Update - HR 4972 Repeal of Obamacare: 104 Co-sponsors including Ron Paul

How many more before the November election?

State health care shortfall could reach $850 million
By Patrick Marley and Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: July 14, 2010 |(131) Comments

Madison — In spite of a recent round of cost cutting, the potential shortfall in the state's health-care programs for the poor, elderly and disabled has grown to as much as $850 million in state and federal money, threatening to throw the entire state budget out of balance.

State Health Services Secretary Karen Timberlake told lawmakers of the expanding deficit as they approved a sweeping audit Wednesday of the state's Family Care program. Republicans have questioned the financial sustainability of that program, which provides long-term care to the elderly and those with physical and developmental disabilities.

Timberlake last year was directed to find $600 million in savings for Medicaid, which provides health care to the poor, elderly and disabled and which includes the Family Care program. But Timberlake said Wednesday that the recession has opened up a new shortfall on top of those cuts because of diminished revenue and a flood of newly unemployed workers seeking health coverage.

Depending on how the new shortfall is handled, it could amount to about $300 million, or a fraction of the total potential deficit, for the state to resolve.

Sen. Rob Cowles (R-Green Bay) said Medicaid programs had "incredible cost overruns" that have to be dealt with by finding efficiencies and possibly tougher measures.

"One option is to cut various rates (paid to providers), cut benefits," he said. "Is that painful? Yes."

But Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar) said legislators need to keep in mind that people are in great need of services as they lose health insurance when they are laid off.

"People signed up for Medicaid because they have a need," he said. "The choice is do we abandon them or do we acknowledge our obligation to help them?"

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/98475379.html

Congress just needs to launch an investigation into Obama's qualification to be president and ALL of Obama's idiotic policies go away and are unwound.

Rob Bluey: This doctor fights Obamacare one patient at a time
By: Rob Bluey
OpEd Contributor
July 2, 2010

ATLANTA — Embarrassed. Ashamed. Failure.

These words don’t typically describe an accomplished doctor, but Martha Boone doesn’t fit the mold. The Atlanta urologist is an outspoken critic of Obamacare, warning her patients about its disastrous consequences and alerting fellow doctors to the ramifications for her profession.

Lately, however, she’s spent more time worried about the survival of her own practice. With the new health care law about to add more patients to government-run insurance programs, Boone wondered how she would survive with dwindling Medicare reimbursements to cover her older patients.

Because many doctors double as small businessmen, they face the reality of meeting a bottom line in addition to treating patients. Boone figured she had three options: lay off her office manager, drop patients who rely on Medicare or relocate her office.

She didn’t like her options, but didn’t have much of a choice. After months of agonizing over the decision, Boone this month moved her practice to a less expensive office in an older building. It was hardly the ideal outcome, but it allowed her to keep her staff intact and continue treating her Medicare patients.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contr...

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Email from a CPA, MBA and well connected businessman:

"It (ObamaCare) HAS been implemented. You will probably not hear them talk much about the hiring and training of new IRS auditors but it is happening NOW. I will be at the home of one of the long time trainers for IRS who is part of our ASTD chapter. At our May Veterans Job and Career Fair, the IRS was actively recruiting."

Keep those letters and phone calls coming in! I was never for Ron's bill, because there is just tooooo much other crap in that bill (i.e. Section 203 which no one EVER discusses) to just take the 'mandatory' part out. The whole thing is a total assault on our privacy and freedom.

[The official number of co-sponsors is now 100.]

DOCTOR'S ORDERS
8 more in Congress sign on for Obamacare repeal
'Pulled out by the roots' plan now has support from 133
Posted: July 17, 2010
12:45 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh

They are U.S. Reps. Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri, Frank Wolf of Virginia, George Radanovich of California, Steve Austria of Ohio, Greg Walden of Oregon, Frank D. Lucas of Oklahoma, Adrian Smith of Nebraska and Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, and they are the latest members of Congress to sign on to a plan to repeal Obamacare.

Its goal is to "pull out by the roots" the legislation that, among other things, will require citizens to provide their "Body Mass Index" rating to the government and purchase "government-approved" health insurance whether they want it or not.

There now are 133.

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=180069

Thanks For Posting..

....And Thank You Peter King !!