Category Archives: Health Care

June 13, 2010

By Executive Order We Have the Health Police

Ready or Not here they come it’s the Health Police.

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release June 10, 2010
Executive Order– Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council

EXECUTIVE ORDER

ESTABLISHING THE NATIONAL PREVENTION, HEALTH PROMOTION, AND PUBLIC HEALTH COUNCIL

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 4001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment. There is established within the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council (Council).

Sec. 2. Membership.

(a) The Surgeon General shall serve as the Chair of the Council, which shall be composed of:

(1) the Secretary of Agriculture;
(2) the Secretary of Labor;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Education;
(6) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
(7) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
(8) the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission;
(9) the Director of National Drug Control Policy;
(10) the Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council;
(11) the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs;
(12) the Chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service; and
(13) the head of any other executive department or agency that the Chair may, from time to time, determine is appropriate.

(b) The Council shall meet at the call of the Chair.

Sec. 3. Purposes and Duties. The Council shall:

(a) provide coordination and leadership at the Federal level, and among all executive departments and agencies, with respect to prevention, wellness, and health promotion practices, the public health system, and integrative health care in the United States;

(b) develop, after obtaining input from relevant stakeholders, a national prevention, health promotion, public health, and integrative health-care strategy that incorporates the most effective and achievable means of improving the health status of Americans and reducing the incidence of preventable illness and disability in the United States, as further described in section 5 of this order;

(c) provide recommendations to the President and the Congress concerning the most pressing health issues confronting the United States and changes in Federal policy to achieve national wellness, health promotion, and public health goals, including the reduction of tobacco use, sedentary behavior, and poor nutrition;

(d) consider and propose evidence-based models, policies, and innovative approaches for the promotion of transformative models of prevention, integrative health, and public health on individual and community levels across the United States;

(e) establish processes for continual public input, including input from State, regional, and local leadership communities and other relevant stakeholders, including Indian tribes and tribal organizations;

(f) submit the reports required by section 6 of this order; and

(g) carry out such other activities as are determined appropriate by the President.

Sec. 4. Advisory Group.

(a) There is established within the Department of Health and Human Services an Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health (Advisory Group), which shall report to the Chair of the Council.

(b) The Advisory Group shall be composed of not more than 25 members or representatives from outside the Federal Government appointed by the President and shall include a diverse group of licensed health professionals, including integrative health practitioners who are representative of or have expertise in:

(1) worksite health promotion;
(2) community services, including community health centers;
(3) preventive medicine;
(4) health coaching;
(5) public health education;
(6) geriatrics; and
(7) rehabilitation medicine.

(c) The Advisory Group shall develop policy and program recommendations and advise the Council on lifestyle-based chronic disease prevention and management, integrative health care practices, and health promotion.

Sec. 5. National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy. Not later than March 23, 2011, the Chair, in consultation with the Council, shall develop and make public a national prevention, health promotion, and public health strategy (national strategy), and shall review and revise it periodically. The national strategy shall:

(a) set specific goals and objectives for improving the health of the United States through federally supported prevention, health promotion, and public health programs, consistent with ongoing goal setting efforts conducted by specific agencies;

(b) establish specific and measurable actions and timelines to carry out the strategy, and determine accountability for meeting those timelines, within and across Federal departments and agencies; and

(c) make recommendations to improve Federal efforts relating to prevention, health promotion, public health, and integrative health-care practices to ensure that Federal efforts are consistent with available standards and evidence.

Sec. 6. Reports. Not later than July 1, 2010, and annually thereafter until January 1, 2015, the Council shall submit to the President and the relevant committees of the Congress, a report that:

(a) describes the activities and efforts on prevention, health promotion, and public health and activities to develop the national strategy conducted by the Council during the period for which the report is prepared;

(b) describes the national progress in meeting specific prevention, health promotion, and public health goals defined in the national strategy and further describes corrective actions recommended by the Council and actions taken by relevant agencies and organizations to meet these goals;

(c) contains a list of national priorities on health promotion and disease prevention to address lifestyle behavior modification (including smoking cessation, proper nutrition, appropriate exercise, mental health, behavioral health, substance-use disorder, and domestic violence screenings) and the prevention measures for the five leading disease killers in the United States;

