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Charles Krauthammer Offends Mark Shields By Saying ObamaCare
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Charles Krauthammer makes Mark Shields squeal like a pig for saying ObamaCare on Inside Washington
Charles Krauthammer makes Mark Shields squeal like a pig for saying ‘ObamaCare’ on Inside Washington LOL! I love watching progressive liberal hacks like Mark Shield, whine and squeal and bi*ch and moan. Check out the reaction that progressive liberal media hack Mark Shields had when Charles Krauthammer called ObamaCARE umm “ObamaCARE.” Where progressive liberal hacks this whiny in the ’90s when people referred to the attempted Clinton healthcare takeover as Hillar...

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER THINKS REPUBLICANS should be holding a lot of hearings on ObamaCare. After the
Charles Krauthammer THINKS Republicans should be holding a lot of hearings on ObamaCare. After the Repeal vote. ...

Charles Krauthammer: Republicans Should Not Take Away Funds From Obamacare
Columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer is often the conservative contrarian and sometimes referred to as “a brilliant man,” therefore Republicans are often very interested to hear his advice. While many Republicans in the House of Representatives are eager to return to Congress in January so they can start with their plans to defund ObamaCare, Krauthammer urged they put the brakes on such plans. While Krauthammer still favors a symbolic Repeal of Obamacare in the Ho...

The effect of Obamacare on some Dallas area hospitals
There are currently 22 physicians-owned Hospitals (POHs) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (now almost universally known as "ObamaCare"), are being adversely affected by Section 6001 of the Act. POHs are primarily specialty hospitals, exclusively treating certain medical problems, the other kind of hospital is the general hospital that does everything from simple first aid to Brain Surgery. Section 6001 of Obama's Health Care law effectively...

The Real Number of Uninsured Americans
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Across the Health Care debate, supporters of ObamaCare have tried to inflate the number of Uninsured, and too often they have gotten away with it. Yesterday, for instance, a Huffington Post banner headline read, “Number of Uninsured Americans Soars to Over 50 Million.” But this claim cannot withstand examination. The Huffington Post story relies on a “sobering new report” from the decidedly pro-Obamacare Kai...

Is It a Right or Isn't It?
In an October, 2008 debate against John McCain, Barack Obama said that Health Care "should be a right for every American." In rights parlance, his assertion is one of a "positive right" meaning that others may be compelled to provide a person's health care. This is distinguished from essentially every right laid out for Americans in our Constitution: these are "negative rights," meaning that they proscribe others from inhibiting you from exercising your right but do not otherwise require active ...

Obama Administration Tries to Bring Back Death Panels
Having failed to get the idea of “Death Panels” in through the front door of the new healthcare law the Obama Administration is trying to sneak them in through the back way. On the day after Christmas The New York Times reported that the Obama administration, which had walked away from a proposal to let Medicare reimburse physicians for their work on “end-of-life planning” from Legislation overhauling the nation’s Healthcare System, would instead revive the propos...

Organ transplant group prepares lobbying campaign
The association representing organ transplant organizations is building a lobbying coalition as it prepares to stave off Regulation under the Healthcare Reform law while pushing back against state Budget cuts. The Virginia-based Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) announced Tuesday that it has hired Strategic Health Care to help with federal lobbying in the new year. "Organ donation is a small component of our nation's Healthcare System, and in an evolving healthcare environm...

Social Security reform is key
The main achievements of the lame-duck session of Congress were reminders of what might have been. President Obama gave something to get something. To secure a second stimulus, he accepted Republican economic methods. To pass the New START Treaty, Obama offered assurances to Republican senators on nuclear modernization and Missile Defense. Contrast this to Healthcare Reform, imposed in party-line maneuvers that left an aftertaste of ideological radicalism. The American political system, it turns...

Actually, Bush VETOED the 2008 bill slipping in the end-of-life provision
The Medicare policy will pay doctors for holding end-of-life-care discussions with patients, according to the Times. A similar provision was dropped from the new Healthcare Reform law after Republicans accused the administration of withholding care from the sick, elderly and disabled. However, an administration spokesman said the Regulation, which is less specific than the reform law’s draft language, is actually a continuation of a policy enacted under former President George W. Bush. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog
THE $100 BILLION QUESTION What will Orange Julius slice from the Budget to keep his $100 billion spending reduction promise? Here's a hint: it's not going to be from defense. Republicans view their midterm electoral victory as a mandate to cut spending, and cutting $100 billion from a $3 Trillion federal Budget sounds like a reasonable goal. But GOP leaders say they will focus only on non-security Discretionary Spending, and won't slash funding for defense, Social Security or Medicare. That ...

How not to be taken seriously on budget issues
HOW NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY ON Budget ISSUES.... At face value, the pledge from congressional Republicans to slash $100 billion from the federal budget is itself superficial and shallow. It's not as if GOP leaders identified $100 billion in unnecessary spending and vowed to eliminate it, or identified some specific policy benefit associated with these cuts. Rather, Republicans picked $100 billion as an arbitrary figure -- apparently chosen because it's a round number -- and then started work...

