Posted on 09/14/2009 7:25:55 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
Buy health insurance or face wrath of IRS
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 9/14/09 | Herman Cain
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 6:34:24 AM by JohnHuang2
Last week when I first read Byron York's article titled "Health care reform means more power for the IRS," I felt like I was reading the script of a horror movie. I was in such disbelief that I spent hours looking for the specific section in H.R. 3200 that expanded the powers of the Internal Revenue Service.
Unfortunately, I found it. It's Division A, Title IV on pages 167-215 called Amendments to IRS Code of 1986. The expanded powers of the IRS in H.R. 3200 would empower the IRS to require taxpayers to show proof of health insurance coverage, collect fines on individuals and employers who did not have adequate proof of health insurance and determine whether your health insurance was a government approved plan.
Howard Dean: American People Won't Care If Reconciliation Is Used For Health Care
Meet The Press ^ | Sept. 13, 2009
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:08:06 PM by Free ThinkerNY
A Million and a half people in the streets of Washington and this clown says the American people don't care if the bill is rammed through.
39 Percent Fewer Watched Obama Healthcare Speech
News Max ^ | SEPTEMBER 13, 2009 | News Max
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:16:40 PM by RobinMasters
Obama's congressional address Wednesday drew just 32 million viewers, an audience 39 percent smaller than for his first address to a joint session of Congress in February, which drew 52.4 million viewers.
SC: Sen. Graham Discusses Health Care, Rep. Wilson at Town Hall [wants to compromise with Obama]
WLTX-TV Channel 19 Columbia, SC | 2009-09-13
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:46:30 PM by rabscuttle385
Link only, per FR copyright and excerpt rules
Limited care [Obamacare would limit treatment for people losing their eyesight]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | September 14, 2009 | JENNIFER OLBUM, DO
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 6:21:44 AM by grundle
Regarding Charles Krauthammer's Aug. 29 column ("Obamacare 2.0: A Seductive Exit Strategy -- With a Catch"): I was pleased to see that someone finally did their research on a drug I use daily to save sight.
Lucentis injections have transformed the lives of the elderly who are unfortunate enough to have (wet) macular degeneration. We (ophthalmologists) have enthusiastically been able to help our patients maintain their independence as well as their dignity with this relatively new drug.
It is important to note that even now, according to my Genentec reps, the "Orwellian body" Mr. Krauthammer speaks of in Britain still limits these treatments to seven treatments per year per eye. In many cases this falls far short of the often-needed monthly injections in order to save and improve vision. In fact, seven per year may result in simply slowing the inevitable, allowing these frightened people to watch as their visions fades.
Mr. Obama's health-care plan limits these treatments to 14 per eye per lifetime if I read HR 3200 correctly (not an easy task). Again, this is often short of what is needed to maintain or improve vision.
Legal Immigrants and "Anchor Babies" Weigh Down Obamacare
Townhall,com ^ | September 14, 2009 | Virgil Goode
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 8:05:36 AM by Kaslin
Like virtually every issue that faces the nation, our healthcare problem is greatly exacerbated by mass immigration—both legal and illegal. A total of 43% of non-citizens lack health insurance, compared to just 12.7% of native-born Americans. These uninsured immigrants impose huge strains on our healthcare system that helped create the crisis we currently face.
Obama’s healthcare lies appeal to millions of simpletons: He’s not giving up can’t either
The Collins Report ^ | September 14, 2009 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 9:02:21 AM by jmaroneps37
In his remarks to 15,000 hand picked stogies in Minnesota on Saturday Obama repeated his usual lies and half truths.
Appealing to these socialist simpletons Obama said, “We have public colleges and private colleges. The public colleges don’t put the private colleges out of business” implying it would be the same with public versus private healthcare plans.
Of course the crowd clapped like hungry circus seals without questioning this lame and ridiculous “analogy.”
Health Care Reform - Support for Health Care Reform Jumps to 51%, Highest Total Yet
Rasmussen Reports ^ | September 14, 2009 | Rasmussen Reports
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 11:32:51 AM by Lou Budvis
Support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats continues to grow following the president's speech to Congress last Wednesday night. It has now risen to the highest level yet measured, and, for the first time, shows a slight uptick in support among Republicans and voters not affiliated with either party.
Stephanopoulos: Obama Healthcare Speech No Game-Changer
NewsBusters ^ | September 14, 2009 | Noel Sheppard
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 12:29:40 PM by kingattax
Something absolutely shocking happened on Monday's "Good Morning America": ABC's George Stephanopoulos told the nation that the President's healthcare address to the country Wednesday did nothing to change Americans' views about ObamaCare.
