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Healthcare Reform Information Resources:
Faces Of Government Healthcare
What the Liberal Media Aren’t Telling You About Obama’s Healthcare Plans
Headlines:
Senate Committee Blocks Anti-Rationing Amendments
Obama Wants Health Care Bill Passed Before August Recess
House Democrats Will Seek Massive $540 Billion Tax Increase—Announcement Came Late Friday Afternoon
Obama confident of passing healthcare reform
GOP seeks remedy in health care resolution
Pelosi Says CBO Must Estimate Cost of Final Health Care Bill Before House Votes on It
Democrats unveil health care reform bill
This brief fact sheet should get your attention…
“Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.[1] Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the U.K. and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.”
Read the other 9 facts about American Health Care compared to other countries which have already instituted universal health care…
10 Surprising Facts about American Health Care – Brief Analysis #649
House bill would make health care a right
Obama political organization airing its 1st TV ad, says now is time for health care overhaul
Organizational chart of the House Democrats Health Plan (pdf)
Notice States’ position in this scheme of things
From Great Britain’s government-run healthcare system: A 9-month wait for arthritis treatment: Delay can mean a lifetime of agony for victims
Obama Open to Partisan Vote on Health-Care Overhaul, Aides Say
Democrats’ $540-Billion Tax Hike Will Force People into Government-Run Health Care, Congressman Says
Obama Health Care Plan Will Provide Taxpayer-Funded Abortion on Demand, Congressmen Say
Democrats’ Health Care Plan Would Cost at Least $1 Trillion Over Ten Years, CBO Says
Senate Democratic Whip Pledges to Read Health Care Bill Before Voting On It
Senate Health Committee Passes Health Care Overhaul
“The Senate health committee cast a milestone vote Wednesday to approve legislation expanding insurance coverage to nearly all Americans, becoming the first congressional panel to act on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.”
The True Cost of the House Health Plan in Pictures
House Dems Unveil 1,000 Page Health Bill, Complete With Surtaxes On The Wealthy
An American government-run healthcare system you don’t hear about: PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care’s victims “Wealthier tribes can supplement the federal health service budget with their own money. But poorer tribes, often those on the most remote reservations, far away from city hospitals, are stuck with grossly substandard care. The agency itself describes a “rationed health care system.”
VA admits its failure to give female veterans proper care
The current House Democrat reform plan taxes the uninsured. Some hypothetical scenarios here.
PDF files for the healthcare reform bills: House Bill HR 3200
Senate Bill (no number)
The House Bill outlaws private medical insurance: It’s Not An Option
The Health Care Reform Bill in Its Own Words parses out some of the language of the new Health Care bill in the House. Words that relate to NWIP’s Core Values (fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets) are used less than 100 times. Words that increase the size and scope of government and the budget are used over 1,400 times.
CBO Chief: Health Bills To Increase Federal Costs
White House wants more power to set Medicare rates
As Health Care Deadline Looms, Congress Leaves Key Reform Details to Administration
A decription of real world results of the proposed healthcare reform plans: O’S BROKEN PROMISES
...Shockingly, only a portion of the money accumulated from slashing senior benefits and raising taxes goes to pay for covering the uninsured. The Senate bill allocates huge sums to “community transformation grants,” home visits for expectant families, services for migrant workers — and the creation of dozens of new government councils, programs and advisory boards slipped into the last 500 pages.
Governors worried by healthcare bill costs
Their concern: the expansion of Medicaid.
The House Bill’s Health Insurance Czar
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is required by the proposed law — The Affordable Health Choices Act,which was voted out of committee on July 15 — to create a database within one year of the law’s enactment that will include detailed information about those who sign up for government-run or supported health care programs, including their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, language and disabilities.
Health Care Bill Would Curb Job Growth by Encouraging Small Businesses to Remain Small
Tennessee’s Troubled ‘Public Option’ – TennCare – Could Foreshadow Obama’s Health Care Plan
Obama Administration Urges Health Care Critics to Hold Their Fire Until Congress Presents Final Plan
Nancy Pelosi: Make millionaires pay for health care
Budget chief: Docs fees not paid for in Obama bill
Cardin Town Hall Meeting On Health Care Gets Angry
Waxman, Blue Dogs strike deal on costs
Conservative Democrats Push Health Bill Changes
Fiscally conservative House Democrats forced leaders of their party on Tuesday to slow the pace of work on major health care legislation so Congress and President Obama could address their concerns about the cost of the bill, its impact on small businesses and the shape of a proposed new government health insurance plan.
Horrid details emerge on Obamacare legislation
FACT CHECK: Obama’s health care claims adrift?
Experts Dispute Some Points in Health Talk
Democrats Block GOP Health Care Mailing
Reid: No health care vote in Senate until fall
House healthcare talks break down in anger
For Public, Obama Didn’t Fill in Health Blanks
Health Reform’s Hidden Victims
CBO deals new blow to health plan
Obama budget director fires back at CBO
Lobbyists On Board With Healthcare Reform: Lobbyists the silver lining in health care storm?
Fighting Obesity Is ‘At the Heart’ of Obama’s Plan to Provide Better and Lower-Cost Health Care
Senators Near Bipartisan Deal on Health Care; No Public Option
As Health Care Stalls, House Majority Leader Declares No Provision ‘Absolutely Essential’
‘Jane Roe’ To Nancy Pelosi: ‘Don’t Put Abortion in Health-Care Reform Bill’
Pelosi Dodges Question of Whether Government Health-Care Plan Will Fund Abortion
Obama Takes Health Care Pitch Back to an Increasingly Skeptical Public
White House Health Care Talking Points
Benefits of Healthcare Reform a Tough Sell for Americans
Doctors Oppose Giving Commission Power Over Medicare Payments
No healthcare reform vote before autumn: Obama
Waiting until September: House Democrats reach deal on healthcare bill
Poll: Obama loses ground on health care
Goodbye to Private Health Insurance
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Nwip's Blog 
July 14, 2009 at 5:30 pm
The blockage of Anti-Rationing amendments are extremely concerning. In essence, it would allow the Government to perform a cost analysis based on what? Whether they consider me an asset to the community?
If I am a senior and am no longer productive, according to some hodgepodge formula the Government determines.. I wouldn’t be offered health care procedures which could save my life?
July 19, 2009 at 11:22 am
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