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Posted: Jun 29, 2012

This healthcare bill only has a few good things in it, but it was passed so it can insure 30 million people in america that don't have health insurance. there are 300 million people in the united states. The healthcare bill is not about health care or insurance at all, it's about making the government more powerful. Now they can tax our behavior. It's about expansion of government. Exerting behavioral control over american people. They can tax the way people eat. They can tax you for being overweight. Tax you for how much you drive. Tax more on gas, more on liquor, tax food, there is no limit on how much they can do. It doesnt go into effect till 2014 so right now you don't believe me. The insurance companies will be mandated and premiums will rise so high we will be forced to drop our private insurance and move over to obamacare (single payor plan) and whether you like it or not you will be forced to pay for healthcare insurance that could be more than what you are paying now. You will not have any right to refuse health insurance (some people don't even want insurance cause they live healthy lives). And the only way we can stop this is to vote this guy out of office before it gets worse. And if you dont think Romney is any better, at least Romney does not believe in expansion of government, he knows what is going on and wants america back on the right track.

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Well said - too bad the Libs/Dems not - interested in truth

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only absolute, total control of every citizen. Can't wait to hear them squeal like pigs when they have to start shelling outhe these taxes or Congress passes a tax on something they don't like...bet they'll blame it on Bush.

They can only for me to buy insurance if they can - force my MTSO to pay me better!!!! nm

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You just wrote a very good summation of it. - well said - what if (sm)

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Everything you wrote can be found in the bill. I know that if you're over a certain BMI (which will include body builders that are very much in shape, but have a lot of muscle) the doctors will be required by law to report your name to the govt, whereby you will be taxed higher. They've also started in with trying to control what everyone eats with the NY Mayor and Marie Antoinette.

I believe he has just lost the election by doing this, but like you say Romney does not believe in expansion of government and he wants America back on the right track. I heard Romney had a huge soar in support once this was passed.

Stop the hysteria. No one is going to report you to - the obesity police. nm

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No hysteria - OP is Right - You, not so much

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I cannot document this, but would be interested in seeing it - nm

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USPSTF agency mentioned in ACA originated under Reagan - and was expanded under Bush Sr

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The US Preventative Services Task Force was a panel appointed by the government in 1984 to develop regular physical exam guidelines and recommendations for PCPs with a focus on preventative care and wellness programs. It conducted a systematic review of medical publications and clinical research, and monitored effective outcomes of 169 preventative services, such screening tests, immunizations, counseling, prophylactic regimens , etc., and established age- and gender-related health exam protocols and guidelines.

USPSTF was expanded in 1990 under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services. Appropriate data updates were maintained and guideline revisions were developed in light of advancing technologies and evolving medical practices. A second arm of the task force (US Preventative Community Services) was incorporated under the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The services of the existing agencies were expanded under ACA preventative health care provisions. Their guidelines and recommendations, developed by independent MDs from all medical specialties, are offered, NOT enforced. However, the integrity of their work is well respected and their blueprints are routinely implemented in thousands of PCP practices across the country, as had been the case long before Obama was elected.

How nutrition factors into preventative care and wellness should come as no surprise, hysterical partisans notwithstanding. Nobody’s NAME is required when gathering comprehensive data for research. OF COURSE, BMI and obesity statistics are crucial in assessing risk factors, etiologies, prevalence distributions, chronicity, and disease progression in correlation with advancement of treatments for ALL KINDS of disorders, such as hypertension, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc, the latter of which is on the rise in all ages groups, and most precipitously in children. The ACA initiatives in this area are all about COST CONTROL, considering the treatment expenses of these nutrition-related disorders are astronomical. Preventative measures are not a function of a Big Brother takeover. They are the cornerstone of fiscal responsibility.

