‘Disaster’ Health Plan Breaks Obama Cost-Cut Vow in CEOs’ View – Bloomberg.com

Alex Nussbaum
President Barack Obama’s $1 trillion health-care overhaul won’t buy corporate America relief from medical costs that more than doubled in the last decade, chief executive officers of more than a dozen U.S. companies said.
Private companies, providers of benefits to 132 million Americans, will see little savings from legislation under debate in Congress, CEOs at [...]

Obamacare: Big State Tax Hikes – Townhall.com

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann :
Anxious to avoid raising taxes too much to pay for their health care proposals, the Obama administration and its congressional allies hit on a great new idea: Make the states raise their taxes to fund the program, instead.
Both the House and the Senate bills require that states cover a larger [...]

American Thinker Blog: Oh to be an illegal alien under Obamacare…

Rick Moran:
Keith Hennessey calls this “unfair.” The gentleman has a gift for understatement:
Under Leader Reid’s amendment, in the year 2019 about 16 million U.S. citizens would be uninsured and be forced to pay a penalty tax of almost $800 per year. About eight million illegal aliens would be uninsured and would owe no penalty tax. [...]

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Arthur C. Brooks: Americans Don’t Want Obamacare – WSJ.com

By ARTHUR C. BROOKS
Regardless of how President Barack Obama’s health-care agenda plays out in Congress, it has not been a success in public opinion. Opposition to ObamaCare has risen all year.
According to the Gallup polling organization, the percentage of Americans who believe the cost of health care for their families will “get worse” under the [...]

Obama declares swine flu a national emergency – Yahoo! News

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Administration officials said the declaration was a pre-emptive move designed to make decisions easier when they need to be made. Officials said the move was not in response to any single development.
Full article: Yahoo! News.

Michelle Obama turns Breast Cancer Awareness Month into attack on insurance companies | Washington Examiner

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
10/23/09 3:35 PM EDT

First Lady Michelle Obama took part in a White House event this afternoon to mark National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While such events have been mostly noncontroversial in the past, Mrs. Obama used the occasion to launch an extended attack on the insurance industry, the Obama administration’s current [...]

My Way News – Dems scramble after warning from health insurers

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
WASHINGTON (AP) – Insurance companies aren’t playing nice any more. Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for people who already have coverage comes as a warning shot at a crucial point in the debate, and threatens President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
Continued: My Way News.

White House’s botched ‘op’

By CHARLES HURT
WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet — and handed out doctors’ white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell health-care message.
In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op to buttress its claim that front-line physicians support Obama.

A [...]

RealClearPolitics – Elderly Moving Against ObamaCare

By Dick Morris
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And well they should! Three-quarters of ObamaCare is to be financed by slashing $500 billion from Medicare over the next 10 years. That comes to an 8 percent cut. Next year’s total Medicare spending, for example, will be about $500 billion by itself, so this is like having one year without Medicare at [...]