States fight the worst law in US history – Obamacare #TCOT #HCR
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states - just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session. Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare - including the requirement that individuals purchase health insurance. A similar measure was overwhelmingly approved by voters in Missouri last month. And several states recently announced that they don't
This on the British National Healthcare System (NHS) service cuts from Investors Business Daily: According to the London Telegraph, the leaders of the National Health Service, Britain’s single-payer system, have secretly drawn up plans for restricting access to some of the most basic treatments for the ill. The most eye-popping of the cuts was this: *Plans to cut hundreds of thousands of pounds from budgets for the terminally ill, with dying cancer
I'm just saying - this is madness! California, New Jersey, New York, Greece, Spain, U.K. are in the death spiral of social democracy - low growth, cut spending, more low growth, tax revenues down, cut spending more, and so on. And the Obama Administration, because of some ideological deafness, stupidity or a rigid "transformative" agenda, passed a health care law that was purposely disguised as a way to reduce the deficit, as if expanding the federal bureacracy would ever do that.
"The health care legislation is a bad bill. Health care in the United States is pretty good, but it does have a number of weaknesses and this bill doesn't address them. It adds taxation and regulation. It's going to increase health costs—not contain them. Drafting a good health care bill would have been easy. Health savings
