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Knowing Health-related Billing Jobs

December 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Article by Herbert Cooper

Seeing that insurance coverage considerations touch up from time to time with matters of the law, a health care billing work can also obtain you doing work for a law workplace.But can’t medical practitioners do their individual billings?Technically, yes. But this task involves an fully distinctive kind of teaching of the administrative sort that most doctors just don’t have the time for. And even if they do find the time to train, the real course of action of billing will take up so a lot of their time that they might not have any left to basically be medical professionals. It’s not like they can do absent with billing also that’s why there are a good deal of health billing jobs close to. Just visualize how quite a few doctors out there will will need support. Health professionals will need health billers and that opens up possibilities for you.Gaining educatedAs with any occupation, this job need intensive training. Major companies are invited to present at these conferences, and the presentations are frequently transcribed so the corporations can give transcripts to the investment neighborhood.The conferences are held at distinct instances through the year and consist of Healthcare conferences, Scientific conferences, Healthcare Device conferences, Retail, Real Estate, Utility, etcetera. The companies that present at these conferences assortment from garments manufacturers through main utility organizations. Once more, a wide range of terms and phrases utilized for the duration of these presentations are unique to that specific business.Consulting CompaniesA lot of consultants involve their seminars be transcribed so they can be extra to print publications later on on or use items of the seminars in marketing or newsletters. The sort of consulting firm will establish the types of phrases and terminology that may possibly be employed. For illustration, an accounting firm’s seminar will be unique than a gross sales seminar or a true estate seminar.Authors and ProducersMany on the internet transcription jobs can be discovered in the media trade, specially from authors who are composing their new books or producers who are placing collectively a documentary movie. Authors and producers frequently ought to interview topics for their content and it’s significantly a lot easier for them to function with the materials in composed type than audio. These people today are typically quite, very hectic, as are their particular assistants, so they generally contract out the position of transcribing their recorded interviews.Graduate Pupil DissertationsGraduate pupils frequently require typing help with their dissertations, particularly soon after conducting recorded interviews for substance to go into their last work. With all the other issues heading on in their lives, specially concentrating on writing their dissertations, transcribing these interviews is some thing that a ton of these students just don’t have the time to do.Bigger Transcription Firms1 of the most normally found online transcription jobs is simply subcontracting overflow function from greater or busier transcriptionists who have previously made a consumer base in any of the previously mentioned industries.Some of the greater transcription companies have long-standing contracts with some major businesses who give them huge quantities of perform that they then distribute amongst their crew of independent contractors. Overflow projects are possibly the most effective online transcription jobs to attempt to get simply because it will assistance you become acquainted with as a lot of industries as feasible, which will be a excellent asset when you start off advertising your companies to establish your very own customer base.

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Health Care – How the New Health Care Plan Affects You

December 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The new health care bill is an extremely complex bill that affects each and every American differently. However, understanding how it affects you is a different story. Because it’s so complex, it may even affect you differently than your next door neighbor who makes the same as you!

Here are the basics of how it will affect the general population:

The majority of the plan takes affect in 2014 or later, however, these changes will be vast. Lower income families will be required to purchase insurance coverage, unless they already have it, in which case, they can keep their current coverage, and those who do not carry coverage will pay a penalty (capped at just over ,000). People carrying coverage will see little change in the actual coverage, but pricing can vary depending on your status. Some reports say most will see a decrease, but it’s hard to say this early.

Because so many more will be added to the insurance pool, some healthy, some not, it will depend on your provider’s other customers if your premium will go up or not.

Higher income families will be taxed at a greater amount to help pay for the lower incomes, this will help off-set some costs, but this is all capped as well with a strict limit. However, this cap is much higher and those in the high income bracket will see an increase of a few thousand dollars each year.

Small companies will see the biggest change. Health care will be required for all companies, but there will be discounts, subsidized alternatives, and tax breaks. While there will be ways for companies to sneak around paying for health insurance, the majority of them will have to offer employees some sort of health care.

