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The morning after the House passed the health care reform bill 220-215, with the lone Republican vote from Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao of Louisiana, McClatchy Newspapers’ Steve Thomma comments that Cao is “probably a one-term Congressman anyway” and alleges Cao “cut a deal with the White House” in making the vote.

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Information about the health care reform taking place in the USA. Just taking a moment to encourage you to get the information you need if you have not already done so.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform#healthcare-menu

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/introduction/index.html

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/index.html

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More at http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102 Wolff Pt.4 : Employers will push workers off company health plans so Gov plan must provide good coverage

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Arthri-D with Jim Shriner and Michael Alden. For more information go to: http://www.arthrid.com. Arthri-D continues to change peoples lives!

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Last week on Christmas Eve, after many backroom deals were made, the Senate passed the healthcare reform bill with a strictly partisan vote. I was pleased that my colleagues in the GOP are on the right side of this bill. Although this vote was a major step in Healthcare Reform becoming reality, they still have to reconcile the Senate bill with the House-passed version in conference committee. This could prove even more difficult and costly than the Senate vote.

There was a little bit of controversy surrounding one particular Senator who was initially against the bill, but then, coincidentally, a large amount of Medicare funding specifically for his state was tucked inside and he ended up voting for it. One wonders how much more of that will have to go on to achieve final passage.

But this is how politicians in Washington deal with problems: they throw your money at them. Healthcare reform is no different. The Senate version of the bill, at last count, will cost $871 billion. The House version tops $1 trillion. But they tell us this is for the health of Americans, and how dare we count the cost?

Such is the arrogance of politicians. There seems to be no end to the problems they feel capable and duty-bound to solve through legislative proclamation and plenty of your money. To hear them talk, one might think that a few words spoken on Capitol Hill would make problems just disappear. All it takes it good intentions.

But no good can come from 2400 pages of Washingtons good intentions.

I have observed quite the opposite throughout my political career in the House of Representatives, and fear that with this immense legislation, our healthcare problems are only just beginning. Over the last few decades, I have seen healthcare subjected to more and more creeping red tape that only creates bottlenecks and increases costs as new bureaucratic hurdles are put in place.

Politicians cannot solve the problems created by ever-increasing intervention by exponentially increasing their intervention. Similarly, they cannot improve the quality of healthcare and expand access to it for all Americans simply by legislative decree. If only it were that simple! The reality is the free market, when allowed to function, naturally increases access and drives prices down through competition. The free market keeps service providers accountable by allowing people to take their business elsewhere.

This government intervention will eventually create a near monopoly of providers in health insurance as smaller companies are squeezed out and innovation comes to a grinding halt due to formidable barriers to entry. The government will determine prices and levels of service that will apply to everyone, regardless of want or individual circumstances. The true insurance model of healthcare cost management, meaning major medical coverage only, will basically become illegal. Opting out of the system will incur heavy tax penalties.

Expanding government reach so deeply into this very sensitive area of our personal lives and such a major part of our economy means more opportunities for waste, fraud and abuse of the system. One need only remember the recent bailouts for an example of how government handles systemic waste, fraud and abuse.

So while the Senate patted itself on the back last week for delivering a Christmas gift to Americans, time will prove it was instead a great big lump of coal.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092006682.html

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fi-kids-health-insurance-20100921,0,5977746,print.story

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Prospect for health care reform shows that Obama’s economic policies and fundamentally that’s one of the major arguments for his health care reform bills. (Political Capital)

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VOTE Today -11/30/09 To Help TYT Beat Limbaugh: http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2009/11/12/203422/61

Watch more at http://www.theyoungturks.com

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IN A SPECIAL NEWS BULLETIN, Alex Jones warns against the Big Government, Big Insurance Health Care Bill being forced down in the Senate despite opposition by
members in both parties and an overwhelming majority of Americans.

After all the denial, the final version of the bill proves to have in place the so-called death panels, the abortion funding, no public option, cuts in Medicare and forced coverage backed
by heavy fines or prison.

Outrageously, Senator Reid & co. have added a section to the bill, Section 3403, that prevents
any future Congress from changing the Medicare Advisory Boards (i.e. the ‘death panels’). Section 3403 reads “it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.”
Watch the video for Alex’s full analysis.