(d) contains specific science-based initiatives to achieve the measurable goals of the Healthy People 2020 program of the Department of Health and Human Services regarding nutrition, exercise, and smoking cessation, and targeting the five leading disease killers in the United States;

(e) contains specific plans for consolidating Federal health programs and centers that exist to promote healthy behavior and reduce disease risk (including eliminating programs and offices determined to be ineffective in meeting the priority goals of the Healthy People 2020 program of the Department of Health and Human Services);

(f) contains specific plans to ensure that all Federal health-care programs are fully coordinated with science-based prevention recommendations by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and

(g) contains specific plans to ensure that all prevention programs outside the Department of Health and Human Services are based on the science-based guidelines developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under subsection (d) of this section.

Sec. 7. Administration.

(a) The Department of Health and Human Services shall provide funding and administrative support for the Council and the Advisory Group to the extent permitted by law and within existing appropriations.

(b) All executive departments and agencies shall provide information and assistance to the Council as the Chair may request for purposes of carrying out the Council’s functions, to the extent permitted by law.

(c) Members of the Advisory Group shall serve without compensation, but shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in Government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707), consistent with the availability of funds.

Sec. 8. General Provisions.

(a) Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C App.) may apply to the Advisory Group, any functions of the President under that Act, except that of reporting to the Congress, shall be performed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in accordance with the guidelines that have been issued by the Administrator of General Services.

(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(1) authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(2) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 10, 2010

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June 2, 2010

CBO says, $400B increase in Federal deficit with New Health Care

By The Move Right

Health Care Costs and The Federal Budget

In CBO’s judgment, the health legislation enacted earlier this year does not substantially diminish that pressure. In fact, CBOestimated that the health legislation will increase the federal budgetary commitment to health care (which CBO defines as the sum of net federal outlays for health programs and tax preferences for health care) by nearly $400 billion during the 2010-2019 period. Looking further ahead, CBO estimated that the legislation would reduce the federal budgetary commitment to health care in the following decade—if the provisions of the legislation remain unchanged throughout that entire period. CBO also estimated that the legislation will reduce budget deficits by about $140 billion during the 2010-2019 period and by an amount in a broad range around one-half percent of gross domestic product (GDP) during the following decade—again, under the assumption that the legislation remains in force as enacted

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April 6, 2010

Garbage In, Garbage Out — The Real Cost of Health Reform

By The Move Right

Garbage In, Garbage Out — The Real Cost of Health Reform
April 6, 2010 by The Americas Right Editors

By REP. MIKE COFFMAN (R-CO)
Guest Contributor

In the final days leading up to passage of the health care bill, and in the days since, Democrats have touted claims that the legislation will reduce the deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next two decades. These claims are utterly false, and it doesn’t take someone with green eye shades to figure that out.

Let me explain. The evidence lies in the assumptions that the official scorekeepers of legislation, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), used in arriving at their conclusion that the legislation would save money.

Unlike the fiscal notes that are done by the Legislative Council experts in the Colorado General Assembly, the number-crunchers in Congress are not allowed to challenge the plausibility of key assumptions in proposed legislation. They must accept the accounting premises given to them by those writing the legislation.

So when Speaker Nancy Pelosi asserts she can pay for much of the bill by finding and stripping hundreds of billion from waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare, the CBO is not allowed to challenge that assumption.

When Democrats assume future Congresses will enact significant spending cuts and arrive at cost conclusions by presuming that a future Congress will not cancel Medicare cost-containment measures, scale back tax increases, or disregard the payment policy findings of a new independent Medicare commission for example, CBO is not allowed to challenge that assumption.

How about when Democrats choose to disingenuously exclude an additional $208 billion that they plan to spend in coming months to prevent a 21% cut in physician payment rates, hiding the true cost of the main health care bill? You guessed, CBO is not allowed to challenge that assumption.

When Democrats staggered the onset of the bill so they can calculate the “cost” by comparing 10 years of revenues, tax increases (about a half trillion dollars) and Medicare cuts (transfers to fund the new program) to only 6 years of spending, CBO is not allowed to challenge that assumption either.

