Posted on 06/06/2010 10:19:50 AM PDT by socialismisinsidious
Fiscal Fraud of Obamacare Snowballing Already
Human Events ^ | 6/2/2010 | Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:06:29 AM by Qbert
Remember the health care issue? Well, the fiscal consequences of the socialized medicine scheme enacted by President Barack Obama and Congress just two months ago are already beginning to snowball.
Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, was one of the key architects and advocates of Obamacare. He was back on the House floor on Friday delivering an urgent plea to fellow Democrats that inadvertently -- or, perhaps, unavoidably -- revealed the fraudulent nature of our new national health care regime.
It was supposed to save the taxpayers money, remember?
ObamaCare Propaganda Mailer
The American Thinker ^ | June 03, 2010 | Jack Curtis
Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:57:03 AM by Scanian
Kathleen Sibelius (Obama's Health czarina) sent me a reassuring message about Medicare under Obama's new law. It came as a shiny, expensive pamphlet inside the first-class official business envelope from the Department of Health and Human Services (Penalty for Private Use $300) titled: "Medicare and the New Health Care Law -- What it Means for You." The brochure includes "A Message from Kathleen Sibelius" -- complete with her official title. She seems afraid I might be worried about what the new health care law really means for me.
Judge denies extension for federal response to (20 state Commiecare™) health lawsuit
News-Medical.net ^ | 6/03/10
Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2010 8:22:49 AM by Libloather
Legal Newsline: "A federal judge in Florida is not granting the federal government an extension of time to respond to a challenge to health care reform made by 20 states. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson said there is no need for a delay, considering the federal government has already responded to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's challenge in a Virginia federal court. Seven states joined in an amended complaint filed May 14. The federal government has 33 days after that date to file a motion to dismiss the complaint, which it has done in Virginia" (O'Brien, 6/1).
Update on Lawsuit Against ObamaCare
Capitol Confidential ^ | 6/4/2010 | Tom Gantert
Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 4:29:29 PM by MichCapCon
Just how much power Congress has to regulate commerce is at the core of the Thomas More Law Center's lawsuit against President Barack Obama's health care legislation.
The Commerce Clause is listed in the U.S. Constitution and gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. Just how expansive those rights are is an argument in the battle over the health care law.
The dispute revolves around the individual mandate of the health care plan that states every U.S. citizen would have to have health insurance. The Thomas More Law Center believes this violates the commerce clause of the Constitution.
30 Days from Today: Obamacare’s First Pledge-Breaking Tax Hike..
Americans for Tax Reform ^ | 6/1/2010 | John Kartch
Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:22:52 PM by Qbert
When President Barack Obama signed the healthcare bill into law, he formally broke his “firm pledge” to the American people that “no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.”
Among the twenty one tax hikes signed into law as part of Obamacare, at least seven directly break Obama’s central campaign promise. The first of these tax hikes will take effect on July 1: the excise tax on indoor tanning services -- a 10 percent tax on the retail price of a tanning session.
Leaving no stone unturned in their petty, vindictive hunt for tax revenue, Obama and his congressional allies expect the tax to raise $2.7 billion over ten years. There is no exemption made for families making less than $250,000 per year.
Study: Obamacare Fails to Pay for High Risk Pools
Moneynews ^ | 6/3/2010 | Julie Crawshaw
Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 12:31:10 AM by Qbert
President Barack Obama's new healthcare law reportedly doesn't allocate nearly enough money to cover the estimated 5.6 million to 7 million Americans with pre-existing medical conditions who will qualify for temporary high-risk insurance pools
An analysis by the Center for Studying Health System Change found that the new law “could leave hundreds of thousands of potential participants with serious medical problems unable to obtain coverage,” and concluded that the $5 billion earmarked for the pools might cover as few as 200,000 people a year.
Critics Question Study Cited in Health Debate (FLAWED DATA USED TO JUSTIFLY OBAMACARE)
The New York Times ^ | 6/02/10 | REED ABELSON and GARDINER HARRIS
Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 9:22:22 AM by GailA
In selling the health care overhaul to Congress, the Obama administration cited a once obscure research group at Dartmouth College to claim that it could not only cut billions in wasteful health care spending but make people healthier by doing so.
