Who Killed Grandma?

Obama Health Care Lies

Obama owes the American people an explanation for the numerous inaccuracies (lies) he told when he was pushing for government-run health care.

He relayed heartwrenching anecdotes of insurance companies dropping coverage of seriously ill people due to pre-existing conditions.

The problem: They were riddled with falsehoods.

The story of Obama's tall tales has been simmering out there for well over a week. I wish it would gain more traction because it's important.

Obama is a liar.

Obama had the audacity to lie about his own mother's alleged struggles with her health insurance company as she was dying!

Video, from Breitbart:



Obama is shameless.

Twisting the facts about his own mother and the last month of her life is sick. It's creepy.

Obama's dishonesty is very disturbing.

Apparently, the guy is willing to say anything.

Obama: Ann Dunham and Health Insurance

Is Obama lying when he says his dying mother had to fight insurance companies to cover her medical bills?

It certainly appears that he misled the public, repeatedly.

A new biography about Obama's mother, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by New York Times reporter Janny Scott, debunks Obama's tale about his mother in her hospital bed worrying about how to pay her medical expenses.

From Byron York, the Washington Examiner:

"I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn't thinking about how to get well, she wasn't thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality, she was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence," Obama said in September 2007.

"She was in her hospital room looking at insurance forms because the insurance company said that maybe she had a pre-existing condition and maybe they wouldn't have to reimburse her for her medical bills," Obama added in January 2008.

"The insurance companies were saying, 'Maybe there's a pre-existing condition and we don't have to pay your medical bills,' " Obama said in a debate with Republican opponent Sen. John McCain in October 2008.

It was a simple and powerful story, one Obama would tell many more times as president during the national health care debate. But now we're learning the real story of Ann Dunham's health coverage is not quite what her son made it out to be.

...Scott, who had access to Dunham's correspondence from the time, reveals that Dunham unquestionably had health coverage. "Ann's compensation for her job in Jakarta had included health insurance, which covered most of the costs of her medical treatment," Scott writes. "Once she was back in Hawaii, the hospital billed her insurance company directly, leaving Ann to pay only the deductible and any uncovered expenses, which, she said, came to several hundred dollars a month."

Scott writes that Dunham, who wanted to be compensated for those costs as well as for her living expenses, "filed a separate claim under her employer's disability insurance policy." It was that claim, with the insurance company CIGNA, that was denied in August 1995 because, CIGNA investigators said, Dunham's condition was known before she was covered by the policy.

Dunham protested the decision and, Scott writes, "informed CIGNA that she was turning over the case to 'my son and attorney, Barack Obama.' " CIGNA did not budge.

In September 1995, Dunham traveled to New York for an evaluation at the renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Returning to Hawaii, she began a new course of treatment. She died in November.

A dozen years later, her son turned her ordeal into a campaign pitch for national health care. But the story Obama told, Scott writes, was "abbreviated" -- the abbreviation was to leave out the fact that Ann Dunham had health insurance that paid for her treatment. "Though he often suggested that she was denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition," Scott writes, "it appears from her correspondence that she was only denied disability coverage."

That's quite a revelation.

I don't think Obama "abbreviated" the story about his mother and her health insurance concerns.

I think he altered the facts to suit his political purposes.

It appears that Obama's mom did not have to worry about being able to pay her medical bills.

"I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn't thinking about how to get well, she wasn't thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality, she was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence," Obama said in September 2007.

"She was in her hospital room looking at insurance forms because the insurance company said that maybe she had a pre-existing condition and maybe they wouldn't have to reimburse her for her medical bills," Obama added in January 2008.

"The insurance companies were saying, 'Maybe there's a pre-existing condition and we don't have to pay your medical bills,' " Obama said in a debate with Republican opponent Sen. John McCain in October 2008.

Twisting the facts about your own mother and the last month of her life is sick.

This dishonesty is really creepy. Obama is shameless.

The Obama Legacy

Must-see video:



Four more years OF THIS?

No, thank you.

Graeme Zielinski: Violence, Republicans

Graeme Zielinski, the Communications Director for the Democrat Party of Wisconsin, published a most disturbing Tweet.

Via Instapundit, via American Glob, via Legal Insurrection:



Zielinski is a high profile figure in the Wisconsin Democrat Party.

For him to be so stupid to post something so inappropriate is really rather shocking.

Didn't he realize how bad he would make the Democrats look?

The Wisconsin Democrats have truly lost it.

GRAEME ZIELINSKI: It's Medicare's 45th Birthday. Celebrate by punching a Republican.