Read Entire Article here…

Congressman Mike Coffman, a U.S. Army and Marine Corps veteran and former Colorado Secretary of State, has been serving the 6th District of Colorado since being elected in 2008 to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he also serves on the House Armed Services Committee, House Natural Resources Committee, and House Small Business Committee.

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March 26, 2010

WND: Obamacare prescription: ‘Emergency health army

By The Move Right

This has got to be the scariest thing I’ve seen since the SS was established. I pulled the whole WND article, since these kind of article tend to disappear after a while, and once there a million negative responses to the WND website.

Isn’t this the job of the National Guard and Reserves, Local and State Law Enforcement?

President Obama’s recently passed health-care reform legislation includes a surprise for many Americans – a beefing up of a U.S. Public Health Service reserve force and expectations that it respond on short notice to “routine public health and emergency response missions,” even involuntarily.

According to Section 5210 of HR 3590, titled “Establishing a Ready Reserve Corps,” the force must be ready for “involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises.”

The health-care legislation adds millions of dollars for recruitment and amends Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204), passed July 1, 1944, during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. The U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is one of the seven uniformed services in the U.S. However, Obama’s changes more than double the wording of the Section 203 and dub individuals who are currently classified as officers in the Reserve Corps commissioned officers of the Regular Corps.

‘You’ve been served!” Send the Constitution to Obama, Pelosi, Reid and put them on notice. What better way to tell them why they’re losing their jobs?

The following is the previous wording of the act as of 2004, before Democrats passed the health-care legislation:

Wording of Section 203 of Public Health Service Act before Obamacare amendment

The U.S. Public Health Service website describes its commissioned corps as “an elite team of more than 6,000 full-time, well-trained, highly qualified public health professionals dedicated to delivering the nation’s public health promotion and disease prevention programs and advancing public health science.”

According to its mission page, officers of the commissioned corps may:

Provide essential public health and health care services to underserved and disadvantaged populations

Prevent and control injury and the spread of disease

Ensure that the nation’s food supply, drinking water, drugs, medical devices and environment are safe

Conduct and support cutting-edge research for the prevention, treatment and elimination of disease, health disparities and injury

Work with other nations and international agencies to address global health challenges

Provide urgently needed public health and clinical expertise in response to large-scale local, regional and national public health emergencies and disasters

Members are trained to respond to public health situations and national emergency events, such as natural disasters, disease outbreaks and terrorist attacks.

As stated in the health-care legislation, “The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service’s reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.

The Democrats’ legislation recently added the following text to Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act:

‘(b) Assimilating Reserve Corp Officers Into the Regular Corps- Effective on the date of enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, all individuals classified as officers in the Reserve Corps under this section (as such section existed on the day before the date of enactment of such Act) and serving on active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the Regular Corps.’(c) Purpose and Use of Ready Research-

‘(2) USES- The Ready Reserve Corps shall–

‘(A) participate in routine training to meet the general and specific needs of the Commissioned Corps;’(B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises, similar to the uniformed service reserve personnel;

‘(C) be available for backfilling critical positions left vacant during deployment of active duty Commissioned Corps members, as well as for deployment to respond to public health emergencies, both foreign and domestic; and

‘(D) be available for service assignment in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved communities (as defined in section 799B) to improve access to health services.

‘(d) Funding- For the purpose of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the Commissioned Corps under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for recruitment and training and $12,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for the Ready Reserve Corps.’

Commissioned officers of the ready reserve corps are appointed by the president, and commissioned officers of the regular corps are appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Robert Book, a senior research fellow in health economics at the Heritage Foundation, said the service has been around some time but is not well known.

In the past, its responsibilities have included work related to the National Institutes of Health, the Indian health service and providing physicians for Coast Guard operations, he said.

As first reported by WND during his campaign, Obama called for a “civilian national security force” July 2, 2008, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” he said. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

WND also reported in January when a Rand Corporation report proposed the federal government create a rapid deployment “Stabilization Police Force” that would be tasked with “shaping an environment before a conflict” and restoring order in times of war, natural disaster or national emergency.

The blogosphere is buzzing with speculation about the amendment. Some comments include:

This cannot be publicized enough!

Remember before the election when Obama said we need to have a civil defense corps as well funded and as well armed as the armed services?

