Call the White House on Monday! Request from Rep. Tom Price, MD
Congressman Tom Price, M.D. is urging everyone to call the White House this Monday October 5th. The White House phone number is 202-456-1414.
“Max Tax” (Baucus bill) hurtling through Congress
Transparency having become an early casualty in the process of driving through “health care reform” despite rising opposition, the Senate Finance Committee chaired by Max Baucus (D-MT) is marking up a shell bill, a 200+ page outline.
Myth 21. Proposed health care reform would offer more choices.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs used the phrase “choice and competition” three times, and variations on the words “choice” and “competition” five times each, in a 1 minute, 10 second interview with CBS’s Face the […]
Myth 20. Doctors, not bureaucrats, make decisions in national health systems.
Obama has promised that doctors, not bureaucrats, will be making the decisions under his “health care reform” plan. If Obama’s promise is true, why do central planners need extensive data on every encounter with every […]
Leader promises not to rest until he works miracle.
[From longhand notes by Dr. Jane Orient, with her editorial comments in red type in brackets.] After 15 minutes of anticipation, greetings, and applause, Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress began about 8:15 […]
Myth 19: The American people are demanding “health care now.”
Spokesmen for the Democrats’ “health care reform” proposals say that all those ordinary-appearing Americans waving hand-made signs are either operatives of powerful vested interests, especially insurance companies, or “political enemies” bent on destroying the Obama […]
Obama Administration tries to mollify doctors by teleconference, accuse dissenters of spreading myths.
On Aug 28, the Obama Administration hosted a nationwide call-in for physicians, in which more than 1,900 physicians participated. It was said to be “closed to the press” so that a “conversation” could occur.
Myth 18: Proposed health care reform will not hasten the death of seniors, cancer patients, and disabled persons.
The phrase “death panel” does not actually occur in any of the proposed “health care reform” bills. MoveOn.org has seized on Sarah Palin’s characterization of the outcome of “reform” in its mass email piece entitled […]
Myth 17: Health care reform will establish a right to health care.
Everybody in a country with “universal health care” has a “right” to health care, but Americans do not—or so it is argued. “Health care reform” is supposed to correct a moral deficiency in the United […]
2009 Access to Care Survey
2009 Access to Care Survey posted 3/22/2010 Of 518 physicians responding to our 2009 survey on access to care, 4% reported being not enrolled in Medicare; 21%, opted out; 59%, participating; and 10%, nonparticipating. Of […]
