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Whatever Happened to ‘First, Do No Harm’? "Back when he was running for president, Barack Obama promised that health-care reform would save the average family $2,500 per year. That promise has long since been abandoned, but one might still expect that health-care reform won’t leave the average American worse off. Increasingly, it looks like that won’t be the case. On Monday the Congressional Budget Office released a new report showing the Senate health bill would actually increase premiums by 10–13 percent for the millions of Americans who buy their insurance on their own. Those increases are over and above the increases that would occur if we did nothing." Click Here to Read The Analysis Unconstitutional Spending
Forbes Magazine (Online) "The U.S. Constitution's 10th Amendment is arguably the most important of all the amendments in the brilliant document that helped shape the United States. The 10th amendment made plain that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Click Here to Read The Analysis Policy Analysis
CATO Institute "Critics of the U.S. health care system frequently point to other countries as models for reform. They point out that many countries spend far less on health care than the United States yet seem to enjoy better health outcomes. The United States should follow the lead of those countries, the critics say, and adopt a government- run, national health care system. However, a closer look shows that nearly all health care systems worldwide are wrestling with problems of rising costs and lack of access to care. There is no single international model for national health care, of course." Click
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"As Harry Reid's health care bill moves to the Senate floor, the debate over Obamacare finally begins in earnest. Shouldn't the Constitution be part of that debate? By what authority, after all, could Congress force all Americans to buy health insurance? [...] Pelosi is wrong, but that doesn't mean the court can be counted on to strike down Obamacare. Legislators have an independent obligation to consider the constitutionality of the laws they're debating — and the individual mandate is flagrantly unconstitutional." Click Here to Read The Analysis HSACoop would like to thank Michael Connelly, JD for his time and expertise. Mr. Connelly has written an analysis of HR3200 as edited by Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House.) Click Here to read his commentary.
Michael Connelly A New Way to
Look At Health Care "Are you sick and tired of the health care debate? Are you looking for something totally different? Well, then, meet Dr. Rene Umali because he's just like you." Click Here to Read His Blog Post
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