The British government is proposing to decentralize the NHS (National Health Service) into a health system that is more physician and patient driven; while Obamacare is determined to drag America into the dark ages of medicine.
Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.
The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent.
Well, the good news is that if these reforms do go through within the NHS, Americans will have a place to go for treatment when Obamacare fails them.
The Heritage Foundation makes no bones about how unworkable, un-affordable and unsafe Obamacare really is now that we get to see what is in the bill (thank you, Nancy).
Exactly one hundred days ago today, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The President promised that the law would extend access to high quality care to the millions of uninsured Americans, while at the same reducing costs and overall health spending.
Forget it. It’s not going to happen. It is clear that none of these promises will come true; instead, the legislation is likely, even certain in some cases, to make existing problems worse.
Senators Coborn and Barasson have released a report on the real impact of Obamacare – check it out HERE. Sorry, Virginia, Obamacare in NOT free.
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“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it” Nancy Pelosi
The progressive Democrat leadership promised America that their overhaul of healthcare, adding an additional 30 million individuals into a government controlled insurance plan would cut costs and not add additional taxation to the middle class.
Two reports released last week confirm what critics have been carefully explaining – the overhaul of healthcare will increase costs at a higher rate.
A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the health care remake will achieve Obama’s aim of expanding health insurance — adding 34 million Americans to the coverage rolls. But the analysis also found that the law falls short of the president’s twin goal of controlling runaway costs. It also warned that Medicare cuts may be unrealistic and unsustainable, driving about 15% of hospitals into the red and “possibly jeopardizing access” to care for seniors.
CBO estimates 4 million Americans will face Health care fines:
A separate Congressional Budget Office analysis, also released Thursday, estimated that 4 million households would be hit with tax penalties under the law for failing to get insurance.
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Democrat congressman and unrepentant racebaiter, Rep John Lewis has backtracked on his spitting allegation in the most clumsiest of ways. It is way past time for Rep. Lewis to man up and apologize to America, then resign his seat. It is exactly what a man of character would do, then again such a man would not perpetuate racial discord with a lie.
“I haven’t talked about this incident on TV or anywhere, and I’ve been approached to talk about it on every national TV show,” said Rep. Cleaver in an interview with FOX 4 News. “I never, I never reported anything, never a single thing in Washington, not one thing. People assume I went somewhere, never done press conference, never done an interview on it and I’m not going to do it.”
Wow, not only a racebaiter, but liar. Yes, Rep John Lewis – YOU LIE:
This afternoon, the Congressman was walking into the Capitol to vote, when one protester spat on him. The Congressman would like to thank the US Capitol Police officer who quickly escorted the others Members and him into the Capitol, and defused the tense situation with professionalism and care. After all the Members were safe, a full report was taken and the matter was handled by the US Capitol Police. The man who spat on the Congressman was arrested, but the Congressman has chosen not to press charges. He has left the matter with the Capitol Police.
UPDATE: Via Twitter – @andrewbreitbart UPPING THE STAKES: $100K to UnitedNegroScholarshipFund if Rep Lewis shows evidence N-Word yelled at protest.
UPDATE: Dan Riehlprovides additional video evidence refuting Rep Emanuel Cleaver allegation of being spit upon by a patriotic American. Jesse Jackson, Jr has been identified as a black caucus member who videotaped the entire incident. Apparently he got nothing on tape.
UPDATE: It didn’t take long before the MSM picked up the story – LMAO has the rundown on the posts from the MSM. I believe there is a need for Retraco the Correction Alpaca to go after the misleading MSM.
UPDATE: A black female conservative gives her account of the alleged slurs hurled at members of the Black Caucus.
Marooned in Marin provides video evidence refuting allegations of a racial slurs being shouted by Teapartiers as members of the Congressional Black Caucus walked through the crowd:
If anyone of them can provide solid evidence that this did occur – lets see it.
UPDATE: At the 48 second mark you can see a member of the black caucus video taping as he walks by, it would be interesting to see the unedited video from his recording device.
If not, they have two choices – resign or apologize to the Republican leadership and TeaParty patriots.
Washington, Mar 29 – Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL), Deputy Whip and Ways and Means Committee member, announced open registration for a new educational course called Healthcare 218: Intro to the Democrat Health Plan. With 218 days between now and November 2, 2010, Healthcare 218 will daily chronicle the massive new costs, delays, hidden problems and bureaucratic hurdles the recently passed healthcare legislation will impose on American families.
Speaking about the ‘Replace’ part of ‘Repeal & Replace’ – the GOP has alternatives for healthcare reform than don’t include massive taxation and job killing mandates. Don’t forget to check Obamacare Flatlines for all the latests polls and statistics regarding healthcare reform.