Wasteful spending — perhaps $700 billion a year — “does nothing to improve patient health but subjects you and me to tests and procedures that aren’t necessary and are potentially harmful,” the president’s budget director, Peter Orszag, wrote in a blog post characteristic of the administration’s argument.
Study Misused to Expedite ObamaCare Passage
New American ^ | 04 June 2010 | Michael Tennant
Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 7:50:22 PM by Lorianne
“In selling the health care overhaul to Congress, the Obama administration cited a once obscure research group at Dartmouth College to claim that it could not only cut billions in wasteful health care spending but make people healthier by doing so,” write Reed Abelson and Gardiner Harris in the New York Times .
White House Budget Director Peter Orszag claimed the study showed that “an estimated $700 billion a year spent on health care … does nothing to improve patient health, but subjects you and me to tests and procedures that aren’t necessary and are potentially harmful — not to mention wasteful.”
“Mr. Orszag,” say Abelson and Harris, “even displayed maps produced by Dartmouth researchers that appeared to show where the waste in the system could be found. Beige meant hospitals and regions that offered good, efficient care; chocolate meant bad and inefficient.” All the Obama administration had to do was to “trim the money Medicare pays to hospitals and doctors in the brown zones,” according to Abelson and Harris, and the problem of wasteful healthcare spending would be solved.
National Healthcare Saves $$ By Letting Some Patients Suffer
Publius Forum ^ | 06/04/10 | Warner Todd Huston
Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 12:32:23 PM by Mobile Vulgus
Governor Sarah Palin once complained of those "death panels" in the President's healthcare policy, a scoff that infuriated Obamacare's supporters. But the fact is, by its very nature a nationalized healthcare system like the one that Obama wants acts as a "death panel" by denying care to save money. We don't have to guess at this eventuality, either. We have but to look to England's health services and we'll see the exact situation that Palin warned about.
A recent piece published in the Daily Mail reports that the British National Health Service is going to deny services to millions of Britain's citizens in order to save twenty billion pounds of the NHS budget. "Millions of patients face losing NHS care as bosses prepare to axe treatments to make £20billion of savings by 2014, a top doctor has warned," the paper warns.
Deficit Panel Eyes Another Bite at Healthcare
Reuters via Newsmax ^ | 6/4/2010 | Reuters
Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 2:39:07 PM by Qbert
WASHINGTON - Concern over rising U.S. debt could force lawmakers to take another crack at reining in healthcare costs long before any promised savings from President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul are realized.
The new healthcare law, signed by Obama in March, seeks to save about $500 billion from the Medicare government healthcare program for the elderly over the next decade without reducing basic benefits.
But deficit hawks and even some supporters of the overhaul say more cuts are needed to improve the long-term U.S. budget outlook and avoid the kind of financial market turmoil recently sparked by Europe's debt woes.
Con. Paul Ryan on MSNBC Debates Health Care (VIDEO)
Capitol Confidential ^ | 6/4/2010 | CapCon
Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 3:44:27 PM by MichCapCon
Waxman Drops The Bomb, We Cant Afford Obama’s Healthcare
Flopping Aces ^ | 06-04-10 | Skookum
Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 7:51:36 PM by Starman417
On Friday, Congressman Henry Waxman D CA, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Finance, was on the floor pleading with Democrat Congressional members they need to push for an immediate 22.9 Billion Dollar 'Fix' for Medicare to cover doctor's fees.
The Bill that was supposed to lower the cost of Health Care has now shown itself to have costs that are spiraling out of control: Barack assured the nation upon signing the Health Care Bill,
“This legislation will lower costs for families and for businesses and for the federal government, reducing our deficit by over $1 trillion in the next two decades,”.
Medicare On Life Supports
Accuracy in Academia Commentary ^ | June 4, 2010 | James F. Davis
Posted on Friday, June 04, 2010 11:10:09 AM by bs9021
Commentary: Along with millions of other Americans, I received a glossy letter from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, titled “Medicare and the New Health-Care Law—What it Means for You.”
She wrote “The Affordable Health 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.” This claim is made despite the overwhelming evidence that costs have increased dramatically and quality of service has decreased dramatically in every country in the world that has given the government control over their health-care system.
September 7, 2007: John Stossel questions Michael Moore on Cuban Health Care
20/20 broadcast September 7, 2007 ^ | September 7, 2007
Posted on Saturday, June 05, 2010 1:27:57 AM by RonaldReaganCaesar
John Stossel absolutely lays waste to Michael Moore's film "Sicko."
