The White House unveiled its new Reality Check webpage Monday morning, attempting to realign facts in its favor about the proposed nationalized health care plan.
I noted on my blog that noticeably missing was any mention of the A-word, even though the topic has taken center stage in the national debate. Baptist Press picked up the story from there:
There is a reason behind the White House’s refusal to label abortion coverage in health care reform as a rumor. …”The bills President Obama is pushing in Congress could create the biggest expansion …

It’s official: President Obama is not afraid of Canadians.
Asked at a North American summit in Mexico today about the fact that the Canadian health care system has “become a political football” in the United States during the debate over health care, Mr. Obama said he expects “Canadians will continue to get dragged in by those who oppose reform.”
“I don’t find Canadians particularly scary, but I guess some of the opponents of reform think that they make a good boogeyman,” the president said at a press conference with Mexican President Felipe …

Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal policy on the divisive issue.
Federal funds for abortions are now restricted to cases involving rape, incest or danger to the health of the mother.
Abortion opponents say those restrictions should carry over to any health insurance sold through a new marketplace envisioned under the legislation, an exchange where people would choose private coverage or the public plan.
Abortion rights supporters say that would have the effect …

We Americans are now “Alice through the looking glass”.  Everything is in reverse as far as one can see.  Instead of our elected leaders working for us, we’re working for them.  And, as much as they try to sell this presidential health care plan – which they still have yet to fully explain despite hours of airtime on the main stream media – it still isn’t as good as the plan our elected leaders enjoy.
Take a look at what our esteemed lawmakers in Washington get in their health care plan.  …

A lawsuit that challenged the former Illinois governor’s unilateral expansion of state-subsidized health care ended Monday when Gov. Pat Quinn gave up his predecessor’s fight.
Court documents indicate Blagojevich’s successor, Quinn, settled the lawsuit, and the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed it.
The lawsuit was filed by a lawyer and two prominent businessmen in December 2007, after Rod Blagojevich’s “FamilyCare” plan began, even though the Legislature had repeatedly rejected it.
Read more of this article in Forbes
Read more about the unilateral expansion of State Spending on Healthcare at the Chicago Daily Observer

Last September Sen. Barack Obama promised that under his health-care proposal “you’ll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.” On Monday, President Obama repeated that promise in a speech to the American Medical Association. It’s not true.
The president is barnstorming the nation, urging swift approval of legislation that is taking shape in Congress. This legislation — the Affordable Health Choices Act that’s being drafted by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s staff and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — will push Americans into …

Sometime in the coming months, the scandal-plagued, corruption-scarred, worse-than-useless Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board likely will cease to exist.
You can stop applauding. It’s not what you think: The board, which regulates hospital construction, isn’t being abolished, as this page has urged.
It’s just getting a new name — the Health Facilities and Services Review Board — if a proposal in the legislature passes and is signed by Gov. Pat Quinn. The board would add four more members (for a total of nine). And the board members, who have been unpaid, would …

If Mrs. Obama did quit her (sinecure at the University Of Chicago Hospitals in May 2007, how was it that she got $$62,709 from the University Of Chicago Hospitals for her work as a chief executive?
Furthermore, as we have noted before, Mrs. Obama’s position was so vitally important to the University Of Chicago Hospital that once she left it – it was done away with.
So, officially, Mrs. Obama was on a ‘leave of absence’ since May 2007. (She didn’t quit, as the Post article had suggested, lest she not have …