Overall, the biggest change will be required health care, but luckily, you will have plenty of time to find out how it affects your life by 2014 as more details are released.

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Health Care Reform and The Three Stooges

December 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Article by Edward Castle

Health Care Reform or Who Needs Insurance?

The Health Care Reform tag-team extravaganza currently playing in Congress would basically expand health care coverage in four ways:

Increase the number of people who qualify for Medicare (e.g. dropping eligibility age from 65 to 55) Increase the number of people who would qualify for Medicaid (e.g. increasing maximum income levels to 150% of the federal poverty level) Relax qualification requirements for existing private insurance policies Create a federal health insurance plan

The latest plan would require all Americans to carry health insurance or pay a stiff fine. It would expand government health programs for the poor and be paid for with cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. There would be no program developed to compete with private insurers who would now be unable to deny coverage based on someone’s personal health history.

As a presidential candidate, Obama said he would “establish a new public insurance program” alongside private health care plans. To paraphrase recent statements, “We have taken over the auto companies, banks, A.I.G. and student loans – now it’s health cares’ turn.”

Is it starting to sink in Comrade?

However it’s accomplished, most people would probably agree that with 60 percent of personal bankruptcies occuring due to unpaid medical bills, 47 million uninsured Americans is simply too many and that change is needed.

Supporters of the “public option” plan have said it could save money by using Medicare rates and fee schedules to pay hospitals and doctors.

That is what concerns health care providers, who say Medicare pays them less than market rates paid by private insurers and see the public option as a step toward a single-payer system in which the government would end up paying most of the nation’s health care bill and supplanting private insurers.

Obama denies that he wants to drive private insurers from the market, but many others support the ultimate goal of “Medicare for all.” Estimates indicate that more than 100 million people might sign up for a government-run insurance plan.

Another option that some legislators have been focusing on is nonprofit, member-owned insurance cooperatives (“co-ops”) that would not be controlled by the government.

With so much emphasis placed on cost and quality, the third principle, “access”, often gets lost in the rhetoric that is unleashed upon one of the economy’s largest and most complex sectors.

Health Care providers know that access is the lynch-pin of Health care reform and that by harnessing the power of the Internet they will hopefully reap the benefits of an increased market share, strengthened clinical relationships and improved work flow; thus reducing costs to both themselves and the patient.

“Portability” is a buzzword this year. Health insurance should be able to accompany people wherever they go. If they move from job to job, the health insurance should follow along. The worker should not have to start all over, dealing with issues like pre-existing conditions and finding the right insurance.

As the health care issue evolves, an array of converging economic factors has drawn an increasing number of parties to voice their fears. As individuals are presented with more choices and greater responsibilities in managing their own health (should everyone pay for others’ unhealthy lifestyles?), the health insurance companies are realizing the need to run more efficient operations, improve quality of service and better manage costs.

Heart-Health-Diet.comThe Health Insurance debate is raging and it will affect every American. Join us and add your voice to the Nation’s Health Care Reform.

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Small business planning must include health care costs.

December 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Article by Martin Harshberger,

Based on what little is known about the new health care bill that was just passed it will have a huge effect on small to mid-sized businesses. One of the line items as reported in a summary by the Wall Street Journal is that in 2013 companies with over 50 employees must provide “affordable” health care or face a fine of ,000 per employee. (Excluding the first 30 employees). It doesn’t state what “affordable” means.

In the same paragraph it states that the insurance industry must pay an annual fee of billion starting in 2013 and rising in subsequent years.

I guess it’s lost on me how an industry can pay billion in annual fees and still provide affordable insurance packages to small business.

I don’t know all of the intricacies of the proposed bill. I guess that makes me about as smart as the folks who passed it, they didn’t read it either. What I do know as a mid-sized company CEO for over 15 years affordable health coverage is in the eye of the beholder.

I cannot think of a single year where our health care costs were not increased to one of my companies. Every year we scrambled to try and balance plan benefits against rising costs while trying to keep employee contributions down.

