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This is dangerous ground, and not unexpected. The Obama administration continues their assault on insurers by demanding Anthem Blue Cross in California justify a proposed 39 percent rate increase by customers. Certainly, this is a huge premium increase, but why the jump?
Early this morning news broke about Section 3403 of HR 3590 that could not be changed in the future. This afternoon, I’ll take a shot and working through the legislation and detailing what’s going on.
The Office of the Actuary for Medicare and Medicaid (OACT) has performed a detailed analysis of the claim that Obamacare will reduce the percentage of Gross Domestic Product this country spends on medical care. According to OACT (at page 12), by 2019, we will spend 21.1% of our GDP on health care under Obamacare, versus…
I’m not certain everyone is ignoring the problem, but like tort reform, the expected shortage of physicians does not seem to be an issue politicians are willing to discuss. Doctors are aging and retiring, while baby boomers are getting older and will need more care. Create an atmosphere where the profession is attacked rather than…
It will become abundantly clear to you after reading what follows that no one in Congress has ever either owned a small business, or, been employed by one. And, should Obamacare pass, it is highly unlikely they ever will. Title IV, Section 411 of the House bill (beginning at page 268) requires that all employers…
It did not take long in my review of the House version of Obamacare released on Thursday to get a picture of what our future health care will be like. The only real surprise is that the picture was revealed so early in the 1990 page proposed legislation. At page 16, Section 101, the legislation would…
In a nationally televised event, President Obama plans to speak before a joint session of Congress Wednesday evening. Here is what I have read about the reason for the speech: the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Obama’s planned address to a joint session of Congress this week “will insert the president into the heated…
Unlike other posts that have been posted here regarding the health care system, and the talk about a nationalized government health care take over, I thought that I would write about my personal experience. On Saturday, August 1, 2009, at 3:15 p.m. in the afternoon, I was at my computer, all of a sudden I started…
I want to see the original letter. KATU has the story of Barbara Wagner who has cancer and is looking for health care. She requested a chemotherapy treatment the state considered not worthy for her. They suggested she contact a physician-aid-in-dying counselor – assisted suicide.
Philip Klien has a piece today in The American Spectator on the myths and realities of the Democrat’s push to get the federal government even more involved with health care than they are today.