I'm taking the time to write this note on Obamacare due to the fact that some self-described Liberals, Independents and Moderates I know who still believe that Obamacare "Isn't ALL Bad" and "Can be Fixed". No it can't. I will prove without a shadow of a doubt that a bad bill is a bad bill. It needs to be defunded, repealed and replaced with free market solutions instead of this disaster called Obamacare.
UPDATED INFORMATION REGARDING OBAMACARE:
Fri Aug 12,
2011 6:26pm - Appeals Court Rules AgainstObama Healthcare Mandate
The U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in
Atlanta, ruled 2 to 1 that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring
Americans to buy coverage, but it unanimously reversed a lower court decision
that threw out the entire law.
August 12, 2011 - U.S. Appeals Court Declares"Individual Mandate" Unconstitutional
The 11th Circuit U.s. Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia has declared the
"individual mandate" provision of President Obama's health care bill
unconstitutional, calling it an "unprecedented exercise of congressional
power," Reuters
reports.
The section of the bill in question made it illegal for an individual not
to have health insurance, and is one of the most contested parts of the law
passed in March 2010. The attorneys-general of 26 states filed suit in the 11th
Circuit to have the law overturned.
Mark Levin's Landmark Files First Brief in
Florida Obamacare Case.
May 11, 2011
One of the law firms representing a lead party in the Florida litigation launched by 26 states challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare invited Mark Levin's Landmark Legal Foundation to file an amicus curiae ("Friend of the Court") brief in support of the federal district court's decision that Obamacare was unconstitutional. Landmark was asked to address the Commerce Clause and tax issues relating to the legislation.
Landmark's amicus brief is here:
/uploads/Brief_Filed.pdf - It is 40 Pages long.
Let's Not Ever Forget How
ObamaCare was Passed with cheers and applause of Liberal Democrats and ONLY ONE Republican Who Voted for it. Hardly BiPartisan. Very UnPopular! In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night. The final vote was 220-215 with only one Republican voting with the Democrats.
There is Hope and a Way to Defund it and Mark Levin Sees DeFunding ObamaCare like this:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-levin/how-to-defund-obamacare/449971410945
How to defund Obamacare. You read it here first.
Set forth in this article:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1011213
ObamaCare's Incentive to Drop Insurance.
Alert readers will remember the White House summer of 2009 invitation to all Americans to send in their horror stories describing health insurance industry abuses. Although the complaints were many, the vast majority were about pre-existing condition limitations. Then, on the eve of the ObamaCare vote, every member of Congress who appeared on television to defend the legislation was able to cite by name an individual or family in his or her state or Congressional district with a heart wrenching story.
Out of 310 million Americans,
only 8,000 people have pre-existing condition limitations as the principal reason for spending almost $1 trillion, creating more than 150 regulatory agencies and causing perhaps 150 million or more people to change the coverage they now have.
Gone was any interest in “universal coverage” or “insuring the uninsured” or “helping poor people get health care.” The case for change was focused almost exclusively on protecting the middle class from miserly insurance companies.
If Obamacare was so good and so constitutional.....Why are 1,000 businesses, groups and organizations seeking waivers from it?
03/06/11 03:38 PM ET - By Jason Millman
The Obama administrations has now issued 1,000 "
get out of ObamaCare free cards" the 1,000 also includes four state governments!
Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000
But Let's Forget about Who is Exempt and Who gets Waivers to Focus and Concentrate on the Elderly.
The Elderly Must Really Love this ObamaCare Idea. Right?
Not the Elderly Who Dropped AARP for Supporting ObamaCare.
The
Some 60,000 Elderly People Quit AARP after finding out AARP was Endorsing ObamaCare.
I Wonder Why that is? How can that be?