Large corporations have bargaining power and volume, and are able to secure better pricing. The small and mid-sized business owner has no such advantage. While the new plan talks about Insurance exchanges to allow small business the opportunity to shop their coverage I don’t see that as any different than what they do currently. We had to shop our coverage every few years to keep costs in line.

The bottom line of all of this is costs for business will increase, and employers will take a harder look at hiring full time employees. Prudent companies will consider health care costs in their strategic planning process, deciding whether to make investments in automation vs. full time employees with an ever increasing cost base, It will make the playing field even more uneven with countries such as China where benefits and regulation are not a concern.

Health care reform is certainly needed. It’s unacceptable that so many Americans, especially the “working poor” as they are called, are without health care. The United States spends roughly twice as much as other developed countries on health care and millions are uncovered. There simply has to be a better way. But history has shown us that a government mandated and controlled program isn’t it.

One of the chief reasons why we spend so much on health care is the cost the insurance companies and health care companies absorb trying to deal with government bureaucracy. To see government health care effectiveness you don’t have to look any further than the VA and how our veterans are treated.

The full impact of this bill on business is unknown, even by those who passed it.

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Repeal the health insurance bill

December 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

 

The Republicans have not put together any plans to get people health insurance in the country. If they do repeal the bill then many middle class families will suffer because their consumer protections will be gone. Republicans are only against these protections because they hate the Affordable Care Act.

The big problem is that the new coverage changes became implemented on Thursday and the benefits are extremely popular with voters. A Republican push to repeal the bill spells big trouble for candidates in 2012. Voters feel taken advantage of by health insurance companies and if Republicans are successful then even more people will become uninsured.

The Republicans did not have one member vote for the passage of the health care reform bill. They want to block the bill’s funding and might be successful if they pick up enough seats during the 2010 elections in November.

President Obama would likely veto the health care reform bill’s repeal so any measure to repeal would have to wait until 2012 at least to be implemented.

Republicans need to think hard about shifting the health care issue onto themselves. If they can repeal the bill then voters will blame them for the consequences that follow. Health care spending increased by more than one trillion dollars in the last year; action needs to be taken to stop this. Repealing health care reform would increase health care spending. This would add to the federal deficit and raise taxes which are two things that many Republicans say that they are against.

Health care should be a moral issue; the number of uninsured increased by twelve million people which was more than a thirty percent increase.

 Currently more than fifty one people in the United States lack health insurance coverage. Insuring people and helping to make the system fairer should be an issue that republicans and democrats can agree on.

Middle class families will suffer a lot financially if they do not have the benefits of the health care bill. Currently, people spend more than thirteen thousand dollars per year on their health insurance premiums. If there were no reforms in place then consumers would spend more than twenty four thousand dollars per year on their premiums. For many people, this huge premium increase would cause them to drop their health insurance coverage.

Republicans should try to negotiate with Democrats so that the provisions in the health care reform bill are more likeable to everyone involved. No matter what, the members of the Senate and Congress will always be insured by the federal government. This means that they cannot really empathize with the situation that many middle and lower class families face on a daily basis.

The health care reform bill is very popular with voters; the only part that is not liked is the individual mandate and the fines that would follow for non-compliance. The public deserves to have its health care system repaired. People cannot afford the expensive health care premiums any more. The economy cannot sustain these increases and wages have not increased in the last few years. Employers are passing on more of the premium expenses to their employees so the problem needs to be rectified so that more people can stay insured for the long term.

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Health Care Reform Bill Levies 3.8% Sales Tax On Sale Of Real Estates.

