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2011-06-22 Economy

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Posted by DarthVader 2011-06-22 09:47|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Darth you left off the best paragraph or maybe you don't like to say, 'we told you so'.

The negative consequences of ObamaCares changes will be threefold: higher costs for those with employer-sponsored coverage; a greater debt burden on current and future taxpayers; and slower growth in job creation and the overall economy, Crouch concludes. In other words, precisely the things ObamaCare critics said would happen. ObamaCare critics will go down in history as the most thoroughly vindicated group to ever pick up a keyboard.

Posted by Beavis 2011-06-22 09:54|| 2011-06-22 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I was hoping people would click through. I think the bloggers that helped make the new media will be seen as important to the upcoming conflict as Thomas Paine was.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-06-22 09:57|| 2011-06-22 09:57|| Front Page Top

#3 On the other hand:
20 June 2011, Chicago -- Delegates to the American Medical Association Annual Meeting voted on June 20 by a 2-1 ratio to reaffirm the AMA's support for "individual responsibility" to purchase health insurance, with tax credits and subsidies for those who cannot afford insurance.

The Association's House of Delegates rejected proposals to rescind the AMA's support for an individual mandate, which takes effect in 2014 as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Physicians who oppose the health reform law tried to convince colleagues that the AMA should change its position. Delegates from some state medical societies have blamed the Association's support for an individual mandate for a loss of membership in the AMA in their states.

AMA President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, said the AMA lost 1% to 2% more members in the last year than the previous year. ...

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-22 14:22|| 2011-06-22 14:22|| Front Page Top

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