A full and immediate apology from Zielinski is in order.

Indiana Planned Parenthood: Lies (Video)

An undercover tape from Lila Rose and Live Action reveals Planned Parenthood in Indiana to be deceiving the public when it claims that Indiana's Planned Parenthood funding cuts mean women on Medicaid would have nowhere else to go for health care.

Read Lila Rose's investigative report at Big Government: Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid Misinformation In Indiana.

Video.

The Obama Administration is bullying Indiana, threatening to cut billions in Medicaid care for the elderly and low-income, because Indiana's decided to cut funding to abortion providers.

Abortion giant Planned Parenthood serves less than 1% of Medicaid patients in Indiana, but performs over 52% of all abortions.

Stand with Indiana against the political bullying in their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood.

Here's a press release from Live Action:

Medicaid Misinformation: Planned Parenthood Caught on Tape Lying About Indiana Healthcare

Live Action Launches “Standing with Indiana” Petition

June 29, 2011 – Undercover phone calls released today show Planned Parenthood of Indiana clinics admitting that they are not the only source of women’s health care for women on Medicaid. Planned Parenthood and its supporters have recently argued in support of restoring their Medicaid funding in Indiana that poor women will lose access to vital health care services if they cannot go to Planned Parenthood. Live Action, the group that recorded the calls, says its footage shows the reality is quite the opposite.

“Indiana has become Ground Zero in the national battle to defund Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion business in America,” states Live Action President Lila Rose. “As more and more states, most recently Wisconsin and Texas, continue to defund the abortion giant of millions of dollars, Planned Parenthood wants us to believe they are the only game in town when it comes to providing care for Medicaid patients. In reality, their own staff admit that they aren’t the only option for women in need.”

In an official press release, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards claimed that Indiana’s defunding of Planned Parenthood would “take away health care from thousands of women in Indiana.” Last week, Live Action’s undercover investigators called 16 of the 28 Indiana Planned Parenthood clinics posing as women on Medicaid concerned about where they could receive services if Planned Parenthood’s funding was not restored.

SEE VIDEO HERE: www.liveaction.org

Planned Parenthood staffers at all 16 locations admitted that Medicaid women would still have access to medical care after the defunding. Staffers suggested local health clinics or state-assigned primary care physicians for Medicaid patients: “Your primary care doctor should be able to do [a Well Woman exam,] I mean, that’s what they’re there for,” said a Planned Parenthood in Michigan City, while the Merrillville Planned Parenthood said of a local community health center, “They have the same services we have.”

“According to Planned Parenthood’s own statistics, their 28 clinics serve less than 1% of Indiana Medicaid patients, yet they do more than 50% of Indiana abortions,” notes Rose. There are over 800 other Medicaid providers available to these women in the counties with Planned Parenthood clinics alone.”

Even Indiana doctors agree that defunding Planned Parenthood in Indiana would have little to no effect on the care and services provided to Medicaid patients.

“If Planned Parenthood only sees 1% of Medicaid patients in the state, and that’s their statistic, it doesn’t seem like they are making a big imprint in the first place,” said Dr. Geoff Cly, at the Northeast Ob/GYN Women’s Health Group in Fort Wayne, IN. “I know in our group, we currently have capacity to see more patients and I’m sure many other groups could easily take care of the 1% that’s left if Planned Parenthood no longer took care of those patients.”

However, President Obama has come to Planned Parenthood’s aid by threatening to deny billions in low-income healthcare funds unless Indiana starts contracting with them.

“The Obama administration is holding patients’ health hostage in return for funding the largest abortion provider in the country,” asserted Lila Rose. “This abuse of power is a threat to every other state – that no matter the cost or consequences, this Administration will sacrifice healthcare for the needy to continue pouring tax dollars into Planned Parenthood.”

“Today we launch a ‘Stand with Indiana’ petition exposing Planned Parenthood’s deception and demanding that President Obama revoke his intervention on their behalf,” continues Rose. “Planned Parenthood has lied in covering up sex trafficking and statutory rape, lied about abusing taxpayer dollars, lied about mammograms, and now lies about Medicaid–all in the interest of protecting the taxpayer subsidies of their abortion business. States and their citizens no longer want to fund this corrupt organization.”

Access the “I Stand with Indiana” petition at: www.IStandWithIndiana.com
Fact Sheet with statistics, sources and figures available at:
www.liveaction.org

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Lila Rose Discusses Latest Planned Parenthood Investigation with Ingraham on O’Reilly

Paul Ryan: 'Grandma Off Cliff' Ad

The Agenda Project, a Leftist group, has created a truly disgusting political ad.