December 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

There are lots of questions regarding the new health care reform bill, now the latest news I got to hear is shocking and I believe it will strike you too. I got to hear that the new health care reform bill is going to add 3.8% sales tax on sales of home. Yes thats true even I didnt believe when I heard about it but soon after researching a bit I got to know that its true that the new health care reform bill is going to add 3.8% tax on sale of home.
But there is no need to worry about that because the whole concept behind the plan is that the 3.8 sales tax applies only for those tax payers who are making 200000$ . All the residential real estate I own has dropped 40-50% in value so no need to worry about profits. For many us real estate types, it will be many years (if ever) before we work off carry forward losses from real estate activities of the last several years, so income thresholds aren’t an issue either.
Health care reform is a new feature came into practice after Obama won the political battle. This is a very new service available to all Americans but hardly any have the knowledge of health care reform. There are lots of facilities that all common American are about to receive after the approval of the plan. With the help of health care reform you will receive more Medicare benefits, donut hole was very notorious part of medical part d instruction drug advantage and of distress to many people who have united a Part D drug plan. But now you can get an instant 250$ refund if you hit the donut hole. Another big advantage of heath care reform is there will no fees for senior citizens this will facilitate the senior citizens to visit doctor without any worry of the cost because it will be available for free.
However our topic is not about the facilities we are going to get from the new health care reform but about the sales tax implemented on sale of houses. Washington is fiddling with the market in which we earn our leaving thats why I am glad to know that this 3.8% sales tax only applies to profits over 500k for joint filers. The 500K profit threshold pretty much eliminates most home sales unless the homes are selling for millions of dollars, which is a very small percentage of homes.

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The reasons why Teague voted against health-care reform bill

December 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

On Friday, U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., expressed his concern about the wishes of the majority of those in the second congressional district when he voted against the health-care reform bill although it passed the House on Nov. 7.

Teague was one of just 39 Democrats who voted against the bill, versus 219 members from his party who voted in favor.

“Really, the only thing I was thinking about when we passed this was, I stopped and gave some thought to the people that I’d talked to in Lordsburg and Santa Rosa and Las Cruces,” he said.

Teague held town hall meetings throughout the district, including one at the Dona Ana County Government Center, as he sought public input on the bill, and said the majority of people he heard from urged him to vote against it.

“It’s a big district, there’s a lot of people, it wasn’t 100 to nothing,” he said. “There was more saying not to vote for it, and that’s the reason we voted no.”

He denied that political considerations and his upcoming race against former Rep. Steve Pearce influenced his decision in any way.

Along with voting against the bill, Teague also angered many pro-choice Democrats by voting for the Stupak-Pitts amendment, which not only prohibits abortion coverage in the public option – something for which there was wide agreement – but also prohibits anyone receiving a federal subsidy from purchasing a health insurance plan that includes abortion coverage.

While many argue the Stupak-Pitts amendment goes far beyond what passed under the Hyde amendment more than three decades ago, Teague said he was merely seeking to reaffirm that status quo.

“It was conflicting vote, because I still believe in a woman’s right to her choice. But at the same time, we were addressing a 33-year amendment, and that was a tough choice to make,” he said. “For 33 years it’s been there that federal funds can’t be used, and that’s what this bill did. It just made sure the (Hyde) amendment was addressed.”

In a news release issued to explain his vote, Teague said he fully understands the need for health-care reform. He used his own family experience, in which his uninsured parents got sick, forcing him to drop out of school and go to work, to drive home the point.

Along with acceding to the wishes of his constituents, Teague said he voted against the bill because it did not do enough to lower costs. He said the concept of a public option could conceivably provide the competition needed to rein in costs, but he did not believe this bill accomplished that goal.

The Senate is next to act, where passage will require 60 votes, as opposed to the simple majority needed in the House.

Teague said he did not want to speculate as to what, if anything, will come from the Senate, and then from a conference committee to merge the two bills. Nevertheless, he did not sound confident that any changes made would alter his thinking.

He said there were some reforms, such as requiring coverage for those with pre-existing conditions that could potentially be passed, even if the current effort fails. However, reminded of the time lapse between the failed Clinton health-care reform of 1992-93 and this year’s effort, and asked if he was confident Congress would try again if this bill goes down in defeat, he replied, “I’m not confident Congress will do anything.”

