It’s Not Just the Mandate: ObamaCare’s Other Infringements- The bill seizes liberty from doctors and insurance firms, too.

 PJ Media  "Of course, such “unexpected” cost overruns are nothing new for government programs. When Medicare was passed in 1965, it was predicted to cost $12 billion by 1990. In reality, it cost a whopping $110 billion, almost 10 times more than predicted.
"But the escalating economic costs of ObamaCare will pale in comparison to the escalating losses of freedom."

• Doctors must purchase and use expensive electronic medical record systems.
• Doctors must electronically record certain patient data such as ethnicity, BMI (body mass index), blood pressure, and smoking status — and turn over patient data to the government upon request.

• Doctors treating Medicare patients must practice according to government “quality” guidelines or face economic penalties.

• Insurance companies must offer numerous “free” benefits, including various preventive health services, birth control, and coverage of “children” up to age 26.

• Insurers may not raise their rates to cover these new expenses unless the government agrees those rate increases are “reasonable.”
• An Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) of unelected bureaucrats will set prices for Medicare services that will lead to de facto rationing.  

"The administrative costs associated with complying with these regulations will accelerate the trend of doctors leaving traditional private practice. Instead, doctors will increasingly work for large Accountable Care Organizations where they’ll practice according to government protocols, with their compliance monitored by the mandatory electronic medical records. "
....The Supreme Court may or may not decide to overturn ObamaCare. I hope it does. But if it doesn’t, Americans will still have one last opportunity to overturn ObamaCare at the ballot box this fall: elect politicians committed to repeal.

Paul Hsieh, MD, is a member of the Colorado chapter of Docs4PatientCare (www.Docs4PatientCare.org) and co-founder of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine (www.WeStandFIRM.org).

Two by Victor Davis Hanson: "The Strange Case of Trayvon Martin" and "Obama’s Demagoguery"

Our national healer

Victor Davis Hanson   "We have reached the nadir when the civil-rights community decries the release of further pertinent information about Mr. Martin as gratuitously defaming the deceased — with the implicit understanding that incomplete and leaked information so far has been welcomed if it reflected poorly on the alleged perpetrator."
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"The president cannot explain by which criteria he chooses to weigh in on controversial local issues, since to do so by definition makes them “teachable moments” and thus prompts the question: why this case (e.g., or a Gates or Fluke incident), and not others? Fairly or not, by now the president, through his past selective editorializing, has lost a great deal of credibility as a national healer."


Obama’s Demagoguery  "The reactions to the presidential editorializing were predictable. Liberals applauded Obama for his public stand on behalf of feminists, while conservatives countered that he was selective in his outrage and more an opportunistic partisan than an opponent of crude speech aimed at women. The president had succeeded once more in polarizing rather than uniting the nation."

In another vein: Obama says he isn't promoting class warfare  "Obama and his team have been framing the issue as one of essential fairness — where Americans who have done well need to give back a little more."

More surprises found in Obamacare bill

Rick Moran over at American Thinker:  "This discovery by GOP staffers in the senate deals with the long term costs of Obamacare. And what they found was chilling."

"The more we learn about the bill, the more we learn it is even more unaffordable than was suspected," said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republicans' budget chief in the Senate."The bill has to be removed from the books because we don't have the money," he said.   Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republicans' budget chief in the Senate.

"I might also point out that all this extra spending we've been finding in Obamacare comes before any of the hundreds - perhaps thousands - of new regulations are promulgated that will implement the more than 100 boards, commissions, and panels that will oversee the massive program. Those regulations will have the force of law and will likely add huge costs to health care providers and patients."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor's Shocking Ignorance "The percentage of American people who took their son or daughter to an emergency room and were turned away because the parent didn't have insurance is exactly zero. 
"No person, whether American or not, is ever turned away from an emergency room for lack of health insurance. Ever. 
"This simply does not happen."
Bear in mind, the source of her information is not from real research but  -we must assume- Democrat sources. TD

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