Pro-life vid of day: Jon Stewart grills Sebelius on Daily Show
This week, comedian Jon Stewart welcomed Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to The Daily Show, where he proceeded to grill her on the debacle that is Obamacare, stating, “We’re going to do a challenge. I’m going to try and download every movie ever made, and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare — and we’ll see which happens first.”
Part 1:
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Part 2, in which Jon Stewart advocates for single-payer health care. One has to wonder… with the way Democrats “never let cris[es] go to waste,” is Obamacare purposely disastrous so that people will cry for a supposedly “simpler” single-payer health care system?
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In his ending monologue, Stewart said he was still confused and felt perhaps Sebelius had been lying to him in her responses.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Am I the only one not seeing any videos?
Okay, I see. The link on the word “stating” does have the videos.
So now it does appear in this entry. All is well then.
Sorry – sometimes the system doesn’t like embedded videos. Hopefully they stay fixed now!
“Obamacare” wasn’t purposefully disastrous. They made the individual mandate and kept it in the free market because they were trying for bipartisan appeal, since those were conservative reforms in the first place.
Failure isn’t just an option for this administration. It’s the watchword.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/11/president_obama_should_fire_sebelius_120303.html
Lately its becoming more and more popular for this administration to appoint individuals with absolutely no relevant experience. Insurance Commissioner to Governor to Secretary of Health and Human Services. Interesting? Sebelius gets paid for kissing up to Obama.
Jack, if they couldn’t do it right, they shouldn’t have done it all. Conservatives can’t be blamed for something not a single one of them voted for. Because some crackpot at the Heritage Foundation 20 years ago suggested a government command to buy insurance as a way to appeal to Democrats to do that instead of socialized medicine with Hillarycare doesn’t make it a reform or conservative. A Democrat once said abortion is wrong, that doesn’t make the Democratic Party embrace the pro-life position or ending abortion a liberal reform. One can dream though.
The last great chance of making health care work in the free market…
“We don’t get to pick and choose when we get sick.” - Sebelius
But we do get to pick and choose what children we kill and, if we oppose child-killing, we don’t get to choose not to pay for it.
Competition does not equate to quality. These exchanges will reduce the latter even more…
Thomas – can you explain? I’m just saying that this is a surprising position since exchanges have long time been touted by the right, and are included in Paul Ryan’s plan.
Are you saying some insurance companies aren’t worthy and should be shut down? That there should be more regulation around these plans?
Again – very surprised by that statement – the one thing conservatives typically tout is competition – but you think competition is bad in health care? Explain please.
Competition does not equate to quality – that’s a bit anti-gop ethos isn’t it? Are you a secret socialist? So you agree a government run universal healthcare system is the best solution for an equitable society?
Reality -
Amen to that. Very, very odd statement for a so-called conservative.
I mean, Paul Ryan’s health care plan for medicare is a health care exchange for seniors.
Sometimes people get caught up in bashing things everywhere that they put themselves into odd corners…
“I mean, Paul Ryan’s health care plan for medicare is a health care exchange for seniors.”
Is it really? That’s ridiculous. I hadn’t ever read his plan so I didn’t know, but that doesn’t surprise me. What about indigent and low income seniors? Do they just not get healthcare if they can’t afford the healthcare exchange rates?
Jack -
Paul Ryan’s plan – now, he’s had a few – I think this is his most recent:
http://news.yahoo.com/understanding-paul-ryan-medicare-reform-plan-three-minutes-144610365.html
“Under Ryan’s plan, seniors currently in Medicare stay in the existing system. But in 2023, people over 65 would pick an insurance plan in a new Medicare exchange system, with Medicare competing with other insurers for their business.”
Just because I am a Republican I am not going to blindly argue that competition equates with better quality of services. The only purpose of competition that I am aware of is to drive the costs down, correct? So competition is healthy but cheaper does not mean better.. That is all I attempted to convey. Twisting my words is not going to change that. Fair?
How dumb to call me a secret socialist knowing that I grew up under the watchful eye of the big brother. Long live the Republic!!! Pseudo-democracy not so much…
How dumb to say I called you a secret socialist.
You’ve got a big brother? How sweet.
Pseudo-democracy not so much… – too true! Roll on mid-terms.
