Obama's BIG lie about Healthcare...overhaul could cost $1.5 trillion

The US still has the best health care in the world and we still keep medical decisions private, Obama bureaucrats would like to change that...you would no longer have the choice...Big government would choose for you...not the choice I want.

Health care overhaul may cost about $1.5 trillion

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – Guaranteeing health insurance for all Americans may cost about $1.5 trillion over the next decade, health experts say. That's more than double the $634 billion 'down payment' President Barack Obama set aside for health reform in his budget, raising the prospect ofsticker shock at a time of record federal spending. Administration officials have pointedly avoided providing a ballpark estimate, saying it depends on details to be worked out with Congress.

"It's impossible to put a price tag on the plan before even the basics have been finalized," said White House spokesman Reid Cherlin. "Here's what we do know: The reserve fund in the president's budget is fully paid for and provides a substantial down payment on the cost of the reforming our health care system."

Still, the potential runaway costs are raising concerns among Republicans and some Democrats as Congress prepares to draft next year's budget. The U.S. spends $2.4 trillion a year on health care, more than any other advanced country. And some experts estimate that a third or more of that goes for tests and procedures that provide little or no benefit.

"We shouldn't just be throwing more money on top of the present system, because the present system is so wasteful," said Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee. more...

Obama's national servitude...H.R. 1388...the vote is tomorrow!!

This bill is the beginning of 'forced' volunteer service...not the service folks do for church or maybe the Red Cross...this bill pays for 'service'...so, ultimately Obama will CHANGE the definition of service.

H.R. 1388 GIVE ACT, Hidden Billions, to be Voted tomorrow

Full H.R 1388 Document

Congressional Budget Office ^ | March 17, 2009 | Peter Fontaine, Ass. Dir.Budget Analysis 

Posted on Tue Mar 17 2009 17:16:28 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by joygrace

“H.R. 1388 would amend and reauthorize programs established under the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (NCSA) and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (DVSA). 

Assuming appropriation of the estimated amounts, CBO estimates that implementing the bill would cost $481 million in 2010 and about $6 billion over the 2010-2014 period.Enacting the bill would not affect direct spending or receipts. 

H.R. 1388 contains no intergovernmental mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments.H.R. 1388 contains no private-sector mandates as defined in UMRA. 

ESTIMATED COST TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The estimated budgetary impact of H.R. 1388 is shown in the following table. The costs of this legislation fall within budget function 500 (education, employment, training, and social services).”

(Excerpt) Read more at cbo.gov ...

Two Faced: Dodd and Dems

Business as usual...hmmm

 

Two Faced: Dodd Protected Bonuses, Now He Wants Them Out

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:30 PM | newsmax
By: Jim Meyers

Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd on Monday criticized the bonuses given to executives of American International Group Inc. and suggested that the government could tax the recipients to recoup some or all of the payouts.

But it was Dodd who inserted language — known as the Dodd amendment — in the $787 billion stimulus bill that allowed all bonuses awarded before February 11, 2009, to be paid to AIG executives. That very amendment, which is now law, is now the chief hurdle to government officials who want to recover that money.

The amendment was meant to restrict executive pay for bailed-out banks, but it also included the exception for "contractually obligated bonuses agreed on or before Feb. 11, 2009." more...

Obama must fail in Socialized medicine!!

Socialised medicine will kill...without care...without cause...without reason. 

Victims Of Socialism

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Deadly Rationing: The gatekeeper for Great Britain's national health care system is denying cancer patients drugs that would extend their lives. Why? Because the medication is considered too expensive.

What's a life worth? Apparently not much in Great Britain.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, the government agency that decides which treatments the National Health Service will pay for, has effectively banned Lapatinib, a drug that was shown to slow the progression of breast cancer, and Sutent, which is the only medicine that can prolong the lives of some stomach cancer patients.

Banning beneficial drugs due to cost is nothing new in Britain. NICE, which has to be one of history's most ironic acronyms, forbade the use of Tarceva, a lung cancer drug proven to extend patients' lives, and Abatacept, even though it's one of the only drugs that has been shown in clinical testing to improve severe rheumatoid arthritis.

Once again, we have to ask: Do we really want to use the British system as the model for a U.S. health care regime? more...