Health Care Reform-Costs: Real, Potential, & Imaginary

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Sunday August 30, 2009 · 12:22 AM PDT

2009/08/30 · 00:22

There has been considerable discussion about the potential "costs" of health care reform, in reference to HR 3200, now pending in Congress. It would appear that those cost estimates are based entirely on massive subsidization of the health insurance companies, not on the public option.

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 8:13 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 20:13

The "public option" remains a major point of contention in the health care reform debate. Much criticism is due to potential government involvement and payment with the public option. Though government funding if often assumed from the "public option" label, it certainly is NOT a requirement for a public option.

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 10:58 AM PDT

2009/08/17 · 10:58

President Obama has now essentially killed the "public option" for health care reform. Without a public option, health care reform legislation becomes nothing but another Corporate Welfare program, allowing the health insurance industry & Big Pharma to feed at the public trough.

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Friday August 14, 2009 · 5:25 PM PDT

2009/08/14 · 17:25

The current health care reform legislation makes many claims. And though some of the overall goals may have merit, some of the specifics do not. A perfect example of merit-worthy goals, but with nonsensical specifics relates to "preventative care."

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 3:43 PM PDT

2009/08/12 · 15:43

Though the currently proposed Health Care Reform Legislation is a disaster, it does contain at least one good proposal. That's the Public Option—the only aspect of the bill that will truly "bend the cost curve."

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Sunday August 09, 2009 · 6:09 PM PDT

2009/08/09 · 18:09

The currently pending health care bill in Congress is a complete disaster. It should be called the Health Insurers' & Doctor Prosecution Bill. The bill does nothing to reform health care, and everything to line the pockets of Health Insurance Companies. Congress needs to tear the bill up and start over.

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 11:54 PM PDT

2009/07/31 · 23:54

Today's GDP report for 2nd quarter GDP, showed a decline of "only" 1.0%. To get a number that wasn't worse than this, however, the Government needed to employ every known mechanism to manipulate GDP. There were revisions to previous GDPs making an accurate assessment of the changes impossible. But amidst all the manipulation, an interesting reality surfaced: Net GDP for the last 3 years has been negative.

We were lied to about all of the economic "growth" that occurred in 2006 and 2007. It was a hoax to pacify middle class Americans into continuing to invest in a sinking economy, to prevent rich plutocrats from losing the money they so richly deserved to lose. Not surprisingly, the worst of the plutocratic miscreants were the banksters and investment fraudsters.

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Wednesday November 26, 2008 · 11:33 PM PST

2008/11/26 · 23:33

Once again, it's necessary to debunk the pro-Globalist fairy tales about the the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. Smoot-Hawley had almost 0 effect on the Great Depression. The decline in trade it caused was less than 1% of the GDP decline that occurred during that time. This is easily documented by publicly available statistics.

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Thursday May 29, 2008 · 10:11 PM PDT

2008/05/29 · 22:11

Today's GDP report showed an "increase" in 1st Q growth of +0.9%, upwardly revised from the previous +0.6% from 4/30/08. But this "increase" was due solely to a "decrease" in Imports. Today's revision came from a $25.4 billion DECLINE in US spending--in this case on imports.Thus, a "decrease" in US purchases gave an "increase" in GDP growth.

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Monday May 12, 2008 · 4:33 PM PDT

2008/05/12 · 16:33

Not only is Clinton leading Obama 59.5% to 40.5% in upcoming primaries, she leads Obama in every matchup in key battleground states Ohio, Florida, & Pennsylvania against McCain. Clinton wins all 3 states against McCain, while Obama LOSES both Ohio & Florida. Clinton also leads Obama in margin of victory against McCain in the general election.

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Thursday August 02, 2007 · 2:36 PM PDT

2007/08/02 · 14:36

Despite the monthly increase in Factory Orders for June, the longer-term trend is downward. The year-to-date change in Factory Orders is -0.7%.

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Saturday July 28, 2007 · 2:51 PM PDT

2007/07/28 · 14:51

2nd quarter 2007 GDP was actually less than originally posted GDP for the 1st quarter of 2007. (i.e., 2nd quarter GDP growth was negative). Once again, however, the BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis) manipulated the numbers enough to arrive at a positive 2nd quarter GDP growth. The originally published 1st quarter GDP was downwardly revised by a whopping $137 billion, from the original $11,549 billion down to $11,412 billion.

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