Posted on 10/23/2010 7:02:11 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
As an orthopedic surgeon, I've spent years witnessing the often slow and painful process of healing. I've watched patients struggle to get well, facing down personal, professional and financial challenges while fighting to recover their health.
It's too bad healing in the real world isn't as simple as healing in the political world - where it appears that a simple shift in the wind of public opinion and a few million dollars in campaign donations mends everything.
That's the lesson I took away after reading news that Big Insurance lobbyists are working - and spending - feverishly to mend fences with congressional Republicans only six months after helping President Obama and Democrats ram their massive health insurance law down America's throat.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Not to worry, that was the issue that pushed Americans over the brink and gave rise to the Tea Party Movement.
“WE WILL REMEMBER
IN NOVEMBER”
AMMO LIST
DEMOCRATS WAR ON SENIORS AND BUSINESS
How ObamaCare Guts Medicare
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437311393854940.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
Health law’s heavy impact by Paul Guppy (Taxes)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/mar/28/health-laws-heavy-impact/
Obama murdered Medicare
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/15/obama-murdered-medicare/?ref=nf
Monthly premiums to rise for 7 of top 10 Medicare prescription plans in 2011
http://www.startribune.com/business/103642009.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhUr
Lies, Damn Lies and the ObamaCare Sales Pitch (WSJ)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704300604575554273700857644.html
Social Security: No 2011 increase expected (COLA)
http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/05/news/economy/Social_Security_cost_of_living_adjustment/index.htm
No Social Security COLA Expected For 2011 News Expected To Be Bad For Democrats
http://www.kptv.com/politics/25344443/detail.html
They forgot to add this to the Rest of the Story
Shall we wait to see how the media and the establishment Pubbies handle this one?
Harvard Pilgrim cancels Medicare Advantage plan
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2010/09/28/harvard_pilgrim_
Seniors’ coverage options dwindle as Medicare Advantage programs close shop
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-advantage_22bus.ART.State.Edition1.3c912a9.html
Survey in New England Journal of Medicine 46% of US Doctors Will Quit Obamacare Passes http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2798380/shocking_survey_in_new_england_journal.html?cat=75
ObamaCare has just made me Sicker!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/bamcare_has_just_made_me_icker_c1dBRZ6M3yuH27rAVnLsvN
In the notice, EmblemHealth told Gowland, who is healthy, “The proposed rate increase includes two components: a basic increase on your type plan and an increase due to the cost of enhanced benefits required by the new federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”
Mayo clinic stops taking Medicare patients
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517004
Principal To Cut Jobs, End Med Insurance Business
http://www.kcci.com/money/25224059/detail.html
Obama: We knew health costs would go up
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/118079-obama-we-knew-health-costs-would-go-up
President Barack Obama insisted he can overhaul the U.S. healthcare system without raising taxes for anyone but the wealthiest Americans
The New Federal Wedding Tax: How Obamacare Would Dramatically Penalize Marriage
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/01/The-New-Federal-Wedding-Tax-How-Obamacare-Would-Dramatically-Penalize-Marriage
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1099: The Trojan Horse within Obamacare
http://palmettoinsider.com/2010/09/21/1099-the-trojan-horse-within-obamacare/
Repeal Obamacare: Small-Business Killer
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38496
Senate Expands IRS Form 1099 Reporting Requirement to Include All Rental Property Owner
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75911
Paperwork nightmare: New 1099 mandate must be repealed
http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/article_61e61666-bbc1-11df-b2c3-001cc4c002e0.html
Health care law’s massive, hidden tax change( 1099’s)
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/smallbusiness/1099_health_care_tax_change/index.htm
Lost in Taxation, The IRS’s vast new ObamaCare powers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704518904575365223062942574.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
ObamaCares Unseen Costs
http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/15/obamacares-unseen-costs/print
Bad Medicine: A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11961
Dr. Milton Wolf: Obamacare’s Unkeepable Promises Utopian vision was a fraud from the beginning
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/21/we-are-witnessing-the-unmistakable-collapse-of-an-/
Obama’s physician cousin angrily denounces health care reform
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/obamas_physician_cousin_angril.html
Writing in the Washington Times, Barack’s cousin, Dr Milton R Wolf, a physician, blasts this legislative attempt to take over health care:
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