Is it Hitler and the Brown Shirts all over again? It is time for all who love our freedom to stand up and be counted.

Perhaps ACORN with a different name?

What about FEMA. Does this mean FEMA is to be disbanded?

Healthstapo!

I guess this is how they’ll keep all the doctors from quitting the profession and becoming window washers.

Amazing isn’t it, they can’t afford to secure our borders, but we can afford this nonsense – dangerous nonsense.

Let’s all sign up. It will be much easier to take the country back if we do it from within.

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March 25, 2010

Max Baucus on Obamacare’s hidden agenda – redistribution of wealth

By The Move Right

There is no hidden agenda here people they’re coming after you and me.

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March 23, 2010

Legalized and Federally Funded Abortions Are Worth $729,209 To Stupak

By The Move Right

We knew that Stupak’s vote was bought and paid for. I just never thought the price would be so small. I’m sure there’s more to this story, but if this is all it took, I’m saddened to see that it only took a few hundred thousand for Bart to bend. Did Obama channel Hoover and have dirt on Stupak? Was he caught on film with a fuzzy? Is it possible for Stupak to bend so easily, the supposed man of integrity? What is the rest of the story here?

Obama Administration Awarded Hundreds of Thousands in Airport Grants to Stupak’s District Two Days Before Vote

Was this Yet Another Backroom Deal to Force Obama’s Bill Down the American People’s Throats?

Three airports in the district of infamous fence-sitting and ultimately kowtowing Democrat Bart Stupak were awarded $726,409 in grants by the Obama Administration just two days before a vote on Obama and Pelosi’s government takeover of healthcare.

Did Stupak compromise his supposed principled stand against taxpayer funding of abortion in exchange for taxpayer dollars for pet projects?

Read Article from the Deal Watch Blog at NRCC.com

Update, This article from Red State has a great viewpoint on this topic

http://www.redstate.com/haystack/2010/03/24/how-much-would-you-pay-per-dead-baby-to-get-healthcare-passed/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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March 22, 2010

Ken Buck Will Vote To Repeal The Health Care Bill

By The Move Right

In an email I just received Ken Buck vows to help to repeal the Health Care Bill. Here’s the email:

March 22, 2010

Dear Friend,

I don’t know if there has ever been a time in our history of self-government when our elected officials so arrogantly disregarded the wishes of the American public.

By an overwhelming majority, Coloradans do not want the government-controlled health care scheme cooked up by the liberal special interests in Washington, D.C. In the latest Rasmussen poll, Coloradans oppose Obamacare by a margin of 56 percent to 43 percent.

Yet Colorado’s two U.S. Senators, along with every Democrat in our state’s congressional delegation, voted to pass Obamacare.

I will vote to repeal it.

Our campaign’s victory in last week’s precinct caucus straw poll shows that we are on course to restore true representation for Colorado in Washington. You can help us keep up the momentum. Your contribution of $500, $250 or even $25 is crucial to our continuing success.

The Democrats’ health care “reforms” will leave Americans less free, more dependent on big government, and saddled with yet more debt. The Democrats must think we’re either too dumb to realize that, or that we just don’t care.

Well, Coloradans care. And we saw in last week’s straw poll that they want a strong, independent voice from the grassroots to represent them in Washington.

What happened in the House of Representatives this weekend, and what will happen in the Senate this week, is a parody of representative government. What a travesty.

But we have the power as Americans to right this wrong, starting with the November election. This fight is just beginning, and I hope to have your support as we wage the battle in the campaign ahead.

Sincerely,

Ken Buck

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March 21, 2010

Kansas makes it’s move against the Health Care Bill

By The Move Right

http://www.kansashealthcarefreedom.com/

Facts to know about the Health Care Freedom Amendment

What is the Kansas Health Care Freedom Amendment and what will it do?

The Health Care Freedom Amendment is a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would preserve certain existing rights that individuals have regarding health care.

Two key provisions – 1) protects a person’s right to participate or not participate in any health care system, and prohibits the government from imposing fines or penalties on that person’s decision. 2) it protects the right of individuals to purchase—and the right of doctors to provide—lawful medical services without government fine or penalty.

