Posted on 06/02/2010 7:56:18 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
Courts' (conservative) leanings give Florida health-care reform lawsuit fighting chance
Jacksonville ^ | 5/30/10 | Jeremy Cox
Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 8:48:40 AM by Libloather
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's high-profile lawsuit against the federal health-care reform law has been the subject of hot debate in legal circles since it was filed in March.
60% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law
Rasmussen Reports ^ | May 31, 2010
Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 8:59:24 AM by Clintonfatigued
The latest weekly Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey on the recently passed national health care bill finds that 60% of U.S. voters now want to see it repealed. That’s down three points from a week ago but is the second straight week to find support for repeal of the bill at 60% or above.
On health care, lobbyists flex muscle
The Boston Globe ^ | 5/31/10 | Christopher Rowland
Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 9:38:12 AM by Gothmog
A $3 million campaign by doctors, scanner operators, manufacturers, and groups devoted to women’s health helped persuade lawmakers to overrule Medicare administrators this year and restore much of the reimbursement for osteoporosis tests. In a little-noticed provision buried deep in the sweeping new health care bill, Congress decreed that Medicare shall pay $97 for each test, instead of $50.
It was a stark instance of a narrowly tailored, special-interest political victory in a law trumpeted by President Obama and Democrats as putting America on a path to a more rational health care system, where decisions are made on medical evidence and patient outcomes.
Vermont to Design a Single Payer Health Care System
Fire Dog Lake ^ | 29 May 2010 | Jon Walker
Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 1:28:50 PM by Lorianne
In Vermont, a bill that could possibly lead to a government-run single payer health care system is now state law. Republican Gov. Jim Douglas chose not to veto the bill, letting it become law without his signature.
At issue, Senate Bill 88 (PDF), creates a commission to design and create an implementation plan for three different health care systems. One of the options that the commission will design is a single payer health care system and one will be a health care system that includes the choice of a state-run public option along side private health insurance.
Canada: A hard look at the cost of health care (lifeblood sucking, aging population in crosshairs)
North Umberland Today ^ | 5/31/10 | CHRISTINA BLIZZARD
Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 6:52:25 PM by Libloather
When economists start dishing out advice about health care -- at the request of the government -- get worried. Very worried.
I'm alarmed by a report released Thursday, "Charting A Path To Sustainable Health Care in Ontario," by TD Bank economists Don Drummond and Derek Burleton.
It's a warning shot across the bow, especially to baby boomers, seniors and doctors.
You cost the health system money? Watch out. You're in the government's crosshairs.
Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model
Yahoo/Reuters ^ | May 31, 2010 | Claire Sibonney
Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 8:21:49 PM by SmartInsight
Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system.
British Columbia is replacing block grants to hospitals with fee-for-procedure payments and Quebec has a new flat health tax and a proposal for payments on each medical visit -- an idea that critics say is an illegal user fee.
In some ways the Canadian debate is the mirror image of discussions going on in the United States.
Canada’s Stinky Healthcare System Collapsing As America Gets Ready To Emulate It
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | Matthew Vadum
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 9:14:36 AM by Michael van der Galien
Canada’s sclerotic, dysfunctional universal healthcare system is poised to come to America courtesy of the Democratic-controlled Congress and the Obama administration just as Canada backs away from the socialistic system that is bankrupting it.
That nation’s provincial governments are desperately scrambling to find ways to cut costs.
“A few provinces are also experimenting with private funding for procedures such as hip, knee and cataract surgery, Reuters reports. “It’s likely just a start as the provinces, responsible for delivering healthcare, cope with the demands of a retiring baby-boom generation. Official figures show that senior citizens will make up 25 percent of the population by 2036.”
Sebelius puts Obamacare on spin cycle
Washington Examiner ^ | May 30, 2010
Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 10:53:57 PM by rhema
It appears there is no misrepresentation to which Obama administration officials will not stoop in their deceitful effort to sell Obamacare to the American public.
