Earlier this week, the Vancouver Sun reported that the Canadian province’s socialized medical authority is considering cutting 6,250 surgeries currently planned - that includes 10% of all medically necessary surgeries this year!
Flashback to a recent letter to the editor by Tom Sawyer in Savannah who’s seen first hand Canadians fleeing to America to seek medical care.
CLAIM: “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter because, frankly, we historically have had an employer-based system in this country with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that I believe would be too disruptive.”
FACT: Obama did advocate a single-payer system back in 2003…
CLAIM: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”
FACT:[T]here is nothing in any bill moving through Congress that would enforce that. (In fact, it’s surprising the White House continues to push this line — there is NO way the government can guarantee that a business won’t change health care providers. They just can’t.)
CLAIM: “We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors.”
FACT:But AARP put out a statement yesterday saying that it hasn’t officially endorsed any of the bills moving through Congress…
In case you missed it, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey penned this excellent opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal.
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.
BY JOHN MACKEY
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people’s money.”
—Margaret Thatcher
With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people’s money. These deficits are simply not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:
Just moments ago, responding to a questioner in Portsmouth, New Hampshire who expressed concern about the health care plan destroying the private insurance market, leading to only a government option, President Obama said, “I have not said that I was a single payer supporter.”
Not said that, like, today? In the last week?
The President expressed quite a different point of view just a few years back when he said “I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan.”
Rasmussen Reports is out with a new survey today showing support for Obamacare has fallen to a new low.
Despite claims that opposition at town hall meetings is “un-American” and manufactured by the right, the survey shows that a 62% of independents oppose the plan, with 51% of indepdendents strongly opposing the plan.
Further, 51% of Americans believe the quality of health care will get worse under Obamacare and costs will go up.
New Website Recycles Democrats’ Debunked Claims on Health Care, Dismisses Americans’ Concerns About Health Care as ‘Laughable’
Facing mounting criticism from the American people over President Obama’s proposed trillion-dollar government takeover of health care, the White House has responded this morning by launching a “reality check” website, featuring videos and preloaded messages that purportedly debunk “health care myths.” In reality, the website simply recycles the same false claims that the Administration and its allies in Congress have been pedaling for weeks.
After no fewer than five polls released at the end of July showed increasing, if not outright, opposition to government-run health care, and with Members of Congress taking heat from constituents during the August district work period, it’s understandable that the White House is getting nervous about the prospects for its health care experiment.
The following are some of the discredited claims the Administration’s new website repeats:
More than 200 people showed up to learn more about the healthcare “reform” bill and to share their thoughts with Jack. To view the pictures, click below:
The Republican Whip’s office has completed an analysis of just what the House Democrats’ healthcare “reform” bill would do the First District. Highlights of the analysis:
2 out of 3 workers would lose their existing coverage
340,362 Georgians who purchase their insurance on the individual market could lose their current coverage
173,111 Georgians who use Health Savings Accounts could lose them
The bill would cut Medicare Advantage plans for 7,956 seniors in the First District
First District hospitals would lose $307.5 million due to cuts in the bill
First District skilled nursing facilities would lose $74,511,973
24,000 small businesses in Georgia would see their taxes increased to 52.69%
64% of Georgia’s small business employees will be effected by an additional 8% tax on their employers