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Stacey Lihn Brings Down the House Talking About Her Daughter’s Health Issues and Obamacare

September 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Stacey Lihn Brings Down the House Talking About Her Daughter’s Health Issues and Obamacare (Lihn Family Blog)

#DNC2012:  Stacey Lihn is bringing down the house at the Democratic National Convention about her daughter Zoe Madison Lihn’s health issues, saying President Obama is fighting for the people. Mitt Romney is vowing to repeal Obamacare, but Stacey Lihn’s daughter would most likely not get the coverage she needs for a possible heart transplant in a year or two. Powerful, powerful testimony. All I can say is that the Democratic convention is more engaging than the Republican convention in Tampa last week.

On May 11, 2010, our family grew from three to four. Our little miracle child, Zoe Madison, entered the world. She was born with a severe congenital heart defect, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Fifteen hours after birth, Zoe underwent her first open heart surgery. Her second open heart surgery took place on September 14, 2010. She has half a functioning heart, which was mended by Dr. Thomas Spray at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Yes, we traveled over 2,000 miles to obtain the best possible care. Source:  The Lihns

You can’t ask for a more personal story to show us the importance of universal healthcare. Yes, there are areas that need to be fine-tuned, but affordable healthcare is absolutely necessary.

Here’s the transcript of Stacey Lihn’s speech at the DNC:

Governor Romney says people like me were the most excited about President Obama the day we voted for him.

But that’s not true. Not even close.

For me, there was the day the Affordable Care Act passed and I no longer had to worry about Zoe getting the care she needed.

There was the day the letter arrived from the insurance company, saying that our daughter’s lifetime cap had been lifted.

There was the day the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare.

Like so many moms with sick children, I shed tears and I could breathe easier knowing we have that net below us to catch us if we fall, or if, God forbid, Zoe needs a heart transplant—Obamacare provides my family security and relief.

But we’re also scared. Governor Romney repealing health care reform is something we worry about literally every day. Zoe’s third open-heart surgery will happen either next year or the year after.

If Mitt Romney becomes president and Obamacare is repealed, there’s a good chance she’ll hit her lifetime cap.

There’s no way we could afford to pay for all the cares needs to survive. When you have a sick child, it’s always in the back of your mind and sometimes in the front of your mind.

On top of that, to worry that people would let an insurance company take away her health care, just because of politics?

One in 100 children is born with a congenital heart defect. President Obama is fighting for them. He’s fighting.

For families like mine.

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Romney Campaign’s Andrea Saul Says Joe Soptic’s Wife Would Have Been Covered Under Romneycare

August 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Mitt Romney Campaign’s Foghorn Leghorn Moment: Andrea Saul cites MA Universal Healthcare While Slamming Obamacare


Mitt Romney’s prospects for the presidency just got a little dimmer with the admission of a campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul in response to a pro-Obama attack ad which blames the presumptive nominee for the death of a laid-off steelworker’s wife:  If that family had lived in Massachusetts, it would have been covered by the former governor’s universal health care law. Um, isn’t this the same candidate who says he wants to repeal Romneycare’s big sister Obamacare? Duh, same thing right? SMH. Mitt Romney reminds me a lot of Foghorn Leghorn, always a loudmouth even as he gets his ass kicked.

“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Andrea Saul, Romney’s campaign press secretary, said during an appearance on Fox News. “There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President [Barack] Obama’s economy.  Source

I am with Eric Erickson from Red State:

Funny reaction on Twitter:


The Priorities USA Action ad, features Joe Soptic, who was laid off from a plant owned by Bain Capital, discussing his wife’s illness and eventual death. He said his family lost health insurance after he lost his job. Saul went on to say the ad was “despicable.” But, please tell me, how do you praise Romneycare and slam Obamacare? Mitt Romney and his team have an uncanny skill of shooting themselves in the foot with every attack from the Obama campaign. This is the man you want to put in the White House? This comes as Ron Haskins, GOP welfare reform architect, blasts Romney’s current ad accusing President Obama of “gutting welfare reform.”

