 - Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

See? This hardly took any time at all:  "Brown tells AP he'll sometimes side with Democrats". One needed not be some great seer to recognize that Scott Brown is human, and a politician at that, and he hails from Massachusetts. QED.

Well, now for some good news.

Yesterday, the doctor who blogs at MD Whistleblower, honored me with a "housecall." He facetiously noted to me: 

You missed the president's comments on tort reform last eve? You must have nodded off when he swore allegiance to the trial attorneys. No one feels the pain of the unfair system more than physicians like me. For a physicians viewpoint, see [my blog]  under Legal Quality.

I have read some of it doctor. So far I've not seen it all, so I am holding off judgment. Many of my concerns are the same as yours, but the system is being encumbered by the worst sorts of human beings, some -- but not all -- for the worst of reasons. The only way to really set you and all good physicians free is to counteract the anti-human agenda that has been adopted by so many Ivory Tower policy designers. When more people start discussing that reality, only then will those like you stand a chance of prevailing. What do I need to show you to convince you of that?

It is nine (9) days PSB.

Nine days post Scott Brown. And you really thought that marked the end of the radical agenda? Hm.

So? Where is meaningful healthcare reform? The one that targets

1. Tort reform with or without ABA support?
   
2. AMA reforms that vastly reduce the need for litigation?

The Incrementals and Sinister Wingers have yet to address the heart of your message:

Kill the beastly cycle of cost increases that begins feeding itself due to the specter of law suits.

What? You say you can't read the five lines of text above? Well its condition reflects reality. The likelihood that our institutions of health care will see the most meaningful of reforms have all but faded away. We can dream, can't we?

B'rack's Lyin' SOTU Night♫

B'rack's Lyin' SOTU Night
To the tune of The Lion Sleeps Tonight

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In the congress, the dreadful congress
B'rack's Lyin’ SOTU night
In the congress, his cupid congress
B'rack's Lyin’ SOTU night

Obama-bum, Obama-bum, Obama-bum, Obama-bum
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For the pillage, his harmful pillage
B'rack's Lyin’ SOTU night
For the pillage, his vengeful pillage
B'rack's Lyin’ SOTU night

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Bush's bad thangs ’scused his own gangs
B'rack’s Lyin’ SOTU night
Bush, his scapegoat, floats his own boat
B'rack’s Lyin’ SOTU night

Obama-bum, Obama-bum, Obama-bum, Obama-bum
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PSB Day 8 - Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

After the State of the Union address, it is clear that Sinister Leader is as determined as ever: "I do not quit!" When he finally dared broach the subject, this remained his focus:

"The approach we’ve taken would protect every American from the worst practices of the insurance industry."

Gee, somehow he never touched the issue of tort reform at all. (Insert your sarcasm if you got some).

It is eight (8) days PSB.

Eight days post Scott Brown. And you really thought that marked the end of the radical agenda? Hm.

So? Where is meaningful healthcare reform? The one that targets

1. Tort reform with or without ABA support?
   
2. AMA reforms that vastly reduce the need for litigation?

The Incrementals and Sinister Wingers have yet to address the heart of your message:

Kill the beastly cycle of cost increases that begins feeding itself due to the specter of law suits.

The likelihood that our institutions of health care will see the most meaningful of reforms have shrunk even more.

It will take you shoving your opinion down your "representatives" throats, or they will ram HR3200 up your hind quarters.

Introduction To Pascal Fervor (New)

What I mean by Pascal Fervor is suggested just below my masthead. Blaise Pascal disliked those who destroyed things and especially people he thought good. They so aroused his ire that he dedicated his genius to defeating them.

I, your humble commentator, call that sort of dedication "Pascal Fervor."

I've tried to take clues from Pascal so as to move somewhat in the manner he did. However, lacking his genius and position of  influence, my efforts to overturn those forces that would destroy the American Dream may not be anywhere near so successful.  As a result, I sometimes call myself Pascal (the derivative.) That is, I have endeavored simply to move in the direction to which he was pointing.


This short explanation is now a single paragraph at the top of the broad review of this blog: Synopsis of Pascal Fervor.

PSB Day 7 - Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

So: Because Sinister Media has been reporting that ObumaCare is dead, you think the threat to your health has ended?

It is seven (7) days PSB.

Seven days post Scott Brown.

