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Healthcare
News
January 5, 2010
Is AMA Fearful of Losing Lucrative Source of Revenue?
Unfortunately, the president of the American
Medical Association, Dr. James Rohack, in his response ("AMA Is Working With the Senate," Letters,
Dec, 28) to the Dec. 21 editorial "Change Nobody Believes In," does
not indicate that his support is another unfortunate example
of political deal-cutting in the guise of support for the disastrous
health reform
bill.
Democrats are touting the AMA's endorsement, little has been reported
in the media that a large portion of the AMA's income (the exact amount
will not be released by the AMA) stems from the exclusive rights to
the medical billing codes that doctors are required to use when they
submit bills to insurance plans.
December 16, 2009
Bland CBO Memo, or Smoking Gun?
This weekend, the Congressional Budget
Office released “a very
strange memo” titled, “Budgetary Treatment of Proposals
to Regulate Medical Loss Ratios.” You wouldn’t
know it from the title, but that little memo is the smoking
gun that shows
how congressional Democrats have very carefully hidden
more than half the cost of their health care bills.
December 12, 2009
Number-two Senate Democrat 'in the dark' about health care bill
Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin admitted
Friday that he is "in
the dark" about the national health care bill currently under
construction by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In an exchange on
the Senate floor, Republican Sen. John McCain asked Durbin, "Should
we not at least be informed as to what the proposal is that the Senate
Majority Leader is going to propose to the entire Senate?" Durbin's
answer: "I would say to the senator from Arizona that I am in
the dark almost as much as he is, and I am in the leadership." Durbin
explained that during a Democratic caucus, Reid and the small group
of senators involved in crafting the bill turned to their fellow Democrats
and "basically stood and said, 'We are sorry, we can't tell you
in detail what was involved.'"
December 4, 2009
62% Oppose Single-Payer Health Care System
December 3, 2009
California doctors group [California Medical Association] opposes U.S.
Senate's healthcare plan
December 1, 2009
The American People Don't Want Obamacare
(and They Want It Less All the Time)
HHS
would become federal giant under Senate plan
"The
legislation lists 1,697 times where the secretary
of health and humans services is given the authority
to create, determine
or define things in the bill," said
Devon Herrick, a health care expert at
the National
Center for Policy Analysis.
For instance, on Page 122
of the 2,079-page bill, the secretary is given the
power to establish "the
basic per enrollee, per month cost, determined on average
actuarial basis,
for including coverage under
a qualified health care plan."
November 20, 2009
The
Heritage Foundation states the real cost of the "Reid" healthcare
bill is 4.9 TRILLION dollars!
November 19, 2009
The
Heritage Foundation discusses 5 flaws in the "Reid" healthcare
proposal! It includes JAIL time if you do not purchase government approved
insurance.
October 29, 2009
6
Healthcare Proposals by Republicans in Washington make nary a ripple.
Congress and the Media are Owned by the Majority Party
October 20, 2009
Senate Majority Leader, Reid, tries to bribe doctors
"The White House and Democratic
leaders are offering doctors a deal: They’ll freeze cuts
in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors’ support
of healthcare reform."
October 12, 2009
Dems scramble after warning from health insurers
"Democrats and
their allies scrambled on Monday to knock down a new industry-funded
study forecasting
that Senate
legislation, over time, will add thousands
of dollars to the cost of a typical policy. "Distorted
and flawed," said
White House spokeswoman Linda Douglass. "Fundamentally
dishonest," said
AARP's senior policy strategist, John Rother. "A
hatchet job," said
a spokesman for Senate Finance Committee chairman Max
Baucus, D-Mont."
August 17, 2009
AARP
loses 60,000 members because of support for Obama health care proposal
"... up to 60,000 people have
cancelled their AARP memberships since July 1, angered over the
group's
position
on health care."
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