The notion that the government is going to tax behaviors, body types, eating patterns and the like is sheer nonsense, just like Boehner’s bogus babble about a broccoli tax. Pure fiction. In this regard, you will not “see” documentation, because there is no there there. This thread is all about MTs behaving badly. This senseless paranoia coming out from right-wing fanatics flies in the face of sound medical practices all MTs should be more than a little familiar with, regardless of political ideology.

http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/guidecps/uspstf.htm

calmer heads prevail! - thank you

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OBESITY POLICE - ME

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Funny you should mention that. I remember when I was still working for Spheris about 2007 or 2008 they wanted everying receiving healthcare to voluntarily allow (healthcare people)to come into your house and pass some kind of health check which would reduce your premiums. I TOTALLY REFUSED. I can't even believe they did that. I truly don't remember when it was and I never heard such a thing again. But then I read somewhere that some companies can refuse you to work if you're overweight.
But I guess you probably would want to refuse to even have healthcare from your employer. Sometimes its cheaper per year to just pay a doctor 80 bucks a visit and pay for your own xrays and lab work (if you're relatively healthy).

It doesn't matter if you pay a doctor out of your pocket - sm

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I'll have to find it again, but I read (and no, not from Fox) that every doctor will be required by law to report every patient that is past a certain BMI. It won't matter if you pay out of your pocket or not. Every overweight patient will be reported.

Total rubbish. - nm

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They report BMI numbers, not names of patients. - Nothing new here.

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The BMI measure has been around since the early to mid 1800s. The World Health Organization has been integrating BMI data into their public health studies since the early 1980s. Insurance companies have been factoring it into their medical underwriting methodologies for years. More comprehensive BMI standards as applied to related factors described below will curtail their misuse of BMI information as an exclusionary device or as justification to hike premium rates, assign high deductibles or to restrict coverage parameters.

The BMI is useful primarily in population studies but is not considered to be a reliable diagnostic tool on its own merit. However, it becomes a more precise indicator when correlated with a cluster of other measures, such as blood pressure, pulse, cholesterol values, waist circumference, muscle mass, overall body frame structure, bone and cartilage content, qualitative and quantitative nutritional dietary content, and exercise and activity levels.

While there are international variations in standards, BMI metrics have been implemented globally for decades, primarily as a predictor of trends. Its most suitable application is within overweight, sedentary populations where its measure is more accurate, though the tool is also employed in the treatment of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The calculation of BMI is not fixed. For example, an upward calculation adjustment is made when measuring BMI for body builders or athletes, whose large muscle mass otherwise skews BMI numbers using average population calclation methods.

On a personal note, I use this number along with weight fluctuations, blood glucose readings, and nutritional content information (calories, fat, carbs, fiber, protein, sodium and sugar) to set goals and manage my own type 2 diabetes. One of the most powerful motivations along the way was when my BMI measure fell from the obese to the overweight category, and I keep my eye trained on my target BMI every bit as much as a final weight goal. As a result, I've lost 45 pounds since I was diagnosed 7 months ago and my blood glucose readings have gone from wild fluctuations hovering around 190 to 200, down to stable, near normal values of 102 to 112, placing me at considerably reduced risk for costly complications from diabetes.

ACA did not pioneer this concept by any means, but the efficacy of its preventative medicine and wellness programs, particularly in terms of overall cost control, is dependent on precise and accurate data that includes reporting BMI numbers, and in no way violates patient confidentiality. No scarelet letter will be stamped on records and made available to the public. No sinister national obesity ID card is looming. It would be bad medicine not to provide this invaluable statistical information when streamlining academic inquiry and clinical practice.

They report BMI numbers, not names of patients. - Nothing new here - FLAT OUT LIE HERE

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My doctor NEVER did a BMI on me. Many times I declined being weighed as my weight is not an issue and I knew what my weight was. It was not the reason I was at the doctor's to begin with. I am in excellent health (thank God and no tahnsk to Obamacare).

