Health care reform is supposed to guarantee health insurance to roughly 36 million Americans over the next 10 years at a cost of $1 trillion or more.
In simple terms, that is $100 billion per year for 10 years. That averages out to just under $2800 per individual per year . . . IF you believe [...]
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Health Care Math Problem
December 8th, 2009 Comments Off
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Dear Dr. Kleaveland
November 25th, 2009 Comments Off
Dr. Kleaveland offers his views on health care reform. It is not a pretty sight, but we face off in a battle of dueling public letters.
You can read his complete dissertation by using the link, but here are some lowlights.
Consumer protection in the health industry is addressed as follows:
No denial for pre-existing conditions or gender.
Guaranteed [...]
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Free Insurance for Indians
November 20th, 2009 Comments Off
The more time the House and Senate bills spend in the light of day, the more insidious they become. Pages 264 – 265 tell us that Indians whose income is below 300% of the FPL will receive free health care.
My wife has some Cherokee in her ancestry if you go back far enough. Suppose she [...]
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Senate Health Care Bill – Required Reading
November 20th, 2009 Comments Off
The folks at The Heritage Foundation have nailed it in today’s Morning Bell. This should be required reading of anyone, ESPECIALLY those who will be called to vote on the legislation.
Excerpt . . .
Last Saturday night Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) forced through a vote on her 2,032 page health care bill only a few days [...]
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How Much is a Vote Worth?
November 19th, 2009 Comments Off
When it is your money Congress is spending, there is no limit. Care to guess how much Sen. Mary Landrieu want’s for a yes vote for health insurance reform?
Try $100 million.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends [...]
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$2 Million Health Insurance Premium
November 19th, 2009 Comments Off
Obamacare promises to cover the uninsured, but not all, only 36 million . . . eventually. The Senate version of health insurance reform carries a price tag of $894 billion over 10 years.
But even that figure is in question since the CBO has not completed their final tally. The $894 billion is . . . [...]
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Health Care Stimulus
November 18th, 2009 Comments Off
Health care stimulus is coming and I can hardly wait. The folks who gave us Cash for Clunkers, the program that ran out of money in two weeks, are showing us how well health care reform will work.
The folks in Washington are so proud of what the stimulus plan is doing to save or create [...]
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Free Funerals
November 17th, 2009 Comments Off
Free mortgage loans (the kind you don’t have to pay back), free health insurance (unless you make over $250,000 per year) so why not ask for free funerals? The government is doling out money to save or create jobs, when in actuality our money was used to give raises to people who already had a [...]
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Health Care Reform Hocus Pocus
November 17th, 2009 Comments Off
Health insurance reform is about give and take. If you waddle through the maze and countless pages in all the various bills before Congress you really have to wonder what is going to come out on the other end if and when this massive spending bill is finalized.
I have wondered about all the new taxes [...]
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Swine Flu – Which Version of the Truth do you Want?
November 13th, 2009 Comments Off
On 11/6/2009 the CDC reported there were 129 swine flu related deaths year to date beginning 4/26/2009 and going forward. Six days later Fox news is reporting the CDC claims 4,000 have died as a result of swine flu.
So which is it?
Have over 3,800 people died in the last 6 days from swine flu? Are [...]
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