Would You Repeal Health Care Reform?

January 4th, 2011   (196 views )

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican repeal of President Barack Obama's
health care overhaul law would take away personal freedoms and put
power back in the hands of insurance companies, the
administration's top health official said Tuesday.
House Republicans have scheduled a vote next week to repeal the
law, calling it a job-killing mandate that raises costs all around
and promotes government intrusion in decisions that should be left
to individuals and doctors, business owners and regulators at the
state level.
Previewing the administration's counterattack, Health and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said new benefits under the
law have freed millions of Americans from worry that they'll lose
or be denied insurance, made it easier for small businesses to
sponsor coverage for their employees, and provided more affordable
prescriptions for seniors on Medicare.
"The new law is giving people more freedoms and more choices,"
Sebelius told reporters. "Repeal really takes away all of those
freedoms and shifts power back to the insurance companies."
While the repeal push is likely to win in the House, it appears
headed for a dead end in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where
leaders have vowed to block it.

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Comment from: Caspian [Visitor] Email · http://tinyurl.com/q243zq
I would hope many of the CBC members and the few liberals left in the House will join the Republicans and kill Obama Care which mostly benefits the HMOs/Big Pharma.

The CEOs of the Insurance industry are the only ones who really love Obama Care.

Single Payer or even a public option would be much better and fairer for "We The People"!

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Revolving door for health care aides / 9/15/09 / http://tinyurl.com/q243zq
Some of the most influential aides in the closed-door Senate Finance Committee negotiations over health care reform have ties to interests that would be directly affected by the legislation.
Before she was hired last year as senior counsel to Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Liz Fowler worked as a highly paid public policy adviser for WellPoint Inc., the nation’s largest publicly traded health benefits company.
Mark Hayes, health policy director and chief health counsel for Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), is married to a registered lobbyist for a firm that represents drug companies and hospital groups, although the couple says she doesn’t lobby Grassley’s office.
Frederick Isasi, a health policy adviser to Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), was a registered lobbyist at Powell Goldstein, where his clients included public hospitals and the American Stroke Association.
Kate Spaziani, senior health policy aide to Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), was also a registered lobbyist at Powell Goldstein, although Conrad’s office says she worked as a lawyer — not as a lobbyist — for public hospitals on Medicare issues.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27155.html
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Comment from: Caspian [Visitor] Email · http://tinyurl.com/yjxnggq
Uncle Bucky William H.T. Bush sits on the board of Health Care with Susan Bayh the Democratic Senators wife.
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http://ir.wellpoint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=130104&p=irol-govboard
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 14:54
Comment from: Caspian [Visitor] Email · http://tinyurl.com/msbzkb
Health Insurance Company CEOs Total Compensation in 2008
A few months back we posted the Total Compensation for a number of Health Insurance Company CEOs for 2007. Those numbers, culled from the companies’ SEC filings (Schedule 14A) appears immediately below. Below that are the numbers for 2008, courtesy of FierceHealthcare.com through Jan Rodolpho, RN.
http://tinyurl.com/msbzkb

Ins. Co. & CEO With 2007 Total CEO Compensation
Aetna Ronald A. Williams: $23,045,834
Cigna H. Edward Hanway: $25,839,777
Coventry Dale B. Wolf : $14,869,823
Health Net Jay M. Gellert: $3,686,230
Humana Michael McCallister: $10,312,557
U.Health Grp Stephen J. Hemsley: $13,164,529
WellPoint Angela Braly (2007): $9,094,271
L. Glasscock (2006): $23,886,169

Ins. Co. & CEO With 2008 Total CEO Compensation
Aetna, Ronald A. Williams: $24,300,112
Cigna, H. Edward Hanway: $12,236,740
Coventry, Dale Wolf: $9,047,469
Health Net, Jay Gellert: $4,425,355
Humana, Michael McCallister: $4,764,309
U. Health Group, Stephen J. Hemsley: $3,241,042
Wellpoint, Angela Braly: $9,844,212
http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2009/05/20/health-insurance-ceos-total-compensation-in-2008/
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 14:56
Comment from: mags [Visitor] Email
The cavalry comes tomorrow to big to over turn this nightmare. Death panels,
free health care to illegals, ruining the best health care system in the world....the people have spoken, the Obamanation in health care will be killed one way or another, defunding, or by the Supremes
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 17:23
Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
FIRST, CUT THE PORK, VIS-A-VIS BRIBERY!