Now, I routinely see documentation of BMI and weight measurements along with "obervations of physical condition"for someone being treated for something as benign as a toenail removal, slight burn, poison ivy, etc. Say what you want, post 5000 pages of what you consider documentation, this information is being gathered, send to HHS and the IPAB board and if you think it is for anything other than ratioining, you better think again. Clearly, you are not familiar with Obama's cabinet members and their personal statements and books regarding "control" of the populace (their stated desires) through health and govt handouts. He has one cabinet member spewing the belief that you should be able to kill your child up to 2 years of age because it has not "discernible" spirit yet formed. That is the reality of what you're dealing with. Read the writings Cass Sunstein Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's Regulatory Czar, believes that in order for a government to get what it wants, it has to slowly and steadily " nudge ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVECoxtje4 - Cached

If all these mandates/dictates were SOOO good, why do you have to nudge anyone? It said nothing about the "people" getting what they want, only the "government getting what it wants".
PEOPLE BETTER WAKE UP!

Hope the links at the end of the post - prove helpful

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Taking the end-to-beginning route on this one. Thanks for posting the nudge link to a 20-second YouTube clip, but I took a pass on that. When Sunstein was facing the confirmation quagmire (and when it became clear he drove Glenn Beck up the wall), I decided to read two of his books, Why Societies Need Dissent and Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness. I thought “Nudge” was packed with lots of common sense helpful tips on how to approach making choices and restructure thinking about making decisions in constructive ways for more positive outcomes. There was nothing scary about his down-to-earth advice. I’m sorry to hear you think encouraging people to make better choices about their health is a subversive government takeover plot. If you read the “nudge” book, who knows? It might help you choose not to be so fearful.

Cass Sunstein’s bios are superimpressive, but I can see why extremists DESPISE the views he advanced in The Cost of Rights. Whatever. I think he is every bit as capable as Chief Justice John Roberts of putting his political and personal beliefs aside while staying within the parameters of his job description and he certainly has oodles of experience and more than adequate academic qualifications for his position.

Again, I’m sorry. That control through “health and govt handouts” and killing 2-years olds stuff is WAY too far out in right field to be taken seriously. I don’t do off-the-chart dialogs.

The logic in attributing your excellent health status to the fact that your doctor “never did a BMI” on you escapes me. BMI is calculated, not “done” as part of a physical exam. On the occasions when you do get weighed, and assuming you have allowed them to measure your height at least once, then your physician is aware of your BMI. If he has EMR, your BMI is automatically calculated as part of your record.

I worked for an IME outfit from 2005 to 2009 doing medical records abstracts, and calculating BMIs was part of my routine job description. Of course, if I had to review your chart, I’d have to flag it for insufficient information since you do not allow your weight measurement to be taken. We provided independent exam and review services according to client protocols for group health, disability, workers' compensation, automobile and general liability insurance carriers, third-party administrators and law firms, peer, medical record, radiology, and nurse files reviews, line item audits for medical, physician and hospital billing and surgical cost estimates. As you can see, there is the potential for many, many pairs of eyes to be cast on that information. It never occurred to us to freak out over BMIs being in any of those records. It’s about as controversial as a temp, BP or pulse reading.

As an MT, surely you must understand that medication dosing and its predictive actions and efficacies are titrated according to body weight, BMI, BSA (body surface area) and LBM (lean body mass) physiology. Observing weight change over time and monitoring precipitous weight gain or loss are important ways to “observe physical condition” (yes, MDs spend quite a lot of their time doing just that) and to identify red flag indicators. If it were me, I’d be a little concerned about entrusting my medical care to an MD who lets patients get away with repeatedly refusing to be weighed. Maybe it’s not an issue to you, but it most assuredly should be an issue to your doctor.

If you really want to know why you now routinely see weight and BMI information being recorded, here’s some suggested reading for you.

http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayEO.cfm?id=EO_13335_
Executive Order 13335 of April 27, 2004 - Incentives for the Use of Health Information Technology and Establishing the Position of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator….when W ushered in the EMR/EHR era. Obama continued and expanded this initiative in ACA. This EO gave the Secretary of HHS broad authority to establish and develop a nationwide INTRAOPERABLE health information technology infrastructure. In essence, government snooping through your medical records is nothing new.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=605#axzz1zPBoY4MF
Executive Order 13410 - Promoting Quality and Efficient Health Care in FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTERED or Sponsored Health Care Programs. This broadened the scope of EO 1335, particularly in the area of data collection, maintenance and use. Again, these initiatives were incorporated into ACA.

http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/ahima/bok1_033940.pdf
AHIMA (you know who they are, right?) report on the 2006 AHRQ Data Collection & Reporting Conference, a fascinating read on how Ws EOs impacted health information management policy.