5 private equity story-lines for 2011
2010 was a comeback year for Private Equity. Deal volume nearly doubled, portfolio values were boosted by public market comps (thanks, FAS 157!) and PE firms found multiple ways to manage Debt loads on bubble-era portfolio companies (leverage wall, what leverage wall?). So what will happen to private equity in 2011? Here are five story-lines worth watching: Private equity Fundraising crossed the $200 billion threshold, and the $300 billion mark one year later. Combine that with a dormant fundrai...

Obamacare to limit our health care choices
Talk to a British émigré friend of mine whose octogenarian parents still live in the UK and have to deal with their National Health Service (NHS) and he loses his temper.  Talk to my septuagenarian parents who have each had health difficulties over the past year and you hear of the challenges of aging and the choices available to them. When each has had to consult a physician for care, they have often asked friends and family members (in the medical profession) if the course of action that

Charles Krauthammer: Republicans Shouldnt Defund Obamacare
His argument is political in that he thinks Republicans will do themselves political harm by giving Democrats an excuse for why ObamaCare will have failed. They’ll be able to claim that the only reason the bill didn’t work was because Republicans wouldn’t let it work. His preferred solution? Let it be implemented, apparently, and let Americans grow to dislike it to the point where they demand its Repeal. I am skeptical about taking away the funds because what it will do, it wil...

The Obamacrats Are Coming: Encouraging Seniors Suicides
Is anyone out there just a little creeped out by the Federal Government’s decision to get involved in end-of-life counseling? Well, you should be. Donald Berwick, the Death Panels czar, has decreed that the government will officially encourage old people to kill themselves. Essentially, the Obama Administration is saying to old people: take a long walk off a short pier. the Obama Administration is planning to enact a new Medicare Regulation, effective January 1, 2011, under which the gover...

Illinois Policy Institute slams Quinn's "debt bomb"
Governor Pat Quinn is proposing that Illinois borrow $15 billion from Wall Street to pay old bills. He's calling it a Debt bond, I think it's a Debt bomb. A one percent Income Tax hike will finance paying back the loan. The Illinois Policy Institute thinks this is a bad idea and it explains why: Chicago - Governor Quinn's borrowing plan will worsen the state's fiscal health, not improve it, notes the nonpartisan Illinois Policy Institute. The independent Think Tank points out that while bo...

Numerous reform law provisions take effect Jan. 1
The new year will ring in implementation of numerous Healthcare Reform law provisions, as the massive overhaul is just starting to take effect. Many of the biggest changes prompted by the law - the mandate that everyone buy Insurance; the state insurance exchanges; the Subsidies to help most Americans buy insurance - don't kick in until 2014. But more than 20 provisions of the reform law go into effect in 2011, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation timeline.  The following go into effect Ja...

This Week's Health Industry News
With the Congress in adjournment and many business people taking off the time between holidays, we do not expect any substantive health industry news this week. But we could be surprised. Take, for instance, the news reported Sunday by our colleague Robert Pear in Washington. The Obama Administration, through an administrative rule, is resurrecting the notion of end-of-life planning services for older Americans — the same sort of planning that was falsely characterized as “Death Panels”

Led by California, Inspection Backlogs Weaken Dialysis Oversight
ProPublica, Dec. 28, 2010, 9:36 a.m. Valerie Prenkert is haunted each time she thinks of the small Northern California clinic where her mother got Dialysis. At the start of a treatment on Oct. 6, 2008, a clinic employee inserted a needle into her mother's arm improperly, puncturing the back wall of her blood vessel, court and medical records show. Less than two hours later, 67-year-old Jessie Kay Christiansen was dead from massive internal bleeding. The loss was shocking. So was a fact that Pr...

Ambulance fees increasing across USA
When a Gig Harbor, Wash., Fire & Medic One ambulance speeds toward a Hospital, medics are focused on saving lives, not money, says Medical Division Chief Paul Berlin. But the service — and thousands like it across the USA — can't ignore the bottom line — not when the fire district is projecting a $1.5 million drop in Property Tax revenue next year. So on Sept. 1, the tax-funded district raised its ambulance fees, hiking its basic service from $375 to $550. "We're not here ...

Obamacare Regulators Are Getting Ready To Pull the Plug On Grandma
The New York Times, bless its heart, is looking out for Grandma. In a  front page lead story on Christmas Day, the Times reported that the Obama Administration is planning to enact a new Medicare Regulation, effective January 1, 2011, under which the government will pay doctors who advise elder patients annually on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment. In other words, the Obama Administration will ensure that doctors ...

Today in Capitalism
Has anyone else noticed that every other ad on Cable Television these days is for Medicare Advantage plans? I guess “ObamaCare” didn’t kill Medicare Advantage after all. I also noticed a news story about a company called High Road Capital, which seems to be in the business of buying things, snapping up a whole lot of Health Care businesses. Private Equity firms have snapped up many companies that provide medical billing, coding and document processing this year in an effort ...

Federal Government Manages Finances So Badly They Cant Be Audited
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said it could not render an opinion on the 2010 consolidated Financial Statements of the Federal Government, because of widespread material Internal Control weaknesses, significant uncertainties, and other limitations. “Even though significant progress has been made since the enactment of key financial management reforms in the 1990s, our report on the U.S. government’s consolidated financial statement illustrates that much work remains to be...