Tag: obamacare

Maine gets break in federal health care overhaul – CNBC

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Maine gets break in federal health care overhaul – CNBC.

Another Obamacare waiver for the whole state of Maine!   This will be a three year reprieve from the requirement that insurers spend “80 to 85 cents of every premium dollar on medical care and quality improvement”.  It includes a review in two years.

This was provided in the face of the threat that MEGA Life and Health Insurance, which provides 37 percent of the states  insurance for individuals would withdraw entirely from the market.

The plan for Obamacare had been that insurance companies could survive until the the government had organized sufficiently to take on the single payer system.    This is obviously not working.

Baby Joseph Update, Ontario Canada

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Although the medical records should be released to Joseph’s Maraachli’s parents upon request, according to law, London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, is witholding them. This appears to be an effort to prevent the transport of Baby Joseph to a U.S. hospital where a tracheotomy can be performed.

Health care professionals are standing by and donated medical equipment is available to manage the difficult condition of Baby Joseph which appears to be far beyond the capabilities and fiscal reach of Ontario, Canada. (This is the kind of health care system intended for the U.S., under Obamacare).

According to advocates, the only thing standing in the way of providing for home care for Baby Joseph is this withholding of medical records. One wonders if legal experts at the hospital are combing the medical records for any improprieties before passing them on in this very public case.

Senate Democrats Give up Confirmation of Two Legged Death Panel, Donald Berwick

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Senate Democrats Abandon Obama Rationing Czar Donald Berwick | LifeNews.com.

The Senate Dems have dispaired of overcoming the filibuster promised by Republicans to overcome confirmation of Obama Nominee Donald Berwick  as Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare administrator.

Berwick has been an avid proponent of UK style socialized medicine and rationing, though he pretended to back away from this during the process of his nomination.

Obama had used a recess appointment to overcome Republican opposition to his nomination, but without senate confirmation the temporary  appointment is over by the end of the year.

 

WaPo: History Made! Whitehouse has Gaydar

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44 – Obama makes history with social secretary pick.

Of uppermost importance to the Washington Post is not the political and career credentials of Jeremy Bernard.  Top most in the headlines and in the article is Bernard’s sexual preference.   Incidentally, his topmost pertinent accomplishments are probably in the area of Obama fundraising.

In times past, history was made by accomplishments, and these were highlighted, with the personal lives of our renowned heros something that had had to be dug up by those with interest in the matter.

Now the personal life is on top, with the accomplishments a bare footnote.

We see what’s most important to the left.

We also see why gay people who can see the whole picture have turned conservative.   Those with brains prefer the society with an economy that could sustain them, and in which they could keep their heads.

Down the road from Obama…… an economy and obamacare which can’t sustain gays, and a theocratic political system which has shown a propensity for chopping off the heads of homosexuals.

Obama needs to come out of the closet.  He chooses these symbolic means of supporting his interest in gay rights, rather than overtly coming out in their favor.   His fear of coming out  has led him into constitutional issues, as he has been picking and choosing which laws to enforce. The executive branch is supposed to enforce all of them.

FDA Can’t Handle Drug Shortages, and in Some Cases, is Causing them

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Drug Shortages: A Deadly Problem With No Cure in Sight – DailyFinance.

Pharmer’s going to be featuring some articles describing what is seen in the hospitals in the past couple of years……….. ever worsening shortages of chemotherapeutic and injectable drugs.   This has become a severe public health problem due to inability to treat some cancers, and   unnecessary deaths due to unavailable treatments or errors involving drugs used as substitutes.

Here is the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists drug shortage management resource center.

Pharmer thinks this problem has several underlying causes : supply and demand, need to import raw materials,  economic pressures, taxes,  outsourcing, government incompetence, an increasingly useless FDA, natural selection, and death panel philosophy.

The last factor curbs  government enthusiasm for addressing the drug shortage problem vigorously.   Increased deaths lighten the load on social security, medicare and medicaid, and therefore  the shortages  become a means of obamacare  cost control.

