ObamaCare News Roundup Curated by Jane M Orient, MD
“The law has been successful so far according to the one metric that really matters to the Left: hiding its true cost from the American taxpayer,” writes John Davidson of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Full insurance costs won’t become evident until 2017 when reinsurance and risk corridor provisions expire. http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/03/after-one-year-obamacares-biggest-achievement-hiding-its-cost/
Some try to claim that ObamaCare is really a great success, although Democrats are afraid to talk about it. For example: “The number of people with young children who now have the freedom to work part time [!] because they don’t have to rely on their job for insurance is up by more than 11 percent since 2013, writes Dean Baker of the Centre for Economic Policy and Research. http://www.gazettextra.com/20141002/pro_campaigning_democrats_must_tell_voters_it8217s_affordable_and_gaining_popularity.
This doesn’t count as job loss.
“No, the Affordable Care Act is not more affordable. Whether people have employer, exchange or individual coverage, they are feeling the law’s impact in higher premiums, sky-high deductibles and tax penalties,” replies Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute. http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2014/10/turner_obamacare_costs_skyrocketing
It’s so unaffordable that Wal-Mart is eliminating health benefits for nearly 30,000 more employees. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WAL_MART_HEALTH_CARE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
In a preview of the next step—single payer—Vermont works to wipe out private medicine. http://vthealthcarefreedom.org/news/2013-03-22/newsletter-march-22-2013
The widely used Epic medical records system considered partly to blame for the missed diagnosis of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was founded by billionaire Judy Faulkner, a top Obama donor whose company is the dominant EMR player in the U.S. health care market. Michelle Malkin reported that Epic employees donated nearly $1 million to political parties and candidates between 1995 and 2012—82 percent of it to Democrats. http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2014/10/08/draft-n1902106
Social media:
While the Obama Administration denies the disastrous impact of the internal assault on American medicine by the ACA, it continues to downplay the risk of the external threat from the importation of deadly diseases, despite growing concerns:
Spanish nurse caught Ebola in BSL-2 facility, caring for two priests who were nearly dead when brought from West Africa; dog put down.
How did a Spanish nurse's assistant contract #Ebola? She says she hasn't the 'slightest idea': http://t.co/hc5E8ThCke pic.twitter.com/DVC3lpsoWR
— CNN (@CNN) October 8, 2014
Israeli hospitals to hold Ebola drills http://t.co/qhzq98nqdY
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) October 12, 2014
Cooking the frog.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: There are more unemployed US citizens than the entire population of Greece #PJNET pic.twitter.com/e2DpMOT4v7
— Μολὼν Λαβέ (@A5H0KA) October 8, 2014
