From my email this morning, I’ve not confirmed it yet.
THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IS FUNDING TWENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS— LET ME REPEAT THAT AMOUNT...
SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT $ 24,000,000.00 DOLLARS FOR NEW ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS PROCESSING FOR OUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS !!
THEY ARE OBTAINING THESE FUNDS
And I QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM THE SOCIAL SECURITY WEBSITE...
“THIS MONEY WILL BE COMING FROM THE SAVINGS TO BE GENERATED
FROM WITHHOLDING “COST OF LIVING INCREASES FOR 2010 & 2011
In SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR THE ELDERLY
AND A $2.00 INCREASE ON ALL MEDICARE RX BENEFIT CO-PAY”
Rudd reveals national plan for hospitals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463178/posts
Abuse of Power WSJ: Abuse of Power (A MUST READ!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463173/posts
Alice in Health Care: Part II
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2463119/posts
Caption Obama and his healthcare posers...er...doctors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2463388/posts
Time to act on health care, Obama declares
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463385/posts
Thune: GOP preparing to slow or block health bill in Senate debate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463381/posts
Obama says time for debating health care is over
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463373/posts
Obama to Give Final Speech on Healthcare at 1:45 EST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463369/posts
New American Cancer Society guidance urges docs to explain limits of prostate cancer screening
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2463349/posts
Harkin: Reconciliation is a go
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463346/posts
Obama: American people want Washington leaders to act on health care reform
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463345/posts
Leading Democrats confident they have the votes on healthcare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463343/posts
Pelosi Denies Abortion Funding in Health Care Bill: I Talked With the Bishops
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463335/posts
Thune: GOP preparing to slow or block health bill in Senate debate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463322/posts
Obama to launch final push for health overhaul (What happened #1 Priority JOBS, Mr. Pres_ent?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463318/posts
‘MORE CONTROL’ OVER HEALTH CARE’ (Excerpts from Obama’s healthcare speech)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2463306/posts
Oldie:
Sun., Nov . 11, 2007
WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday that if elected he will push to increase the amount of income that is taxed to provide monthly Social Security benefits.
Obama and other Democratic presidential candidates previously have signaled support for this idea.
But during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Obama said subjecting more of a person’s income to the payroll tax is the option he would push for if elected president.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21739271/
MY doctor has said he’ll quit medical practice if this crap goes through and he knew many other like minded doctors, nurses and NP’s who think the same way!
Obamacare won’t survive coming doctor shortage
Examiner Editorial
June 28, 2009
President Obama’s ambitious plan for radically increasing the government’s role in the nation’s health care system misses one critical detail: There aren’t enough primary care physicians in America now and their numbers are declining. That means government won’t be able to deliver the expanded health care Obama is promising to millions of uninsured people. With access to primary care already deteriorating in many parts of the country, Obamacare will make it even harder to get a doctor’s appointment without a lengthy wait. “The politicians don’t talk about who’s going to do this extra work,” Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and author of the 1993 book “Your Doctor Is Not In,” told The Examiner. “Promised coverage is not the same thing as care. All you’re getting is a place in the waiting lines.”
A survey of 270,000 primary care physicians last November by the Physicians Foundation found that 76 percent described themselves as “overextended or overworked.” As a result, 30 percent plan to see fewer patients or scale back to part-time, 13 percent will look for a job that does not involve patient care, and 11 percent plan to retire. Since a third of all Medicare patients already have trouble finding a doctor to treat them, under Obamacare those waiting lines will be very, very long indeed.
And with the vast majority of medical students opting to enter more lucrative specialties, the U.S. will be short 124,400 front-line physicians by 2025, according to the Association of Medical Colleges. That doesn’t include the additional 15,585 primary care providers that will needed under Obamacare. Sick people will have to wait months or even years for an appointment and emergency rooms will be jammed as government-subsidized demand puts even more pressure on the dwindling number of primary care providers, Dr. Orient says. Foreign-trained doctors and nurse practitioners will have be called in to act as the primary gatekeepers in Obama’s supposedly new and improved health care system.
When Massachusetts mandated health insurance for all its residents, visits to the state’s emergency rooms jumped 7 percent in two years because many people did not have access to a primary care physician and some patients are being forced to endure “group doctor visits” instead of one-on-one care. How can Obamacare work if there’s not enough primary care physicians in the system now? “It won’t work,” Dr. Orient predicts. “It’s going to be a disaster.”
A disaster that’s entirely preventable, we might add, if Congress can conjure up the courage to say “No” to this audacious power grab.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Obamacare-won_t-survive-coming-doctor-shortage-7886872-49202437.html#ixzz0h9HU46bN