Now, ask yourself what all these folks have in common:

Mike Levitt-GW Bush
Tommy Thompson-GW Bush
Donna Shalala-Clinton
Louis W. Sullivan-GHW Bush
Otis Bowen-Reagan
Margaret Heckler-Reagan
Richard Schweiker-Reagan

No need to Google. They are all Secretaries of HHS from both sides of the aisle who have been steadily promoting the use and reporting of BMI in obesity and eating disorder management, dating back as far as the early 1980s, and encouraging schools to score BMI reports cards for their students. So, as you can see, the wingers can’t exactly pin all that on Michelle Obama and Mayor Bloomberg.

Superimpressive to commies only - those with their own "common sense"

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don'the need a "nudge" and certainly not from Cass Sunstein. Pretty clear you are so busy writing what you think makes you look like an intellect, but reads like "I think I am so smart, everybody is so stupid" posts, you are not nearly as familiar with Cass Sunstein's stated aims, don't care, or believe in the same Communist thought. Pick any 1 of the 3, none hold any respect.

How about those EO links to W's EMR government takeover plot? - Where's the outrage?

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Must be too preoccupied with (yawn) commie Secretary of HSS Sunstein who is following in W's footsteps and expanding on his initiatives to stage a government-backed healthcare coup d'etat. IMO, factual info that sheds light on the whole enchilada commands respect on its own merits and trumps belittling and dismissive name calling, and a string of winger buzz words any day of the week.

No proof, no source, no link - NO CREDiBILITY

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"Must be too preoccupied with (yawn) commie" agenda of Obama and "Secretary of HSS Sunstein" "and expanding on his initiatives to stage a government-backed healthcare coup d'etat. IMO, factual info that sheds light on the whole enchilada commands respect on its own merits and trumps belittling and dismissive name calling, and a string of winger buzz words any day of the week."

BTW - News Flash for you, oh wordy one with no facts, HHS Secretary is NOT Senstein. Blows your whole comment to shreds and reveals it for the falsehood it is.

You are correct, but the title misspeak blows - nothing of the kind to shreds

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Since I spent the better part of yesterday writing about HSS and considering the previous post was made after midnight at the end of an 18-hour day, I'm not surprised I made a mistake. When that happens, unlike some whose mistakes have been proven wrong in dozens of different ways, I have no problem owning up. BTW, as long as you are at least trying to appear as though you are making a stab at being accurate, I'm sure you won't mind my correcting your unimaginative "President Obama's Regulatory Czar" misnomer.

That said, I stand by the content of my post, especially with regard to what garners respect and what doesn't, which should read:

"Must be too preoccupied with (yawn) commie" agenda of Obama and Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Sunstein's expanding on his (meaning W's) initiatives to stage a (commie) government-backed healthcare coup d'etat. IMO, factual info that sheds light on the whole enchilada commands respect on its own merits and trumps belittling and dismissive name calling, and a string of winger buzz words any day of the week.

I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to repost those links to that factual information referenced above which you are willfully ignoring:

http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayEO.cfm?id=EO_13335_
Executive Order 13335 of April 27, 2004 - Incentives for the Use of Health Information Technology and Establishing the Position of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator….when W ushered in the EMR/EHR era. Obama continued and expanded this initiative in ACA. This EO gave the Secretary of HHS broad authority to establish and develop a nationwide INTRAOPERABLE health information technology infrastructure. In essence, government snooping through your medical records is nothing new.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=605#axzz1zPBoY4MF
Executive Order 13410 - Promoting Quality and Efficient Health Care in FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTERED or Sponsored Health Care Programs. This broadened the scope of EO 1335, particularly in the area of data collection, maintenance and use. Again, these initiatives were incorporated into ACA.

http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/ahima/bok1_033940.pdf
AHIMA (you know who they are, right?) report on the 2006 AHRQ Data Collection & Reporting Conference, a fascinating read on how Ws EOs impacted health information management policy.