Support for repeal and replacement of the fatally flawed law is steadily growing -- reaching 63 percent in the most recent Rasmussen survey. Maybe that is why Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has resorted to sending millions of senior Americans a sales brochure that is packed with blatantly false claims about Obamacare.
Sebelius has yet to respond to a recent letter from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and seven of his GOP colleagues demanding explanations for the many falsehoods in the brochure, which is titled "Medicare and the new health care law -- What it means for you." It was published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the sprawling division of HHS that is at the center of Obamacare implementation and management. That this brochure was prepared by government employees and paid for with federal tax dollars is only the first of multiple outrages here.
Free birth control under health care?
Politico ^ | June 1, 2010 | Sarah Kliff
Posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:46:31 PM by C19fan
As health reform regulations begin to take shape, Planned Parenthood has begun a quiet campaign to ensure that birth control is counted among the free preventive services that health insurers must cover under the Affordable Care Act.
Birth control barely came up in the health care reform debate, brushed aside by the more heated debate over abortion language and coverage. But with numerous religious groups opposed to contraceptive use, this issue is all but certain to become a flash point as implementation moves forward.
Obamacare: Get ready to pay for young slackers’ sex-lives
WashingtonExaminer.com ^ | 06/02/10 | Jeffrey H. Anderson
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:46:16 AM by ransomnote
As further evidence of how politicized health care would become under Obamacare, Politico reports that Planned Parenthood is pushing for a national mandate that insurers must provide free birth control.
AP Grasps at ObamaCare 'Fix It' Straw Amidst Public Discontent
NewsBusters ^ | June 1, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick
Posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2010 3:41:13 PM by PJ-Comix
Amidst the general public discontent with ObamaCare, the Associated Press is spinning that it is not repeal that is favored but merely a bunch of revisions. Left unsaid is if all these revisions are necessary, why did Congress pass such a flawed bill in the first place? Let the AP spin cycle begin:
WASHINGTON — Toss it or fix it?
Put Patients and Doctors Back in Control of Healthcare (Ron Paul)
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, 14th District ^ | 2010-06-01
Posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:40:06 PM by rabscuttle385
Most everyone agrees that health care in the United States has major problems, the biggest problems relating to skyrocketing costs. No one doubts the system is in need of reform. However, too many in Washington see tighter government controls as the solution. In fact, the problems are rooted in past government controls that created more problems than they solved.
Fiscal Fraud of Obamacare Snowballing Already
Townhall.com ^ | June 2, 2010 | Terry Jeffrey
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 8:59:01 AM by Kaslin
Remember the health care issue? Well, the fiscal consequences of the socialized medicine scheme enacted by President Barack Obama and Congress just two months ago are already beginning to snowball.
Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, was one of the key architects and advocates of Obamacare. He was back on the House floor on Friday delivering an urgent plea to fellow Democrats that inadvertently -- or, perhaps, unavoidably -- revealed the fraudulent nature of our new national health care regime.
It was supposed to save the taxpayers money, remember?
The Republican Retreat on Health Care (You KNEW this was coming...)
Nat. Review ^ | 6/2/10 | Ed. Staff
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:12:30 AM by pissant
Every week brings fresh bad news about Obamacare. Many companies are considering dropping their health coverage as a result of the incentives the law creates. Small businesses are reporting that the law’s tax credits are encouraging them not to make new hires. Most people with preexisting conditions, who were supposed to be the chief beneficiaries of the law, will be left out from its high-risk pools: There are 4 million of them, but enough funding for only 200,000. The Department of Health and Human Services is already behind schedule in implementing the law. And the director of the Congressional Budget Office, appointed by Democrats, denies that the law will reduce the pressure of health spending on the budget.
The White House Blog: The Affordable Care Act and the Deficit
The White House ^ | June 2, 2010 | by OMB Director Peter Orszag
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:40:20 PM by Oldeconomybuyer
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf recently gave a presentation on health costs and the fiscal outlook. Doug concludes that the federal budget remains on an unsustainable course even after enactment of the Affordable Care Act, and I wholly agree with him.
