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Endangered Freedoms in Health Care Reform

Friday, August 14th, 2009

5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform

If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you’ll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.

By Shawn Tully, editor at large
Fortune Magazine

July 24, 2009: 10:17 AM ET

NEW YORK (Fortune) — In promoting his health-care agenda, President Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans — and that the benefits and access they prize will be enhanced through reform.

A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Health committee, contradict the President’s assurances. To be sure, it isn’t easy to comb through their 2,000 pages of tortured legal language. But page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage. (more…)

Tags: Edward Kennedy, employee retirement security act, ERISA, Fortune 500, freedom to choose, freedom to keep existing plan, freedom to shoose your doctor, GE, healathy living, Health Savings Account, high deductible coverage, HMO, HSA, PPO, single payer plan, Time Warner
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Obama Town Hall Meeting

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

White House Says Girl With Campaign Ties Chosen at ‘Random’ to Speak at Obama Town Hall

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
FoxNews.com

Facing a barrage of questions Wednesday over the friendliness of the audience at President Obama’s New Hampshire town hall meeting, the White House insisted that all questions were selected at random — including one from an 11-year-old girl whose mother worked as an Obama organizer.

Julia Hall of Malden, Mass., grabbed the microphone Tuesday during Obama’s town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., and told the president she saw signs “outside saying mean things about reforming health care” as she walked into the building. (more…)

Tags: Boston Globe, Congress, FoxNews.com, Julia Hall, Kathleen Manning Hall, Massachusetts Women for Obama, Michelle Obama, New Hampshire, Obama organizer, Reid Sherlin, Robert Gibbs, town hall meeting, White House
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Health Care Debate

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Canada’s Health System Informs U.S. Health Care Debate

By Wendell Goler
FOXNews.com
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

When it comes to the health care reform debate, Canada’s single-payer system often is held up as an example of success by supporters — and by opponents as a warning of the pitfalls.

Answering questions at the Summit of the Americas on Monday, President Obama seemed ambivalent about Canadian health care.

“I don’t find Canadians particularly scary, but I guess some of the opponents of reform think that they make a good bogeyman,” he said.

Obama went on to say the Canadian system wouldn’t work in the U.S., but many American doctors believe it does some things better. (more…)

Tags: American Enterprise Institute, Canadian health care, diametes, Dr. Joseph Ross, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Fox News, infant mortality, Medicaid, Medicare, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, obesity, single-payer system, Summit of the Americas, Wendell Goler
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The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

By David Gratzer

City Journal, Summer 2007 edition
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Socialized medicine has meant rationed care and lack of innovation. Small wonder Canadians are looking to the market.

Mountain-bike enthusiast Suzanne Aucoin had to fight more than her Stage IV colon cancer. Her doctor suggested Erbitux—a proven cancer drug that targets cancer cells exclusively, unlike conventional chemotherapies that more crudely kill all fast-growing cells in the body—and Aucoin went to a clinic to begin treatment. But if Erbitux offered hope, Aucoin’s insurance didn’t: she received one inscrutable form letter after another, rejecting her claim for reimbursement. Yet another example of the callous hand of managed care, depriving someone of needed medical help, right? Guess again. Erbitux is standard treatment, covered by insurance companies—in the United States. Aucoin lives in Ontario, Canada. (more…)

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Organizing for Ammerica Reshaped to Push Healthcare Legislation

Monday, August 10th, 2009

A group that helped elect the president is being reshaped to push healthcare legislation.

By Peter Wallsten, LA Times
August 10, 2009

Reporting from Washington — To win the White House, Barack Obama and his political team built a vast grass-roots network of supporters and volunteers that came to be considered one of the most valuable assets in American politics. Their ambition after the election was to reshape the network, with its trained organizers and 13 million e-mail addresses, into a ground-level force to push the new president’s policy goals.

But now, entering a crucial congressional recess month in which Obama’s healthcare plan faces stiffened opposition, some members of the network say that the group is still figuring out how to operate. Some also say their work has been slowed by tensions over tactics, disenchantment among some core supporters and an effective GOP resistance. (more…)

Tags: American politics, Barack Obama, Democrats, GOP, Healthcare Plan, LA Times, OFA, Organizing for America, Peter Wallsten, White House
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Taliban in Pakistan Confusion

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Confusion surrounds Taliban in Pakistan

Sunday, August 9, 2009

ISLAMABAD – Daily News with wires

Confusion surrounds the leadership of the Taliban in Pakistan after its notorious head’s reported death and a gunbattle between potential successors to him. Despite the conflicting reports and counterclaims, Pakistani and American officials seem to convince Baitullah Mehsud was killed in CIA strike

Pakistani authorities were increasingly convinced that the notorious head of the country’s Taliban movement was killed in a CIA missile strike, the military said Sunday, as reports emerged of an apparently bloody battle for his succession.

A senior U.S. official also said Washington believes Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud is dead, and the militant ranks are roiled by dissension. (more…)

Tags: CIA, Mehsud, Pakistan, Taliban
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