Posted on 05/28/2010 6:59:41 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
Republicans criticize Obama administration brochure on health-care overhaul
Washington Post ^ | May28, 2010 | David S. Hilzenrath
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 3:25:58 AM by Innovative
As the secretary of health and human services explains it, the government has an obligation to spread the word about the new health-care law. To that end, the department spent millions of dollars printing a glossy brochure and mailing it this week to 40 million Medicare beneficiaries detailing what Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called "the facts."
Republicans see it differently. In Washington's political hothouse, one person's recitation of the facts is another's "gross misuse of taxpayer funds to provide biased information for political purposes."
Medicare and Double Standards - An ObamaCare mailer tells some howlers
Wall Street Journal ^ | 05/28/10
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 12:30:49 PM by MissesBush
In the full-circle department, recall the moment last September when Senator Max Baucus and Medicare went after the insurer Humana for having the nerve to criticize one part of ObamaCare. It turns out those same regulators have different standards for their own political advocacy.
This week Medicare sent a flyer to seniors, ostensibly to inform them of what ObamaCare "means for you." Many elderly Americans are worried—and rightly so—about where they'll rank in national health care, given that the new entitlement is funded by nearly a half-trillion dollars in Medicare cuts. They must have been relieved to hear that "The Affordable Care Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama this year will provide you and your family greater savings and increased quality health care."
Siegel: Even Muni Bonds Get Hit by Obamacare Tax Hikes
Money News ^ | 05/28/10 | Forrest Jones
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 9:50:57 AM by TigerLikesRooster
President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform bill may no longer grab headlines like it did since its passage, but tax hikes related to the bill are lurking, says author and University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business Professor Jeremy J. Siegel.
“The biggest negative is the surprise imposition of a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on investment income — the first time unearned income has been subject to such a tax,” Siegel writes in his column in Kiplinger’s Personal Income.
Bill provides citizen militia to enforce health care (Commiecare™ Ready Reserve Corps)
Quintessential Publications ^ | 3/28/10 | Tracy R Twyman
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 10:02:57 AM by Libloather
The civilian paramilitary force that Obama and Rahm Emmanuel have been talking about since the campaign has been brought into existence finally, buried deep within the 1300+ page health care bill. These are the jack-booted thugs who will be forcing you to take vaccinations with a gun pointed at your head, and anything else the health service deems necessary during a “national emergency.” As NoisyRoom.net notes, page 1312 lays out the “SEC. 5210″, which is “Establishing a Ready Reserve Corps”:
Survey: Employers Will Pass Obamacare Costs onto Employees
National Review ^ | 05/28/2010 | Avik Roy
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 10:05:49 AM by SeekAndFind
Towers Watson, a leading human resources consulting firm, has conducted a survey of 661 human resource and benefit specialists across America. While benefit professionals are still digesting the new law, the survey shows that they are even more skeptical of Obamacare than the public is.
These benefit specialists represent a broad range of industries, and are responsible for choosing health-insurance plans for almost 4 million Americans. If their fears come true, the future of American health care is bleak. Among the highlights:
Obamacare Taking on Water--The case for repeal grows stronger.
The Weekly Standard ^ | May 28, 2010 | Jeffrey H. Anderson
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 1:00:49 PM by jazusamo
As they followed one another off the political cliff in voting for the health-care overhaul, Democratic senators and representatives comforted themselves with their own self-created myth that, although ObamaCare was horribly unpopular as a bill, it would prove to be quite fetching as a law. Furthermore, this transformation, this change they could believe in, would take place sooner rather than later — as voters would reward rather than punish them for passing ObamaCare in clear and open defiance of popular will.
In the two months since, President Obama has pulled out all the stops, aggressively trying to sell the overhaul while also rolling out ostensibly popular provisions ahead of schedule. These provisions include a federal mandate that insurers cover all “children” up to the age of 26 on their mom’s and dad’s policies, with costs being borne through somewhat higher premiums for all families; and a tax credit for small businesses, but only — or at least mostly — for very small businesses (those with nine or fewer workers) with very low-paid full-time employees (those averaging less than $25,000 in annual income).
GOP moves to repeal healthcare law
The Hill ^ | 5-28-10 | Molly K. Hooper
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 9:31:26 PM by Justaham
House Republican leaders introduced a bill Thursday to repeal and replace the sweeping healthcare law adopted in late March.
According to Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the measure would repeal the current law and replace it with the alternative the minority party offered to the original healthcare legislation last November.
“As unpopular as this healthcare bill is today, it’s at the height of its popularity,” Blunt said. “The more the American people know about it, the more concerns they are going to have, and the more they are going to look at alternatives.”
Tragedy of GP who watched wife die after begging doctors to do cancer test for SEVEN MONTHS
Daily Mail ^ | May 28, 2010 | Liz Hull
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 10:11:53 AM by C19fan
A GP who begged hospital doctors to test his sick wife for cancer today criticised their 'incompetence' after she later died of the disease.
Dr Uday Pathak, 62, urged medics to carry out a full body scan on his wife, Pradnya, 54, who he suspected was suffering from Hodgkin's lymphoma.
But they delayed carrying out the test for seven months - when a scan finally revealed Dr Pathak had been correct all along.
Sebelius: Rationing Advocate is ‘Absolutely Right Leader At This Time’ to Run Medicare
CNS News ^ | 5/28/2010 | Matt Cover
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 8:35:51 AM by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday that Dr. Donald Berwick, an advocate of health-care rationing nominated by President Barack Obama to run Medicare and Medicaid, is “absolutely the right leader at this time” to run the government’s largest health-care entitlement programs.
Under the health-care reform law signed by President Obama in March, hundreds of billions of dollars will be cut from the Medicare program over the next decade. Berwick is nominated to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees Medicare.
Berwick, a professor at Harvard Medical School, has repeatedly indicated his support for rationing and for the single-payer, government-run health care system of Great Britain. After President Obama signed a $787-billion stimulus law that created a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research--perceived by critics to be a first step toward creating a federal rationing system for health care--Berwick defended the program and rationing health care.
Tennessee legislative update (no link)
PROHIBITING FORCED PARTICIPATION:
SB 2560 by *Black ( *HB 2622 by *Lynn , Maggart, Swafford)
Health Care - As introduced, prohibits the legislature from requiring any person to participate in any health care system or plan.
STATUS: HB 2622 was to be heard in Calendar and Rules this week but that committee did not meet. SB 2560 is still Senate Commerce, which is closed. Rep. Lynn has stated that Sen. Black will run the bill if she can get it through the House. However, time is running out to re-open a committee and get something to the Senate floor.
OPPOSING FEDERAL HEALTH CARE:
*HJR0704 by *Lynn, *Campfield, *Lundberg, *Todd, *Hensley, *Swafford, *Rich, *Sargent, *Maggart, *Hill, *Evans, *Johnson C, *Faulkner, *Brooks K, *Johnson P, *Eldridge, *Lollar, *Weaver, *Niceley, *Shipley, *Halford, *Carr, *White
Memorials, Congress - Expresses opposition to the institution of new federal review, oversight, or preemption of state health insurance laws, the creation of a federal health insurance exchange or connector, and the creation of a federal health insurance plan (public plan) option.
STATUS: Passed the House 66-29-1; passed Senate Finance 6-1 and is scheduled for the Senate floor on Wednesday.
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