There should be no ambiguity about whether we face unsustainably large deficits over the medium- and long-term. We do. That is why the Administration’s Budget proposes significant additional deficit reduction and that is also why the President has formed a bi-partisan Fiscal Commission charged with recommending measures to achieve medium term fiscal sustainability and to meaningfully improve the long-run fiscal outlook.
NLPC to Challenge Wal-Mart for Support of ObamaCare, Cap and Trade at Annual Meeting
National Legal & Policy Center ^ | June 2, 2010 | Peter Flaherty
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:40:36 PM by jazusamo
I will speak in favor of our shareholder proposal that asks for a report on Wal-Mart’s lobbying priorities at the company’s annual meeting on Friday, June 4 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It will take place in the Bud Walton Arena at the University of Arkansas from 7a.m. Central Time to about 11a.m. A live webcast of the meeting will be available on the company's website at www.walmartstores.com/investors.
White House - CBO's Brutal Health Care Takedown - Claims Reform Was Never Going To Save Us
The Business Insider ^ | 6-2-2010 | Gus Lubin
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:20:07 PM by blam
OMB Director Peter Orszag just posted a response to a brutal fiscal analysis of health care reform by CBO Director Doug Elmendorf.
Orszag's response is conciliatory, saying the White House never said the health care reform would solve the unsustainable budget deficit -- although many think this was Obama's claim.
But Orszag's says Elmendorf underestimates the fundamental changes reform will bring:
The fact that more action must be taken on the deficit even after enactment of the Affordable Care Act, however, is a distinct question from whether the health legislation helps to improve our fiscal course — which it does.
Republicans attack healthcare nominee over his love of NHS
staff ^ | 6/2/10 | staff
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 8:48:22 PM by Nachum
A visionary American academic is at the centre of a new battle over the future of US healthcare because of his fervent admiration for the National Health Service in Britain.
Donald Berwick, a Harvard-trained paediatrician and founder of a leading health policy think-tank, is being attacked by Republicans who could block his involvement in the enforcement of President Obama’s hard-won health reforms. His sin? To admit that he “fell in love” with the NHS.
Republicans May Target Pro-Rationing Obama Pick for Medicare, Medicaid Post
Life News ^ | 6/1/10 | Steven Ertelt
Posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2010 6:47:12 PM by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Senate Republicans may roll out a campaign against the nomination of a rationing advocate to an influential government position.
Medical registry ignores benefits of responsible gun ownership
Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 1 May, 2010 | David Codrea
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 7:49:23 AM by marktwain
Louisville's The Courier-Journal editorial promises to tell us "Guns' real cost":
University of Louisville physician Bill Smock...created The Gun Shot Wound Registry 14 years ago to keep track of local incidents involving guns (homicides, suicides, assaults and accidents...It monitors when shooting incidents occur, who the victims are, and how much it costs to provide their medical treatment.
Unsurprisingly:
Most victims of gun violence, it turns out, are uninsured, and so academic medical centers...end up spending far more to treat victims than they can ever expect to be repaid.
Congress Misses Medicare Payment Cut Deadline
abc ^ | June 1, 2010 | DAN CHILDS
Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:52:56 PM by george76
Doctors May Soon Be Forced to Accept Lower Reimbursements for Treating Medicare Patients.
A missed deadline by Congress may mean many of the country's 44 million Medicare patients will have a harder time finding a doctor -- piquing the frustration of many physicians who already care for these patients.
On Friday, the Senate adjourned for its traditional Memorial Day break without eliminating a physician payment cut for treatments to Medicare patients that took effect today, which means that the country's doctors may soon be paid 21.3 percent less to treat Medicare patients.
You will love this one Heritage sent it this morning.
Flawed Data used to justify obamacare
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/business/03dartmouth.html
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