It attacks the Republicans' budget plan by depicting a figure resembling Paul Ryan pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair in a park-like setting. "America the Beautiful" plays in the background while birds sing.

The man ignores a sign, "Do not go beyond barricade," and the woman begins to panic and struggle. Eventually, he throws her off a cliff, literally. The man then simply turns back, pushing the empty wheelchair.

The words "Is America beautiful without Medicare?" appear on the screen.

Then, "Ask Paul Ryan and his friends in Congress (202)225-3031."

Watch.



Really sick.

The Leftists have no shame, unless they're screaming "SHAME" at the top of their lungs.
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Chris Matthews, MSNBC Democrat hack always yapping about ugly conservative rhetoric, really enjoyed the ad.

From Media Research Center:

A clearly amused Chris Matthews narrated and laughed at a liberal ad showing Republican Paul Ryan murdering an elderly woman by throwing her off a cliff. This is the same MSNBC anchor who railed against "ugly" conservative talk and wondered if it led to the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords.

...[O]n the January 11, 2011 Hardball, Matthews highlighted the shooting of Giffords and foamed, "People like Mark Levin, Michael Savage, for example who every time you listen to them are furious, furious at the Left with anger that just builds and builds in their voice, and by the time they go to commercial, they’re just in some rage, every night, with ugly talk. Ugly sounding talk."

He lamented that conservatives see the other side "as evil, as awful. Not just disagreeable but evil." Matthews then implicated these talk radio hosts in the shooting of Giffords by a deranged person: "And my question is doesn't that give the moral license to people who have crazy minds to start with?"

Yet, on Tuesday, Matthews joked, "Finally, grandma gets thrown off the cliff." Earlier, he called it an "ad that's over the edge, literally." But, this was also made in an amused tone.

And the Leftists insist that MSNBC doesn't have a liberal bias?

Right.

Here's the video:



Transcript

CHRIS MATTHEWS: And talk about an ad that's over the edge, literally. A liberal group has produced [ad plays onscreen.]- catch- Oh, there you see it, not holding back on that one. [Laughs.] Throwing grandma or- that's- I think it is supposed to be Paul Ryan pushing the wheelchair with grandma over the edge. That's in the Sideshow. We will show you the full ad.

MATTHEWS: Finally, grandma gets thrown off the cliff. A liberal group called The Agenda Project has just released an ad whacking at Paul Ryan's to privatize Medicare. Subtle? This ad is not.

[Plays ad of Ryan throwing an old woman off a cliff.]

MATTHEWS: Boy, I love the point of view on that one as she tries to slow down with her feet. Anyway, the irony here, Paul Ryan may be driving the Republican Party off the cliff.

ObamaCare Waivers List 2011

The ObamaCare Waivers List is truly an embarrassment.

If ObamaCare is such a great system why are so many waivers being sought and granted?

The list of waivers has been getting longer and longer.

Yesterday, the Daily Caller shed more light on the latest waivers. It's not pretty.

Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district.

That’s in addition to the 27 new waivers for health care or drug companies and the 31 new union waivers Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services approved.

Pelosi’s district secured almost 20 percent of the latest issuance of waivers nationwide, and the companies that won them didn’t have much in common with companies throughout the rest of the country that have received Obamacare waivers.

Other common waiver recipients were labor union chapters, large corporations, financial firms and local governments. But Pelosi’s district’s waivers are the first major examples of luxurious, gourmet restaurants and hotels getting a year-long pass from Obamacare.

...The reason the Obama administration says it has given out waivers is to exempt certain companies or policyholders from “annual limit requirements.” The applications for the waivers are “reviewed on a case by case basis by department officials who look at a series of factors including whether or not a premium increase is large or if a significant number of enrollees would lose access to their current plan because the coverage would not be offered in the absence of a waiver.” The waivers don’t allow a company to permanently refrain from implementing Obamacare’s stipulations, but companies can reapply for waivers annually through 2014.

Café Mason, a diner near San Francisco’s Union Square, got a waiver too. When The Daily Caller asked the manager about the waiver and how the president’s new sweeping federal health care law was affecting his restaurant, he hung up the phone. The Franciscan Crab restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco got a waiver. Its menu features entrees ranging from about $15 to $60. The Franciscan’s general manager didn’t return TheDC’s requests for comment.

