Health Care
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Condition Serious but Not Hopeless
An NRO Symposium Harry Reid scored a victory Saturday night. And part of the line of argument from those urging that senators vote against the motion to proceed Saturday night was: The bill is not likely to get better from here on in. So is it over? Abortion, high costs ...
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Screening for Cancer
Having barely digested the U.S. Preventive Services Task Forces’ suggestion that women between 40 and 50 years of age don’t need mammograms, American women now have to deal with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists’ recommendation that they don’t need Pap smears until they turn 21. But at least ...
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More on the Grinding Pace of the Health-Care Take-Over
Well, what do you know: Most Republicans also supported the 1935 Social Security Act. 81 of 102 Republican Representatives and 16 of 25 Senators voted in favor. While this happened after the mid-term elections, the Congressional swing in favor of FDR’s party wasn’t massive: Dems picked up nine seats in ...
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Why Americans dislike Obama’s health care reform
The Examiner (Washington, D.C.), November 22, 2009 The Examiner (San Francisco, CA), November 22, 2009 Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., unveiled his chamber’s plan for health reform. The nearly 2,100-page bill boasts a price tag of about $850 billion and hues closely to the $1 trillion ...
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Chart: The Real 10 Year Cost of Reid’s Health Care Bill Is $2.5 Trillion
The Democrats assert that their Senate bill would cost $848 billion over ten years (2010 to 2019). But almost all of those costs would accrue from 2014-onward. Congressional Budget Office projections show that in the bill’s true first 10 years (2014 to 2023), it would cost $1.8 trillion. But it ...
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Healthcare Bill Advances in Senate, Despite Receiving Failing Grade from Health Experts; Democrats Block Filibuster in Party-Line Vote
OpenMarket.org, November 21, 2009 The healthcare bill is on the verge of passing the Senate, despite the fact that it has received a failing grade from healthcare experts like the Dean of Harvard Medical School, and the fact that it will increase taxes, deficits, and medical costs, while reducing lifesaving ...
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Democratic Senators Should Read the Polls
People can dismiss this as Fox News if they want, but it was Fox News in June too. And what has President Obama been doing since then? Health care, health care, bowing to foreign leaders, and more health care. Why would people be so opposed to the president’s $1.8 trillion ...
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Republicans Can’t Afford to Parrot the Democrats’ False Numbers
The bill’s real first ten years are from 2014 to 2023, during which time the Congressional Budget Office says the $1.8-trillion bill would raise Americans’ taxes by $892 billion, would funnel $802 billion out of Medicare, and — if it didn’t follow through on its pledge to cut doctors’ payments ...
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Truly a turkey
‘Reform’ bill stuffed with costs Just in time for Thanksgiving, Sen. Harry Reid has given us a giant turkey of a health-care bill. At 2,074 pages and more than 370,000 words, it’s officially “scored” as costing $849 billion over 10 years — $400 million per page, or $2.3 million per ...
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Health Insurance Rates Soar in Oregon
Not discussed is the role of mandatory benefits, which the Oregon legislature has been laying on to health plans: hearing aids, and oral anti-cancer drugs (which was imposed without the legally required cost analysis). Are these worth what they cost? We’ll never know, because the legislature has decided that people ...
Condition Serious but Not Hopeless
An NRO Symposium Harry Reid scored a victory Saturday night. And part of the line of argument from those urging that senators vote against the motion to proceed Saturday night was: The bill is not likely to get better from here on in. So is it over? Abortion, high costs ...
Screening for Cancer
Having barely digested the U.S. Preventive Services Task Forces’ suggestion that women between 40 and 50 years of age don’t need mammograms, American women now have to deal with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists’ recommendation that they don’t need Pap smears until they turn 21. But at least ...
More on the Grinding Pace of the Health-Care Take-Over
Well, what do you know: Most Republicans also supported the 1935 Social Security Act. 81 of 102 Republican Representatives and 16 of 25 Senators voted in favor. While this happened after the mid-term elections, the Congressional swing in favor of FDR’s party wasn’t massive: Dems picked up nine seats in ...
Why Americans dislike Obama’s health care reform
The Examiner (Washington, D.C.), November 22, 2009 The Examiner (San Francisco, CA), November 22, 2009 Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., unveiled his chamber’s plan for health reform. The nearly 2,100-page bill boasts a price tag of about $850 billion and hues closely to the $1 trillion ...
Chart: The Real 10 Year Cost of Reid’s Health Care Bill Is $2.5 Trillion
The Democrats assert that their Senate bill would cost $848 billion over ten years (2010 to 2019). But almost all of those costs would accrue from 2014-onward. Congressional Budget Office projections show that in the bill’s true first 10 years (2014 to 2023), it would cost $1.8 trillion. But it ...
Healthcare Bill Advances in Senate, Despite Receiving Failing Grade from Health Experts; Democrats Block Filibuster in Party-Line Vote
OpenMarket.org, November 21, 2009 The healthcare bill is on the verge of passing the Senate, despite the fact that it has received a failing grade from healthcare experts like the Dean of Harvard Medical School, and the fact that it will increase taxes, deficits, and medical costs, while reducing lifesaving ...
Democratic Senators Should Read the Polls
People can dismiss this as Fox News if they want, but it was Fox News in June too. And what has President Obama been doing since then? Health care, health care, bowing to foreign leaders, and more health care. Why would people be so opposed to the president’s $1.8 trillion ...
Republicans Can’t Afford to Parrot the Democrats’ False Numbers
The bill’s real first ten years are from 2014 to 2023, during which time the Congressional Budget Office says the $1.8-trillion bill would raise Americans’ taxes by $892 billion, would funnel $802 billion out of Medicare, and — if it didn’t follow through on its pledge to cut doctors’ payments ...
Truly a turkey
‘Reform’ bill stuffed with costs Just in time for Thanksgiving, Sen. Harry Reid has given us a giant turkey of a health-care bill. At 2,074 pages and more than 370,000 words, it’s officially “scored” as costing $849 billion over 10 years — $400 million per page, or $2.3 million per ...
Health Insurance Rates Soar in Oregon
Not discussed is the role of mandatory benefits, which the Oregon legislature has been laying on to health plans: hearing aids, and oral anti-cancer drugs (which was imposed without the legally required cost analysis). Are these worth what they cost? We’ll never know, because the legislature has decided that people ...
