Healthcare
BREAKING: CBO Says Repealing ObamaCare Would Reduce Net Spending by $540 Billion
The Congressional Budget Office, in an email to Capitol Hill staffers obtained by the Spectator, has said that repealing the national health care law would reduce net spending by $540 billion in the ten year period from 2012 through 2021. That number represents the cost of the new provisions, minus Medicare cuts. Repealing the bill […]
Baby Boomers Expected to Drain Medicare (Not mentioned, millions of welfare mooches on Medicaid)
The first baby boomers will turn 65 Jan. 1, beginning a flood of applications for Medicare benefits that experts fear could drain the economy and hold political repercussions for President Obama.
The baby boomer generation marked a huge reproductive uptick between 1946 and 1964, when 76 million children were born, creating a […]
SEIU Drops Health Coverage for Workers’ Children
One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements.
The fund is administered by 1199SEIU United […]
Palin eyes ‘Take Back the 20′ targets (Targeting 20 House Democrats Who Backed The Health Care Legislation)
http://www.takebackthe20.com/
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is commemorating the six-month anniversary of the passage of health care reform with a new campaign targeting 20 House Democrats who backed the legislation.
Palin has launched “Take Back the 20,” an online effort in which she asks supporters to join her “in standing against those […]
Thousands of patient health records ended up in a pile at public dump in Massachusetts
Four Massachusetts community hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up in a pile at a public dump.
Read the whole story at Boston.com
Health overhaul may mean longer ER waits, crowding (Not a surprise)
Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can’t find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation’s new health law.That might come as a surprise to those who thought getting 32 million more people covered by health insurance would ease ER crowding. It would seem […]
3 Months Later, Feds Struggle to Meet ObamaCare Deadlines
Three months after the $938 billion health care bill was signed into law, questions abound about whether the Obama administration can meet all the deadlines in the massive law while dealing with the political pressures of Congress.
Meanwhile, the impact on Americans’ health insurance costs remains negligible, and premiums are actually rising as […]
Real Estate Tax (3.8% Sales Tax) Coming To The City Near You. Thanks to Obama Health Care Bill
Under the new health care bill - did you know that all real estate transactions are now subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax? The bulk of these new taxes don’t kick in until 2013 (presumably after Obama’s re-election). You can thank Nancy, Harry and Barack and your local Democrat Congressman for this one. If you […]
Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate
Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren’t taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the […]
Health overhaul law potentially costs $115B more (Fasten your seat belt America, it is going to be a bumpy ride)
President Barack Obama’s new health care law could potentially add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending over the next 10 years, congressional budget referees said Tuesday.If Congress approves all the additional spending called for in the legislation, it would push the ten-year cost of the overhaul above $1 trillion — an […]
Obama Must Think We’re Stupid - Claims Obamacare Already Helping Millions
He must not be talking about employees of medical device manufacturers whose jobs may be on the block. He didn’t mention the large employers who may drop health insurance coverage altogether. And there was no mention of the paperwork nightmare imposed on small businesses. That’s just the tip of the iceberg for the nightmare known […]
James Carville’s polling firm: Absolutely no bounce whatsoever from ObamaCare
I’m with Karl on this. As gratifying as it is to see the idiotic nutroots predictions about a post-ObamaCare surge in enthusiasm proved wrong, this all but guarantees yet another mind-numbing O-Care talking-points national tour for The One. All they have to do is change the script from “It’s only been a week!” to “It’s […]
Obama’s Own HHS Says Health Care Bill Will Cost More Than Projected (Government has no good track record)
President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law is getting a mixed verdict in the first comprehensive look by neutral experts: More Americans will be covered, but costs are also going up.
Economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department concluded in a report issued Thursday that the health care remake will achieve Obama’s aim of […]
Med Schools Can’t Keep Up (# of Insured Expands, Shortage of 150,000 Doctors in 15 Years)
The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors.
Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in […]
Shocking News: Healthcare overhaul won’t stop premium increases
The new law doesn’t prevent rate hikes such as Anthem Blue Cross’ double-digit increase last year. ‘It is a very big loophole,’ says Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is pushing regulatory legislation.
Public outrage over double-digit rate hikes for health insurance may have helped push President Obama’s healthcare overhaul across the finish line, but the new law […]
If you don’t buy health insurance you lose your tax refund
IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said yesterday that the IRS will confiscate or reduce any individuals tax refund if they do not purchase health insurance.
(Excerpt) Read more at libertyandpride.com
Greenspan on Heath Care Costs: Severe Consequences if CBO is Wrong
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan told me the probability that the CBO was too rosy in its projections of health care costs is “much higher than we would like”.
“You have to ask yourself, ‘What happens if we are wrong?’”, Greenspan said in my exclusive “This Week” interview. The consequences, he ominously warned, “are very severe”.
TAPPER: […]
Democrat Admits That The Healthcare Budget Savings Were A Big Joke
Top Democrat Steny Hoyer admits what everyone knows.The Hill:
Hoyer said that the health bill should help the fiscal picture; the Congressional Budget Office expects savings of about $140 billion this decade and far more in the bill’s second decade.
Hoyer acknowledged Republican concerns that those savings may not be realized, as they’re based on measures lawmakers […]
Florida doctor tells Obama supporters to go elsewhere for medical care
A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care “elsewhere.”
“I’m not turning anybody away — that would be unethical,” Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican […]
U.S. Democrats lie low after healthcare victory (Don’t forget to vote in November)
* Democrats not promoting healthcare bill during recess
* Republicans seek to galvanize voters on issue
* Health care may not be key in November elections
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES, April 1 (Reuters) - The week after passing landmark healthcare reform and handing President Barack Obama an important victory, members of the U.S. Congress returned to their […]