{"id":12887,"date":"2009-07-22T10:37:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12887"},"modified":"2009-07-22T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T16:10:40","slug":"health-care-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12887","title":{"rendered":"Health care confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Democrats are betting the farm on health care, the media seems a bit a confused. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=10762659\">Associated Press<\/a> finds a poll that says Americans are &#8220;more confident&#8221; about their access to health care. Buried in the story is the story is this quote;  &#8220;Researchers call the increase significant. While they say they&#8217;re not sure what accounts for it, they say it might be due to expectations that Washington will improve the health care system.&#8221; It also might be due to expectations that Obama will fail to get his brand of economy-killing heath care enacted.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/07\/20\/poll-obamas-public-approval-health-care-reform-slipping\/\">Fox News<\/a> reports that &#8220;[a] new poll suggests public approval of the way President Barack Obama is handling health care reform is slipping.&#8221; That might be why Obama is taking his snake oil sales pitch to prime time again, says Reuters;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. President Barack Obama will plead his case for a broad healthcare overhaul in a prime-time news conference on Wednesday, with doubts growing about the plan even among his fellow Democrats and polls showing slipping public support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I got a sense of the desperation yesterday when the Obama team pleaded with me to help them;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/despiration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12888\" title=\"despiration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/despiration.jpg\" alt=\"despiration\" width=\"356\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/despiration.jpg 569w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/despiration-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I heard a clip on Fox News this morning of a conference callObama had with some netroot bloggers in which he had to admit that he&#8217;s not familiar all of the health care plan. I found the audio at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/07\/20\/obama-calls-on-bloggers-t_n_241570.html\">HuffPo<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s at about 17:15.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s going to ram it up our collective ass anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Malkin writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/07\/22\/obamacare-for-illegal-aliens\/\">Obamacare for illegal aliens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Pelosi had a press conference and dragged out some victims of the current system. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/interactive.foxnews.com\/livestream\/live.html?chanId=1\">link to it while it lasts<\/a>. When they put up the video, I&#8217;ll drag it over here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Democrats are betting the farm on health care, the media seems a bit a confused. &hellip; <a title=\"Health care confusion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12887\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health care confusion<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}