@Thomas – if you dont mind me asking what country did you grow up in?There are quite a few Eastern European immigrants here in Philadelphia — mainly Russians but also people from Ukraine, Albania, Azbekistan, etc. I’m a little surprised you are a conservative because most of them lean Democrat. I met a man who looked Asian but had a very Russian-sounding name. I did a double take before I remembered that the former Soviet Union has millions of people of Asian extraction. Im sure all these immigrants have interesting stories to tell!
You are truly ignorant “reality.” I became a republican when eligible to vote at 18, precisely because of people like you. How is holding Obama’s working out for you so far…
Democratic policy is much like socialism phillymiss, read about the many similarities. In this country we have pseudo-democracy as opposed to pure democracy.
Read my comment on Felski, that is a giveaway to my country of origin.
Thomas -
Glad to see you on – I feel like you dodged the question a bit. Driving down the cost of making a faucet for instance – I understand how quality would be compromised. But how do you feel like exchanges and more insurance companies competing in a state would drive down health care costs – given that insurance companies aren’t actually providing medical services. Or are you saying that the marketing materials for the insurance companies might not be as nice – or their billing might not be as good? Or are you actually talking about quality of services?
@Thomas — there are lots of abortions in Eastern Europe, especially Russia. I would bet there are many among the Russian population here, too. At the clinics here in Philly they even have Russian-speaking staff. My daughter had a Russian friend named Elena. Her mother had an abortion and she was so upset she cried. She was nice a girl but her goal was to become a stripper for a club owned by the Russian mafia. I hope she didn’t achieve it!
I am not Russian phillymiss but the ruskis were the big brother I often reference.
America forcing people to buy a product. This is bs. The DemocRATic majority spells an end of freedom and liberty.
Amen truth – if you’d just make health care universal coverage, we’d treat it as it should be and not force this odd market of insurance.
You are truly ignorant “reality.” – hey, I’m not the one who thought a question was a statement.
I became a republican when eligible to vote at 18, precisely because of people like you. – you haven’t known me that long.
How is holding Obama’s working out for you so far… – holding obama’s what?
Ex-GOP says:
October 11, 2013 at 6:11 pm
The last great chance of making health care work in the free market…
Alas…. the ACA has nothing to do with healthcare. It is strictly about how we must buy more insurance.
The problem with American healthcare is that there is already too much insurance. Nobody has a free-market relationship with his doctor or pharmacist. Nobody knows what healthcare services actually cost, not even the doctors. Nobody can make informed decisions about cost-effective healthcare.
We are already outside of the free market.
I don’t trust our government to provide adequate healthcare for Americans. But Jon Stewart has a point: Single-payer makes more sense than what we had before the ACA, and it make a lot more sense what the ACA proposes.
Ex- reimbursement rates and how long it takes to receive payments affect service providers in terms of being able to provide good healthcare. Insurance companies that will participate in the exchanges will become a fed-driven vehicle of none-effectiveness.
“reality” – People like you are those that fully subscribe to the ideology of the big brother and yet claim to not accept it. I have met many that exude this intellectual dishonesty when I arrived in this great Republic. Now I am reminded of this contradiction by some of the statements you made to me above. It is all that exemplified in how you allow your big brother (Obama) to hold your hand and yet call me a secret socialist. Diversion its called. Get a clue please…
Aw, the intellectual dishonesty gambit again. Diversion its called. Try harder.
I did not call you a secret socialist, you’ve made that error twice now. Get a clue please…
Del -
I actually agree with a lot of what you said – single payer does make a lot of sense compared to the old and the new.
Are you actually coming around to a single payer system?
Thomas
I’m not aware of any changes within the law that would affect reimbursements – what you are you talking about that would delay payments?
Competition does not equate to quality – that’s a bit anti-gop ethos isn’t it? Are you a secret socialist?
I got a clue “reality.” The above was a direct response to one of my comments and it is very clear that you implied so. Are you imitating Obama with your backtracking?
Ex – reimbursement will be affected. No clause in ACA law can predict that.
What backtracking?
Peruse – Are you a secret socialist?
Note how it begins “Are you”, not “You are”.
Note the question mark at the end.
Got a clue yet? (hint, that’s another question mark)
Thomas -
If anything, I would argue reimbursement will be affected in a positive way because less people that are uninsured wil mean that facilities will have less negotiations/credit agencies to deal with – they’ll be streamlining the amount of people they need to work with.
If I have 10 people to work with – all insured through Blue Cross – I work with Blue Cross. Ten people without insurance is a far greater challenge.
So again, either explain how reimbursement will suffer, or how quality in general will go down?