For Release: March 18, 2010
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ObamaCare Would Cause Long Waits and Rationed Care, Says New Study

So concludes a new paper “ObamaCare Would Drive Doctors Out of Business” by Matt Patterson, health policy analyst for the National Center For Public Policy Research.

Among the findings:

* ObamaCare’s high taxes and new regulations would increase doctors’ overhead and red tape.

* At the same time, millions of newly insured individuals would swell their patient rosters.

* The increased work load, costs and stress, coupled with a decrease in income, would make the practice of medicine more trouble than it’s worth for many doctors.

* In one recent survey, 46 percent of responding primary care physicians say they would quit or try to quit medicine if ObamaCare passes.

* In addition, 63 percent of physicians would prefer Congress take a gradual, incremental approach to health care reform, as opposed to the massive, one-size-fits-all overhaul favored by the Obama administration.

* The shrinking pool of physicians brought on by ObamaCare, coupled with the coming retirement of the Baby Boomers, would put massive stresses on an already overburdened health care system, leading to rationing, long waits, and unhappy, overworked medical care professionals.

Says Patterson, “President Obama and Congressional leaders promise to subsidize health insurance for millions of Americans, but what good is insurance if you can’t find a doctor? Our elected leaders have continued to ignore the public’s opposition to this bill; now they are ignoring our doctors, who warn of grave consequences if this legislation passes.”

“ObamaCare Would Drive Doctors Out of Business” is a publication of The National Center For Public Policy Research (http://www.nationalcenter.org), a conservative, free-market non-profit think-tank established in 1982. It is supported by the voluntary gifts of over 100,000 individual recent supporters, and receives less than one percent of its revenue from corporate sources.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is positioned to get enough votes to pass health care reform by Sunday. "That's an eternity for her to turn the screws, put the hammer down for another 10 votes," she said on The Washington Times' "America's Morning News" radio show. Mrs. Bachmann said Mrs. Pelosi, other leaders of the Democrat-controlled Congress and President Obama, who initiated the reform, also have used a sugar-and-spice approach to getting the minimum 216 House votes. She repeated claims that Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, is threatening to file ethics complaints against Rep. ...

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is positioned to get enough votes to pass health care reform by Sunday. "That's an eternity for her to turn the screws, put the hammer down for another 10 votes," she said on The Washington Times' "America's Morning News" radio show. Mrs. Bachmann said Mrs. Pelosi, other leaders of the Democrat-controlled Congress and President Obama, who initiated the reform, also have used a sugar-and-spice approach to getting the minimum 216 House votes. She repeated claims that Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, is threatening to file ethics complaints against Rep. ...

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The last tower falls.
Carolyn Hileman

As we await the newest vote or non vote on healthcare it brings back memories, memories of the amnesty bill that we were forced to kill three times, of the anthrax scares that seem to never stop, the fear of opening our mail and watching the last tower fall. I remember thinking during every one of these events; this is America this does not happen here. I remember feeling like crying every time I saw a flag, wondering what was to happen to my country and why no one would stand up to stop it. I feel the same today, I am sitting here helpless, and hoping to God this nightmare will end, waiting for the voice of reason to say enough we will not go through this again, I am not hearing it.

You can argue numbers all day long, you can promise everything you want but at the end of the day this is nothing more than the total destruction of American rights guaranteed them by the constitution. The right to privacy disregarded as one wonders how they will know if I have insurance so that they can fine me 28% of my income if I do not and imprison me if I refuse to pay that fine, how will they know, who will tell them, will it be you? It is odd indeed that on 9/11 we were concerned about an outsider coming in here and taking away our freedoms and today we await our president and his democrat friends to do just that.

I wonder if this is what it felt like when the people in tower two saw the plane coming straight at them. No where to run, no chance of survival, knowing at that moment that life as they knew it was over. I wonder if this was what it felt like on flight 93 when they realized that they were to be a weapon against the United States of America that they themselves were to be the cause of major death and destruction. What must have been running through their minds as that the plane sped to its destination? What courage and determination it took to bring down that instrument of terror knowing full well their lives were over, to put the lives of countless other people ahead of their own and rush the pilots, we need such courage today, we need it now.

Once again our nation stands mesmerized by an attack so brazen, so heinous, so unreal that we just cannot wrap our minds around it, once again the feeling of powerlessness prevails, we have called, we have emailed, we have marched and still we are forced to watch as the last tower falls.

UPDATED: The Democrats' health care overhaul plan would cost $940 billion over the next decade and extend insurance coverage to 32 million Americans, according to a new preliminary estimate released Thursday. The release of the numbers clears the way for a pivotal House vote Sunday to approve the already-passed Senate health care bill and an accompanying package of revisions that the Senate in turn will have to approve later. Nervous congressional Democratic leaders seized on the new estimate, arguing it will help nail down the last undecided votes needed. "We loved their number," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. ...

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As of Thursday afternoon, the final version of the health care bill had not yet been posted to a congressional Web site and the highly touted Congressional Budget Office cost estimates were still listed only as "preliminary." 

The House Judiciary Committee of Hawaii is considering passing a bill that would allow the state to ignore requests for a copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

“Birthers” are folks who believe that Obama was not born in Hawaii as he claims, thus is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, and therefore is ineligible to be President.

This is in spite of assurances from Hawaii Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino stating that she has seen records proving that Omama is a natural-born U.S. citizen.

However, one state officials remarks have me wondering.

When questioned about he pending legislation, Lorrin Kim, the head of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development had this to say:
“Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy.”

Lack of evidence??

Lorrin, you either have Barack Obama’s birth certificate, or you don’t.

Which one is it?

President Obama says small-business owners especially will benefit from a jobs bill he signed Thursday at the White House.

A federal grand jury reportedly has issued subpoenas in a probe involving Sen. John Ensign, Nevada Republican. According to one subpoena obtained by a Las Vegas television station, recipients were ordered to testify March 31 in Washington and to turn over documents relating to Mr. Ensign. TV station KLAS reported Thursday that the subpoenas went to six unnamed Las Vegas businesses. The subpoena posted on the station's Web site blacks out the recipient's identity. The FBI and Senate Ethics Committee are investigating whether Mr. Ensign tried to limit political damage from an affair he had with the wife of one ...

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A federal grand jury reportedly has issued subpoenas in a probe involving Sen. John Ensign, Nevada Republican. According to one subpoena obtained by a Las Vegas television station, recipients were ordered to testify March 31 in Washington and to turn over documents relating to Mr. Ensign. TV station KLAS reported Thursday that the subpoenas went to six unnamed Las Vegas businesses. The subpoena posted on the station's Web site blacks out the recipient's identity. The FBI and Senate Ethics Committee are investigating whether Mr. Ensign tried to limit political damage from an affair he had with the wife of one ...

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