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Executive Order — HIV Care Continuum Initiative
WHITEHOUSE.gov - Office of the Press Secretary ^ | July 15, 2013 | Executive Order signed by Barack Obama
Posted on July 18, 2013 11:13:49 PM PDT by Cindy
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center to cut 1,000 jobs - good freaking grief!
bizjournals ^ | Jul 16, 2013 | Eric Snyder
Posted on July 18, 2013 9:20:38 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta
Vanderbilt University Medical Center plans to cut its workforce by more than 1,000 employees within the next two years, The Tennessean reports, citing people familiar with the center’s plans.
Some of the cuts are expected to come by offering early retirement options.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is targeting $250 million in budget savings over the same time period, or about 8 percent of current expenses, according to The Tennessean.
“It is clear that we must embark on a comprehensive effort that is immediate, achievable, proactive and ensures success over a multiyear period, while the health care and biomedical science economies we live in reshuffle into a ‘new normal,’ “ Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs Dr. Jeff Balser said in a memo to staff, according to The Tennessean.
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KSAT-TX: San Antonio Business Owner Hit With Up To $1 Million In Costs From ObamaCare
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Two-thirds of small businesses aren’t ready for ObamaCare, survey finds
U.S. Chamber of Commerce ^ | 7/17/13 | Ben Goad
Posted on July 17, 2013 8:46:31 PM PDT by Nachum
Less than a third of small businesses say they’re prepared for the regulatory mandates under ObamaCare, a new survey from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found.
The business lobby’s quarterly survey of small firms found a concerns over the law have increased by a double-digit margin over the last year, and by 4 percentage points since the first three months on 2013.
“Excessive regulation is having a crippling effect on job growth among small businesses, as our latest small-business survey makes clear,” said Rob Engstrom, the Chamber’s senior vice president. “In fact, the only thing that scares small businesses more than the current business climate is what Washington bureaucrats will do next.”
The survey found that 30 percent of businesses were not ready to comply with the new rules. Roughly 25 percent reported not knowing what they had to do to follow the law.
Seventy-one percent of the more than 1,300 small-business executives polled said they would be less likely to hire employees because of the healthcare law, according to the survey.
Twenty-four percent said they plan to reduce hiring to stay beneath the 50-employee threshold that would trigger a requirement to provide insurance for their workers or pay a penalty.
The survey follows this month’s decision by the Obama administration to postpone that provision, known as the employer mandate, for a year.
House Republicans are now pressing legislation requiring the delay of both the employer mandate and the individual mandate, which requires most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty.
“It’s unfair to protect big businesses without giving the same relief to American families and small businesses,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday during a speech on the House floor. “I hope Democrats and Republicans alike will vote to do what’s fair and to protect all Americans from this disastrous law.”
In total, 1,304 small-business executives from around the country participated in the survey, which was commissioned by the Chamber and conducted by the firm Harris International. A small business was defined as having fewer than 500 employees and less than $25 million in annual revenue.
The Chamber did not release a margin of error for the survey.
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Study: Obamacare could cause 1 million low-income Americans to move from work to welfare
AEI ^ | July 15,2013 | James Pethokoukis
Posted on July 16, 2013 8:07:56 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Applying our labor supply estimates directly to this population, we predict a decline in employment of between 530,000 and 940,000 in response to this group of individuals being made newly eligible for free or heavily subsidized health insurance. This would represent a decline in the aggregate employment rate of between 0.3 and 0.6 percentage points from this single component of the ACA.
The researchers arrive at these numbers by examining the labor market impact of Tennessee’s 2005 decision to discontinue its expansion of TennCare, the state’s Medicaid system. They found that the TennCare disenrollment caused “a large and immediate labor supply increase” as folks who lost coverage starting looking for work. More:
Indeed, we find a similarly large increase in private health insurance following the disenrollment, suggesting that public health insurance had been “crowding out” private health insurance When we explore the dynamic effects of the disenrollment, we find an immediate increase in job search behavior and a steady rise in both employment and health insurance coverage. The pattern of changes in labor supply and the crowdout behavior suggest that disenrollees entered the labor market and gained employment in order to procure health insurance. This finding is consistent with both.
And Obamacare would cause the reverse effect, pushing those getting subsidized coverage to leave the labor force. The result is especially worrisome for the health of working America if you combine it with Obamacare’s possible nudge toward more part-time workers in place of full-time workers.
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Maryland Employers Cutting Hours Due to Obamacare: Frustration builds as the reality sets in
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 07/18/2013 | Washington Free Beacon Staff
Posted on July 18, 2013 8:51:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Large employers have struggled to adapt to Obamacare provisions and are cutting hours, and insurance experts worry it will create friction between employers and employees, WMDT reports:
By 2015, employers with at least 50 full-time, 30-hour employees will be required to provide health insurance or pay a hefty $3,000 fine for each uninsured employee. Insurance experts worry it could create some friction between the employer and employee.
