Health Care Rationing Already Starting!
August 18, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Healthcare, Hot Topics
Health care WILL BE rationed and it is already starting. Americans need to be prepared for inconvenience for all and much suffering for many.
“If there’s an American precedent for the medical central planning of ObamaCare, it’s the Food and Drug Administration. Witness a looming FDA ruling that may deplete the drug arsenal for terminally ill cancer patients.
Last month, an FDA advisory board recommended withdrawing government approval of Avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. The decision betrays a bias that puts costs above treatment, and unless the FDA leadership overrules its own experts, the 40,000 women killed by breast cancer each year will be denied an important clinical option.”
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Walter Williams:Congress Responsible for Obesity!
August 13, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Economy, Healthcare, Hot Topics
Walter Williams describing government protectionism at its best…
“Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius promised, “The U.S. government plans to increase funding to battle obesity and views healthcare reform as an opportunity to encourage better eating habits.” Rather than spending money and attacking the food industry, the secretary and others concerned with the health of Americans ought to go after the U.S. Congress. Let’s look at it.”
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http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/07/21/making_americans_sick
Bill Nelson to Hold Public Meeting
August 9, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Healthcare, Hot Topics
Very interesting that last summer when Obamacare was being debated Bill Nelson was not interested in meeting with citizens. He has now decided to come to Gainesville so he needs to be reminded again about Obamacare and how deleterious it is to the nation. Please attend and let him know how you feel. Also speak about any other position he has taken that is ruining our country. Bring your friends, your family and signs. See below:
Thursday, August 12
Public meeting with Sen. Bill Nelson and local
officials to discuss issues of interest, 1:30 p.m.,
Thomas Center A, Long Gallery, 302 N.E. Sixth Ave. Gainesville, Fl.
And We Want Them to Manage Healthcare?
August 6, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Healthcare
Hundreds of federal employees may have improperly reaped millions in Social Security disability benefits, according to a government watchdog that caught workers at several major agencies pocketing fraudulent payments.
The Government Accountability Office issued a report that showed at least 1,500 federal employees may have wrongly received benefits.
Click on the link for the full report…
Medicare Actuary Fraudulent?
August 6, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Healthcare, Hot Topics
By: Grover Norquist
From the ATR website.
Americans for Tax Reform has received the following from a Senate staffer who wishes to remain anonymous:
The Spectator blog reports on a conference call held this morning by HHS Secretary Sebelius to promote a new report regarding the health law’s impact on Medicare.
Questioned about claims by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ chief actuary that the Medicare reductions in the law “cannot be simultaneously used to finance other federal outlays and to extend the [Medicare] trust fund” solvency, Secretary Sebelius replied that:
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Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care
July 28, 2010 by Rod Gonzalez
Filed under Healthcare
What’s happening to the perfect model we are going to emulate?
LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/europe/25britain.html?_r=3&hp
And Who Says Our Founders are Irrelevant Today?
July 24, 2010 by Alan Berkelhammer
Filed under Healthcare, Hot Topics
“The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom… Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.” – Dr Benjamin Rush Signatory of the Declaration of Independence and Surgeon General of the Continental Congress
Barack Obama:Successful so Far
July 22, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Economy, Executive Branch, Healthcare, Hot Topics
Charles Krauthammer is extremely knowledgable and is sounding the alarm about Barack Obama.
“I have a warning for Republicans: Don’t underestimate Barack Obama.
Consider what he has already achieved. Obamacare alone makes his presidency historic. It has irrevocably changed one-sixth of the economy, put the country inexorably on the road to national health care and, as acknowledged by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus but few others, begun one of the most massive wealth redistributions in U.S. history.”
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Obamacare:More Surprises!
July 21, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Healthcare, Hot Topics
Now that we have the luxury of finding out what is actually contained in the Naitonal Health Care bill we are finding some not-so-surprising consequences.
