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Lessons Learned from Health Care Reform: How it Happened
May 27th, 2010 | 
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In the yearlong campaign to pass health care reform in the United States, the bill was declared dead by the media over and over again. How did an unlikely coalition of activists win passage of this landmark reform? In this video highlight a recent event organised by The Atlantic Philanthropies, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post, Richard Kirsch of Health Care for America NOW! and Judy Feder of Georgetown University and the Center for American Progress share their single biggest lesson learned from health care reform, and explain tactically how reform advocates built a winning movement. See more videos at www.atlanticphilanthropies.org.
Duration : 0:8:32
Posted in Healthcare Reform | 
Tags: american, Atlantic, center, Dionne, Feder, for, grassroots, HCAN, health, Healthcare, justice, Kirsch, LaMarche, movements, obama, organizing, patients, Philanthropies, Philanthropy, Post, Progress, progressive, reform, seniors, social, the, Washington | 
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It will be a cold day in before he socializes my county
Obama Cabinet Secretaries Townhall Meeting In Reserve, LA
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5/16/09 Weekly Republican Address: Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA)
Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA), a member of the Republican Health Care Solutions Group, discusses working with President Obama to ensure that every American has access to affordable, high-quality health coverage.
Duration : 0:4:5
Posted in Louisiana Healthcare |
Tags: Boustany, Care, gop, health, health reform, Healthcare, healthcare affordability, Healthcare costs, Healthcare Reform, healthcare resources, Louisiana Healthcare, Louisiana Healthcare Plans, obama, president, reforming health insurance, republican, response, Solutions, weekly |
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Who should pay for oil spills. The oil companies or the taxpayers?
Oil tax increase would help pay to clean up spills
WASHINGTON (AP) – Responding to the massive BP oil spill, Congress is getting ready to quadruple—to 32 cents a barrel—a tax on oil used to help finance cleanups. The increase would raise nearly $11 billion over the next decade.
The tax is levied on oil produced in the U.S. or imported from foreign countries. The revenue goes to a fund managed by the Coast Guard to help pay to clean up spills in waterways, such as the Gulf of Mexico.
The tax increase is part of a larger bill that has grown into a nearly $200 billion grab bag of unfinished business that lawmakers hope to complete before Memorial Day. The key provisions are a one-year extension of about 50 popular tax breaks that expired at the end of last year, and expanded unemployment benefits, including subsidies for health insurance, through the end of the year.
The House could vote on the bill as early as Tuesday. Senate leaders hope to complete work on it before Congress goes on a weeklong break next week.
Lawmakers want to increase the current 8-cent-a-barrel tax on oil to make sure there is enough money available to respond to oil spills. At least 6 million gallons of crude have spewed into the Gulf of Mexico since a drilling rig exploded April 20 off the Louisiana coast.
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders have said they expect BP to foot the bill for the cleanup.
"Taxpayers will not pick up the tab," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday.
BP executives told Congress last week they would pay "all legitimate claims" for damages. But the government needs upfront money to respond to spills, as well as money to pay for cleanups when the responsible party is unable to pay, or is unknown. Money spent from the fund can later be recovered from the company responsible for the spill.
The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund has about $1.5 billion available. Under current law, only $1 billion can be spent from the fund on a single incident. The bill would increase the spending limit to $5 billion.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the tax increase was hastily put together, without adequate study, to help pay for an unrelated bill. The tax increase was unveiled Thursday, without any congressional hearings to study its impact.
Even with the tax increases, the bill is projected to add $134 billion to the federal budget deficit.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FTDV7O1&show_article=1
(Yes, I know its levied on the oil companies, but who actually believes this additional tax wont be passed down from the oil companies to the consumer at the gas pump?)
Most of the people answering your question suffer from our poor government educational system, they actually believe that corporations pay taxes. For the simpletons out there all corporations do is act as a tax collector. Try and follow …I am auto company the government levies a extra billion tax on my company, I simply raise the price on each vehicle to cover the tax increase. many of you suffer from a lack of critical thinking.
What do you say when people steal from you?