Government run healthcare is officially dead in the United States Senate.
Right Handed Pitcher ^ | 9/14/2009 | Timothy Knight
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 1:44:38 PM by oldskuulconserv
With news reports that Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) is now opposed to all forms of government run health care and a "trigger" government run health care, giving the Republicans 39 stronghold votes against the current government run option plan in the House of Representatives. It is also being reported, that Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) is warning Obama that the government run option needs to go.
Rx for money woes: Doctors quit medicine
CNN ^ | September 14, 2009 | Parija B. Kavilanz
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 8:37:53 AM by Freeport
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Some 5,000 patients suddenly found themselves without an ob/gyn last November when Dr. Tara Wah closed her practice in Tallahassee, Fla.
Wah, 55, informed her patients in a letter that she could "no longer afford to make ends meet."
After 24 years, "I'm working longer hours than ever," she wrote. "Insurance payments for patient care have stayed virtually the same for the last 15 years, while the cost of doing business, including health insurance, staff salaries and supplies have risen."
Obama's congressional speech lie...Illinois man,coverage reinstated...no delay...died 4 years later
PDOP ^ | 09/14/09 | J Brown
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 9:55:37 AM by Jabrown
Last week during an address to the nation, President Obama went on the attack against the nation's health insurance companies, using the example of Otto Raddatz, an Oakbrook, Illinois man whose insurance coverage was cancelled while fighting cancer. During the speech the President told the nation, "One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about. They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it." But, the President conveniently failed to disclose a few key facts of the story including how the Mr. Raddatz's coverage was reinstated within ...
Mayo Clinic Looses [sic] Millions Because of Medicare
Publius Forum ^ | 09/14/09 | Warner Todd Huston
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 12:01:54 PM by Mobile Vulgus
The Anchorage Daily News has a very interesting editorial that reveals that the celebrated Mayo Clinic has lost millions because of Medicare over the last year.
In its editorial the ADN is warning that the public option is "as unhealthy as Medicare" because of the artificially low payments the government remits to healthcare providers, doctors and hospitals.
Sen. Susan Collins Says Flatly that She Won't Support a "Public Option" or a "Trigger" - Video
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | September 14, 2009 | BrianinMO
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 2:04:25 PM by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of GOP Sen. Susan Collins saying she will NOT support a Health Care Bill with a "Public Option," or a "Trigger" for a "Public Option." She made the statement to CNN's John King.
Cutting off transplant meds: a GovernmentCare success story
Hot Air Blog ^ | September 14, 2009 | Ed Morrisey
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 2:08:16 PM by TenthAmendmentChampion
Decades ago, Congress mandated that Medicare cover the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), including dialysis and transplants, for most patients in the US. Currently, the system covers 250,000 people receiving very expensive dialysis treatments, which costs just under $10,000 per patient per month, which is why so many people want to increase the transplant pool, as it would both save lives and greatly decrease costs. However, the system has a limit on support for the transplant medications needed to keep transplanted kidneys viable, which makes no sense whatsoever — and Congress has refused to address the problem.
The New York Times reports on the sadly predictable result (via Tom Maguire):
The story of Ms. Whitaker’s two organ donations — the first from her mother and the second from her boyfriend — sheds light on a Medicare policy that is widely regarded as pound-foolish. Although the government regularly pays $100,000 or more for kidney transplants, it stops paying for anti-rejection drugs after only 36 months.
US Senate Health-Care Bill Costs Below $880 Bln - Sen Conrad (Only $880 billion? Yea right!)
wall street journal ^ | 9/14/2009 | Patrick Yoest
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 2:31:29 PM by tobyhill
Senators worked Monday toward unveiling health-care legislation that one lawmaker said would cost "below $880 billion."
A bipartisan group of six members of the Senate Finance Committee held a meeting Monday to discuss the legislation, which Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., suggested could be made public as soon as Tuesday.
Moore backs Obama health plans
News 24 ^
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 3:48:26 PM by Ironfocus
Toronto - US filmmaker Michael Moore on Monday urged supporters of President Barack Obama to champion his proposed health care reforms and not let a vocal opposition minority steal the debate.
"I feel bad for President Obama and what he's going through ... trying to bring help to people who have a hard time getting help," Moore said.
"All those tens of millions of people who voted for him, where are they? Who's got his back?
"I see the minority out being vocal," he said. "But where's the majority? Where are the people that voted for Obama? Where are the people who wanted this?"
Obama has vowed to pass legislation by the end of the year that would spread health coverage to America's 47 million uninsured by making insurance obligatory and affordable for all.