“We’ve seen employers starting to cut down hours to 28, 25 hours such that they will not be subject to penalty for that employee,” Keen said.
That’s exactly what Katie Frantz says has happened to her.
“The job that I currently have is part-time. And they don’t want to let me be full-time because they don’t want to pay me benefits. And I don’t even need the benefits because I have it through my husband. It’s just very annoying,” she said.
Some employers have discovered they would be better off financially paying the penalty rather than providing insurance.
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“Howard Dean: ObamaCare has a ‘rationing’ panel, after all”
BY BEN JOHNSON
Mon Jul 29, 2013 20:19 EST
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Howard Dean, the former presidential candidate, chairman of the Democratic Party, and proponent of universal health care, has said a key provision of the president’s health care law will not work – and amounts to “rationing.”
“One major problem is the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board,” Dean wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today.
“The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body,” he wrote. “By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.”
The IPAB would consist of a panel of 15 unelected “experts” who would determine appropriate treatments for maximum “cost-effectiveness.” Former Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag said the group would have “an enormous amount of potential power” to set medical policy nationwide.”
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Cato Study: Heretofore Unreported Obamacare ‘Bug’ Puts IPAB Completely Beyond Congress’ Reach
The Cato Institute ^ | 14 June 2012 | Michael F. Cannon
Posted on June 14, 2012 4:47:42 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
Today, the Cato Institute releases a new study by Diane Cohen and me (me as in the co-author of the study, not the one posting this executive summary on FR) titled, “The Independent Payment Advisory Board: PPACA’s Anti-Constitutional and Authoritarian Super-Legislature.” Cohen is a senior attorney at the Goldwater Institute and lead counsel in the Coons v. Geithner lawsuit challenging IPAB and other aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. ObamaCare.
From the executive summary:
When the unelected government officials on this board submit a legislative proposal to Congress, it automatically becomes law: PPACA requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement it. Blocking an IPAB “proposal” requires at a minimum that the House and the Senate and the president agree on a substitute. The Board’s edicts therefore can become law without congressional action, congressional approval, meaningful congressional oversight, or being subject to a presidential veto. Citizens will have no power to challenge IPAB’s edicts in court.
Worse, PPACA forbids Congress from repealing IPAB outside of a seven-month window in the year 2017, and even then requires a three-fifths majority in both chambers…
IPAB’s unelected members will have effectively unfettered power to impose taxes and ration care for all Americans, whether the government pays their medical bills or not. In some circumstances, just one political party or even one individual would have full command of IPAB’s lawmaking powers. IPAB truly is independent, but in the worst sense of the word. It wields power independent of Congress, independent of the president, independent of the judiciary, and independent of the will of the people.
The creation of IPAB is an admission that the federal government’s efforts to plan America’s health care sector have failed. It is proof of the axiom that government control of the economy threatens democracy.
Importantly, this study reveals a heretofore unreported feature that makes this super-legislature even more authoritarian and unconstitutional:
[I]f Congress misses that repeal window, PPACA prohibits Congress from ever altering an IPAB “proposal.”
You read that right.
The Congressional Research Service and others have reported that even if Congress fails to repeal this super-legislature in 2017, Congress will still be able to use the weak tools that ObamaCare allows for restraining IPAB. Unfortunately, that interpretation rests on a misreading of a crucial part of the law. These experts thought they saw the word “or” where the statute actually says “and.”
How much difference can one little conjunction make?
Under the statute as written, if Congress fails to repeal IPAB in 2017, then as of 2020 Congress will have absolutely zero ability to block or amend the laws that IPAB writes, and zero power to affect the Secretary’s implementation of those laws. IPAB will become a permanent super-legislature, with the Secretary as its executive. And if the president fails to appoint any IPAB members, the Secretary will unilaterally wield all of IPAB’s legislative and executive powers, including the power to appropriate funds for her own department. It’s completely nutty, yet completely consistent with the desire of ObamaCare’s authors to protect IPAB from congressional interference.
It’s also completely consistent with Friedrich Hayek’s prediction that government planning of the economy paves the way for authoritarianism.
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“Gov’t Advisory Group Recommends Community-Level Obesity Watch”
August 6, 2013 - 12:26 PM
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SNIPPET: “The federally funded Institute of Medicine (IOM) has just released a report listing 83 ways to “assess the progress made in every community”—and at the national level—in the fight against obesity.”