 

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Reid ‘Health Care’ Reform Bill Increases Premiums by $3,100 Yearly and Funds Abortion!

December 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) 2,074-page health care bill will increase family health insurance premiums by an average of ,100 a year, according to new figures released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

The CBO says that an average family plan will increase by 28% under the Reid bill – from ,000 per family to ,100 per family. In addition, a family of four with an income of ,000 will pay 17% more of its income for premiums and cost sharing in Reid’s government-run health care legislation.

Reid’s bill will end up costing the American taxpayer .5 trillion and leave families with higher health care costs. “Reid’s legislative takeover of health care costs Americans .2 billion per page or .8 million per word!,” said TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty.

“And what do we get for it? Socialized medicine and higher health care costs!”

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has posted a simple analysis of Reid’s bill on his web site. Reid’s bill will not only increase health care costs, but result in an estimated loss of 1.6 million jobs and leaves 24 million without health insurance. Reid imposes an billion tax on uninsured Americans and billion in new taxes on employers! Reid also cuts Medicare by 5 billion and cuts 8 from Medicare Advantage.

“Reid’s solution to health care reform is to tax Americans, punish senior citizens, and increase the cost of health care for everyone,” said Lafferty. “This isn’t reform, it’s a recipe for national disaster and the destruction of the finest health care system in the world.”

Rationing Mammograms & Gym Membership

Heritage Foundation expert Brian Darling has recently exposed the fact that Reid’s health care bill will result in the rationing of mammograms for women.

According to Darling, Section 2713 of the bill says that the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force will have the force of law in determining what’s in health plans or what’s not covered. Last week, the Task Force gave annual mammograms a “C” rating (not recommended). Right now, insurance companies can ignore the Task Force guideline. Under Reid/ObamaCare, it will have the force of law. A new government bureaucracy (one of 100 new bureaucracies to be created in the Senate bill), will make mammogram health care decisions for women and their physicians.

Under Reid/Obama care, mandated health insurance plans must include “mental health parity,” “behavioral health treatment,” and include “preventive care,” which can include gym memberships. (This is in Section 1302(a) of the bill.)

Marriage Penalty

Reid/ObamaCare punishes married couples. It will inflict a 0.5% payroll tax on married couples making more than 0,000 a year in wages. Co-habiting couples, however, are free to make 0,000 each before being taxed.

Employer Mandates

Reid/Obama Care will impose billion in new taxes on employers that don’t provide government-approved health insurance plans! These new taxes will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices for everything.

Abortion Funding

Sen. Reid’s bill will not only cost more for every family, but he has included a provision that is an abortion-funding fee that will pay for abortion on demand with taxpayer dollars. The abortion funding mandate is on page 118 of the bill. It authorizes the federal government to pay for any and all abortions through a government-run program known as the “public option.” Reid’s bill will permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to fund all abortions, including third trimester and partial-birth abortions! It will subsidize purchase of private plans that cover abortion on demand, too.

“Reid clearly wants American taxpayers to be forced to pay for abortion on demand through his bill. This isn’t health care, it’s the killing of unborn babies,” said Lafferty.


The Louisiana Purchase & Other Bribes

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is a so-called “moderate” who received a multi-million dollar bribe in the form of cash assistance in Reid’s bill for her vote to support debate on his legislation.

Initially, Reid dropped a 0 million dollar benefit into his bill that benefited only Louisiana. On page 432 of the bill there is a section that increases Medicaid subsidies in states that are recovering from a natural disaster during the past 7 years. That provision only applies to Louisiana! (Landrieu held out for more cash from Reid and has openly boasted that she got 0 million for her state, not just 0 million initially offered.)

Landrieu’s vote was needed by Reid in order to get the 60 votes necessary last Saturday to approve the legislation for debate within the next few weeks.

Other Senators who received deal sweeteners were: Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE), Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Evan Bayh (D-IN).

Nelson got Reid to remove a provision stripping health insurers of their anti-trust exemption; and Wyden got Reid to agreed to expand eligibility for health insurance.