Fact-Checking the President on Health Insurance
Wall Street Journal ^ | September 14, 2009 | Scott Harrington
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 3:56:18 PM by lowbridge
To highlight abusive practices, Mr. Obama referred to an Illinois man who "lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found he hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about." The president continued: "They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it."
Although the president has used this example previously, his conclusion is contradicted by the transcript of a June 16 hearing on industry practices before the Subcommittee of Oversight and Investigation of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The deceased's sister testified that the insurer reinstated her brother's coverage following intervention by the Illinois Attorney General's Office. She testified that her brother received a prescribed stem-cell transplant within the desired three- to four-week "window of opportunity" from "one of the most renowned doctors in the whole world on the specific routine," that the procedure "was extremely successful," and that "it extended his life nearly three and a half years."
The president's second example was a Texas woman "about to get a double mastectomy
Sebelius: White House Backs ‘Public Option’ Health Plan (video)
CNS News ^ | Sept. 14, 2009
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 4:14:20 PM by Free ThinkerNY
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says that, contrary to news reports, the White House "continues to support the public option" health care proposal.
We can't afford health care? You lie!
OregonLive ^ | September 14, 2009 | Tom Hastings
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 6:30:02 PM by crazyhorse691
We see the spectacle of the U.S. Congress unable to manage decent health care reform that will actually enable the American citizenry to join the rest of the industrialized world in having health care for all. The problems, it is clear, come from those who are lying.
Pelosi to attend fund-raiser hosted by villainous health care lobbyist
Michelle Malkin ^ | September 14, 2009 | Michelle Malkin
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 9:29:44 PM by Joiseydude
Remember when Nancy Pelosi called private health insurers “villains” and “almost immoral” two months ago?
Well, never mind, eh, Nancy?
The Open Left blog reports exclusively that Pelosi will attend a fund-raiser next week hosted by villainous Steve Elmendorf, a registered lobbyist with almost immoral private health insurer, United Health. He’s throwing the party at his house on Sept. 24. Price of admission? $5,000 for PACs and $2,400 for individuals.
Health-Care Reform and the Constitution
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 09-14-09 | ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 9:37:41 PM by GOP_Lady
Why hasn't the Commerce Clause been read to allow interstate insurance sales?
Health Reform: The Grimmest Of Fairy Tales
IBD Editorials ^ | September 14, 2009 | The great THOMAS SOWELL
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 9:49:12 PM by Kaslin
Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth that was walking on a log across a stream.
The dog looked down into the water and saw his reflection. He thought it was another dog with a bone in his mouth — and it seemed to him that the other dog's bone was bigger than his. He decided that he was going to take the other dog's bone away and opened his mouth to attack. The result was that his own bone fell into the water and was lost.
At the time, I didn't like that story and wished they hadn't told it to me. But the passing years and decades have made me realize how important that story was, because it was not really about dogs but about people.
Today we are living in a time when the president of the United States is telling us that he is going to help us take that other dog's bone away — and the end result is likely to be very much like what it was in that children's fable.
Health Care Reform Is Currently Much Less Popular Than Iraq War, Circa 2002
NRO ^ | SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 | Jim Geraghty
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 10:15:27 PM by RobinMasters
Obama's health care reform initiative is polling at 37 percent support and 39 percent opposition in the Gallup poll, while the Washington Post finds the public roughly evenly split, 46 percent supporting, 48 percent opposing. (Gallup's numbers have a much higher "no opinion" grouping.)
Obama Clarifies Position on Tort Reform on "60 Minutes"
CBS ^ | 9/14/09 | Stephanie Condon
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 6:47:52 PM by Nachum
In his speech before Congress last week, President Obama attempted to win Republican support for his health care overhaul by agreeing to consider including medical malpractice reform in his plan. In an interview that aired on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday the president shed some more light on what he meant -- and in which form he will not accept tort reform. (Read the transcript of the president's interview here.) ...
Healthcare Reform is More Corporate Welfare [Ron Paul]
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, 14th District ^ | 2009-09-14
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 4:07:37 PM by rabscuttle385
Last Wednesday the nation was riveted to the President’s speech on healthcare reform before Congress. While the President’s concern for the uninsured is no doubt sincere, his plan amounts to a magnanimous gift to the health insurance industry, despite any implications to the contrary.
For decades the insurance industry has been lobbying for mandated coverage for everyone. Imagine if the cell phone industry or the cable TV industry received such a gift from government? If government were to fine individuals simply for not buying a corporation’s product, it would be an incredible and completely unfair boon to that industry, at the expense of freedom and the free market. Yet this is what the current healthcare reform plans intend to do for the very powerful health insurance industry.
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