So? Where is meaningful healthcare reform? The one that targets

1. Tort reform with or without ABA support?
   
2. AMA reforms that vastly reduce the need for litigation?

The Incrementals and Sinister Wingers have yet to address the heart of your message:

Kill the beastly cycle of cost increases that begins feeding itself due to the specter of law suits.

The likelihood that our institutions of health care will see meaningful reforms are fading and shrinking daily. The biggest winners are still 1) trial lawyers, 2) insurance companies (for now), and 3) Republican complacency. As long as the system continues to move as it has been moving, more people will find they are being forced to pay for those who exploit the system as it now operates. That guarantees that this issue will erupt again in future UNLESS the two primary issues identified up above -- in suitably fading smaller print -- are tackled. The next time Jason the Statists may win. Is that okay with you, ever?

Our leaders are too subject to the influence of the big money gamers of the current health care system. They will not lead unless the continually hear from you. Dear Congressional representatives, allow all your constituents to continue to protect their very lives to the extent they are able.

1. Limit court awards to actual costs and no more than double penalties.
2. Demand the AMA stop limiting the number of Med schools and students.
3. Demand the AMA stop acting like a guild and more like a professional organization that defends and enforces the Hippocratic Oath.
   

The Jackal Speaks Tonight♫ Updated

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In the congress, the dreadful congress

The jackal speaks tonight

In the congress, the cupid* congress

The jackal speaks tonight

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For the pillage, the dreadful pillage

The jackal speaks tonight

For the pillage, the stupid pillage

The jackal speaks tonight

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Hush my darlings, don't gripe my darlings

The jackal speaks tonight

Trash my darlings, s'no dream my darlings

The jackal speaks tonight

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Updated below

Report From the Field: Wettest Year in Memory

Saturday I flew over Southeastern California from the Colorado River to the Los Angeles basin. Sorry, but I did not have my camera with me, so you will just have to take my word for it until someone else posts a picture or two.

The first indication I had of what I was about to see came when the pilot announced that "a very unusual site was coming up outside our windows.  The desert mountains are covered with snow."

What I saw first, because they were the furthest south, were the ~6000 foot snow capped peaks to the NW of the Salton Sea. The snow level was about half way up. (Later I would see even the ~2000 foot cliff top above Lake Elsinore (East of San Juan Capistrano) also covered. Outside the airliner's North windows the San Gabriel and Angeles and Santa Susana ranges were smothered with snow, but that isn't unusual after a winter storm except for how very low was the snow line of about 1500 feet.)

Then I saw some closer mountains with white peaks. This was still East of Indio. And then I noticed that there was a high plain that was completely white, surrounded on three sides by ridges maybe a thousand feet higher. To the south of this high plains desert was a gradual slope down maybe another 1000 feet to another plain that lacked the snow cover.

And that was when I noticed the biggest change. Every time I had flown over this stretch it had the appearance of a dusty yellow/tan. This time is was widely brown. The ground was that soaked. This is the California desert. And it was WET. Wetter than I've ever seen it in 40 years of flying over it. Everywhere that it is normally dull pastel it was now rich brown. Wet, wet, wet!

I hope you people in the Mid-West and back East are ready for what we got out here. Oh, and we have more storms scheduled for the coming week.



And I hope you all are happy that Al Gore is keeping warm and out of sight and paying himself carbon-credits so's he can keep his Tennessee mansions warm so that his pipes don't freeze while he's out flying jets around the world pushing his warmist agenda.

PSB Day 6 - Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

So: maybe you thought the threat to your health had ended?

It is six (6) days PSB.

Six days post Scott Brown.

So? Where is meaningful healthcare reform? The one that targets

1. Tort reform with or without ABA support?

2. AMA reforms that vastly reduce the need for litigation?

The Incrementals and Sinister Wingers have yet to address the heart of your message:

Kill the beastly cycle of cost increases that begins feeding itself due to the specter of law suits.

A great many on the Right still seem pretty confident that Massachusetts electing a Republican Senator means the end of ObumaCare. Yet the likelihood that our institutions of health care will get meaningful reforms are fading daily as the discussions have not turned in that direction.