In addition, Reid made sure that California, the abortion industry, and big labor got deals for support of his socialist health care bill. The abortion lobby, for example, was encouraged by Reid’s massive abortion funding mechanism in the bill. California was promised 0 million for an increase in Medicare payments to doctors.

According to the Houston Chronicle, in the House-passed version of health care reform, labor unions will receive up to billion in taxpayer-funded bailouts. This billion will be used by unions to pay retiree benefits. The House bill will force home health care workers into unions, too! According to the Chronicle: “Under the proposed public option, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius would wield tremendous discretionary authority to regulate participating health care workers. She and various federal panels, where the unions would have guaranteed seats, would take the lead in recommending health care policy. Thus, labor would have considerable influence over decisions affecting most doctors, nurses and patients.”

These pro-union provisions could be added to Reid’s bill in a conference committee.

TAKE ACTION: Contact your two Senators and urge them to oppose passage of any legislation that nationalizes our health care system!

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The Health Bill Is Scary

December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I recently suggested that seniors will die sooner if Congress actually implements the Medicare cuts in the health-care bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. My colleagues who defend the bill—none of whom have practiced medicine—predictably dismissed my concern as a scare tactic. They are wrong. Every American, not just seniors, should know that the rationing provisions in the Reid bill will not only reduce their quality of life, but their life spans as well.

My 25 years as a practicing physician have shown me what happens when government attempts to practice medicine: Doctors respond to government coercion instead of patient cues, and patients die prematurely. Even if the public option is eliminated from the bill, these onerous rationing provisions will remain intact.

For instance, the Reid bill (in sections 3403 and 2021) explicitly empowers Medicare to deny treatment based on cost.

An Independent Medicare Advisory Board created by the bill—composed of permanent, unelected and, therefore, unaccountable members—will greatly expand the rationing practices that already occur in the program. Medicare, for example, has limited cancer patients’ access to Epogen, a costly but vital drug that stimulates red blood cell production. It has limited the use of virtual, and safer, colonoscopies due to cost concerns. And Medicare refuses medical claims at twice the rate of the largest private insurers.

Section 6301 of the Reid bill creates new comparative effectiveness research (CER) programs. CER panels have been used as rationing commissions in other countries such as the U.K., where 15,000 cancer patients die prematurely every year according to the National Cancer Intelligence Network. CER panels here could effectively dictate coverage options and ration care for plans that participate in the state insurance exchanges created by the bill.

Additionally, the Reid bill depends on the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in no fewer than 14 places. This task force was responsible for advising women under 50 to not undergo annual mammograms. The administration claims the task force recommendations do not carry the force of law, but the Reid bill itself contradicts them in section 2713. The bill explicitly states, on page 17, that health insurance plans “shall provide coverage for” services approved by the task force. This chilling provision represents the government stepping between doctors and patients. When the government asserts the power to provide care, it also asserts the power to deny care.

If the bill expands Medicaid eligibility to 133% of the poverty level, that too will lead to rationing. Because Washington bureaucrats have created a system that underpays doctors, 40% of doctors already restrict access to Medicaid patients, and therefore ration care.

Medicaid demonstrates, tragically in some cases, that access to a government program does not guarantee access to health care. In Maryland, 17,000 Medicaid patients are currently on a waiting list for medical services, and as many as 250 may have died while awaiting care, according to state auditors. Kansas, the home state of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, faces a Medicaid backlog of more than 15,000 applicants.

Other unintended consequences of the Reid bill could wreak havoc on patients’ lives. What happens, for instance, when savvy consumers commanded to buy insurance realize the penalty is the de facto premium? It won’t take long for younger, healthier Americans to realize it’s cheaper to pay a 0 tax for coverage instead of, say, ,000 in annual premiums when coverage can’t be denied if you get sick.

