1. "Data released last week by two federal agencies the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) stripped the Obama health law of its constitutional and economic justifications, like an emperor with no clothes.
2. The new facts should seal a victory for the parties challenging the Obama health law in the coming U.S. Supreme Court showdown and ignite voter rage next November against the president who lied to get the law passed.
3. The AHRQ report on who consumes healthcare shatters the Obama administrations constitutional justification for compelling all Americans to buy insurance.
4. ...half of Americans consume almost no healthcare. Fifty percent of the population needs so little healthcare that they accounted for only 2.9 percent of healthcare spending in 2009. Looking only at Americans under age 65, the percentage of nonconsumers is even higher.
5. Why should a majority of the under-65 population be subject to a health insurance requirement when they consume little or no healthcare? That is the reasoning behind the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision last August to strike down the Obama health laws mandatory insurance provision.
6. Judges Frank Hull and Joel Dubina called the Obama administrations claim that everyone needs healthcare a convenient sleight of hand, meaning a lie. This weeks AHRQ report gives the Supreme Court Justices solid evidence to uphold the 11th Circuit ruling.
7. The mandate turns insurers into private tax collectors, collecting mandatory premiums from the healthy to pay for politically popular benefits for the sick.
8. To frighten the nation into passing the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the president falsely claimed that healthcare spending was spiraling and skyrocketing. He labeled it the domestic crisis of our time.
9. Contrary to the presidents alarming words, healthcare spending was growing more slowly in 2009 and 2010 than at any other time in the last half century. A new report by CMS actuaries shows that spending inched up only 3.8 percent in 2009 and 3.9 percent the next year.
10. Federal actuaries forecast health spending jumping a whopping 8.3 percent in 2014, the year most of the law takes effect, with annual increases thereafter averaging 6.2 percent until 2020. One reason is that people with private health plans will be compelled to prepay for more of their care with insurance, rather than opting for high deductibles and copays."
New Data Strip Obama's Health Law of Its Rationales
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2. The new facts should seal a victory for the parties challenging the Obama health law in the coming U.S. Supreme Court showdown and ignite voter rage next November against the president who lied to get the law passed.
3. The AHRQ report on who consumes healthcare shatters the Obama administrations constitutional justification for compelling all Americans to buy insurance.
4. ...half of Americans consume almost no healthcare. Fifty percent of the population needs so little healthcare that they accounted for only 2.9 percent of healthcare spending in 2009. Looking only at Americans under age 65, the percentage of nonconsumers is even higher.
5. Why should a majority of the under-65 population be subject to a health insurance requirement when they consume little or no healthcare? That is the reasoning behind the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision last August to strike down the Obama health laws mandatory insurance provision.
6. Judges Frank Hull and Joel Dubina called the Obama administrations claim that everyone needs healthcare a convenient sleight of hand, meaning a lie. This weeks AHRQ report gives the Supreme Court Justices solid evidence to uphold the 11th Circuit ruling.
7. The mandate turns insurers into private tax collectors, collecting mandatory premiums from the healthy to pay for politically popular benefits for the sick.
8. To frighten the nation into passing the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the president falsely claimed that healthcare spending was spiraling and skyrocketing. He labeled it the domestic crisis of our time.
9. Contrary to the presidents alarming words, healthcare spending was growing more slowly in 2009 and 2010 than at any other time in the last half century. A new report by CMS actuaries shows that spending inched up only 3.8 percent in 2009 and 3.9 percent the next year.
10. Federal actuaries forecast health spending jumping a whopping 8.3 percent in 2014, the year most of the law takes effect, with annual increases thereafter averaging 6.2 percent until 2020. One reason is that people with private health plans will be compelled to prepay for more of their care with insurance, rather than opting for high deductibles and copays."
New Data Strip Obama's Health Law of Its Rationales
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