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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101071)	3/5/2011 2:50:14 PM
From: locogringo	8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224858

Things must not be looking good for Obamacare! The fax must have said "Rip on the insurance companies this week. Kathleen Sebelius Admits The Obamacare Books Were COOKED biggovernment.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101071)	3/5/2011 4:11:00 PM
From: locogringo	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224858

No wonder taxes are so high: State controller finds more big public employee salaries, including $875,000 for hospital chief Of the thousands of special district employees whose pay has been released so far, the top earner is the chief executive of the Washington Township Healthcare District, Nancy Farber, who made $873,598 in total wages in 2009. In addition to Farber, four other executives at the Fremont hospital rank among the top 15 most highly paid special district employees listed in the controller’s database so far. Most of the top earners come from other hospital systems, but there were some exceptions. For example, Timothy Jochem, the former chief executive of the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District, was paid $583,021 in total wages in 2009. latimesblogs.latimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101071)	3/7/2011 8:45:45 AM
From: JakeStraw	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224858

The consequences of ObamaCare • More than half the states—28 and counting—are challenging the law in court, saying that it violates the constitutional rights of their citizens and the sovereignty of the states. A new study from the Senate Finance and House Energy and Commerce Committees found that as a result of ObamaCare, budget-strapped states face at least $118 billion in unfunded mandates during the first 10 years after the law takes effect. • Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has handed out nearly 1,000 waivers to allow select companies, unions and states to escape, at least temporarily, some of the burdensome new insurance rules she has created. This is a continuation of the trend of the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the "Louisiana Purchase" that Senate Democrats used to get the law passed in the first place, and that so disgusted the American people. .• Independent experts have shown that the cost of health insurance will rise faster than it would have without the law. The Congressional Budget Office expects the price of a family policy in the individual market to be $2,100 higher by 2016 than it would have been had the law not passed. In at least 20 states, it's now impossible to buy child-only health insurance because of Ms. Sebelius's onerous new rules. • Seniors are at risk of losing access to physicians and medical care. Medicare actuaries say that the cuts built into the law will force as many as 40% of providers to eventually stop seeing Medicare patients or go bankrupt. • Many thousands of people are already losing the health insurance they have now as companies are exiting markets for individual, small group and Medicare Advantage coverage. • The former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, says that the costs of ObamaCare are set to explode when employers opt to drop coverage and send their workers to the new, federally subsidized health exchanges for coverage. He estimates that this will drive up the cost of the law by $1 trillion or more in the first 10 years. The list goes on and on. It's time to stop the ObamaCare madness before it becomes another entrenched entitlement program. online.wsj.com