OMB Budget Director Peter Orzsag’s belief that mandatory health insurance will become a “cultural norm” is bureaucratic naivete that will produce skyrocketing premiums and reduced care for everyone. My state’s own insurance commissioner, a Democrat, recently confirmed this concern to me in a letter noting that “the result will be higher insurance rates due to a higher percentage of insured being higher risk/expense individuals.”

But the most fundamental flaw of the Reid bill is best captured by the story of one my patients I’ll call Sheila. When Sheila came to me at the age of 33 with a lump in her breast, traditional tests like a mammogram under the standard of care indicated she had a cyst and nothing more. Because I knew her medical history, I wasn’t convinced. I aspirated the cyst and discovered she had a highly malignant form of breast cancer. Sheila fought a heroic battle against breast cancer and enjoyed 12 good years with her family before succumbing to the disease.

If I had been practicing under the Reid bill, the government would have likely told me I couldn’t have done the test that discovered Sheila’s cancer because it wasn’t approved under CER. Under the Reid bill, Sheila may have lived another year instead of 12, and her daughters would have missed a decade with their mom.

The bottom line is that under the Reid bill the majority of America’s patients might be fine. But some will be like Sheila—patients whose lives hang in the balance and require the care of a doctor who understands the science and art of medicine, and can make decisions without government interference.

The American people are opposing this bill in greater numbers every day because the facts of the bill—not any tactic—are cause for serious concern.

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What Is Up With That Series-What Is Up With The Latest Health Care Legislation?

December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Article by Jim Holiway

The What’s Up With That Series

What’s Up With Latest Health Care Legislation?

Feel in the dark about what the current health care legislation really has in store for us? Many people do. It’s a small wonder considering all the lack of transparency in the whole process. It just got worse with the Democrats deciding to forgo the formal conferencing Normally used to reconcile differences between similar bills passed by the Senate and House. Instead they are going with an informal conference of just the Democrats with the Republicans (and the American people for that matter) completely shut out. So much for the promisedtransparency and the whole process being on C-Span.

The House Health Care bill is 1,990 pages and the Senate’s 2,400 plus pages. A lot of information for any representative to go through, let alone the average American. So What’s Up With That? Here is some of the (distilled) information contained in theses bills:

1. Taxes to pay for it start in 2010, but benefits/coverage do not start until four years later in 2014. This allows them to count the revenues for 10 years, but the expenses for only six years. That kind of accounting practice could be considered criminal in the private sector or at least a huge scam. It is like buying a house, but having to make payments on it for four years before you could live in it!

2. Medicare to be cut by 0.7 billion. To make matters worse, they then (according to the Congressional Budget Office, The CBO) count that reduction twice. Once by being set aside to pay for future Medicare spending. Then again by using it to pay for spending on other parts of the legislation or for other programs.

3. Premiums will increase for 90% of Americans that already have health insurance according to the CBO.

4. Tax Increases of 8.5 billion from a variety of new types of taxes that will be passed on to us (consumers) in the form of higher health care costs.

5. The Senate Bill allows for federal funding of abortions (despite assertions to the contrary.)

6. Largest expansion of Medicaid since its inception in 1965, creating a billion unfunded mandate on the states. This further stresses already stretched state budgets, ergo even more taxes on us.

7. Sweet deals for the states of Louisiana, Nebraska, Florida, Vermont and others at the expense of more taxes on citizens of other states who have to pay for these payoffs. U.S. Attorneys General from 13 separate states intend to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the part of the Senate Bill which stipulates that the federal government will pay for Nebraska’s co-share of that state’s Medicaid funding – forever!

8. The House Bill requires everyone to purchase healthcare or be fined or imprisoned – also considered unconstitutional by many people.

9. Would insure only 19 million individuals via a subsidy with 23 million left without coverage, i.e., not even half of the alleged uninsured would be covered. (Some would argue that there are really only about 10 to 12 million truly uninsured once eliminating illegal aliens, those who can afford insurance and choose not to buy it and those who already qualify for current Medicaid, but just have not applied.

It will be more than interesting to see how this all turns as it effects ourvery future as a country.

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