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Yeah, right.  Someone is dreaming, because President Obama isn't about to sign a bill that repeals Obamacare, and Congressional Republicans don't have enough votes to override a presidential veto. If enough democrats fear for their jobs and jump ship the house and senate can override his veto. |
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No, in fact in my opinion they keep sticking their nose into places they shouldn't and cause more problems than they rectify. |
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I wonder if the crux of Obozocare is to ensure that the wealthy have the only access to top notch hospitals ensuring that the middle class go to county run hospitals. If you like your hospital, you might not be able to keep it. In the latest surprise to emerge during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, people seeking insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges are finding the plans limit access to some of the best-ranked hospitals and cancer centers in the country. The access problem is a byproduct of the effort to drive down costs of subsidized coverage, prompting insurance companies to shy away from more expensive facilities. That doesn't necessarily mean someone buying insurance through ObamaCare is locked out of those hospitals. In some cases, patients could go "out of network" in order to use the medical center of their choosing -- but would have to pay more in the process. According to a former top health care adviser for the White House, that's how the program was designed. Challenged on "Fox News Sunday" over why Americans are losing access to their current doctors and hospitals, ObamaCare architect Ezekiel Emanuel claimed President Obama did not mislead on that point, despite his refrain that if people liked their doctors and policies they could keep them. "The president never said you were going to have unlimited choice of any doctor in the country you want to go to," Emanuel said. "He didn't say you could have unlimited choice." In a remark that has since generated considerable controversy, Emanuel added: "If you want to pay more for an insurance company that covers your doctor, you can do that." Indeed, The Financial Times reported that most plans being sold on the exchanges in New York, Texas and California do not offer access to some of the top medical centers in those states. New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering, Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center and Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are left out of most plans -- meaning those who want to go there would likely have to pay more. Watchdog.org, in a recent report, found that 11 of the top 18 hospitals (as ranked by U.S. News & World Report) were connected with just one or two insurance carriers on the exchanges. In Ohio, for instance, the Cleveland Clinic was connected with one insurance company. Asked about the shifting policies under ObamaCare and their impact on choice, a representative with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center released a statement to FoxNews.com saying, "all patients deserve access to top tier cancer care" -- and that while not everyone needs to come to MD Anderson, "we believe both insurance providers and our health care system must work together to ensure patients have that option so that all of us have the best chance of beating cancer." Though some complain about these centers' high costs, the statement argued that "our country's leading cancer centers help bring down the cost of care for all patients by conducting research that leads to new and better treatments, better cancer fighting strategies and increased efficiencies that lead to cost savings." "We're very concerned," Thomas Priselac, president of Cedars-Sinai Health System in California, told The Financial Times. "[Insurers] know patients that are sick come to places like ours. What this is trying to do is redirect those patients elsewhere, but there is a reason why they come here. These patients need what it is that we are capable of providing." It's not just the insurance companies that are deciding to drop certain hospitals from their plans. In some cases, the hospitals themselves are opting out, unwilling to go along with proposed lower rates. Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, defended the insurance industry's move to trim costs where it can -- noting that the law's benefit requirements end up raising costs. "Establishing high-value provider networks is one way health plans can help make coverage more affordable for consumers, which is particularly important at a time when costs are increasing due to the new health insurance tax and minimum benefit requirements included in the health care reform law," he told FoxNews.com. Emanuel, though, said "the issue isn't the selective networks." "People are going to have a choice as to whether they want to pay a certain amount for a selective network or pay more for a broader network," Emanuel said. Under the law, people who do not have insurance have until the end of March to sign up in order to avoid a penalty. For those wishing to get new coverage by Jan. 1, the deadline to sign up is Dec. 23. Despite problems with HealthCare.gov and other state-based exchanges, officials say they're improving the websites and making progress in signing more people up as the deadlines near. |
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Topic:
2013 College Football Bowls
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Anyone out there interested in college football? I personally was happy Alabama isn't going for a three peat. Auburn vs fla st. Should be a good matchup for the natty championship. Amy particular bowl games interest you? Any predictions? i'll wait till next year and see how the playoffs work... this picking of the NC doesn't do it for me anymore... baylor, ohio state, and michagan state all have one loss, and not even in contention... Me either, the BS needs, I mean bcs needs to disappear. |
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UFC has sucked ever since they were forced to go to weight classes. |
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Couple this with state run militias and things are looking up. |
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Topic:
Christmas Card Exchange
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Merry Christmas ta all yall  <<<egg nog 
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Topic:
Far to easy scam Obamacare
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Obamacare is just one big scam. Do not buy into it. The website has absolutely zero security built into it. Setting up for easy hacking and identity theft. The law itself is built on a faulty foundation and will collapse around Obama and his administration. It's already started to crack and crumble. It's only a matter of time. No amount of duct tape or fancy words will fix this.  Yeah, duct tape needs something solid to stick to, but the Dems will blame it on the tape! The dems will try to blame it on anything they can to try to worm their way out of this one. Unfortunately for them the cat's out of the bag. And that bag is dried up burlap that goes by the name Nancy Peelosi! |
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I love it when it freezes here, mostly cause it only lasts a day or 3. |
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Gimme an O, gimme a B, gimme an A, gimme an M, gimme another A, what's that spell...OBOZO 
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You cannot believe anything the Liar In Contempt says |
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Thanks to the Patriot Act, FISA court and greedy legislators corporatizing/militarizing America, I'm afraid there's not much to look forward to but tyranny, the abuse of power and a complete loss of individual/property rights anymore. It's sad because it is in everyones face, but they fail to see or care......I'm not sure which is more the problem. Amerika... the land of the fee and the home of the slave That is because people don't want to face it, its much easier to tune into America's Voice than actually get involved with what our employees are doing. |
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Well, it is Thorsday afterall. One more day left this week to change it yet again. |
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Employees going to work high or going to work coming down from a high is very much an employers business, regardless of field. and yet, we survived DECADES Without a need for employers to concern themselves with what was in a persons system,,,,  I bet if Obama declared by "executive order" that all American had to be drug tested you'd defend him like a good little girl. Who knows....maybe drug testing is mandated in the AHA but it's buried so deep no one knows it's in there yet. You are correct on the executive order comment and possibly correct on the obozocare comment
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Employees going to work high or going to work coming down from a high is very much an employers business, regardless of field. and yet, we survived DECADES Without a need for employers to concern themselves with what was in a persons system,,,, And how many in juries have occurred due to what's in an employees system? |
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Employees going to work high or going to work coming down from a high is very much an employers business, regardless of field. |
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Topic:
Hillary-Michelle In 2016?
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I don't see two ugly ******* getting elected. But imagine the advantage! Send the pair to Afghanistan,and the Taliban will get so frightened,they will lay down their Weapons and swear off Violence forever! The US could have sorted all the Troublespots at latest end of 2017!  I bet one of Billary's farts could do that. |
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This is true, especially if your talking about the criminal outfit known as the Pima County Regional Swat Team. |
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Topic:
Hillary-Michelle In 2016?
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I don't see two ugly ******* getting elected. |
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I thought he said that affordable healthcare was the most important issue?  He has said a lot of things |
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