Dude, the conservative blogosphere are flipping psychics. Roger Stone said this just last week and Ben Stein on Thursday when I appeared alongside him on Larry King. Slush fund for everyone!
(Via Fire Andrea Mitchell)
Category Archives: Healthcare
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– Doctors limit new Medicate patients. The rationing starts:
WASHINGTON — The number of doctors refusing new Medicare patients because of low government payment rates is setting a new high, just six months before millions of Baby Boomers begin enrolling in the government health care program.Recent surveys by national and state medical societies have found more doctors limiting Medicare patients, partly because Congress has failed to stop an automatic 21% cut in payments that doctors already regard as too low. The cut went into effect Friday, even as the Senate approved a six-month reprieve. The House has approved a different bill.
An Israeli cargo ship arriving in Oakland today was forced to sit idle and not offload its containers when longshoremen joined forces with a coalition of communist and Islamist groups who picketed the port in protest against the recent violent incident off the coast of Gaza.
The ship, owned by Zim Lines, was not carrying any controversial cargo, nor is Zim involved in politics in any way; it was targeted simply because the shipping company is based in Israel.
Oh, but protest #fail: it wasn’t an Israeli ship, it was Chinese.
– Janet Napolitano: “All your base are belong to me”:
“The First Amendment protects radical opinions, but we need the legal tools to do things like monitor the recruitment of terrorists via the Internet,” Napolitano told a gathering of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
If you squawked about the Patriot Act you better squawk about this too – don’t cherry-pick and rail against one invasion of privacy and liberty but sanction via silence another simply because it comes from your guy. Be consistent or don’t be at all.
– Lovely: 51% won’t get to stay in their employer health plan.
Soaring Costs Forcing Canada to Reexamine Health Care Model
Hmm.
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.
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“We can’t continually see health spending growing above and beyond the growth rate in the economy because, at some point, it means crowding out of all the other government services.
“At some stage we’re going to hit a breaking point.”
Shockers: Health Care Bill Slides over $1 Trillion
All of the experts who argued on it, and later insisted that we had to pass it to find out what’s in it. Tsk, tsk.
The $150 billion in savings? More like added costs:
The Obama administration threatened to veto parts of its own health care bill after budget scorekeepers found that the package would add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending.
President Obama’s budget office charged Congress with finding $115 billion in spending cuts or tax increases to offset the price tag hike. The figure approached the amount of money the Congressional Budget Office previously estimated the law would save, and pushed the total 10-year cost of the package past $1 trillion. It comes after a separate Medicare office report found the bill would raise spending by about 1 percent over the next decade.
Even richer:
The Congressional Budget Office said the added spending includes $10 billion to $20 billion in administrative costs to federal agencies carrying out the law, as well as $34 billion for community health centers and $39 billion for Indian health care.
Did you see that? Ten to $20 billion to the fed just to implement the law. Public sector employment rising over private sector employment is never a good thing to anyone who knows a lick about economics.
The White House says that congress must either find $115 billion in spending cuts (rationing?; they won’t cut the mandate funding of abortion and they’ve already removed legroom on medical deductions for the lower income and elderly demographics) or create $115 in new taxes. Seeing as medical devices are now taxed (your blood reader for diabetes? Taxed. Your breast pump? Taxed) I wait with baited breath to see how we all will suffer even more costs to support this oppressive non-choice.
Dems Hid Damning Health Care Report Before Vote
A damning health care report generated by actuaries at the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department was given to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the health care vote. She hid the report from the public until a month after democrats rammed their nationalized health care bill through Congress.
Transparency what?
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