SNIPPET: “It was the IOM that controversially recommended what preventive health services — including birth control, sterilization and abortifacients — should be covered without charge under Obamacare.
“Let’s Move!” on steroids
The IOM’s 83 “indicators for measuring progress” in obesity-prevention include the following, in no particular order. This is only a partial list.”
SNIPPET: “According to IOM, “assessment” means looking at the number and distribution of obese people within a community and at efforts to eliminate the problem.
“Surveillance” is the continuous assessment of progress over time.
“Monitoring” means tracking the implementation of various anti-obesity interventions;
And “summative evaluation” seeks to detect changes associated with particular interventions.”
http://freebeacon.com/obama-administration-announces-youth-obamacare-video-contest/
“Obama Administration Announces Youth Obamacare Video Contest
Law actually discourages young people to sign up, experts say”
BY: Andrew Evans
August 19, 2013 5:45 pm
SNIPPET: “Two aspects of the law actually increase the cost of health insurance for young people, said Ed Haislmaier, a health policy expert at the Heritage Foundation.
First, insurance companies can only charge older people three times what they would charge younger people for the same plan. This rule compresses the typical spread of prices, causing the price of insurance for younger and healthier individuals to rise in order to subsidize the artificially low price for older people, Haislmaier said.
Second, all insurance plans have certain requirements for what they must cover and how they are structured, further driving up costs for younger people, he noted.
Failing to attract enough young people could hurt the viability of the insurance plans offered in the exchanges, said Sally Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute.
“It’s going to kill insurance companies,” she said.”
“UPS announces plan to drop 15,000 spouses from insurance coverage”
(August 21, 2013)
SNIPPET: “The United Parcel Service Inc. has plans to remove as many as 15,000 working spouses from the UPS health care plan in 2014. The company says the UPS spouses are eligible for coverage under their own employers, but the company is pointing to Obamacare as the main reason for the decision. Under the current law, large employers are only required to cover employees and dependent children.
In a memo to employees, UPS states rising health care costs, “combined with the costs associated with the Affordable Care Act, have made it increasingly difficult to continue providing the same level of health care benefits to our employees at an affordable cost.””
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Teacher Makes Students Decide Who Lives, Who Dies
Fox News ^ | October 10, 2013 | Todd Starnes
Posted on October 10, 2013 9:15:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A classroom of 14 and 15-year-old Illinois high school students was assigned the task of deciding the fate of ten fictional characters in an exercise that critics called a lesson in death panels.
The assignment was part of a sociology unit for freshmen and sophomore students at St. Joseph-Ogden High School in St. Joseph, just east of Champaign. The story was first reported by Champion News.
The lesson involves 10 people who are in desperate need of kidney dialysis.
“Unless they receive this procedure, they will die,” the lesson states.
But there’s a problem. The local hospital only has enough machines to support six patients.
“That means four people are not going to live,” the assignment states. “You must decide from the information below which six will survive.”(continued)
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IRS report from 2010 - White House knew millions would lose doctors despite President Obama’s promise. pic.twitter.com/dMHPxcZuXF
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“Single Payer: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Will Provide 43% of All Health Insurance in 2014”
November 1, 2013 - 8:46 AM
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“Stage-4 Cancer Victim: I’m an Obamacare Loser”
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“You Also Can’t Keep Your Doctor
I had great cancer doctors and health insurance.My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I’ll live.
By EDIE LITTLEFIELD SUNDBY
Nov. 3, 2013 6:37 p.m. ET
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‘What the hell?’: Jim Angle shares disturbing experience with Obamacare 800 number
Twitchy ^ | 11/2/2013 | Twitchy
Posted on November 2, 2013 at 7:42:12 AM PDT by Velveeta
Jim Angle @JimAngleFox I call the http://healthcare.gov 800 #, give my name & address, then put on hold. The guy comes back & says you appear to be in the media. ***************************************
Jim Angle @JimAngleFox I was calling from an unlisted number & gave personal cell as my phone. How did they know? I have no idea but he wouldn’t answer questions.
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Full Committee Hearing - The Online Federal Health Insurance Marketplace: Enrollment Challenges and the Path Forward
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Your Doctor Is Not In? ObamaCare may put your doctor out of business.
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The President promised that “you could keep your doctor,” but the truth is that his health care plan is making it increasingly difficult for physicians, especially independent private-practice doctors, to stay in practice. Three physicians, Dr. Kathy Hansen, Dr. Joe Scherzer, and Dr. Pentz talk to Gov. Huckabee about this problem and also explain the solutions to putting the patient back in control.
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President Obama Wants A Single Payer Health Care System
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President Obama won’t tell the American people the truth about his plans for health care. See it in his own words.
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