healthcare

    WORD COUNT: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  November 19th at 06:10 AM  | 

    Don’t be fooled, no state is going to turn down federal money.  This is a scam, just the same old socialized health care.  ‘Opt-Out’ only appears ONCE in the text of the legislation. http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf opt-out: 1 shall: 3594 subsection: 1644 section: 3055 penalty: 95 criminal: 29 $: 329 prison: 2 fined: 363 rule: 153 tax: 405 impose: 124 enroll: 475 enact: 215 law: 204 restrict: | Read More »

    Health care: Jam it down their throat

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 31st at 09:23 AM  | 

    In the left’s latest attempt at the takeover of health care (http://www.gop.gov/download?folder=misc&file=111_ahcaa.pdf) starting on page 512 titled ‘Congressional Procedures’: PROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION.—A motion in the Senate to proceed to the consideration of a joint resolution shall be privileged and not debatable. …all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20 hours. Debate in the Senate on any debatable | Read More »

    Welcome Back Death Panels

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 30th at 06:16 AM  | 

    In the latest health care bill introduced in the house yesterday it appears as if the much controversial ‘Death Panels’ are back. First on page 129 “shall provide for the dissemination of information related to end-of-life planning to individuals seeking enrollment in Exchange-participating health  benefits plans offered through the Exchange;” Then on page 642 “An explanation by the practitioner of the role and responsibilities of | Read More »

    Merged Bill Word Count

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 29th at 06:37 PM  | 

    The following is a word count of words that, in particular do not promote freedom that can be found in the merged health care bill released by Nancy Pelosi  and the Democrats today: mandate                5 tax                        207 penalty                 110 comply                 40 criminal                34 civil             | Read More »

    The Public Option Option

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 27th at 05:39 AM  | 

    “the best way to move forward is to include a public option with the opt-out provision for states.” -Harry Reid The opt-out provision…So I guess this means states have a choice to have socialized health care or not.  Does this seem odd to anyone else?  IT ALREADY EXISTS! If a state wants a government health care plan then they do it.  Look at TennCare in | Read More »

    How the Senate Finance Committee deals with tort reform.

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 20th at 06:31 AM  | 

    From page 1211 and 1212 of the Senate Fiance Committee health care takeover bill: Subtitle H—Sense of the S Regarding Medical Malpra SEC. 3701. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDIN MALPRACTICE. It is the sense of the Senate that— (1) health care reform presents an opportunity to address issues related to medical malpractice and medical liability insurance; (2) States should be encouraged to develop and test | Read More »

    A call to action – Leave our health care alone

    By: tokm908 (Diary)  |  October 18th at 01:02 PM  | 

    I read this morning on TheHill.com (link) where Arlen Specter stated that “I think the public option is gaining momentum. … I’m not going to step back a bit.” Now is the time, its do or die. We need to rally our family, friends, coworkers, everyone we know and tell them the truths about government run health care. If you are not already doing so, | Read More »