Posted on 02/15/2010 8:24:37 PM PST by socialismisinsidious
100 lawmakers reject Big Brother health-care takeover
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | February 14, 2010 | Chelsea Schilling
Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:06:14 PM by Man50D
Nearly 100 lawmakers have signed a formal Declaration of Health Care Independence to reject an unconstitutional Washington takeover of American health care – and now one representative is challenging Americans to deliver it to Congress and the White House to hold them accountable to the people.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., drafted and formally unveiled the Declaration of Health Care Independence Jan. 27. The declaration is a commitment to protect the rights of the American people to make their own health decisions, reduce bureaucratic red-tape, decrease intergenerational debt and implement 10 common-sense principles for future health-care reform.
The Democrats Receive Too Much Lawyer Money to Pass Tort Reform.
The Lid/Various ^ | 2/14/2010 | The Lid
Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 9:47:29 PM by Shellybenoit
President Obama says its obvious, anybody who would dare fight his Obamacare measures are on the leash of the special interests. Funny how he never mentions the special interests that he is beholden to, like the unions who were exempted from "the Cadillac tax." Or the real reason there is no tort reform, the President's ties to the Legal industry.
Trial lawyers to Obama: Don’t deal on tort reform in health talks
The Hill ^ | 2/14/10 | Jeffrey Youn
Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 12:23:17 AM by Nachum
President Barack Obama wants a bipartisan deal on health reform, but trial lawyers don’t want him to deal on a top Republican priority: tort reform.
Audio: Very Frustrated Dem Senator Wants Obama to Bypass the Legislative Process on Healthcare
BREITBART.TV ^ | NEN
Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 5:20:02 AM by Pacothecat
Audio: Very Frustrated Dem Senator Wants Obama to Bypass the Legislative Process on Healthcare
http://www.breitbart.tv/very-frustrated-dem-senator-wants-obama-to-bypass-the-legislative-process-on-healthcare/
Very Frustrated Dem Senator Wants Obama to Bypass the Legislative Process on Healthcare!
Dittos Rush! ^ | 2-15-10 | James
Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 6:56:37 AM by iloveamerica1980
Senator Debbie Stabenow, a guest on the Stephanie Miller Show talks about ramming the healthcare legislation through. 'What if we needed 60 votes for everything"
Republicans Spurn Once-Favored Health Mandate
NPR ^ | February 15, 2010 | Julie Rovner
Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 7:39:35 AM by Pan_Yan
For Republicans, the idea of requiring every American to have health insurance is one of the most abhorrent provisions of the Democrats' health overhaul bills.
"Congress has never crossed the line between regulating what people choose to do and ordering them to do it," said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). "The difference between regulating and requiring is liberty."
America Needs a Healthcare Recall!
Townhall.com ^ | February 15, 2010 | Terry Paulson
Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 8:14:17 AM by Kaslin
President Obama has called for a half-day, bipartisan healthcare summit at the Blair House on February 25th, “I want to…have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward.” But the President refuses to start from scratch, and Republicans fear that a half-day event focusing on thousands of pages from a rejected healthcare plan is nothing more than a political trap. Is it time to move beyond complex, expensive healthcare fixes and “recall” America’s healthcare system to make the systemic changes that are necessary?
Obamacare’s Cram Down
http://radioviceonline.com/ ^ | February 15, 2010 | SoundOffSister
Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 8:44:15 PM by Biggirl
How Obamacare will still be cram down our throats, made simple. Many viewed the election of Scott Brown (R. Ma.) as the death of Obamacare. But, to President Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Senator Harry Reid, it was a mere trifling inconvenience. According to Pelosi, the stage has been set to pass Obamacare anyway.
Expecting a Surge in U.S. Medical Schools
NY Times ^ | February 14, 2010 | ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 9:05:43 AM by UAConservative
Peter Allen applied to 30 medical schools after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh last year. Twenty-eight said no.
Of the two that said yes, one had something in common with Mr. Allen: It, too, was starting out in medicine. He enrolled in the inaugural class of The Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton, Pa.
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.
Democrats Contemplating The Suicide Option On ObamaCare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2452817/posts
Gillibrand Pushes for Reconciliation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2452815/posts
Will health savings go to reduce deficit rather than expand coverage?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2452792/posts
White House insists healthcare summit no trap
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2452786/posts
4 Dem Senators Pressure Reid to Use Reconciliation for Public Option
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2452776/posts
Doctors back 'right to die'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2452768/posts
White House Hints of New Health Bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2452750/posts
Health Summit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2452707/posts
Most Americans think Congress should start over on healthcare reform, poll says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2452650/posts
Tim Pawlenty attempts to save the Health Care in 5 steps.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2452632/posts
Thanks very much for the links/post; link from another thread. BTTT!
We really need another one of those topic headers, where we can consolidate this stuff under, where we can click one link and get the entire list.
Report: Dems near deal on ObamaCare before health-care summit?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453511/posts
How to Fix Health Care - Lasik surgery for the medical debate (private sector = reduced costs)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453320/posts
A Roadmap for killing Social Security (Los Angeles Times Critiques Paul Ryan's Roadmap)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453338/posts
Video Explains Why Pain Meds Are Popular
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2453404/posts
NHS hospitals ignore patient safety orders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452845/posts
Quebec Doctors Want their Euthanasia Practices Acknowledged, Legalized
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452846/posts
Key Senate Democrats push for health care public option (Evil Never Rests)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452880/posts
Congress Will Implement "Trick" to Pass Health Care Reform
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453144/posts
Just Say No to the Health-Care Summit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453152/posts
Millions Skip Test for Colon Cancer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2452646/posts
Republican holds out hope on health care overhaul (Don't shoot the messenger)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454430/posts
· · FDA urges safety curbs to decrease use of 4 popular asthma drugs, citing lifethreatening risk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454335/posts
An ObamaCare Opponent Offers Her Own Plan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2454295/posts
White House: Dems near accord on health care bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2454265/posts
White House: Dems near accord on health care bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454263/posts
Health Insurance Providers Push For Huge Premium Increases: Why Now? Is Health Care Reform Fix In?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2454078/posts
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