The News just gets Worse for the Elderly with this News:
Obamacare spurs AARP to raise premiums
AAPS files Amended Complaint on 8/23/2010 asking court to vacate HHS regulations requiring non-Medicare providers to enroll with Medicare, to appear in PECOS, or to obtain a National Provider Identifier (“NPI”)
READ COMPLAINT
http://www.aapsonline.org/hhslawsuit/
Government Budgets to Hire 1,054 Physicians to Implement Initial Phase of Obamacareby Michelle Malkin on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 8:46pm
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=1035391191&start=120#!/note.php?note_id=499587705676&id=269123710083
Obama and the Dems had to Protect Medicare through all of this ObamaCare Process Right?
I'm afraid Not.
They Thought it'd be a Better Idea to cut $500 Billion Dollars out of Medicare.
The Congressional majority wants to pay for its $1 trillion to $1.6 trillion health bills with new taxes and a $500 billion cut to Medicare. This cut will come just as baby boomers turn 65 and increase Medicare enrollment by 30%. Less money and more patients will necessitate rationing. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that only 1% of Medicare cuts will come from eliminating fraud, waste and abuse.
The assault against seniors began with the stimulus package in February. Slipped into the bill was substantial funding for comparative effectiveness research, which is generally code for limiting care based on the patient’s age.
But what about Medicare Advantage?
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/17/massive-medicare-advantage-cuts/
Less Choices, Higher Premiums. Big Insurance, Big Medicine.
Where are the Jobs?
Obamacare Resulting in Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs Being Lost.
CBO Director: ObamaCare will worsen the Economy.
Even CBO Is Skeptical of Obamacare.
ObamaCare’s Report Card:
It's Worse Than We Thought.
The Massive Costs on States’ Shoulders. Obamacare Mandates Send State Costs Skyrocketing.
ObamaCare’s False Promises. Obamacare Subsidies Are Not a Free Lunch.
Small Businesses Suffer under ObamaCare. Health Benefits Appear On Rise.
Top 10 Failures of ObamaCare After 6 Months Obama today is proudly touting the success of the biggest disaster of his presidency: ObamaCare
ObamaCare’s Day in Court. Obamacare’s Destiny: The Supreme Court. ObamaCare is NOT Constitutional!
Taxpayers Forced to Pay the Price. The cost of 'free' medical care.
Mandates Force Hospitals to Cut Jobs. Memorial Hospital Cites Obamacare on Hospital Layoffs.
Geographic Variation in the Quality of Prescribing Another O-care idea to defund!
Voters say, “NO!” to ObamaCare. Arizona,
Oklahoma Voters Reject ObamaCare Insurance Requirement.
Democrats Defeated by their Own Ideas. How Health Care Mattered in the Midterm Elections.
Another doctor speaking out against the rationing of health care. This is chilling.
Thanks to Judge Roger Vinson, of the Northern District of Florida, in Pensacola, ruled that it's unconstitutional to require people to purchase health insurance on Jan 21st 2011, He FINALLY Forced Obama to have to APPEAL His Ruling on ObamaCare!
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Watch/Reform/25258
Posted March 3rd, 2011 at 3:22pm
Judge Vinson Clarifies His Ruling and makes the Obama Defense Team Speed up their Case in the Process. Judge Vinson to Obama: Speed up the Appeal or Stop Implementing Obamacare
The Obama administration got a well-deserved rebuke today from Judge Roger Vinson in the Florida lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare (aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). Judge Vinson issued a new order in response to a bizarre and obtuse “motion to clarify” that the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed on February 17.
Vinson’s original order on January 31 could not have been clearer: He declared the entire law unconstitutional and specifically said that, because he presumed that officials of the executive branch would adhere to the law as declared by a court, his declaratory judgment striking the law down was the functional equivalent of an injunction. Judge Vinson wrote then that he presumed that the executive branch would follow his order, which any lawyer (including a lawyer President) would know requires them to cease implementing Obamacare with respect to the 26 states that are plaintiffs and the National Federation of Independent Business. That turned out to be a faulty presumption, indeed.