Heck, I'll even throw in source info on Administrator Sunstein's full job title for free:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein

Now that those links have been thrown out there twice, just how outraged are you over Ws commie plot for government takeover of the healthcare system?

Wrong - They are required to report a name along with BMI - sm

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Number are meaningless unless they have the person's name. Nobody sends in just a bunch of numbers. That doesn't solve anything.

And when someone crosses the line into obesity, the doctor needs to do more than mention a diet. It's time to refer those patients for intensive nutrition-and-fitness help, say the guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_20937095/government-panel-renews-call-obesity-checkups-bmi-calculations

Article after article after article I'm reading that doctors are going to be required to refer (report) obese patients for counseling.

Maybe if you read or listened to something besides the leftwinger sites you would find the truth. It's out there. That is if you want to find it.

OMG. What are you talking about? - sm

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When building demographic STATISTICAL data banks, defined category parameters or cohort trait clusters that are correlated with and against themselves are pertinent, such as age, gender, ethnicity, educational levels, geographic location, disease risk factors, medical conditions, available health care, doctor/patient ratios, etc. Individual personal identity is NOT AN ISSUE when these data are subjected to academic inquiry. For those who have a hard time grasping that, try thinking about accounting, banking, polling studies, assembling graphs or tables, or any other realm where numbers rule.

"And when someone crosses the line into obesity...it's time to refer those patients for intensive nutrition-and-fitness help, say the GUIDELINES issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force." OF COURSE IT IS. This is nothing new and was not a product of ACA.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. What makes you think any patient can be FORCED to take a doctor's advice? That's why they call them guidelines. Here's a news flash for ya. The ACA, USPSTF, CDC, NIH, WHO, etc, are not the only entities that develop medical care guidelines. Insurance carriers, private and publically-funded hospitals, specialty departments, clinics, and private practices ALL develop their own health care policies and protocols. I'd bet my paycheck that they ALL RECOMMEND nutrition and fitness counseling for obese patients. Is that their job? Of course it is. Do they hound the patient, follow them around, conduct home visits, set up surveillance cameras at the residentce and in restaurants, issue warnings and citations, arrest and punish them for noncompliance?

Get a grip and try to use some common sense, for Pete's sake. This kind of thinking defies logic. I am not the one that needs to divorce myself from biased websites and seek the truth.

"I am not the one that needs to divorce myself from biased websites and seek the truth. " - Yeah...you do :)

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You are right on 1 thing...you do need to get a grip.

You are obviously not an MT and have never heard of - HIPAA nm

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Making erroneous assumptions AGAIN - Are you an MT?

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If you were an MT, instead of questions to others if they are, YOU would understand that under Obamacare, HIPAA means diddly squat. With approximately 16,000 IRS agents added to the rolls sweep your accounts, review your tax returns for "acceptable" health insurance, tax breaks/credits, if you think protecting anything about your health and healthcare if you can get it, is so naive it borders on delusional. These agents have 1 purpose and it is NOT maintaining integrity regarding the protection of your personal information. You either need to become and MT or get a clue as to how you personally are going to be affected 'cos your post proves neither.

"under Obamacare, HIPAA means diddly squat" ? - fail

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16,000 IRS agents wil NOT be sweeping our accounts. It's a shame that so many people are buying into this communist ideology. Think about what you are saying.

See the link below:

"...just for kicks, let's track how an estimate becomes spin becomes a lie becomes a sound bite..."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/will_the_irs_need_16000_new_ag.html

The paranoia is mindboggling! - nm

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So is the alarming incoherence and - gullible predisposition to embrace

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this utter lunacy being churned out by sites with such ludicrous dot-coms as godlikeproductions and prisonplanet.

