Monday, December 7, 2009

Principled Politics – 12/06/09

Austin Hill: Obamanomics Isn't Producing Jobs! Gosh, How Can This Be? 
  The weeklong liberal's lament seems to have started last Sunday with Arianna Huffington. While noting Obama's televised address about Afghanistan, the liberal pundit stated that instead, the President should be addressing the nation about a "jobs bill."….
  After last week’s White House “jobs summit,” the President claimed that he is "open to every demonstrably good idea” that might create jobs, yet noted that “we also though have to face the fact that our resources are limited."
  Barack Obama may be surprised by what a tremendous “resource” the American people can be - if he could only get out of our way.
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Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients - A vast expansion of the program will impose unsustainable costs on treatment centers.
  Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million more people will begin enrolling in Medicaid under the House bill starting in 2013, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Actuary Richard Foster estimates.
  We at Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) endorse efforts to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care. But we also understand all too well the impact a dramatic expansion of Medicaid will have on us and our state—and likely the country as a whole. Read more…

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