Four-star hotel Campton Place got one too, as did Hotel Nikko San Francisco, which describes itself as “four-diamond luxury in the heart of the city.” Tru Spa, which Allure Magazine rated the “best day spa in San Francisco,” received an Obamacare waiver as well.

Before hanging up on TheDC, Tru Spa’s owner said new government health care regulations, both the federal-level Obamacare and new local laws in Northern California, have “devastated” the business. “It’s been bad for us,” he said, without divulging his name, referring to the new health care restrictions.

But, the spa owner wouldn’t talk about it or the reason his company sought a waiver. He hung up after saying, “I’ve got clients on the other line, good-bye.”

ObamaCare is bad for business. That's the reality.

In an effort to appease, the Obama administration is granting favors, giving the "chosen" a break from the government regulations.

The fact that Nancy Pelosi's district has received nearly 20 percent of the new waivers is really stunning. One congressional district, Pelosi's, gets 20 percent of the newest waivers?!?

That looks really bad.

Pelosi needs to address this matter. "No comment" isn't going to fly.
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Read Michelle Malkin, "Waive Me."

Paul Ryan and Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich's run for president got off to a terrible start.

He was extremely critical of Paul Ryan on Meet the Press.

Transcript

NEWT GINGRICH: I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.

Gingrich had to back off his remarks. He claimed he was taken out of context by "gotcha media."



It's not good that Gingrich started off his campaign with this firestorm.

Paul Ryan fired back.

"With allies like that, who needs the left?" Ryan quipped, during an interview on Laura Ingraham's radio show.

Conservatives in the media weren't the only ones shaking their heads over Gingrich's comments. At least one voter in Iowa was very angry about the way Gingrich attacked Paul Ryan. That voter had the opportunity to tell Gingrich exactly how he felt.

Video.



Transcript

IOWA VOTER: (Shaking Gingrich's hand) What you just did to Paul Ryan is unforgivable.

NEWT GINGRICH: I didn't do anything to Paul Ryan.

VOTER: Yes, you did. You undercut him and his allies in the House.

GINGRICH: No, I said...

VOTER: You're an embarrassment to our party.

GINGRICH: Well, I'm sorry you feel that way.

VOTER: Why don't you get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself?

GINGRICH: I'm sorry you feel that way.

Bottom line: Gingrich is not going to be the Republican party's nominee for president.

Donald Trump and Paul Ryan

I watch Celebrity Apprentice.

I don't always agree with Donald Trump's decisions on the show.

There was no question that he should have fired Gary Busey instead of Mark McGrath. It was a move that Trump did purely for ratings. He wanted to keep the loony Busey around as long as he could.

Of course, it's only entertainment. It's a show. I don't have a problem with Trump trying to deliver a product that's as entertaining as possible. From a ratings standpoint, I suppose Trump exercised good judgment by keeping Busey another week. Trump is a showman.

In addition to being a showman, Trump is skilled at business. He has managed to amass a fortune. There's no question he's successful.

When it comes to diving into presidential politics, Trump is being a great showman. The fact that he's getting the media and some citizens to take him even remotely seriously as a candidate is testament to his skills as a performer.

However, when it comes to Trump's ability to be the voice and face of the conservative movement, the performance completely falls apart.

Savannah Guthrie interviewed Trump for the Today Show.

Guthrie didn't give Trump a chance to answer her questions, but putting that aside, Trump doesn't sound like someone with defined, solid principles.

When you compare what Trump has been trying to sell the American people in this round of media appearances with what he's said previously about issues and President George W. Bush and Obama, it makes Charlie Sheen appear more mentally stable than Trump.

Here's video of Guthrie's interview with The Donald:

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Just before the 3:00 mark, Guthrie asks Trump about the Paul Ryan budget.

Transcript

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Do you support the Ryan plan to bring the deficit down by $4 trillion?

DONALD TRUMP: I'm very concerned about doing anything that's going to tinker too much with Medicare. I protect the senior citizens. Senior citizens are protected. They are lifeblood, as far as I'm concerned. I think Paul Ryan is too far out front with this issue. I think he ought to sit back and relax.

Excuse me. Savannah...

GUTHRIE: So how do you attack the deficit if you don't touch Medicare, the entitlements, as you well know, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security? That's where the debt problem is. How do you address it if you're not going to touch Medicare?

TRUMP: Do you know how you do it? By stopping what's going on in the world. The world is just destroying our country. These other countries are sapping our strength. OPEC is sapping our strength. We can't pay $108 a barrel oil. It's sapping our country. And by the way, they are going to raise it higher because now Saudi Arabia said, 'There's plenty of oil. We're going to cut back.' Excuse me...