Joe Soptic featured in super PAC video:

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Mitt Romney Releases Video Targeting Black Voters With Heavily Edited Scenes from NAACP Convention

July 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The Romney campaign released a new video, “We Need Mitt Romney,” targeting black voters and true to form, his campaign rewrote history by splicing his speech from the NAACP convention, with shots of some audience members nodding in agreement and even getting a standing ovation, which incidentally came at the end of his speech, not in the middle as this video would have you think. If I recall correctly, Mitt Romney was booed a few times during that speech, particularly when he said he would repeal Obamcare.

One of the four black Americans appearing in the video declares, “We need in our next president someone who will be honest, open and transparent.” Really? Transparent and open? She’s isn’t talking about Willard Mitt Romney, who refuses to release more tax returns, whose Olympic archival records are under wraps, who can’t seem to say what he would do to help the black community and whose claim to have created thousands of jobs while at Bain Capital is spotty and who skirts the U.S. tax laws by dumping millions in offshore accounts. Is this the same Mitt Romney we are talking about?

It’s ironic that transparency and honesty should be mentioned in Mitt Romney’s new campaign video because conservative New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper is calling on him to release his tax returns:

“But there is no place for secrecy or, indeed, privacy in a Presidential campaign. If you want the job, you have to subject yourself to the scrutiny. You have to be prepared to stand and explain, indeed, justify, your actions. If they are legal, then so be it… Surely he could not have arrogantly believed that he could withstand any storm that developed by bluffing his way through it? If so, it hasn’t worked.”"If Romney intends to win, he is going to have to make the tax forms public.”

Watch “We Need Mitt Romney” campaign video targeting black community:

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Mitt Romney on NAACP Booing: “If They Want More Free Stuff From Government Vote for Obama”

July 12, 2012 by 2 Comments
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Mitt Romney on NAACP Booing: “If They Want More Free Stuff From Government Vote for Obama” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Oh no he didn’t — Mitt Romney reportedly said “if they (Obamacare supporters) want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy – more free stuff. But don’t forget nothing is really free.” Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren posted an excerpt of the report (below) with a broader context on what Romney said. He bragged about not attenuating his message to the NAACP crowd, as though somehow they were stupid:

“By the way, I had the privelege of speaking today at the NAACP convention in Houston and I gave them the same speech I am giving you. I don’t give different speeches to different audiences alright. I gave them the same speech.When I mentioned I am going to get rid of Obamacare they weren’t happy, I didn’t get the same response. That’s ok, I want people to know what I stand for and if I don’t stand for what they want, go vote for someone else, that’s just fine.

But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy-more free stuff. But don’t forget nothing is really free. it has to paid for by people in the private sector creating goods and services, and if people want jobs more than they want free stuff from government, then they are going to have to get government to be smaller.

And if they don’t want to repeal Obamacare they are going to have to give me some other stuff they are thinking about cutting, but my list takes Obamacare off first and I have a lot of other things I am thinking of cutting.” Source

So, if you want more free stuff from the government, then by all means, vote for President Obama. Um, I have never received a handout from the government. I have had to work for everything I have and I wouldn’t have it any other way. That’s an insult to every black voter in this country, who are hardworking, law-abiding and decent people. Mitt Romney’s aloofness is the prime reason why we will not endorse him.

Mitt Romney displays a contemptuous attitude toward people who support health care reform, simply because they want insurance that they pay for that will actually cover them and their loved ones, mainly their children who are young adults, who have no coverage. For many, health care isn’t about getting a freebie from the government. Sorry Mitt, it’s not like the tax loophole freebies you have by virtue of your offshore accounts and your enormous wealth. To put it simply, Mitt Romney is a joke compared to his father.

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House Votes 244-185 With Five Democrats Voting in Favor of Repealing Obamacare

July 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment

YAWN:  The House voted for the second time to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) 244-185 with five Democrats voting in favor. Um, this will go nowhere. Another waste of taxpayers’ money by politicians hellbent on doing their own thing. Those five Democrats who crossed party lines are further proof of why the Democrats just can’t get anything done. They never stand together. Think Progress is reporting they spent 89 hours attempting to take away coverage for 30 million Americans, mainly poor and middle class.