How about LOWERING THE PROFIT OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND DRUG STORES, LOWERING THE EXORBITANT SALARIES OF MILLIONAIRE PHYSICIANS, ETCETERA? TO BE MORE IN LINE WITH THE AVERAGE AMERICAN ON WHOM THEY ARE DEPENDENT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE FROM MILK TO FOOD TO HOUSING TO TRANSPORTATION, TO THE MEDIA (newspapers, television, the internet), ETCETERA
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 17:25
Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
FIRST, CUT THE PORK, VIS-A-VIS BRIBERY!


How about LOWERING THE PROFIT OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND DRUG STORES, LOWERING THE EXORBITANT SALARIES OF MILLIONAIRE PHYSICIANS, ETCETERA? TO BE MORE IN LINE WITH THE AVERAGE AMERICAN ON WHOM THEY ARE DEPENDENT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE FROM MILK TO FOOD TO HOUSING TO TRANSPORTATION, TO THE MEDIA (newspapers, television, the internet), FIREMEN, POLICE, HOUSEKKEEPERS, ETCETERA
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 17:27
Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
FIRST, CUT THE PORK, VIS-A-VIS BRIBERY!


How about LOWERING THE PROFIT OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND DRUG STORES, LOWERING THE EXORBITANT SALARIES OF MILLIONAIRE PHYSICIANS, ETCETERA? TO BE MORE IN LINE WITH THE AVERAGE AMERICAN ON WHOM THEY ARE DEPENDENT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE FROM MILK TO FOOD TO HOUSING TO TRANSPORTATION, TO THE MEDIA (newspapers, television, the internet),TO FIREMEN, TO POLICE, TO HOUSEKKEEPERS, ETCETERA
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 17:28
Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
FIRST, CUT THE PORK, VIS-A-VIS BRIBERY!


How about LOWERING THE PROFIT OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND DRUG STORES, LOWERING THE EXORBITANT SALARIES OF MILLIONAIRE PHYSICIANS, ETCETERA? TO BE MORE IN LINE WITH THE AVERAGE AMERICAN ON WHOM THEY ARE DEPENDENT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE FROM MILK TO FOOD TO HOUSING TO TRANSPORTATION, TO THE MEDIA (newspapers, television, the internet),TO FIREMEN, TO POLICE, TO HOUSEKKEEPERS, ETCETERA

and TORT REFORM WITH A CAP FOR MEDICAL LAWSUITS?
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 17:29
Comment from: Hank [Visitor] Email
I would not vote to repeal healthcar because my grand children that are going to college and are 20 & 19 can stay on their mothers Insurance untill 26. Otherwise they would not have any at this time.
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 18:31
Comment from: robert [Visitor] Email
I thought Issue # 1 was JOBS ?
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 18:31
Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email
"The new law is giving people more freedoms and more choices,"
Sebelius told reporters. "Repeal really takes away all of those
freedoms and shifts power back to the insurance companies." - RNN

So I see now, the Obama Administration 'thinks' Obamacare adds more choices, freedoms and power to the people. And repeal will serve only to shift that power back to the insurance company's leaving people weak and powerless.

Is anybody buying this nonsense?
PermalinkPermalink 01/04/11 @ 21:11
Comment from: Mike G [Visitor] Email · http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47023.html
...and it turns out that Nancy Pelosi is buying the nonsense....

“If every American was very, very pleased with his or her health insurance, it still would have been necessary for us to pass the health reform care bill, because we could not sustain the system” she told reporters Tuesday morning. “The cost of health care, for individual families, for small businesses for corporate America, for our economy, and also for the federal budget, was unsustainable. And that’s why, this comprehensive health care reform, one of the main reasons it was necessary.”

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New GOP Wastes No Time Embracing Lobbyists
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