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/03/03/judge-vinson-to-obama-speed-up-the-appeal-or-stop-implementing-obamacare/
Here are All of the Links I Could Find Showing Jude Vinson's Ruling Against Obamacare:
1.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/01/senates-47-gop-members-agree-to-back-health-care-repeal-bill--/1
2.
http://freedomtorch.com/forums/topic/4063/breaking-fed-judge-rules-entir
3.
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=1035391191&start=480#!/video/video.php?v=191422777554176&comments
4.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703439504576116361022463224.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
5.
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/01/31/breaking-federal-judge-in-florida-rules-obamacare-individual-mandate-is-unconstitutional/
6.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/us-usa-healthcare-ruling-idUSTRE70U6RY20110131?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
7.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48517.html#ixzz1CeEZzD00
I Was able to find SEVEN Links to Credible News Media ALL Reporting on Judge Vinson's Ruling.
Then January 31, 2011
47 GOP Senators agree to back health care repeal
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/01/senates-47-gop-members-agree-to-back-health-care-repeal-bill--/1
01/31/11 04:20 PM ET - By Michael O'Brien
ALL 47 Senators to be United in their Resolve to Repeal Obamacare!
Senate GOP unanimous in support for repealing healthcare reform
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/141309-senate-gop-now-unanimous-in-support-for-repealing-health-reform
Here's a List of the 47 Patriots Who Love Freedom and Liberty and the 51 Senators Who'd be Happier living under Tyranny. See where Your Senator's Loyalty is!
http://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/2010/03/25/the-roll-call-vote-in-the-senate-on-the-repeal-of-obamacare/
January 31, 2011 47
GOP Senators Agree to back Health Care Repeal
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/01/senates-47-gop-members-agree-to-back-health-care-repeal-bill--/1
January 31, 2011
The Judge on Fox News GETS IT!
Judge Andrew Napolitano: FL Judge Rules Health Care Law Unconstitutional
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3OphNrF8apc
Sen. Orrin Hatch Calls Obamacare ‘Dumb-Ass’, ‘Awful Piece of Crap’
http://www.breitbart.tv/sen-orrin-hatch-calls-obamacare-dumb-ass-piece-of-crap/
I Definitely Agree with Sen. Rubio: Obamacare Can't Be Repaired, Must Be Repealed!
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=1035391191&start=300#!/video/video.php?v=192390937457360&comments
Bachmann: Obamacare Is The "Crown Jewel Of Socialism”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/19/bachmann_obamacare_is_the_crown_jewel_of_socialism.html
Everyone Seems to be "Getting it" Except for the Stubborn Tyranical Obama Administration. This is Lawlessness and Tyranny!
Even Govenor Mitch Daniels "Gets it"
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
An ObamaCare Appeal From the States by Mitch Daniels
Twenty-one governors representing more than 115 million Americans have written to Kathleen Sebelius asking for more flexibility on health-care reform.
Unless you're in favor of a fully nationalized health-care system, the president's health-care reform law is a massive mistake. It will amplify all the big drivers of overconsumption and excessive pricing: "Why not, it's free?" reimbursement; "The more I do, the more I get" provider payment; and all the defensive medicine the trial bar's ingenuity can generate.
All claims made for it were false. It will add trillions to the federal deficit. It will lead to a de facto government takeover of health care faster than most people realize, and as millions of Americans are added to the Medicaid rolls and millions more employees (including, watch for this, workers of bankrupt state governments) are dumped into the new exchanges.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703652104576122172835584158.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook
Yet Even after all of the Exposure and Everyone "Getting it" Here's how the White House Responds to the Federal Court Ruling.
Barack Obama will ignore the court ruling on Obamacare and will implement the law despite its unconstitutionality
February 7, 2011 by Steve Dennis
Unless you only get your news from the mainstream media you know that Obamacare was ruled unconstitutional in its entirety by a federal judge in Florida in a case that was brought against the federal government by a majority of the fifty states. While the internet has been abuzz by this ruling the mainstream media has all but ignored the fact that Barack Obama’s signature legislation was ruled unconstitutional.
And speaking of ignoring the Florida court ruling–the media isn’t the only one who has decided to pretend that this ruling doesn’t exist because the federal government still plans on implementing the unconstitutional law.