Startling Similarity Gone Unremarked

I received a bit of a shock this week when an activity that is properly reserved for private was being engaged in public. When seeking a way to describe it, the easiest way was to say it was a staged 66. I think it was agitprop provocation (I hope that combination isn't a redundancy) aimed at harming the establishment it was being staged in. No witness directly confronted the pair which may have disappointed them. The facility management is now aware of the tactic and that they may be targets.

Later, that got me to thinking one step further.  I did a google search for "the Mark of the Beast" and "Lucky Pierre."  I came up with nothing directly connecting the two despite them sharing the same abstract symbolism.

I find it startling that the similarity of these two symbols have gone unremarked, particularly by the religious community. Our institutions, religious too, are that PC?

PSB Day 5 - Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

Did you really think it was going to be that easy?

It is five (5) days PSB.

Five days post Scott Brown.

So? Where is meaningful healthcare reform? The one that targets

1. Tort reform with or without ABA support?
   
2. AMA reforms that vastly reduce the need for litigation?

The Incrementals and Sinister Wingers have yet to address the heart of your message:  

Kill the beastly cycle of cost increases that begins feeding itself due to the specter of law suits.

You KNOW the people who dreamed up the stuff buried in HR3200 and exposed by page and line in the following video are not going away that easily. Uh... Don't you?

PSB Day 4 - Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

It is four (4) days PSB.

Four days post Scott Brown.

So? Where is meaningful healthcare reform? The one that targets

1. Tort reform with or without ABA support?
   
2. AMA reforms that vastly reduce the need for litigation?

The Incrementals and Sinister Wingers have yet to address the heart of your message:  

Kill the beastly cycle of cost increases that begins feeding itself due to the specter of law suits.

Destroy the Whole Nation They Would

Mark Alger made a short post on Wednesday that I just noticed.

Sold Their Souls...

TO THE DEVIL a long time ago -- pace Glenn Beck, who Tuesday said that the soul of the Democrat Party is up for grabs.

I don't see the so-called Progressives yielding up their stranglehold on power within the party. I see them destroying it as a viable force in politics before they let that happen.

Somehow my friend overlooked the presence of the so-called Progressives in the Republican Party. The "if I can't have it, nobody will" is a form of covetousness as old as mankind. Didn't that guy Shakespeare write of it at least once? One character of which I am thinking: his name nearly spells out the problem at root.

The following was my reply:

Let alone the Dems; I am willing to bet that you’d settle for the nation recognizing how the so-called Progressives within the GOP have bent it and then do what is necessary to end "Progressive" influence.

The election of Scott Brown EXPLAINS how “Progressives” are necessary and even welcome in the GOP. He may or may not be a conservative at heart, but he already has spoken to Obama as if the Prez was the nice man that McCain called him. What is that old maxim about leaders and the need for them to feel the heat from below? (C’mon, you must remember when I don’t ) Whatever it is, it puts the onus on us’ns. Work. (—“Work!” /Maynard G Krebs.)

Please provide me your suggestions on how to make the presence of Progressives
Incrementals in the nominally anti-Statist party unnecessary. We accomplish that, and the Dem party will expel them on their own (right after they cleanse themselves of radicals) just to stay in the game.

The Incrementals have been whittling away on our republic for most of the 20th Century. Our best guess is that got impatient and permitted the radicals to take over the legislative and executive branches.

Don't like Americans? Light your beacons, set you blazes, and lead from behind!

How Decayed Are We?

Take a gander at this Drudge headline NATIONAL ENQUIRER eyes Pulitzer...

That links to the Washington Post. At another time, not long ago, this story would lack credibility and the WaPo would have suppressed the story whether it was or not.

I don't rightly know whether to laugh or cry. And I'm uncomfortable saying so.

When one can be literally torn between laughing and crying, and it sounds so odd, does that mean that an honest mixed emotion has become cliché?

When our very emotions may seem cliché, how far can we be from bottom?

PSB Day 3 - Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

It is three (3) days PSB.

Three days post Scott Brown, and yes, yesterday we heard reduced talk of the ObumaCare juggernaut.  Could that be because Pelosi said she lacked the votes to force the Senate version on us.

Now expect Sinister Media will go relatively silent. The Incrementals and Sinister Wingers regroup. What was direly important before (ante) Scott Brown (ASB) is now, PSB, just another stalled siege of an American rampart.

But for millions of Americans, inadequate healthcare remians an issue. The price for seeing a doctor about non-emergency ailments is exorbitantly high.

