Mayo Clinic: Yeah, About That Democratic Health Care Plan…It Won’t Work
In general, the proposals under discussion are not patient focused or results oriented. Lawmakers have failed to use a fundamental lever – a change in Medicare payment policy – to help drive necessary improvements in American health care. Unless legislators create payment systems that pay for good patient results at reasonable costs, the promise of transformation in American health care will wither. The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.
Glimpse of Obamacare future: 83 million would lose private coverage
“Democrats and President Obama have denied that the creation of a new government-run health care plan would be a Trojan Horse for single-payer health care, but a new report by the Lewin Group (comissioned by the Heritage Foundation) finds that the House Democrats’ health care bill would shift more 83.4 million Americans from private health care coverage to the government plan. To put that in perspective, that would mean that nearly half (48.4 percent) would lose their private health coverage.”
Socialized health care and the death of choice
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:
“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
Gallup: Obama’s approval rating ranks 10th of 12 most recent presidents
This won’t affect the media mantra that America *hearts* Hopenchange but I thought I’d flag it anyway. In fairness to The One, sure, he’s third from the bottom, but how many of his predecessors had done as much damage by this point as he has? His Iran policy’s gone nowhere, the stimulus is a galactic bust, the annual deficit is creeping up on $2 trillion, and he’s poised to ruin American health care by pushing through the mother of all boondoggles — and his numbers are still positive. What does he have to do to get the public to turn on him? “Hike the Appalachian trail”?
I hope someone is listening, when did American agree to Socialism?! Why is the American public allowing this President (who should have been an actor with the amount of time he likes to spend in front of the camera instead of doing his job) to both create irrevocable harm with huge debt levels for future generations as well as target the working/educated population of this country as his meal ticket. Has everyone lost sight that this leader (I use that term lightly) has never been involved in creating any legislation and now he is pressuring the country to pass tremendous reform with little more than a few weeks time to review it. IT IS MANIC BEHAVIOR. He is only pursuing such a strategy because the Dems control both t he House and Senate, but to date everything he has pursued has failed. A leader is not someone who just spends money on many types of ideas (TARP, TALF, PIIP) hoping something sticks so he can say his is right, a leader is someone who is decisive. WE all have serious issues in this country and it is not the time to now talk about Health Care; where are the jobs he promised? Where is the “green economy”? All he has done, due to his naivety, is put this country in unimaginable debt, make us beholden to China that we actually entertain conversations of a “Global Currency”, and has made us the laughing stock of N. Korea. I beg America, create balance in the House and Senate in the next election so true, thoughtful legislation may be passed. Stop this President’s Manic behavior (as well as his comrade in arms Pelosi, her ego has inflated her job description – who voted for her as “President”) and/or just refuse to pay taxes. If we, the target masses of Mr. Obama for his funding needs, stand together and stop paying taxes and/or form a “working America rights group” maybe he will understand that he is destroying this country. You have all worked hard for what you have, why are you letting a socialist take it from you? Change is needed, he was not it! Restore balance to the political system, one party should not govern with an iron fist.
“…when did American agree to Socialism?!
That’s the problem, it didn’t. Something like, what 52% of voters (actually about 37%, ~15% was probably fraud) voted for the con man. About 10% of them were hardcore Lefties, Socialists, and Communists. The rest were people looking to get something for free (paid foir by someone else) and the poor dupes suckered into voting for the hope and change and the Middle-of-the-Road talk by Nobama, when everything in his background revealed a lack of character and that this guy was a liar and con man.
We feared this Administrration would greatly accelerate the move to Socialism. In fact they are skipping Socialism and going right to Communism.