When Judge Roger Vinson handed down his ruling I was thrilled, yet at the same time I was dismayed by the fact that he did not issue an injunction to stop the Obama regime from implementing the unconstitutional law. But it turned out that Judge Vinson did not feel–rightfully so–that an injunction was necessary because his ruling was an injunction in and of itself:
http://americaswatchtower.com/2011/02/07/barack-obama-will-ignore-the-court-ruling-on-obamacare-and-will-implement-the-law-despite-its-unconstitutionality/
Obama Invites Crisis If He Ignores Ruling
By BILL WILSON Posted 02/02/2011 06:12 PM ET
The decision by federal judge Roger Vinson striking down President Obama's signature health care law effectively ends ObamaCare unless some higher court overturns it.
In spite of this overwhelming rebuke of the law, some Birkenstock-wearing legal analysts are trying to argue that Vinson's ruling could be ignored by the administration.
That's why this week's action by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is so significant. Van Hollen has taken the proper step of following the law, which now says that ObamaCare is unconstitutional in its entirety, relieving Wisconsin of any obligation to follow it.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/561796/201102021812/Obama-Invites-Crisis-If-He-Ignores-Ruling.aspx
White House Says It Will Implement ObamaCare Despite Judge's Declaration that His Ruling Against It Is 'Equivalent of Injunction'
Monday, February 07, 2011 By Fred Lucas
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/administration-implement-obamacare-despi
Despite the World "Getting it" Obama and His Administration Still Choose to Implement and Secure as Much of Obamacare into Our System as He can. What a Jerk! What a Punk! What a Tyrant!
First off. Congress Would've Exempted Themselves from ObamaCare if they Could. I Wonder why that is? I Think We ALL Know why that is. It's Not as close as Good as What they already have now. They Didn't Want to be Forced to have what everyone is BEING FORCED TO HAVE?
The Coburn Amendment to HELP bill would require Congress to use Public Plan. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20090714/REG/307149981#
Second. Obama and the Democrats Couldn't have recieved Support from the Government employees and Major Labor Unions without Exempting them from having to give up their "Cadiallac Plans" for the ObamaCare BEING FORCED ON US.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama_-Dems-cut-deal-to-exempt-union-health-care-from-taxes-8764740-81590182.html#ixzz14Nab4DSu
28 States NOW Want to Block ObamaCare from their States. 20 0f those states involved in this lawsuit are: (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington) along with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Va and OK have filed Seperate Cases for their own reasons. A Federal Court Judge has allowed the 20-state challenge to Obamacare to go forward ruling against the Obama Justice Department challenge in a motion to dismiss.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39429
There are 28 States Fighting Implementation of Obamacare in their States NOT because they believe it's unfair or a bad bill which it is but that's NOT their Point. They're Fighting this Obamacare Bill because it is ABSOLUTELY 100% UnConstitutional and Should NOT be Forced on the Good People of the United States.
Federal Judges in VA and FL have already Ruled Against Obamacare claiming it was Unconstitutional to force Americans to Purchase Health Care or face penatlies. That's UnAmerican. It is something Foriegn to this Country and Should NOT be Permitted.
Utah Attorney General considers Obamacare UNENFORCEABLE!
February 3rd, 2011 10:19 am MT
SALT LAKE CITY - Following a ruling Monday by a Florida judge that deemed the Obama administration’s healthcare reform program unconstitutional, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has decided the ruling is the “functional equivalent” of an injunction, making the policy unenforceable.
US District Court Judge Roger Vinson’s decision was in favor of 26 states who filed suit against the federal government over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The ruling said Congress could not force individuals over the age of 18 to purchase health insurance. Because the mandate is central to the law, the judge declared the entire act unconstitutional. Utah’s Shurtleff was among the first to file after the President signed the bill into law last spring.
Utah Deputy Attorney General John Swallow declared, “It is our legal opinion that we are no longer bound by the act.” The Attorney General’s office has told Governor Gary Herbert of their decision and he is weighing his options.