Politifact picks your claim apart - Truth-o-meter says? False

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and they have provided a fairly comprehensive explanation. For starters, there is a distinction between support staff employees, who have no enforcement capacities and make up the bulk of those hiring forecasts, and a much smaller number of agents who do enforcement.

http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/may/04/saxby-chambliss/us-sen-chambliss-says-16500-irs-agents-needed-heal/

"Q: Will the IRS hire 16,500 new agents to enforce the health care law?
A: No. The law requires the IRS mostly to hand out tax credits, not collect penalties. The claim of 16,500 new agents stems from a partisan analysis based on guesswork and false assumptions, and compounded by outright misrepresentation."

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/03/irs-expansion/

Because these were published a while back, they do not mention another important subsequent development that undoubtedly will impact these numbers: Budget cuts, hiring and pay freezes and staff reductions of federal employees, courtesy of guess who?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/business/budget-cuts-hamper-irs-from-performing-its-duties-report-says.html

incorrect: names are not reported to the govt - re-read your link

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Leftwinger sites, rightwinger sites, it makes no difference. Reading is not a solution in itself if comprehension is absent. I agree with you that people will find what they want to find, as illustrated by the ill-informed conclusions in your post.

there is no such requirement - ?marie antoinette?

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LOL. It's a clumsy attempt at cryptic metaphoric humor - made by Rep Virginia Foxx R-NC

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Aside from the irony of her name, it's even more fitting she hails from a district that encompases parts of Winston-Salem. She made sensational headlines back in 2008 all over fringosphere blogs during the energy debate when she aired her convoluted twist on C-SPAN of something one of Pelosi's AIDES said (age unknown, probably a teenage summer intern). She construed the statement as a "let them eat cake" thing. This is one of those bones the fringe seized upon, dragged around for a while, buried, and dig up from time to time whenever Pelosi hacks them off. If you've got a little time to waste, you can take a peek at her statement here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzvTg2YTvZI

Some of Virginia Foxx's more telling claims to fame are:

1. Being one of only 11 members in all of Congress to vote against aid to Katrina victims.
2. Being one in only 33 pubs to vote against the Voting Rights Act in 2006.
3. In Nov 2008, she staged a lame duck sabotage of the second tier of Ws phased TARP stimulus efforts in her HJ Res 101 brainchild, thus prolonging the jobs loss hemorrhaging and Wall Street's deep six.
4. She vehemently opposed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. She the witch who, in a hearing attended by Matthew Shepard's mother, made this false mean-spirited statement: "....we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay." She then characterized the entire hate crimes bill as a "hoax." Her comments were greatly disputed in police reports and investigative findings, and were ultimately DEBUNKED BY THE DEFENDANTS' trial testimony. Of course, she never apologized to Matthew's mother, or made any effort to retract her statements.
5. Another sampling of Foxx flatulence is her contention that ACA will "put seniors to death," and that we should fear health care reform more than any terrorist in all the world.

It's no wonder she's become the Queen Bee of the fringes' malcontents, who dedicate much of their time and energy fomenting and spreading hatred for Pelosi, as we have witnessed on this forum the moment the SCOTUS ruling was issued.

Government takeover of health care is Politifact's - lie of the year for 2010

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In related news, the health care plan is "a government takeover of 20% of our economy" earned a big fat pants on fire.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/dec/16/lie-year-government-takeover-health-care/

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I had Obamacare and even with the subsidy still could not afford it and was paying for nothing essentially because there was no way I would ever meet the deductible. To be forced to have to have something is not the answer and as awful as some think that the repeal and replace of Obamacare is, we have to do something and we have to start somewhere. Obamacare was meant to fail and did noone any favors and, by the way, we were LIED to. We have to have choices and competitio ...

Mar 22, 2010
Does anybody know how this might positively or negatively affect our jobs as transcriptionists. I haven't really been following the particulars of the bill that closely. ...

Oct 22, 2012
Insurance should cover prescription drugs, such as antibiotics, narcotics, antidepressants (how many here are on THOSE??) and birth control pills. Are birth control pills considered different b/c they're related to sex? Is that what it boils down to? I was put on them at 14 years old by my pediatrician. It wasn't covered; we had to get them at PP. Why wasn't it covered? If I'd had an infection, antibiotics would have been covered. A small percentage ...

