Posted on 05/15/2010 5:50:16 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
New enforcement tools help fight health care fraud (You can't scam the Commiecare™ scam)
Central Chronicle ^ | 5/13/10
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 12:25:31 AM by Libloather
Washington, May 13:
The government says it recovered $2.5 billion in overpayments for the Medicare trust fund last year as the Obama administration focused attention on fraud enforcement efforts in the health care industry.
Investigators have new tools this year to help crack down on health care fraud, with the Justice Department and the Health and Human Services Department working cooperatively to police companies. The newly enacted Affordable Care Act is designed to lengthen prison sentences in criminal cases and the new law provides an additional $300 million over the next 10 years for stronger enforcement. It also gives the government new authority to step up oversight of companies participating in Medicare and Medicaid.
Small business lobby joins challenge to health law
AP ^ | 5/13/10 | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 1:36:25 AM by Wolfstar
WASHINGTON – The nation's most influential small business lobby is joining a court challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, arguing that Americans cannot be required under the Constitution to obtain insurance coverage.
Pelosi to Aspiring Musicians: Quit Your Job, Taxpayers Will Cover Your Health Care
CNSNews ^
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 12:04:01 PM by Sub-Driver
Pelosi to Aspiring Musicians: Quit Your Job, Taxpayers Will Cover Your Health Care Friday, May 14, 2010 By Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter
(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that thanks to the new health-care reform law musicians and other creative types could quit their jobs and focus on developing their talents because the taxpayers would fund their health care for them.
“We see it as a entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”
Woodstock Unite! If You're A Artist You Can Quit Work & The Rest Of Us Will Pay For Your Healthcare
Flopping Aces ^ | 05-15-10 | Curt
Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:30:50 AM by Starman417
Here is Nancy Pelosi a few months ago telling a group of musicians and artists that because of ObamaCare they can now leech off of the rest of us saps who have to work for a living:
[VIDEO AT SITE]
We see it as an entrepreneurial bill, a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.
I'm thinking a lot of doctors will want to escape the grind and become entrepreneurs themselves. Why wouldn't they? They will be paid pennies compared to the amount spent in school, and now will be told the what, why, where, when, and how by the federal government.
Pelosi: Hey, quit your job – we’ll pay for your health coverage!
Hot Air ^ | May 15th 2010 | Ed Morrissey
Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:39:53 AM by thesheepdog
Pelosi: Hey, quit your job – we’ll pay for your health coverage! You gotta to love her ignorance.
Pelosi touts healthcare reform as her 'proudest achievement' in speech to grads
The Hill ^
Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 3:46:44 PM by Sub-Driver
Pelosi touts healthcare reform as her 'proudest achivement' in speech to grads By Susan Crabtree - 05/15/10 02:00 PM ET
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is touting the passage of healthcare reform as her greatest accomplishment in Congress so far.
“Healthcare reform is my proudest achievement in Congress,” she said. “But it would not have been possible without the leadership of President Obama.”
Dems feel healthcare fatigue
the hill ^ | 5/14/10 | Julian Pecquet
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 2:44:02 PM by Nachum
Healthcare reform fatigue has set in among Democrats, casting doubt that Congress will move much health-related legislation the rest of this session.
Measures in jeopardy include bills that would require more information on healthcare prices, empower federal regulators to sign off on premium increases and strip insurers of their exemption from antitrust laws.
Gingrich: health overhaul will sink US economy
San Francisco Examiner ^ | May 14, 2010 | BOB LEWIS
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 5:59:02 PM by SmartInsight
Until Republicans can retake Congress and repeal the new health care reform law, former U.S. Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday, Republicans now have a duty to thwart its implementation by blocking its funding in the federal budget.
Gingrich said that government health care spending at the pace the Democratic-passed law anticipates will amass enough debt to wreck the American economy just as Greece's debt-ridden economy has floundered.
STATE-of-FLORIDA-et-al-v-U-S-DHHS-et-al-42-First-AMENDED-COMPLAINT [Filing against Obamacare]
Scribd ^ | 5/14/2010 | Blaine H. Winship Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General of Florida
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 6:56:03 PM by Elderberry
1. This is an action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” P.L. 111-148, as amended by the “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,” P.L. 111-152 (collectively the Act).