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-salt-lake-city/utah-attorney-general-considers-obamacare-unenforceable#ixzz1FfasDmsE
Idaho "Gets it" also
In the last 6 months, various laws with the objective of “nullifying” Obamacare have been introduced in thirteen states: Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. To date, the farthest along had been Idaho, where a nullification bill declaring Obamacare “void and of no effect” and stopping its enforcement had passed the House and the governor was itching to sign it in to law. But in a victory for common sense and constitutional government, the legislation has been defeated in the Idaho Senate’s State Affairs Committee.
“I find no constitutional justification for the things that we are talking about here today,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Brent Hill. “I commend you for your goals, for the passion with which you pursue those. I cannot pursue them in the manner that some of you are prescribing.”
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/03/02/rejecting-nullification-idaho-draws-the-constitutional-line/
There are 50 States and 28 of them are Rejecting Obamacare and Don't want it enforced, meanwhile 1,000 Businesses, Groups and Organizations Want Waivers from it. You Really think Obamacare is Good or Constitutional?
I Hope Not. Please Reconsider Your thoughts on Obamacare. It is NOT Constitutional or Good for America. We Need Free Market Solutions that are Good and Equal for ALL Americans.
Third. Since So Many are getting these Exemptions and waivers...Why Not give out a Few waivers to McDonalds and 29 Other Companies like Jack in the Box Inc. and the United Federation of Teachers, won't be required to raise the minimum annual benefit included in low- cost health plans covering seasonal, part-time or low-wage employees. The Department of Health and Human Services said it granted waivers in late September so workers with minimum plans would keep coverage without major premium increases.
http://business.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978583237
http://lonelyconservative.com/2010/10/obama-admin-gives-mcdonalds-waiver-on-obamacare/
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10283/1094023-114.stm#ixzz1266XaWX7
Medicare actuary: Reform will cost some seniors
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43529.html
How ObamaCare Guts Medicare The president's pledge that 'If you like your health plan, you will be able to keep it' clearly does not apply to America's seniors
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437311393854940.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion#
Call Me Crazy but I Think it could be from All of the Regulations Agencies that are coming our way through ObamaCare. Watch this Video which Shows just How Many there will be!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=163536966991584&ref=share
Or Maybe it's What else is Hidden inside Obamacare that has them and Everyone Freaking out. And Rightfully so!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=159991024030685
When the Federal Government Calls for 16,500 MORE IRS Agents that are Needed to Enforce ObamaCare, I Think that is a BIG Problem and a Huge RED Flag!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/16500-more-IRS-agents-needed-to-enforce-Obamacare-88458137.html#ixzz14ZXLWUki
But What do the Many Different Polls Say about American's Approval is of ObamaCare? I'm Glad You Asked! :)
Here are ALL of the Polls Showing How Poorly ObamaCare is Percieved Across America:
1.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/can-republicans-read-polls-obamacare - CBS Nightly News - On March 22, Americans opposed ObamaCare by 11 points (48 to 37 percent). Now they oppose it by 21 points (53 to 32 percent)
.
2.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/how-does-obamacare-poll -
CNN conducted a poll in the fateful days leading up to, and including, the day of the House vote. It showed that Americans oppose the bill by a whopping 20 percentage points, 59 percent to 39 percent. It also showed why they oppose it: By a margin of 62 percent to 16 percent, Americans think it would raise (rather than lower) their health costs. By a margin of 70 percent to 12 percent, they think it would raise (rather than lower) the deficit. And by a margin of 56 to 16, they think it would result in too much (rather than too little) “government involvement” in health care. These are colossal margins that won’t disappear, or likely even seriously diminish, simply because the text of the bill has now been graced by President Obama’s pen.
3.
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2010/09/16/what-the-negative-polls-on-obamacare-really-tell-us/ - FORBES CBS/NYT Reports - The Affordable Care Act continues to get the big thumbs down from the American
public. According to the latest
Pollster.com poll of
polls, the country lines up solidly against health care reform with 49.3 percent
against while only 41 percent favor the legislation.
