ACORN Error?
ACORN really "screwed-the-pooch" on this one!! The organization, in rewarding the crooked KoolAid drinkers, missed a likely candidate for one of the cabinet posts Fluffy obama could have announced. On September 18th, former Treasury Secretary Paulson urged Congress to put forth legislation to aid troubled banks. Senator Dick Durbin, democRAT, Ill [well, DUH!!], used that inside information to save-if not increase-his investments. On September 15th, the S&P500 Index plunged 4.7% on the news of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the Fluffy-engineered Bank of America takeover of Merrill Lynch. The index continued to drop, by the end of October was down 22.6%!! The Senate's second-in-command sold more than $115,000 on September 19th and invested the bulk of the proceeds in Berkshire-Hathaway, class B stock. democRAT durbin should be considered a formidable crook when cabinet substitutions become necessary as the economy and the government continues to collapse.
ACORN Afraid?
They must be or they wouldn't have sent their mouthpiece to speak to the American Medical Association in Chicago. The ACORN record in running this administration is dismal at best; they can't handle yet another failure!! Fluffy and his teleprompter spewed forth such niavete and untruths as to be laughable. He baited the doctors with the suggestions of curbing malpractice suits and cancelling a proposed 21% decrease in Medicare payments. The decrease will go through and the malpractice awards will be ignored. The "healthcare crisis," and we need to call it a crisis to sway the public to fall into line behind ACORN's reform and control desires, ignores the basic statistics from the latest national census.
• More than 84 percent (250.4 million) of U.S. residents were privately insured or enrolled in a government health program, such as Medicare, Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (S-CHIP).
• Up to 14 million uninsured adults and children qualified for government programs in 2004 but had not enrolled, according to the BlueCross BlueShield Association.
• Nearly 18 million of the uninsured live in households with annual incomes above $50,000 and could likely afford health insurance.
According to the Census Bureau, the proportion of people without health insurance was slightly lower in 2006 (15.8 percent) than a decade earlier (16.2 percent in 1997). During the past 10 years the number of people with health coverage rose nearly 25 million, while the number without health coverage only increased about 3.5 million.About 12.6 million foreign-born residents lack health coverage -accounting for 27 percent of the uninsured. In 2006, 83.6 percent of naturalized citizens had coverage – close to the rate of native-born residents (87.8 percent). In contrast, 45 percent of foreign-born noncitizen residents were uninsured. These 10 million uninsured immigrants were more than 20 percent of the total number of uninsured U.S. residents. Income may be a factor – but not the only one.
A partial explanation for this disparity is that many immigrants come from cultures without a strong history of paying premiums for private health insurance. In addition, immigrants do not qualify for public coverage until they have been legal residents for more than five years.
About 19 million 18-to-34-year olds are uninsured. Most of them are healthy and know they can pay incidental expenses out of pocket. Using hard-earned dollars to pay for health care they don’t expect to need is a low priority for them.
As for the "crisis," if one looks at the government's own statistics-there isn't one! ACORN needs federal control over the healthcare and health insurance sectors to exert far more control over American daily life that ever before-thus furthering their socialist and statist agendas.
Til Nex'Time....
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