Tim Pawlenty attempts to save the Health Care in 5 steps.

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is a popular republican and often makes the list of the presidential contenders for 2012. His 5 step plan for Health Care......in the wake of Obama’s summit with the opposition does nothing to make the republicans look good... ........Step 1-2: Incentivize patients to be smart consumers and pay for performance. Who wouldn’t want that? This is not a new idea. In fact Obama’s Health Care Bill is rich in billions of dollars going to new bureaucracies that are trying to assess the health care provider’s performance. (Accountable Care Organizations). Let’s see what Governor Pawlenty personally accomplished in that field. He created Minnesotahealthinfo.org. It is a nifty site; basically it is a link bank to other sites with useful info, so I decided to check how it works.

Let’s say a citizen is worrying about having a heart attack (since it is the national heart health month) and wants to compare hospitals. After hour of clicking and comparing of the numbers the person is still not able to come up with result. How do you compare a city hospital that went through 500 heart attacks last year with a country hospital that had 6? You can’t. The same is true for about every other condition that the web-site describes with data. At the end the future patient gives up and decides that in case of heart attack the best hospital in Minnesota will be the closest one since every second in an emergency matters..............

ammo

First they came for the Unborn...now granny.

With control of both houses they have the votes, if every demwit marched in lock step.

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke.

Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.

Obama's War on Seniors

Socialized Med Thread

TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.)

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm

Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09

Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.

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The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.

Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware.

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