States joined in suit against healthcare reform (Obama's a LIAR!)
reuters ^ | 5/16/2010 | reuters
Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:13:04 PM by tobyhill
The joint lawsuit led by Florida and now grouping 20 states was filed on March 23 by mostly Republican attorneys general.
It claims the sweeping reform of the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system, pushed through by Democrats in the U.S. Congress after months of bitter partisan wrangling, violates state government rights in the U.S. Constitution and will force massive new spending on hard-pressed state governments.
Book: Rahm "begged" Obama for days not to pursue ambitious health reform
wapo ^ | 5/14/10 | Greg Sargent
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 7:33:29 PM by Nachum
Rahm Emanuel spent nearly a week in the summer of 2009 aggressively trying to talk Obama out of moving foward with an ambitious version of health care reform, and by his own admission "begged" him not to do it, a book out next week reports.
The book, Jonathan Alter's The Promise, goes much further than previous accounts in documenting just how opposed Rahm was to proceeding with ambitious reform -- something that was widely suspected at the time but never proven in detail. Excerpts of the book were made available in advance of its release next Tuesday.
GA joins Federal Healthcare Reform lawsuit
WALB Channel 10 ^ | May 14, 2010 2:51 PM EDT | From the Governor's Office
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 8:32:24 PM by jafojeffsurf
ATLANTA – Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that Georgia has officially joined 19 other states in challenging the federal healthcare reform act when the amended complaint was filed today.
Redistributing Health?
Investor's Business Daily ^ | May 14, 2010 | IBD Editorial
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 8:43:54 PM by SmartInsight
Medicine: The administration's nominee to run Medicare and Medicaid is a fan of Britain's National Health Service and rationing services. He believes in less discretion for your doctor, more power for your government.
'The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open" is what Dr. Donald Berwick, President Obama's nominee to head the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, said in an interview published in Biotechnology Healthcare in June 2009.
Missouri voters will get crack at federal health care overhaul
Columbia Tribune ^ | 5/12/10 | TERRY GANEY
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 8:55:19 PM by listenhillary
JEFFERSON CITY — Legislation that began by dealing with the dissolution of insurance companies has morphed into a statewide referendum on the federal health care overhaul.
The Health Insurers' Faustian Bargain
The American Thinker ^ | May 15, 2010 | Paul Hsieh, MD
Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:28:41 AM by Scanian
In early 2009, health insurance companies struck a Faustian bargain with the Obama administration. In exchange for a law requiring Americans to purchase health insurance, they agreed to regulations requiring them to offer coverage to all comers regardless of preexisting illnesses. Now that ObamaCare is law, insurers are learning that they may have sold their souls to the Devil -- along with the lives of the American people.
Governor vetoes open carry, health care lawsuit measures(OK)
newsok.com ^ | 14 May, 2010 | MICHAEL MCNUTT
Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:55:00 AM by marktwain
Gov. Brad Henry today vetoed a bill that would have allowed Oklahomans to opt out of the national health care system and another measure that would have allowed them to wear handguns in public view.
U.S. isn't Greece – health overhaul can aid path to recovery [Paul Krugman]
Sacramento Bee ^ | May 15, 2010 | by Paul Krugman
Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:16:49 AM by Oldeconomybuyer
It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the crisis in Greece is making some people – people who opposed health care reform and are itching for an excuse to dismantle Social Security – very, very happy.
We have a clear path to economic recovery, while Greece doesn't.
Obamacare Class Action Lawsuit (Deadline May 31st)
Obamacareclassation.com ^
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 7:25:27 PM by Man50D
More than thirty thousand people have signed a class action lawsuit against the unconstitutional Obamacare. The deadline to join is May 31st. We need to keep sending the socialist in Washington D.C. the message we will not tolerate the usurpation of the Constitution to enslave the people! We need to remind them the people are the government and will have the final say as to how we are governed! It's time to make a big push by joining the lawsuit!
Health reform threatens to cram already overwhelmed emergency rooms
thehill.com ^ | MAY 15, 2010 | Jay Heflin
Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:44:46 PM by Free ThinkerNY
The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities.
A chief aim of the new healthcare law was to take the pressure off emergency rooms by mandating that people either have insurance coverage. The idea was that if people have insurance, they will go to a doctor rather than putting off care until they faced an emergency.
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