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HUFFINGTON POST HEADLINE

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I don't know why some republicans feel the need to lie when they know that their lies can be FACT CHECKED on the Internet.

In today's second rant they try to say that your health care will no longer be determined by you and your doctor. It's PURE BULLSHIT.

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Below is another picture of my tractor still waiting to be fixed. I have a repair man from Sears coming out this afternoon. He'll do the annual service as well as remove the chain from around the blade.

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Man it's going to be a busy day today. I have to do the ProTime thing this morning (8:20), get a haircut, then I have a Dr appointment at 11:30 then it back home to wait for the Sears repair man.

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Sometimes you need to go through your stuff to remind yourself about times gone by. Back in 1997 when I retired I took a trip back east to New York and the New England states. The above image is of a couple of leaves and some acorns I picked up while in the New England States. They are a little faded but still look pretty good.

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HOUSE OF CARDS 5 and 6 of 24

See my Post on 2/18/9 for some background info.

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DOCTOR'S ORDERS?

Republicans claim that the new stimulus law says the government will tell physicians what procedures can and can't be performed. It doesn't. Republican politicians have claimed that the stimulus bill requires that doctors follow government orders on what medical treatments can and can't be prescribed. But the bill doesn't say that.

Rep. Tom Price of Georgia says the measure creates "a national health care rationing board." Not true. What it creates is a council to coordinate research into which treatments work best, and are most effective for the money. And in fact, the new law states quite specifically that the council has no power to "mandate coverage" and that its recommendations are not to be construed as "clinical guidelines for ... treatment."

Betsy McCaughey, a Republican former lieutenant governor of New York, claims that the bill creates a "new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology." Not true. The office was created in 2004 by President Bush. McCaughey also says the office "will monitor treatments" and " 'guide' your doctor's decisions." But that's nothing new. Bush's initiative called for creating a health IT system to transmit information to "guide medical decisions."

Critics of comparative effectiveness research, which the government has been funding for decades, claim that it will lead to treatment being approved or denied based on costs. Proponents say it will improve the quality of care and can, in some cases, show that more costly treatments aren't as effective as less expensive alternatives.

We can't predict what will happen in the future, but we can say that several claims being made about the impact of the bill are simply opinions being passed off as facts.

STILL BUSHED

Keith Olbermann has listed the various scandles in the Bush administration. Here are three more.

Gitmo guard unlocks prison's horrors

Still Bushed: Army Private Brandon Neely has talked to The Associated Press about his time as a guard at the prison at Guantanamo Bay saying, "The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong." Learn more about his confession in Still Bushed.

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