1. Illegal aliens in the country from Latin countries——-24,757,617
2. other illegal——–579,102
3. Money wired to Mexico since 2005——$29,019,436,023
4. Money wired to Latin America since 2001—–$258,436,913,000
5. Illegal alien social service cost since 1996—–$397,454,862,000
6. Child of illegal in public school——–5,031,276
7. Cost of illegal K-12 since 1996——-$14,082,852,000
8. Illegal incarcerated——–420,343
9. Cost of incarceration since 2008——-$24,281,865,978
10. Anchor babies since 2002——-4,302,619
11. Skilled JOBS taken away from citizens——-11,579,072
12. Illegal alien fugitives in USA——-740,298
FACTS ON COST
In 2002, households headed by illegal aliens used $10 BILLION DOLLARS more in government services( the usage COST HAS INCREASED HEAVILY in 2010) than they paid in taxes. And, the COST IS MUCH HIGHER in heavy illegal alien populated geographical areas as California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Louisiana.
If illegal aliens were given amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the federal level would grow by over $29 billions. With the approval of the new healthcare to give FREE health care to the illegal aliens, the national debt over decades will be exceeding 22 trillion dollars.
Illegal immigration is costing each taxpayer about $2,174 each. In states with high concentrations of illegal aliens the amount is much higher(California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana.)
Amount of dollars going south in 2006 was $45 Billion, which has risen to 350 billions. All that money left the US economy was not used here to create additional job opportunities and stimulate the economy. Hence, this is an immense net LOST of TAX REVENUE to the US economy.
Heavy Burden on the SSA: Illegals of questionable SS status (by 2050, 300,000 ILLEGAL Mexicans) will be in the system at a cost projection of $650 million annually to the taxpayers who has payed to the system(these illegals did not contribute, yet they are drawing from SSA.)
REAL COST in dollars: each Illegal alien will result in a $100,000 net annual cost to taxpayers. In REALITY, that’s costing the country TRILLIONS of dollars so far.
Illegal immigration brings in an influx of poor, unskilled, and uneducated people along with all their inherent problems and infectious diseases. That is an importation of about 10 million high school dropouts. They generate a welfare state in which cause a heavy demand on TAX revenue to take care of their human service needs. Additionally, they takes away jobs from our youth & citizens.
The largest component of illegal aliens, originate from Mexico, and Latin America.
COSTS By ILLEGAL ALIENS
NOT ONLY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION HAS BANKRUPTED OUR ECONOMY,also it has debased our educational system, it has raised our health insurance premium, it has bankrupted medical centers, illegal alien drivers endangers our highway & byways, illegal aliens’ heavy usage of human services has raised our taxes exponentially, illegal aliens spread contagious diseases, they commit crimes & homicides & rapes & mayhem, they demoralize social values, they use our legal systems against citizens & government, incarceration of illegal alien offenders increased financial burden on the state, they cause racial unrest, they draw from retirement they did not contribute to–bankrupting our retirement system, money are send out of the country not supporting our economy or generate JOBS, they pollute our streets with drugs that kills or children, illegal alien criminal fugitives endangers the environment we lives in, they have destroyed acreages & acreages of forest lands at the cost to the taxpayers of 5.1 million dollars, they caused displacement of 18,880,000 American workers or take away skilled jobs from citizens, and many, many more…
SUPPORTING ILLEGAL ALIENS IS NOT A SOUND FISCAL POLICY!!! ILLEGAL ALIENS HAS BANKRUPTED THE CURRENT CALIFORNIA STATE ECONOMY in which California IS MORE THAN 30 BILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT !!!)
Hence, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION’ DEMANDS ON OUR ECONOMY has caused CITIZENS’ TAXES to escalate enormously to pay for ILLEGAL ALIENS’ immense demand for human services.
…..SUPPORTERS of your campaign, since ILLEGAL ALIENS & ALL the Latino political factions has thrown their weights behind you(as THEY IDENTIFY YOU ARE A SUPPORTER OF RIGHTS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS), clearly tells us YOU ARE NOT ON THE SIDE OF AMERICAN TAXPAYERS.
YOU DO NOT QUALIFY until YOU know how to be an AMERICAN & SIDE WITH AMERICA first.
*Data derived from countless sources that includes Heritage Foundation, Numbers USA, Center for immigration Study, F.A.I.R., national review.
This was a statement made by someone by hte name of USA1 on a campaign site.
***The facts are facts the rest is opinion.
Apple says:
I support USA1 and the stats are sooo shocking….free country huh? not anymore. I pay for myself and a few illegals ar
Apple says:
I support USA1 and the stats are sooo shocking….free country huh? not anymore. I pay for myself and a few illegals are on my back. I guess we should file tax returns like this:
Husband wife 2 kids and 5 illegals…….What the heck is going on? Republican or Democrat can someone please just for once work FOR the people?!?! Did they allow idiots in to politcal science and law…..cuz they sure are screwing up the country.