Aug 13, 2013
I don't happen to think the new healthcare exchanges are political, happen to believe they belong on the health issues board because they will affect all of us. This article explains the value of Obamacare to me in that EVERYTHING IS CAPPED SO YOU DON'T PAY MORE THAN ~$6000/year. It also explains the meaning of the "10 essential benefits" insurers need to provide to qualify for Obamacare. It doesn't matter if your premiums go up a little or down, what matters to me is I get co-p ...

Apr 02, 2014
But one million more than before are covered. Woot! Woot! link ...

Jun 11, 2017
Quoting Ellis Winningham, economist. "...the fact is, the issue of universal healthcare doesn’t come down to compassion; it comes down to macroeconomic necessity (see fourth paragraph for an explanation). Canada is the same as the US with regard to how Canadian dollars work – ...tax dollars do not fund Canadian healthcare. The US would be the same. Then secondly, what the federal tax is itself. The Obamacare tax (fine) highlights one of the main purposes of federal ta ...

May 16, 2011
My sister-in-law is in her mid 50's and not in good health; however, much (granted not all) of the problem is her lifestyle choice. She smokes at least a pack a day, she is sedentary to the point of using a lift chair, motorized scooter & cane to get around, she is at least 100 pounds overweight and her knees are problematic for her as there is too much weight on them. She had a nervous breakdown about 30 years ago after a bad breakup, and then about 10 years later she got d ...

Feb 24, 2010
The President’s Health Care Proposal: Trying To Get Blood From A Stone by Dr. Elaina George If the goal of the President’s proposal was to drive doctors into hospital based practices or community health centers, or if it was to break the spirit of providers and bend them to the will of the government that holds the threat of criminal prosecution over their heads if they are found to be Medicare cheats, or if the goal was to dumb down the practice of medicine by ramping up ...

Mar 08, 2010
Oh - not so good? Dear, dear. I am SO very surprised! ...

Mar 22, 2010
It was made very clear tonight that the politicians voted against what their constituants wanted. That to me makes a sham of our political system. We should not be democrats vs republicans; we should be Americans. What kind of mess are we leaving for our children to clean up and how will they do it if they do not have the education and resources to do it? This is all being done on fake money. It will run out, and like many who learned that you cannot buy a house t ...

Oct 08, 2010
http://thehill.com/house-polls/the-hill-anga-poll-week-1/122851-distaste-for-healthcare-law-crosses-party-lines ...

Oct 21, 2012
"While power has indeed shifted into the hands of the consumer when it comes to buying a car or choosing a restaurant, this revolution -- what Rothschild terms "Yelpification" -- hasn't, well, revolutionized health care. Writing in the New York Times, Ron Lieber attributed the lack of authoritative doctor reviews to patients' unwillingness to do the actual reviewing. The problem, he said, is one of basic supply and demand: "Many people want this information, and more consume ...

Jul 07, 2013
For the first year you won't even have to prove you need it. Come one, come all. We're using the honor system. OMG. I'm choking from laughter. link ...

Jan 02, 2014
or the people don't even know what they're talking about on the live chat option. I suspect the former, from the recent chat session I had on there. Will try calling in, but I suspect that's going to get me about the same results. That website is about as useful as decaf coffee. Applied, account registered, get a message of "The Marketplace is transferring your information to the Medicaid to see if you qualify to get more health services." Get an email that says you hav ...

Apr 23, 2017
Not for those who are too impatient to read anything longer than a paragraph. While our earnings are being ground into dust, the HC providers we ultimately work for are marking up everything they deliver by 300%, 400% and more, making outsize profits and paying obscene salaries to executives. Example: A patient charged $1.50 for a generic Tylenol pill when you can buy a bottle of 200 for $4.00 from Walmart (2 cents a pill). https://www.walmart.com/ip/39661523 ...that's ...

Jun 24, 2017
the people, want. Princeton University studywhich found that the wishes of the public have no impact whatsoever on US policy making, while there is a near-direct relationship between the wishes of moneyed interests and US policy making. ...