4.
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/22/new-cnn-poll-59-oppose-obamacare/ - CNN Poll - A new
CNN Opinion Research poll, conducted over the weekend as the House debated Obamacare, finds that 59 percent of Americans now stand opposed to the health care legislation in Congress. Just 39 percent of the poll’s 1,030 respondents said they favored the bill.
5.
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/57588 - Exit Polls Show 48% Want Congress to Repeal ObamaCare.
ObamaCare Doesn't Look Very Good for ANY American. No Wonder 48% of those Registered Voters Wanted Congress to Repeal ObamaCare.
Notice I Said Repeal it! NOT Tweak it! Or Adjust it or Fix it! It Needs to be Defunded, Repealed and Replaced with Free Market Solutions that Benefit Everyone INCLUDING TORT REFORM! Forget about the Trial Lawyers!
There is Hope and a Way to Defund it and Mark Levin Sees DeFunding ObamaCare like this:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-levin/how-to-defund-obamacare/449971410945
How to defund Obamacare. You read it here first.
Set forth in this article:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1011213
Which is supportive of Obamacare, is the strategy for defunding Obamcare.
The relevant part:
Repeal of the ACA before 2013 is unlikely. Both houses of Congress would have to enact repeal legislation, which President Barack Obama would surely veto. Then,two thirds of both houses would have to vote to override that veto. After 2012, however, repeal could occur if Republicans win the White House and both houses of Congress and stick by their pledge.
Here's More Proof/Evidence of how Obama is Willing to be sneaky and bend the Rules as long as it Advances His Agenda. This article points out how Obama tried to look like he was heading in the RIGHT Direction FINALLY on Health Care Reform aka ObamaCare but instead it's just an attempt to implement ObamaCare through the back door administratively and adding Single Payer Plans in the process.
Jennifer Haberkorn reports that President Obama's move to allow states flexibility in spending health care funds is the "most significant change" since the law was enacted, and a potential gesture toward critics.
But a source on a White House conference call with liberal allies this morning says the Administration is presenting it to Democrats as an opportunity to offer more expansive health care plans than the one Congress passed.
Health care advisers Nancy-Ann DeParle and Stephanie Cutter stressed on the off-record call that the rule change would allow states to implement single-payer health care plans -- as Vermont seeks to -- and true government-run plans, like Connecticut's Sustinet.
The source on the call summarizes the officials' point -- which is not one the Administration has sought to make publically -- as casting the new "flexibility" language as an opportunity to try more progressive, not less expansive, approaches on the state level.
"They are trying to split the baby here: on one hand tell supporters this is good for their pet issues, versus a message for the general public that the POTUS is responding to what he is hearing and that he is being sensible," the source emails. (This CNN story reflects the public presentation.)
Much of the debate now focuses on the federal government's power, and perhaps health care legislation's critics wouldn't object to single payer -- in Vermont. But the prospect of a backdoor to a single-payer plan anywhere may also sharpen opposition.
UPDATE: An Administration official emails, “Administration official discussed how this legislation would help give states the opportunity to innovate. States have the flexibility to design plans in the way that works for them, so long as they meet the shared goals of reform. That could be any number of proposals from exchanges like the Utah model to other innovations that increase choice and competition.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0211/On_call_officials_stress_publi...c_options_in_health_care_shift.html
Britain's Problems with Socialized Health Care with Their HNS System or National Health Service....Some Related Front Page News Articles Written in Various UK Newpapers AGAINST the HNS
Canada's Problems with Socialized Health Care and the Canada Health Act of 1984 which Canada's Parliament unanimously passed and Established a single-payer, publicly-financed health care system...Related Front Page Newpaper Headlines AGAINST Socialized Health Care in Canada.
Let’s Not forget about Barbara Wagner, who is covered through the state of Oregon's government health care plan, was denied an important cancer drug she requested and instead was offered a drug for assisted suicide.
