Healthcare
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.
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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 […]
NY Daily News:President Obama starts a revolution: He chose health care over the theater of politics (unblievable)
The Democrats had to do it alone. On a number of occasions, President Obama asked for reform ideas from the Republicans. But their idea of reform was no compromise, no fresh thoughts, no backing away from protecting the health care industry to which they had sold their souls during the presidency of George W. Bush.
As […]
Reality Check for Barry:Barack Obama struggles to capitalize in polls after health care passed
Democrats who held out hopes that President Barack Obama’s health reform win would mean a quick boost to the party’s political fortunes are getting a reality check — a reminder that it takes more than one good week to shake up a year of sliding polls.
Obama and his health reform plan did get a bump […]
ObamaCare Quick Facts
Here are some Quick Facts on ObamaCare for you to refer to, or print out at any time you’d like.
ObamaCare Quick Facts:
Causes 9 million people to lose the insurance they now have;
Increases the already bloated deficit by $260 billion over the next decade when all […]
Bart Stupak meets his match (Dr. Dan Benishek)
Meet the doctor who symbolizes the nationwide rebellion against Obamacare.
His name is Dan Benishek. He’s a 57-year-old surgeon from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and he’s never held political office at any level. He announced on March 15 that he was running as a Republican for Michigan’s First Congressional District - that’s Bart Stupak’s district, in case […]
Romney defends Mass. health care law (Romney defends bankrupting Massachusetts)
Mitt Romney offered an enthusiastic defense last night of the comprehensive health care law he helped create four years ago in Massachusetts, even as he pointed to crucial distinctions between it and a similar national program enacted last week by Democrats.
“Overall, ours is a model that works,’’ Romney said in response to a question after […]