- Democrats seeks other options to push reform through if MA voters elect Scott Brown http://bit.ly/8Rsnb5
- Massachusetts: Pollsters that accurately predicted NJ Governor’s race have Scott Brown up by 5 points over... http://bit.ly/7wC0hn
- Massachusetts: Pollsters that accurately predicated NJ Governor’s race have Scott Brown up by 5 points over Martha... http://bit.ly/5XMEmw
- Sen. McConnell calls MA race a referendum on Congress’ health care plans http://bit.ly/5euO6q
- Sen. Nelson wants a Medicaid "kickback" for all states, not just Nebraska http://bit.ly/8ZYQUV
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Time to stop all the bickering and deliver for Americans
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
By Sen. Joseph Lieberman OpEd in The Miami Herald
But as we emerge from the worst recession since the Great Depression, we cannot forget that our health care problem is inexorably linked to our broader economic problems and, in particular, our out-of-control national debt...
A new public option will likely increase premiums for the 170 million Americans who already have private insurance, and let's not forget the warning of the Congressional Budget Office: that the federal government will assume the financial risk that the premiums charged in a given year may not cover all of the public plan's costs.
Given our exorbitant debt and deficit, the taxpayers cannot afford to take on the financial responsibility to pay the difference, which would threaten to put our country even deeper into debt, just when we need to start thinking about how to climb out.
The Worst Bill Ever
Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Editorial
Wall Street Journal
As Congress's balance sheet drowns in trillions of dollars in new obligations, the political system will have no choice but to start making cost-minded decisions about which treatments patients are allowed to receive. Democrats can't regulate their way out of the reality that we live in a world of finite resources and infinite wants. Once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, medical rationing is inevitable—especially for the innovative high-cost technologies and drugs that are the future of medicine.