GUTHRIE: How does that go to the debt crisis?

TRUMP: Well, I'm saying what we want to do is create a strong country again and you can solve the deficit problem the easiest way.

GUTHRIE: But would you raise taxes to attack the deficit?

TRUMP: I don't think you have to. And let me just tell you, if we get this economy going again and we can do it by getting jobs, by bringing our jobs back, bringing them back. Let the other countries worry about themselves.

GUTHRIE: Should the U.S. cut defense spending to attack the deficit?

TRUMP: No. No, not in my opinion. We need great defense. I guarantee you of all of the Republicans, I'm the strongest on defense.

It's possible that NBC did an awful job of editing the interview, but as aired, Trump is dissing Paul Ryan.

I don't think a serious Republican presidential candidate would say that a powerhouse like Ryan should "sit back and relax."

Trump complains about other countries sapping our strength. I think he's serving to sap the strength from potential Republican candidates at the moment.

I look forward to June when Trump announces that he is NOT running for president, but there will be another season of Celebrity Apprentice.

Paul Ryan's Critics

The Wall Street Journal dissects the "liberal assault on the GOP budget."

One point of a document as subversive as Paul Ryan's 2012 budget is to provoke debate, and has it ever. But amid the thoughtful musings about starving orphans and grandma in a snowbank, could his critics at least get their facts right?

Let's unpack the distortions.

The WSJ proceeds to go through the attacks being launched against Paul Ryan's plan, covering five areas:

• Deficits and debt
• Tax cuts for "the rich"
• Medicare "cuts"
• Real health-care reform
• Health-care inflation

Read the details.

The conclusion:

These attacks amount to false fronts for the real objection, which is over the role of government. Mr. Ryan's critics understand very well that he wants to substitute markets for bureaucratic central planning. What he would dismantle isn't Medicare, but its system of one-size-fits-all coverage and price controls. The liberal answer to runaway costs, passed as part of ObamaCare, is the Independent Payment Advisory Board that will decide how much the government will pay for what treatments and was deliberately shielded from Congressional supervision.

Medicare "as we know it" will change because it must. The only issue is how. Mr. Ryan is offering Americans a reform rooted in consumer choice and private competition, rather than political control and bureaucratic rationing. This is why he is under such ferocious liberal assault.

Keep this information in mind when Obama delivers his budget address tonight.

You can't buy what Obama's selling, not if you believe in liberty and choice and the private sector.

On the other hand, if you want excessive government control in your life and you don't mind giving up your freedom, reject Paul Ryan's plan.
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Read "Obama Puts Taxes on Table."

Read "Eat the Rich."

Read "Three Cheers for Paul Ryan...On Second Thought, Make it Four."

Michael Moore SiCKO Health Care Card

Usually when a celebrity is plugging a new movie or TV show or book, the person makes the rounds of the talk shows.

Michael Moore made a return trip to the Tonight Show on Thursday night.

It was only a month ago that he visited with Jay Leno to hawk SiCKO.

Is it Leno that wants to shill for Moore or is it Moore that wants to appear with Leno?

I thought it was a rerun at first because Moore had just been on the show so recently.

Anyway, Moore began yapping about all the weight that he's lost. He also vowed to lose a pound a week and return to the Tonight Show in a year down 52 pounds.

He also said that since the film came out, people email him about their problems with hospitals and doctors.

Moore tells the people to threaten the doctors that they'll be exposed by Moore. He claimed that the people's problems are resolved quickly using that tactic.

After that he whipped out a "Michael Moore SiCKO health care card."

He urged everyone to go to his website and get one.

Download the PDF of the card below and follow these simple guidelines:

1. Carry the card in your wallet with your insurance card.
2. If denied treatment, show your SiCKO card to your doctor/insurer.
3. Ask your insurer if they'd like to be in Michael Moore's next movie, DVD, or appear on MichaelMoore.com.
4. Tell them that, if denied, you will seek coverage from your local media.
5. E-mail your story to michael@michaelmoore.com.

Celebrity Testimonial:

"There's nothing like a little blackmail." -- Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball on the 'SiCKO' Health Care Card

It's not surprising that blowhard Chris Matthews would endorse blowhard Michael Moore's stunt.

What a racket! "E-Mail your story to michael@michaelmoore.com."

In the next segment, Moore talked about some of his personal medical experiences. He had has appendix removed a couple of years ago. Supposedly, the doctor told Moore that when he was about to begin the surgery the doctor told a nurse to remove a framed picture of President Bush that was hanging on the wall.