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Several corporations last week have shed light on how Obamacare is stripping them of job creating capital. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Democrats decided to raise taxes on companies that do the public service of offering prescription drug benefits to their retirees instead of dumping them into Medicare
AT&T’s $1 billion,
Deere & Co., $150 million;
Caterpillar, $100 million;
AK Steel, $31 million;
3M,$90 million
Alero Energy, up to $20 million
ZERO – Number of Congressmen/women, Senators or Presidents required to use Obamacare.
Read more of the coming redistribution of capital at GOP Leader Board
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John Ruberry shared with me a blog post which highlights a salient point on the defamation of the Tea Party by the Main (Lame) Stream Media and Democrat congressmen this past week – heck - this past year.
For the record, tea partiers don’t wear masks, don’t chant obscenities, and when the police tell them to do something–they do it. They’re quite different from the chlamydia-cluster I wrote about in two years ago.
Yes, there is a police presence at tea parties–but they concentrate on traffic control.
John and I were part of a contingent of credentialed bloggers covering – at our own expense – the 2008 RNC Convention and counter demonstrations in St. Paul. It wasn’t unusual to see protesters wearing Che t shirts and bandannas obscuring their face. Real sons of liberty ready to accommodate the wishes of the MSP police gathered at the 12 Street Bridge in St.Paul:
Of course I have video of the angry mob in action:
Doesn’t look like any TeaParty I’ve attended, perhaps it is closer in tone to recent CoffeeParty events. Note the chant ‘resist, resist with your fucking fist’ intermixed with the 60′s standard ‘The Whole World is Watching”. This was back in 2008, when Obama was encouraging his supporters to “argue with your neighbors and get in their faces” and bonding with Philly natives by observing how he would bring a gun to a knife fight – because folks in Philly like a good brawl. In 2008 and 2009, promoting violence was an effective political tool of the Democrat party, now the chickens have come home to roost.
March 2010, a wildly unpopular health care reform bill is passed despite vigorous bipartisan disapproval of the bill. Democrats now shirk from the ‘bring a gun to a knife fight’ bravado of the past two years and cry victim. Interestingly, every instance they’ve brought up as proof of right wing extremism and racism as motivators for unrest over the passage of this disastrous bill has been shown to be blatantlyfalse.
Three airports in the district of infamous fence-sitting and ultimately kowtowing Democrat Bart Stupak were awarded $726,409 in grants by the Obama Administration just two days before a vote on Obama and Pelosi’s government takeover of healthcare.
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With the passage of the health care bill, Dems in DC are raising champagne toasts to their Pyrrhic victory. The rest of America is looking at the frightening details of this gigantic lurch towards insolvency masquerading as a health reform bill. You know, the stuff Pelosi said we would find about AFTER the bill was signed into law.
23 million Americans according to the CBO reports, as of 2019 there would still be 23 million people in America lacking health insurance.
49% – According to Rasmussen – Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters favor their state suing the federal government to fight the requirement in the new national health care plan that every American must obtain health insurance.
Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania are among 14 states that filed suit after the president signed the bill over the constitutionality of the burden imposed by the legislation. The health-care overhaul will make as many as 15 million more Americans eligible for Medicaid nationwide starting in 2014 and will cost the states billions to administer.
1. You are young and don’t want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need to minimize expenses, and one way to do that is to forego health insurance? Tough. You have to pay $750 annually for the “privilege.” (Section 1501)
2. You are young and healthy and want to pay for insurance that reflects that status? Tough. You’ll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. That’s because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a person’s health status. (Section 2701).
3. You would like to pay less in premiums by buying insurance with lifetime or annual limits on coverage? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer such policies, even if that is what customers prefer. (Section 2711).
4. Think you’d like a policy that is cheaper because it doesn’t cover preventive care or requires cost-sharing for such care? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer policies that do not cover preventive services or offer them with cost-sharing, even if that’s what the customer wants. (Section 2712).
5. You are an employer and you would like to offer coverage that doesn’t allow your employees’ slacker children to stay on the policy until age 26? Tough. (Section 2714).
While President Obama and Vice President Biden continue to seek credit for "ending the combat mission" in Iraq, this video praises the contributions of our troops for helping bring greater stability and security there -- significant progress that was only made possible through a surge strategy most Democrats like the President and Vice President opposed. As the drawdown of troops in Iraq continues, House Republicans are grateful to all the men and women in uniform, as well as their families, for the courage and sacrifices they have made, and continue to make, to advance freedom abroad and strengthen our security here at home.
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