It got that way because of the high costs related to legal fees made necessary by the stonewalls erected by the AMA.

And now that insurance companies are in the game, and have their own necks to protect, the largest of these -- like AARP -- have turned to the law to give them an edge over the less well-connected. Hence, the vile sausage known as Obumacare was molded, and Congress tried to stuff it down our throats. PSB it's been puked back out all over Reid and Pelosi while Obama acts as if he only got a few splatters. Maybe.
 
Anyway, the siege on the ramparts which protect you from the John Holdren's of the world has ceased for now. Which institutional rampart will the radical's concentrate on next? Banks? Wall Street in general? We'll know soon enough.

Meanwhile, where is meaningful healthcare reform? The one that targets

1. Tort reform with or without ABA support?
   
2. AMA reforms that vastly reduce the need for litigation?

The Incrementals and Sinister Wingers have yet to address the heart of your message:  

Kill the beastly cycle of cost increases that begins feeding itself due to the specter of law suits.

Sol'm Day Coming

Let's not forget our annual need to boost this critter from his hiding place on February 2^nd.

Warm(?) memories of this day will make the summer months so much more tolerable. That will be when Sinister media most breathlessly again promotes the varmint's agenda.

PSB Day 2 - Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

It is two (2) days PSB.

Yes, yesterday we heard talk of trimming the sails of the ObumaCare juggernaut,
but where is healthcare reform that targets

1. Tort reform with or without ABA support?
   
2. AMA reforms that vastly reduce the need for litigation?

The Incrementals and Sinister Wingers have yet to address the heart of your message. "The heart of our message Pascal?" Yes, you need focus on the heart of the problem:  

Kill the beastly cycle of cost increases that feeds itself due to the specter of law suits.

PSB Day 1- Where is Tort Reformed Healthcare?

PSB is my acronym for what potentially could be a new political era ushered in by last night's landmark election of a Republican to be Massachusetts' representative in the United States Senate. This is the Post Scott Brown era.

Now, Mr. President, where is your healthcare reform plan that targets

1. Tort reform with or without ABA support?
   
2. AMA reforms that vastly reduce the need for litigation?

Agreed, this is only day one since the warning was sent to the Incrementals and Sinister Wingers.

However, this will be repeated daily as needed.

Deprogramming, part 2

The “make concessions to aggression” conditioning, to which I referred in Deprogramming, occurred in NYC public schools from 1951-59.

It would aid my model building to know approximately how many others have endured similar treatment or wound up finding another way out of the programming.

The reason I ask is I suspect the majority of my readers either never had to endure such conditioning or have already outgrown it to some extent.

Anyway, what is important to us who are fighting Statists is that I have good reason to suspect many urbanites have been subjected to this sort of conditioning and never saw a need to shake it. Thus, they remain at odds with the bulk of us who have. (And, BTW, there is good evidence that many on the Right are suffering somewhat similarly due to the strong influence that Incrementals have within the GOP and in "conservative" outlets.)

As a result they essentially are sufferers of a form of Stockholm syndrome under the thumb of urban ruling machines. They view conservatives as those who’ll upset their world as they think it must be.

For instance, Peter Boston’s experience recounted at 136 matches my own with those friends and family who remained in the East.

One of the reasons I run by you ideas for new ways of saying things is I am always seeking words that will break barriers. I constantly try to break off more of the sheeple from the herd. I’ve had remarkably good success on one-on-one bases. But it is a terribly slow process. And, don’t forget, I live in the heart of a Mexican-American area of Los Angeles (with a Marxist congresscritter in CA31 who was sought for the office by white Marxists (disguised as liberals) because he was Latino, and a gang-member/ACLU mayor who is there in large part due to aid from the same extreme-Left white forces).

In order to gain ground on way-laying the Statists and other Sinister Wing forces from stealing votes in the future, we must find ways to heal more urbanites of their Stockholm Syndrome. They need help to recognize why their best long-term interests are served when big city machines are defeated in diluting the voices of legitimate voters. Hence the reason for this additional post.

How many of you experienced similar conditioning in school?
How did you break free?
For those who never endured or succumbed to it: how did your parents manage to protect you from it? (In this, I had pretty good success with my kids, but much of it had to do with showing up, applying pressure, being willing to move and having some good luck).