“The evidence continues to mount that much of what critics found wrong with ObamaCare was spot on while the administration either lied or failed spectacularly in gleaning the unintended consequences that would result from its passage.”
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http://usconstitutionalfreepress.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/obamacare-lies-keep-on-coming/
Dr. Donald Berwick:A Great Danger
July 16, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Healthcare
Barack Obama’s incredible “recess appointment” of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is probably the most significant domestic-policy personnel decision in a generation. It is more important to the direction of the country than Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/wonder_land.html
The Economic Fascism of Obamacare
July 14, 2010 by Karianne Wilkins
Filed under Healthcare
Monday, July 12, 2010
The Economic Fascism of Obamacare!
by Dr. Keith Westbrook (a local semi-retired physicist/financial professional of his own health insurance company)
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?m=201007
The Outlook for Major Health Care Programs and Social Security Growth in spending on health care programs remains the central fiscal challenge facing the nation. CBO projects that if current laws do not change, federal spending on major mandatory health care programs will grow from roughly 5 percent of GDP today to about 10 percent in 2035 and will continue to increase thereafter. (Mandatory programs are those that do not require annual appropriations; the major mandatory health care programs include Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the subsidies that will be provided through the insurance exchanges that will be established as a result of the new health care legislation.)
That estimate includes all of the effects of the recently enacted health care legislation. Although, CBO expects the legislation to reduce federal budget deficits over the first 10 years and in subsequent decades (through its effects on both revenues and spending), it is expected to increase federal spending in the next 10 years and for most of the following decade; by 2030, however, that legislation will slightly reduce federal spending for health care if all of its provisions are fully implemented, CBO projects. (The estimates for the health care legislation that are used in this report are unchanged from the ones that CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation published in March, when the legislation was being considered.)
Under current law, spending on Social Security is also projected to rise over time as a share of GDP, albeit much less dramatically—from 5 percent to 6 percent of GDP. (Later this week, CBO will release a report on a number of different policy options for changing Social Security.)
All told, CBO projects, the aging of the population and the rising cost of health care will cause spending on the major mandatory health care programs and Social Security to grow from roughly 10 percent of GDP today to about 16 percent of GDP 25 years from now if current laws are not changed. (By comparison, spending on all of the federal government’s programs and activities, excluding interest payments on debt, has averaged 18.5 percent of GDP over the past 40 years.)
Budget Outcomes Under Two Long-Term Scenarios:
In the report, CBO presents the long-term budget picture under two scenarios that embody different assumptions about future policies governing federal revenues and spending. Budget projections grow increasingly uncertain as they extend farther into the future, so this report focuses largely on the next 25 years.
One scenario, the extended-baseline scenario, adheres closely to current law. That set of policies would result in steadily higher average tax rates because they incorporate the assumptions that most of the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 expire and that the alternative minimum tax applies to more and more people each year—and because the combination of economic growth and the structure of the tax system generates additional tax revenues as a percentage of income. Those rising rates, combined with the tax provisions of the recent health care legislation, would push total revenues to 23 percent of GDP by 2035—much higher than has typically been seen in recent decades—and to larger percentages thereafter. At the same time, government spending on everything other than the major mandatory health care programs, Social Security, and interest on federal debt—activities such as national defense and a wide variety of domestic programs—would decline to the lowest percentage of GDP since before World War II. Despite those substantial revenue increases and constrained spending for a portion of the budget, the rising costs of health care programs and Social Security would lead to continued budget deficits, and federal debt held by the public would grow from an estimated 62 percent of GDP this year to about 80 percent by 2035.
The budget outlook is much bleaker under the alternative fiscal scenario, which incorporates several changes to current law that are widely expected to occur or that would modify some provisions of law that might be difficult to sustain for a long period. In this scenario, CBO assumed that Medicare’s payment rates for physicians would gradually increase (which would not happen under current law) and that several policies enacted in the recent health care legislation that would restrain growth in health care spending would not continue in effect after 2020. In addition, under the alternative scenario, spending on activities other than the major mandatory health care programs, Social Security, and interest would fall below the average level of the past 40 years relative to GDP, though not as low as under the extended-baseline scenario.
