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Subversive Agenda of our Public Schools

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Insurance Companies Profit from Obamacare

Why the Health Insurance Industry Supported Obamacare 

DrRich | July 29th, 2010 - 5:52 am

Why Big Health Insurance Supported Obamacare, Part II

The fact that the health insurance industry supported Obamacare from the very beginning was entirely missed by the mainstream press. This is perhaps understandable, since a) the mainstream press does not understand the dynamics of the healthcare system, and b) during the Obamacare drama, the health insurance companies had been assigned, and had graciously accepted, their vital role as the Forces of Evil. To the famously credulous members of the mainstream press, it was easy to imagine that the insurers were actually among the opposition.

But the insurance industry supported Obamacare from the start – and even before the start. During the Presidential race of 2008, for instance, managed care companies donated far more money to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than to any Republican candidate, even though both of these Democratic candidates publicly castigated the insurance companies for producing most of the problems in American healthcare, and promised to institute reforms that would drastically cramp their style and reduce their profits. MORE  Even More

Government Waste

"Typically, U.S. [Government] programs lose 7% of their money to corruption, says the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.  Do the math, and that suggests $55 Billion of the $787 billion stimulus program is at risk. 'You can not throw that much money out that fast without having it abused,' says Senator Tom Cobern (R-Okla.). Bloomberg Businessweek, May 3rd 2010, page 29, "Tracking Stimulus Scamsters in Real Time." 

The above does not even count the overhead of having our money flow into the Federal Government and then back out to us and the States.  Think about it for every rebate, (housing, cash for clunkers, earned income credit, etc) that is issued we lose 7% just in fraud, plus overhead.

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NHS [UK] maternity services in meltdown

NHS maternity services in meltdown: A former midwife reveals how understaffed wards are sinking into chaos.

By Verena Burns
Last updated at 1:21 AM on 16th December 2009

Clutching her husband's hand and with agony and exhaustion etched on her face, a young woman struggled into a room in the maternity unit where I worked.

She was in the early stages of labour with her first baby, she was terrified, in excruciating pain and desperate for any crumb of support.

Helpless beside her, her overnight bag in his hand, her poor husband looked equally traumatised.

My heart went out to them. But I knew there was little I could do. With five other pregnant women to care for at the same time, all with hugely different and complex problems, I was rushed off my feet and didn't have the time to look after her properly, to allay her fears or to hear about how she wanted the birth to unfold.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1235921/Midwives-meltdown-A-NHS-worker-reveals-understaffed-maternity-wards-sinking-chaos.html#ixzz0ZpAg9lI9

WSJ - What the Pelosi Health-Care Bill Really Says

By BETSY MCCAUGHEY

The health bill that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing to a vote (H.R. 3962) is 1,990 pages. Here are some of the details you need to know.

What the government will require you to do:

• Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a "qualified plan." If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a "grace period" to switch you to a "qualified plan," meaning a plan designed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. If you buy your own insurance, there's no grace period. You'll have to enroll in a qualified plan as soon as any term in your contract changes, such as the co-pay, deductible or benefit.

• Sec. 224 (p. 118) provides that 18 months after the bill becomes law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide what a "qualified plan" covers and how much you'll be legally required to pay for it. That's like a banker telling you to sign the loan agreement now, then filling in the interest rate and repayment terms 18 months later. 

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