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British Surgeons Raise Alarm Over Increased Wait Times

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:27:00 GMT

The British news Agency, BBC, describes growing physician concern over long wait times and new rationing algorithms designed by politicians desperately trying to cut billions of dollars from the bloated, dysfunctional British National Health Service(NHS). In most areas of Great Britain, patients are waiting longer for elective procedures while their conditions often deteriorate. Physicians are speaking out in increasing numbers since the bureucratic backlog often results in patients experiencing inferior outcomes once they finally have surgery. This is of major concern since the president's choice to direct Medicare and Medicaid while implementing the new healthcare law is none other than Dr. Donald Berwick. Dr. Berwick is the Harvard academic who is "romantic" about the British NHS and admits he wants to replicate its features and rationing mechanisms in the new American healthcare sysem. This is not good news for patients in the long-term if Obamacare is not repealed and replaced with alternative reform proposals..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12964360

Former CBO Director Analysis of the PPACA At One Year: Congressional Testimony

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:16:00 GMT

Excellent analysis of the effects of the PPACA on federal/state budgets, insurance premiums, business community and future of America's healthcare sector.

http://finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/031611dhetest.pdf

The Massachusetts Health Reform Mess, American Enterprise Institute

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:27:00 GMT

Four years after healthcare reform was passed in Massachusetts, the result is the highest insurance premiums in the nation, longest wait times to see a physician, crippling state budget deficits, increased use of emergency rooms and healthcare providers/insurance companies fleeing the state. This is very disturbing since the PPACA(Obamacare) was modeled after the Massachusetts plan. If this experiment in taking over the healthcare sector is failing in one state, how can we expect the federal government to be successful across fifty states?

http://www.aei.org/article/103247

How to Receive A Small Business Tax Credit? Good Luck!!

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:02:00 GMT

On the PPACA's One Year Anniversary and amid an all time high percentage of Americans who want it's repeal, Team Obama is sending out it's sales force to once again attempt to convince skeptical voters on the law's alleged merits. No doubt, they will be promoting the Small Business Tax Credit which is already proving to be another bureacratic juggernaut. Please take a look at the below flowchart and try to comprehend how this complicated process can possibly be of "any" benefit to America's struggling small business community.

http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Small_business_tax_credit_path.pdf

Health Reform: Lessons Learned During the First Year, American Action Forum

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:48:00 GMT

Former Congressional Budget Office Director(CBO), Douglas Holtz-Eakin, provides this excellent economic analysis of the PPACA and illustrates how the law's provisions will negatively impact the existing dysfunctional programs of Medicaid/Medicare, disrupt the private insurance marketplace, impede growth to American small business and become a budget killer for states and our national debt.

http://finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/031611dhetest.pdf

ACOs are Obamacare's HMOs, Forbes Magazine

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:02:00 GMT

This health policy expert explains the newly created health care delivery model known as the Accountable Care Organization(ACO), which is the 21st century version of the HMO. Like it's predecessor, all knowing politicians are promising increased efficiency and quality while driving down the cost of healthcare. As this expert predicts, the ACO will most probably fail like the HMO, in delivering a better product for less.

http://www.forbes.com/2011/02/28/obamacare-aco-hmo-opinions-sally-pipes_print.html

A Not So Happy Birthday, Obamacare's One Year Checkup

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:38:00 GMT

It's been one year since the president signed the PPACA into law and the doctor has had a chance to examine the patient. Unfortunately, for patients, physicians and the American taxpayor, the diagnosis is grim. Despite all the lofty rhetoric, false projections and empty promises, the new healthcare law has failed to meet almost all it's goals. The good news is there is a treatment available. It is called repeal and replace with patient-centered, physician-led reforms that takes into consideration the perspective and experience of "practicing" physicians, not misinformed and sheltered academics and bureaucrats.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/03/Obamacare-The-One-Year-Checkup

Creating a Stable and Accessible Healthcare System for Future Generations, The New Atlantis

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:29:00 GMT

This author gives a thorough explanation of many of the reasons for escalating health insurance costs and provides reasonable suggestions that would achieve patient-centered, consumer-driven reforms that have proven to deliver higher quality, less expensive services in every other sector of our economy. The common denominator in all requires limiting government involvement, since it invariably distorts the marketplace and leads to increased cost and decreased quality and efficiency.

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/blog/diagnosis/creating-a-stable-and-accessible-health-care-system-for-future-generations

PPACA and the Fight to Preserve America's Founding Principles, The Heritage Foundation

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:24:00 GMT

The Heritage Foundation's Dr. Robert Moffit explains Obamacare's threat to freedom and usurping of our constitution.

http://blog.heritage.org/?p=54876

Are Obamacare's Health Insurance Exchange Requirements Unconstitutional?

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:41:00 GMT

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/03/are-obamacares-health-insurance-exchange-requirements-unconstitutional

Healthcare Law Undermines State Flexibility

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 02:52:00 GMT

This analysis offers a clear reasoning and explanation for the need to allow individual states to design their own competitive insurance exchange that is unique to their citizens' needs and not be mandated to comply with an iron-fisted, command and control program designed by Washington bureaucrats.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/01/Obamacare-and-Federal-Health-Exchanges-Undermining-State-Flexibility

The Insured Versus the Uninsured: Who Subsidizes Who?

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:01:00 GMT

Please read this explanation of a common misrepresentation often made by politicians and he mainstream media.

http://www.pacificresearch.org/docLib/20070408_HPPv5n2_0207.pdf

Putting the Brakes on Obamacare, Grace Marie Turner, Wall Street Journal

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:12:00 GMT

The President of the Galen Institute details a six point strategy that Congress can implement in order to mitigate the damage Obamacare will inflict on American patients, taxpayers and businesses. With a change in congressional majority in 2010, enacting this plan can put us on the path to REPEAL and REPLACE when a Republican administration wins the White House in 2012.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437271015655924.html

"Real Healthcare Reform", Democrat US Rep Jim Marshall, National Review

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:17:00 GMT

Democrat US Representative Jim Marshall, who voted NO on Obamacare, explains his views on the primary cause of healthcare inflation. He provides examples of free-market, patient-centric solutions that would lead to reduced costs, price transparency, maintainenance of quality and fiscal stability for future generations of Americans.

http://article.nationalreview.com/437832/real-health-care-reform/jim-marshall?page=1

Why Americans Are Led to Believe Our Healthcare Is Inferior

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:20:00 GMT

EXPOSED: The left wing mainstream media bias regarding American healthcare quality and outcomes. Once again, a responsible author scratches beneath the surface to dispel the myths and faulty claims of the World Health Organization and MSM in their battle against healthcare in the US.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/06/29/if_you_believe_america_has_lousy_health_care_heres_why__106136.html