Doctor Shortage, Healthcare and Mass.

From THE HILL today.

Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors’ group in the country — confirms that “the supply of doctors just won’t be there” for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is “already a catastrophic crisis,” Stubbs noted that underserved areas in the U.S. currently need almost 17,000 new primary care physicians even before Obama’s proposals are enacted.

In the meantime, according to Bloomberg News, a 2009 survey by Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a recruiting and research firm in Irving, Texas, found that “the average[…]

A Few Details of Pelosi/Obama-care

I know there are many who support the concept of Obamacare or Pelosicare - whatever you call it. But do you think these people are aware of the following that are IN THE BILL passed by Pelosi’s House?

NO?

Then perhaps we should ensure they know about things like a MANDATORY $15,000 policy for their family, or a fine of 2.5% of their income for not buying one?

Do YOU have FIFTEEN GRAND to give to the government in the midst of this government-caused recession?

Do YOU really believe that lowering your standard of living to provide healthcare benefits to people too dumb or too[…]

Obamacare, Education, Jobs and the Future of a Divided America

What Obamacare really means:

As the two largest state budget items are Education and Medicaid, and since the Pelosi/Obamacare bill will put huge new requirements on states for additional Medicaid funding, the only way to get those funds will be for the states to lower the amount of money spent on education (most states have constitutional requirements of balancing their budgets).

By expanding Medicaid in the health care bill, Congress will set off political tornadoes across the country that will leave governors and state legislators to clean up afterward.  The math is simple, says Heritage:

• State revenues are still in a slump and will[…]

Obama Hasn’t Closed the Health-Care Sale

WSJ OpEd today on the Dems closing the healthcare bill….

While interesting and thought provoking and garnering lots (lots!) of comments, the columnist misses the main issue.

The thrust is that the voters basically won’t let Congress pass this monstrosity because of the downstream costs, and the Congress will figure out the surest way to unemployment is to vote for this anti-American, anti-liberty bill.

What is missed by the columnist is that the voters won’t be paying enough attention to know this until too late. Until it begins hitting their pocket books the voters are going to just listen to the media and[…]

“Healthcare” update - reply to Sen Ensign From Joint Taxation Committee

Just in case you’ve been only sorta following the healthcare debate and are sure that, at the end of the day, the government will do something at least passably sane, this news just in as a reply to Sen Ensign from the Health Care task force.

Just in case the article at the above link gets withdrawn…. here it is in its entirety:

September 25, 2009
Categories: Senate

Ensign receives handwritten confirmation

This doesn’t happen often enough.

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for[…]

Why is Health Care Rocket Science to our Representatives?

Fixing our healthcare system is not rocket science - but it seems to be for the government.

1. Health insurance as a corporate benefit basically didn’t exist until the competition for employees following WW2. Next corporate lobbying made it tax deductible for corporations. Removing the deductibility of the insurance premiums immediately would cause corporations to stop providing this benefit. This immediately would put 70%+ of our workforce - over 100M people - into the marketplace for health insurance. This huge increase in the market would drive up competition, drive up quality, and drive down costs. The government can and should regulate[…]

Healthcare Reform that Actually Works

August 20, 2009

Health care reform that actually works!

By William Tate

“Where’s the Republican plan?”

It’s one of the red herrings that apologists for Obamacare pull out of their bag of clichéd talking points when pressed to justify Democrats’ attempt to grab control of 18% of the nation’s economy.

Well, here’s a modest proposal. Rather than looking to Massachusetts or Tennessee for examples of health care reform, why not look to Texas?

The Lone Stare state has its problems, but in recent years it has made major progress in improving health care availability, especially in predominantly poor and minority regions. Being Texas, the solution wasn’t[…]

It’s Not About Healthcare

The American taxpayer now pays the defense bill for the Western World. Other than America, not one single country in the developed world pays its own way on defense, not one single country can transport or field a military force large or powerful enough to defend itself. Not one single country has the ability to deploy a blue-water Navy to aid tsunami victims or to ensure regional peace.

Why is this important in the health care debate?

Two reasons:

1. The primary role of government is defense of its territory and citizens,
2. Money is fungible.

The tax burdens placed on citizens of the developed world are[…]

Health Care Costs from CBO

Well, now.

Turns out that the Congressional Budget Office has provided their estimate of the cost of Obama’s healthcare:

$1,000,000,000,000. One trillion dollars.

But - we knew it’d be expensive, right? So how many people will it cover?

16,000,000. Sixteen million.

So - if my math’s right, that’s about, oh, $62,500 dollars PER PERSON COVERED.

And, remember - the CBO is now run by Democrats….

And, if there really are 46,000,000 people out there not covered, then this nice little Democrat idea would cost only, umm…. about 3 trillion dollars of YOUR tax money.

And don’t forget - Medicaid was supposed to cost only a bit - but now[…]