For more info:

Bleak Deficit Numbers Projected Under Obama’s Budget Plan

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/business/jan-june09/budget_03-20.html

Poll: Public Disapproval of ‘Obamacare’ Jumps to 52 Percent

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/09/poll-public-disapproval-obamacare-jumps-percent/

Obamacare: Nightmare before Christmas

http://savannahnow.com/opinion/2009-12-23/obamacare-nightmare-christmas

Obama’s trillions dwarf Bush’s ‘dangerous’ spending

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-trillions-dwarf-Bushs-dangerous-spending.html

Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/24/obama-shatters-spending-record-year-presidents/

ObamaCare Keeps Falling in the Polls

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703514404574587820416102550.html

Health Care Bill Is A Huge Tax Heist

http://www.prisonplanet.com/health-care-bill-is-a-huge-tax-heist.html

Under ObamaCare, Prepare To Wait 18 Months To See A Doctor

http://www.prisonplanet.com/under-obamacare-prepare-to-wait-18-months-to-see-a-doctor.html

Polls: Majority Disapprove of Health Care Legislation

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/polls-majority-disapproves-of-health-care-legislation/

Kucinich: Health reform legislation ‘a bailout for insurance companies’

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/kucinich-health-reform-legislation-a-bailout-insurance-companies/

Health Care Bill “Death Panels” Could Only Be Repealed With Super Majority

http://www.infowars.com/health-care-bill-death-panels-could-only-be-repealed-with-super-majority/

Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts in health bill

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091203/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul

Five critical flaws in the Senate health care bill

http://www.examiner.com/x-27701-Dallas-Health-Examiner~y2009m12d23-Five-critical-flaws-in-the-Senate-health-care-bill

Senate health care bill giant power grab for HHS

http://www.examiner.com/x-27580-St-Louis-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d30-Senate-health-care-bill-giant-power-grab-for-HHS

Report on Senate health bill: Medicare cuts jeopardize access to care

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/medi-d14.shtml

Cuts to Medicare for home health care providers
http://www.pri.org/politics-society/government/cuts-medicare-home-healt-care1778.html

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As Washington continues debating healthcare reform the rest of the country is primarily concerned about jobs and the economy. It is still uncertain what policies will be implemented, but I am certain about one thing: It will only further devastate our economy and our dollar.

The leadership has come up with a proposal they are confident will be what they consider fiscally responsible, only to have it scored as nearly twice as expensive by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Estimates of past healthcare spending programs have been off by as much as 100 percent so there is no telling what the actual cost will be.

The past century should have taught us one thing: that government intervention is expensive. Government programs lend themselves so easily to waste, fraud and abuse. Combine that with overall inefficiency and it all adds up to a hefty price tag for the taxpayer, with not much leftover for actual services. An outright takeover of an entire sector of the economy, especially one as important as healthcare, is something that we just cannot afford for the government to do right now. Not to mention the fact that it is completely unconstitutional. But Washington insists on torturing the numbers and tinkering around the edges rather than facing this truth.

If Healthcare Reform does indeed pass, we should not be under the illusion that it will be free. The money to pay for it will have to come from somewhere. They say they will get the money from cutting waste, fraud and abuse, but all of that is seemingly intrinsic to government programs. Since they want to expand the governments reach we have to assume we will be trading waste, fraud and abuse for waste, fraud and abuse with a bigger budget. The powers that be have insisted the money wont come from higher taxes, it wont come from rationing of care, and it wont come from higher premiums. This can only then put more pressure on the Fed to print the money out of thin air. We already have a weakening dollar. They are accelerating everything that weakened it in the past. Adding this new, monumental pressure could very well be the straw that will break the dollars back.

Foreign creditors are already nervous about continuing to invest in the US because of our skyrocketing debt. The explosion of debt that is certain to accompany the enactment of this national health care bill can only add to that nervousness.

Ironically, enactment of the health care bill could help the cause of liberty by hastening the day when Congress is forced by economic circumstances to stop increasing the welfare-warfare state and return to the Constitution.

There are many problems with our current healthcare system, to be sure. There are many tragic stories to be told. However, we need to look at the root of our problems in order to address them properly. More government intervention and bureaucracy injected into healthcare will take a flawed system and make immeasurably worse.

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