He claimed that the doctor said he couldn't perform surgery on Moore with George Bush watching.

Moore told the story in all seriousness.

What a bunch of BS!

What operating room has a framed picture of a U.S. president hanging on the wall?

That story sounded as concocted as Moore's films.

He blathered on. I thought after two segments Moore's time was up.

Wrong.

Leno gave him a third segment. That almost never happens. Even A-list guests usually get two segments.

Comedian Orny Adams was scheduled to appear but was bumped to make room for more of the massive Moore.

The final segment was pretty much devoted to the 9/11 rescue workers he said are being denied care in the U.S.

He brought three of them that he used in SiCKO with him to the show; and they were seated in the audience. When he introduced them, they stood up as the rest of the audience cheered.

For the film, he took the workers to Cuba so they could receive the health care that detainees at Gitmo are getting.

Isn't that clever?

Then came the shocking news!

Moore announced that he had received a subpeona from the Bush administration for traveling to Cuba. How dramatic!

He whined about being the victim of harassment. Poor baby.

He yapped on and on about the need for universal health care (AKA socialized medicine).

Moore was acting like he was Mother Teresa and selflessly caring for the sick.

Leno seems to worship the quaking ground that Moore walks on. He literally gave the show over to Moore on Thursday.

I am so SICK of Moore blabbing about how great socialized medicine is and what a saint he is.

Why can't he go to Cuba and stay there?

He'd be so happy there and I'd be a lot happier here.

Sicko Michael Moore and Jay Leno

It was tough to watch The Tonight Show Tuesday night with guest Michael Moore, and not just because Michael Moore looks like he's put on a ton of weight.

It was Moore's incessant cheerleading for socialized medicine that was nauseating. It was his cheerleading for socialism in general.

While hawking Sicko, his latest Leftist propaganda piece masquerading as a documentary, Moore relayed stories about how superior Cuba's system is to ours. He told of Cuba being even better than Canada's incredible health care. You know, the system that sends desperate, seriously ill Canadians across the border to get medical care in the U.S.

One of the most ridiculous claims that Moore made was that government control of health care would mean less bureaucracy. That's so out of touch it's laughable.

Moore thinks that something as important as health care should not be left in the hands of the private sector. He believes the government would be more effective in managing care. Again, laughable.

Leno did challenge Moore slightly once. He brought up the fact that if Cuba is so great than it's odd that the people risk their lives to escape the island, coming to the U.S. on rafts and boats.

Moore basically ignored the question.

For the most part, Leno was lapping up Moore's pablum. Leno complimented Moore's aggressive style a number of times, telling him how much he likes what Moore does.

Leno nodded and just accepted what Moore was reciting as gospel truth -- If you're sick or injured, Cuba is the best place to be.

Yes, Moore definitely seems to be in love with all things Cuban.

The rotund Moore would fit right in with all those newly overweight Cubans, too.

HAVANA -- Cubans are no strangers to the battle of the bulge. Waistlines have expanded since the economic crisis of the early 1990s eased on the communist-run island - so much so that 30 percent of adults are now overweight, a newly released government study reveals.

Some people outside Cuba hold on to a stereotype of malnourished Cubans waiting in lines for a few potatoes, but there's ample evidence to the contrary in Havana, where bulging waistlines are stuffed into snug skirts or peek through too-tight guayabera shirts.

"People eat lots of things like pizza and bread that fill you up, but put on a lot of weight," said Lucia, a plump housewife who didn't want her last name used, saying she was embarrassed about her weight and uncomfortable talking publicly about something as political as food.

Can you imagine being uncomfortable talking publicly about something as POLITICAL as food?

Yeah, Cuba is a real paradise.

"If you want to go on a diet it's hard because vegetables and fruits cost a lot," she said.

...Cuba has a food ration system that supplements diets with a subsidized basket of rice, beans, potatoes, bread, eggs, a little meat, fish and chicken and other goods. The government estimates it provides a third of the 3,300 calories each Cuban consumes daily.

Cubans also get subsidized meals at work and school, and buy food at farmers markets and overpriced supermarkets or through black market purchases and trades.

Residents say getting food remains challenging, but it's easier now than in the early 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed and generous subsidies ended.

Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?

I can't picture Moore handling the food ration system.

He strikes me as a "must feed on demand" kind of guy.

Funny that Moore never mentioned Cuba's food rationing when he was suggesting that Americans should get on rafts and head for the island Utopia, land of universal health care.