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Mitt Romney Takes Heat from Conservatives Over “Obamatax” Which Is Similar to “Romneytax”

July 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Infighting among conservatives over Mitt Romney’s campaign decision not to call the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) mandate a tax. Conservatives want presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to quit if he “won’t fight Obamatax.” Um, it’s called Romneycare and no, he can’t fight it without painting himself in a corner, which will play to Obama’s advantage.  LMAO!

Breitbart:  The Obama campaign has seized on remarks made by Romney adviser Eric “Etch-A-Sketch” Fehrnstrom this morning on MSNBC, to the effect that the individual mandate in Obamacare (and Romneycare) is not a tax.

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Kaiser Health Poll Finds Most Americans Want Affordable Care Act Detractors to Stop Efforts to Repeal Law

July 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment

A Kaiser Health tracking poll finds that 56% of Americans now say they would like to see the critics of President Obama’s health care reform, particularly in light of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the law, stop their efforts to block its implementation and move on to other pressing issues. Maybe that explains Sen. Mitch McConnell roundabout backtracking saying it will be hard to undo Obamacare.

Kaiser Health Poll:  ”Democrats overwhelmingly say opponents should move on to other issues (82 percent), as do half (51 percent) of independents and a quarter (26 percent) of Republicans.  But, seven in ten Republicans (69 percent) say they want to see efforts to stop the law continue, a view shared by 41 percent of independents and 14 percent of Democrats.”

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Solid majorities of voters of every political stripe say the decision won’t impact whether or not they vote this November – though Republicans are more likely than Democrats (31 percent compared to 18 percent) to say the result makes them more likely to turn out.

icon reports studies Kaiser Health Poll Finds Most Americans Want Affordable Care Act Detractors to Stop Efforts to Repeal Law Findings (.pdf)

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Reuters Poll Finds Support for Obamacare Rises After Supreme Court Ruling

July 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Reuters/Ipsos poll:  Support for President Obama’s health care law (Obamacare) rose to 48% after the Supreme Court’s ruling that it was constitutional, from 43% before the court decision.

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Obamacare: SCOTUS Rules Individual Mandate Survives

June 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Obamacare: SCOTUS Rules Individual Mandate Survives (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

UPDATED:  Obamacare – The Supreme Court rules, the individual mandate survives! The Drudge Report is displaying a caption saying mandate gone from Obamacare. Um, wrong. The mandate survives! Obama is on to his second term in office. The U.S. Supreme Court upholds provision requiring Americans to carry health care insureance. OBAMA WINS!

According to The Associated Press, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the “individual mandate” requiring Americans to carry health insurance. This was a key part of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

Matt Drudge has egg all over his face, first reporting that the individual mandate was gone.  I wish I had a screen shot of his page earlier. Chief Justice John Roberts moved to the left on this one! YAAAAY.

Justice Roberts (the right will certainly unload like a ton of bricks) authored the opinion and was joined by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer. Big win for Obama.

CNN: “Because the individual mandate has been upheld, and is essentially the funding behind everything else, this can be seen in large part as a major victory for President Obama,”

Obamacare: SCOTUS Rules Individual Mandate Survives
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Alaska’s Quitter-in-Chief Sarah Palin Resurrects Death Panels Debate as Part of Obamacare

June 26, 2012 by 3 Comments
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Alaska’s Quitter-in-Chief Sarah Palin Resurrects Death Panels Debate as Part of Obamacare (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

SARAH PALIN RESURRECTS DEATH PANELS: Here we go again, Alaska’s quitter-in-chief, Sarah Palin, “is resurrecting the idea that President Obama’s health care law includes what she calls death panels,” USA Today reports.

Palin wrote on  Facebook: “Though I was called a liar for calling it like it is, many of these accusers finally saw that Obamacare did in fact create a panel of faceless bureaucrats who have the power to make life and death decisions about health care funding.”

Sarah Palin is proof of the dumbing-down of America and its implications. I guess she craves attention….

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