Posted on 11/28/2009 8:41:43 PM PST by socialismisinsidious
Frist Says Healthcare Overhaul Will Pass By Christmas, With Flaws ( Calls it very good ) BARF
WPLN ^ | November 23rd | Daniel Potter
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 6:40:01 PM by Halfmanhalfamazing
Former Tennessee Senator Bill Frist says Congress will pass a healthcare overhaul bill by Christmas. But he says it will push costs onto the states that will crimp funds for education.
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Frist also says the bill fails to tackle tort or malpractice issues. But he calls the insurance reform in the bill “very good,” saying people who have lost jobs or don’t make much money will be able to get insurance, as will those with preexisting conditions.
Massachusetts Makes a Health Care Mess (Romneycare)
The American Spectator ^ | 2009-11-28 | Doug Bandow
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:24:02 PM by rabscuttle385
Congress is debating legislation that would do essentially what Mitt Romney did in Massachusetts: impose a health insurance mandate, create a network of subsidies, and micro-manage health insurance policies. Before legislators take us down the same road, they should consider the Massachusetts experience. Citizens there are not impressed with RomneyCare.
Romney ‘Loves’ Government-Run Health Care (**FLASHBACK 05/04/2007**)
CATO @ Liberty / CATO Institute ^ | 2007-05-04 | Michael D. Tanner
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 7:00:18 PM by rabscuttle385
Asked during last night’s Republican debate about whether his campaign was downplaying his health care plan, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney replied, “I love it.” While praising the plan as a model of bipartisanship — and citing support for it from both Ted Kennedy and the Heritage Foundation — Romney failed to tell viewers what was in the plan.
It’s worth reminding people, therefore, that the plan Romney loves:
CATO: OBAMACARE PRICE TAG IS 6 TRILLIONS
Hotair ^ | 11/28/09 | Ed Morrissey
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 2:37:03 PM by American Dream 246
The advocates of ObamaCare argue that the overhaul of the American health-care system will cost “only” a trillion dollars in its first decade. Michael Cannon at the libertarian think tank Cato says that Congress relies on significant budgetary gimmicks to get to that number, and that the true cost of ObamaCare in its first real decade is six times that amount:
ObamaCare Cost Will Be Closer To 6 Trillion Dollars
Flopping Aces ^ | 11-28-09 | Curt
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 1:01:56 PM by Starman417
Michael F. Cannon from The Cato Institute writes about the trickery involved by Democrats in estimating how much the behemoth known as ObamaCare will cost and what the real cost of the Socialism will be:
A Year of Magical Thinking: The Democrats' health care dream is everyone else's nightmare
The National Review ^ | December 7, 2009 Issue | Matthew Continetti
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 3:56:06 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Next time you run into a group of Democrats, offer to splash water on their faces. They've spent 2009 in a dream state, and it's time they wake up. They're convinced that they can subsidize health insurance for millions of people while also "bending the cost curve" of health care spending. They want to sign us up for the political equivalent of one of those three-step "eat more to lose weight" diets. Step one: Pile on the expenditures, regulations, taxes, and fees. Step two: Close your eyes. Step three: Pray it all works out in the end.
Sorry, it won't. Entitlements cost money, and they almost invariably cost more than the government's initial predictions. When you increase demand for a product and the supply remains fixed, the price rises. Thanks to the individual mandate, the Democratic health care bills lasso Americans into a heavily regulated health insurance oligopoly. All these new consumers will wander through the government-run "exchanges," buying the plans they can afford with taxpayer subsidies. As demand for health care increases, so will the cost.
Health care reform before the end of the year?
The American Thinker ^ | November 27, 2009 | Rick Moran
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 5:46:45 AM by Scanian
Byron York of the Examiner doesn't think so:
"Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin recently was asked if a national health care bill would pass the Senate by the end of the year. 'It must,' Durbin responded. 'We have to finish it.' Many other top Democrats share Durbin's determination to meet this deadline. But it's almost certainly not going to happen, for three reasons: the calendar, the Senate's other business, and, most importantly, growing public opposition to the health bill itself.
Start with the calendar. No matter what Durbin says, there's not enough time to get a bill of the scope and complexity of the 2,074-page Senate proposal -- which was only unveiled 10 days ago -- done by New Year's.
'Obama's Brilliant First Year' -- Nationalize health care, expand government, undermine Reagan
Washington Examiner ^ | November 28, 2009 | Byron York
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 8:43:30 PM by gusopol3
And while some advocates of the Democratic bills currently under consideration have tried to downplay the enormity of the changes the legislation would bring, Weisberg is entirely open about Obama's goal of nationalizing health care, expanding government, and undermining the legacy of Ronald Reagan
Bill Frist was a great disappointment.
“Bill Frist was a great disappointment.”
Doesn’t Frist see that national health insurance will be a Trojan Horse for every evil the Dems want, plus it will ruin the economy.
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