What are your thoughts? And please mak a valid arguement with proof….Don’t just tell me this is the land of immigrants….cuz fyi so is every other country. Don’t tell me about their hard hit families…..what about mine? and didn’t they create this situation 100% knowingly. did they expect candy for breaking the law and stealing for tax payers? I don’t care if they want the american dream either, so does the 6,821,000,000 on the planet.
Thanks
And please no racist remarks from either side!
I get rid of them…… by any means necessary
Can someone explain this article for me please? Obama’s new healtcare plan?
WASHINGTON – Abortion opponents fought passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul to the bitter end, and now that it’s the law, they’re using it to limit coverage by private insurers.
An obscure part of the law allows states to restrict abortion coverage by private plans operating in new insurance markets. Capitalizing on that language, abortion foes have succeeded in passing bans that, in some cases, go beyond federal statutes.
"We don’t consider elective abortion to be health care, so we don’t think it’s a bad thing for fewer private insurance companies to cover it," said Mary Harned, attorney for Americans United for Life, a national organization that wrote a model law for the states.
Abortion rights supporters are dismayed.
"Implementation of this reform should be about increasing access to health care and increasing choices, not taking them away," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a member of the Senate leadership. "Health care reform is not an excuse to take rights away from women."
Since Obama signed the legislation law March 23, Arizona and Tennessee have enacted laws restricting abortion coverage by health plans in new insurance markets, called exchanges. About 30 million people will get their coverage through exchanges, which open in 2014 to serve individuals and small businesses.
In Florida, Mississippi and Missouri, lawmakers have passed bans and sent them to their governors. Most of the states allow exceptions in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Insurers still could offer separate policies to specifically cover abortion.
Three other states may act this year — Louisiana, Ohio and Oklahoma. Overall, there are 29 states where lawmakers or public policy groups expressed serious interest, Harned said.
"You are going to see more actions like this," said Tom McClusky, a lobbyist for the socially conservative Family Research Council. "This is not something we are just going to let fall by the wayside."
Before the overhaul became law, five states had limits on private insurance coverage of abortion — Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota and Oklahoma. Abortion rights supporters are concerned that the list is growing as a result of the new federal law.
Murray had joined in voting down a federal abortion coverage ban when the Senate debated health care last year. Now she and other abortion rights supporters worry the same sorts of restrictions could spread from state to state.
"It’s really going to be a patchwork of state laws by the time these exchanges are set up," said Jessica Arons, director of women’s health at the Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy institute.
Most private health insurance plans cover abortion as a legal medical procedure, but research indicates many women opt to pay directly.
The federal law allows private insurance plans in the exchanges to cover abortion as long as they collect a separate premium. That money must remain apart from public subsidies available to help pay insurance premiums for most customers in the exchanges.
That compromise split abortion foes in Congress and around the country. Anti-abortion organizations including National Right to Life and the U.S. Catholic bishops called it a fig leaf, and continued to oppose the legislation. But Catholic hospitals and many religious orders of nuns supported it.
Abortion rights supporters were cool to the compromise, but it broke a political deadlock threatening the bill.
Anti-abortion Democrats in the House cast critical votes for the legislation after Obama also agreed to an executive order affirming long-standing federal policy against the use of taxpayer funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother — known as the Hyde amendment.
Tennessee already has enacted a far stricter ban, with no exceptions. Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen, who allowed it to become law without his signature, said in a statement it "creates a prohibition much broader than that found in current law and could unintentionally negatively impact the quality of health care options for Tennesseans."
All eyes are now on Florida, where Gov. Charlie Crist will decide soon whether to sign a bill that restricts abortion coverage in that state’s insurance exchange. Florida is a politically diverse state, not known as a bedrock of social conservatism. Crist is running for the U.S. Senate as an independent, after it became clear that he would lose the Republican primary to former state Rep. Marco Rubio.
Crist, who opposes abortion, has indicated he has problems with a part of the bill that would require a woman seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound of the embryo.
"Florida has always been pretty much of a middle-of-the road state," said Stephanie Kunkel, executive director of Planned Parenthood
Will this limit abortions or make it easier to get one?? I hope it limits to very limited cirumstances!
It takes a lawyer to explain the bill & then it is difficult..
It will limit who pays for the abortion, but not the abortion itself.
The objective is that people who oppose abortion not be forced to pay for it through this forced health care plan.