This Really Happened and is the TRUTH! Fact NOT Fiction!
Oregon Health Plan Denies Chemo Medicine- Assisted Suicide Offered Instead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ojBgTyA7I&feature=youtube
Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care by Sarah Palinby Sarah Palin on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 6:34pm
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/note.php?note_id=130481448434&id=24718773587
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC) proposes health-care vouchersby Jim DeMint on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 7:33am
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/note.php?note_id=96351398402&id=19787180818
I Still Remember when the Republicans did have Alternative Free Market Solutions to Obamacare but were Completely ignored and shut out by Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Majority in Congress.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE JOHN BOEHNER'S ADDRESS ON THE REPUBLICAN PLAN
The American people have spoken. They oppose government-run health care. Republicans are on the side of the American people.
I Still Remember when the Republicans did have Alternative Free Market Solutions to Obamacare but were Completely ignored and shut out by Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Majority in Congress.
What Americans want are common-sense, responsible solutions that address the rising cost of health care and other major problems. In the national Republican address on Saturday, October 31, 2009, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discussed Republicans’ plan for common-sense health care reform our nation can afford. Boehner’s address emphasized four common-sense reforms that will lower health care costs and expand access to quality care without a government takeover of our nation’s health care system that kills jobs, raises taxes on small businesses, or cuts Medicare for seniors:
■Number one: let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.
■Number two: allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do.
■Number three: give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs.
■Number four: end junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it's good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.
ADDITIONAL COMMON-SENSE REPUBLICAN REFORM PROPOSALS
For more information about some of the other common-sense health care reforms proposed by Republicans, please visit the links below:
■Empowering Patients First Act (Republican Study Committee Health Care Reform Bill, introduced July 30, 2009)
■Improving Health Care for All Americans Act (Shadegg Health Care Reform Bill, introduced July 14, 2009)
■Medical Rights & Reform Act (Kirk-Dent Health Care Reform Bill, introduced June 16, 2009)
■Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act (Gingrey medical liability reform bill, introduced June 6, 2009)
■Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2009 (Johnson small business health plans bill, introduced May 21, 2009)
■Promoting Health and Preventing Chronic Disease through Prevention and Wellness Programs for Employees, Communities, and Individuals Act of 2009 (Castle Wellness & Prevention Bill, introduced July 31, 2009)
■Improved Employee Access to Health Insurance Act of 2009 (Deal auto-enrollment bill, introduced October 15, 2009)
■Health Insurance Access for Young Workers and College Students Act of 2009 (Blunt bill to improve health insurance coverage of dependents, introduced October 21, 2009)
All of these Alternative Free Market Solutions were Ignored by Pelosi and the Democratic Majority Dominating Congress during Obama’s First TWO YEARS.
Just because they were IGNORED doesn’t mean they did NOT Exist! This is Proof they DID Offer Great Free Market Solutions!
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare
My point on my next link is proving that most top ten medical breakthroughs come from the United States. America has the Best Environment to do Research and Development. Our Scientist and Medical Experts are Second to None! Why Damage/Harm that by Changing an unbroken System for one that Historically around the world is SO FLAWED?!
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1863993,00.html
Study Shows Gov't Health Care More Expensive Than Private
Research by The Heartland Institute
(April 12, 2009) in Health / Health Care
By Greg Scandlen, Heartland Institute Health Care Expert
I have been remiss in not reporting earlier on an important study by the actuarial form Milliman, issued in December 2008. This study tries to balance the hysteria about cost-shifting from the uninsured to people with private coverage with an analysis of how much cost-shifting is the result of underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid.
The answer, it turns out, is that underpayment by those two public programs dwarfs any problems created by the uninsured.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/study-shows-gov-t-health-care-more-expensive-than-private
Bottomline is Health Care Reform aka ObamaCare is a Bad Bill and Wrong for America. It's Always been a Bad Idea and Wrong for America, Still IS and Always Will be. It's UnAmerican! Also UnConstitutional!
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