Medicare and the New Health Care Law — What It Means for You
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services ^ | May 2010 | Kathleen Sebelius
Posted on Saturday, June 05, 2010 3:40:23 PM by docbnj
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....These are needed improvements that will keep Medicare strong and solvent.
Nationalized Health Care Hell:UK to Cut Millions of Operations to Control Costs,Seniors Hardest Hit
Gateway Pundt ^ | 6/05/10 | Jim Hoft
Posted on Saturday, June 05, 2010 11:51:52 PM by blueyon
Thanks Barack… Thanks Pelosi… Thanks Dems… Look what we have to look forward to – death panels. Great Britain is looking to cut billions from their broken nationalized health care system by cutting millions of operations. Of course, the elderly will be hardest hit. The Daily Mail reported:
Millions of patients face losing NHS care as bosses prepare to axe treatments to make £20billion of savings by 2014, a top doctor has warned.
Among procedures being targeted by health trusts are hernias, joint replacements, ear and nose procedures, varicose veins and cataract surgery.
'Leader with a Plan' Invites a Health Care Nightmare
american thinker ^ | 6/6/10 | Chuck Rogér
Posted on Sunday, June 06, 2010 12:40:48 PM by Nachum
The American people are too simple to choose from "an array of products" in "a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do."
Behold the words of Donald Berwick -- doctor, Harvard professor, and Obama's nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), arguably the most powerful position in U.S. medicine, directing the flow of almost one trillion dollars a year.
Sarah Palin: All States Would Do Well To Follow Alaska, PRI Analyze No. 1 Tort System In US
Governor Palin 4 President ^ | Sarah Palin
Posted on Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:23:28 AM by MaxCUA
U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2010 Report (Foreword By Sarah Palin)
My home state of Alaska offers incredible beauty, amazing wildlife, abundant natural resources, friendly people, and no individual income tax. Alaska also has the best tort climate in the United States according to the U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2010 Report from the Pacific Research Institute (PRI).
In this top-notch report, PRI scholars analyze the costs and risks of each state’s tort system and conclude that Alaska is best overall. The report, now in its third edition, has been influential because the rankings are based on hard data, not opinions or speculation. The data don’t lie and Alaska is number one for good reasons.
Alaska has the second-lowest monetary tort payouts of any state, controlling for the size of each state’s economy. Our tort costs are particularly low for businesses—another reason for entrepreneurs to locate here. We also have some of the lowest medical liability costs in the country. We appreciate doctors in Alaska and welcome them with open arms, not abusive lawsuits.
Legalizing Euthanasia in Belgium Unleashes Nurses to Do Doctor-Ordered Non Voluntary Killing
First Things/Secondhand Smoke ^ | 6/5/10 | Wesley J. Smith
Posted on Sunday, June 06, 2010 12:41:56 PM by wagglebee
Belgium has followed the Netherlands in jumping off a vertical moral cliff by embracing legalized euthanasia. The awful consequences that I predicted are now coming to pass; a steady increase in the number of cases, inadequate reporting, and a large percentage of non voluntary euthanasia deaths. Thus, I am anything but surprised by the study I analyze below, which echoes an earlier one reported here at SHS, that nearly as many Belgian euthanasia killings are non voluntary as of those that are voluntary (the concept of “voluntary” in this context being highly problematic, but let’s not deal with that here).
Health disaster Ping
You CAN NOT cut & gut Medicare by MORE THAN HALF A TRILLION $$ and expect it NOT TO REDUCE HEALTH CARE FOR THE ELDERLY. Doctors who don't get paid an adequate amount will soon be out of business. Or refuse Medicare patients. Add the retired Military's (over 65) Tricare for Life health ins which is set to reduce payments to doctors by the same 21% and you have a formula for LITTLE OR NO health care for those over 65. Retired Military usually are on both Medicare & TFL. Both Medicare and TFL are administered out of the SAME AGENCY! Together that represents a 42% cut to doctors.
Workers not liking obamacare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2530304/posts
1st victim of obamacare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530270/posts
Second post on senior’s town hall
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530192/posts
Low income workers to be forced off obamacare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2530166/posts
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