I sincerely hope they repeal this whole plan and start over with a new one.
P
How should I start my introduction & conclusion paragraph off for my Healthcare Reform Paper!!?
One more question for both parties?
Who will this Healthcare Reform bill affect & how?
I dont know
Stunning Video: OBAMA “HEALTH CARE REFORM WILL COST ADDITION
STUNNING VIDEO UNEARTHED: Obama 07 Revelation: Health Care Reform Requires Tax Hikes — Savings Just a Theory Breitbart TV and Naked Emperor News
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Speaker Pelosi and President Obama admit JAIL is “fair” for not buying insurance – 11-9-09
During a press conference at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Nancy Pelosi skirted a surprise question, twice. The questions pertained to 5-year jail terms and $250,000 fines for those refusing to buy health insurance under her plan. However, she did say her plan was “fair”.
Choice??? According to HR 3962, buy insurance or go to jail. Such “choice” is standard under dictatorships, is this tyranny the “change” that voters hoped for? Of course not.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, was in Seattle on Monday, November 9, 2009 where she joined Democratic Reps. Jay Inslee, Jim McDermott and Norman Dicks in a tour of Swedish Medical Center. Pelosi’s visit came less than 48 hours after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the massive and short-sighted “Affordable Health Care for America Act” bill by a very narrow margin, 220-215. Pelosi needed at least 218 votes for passage.
The closed door meetings and their partisan Democrat scheme worked despite the obvious will of the People as a Rasmussen poll found that 57% Americans opposed while only 41% approved government run health care. By all accounts, this bill should have died. However, the Stupak amendment revived it at the promise of removing funding for abortions, which we all know can be reversed later on. The Stupak amendment to HR 3962 was proposed and approved in the House of Representatives on November 7, 2009. Here are more details about the amendment:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/66969-se…
Pelosi was recently asked another question that she could not answer. She was asked where in the Constitution does it give government the right to run health care. Her snarky answer was simply; are you serious, are you serious? Yes, we patriots are serious; just ask us what we think of more government intrusion in our lives, this being an egregious one that will snatch 1/6th of the US economy from the private sector and in total making government in charge of about half of the entire economy. The more this reckless government strays away from the guidelines set by our Founding Fathers, the less freedom we are left with.
Liberty will die and so will patients under this sort of health care reform. Like in Canada and much of socialist Europe, patients needlessly die waiting weeks or months for life saving surgeries. And in our case, Washington bureaucrats will make decisions for you and your doctor based on cost effective procedures. That is where rationing and cost savings will offset the massive fraud, waste and abuse that government is infamous for. It is a good thing that Congress, with their 240 millionaires, will be spared the rationed care they impose of the American public.
This legislation must be stopped at all expense, as the Senate will soon vote on it. Our Liberty and quality of health care depends on our success in stopping this reckless government and their radical and destructive agenda. Their narrow-minded approach to destroying the best health care on Earth only to reform it is based on deceptive tactics and exploitation of the American people. It must be done NOW, however not implemented until 2013. Therefore, the negative fallout will not play a role in possibly reelecting our leftist president.
*The same day that Pelosi ducked the jail question, President Obama also danced around a similar question posed by White House press staff Jake Tapper. Mr. Tapper also had to ask the question twice and met with a condescending, “I’m not sure that’s the biggest question they’re asking right now”. The audio portion of the Obama interview follows the Pelosi press conference.
Please call, email, or visit your Senator and urge them to vote NO, before its too late! Once implemented this government plan, like all other entitlement programs, is permanent and will cost at least 3x the projections, totaling over $3 Trillion…of deficit spending!
Furthermore, they talk about “subsidies” and they really mean redistribution of wealth. Karl Marx said, “To each according to his need, from each according to his ability”. The have some “moral” obligation to steal from those who are productive and distribute to those who don’t produce much if any to society. This is not government’s role, they think it’s charity, but last time I checked charity was to be given, not taken by a rule by fear government with a “mandate”. This health care “debate” is not about health or care, it’s about CONTROL.
More details at this Seattle TEA party COMMUNITY ORGANIZER’s blog:
http://redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com/
Also, this press conference was not announced publicly. And the protest against Pelosi-care was organized with only 3-hours advance notice. The speaker obviously didn’t want to draw hundreds or thousands to protest her visit.
Rev. 2 – Improved Pelosi audio, added *Obama interview.
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Healthcare Reform
a project me and my buddy parker made for our geography project. our topic was Healthcare Reform. enjoy!
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