House Votes to Defund Obamacare and Planned Parenthood

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House blocks funding for health care law – On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2012 Election – USATODAY.com.

Congressional Republicans are fairly productive today,   Let’s hope they keep up the pace.  Attached to the bill that will keep the government running are amendments to defund IRS collection of mandatory health care payments, an spending of the Dept of Health and Human Services on Obamacare.    They should also pinch off Kathleen Sebelius’s salary ;-).

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49830.html

Funding for  Abortion and Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider which has been a prime feature of this blog in the last month,  has been cut off.  This has been a special project of Indiana’s Mike Pence.  Be sure to watch some wonderful videos shot at Planned Parenthoods if you haven’t seen them.  Scroll down.  The New York and New Jersey videos are the best.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/house-passes-amendment-to-block-funds-for-net-neutrality-order-20110217

Funding for the implemenatation of the mis-named net neutrality has also been blocked.

Happy Friday.

Democrat Senators Promise to Protect Obamacare Abortion Mandates

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Dem senators promise to block House abortion legislation – The Hill’s Healthwatch.

Because Obamacare really does cover abortion, and the democrats want to keep it this way.    If this were not the case, there would be no need to force health care institutions, insurance companies, and health care providers to participate in abortion.

Stopping this bill would be a moot point if the above were not the case.

We all know better, don’t we.   Thanks for reminding the American People how much you need to be replaced, DEMOCRAT senators.

2012 is coming fast.

Obama Attack on Abortion Conscience Clause Likely Imminent | LifeNews.com

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Obama Attack on Abortion Conscience Clause Likely Imminent | LifeNews.com.

One of the first things Obama did when he took office was to begin work on removing department of Health and Human Services ability to enforce existing conscience protections for health care professionals who refuse to kill humans in their practice.

Some of this  work will likely be completed at the end of this month with recission of Bush’s executive order allowing for removal of federal funding to the institutions which descriminate against physicians who refuse to participate in abortion.

Obama expects health care practitioners to kill humans, and this is a main reason why  both the New England Journal of Medicine and the Investors Business Daily surveys revealed that almost half of physicians intend to retire early in the event of Obamacare.

Your health care might be free, but you won’t be able to get any in a timely manner, and you might not like what remains in the professions after the ones who refuse to kill their patients leave practice.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists consider participation and referrals for abortion to be a necessary part of practice to retain their Board certification.   In other words, it may  soon be a drawback to have your baby delivered by a board certified obstetrician.

Virginia to seek expedited Supreme Court review of suit over health-care law

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Virginia to seek expedited Supreme Court review of suit over health-care law.

Ken Cuccinelli, Atty. General of Virginia is petitioning the U.S. Supreme court for expedited review of the Obamacare case.  Of course the Obama administration’s “justice” department is opposing this as they would like to destructure the insurance companies and dismantle enough of the present system as possible before an actual repeal or reversal could occur.   This would make people miserable and impatient during the next, more conservative administration and hopefully place Dems back in power after people forget their socialistic hubris.

Such expedited reviews by the Supreme Court are a rarity, but would be very nice in this case, to prevent destruction of the current system, and  dissolution of the health insurance industry, as well as extreme waste of taxpayer dollars.

Judge strikes down healthcare reform law | Reuters

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Judge strikes down healthcare reform law | Reuters.

In Florida, the U.S. District Court Judge, Roger Vinson, struck down Obamacare as unconstitutional.

This ruling is broader than the previous decision (Richmond Virginia Federal District Court)  marking the provision to force citizens to purchase insurance as unconstitutional. Also the list of plaintiffs in this case include about half of the states, so that this decision has more influence.

Judge Vinson did not stay his ruling, so that it has influence even while the inevitable appeals by the Obama administration take place.This  (HOPEFULLY) will cork up the preliminary measures leading up to full implementation of the debacle in 2014.