The state constitution reflects the most fundamental values shared by the citizens of the state, and may provide protections greater than the U.S. Constitution. (Some states provide greater protection for freedom of speech or due process rights.)

The federal government will have to demonstrate its legislation is legitimately derived from congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce and it will also have to show how the legislation does not violate the 10th Amendment, which reserves to the states all government power not expressly delegated to the national government; and the 11th Amendment, which protects states from being used as mere instruments of the federal government. This U.S. Supreme Court is the most pro-federalism Court in decades.

Unlike state law, when the state constitution protects the freedom of the people of the state, the Supremacy Clause is not automatic. It establishes the people’s will at a higher level, so a constitutional amendment is preferable to a state law. A state constitutional amendment will ensure the state legislature can never infringe upon the protected rights of citizens’ health care.

The Health Care Freedom Amendment would allow anyone to participate in a health care system they want, but it would also protect Kansas citizens from being forced into a health care system they do not like. It is not an attempt to block federal health-care reform as long as the federal law does not require an individual/employer mandate, or forbid patients from paying directly for medical services.

This is not an attempt to “opt-out of” or “nullify” federal health insurance legislation. It is an attempt to protect the liberty of Kansas citizens to control their own medical affairs.

The Health Care Freedom Amendment does not affect any rules and regulations in place as of August 1, 2009, so it does not affect Veterans’ Administration programs, worker’s compensation, Medicare, Medicaid or state health-care systems.

The Health Care Freedom Amendment does not affect abortion. States may regulate abortion under applicable constitutional doctrine and state or federal law. However, the Health Care Freedom Amendment does prevent government from forcing individuals into health care systems against their will, and matters of conscience may influence such individual decisions.

Our country was founded on principles of liberty and freedom – not command and control government. It is economic freedom that helped us reduce poverty. We can develop policy that builds proper incentives on a base of liberty. Shaping command-and-control policies encourage destructive behavior.People of good will can differ on a wide range of policy details, but when the economic freedom of Kansas citizens is at stake, Kansas Legislators need to take action to protect their liberty.

News Coverage

Health care freedom jumps hurdle in Senate — Proposed constitutional amendment has more obstacles than most bills

Supporters and opponents of ‘Health Care Freedom Amendment’ plan rival rallies — Saturday morning in the city of Shawnee the two sides face off, while in Washington, the House votes on the Democrats’ health care plan.

State leaders push to maintain state sovereignty — Democrats continue to disregard 10th Amendment rights as they promote health care bill

State lawmakers push to preserve Kansans’ right to decide on health care — Amendment would protect state residents from federal penalties and allow doctor-patient choice.

‘Joe the Plumber’ tells Kansas citizens about the importance of learning and speaking out – Tiahrt: “I always thought that fighting for freedom was something that happened overseas, but today…we are having to fight for our freedom in our own country.”

Both sides turn out for protests surrounding healthcare debate — Shawnee Dispatch

Legislators seek state amendment to trump health reform legislation – Sun Publications

U.S. Supreme Court might decide — Sun Publications

Federal Officials & Candidates in Support of the Health Care Freedom Amendment

U.S. Senator Sam Brownback
Candidate for GovernorCongressman Jerry Moran
1st District — Kansas / Candidate for U.S. Senate

Congressman Todd Tiahrt
4th District — Kansas / Candidate for U.S. Senate

Tim Huelskamp
1st District — KansasPatricia Lightner
3rd District — Kansas

Senate Sponsors of the Health Care Freedom Amendment

Mary Pilcher Cook, R-10th
Steve Abrams, R-32nd
Jim Barnett, R-17th
Karin Brownlee, R-23rd
Terry Bruce, R-34th
Jeff Colyer, R-37th
Les Donovan, R-27th
Tim Huelskamp, R-38th

Dick Kelsey, R-26th
Julia Lynn, R-9th
Bob Marshall, R-13th
Ty Masterson, R-16th
Ralph Ostmeyer, R-40th
Mike Petersen, R-28th
Dennis Pyle, R-1st
Mark Taddiken, R-21st

