via: Heritage All three Democrat health care plans (the House, Kennedy-Dodd, and Baucus bills) feature an employer mandate which will make it more expensive for employers to add employees. But as the New York Times reported last week, health care provisions in the stimulus are already making it harder for employers to hire new people: [...]
Archive for June, 2009
22 Jun
Obama’s Medicare Cuts: Arbitrary Caps and Price Controls
via: Heritage Even before the Congressional Budget Office put a $1 to $1.6 trillion price tags on the latest Senate health care plans, President Barack Obama proposed to cut Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates for various health care providers by an additional $313 billion over 10 years. Those cuts came on top of the $309 [...]
22 Jun
Where Will Americans Go If We Adopt Government-Run Health Care?
via: Heritage University of Michigan Flint economics and finance professor Mark Perry flags the following story in the Windsor Star: Between April 2007 and April of this year, 55 Ontario patients have been referred to Roswell Park in Buffalo, NY to receive IL-2 treatments for stage IV melanoma, and four patients were sent to the [...]
22 Jun
PRI: Government-Run Health Care Costs Rise Faster Than Private Sector Care
via: Heritage Pacific Research Institute Senior Fellow Jeffrey Anderson reports: The centerpiece of President Obama’s plan is a “public option,” described by Tom Daschle as “a government-run insurance program, modeled after Medicare.” The president asserts that this new Medicare-like program would cut costs. But there are nearly 40 years of experience to consult, and they [...]
22 Jun
Can Farmers Rely on Efficiency Gains to Meet Cap and Trade Demands?
via: Heritage The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Select Committee on Global Warming met last week to discuss the impacts of global warming on agriculture and forestry bill. Some of the more interesting testimony came from Ford B. West, President of The Fertilizer Institute, who elaborated on the challenges cap-and-trade legislation presents to the fertilizer [...]
22 Jun
Carbon Offset Program Won’t Offset Farmers’ Lost Income from Cap and Trade
via: Heritage I will go along with this, even though I am somewhat skeptical, if I can be convinced that this is going to work, that it’s practical, that it makes sense. That’s where I am coming from. I am not carrying water for anybody, I’m just trying to make sense out of this.” The [...]
22 Jun
You Can’t Trust Obama on Health Care
via: Heritage This past Monday, while selling his health care plan, President Barack Obama told the American Medical Association: “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care [...]
22 Jun
Obama: Cheney’s Policies Have Made Us Less Safe
via: gatewaypundit President Panty Waist insists that VP Cheney’s policies have made America less safe. Dear Leader also insists that his policies have, in fact, made America more safe. Sure they have. (AP) A Uighur terrorist swims in the Atlantic off the shore near Hamilton, Bermuda, after his liberation from Club Gitmo. Real Clear Politics [...]
22 Jun
ABC special – a White House infomercial?
via: onenewsnow A healthcare expert is taking umbrage with ABC’s planned healthcare special this week. ABC will air the special from the White House during primetime on June 24. “Prescription for America,” to be moderated by ABC News’ Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer, will originate from the East Room and will feature the president explaining [...]
20 Jun
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Molotov Mitchell roasts Sonia Sotomayor. Even connects her to LaRaza a Latino Supremacist (i.e. racist) organization.