More important, CBO assumed for this scenario that most of the provisions of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts would be extended, that the reach of the alternative minimum tax would be kept close to its historical extent, and that over the longer run, tax law would evolve further so that revenues would remain at about 19 percent of GDP, near their historical average.
Under that combination of policy assumptions, federal debt would grow much more rapidly than under the extended-baseline scenario. With significantly lower revenues and higher outlays, debt would reach 87 percent of GDP by 2020, CBO projects. After that, the growing imbalance between revenues and non interest spending, combined with spiraling interest payments, would swiftly push debt to unsustainable levels. Debt as a share of GDP would exceed its historical peak of 109 percent by 2025 and would reach 185 percent in 2035.
Neither of those scenarios represents a prediction by CBO of what policies will be in effect during the next several decades—but these projections, encompassing two very different sets of policy assumptions, provide a clear indication of the serious nature of the fiscal challenge facing the nation.
Either baseline has us at unsustainable debt levels over the 70% death mark as stated by over 400 renowned historical economists, once reached and held for approximately 2 years every great civilization has collapsed upon itself!
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THE MONSTROSITY OF UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
July 14, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Healthcare
Universal health care has been shoved down our throats and now, as pointed out by Nancy Pelosi, we are finding out what it means. We all know that health care will become exhorbitantly expensive but we are now realizing just how mediocre the care will be. We have the best physicians in the world but, enslaved by government fiat, they will not be allowed to make decisions that are in the best interest of the patient. And the backbreaking taxes are just beginning.
Click on the links below…
http://www.newswithviews.com/Emord/jonathan141.htm
http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/Centers/healthcare/opinioneditorials/TaxesNowServicesLater.html
OBAMA CARE: An American Travesty
June 30, 2010 by Laurie Newsom
Filed under Healthcare, Hot Topics
OBAMA-CARE: In addition to adding billions of dollars to our national debt Obamacare is a massive assault on our free enterprise system. We must continue to fight on many fronts for its repeal.
Please click on the link…
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/06/24/are-they-liars-or-telling-the-truth/
Are They Liars or Telling the Truth
June 25, 2010 by Alan Berkelhammer
Filed under Healthcare, Hot Topics
OBAMACARE REPEAL – EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET BEHIND REP. KING’S DISCHARGE PETITION AND PUT PRESSURE ON REPUBS AND BLUE DOGS
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/06/24/are-they-liars-or-telling-the-truth/
With Obamacare America is now a Fascist State
June 22, 2010 by Karianne Wilkins
Filed under Healthcare
Friday, June 18, 2010
With Obamacare America is now a Fascist State!
Obama care is now the foundation of the new Socialist State of America as designed and planned for by the progressive socialist democratic party now ruining this former Republic!
Now I know the aforementioned individuals will scream that this is a lie so lets start with multiple definitions off the noun fascism:
Miriam Websters Modern Dictionary:
fas·cism
Date: 1921
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
— fas·cist \-shist also -sist\ noun or adjective often capitalized
— fas·cis·tic \fa-ˈshis-tik also -ˈsis-\ adjective often capitalized
— fas·cis·ti·cal·ly \-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb often capitalized
From Wikipedia:
What constitutes a definition of fascism and fascist governments is a highly disputed subject that has proved complicated and contentious. Historians, political scientists, and other scholars have engaged in long and furious debates concerning the exact nature of fascism and its core tenets.
Most scholars agree that a “fascist regime” is foremost an authoritarian form of government, although not all authoritarian regimes are fascist. Authoritarianism is thus a defining characteristic, but most scholars will say that more distinguishing traits are needed to make an authoritarian regime fascist.