House Sponsors of the Health Care Freedom Amendment

Brenda K. Landwehr, R-91st
Anthony R. Brown, R-38th
Steven R. Brunk, R-85th
Richard Carlson, R-61st
David Crum, R-77th
Peter DeGraaf, R-81st
John Faber, R-120th
Rocky Fund, R-50th
Pat George, R-119th
Mario Goico, R-100th
Lana Gordon, R-52nd
John C. Grange, R-75th
Phil Hermanson, R-96th
Mitch Holmes, R-114th
Deena Horst, R-69th
Steve Huebert, R-90th
Aaron Jack, R-99th

Kasha Kelley, R-79th
Dan Kerschen, R-93rd
Mike Kiegerl, R-43rd
Lance Kinzer, R-14th
Forrest Knox, R-13th
Peggy Mast, R-76th
Joe McLeland, R-94th
Ray Merrick, R-27th
Jim Morrison, R-121st
Melvin Neufeld, R-115th
Connie O’Brien, R-42nd
Mike O’Neal, R-104th
Robert S. (Rob) Olson, R-26th
Joe Patton, R-54th
Virgil Peck Jr., R-11th

Organizations in Support of the Health Care Freedom Amendment

Concerned Women of America
Americans for Prosperity
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Kansas Family Policy Council
November Patriots
Southeast Kansas Conservative Group

Kansas Sovereignty Coalition
Northwest Johnson County Republicans
Kansas Campaign for Liberty
Politcal Chips
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

See the rest of the petition at http://www.kansashealthcarefreedom.com/

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March 21, 2010

House GOP members react to Pres. Obama’s executive order on abortion.

By The Move Right

House GOP members react to Pres. Obama’s executive order on abortion.

see the video at CSPAN.ORG

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March 21, 2010

Paul Krugman thinks Obama will sign bill tonight!

By The Move Right

From Krugman of the NYT:

And the Senate version of health care reform has passed. I assume President Obama will sign it tonight.

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March 21, 2010

Breaking: “Fix” Bill May Not Advance In Senate

By The Move Right

Breaking: “Fix” Bill May Not Advance In Senate

Senate Democrats Refuse Bi-partisan Meeting With Parliamentarian Until After House Votes

WASHINGTON DC – Senate Democrats have balked at a bi-partisan meeting with the Senate Parliamentarian to discuss a rule violation that could doom the entire House reconciliation proposal.

DON STEWART, McCONNELL SPOKESMAN: “Republicans have been trying to set up a meeting with Senate Democrats since yesterday to discuss this fatal point of order but have been met with nothing but silence. We suspect Democrats are slow walking us so as to have the House vote first. Since Senate Democrats refuse to meet with us and the Parliamentarian, we’ve informed our colleagues in the House that we believe the bill they’re now considering violates the clear language of Section 310g of the Congressional Budget Act, and the entire reconciliation bill is subject to a point of order and rejection in the Senate should it pass the House.”

BACKGROUND

DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP RELEASE: “The Congressional Budget Office estimate of the health care legislation shows an increase in Social Security revenues… CBO projects that the resulting increase in wages will generate $29 billion in additional FICA contributions to the Social Security Trust Fund.”(“Health Care Reform Update,” Office of Rep. Steny Hoyer, 3/21/10)

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT: “LIMITATION ON CHANGES TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution reported pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget agreed to under section 301 or 304, or a joint resolution pursuant to section 258C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that contains recommendations with respect to the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II of the Social Security Act.” (Congressional Budget Act Of 1974, Sec. 310g, P. 31)

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March 21, 2010

Loretta Sanchez: Present but unaccounted for (May not vote – Undecided???)

By The Move Right

Loretta Sanchez: Present but unaccounted for (May not vote – Undecided???)
Washington Post ^ | 03.21.10

Posted on Sun Mar 21 2010 13:28:49 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) by Perdogg

A small mystery surrounding the current whip count for the final health-care vote was solved in the last hour — sort of.

After missing all of Saturday’s roll calls, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif) showed up for the procedural votes that began Sunday’s House session. So now party leaders — and the media — know where Sanchez is. But they still don’t know how she’ll vote tonight.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com …

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March 21, 2010

Morris warns the 8 traitors who sold this country out

By The Move Right

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March 21, 2010

There Are No Rules Here … We Make Them Up As We Go Along

By The Move Right

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March 21, 2010

Administration Actuary Can’t Analyze Health Bill Before Final Vote

By The Move Right

from http://republican.senate.gov

Richard. S. Foster

Administration Actuary Can’t Analyze Health Bill Before Final Vote

Even the Administration’s Chief Actuary at HHS cannot provide cost analysis of latest Democrat health spending bill before the vote

Chief Actuary: ‘I regret that my staff and I will not be able to prepare our analysis within this very tight time frame, due to the complexity of the legislation.’

WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama administration’s chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) notified Republican leaders Saturday that the “very tight time frame” and “complexity” of the Democrats’ health spending bill would prevent them from fully analyzing the costs and efficacy of the bill before the House voted on the legislation. The letter was in response to a request from House and Senate Republicans.

The Chief Actuary, Richard S. Foster, wrote: “In your letter, you requested that we provide the updated actuarial estimates in time for your review prior to the expected House debate and vote on this legislation on March 21,2010. I regret that my staff and I will not be able to prepare our analysis within this very tight time frame, due to the complexity of the legislation.”

Foster and his staff analyzed the Senate-passed bill and determined that it bent the cost curve up, estimating in a January 8 report that national health expenditures would increase by an estimated total of $222 billion, and that the additional demand for health services “could be difficult to meet” and “could lead to price increases, cost-shifting, and/or changes in providers’ willingness to treat patients with low-reimbursement health coverage.” Foster, in his letter today, expects the new health spending bill to be “generally similar.”

House Republican Leader John Boehner said: “The House of Representatives should not vote blindly on an issue that is so important to every American. We deserve to have all the facts about how much this bill raise health care costs before we vote. The decision to press ahead and jam this bill down the throats of the American people is just one more example of arrogance and irresponsibility from Washington Democrats.”

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said: “Americans deserve to have a full analysis of this bill, but won’t because of the mad dash forced by the Democrat leaders in the House. We now know that even the Obama administration’s chief actuary predicts more government spending, more price increases for consumers and less care for low-income patients. This debate was supposed about lowering costs for Americans not making things worse.”

The letter to CMS was signed by McConnell, House Republican Leader John Boehner, Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Judd Gregg, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Charles Grassley, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Mike Enzi, House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Dave Camp, House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Joe Barton, and House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member John Kline.

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Full text of the letter to Republican leaders follows:

The Honorable Mitch McConnell

Republican Leader

United States Senate

Dear Senator McConnell:

This letter is in preliminary response to your inquiry of March 19 requesting an updated analysis by the Office of the Actuary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (as passed by the Senate) as it would be modified by the “Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010” (as released by the House Committee on Rules on March 18). The request was made jointly by yourself and 10 other members of the House and Senate Republican Leadership.

In your letter, you requested that we provide the updated actuarial estimates in time for your review prior to the expected House debate and vote on this legislation on March 21,2010. I regret that my staff and I will not be able to prepare our analysis within this very tight time frame, due to the complexity of the legislation. We will, however, continue working to estimate the financial, coverage, and other impacts of the health reform package and will provide these results to you as quickly as possible.

As you know, the Office of the Actuary has assisted Congressional Administration policy makers on health legislative and policy initiatives for many years, including the original Medicare legislation in 1965, all subsequent amendments to this program, Medicaid amendments since 1976, and the Clinton Administration’s proposed Health Security Act in 1993-94. Our goal has always been to provide independent, objective technical information for use by policy makers as they deliberate Medicare, Medicaid, and national health reform proposals.

We issued an analysis of the Senate Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in a memorandum dated January 8, 2010. While it is reasonable to expect that our updated analysis of this legislation, as modified by the reconciliation amendments, would be generally similar to the results in the January 8 memorandum, I cannot confirm this expectation without a full evaluation of the amendments and re-estimation of the provisions.

I am sending a similar letter to House Republican Leader Boehner, and, for expediency, will email copies to the other cosigners of your request. I am sorry that we cannot respond more quickly. Please let us know if you have any other questions we can assist with.

Sincerely,

Chief Actuary

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March 15, 2010

House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it

By The Move Right

The tactic — known as a “self-executing rule” or a “deem and pass” — has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the Senate bill.

“It’s more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know,” the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. “But I like it,” she said, “because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.”

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