Posts Tagged ‘Surprise’

Cancer Patient Get a Surprise Call from President Obama President Obama makes a surprise call to Gail O’Brien, a woman in Keene, NH that is benefiting from the Affordable Care Act Gail was previously uninsured and diagnosed with high grade non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Thanks to the new law Gail now has insurance through the new Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan that will pay for her treatments, and she is responding very well.

Klint Peebles discusses how a student run free clinic for the uninsured in East Nashville, the Shade Tree Clinic, confronts inequality in health care. Klint Peebles is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with degrees in neuroscience and Chinese and is now in his second year of medical school at Vanderbilt. He serves as Director of Social Work for Shade Tree Clinic (www.shadetreeclinic.org a medical student run free clinic for the uninsured in East Nashville. He is an avid LGBT equality advocate and serves on the national AMSA AIDS Advocacy Network steering committee. Talk presented at TEDxChange Nashville (www.TEDxNashville.com), Sep. 22, 2010. A Well-Being event sponsored by Healthways (http
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Another Surprise for Small Businesses Courtesy of the Healthcare Reform Bill

One more detail that was buried within the Healthcare reform bill, found in section 9006, is the requirement for every business to file a 1099-MISC form for each vendor from which the business purchases good or services of more than 0 in any calendar year.  The purpose of this section is to collect an approximated billion a year in lost tax revenue on income that is not reported to the IRS.  While the goal of collecting all legitimate tax revenue is praiseworthy, this is not a very effective way to achieve this goal.

If you Do not Have Medical Insurance Because it Costs Too Much Here is a Nice Surprise

An incredible 20% of adult Americans state that they are not able to afford acceptable health care according to the latest statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control. So, are you amongst the more than 40 million people who cannot sleep comfortably in their beds at night for fear of not being able to pay for the cost of medical treatment should you have an illness or accident? More to the point, have you got to be amongst the 40 million?

The CDC report which was published in 2007 and explored health care throughout the United States looked in detail at various aspects of health care and revealed amongst other things that:

1. 10% of people are presently unable to meet the cost of prescription medication.

by Visiting Nurse Associations of America

Question by _______: Since wall street got “bailed out”, is it any surprise that DIDN’T LEARN ANYTHING AT ALL?
Remember how we were experiencing the greatest financial collapse since the great depression?? Well the president apparently thinks healthcare “reform” is more important than addressing the fundamental flaws in the American financial system. This would explain why he has done next to nothing for the last 8 months to address these problems.

What do you think?? Did Obama get his priorities out of order??

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090914/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_financial_regulations

And even as the economy begins a “return to normalcy,” Obama said, “normalcy cannot lead to complacency.”

Nevertheless, Obama said, “Instead of learning the lessons of Lehman and the crisis from which we are still recovering, they are choosing to ignore them.”

Some cool health insurance reform images:

Speaker Pelosi With A Surprise Cake For Her Birthday


Image by Speaker Pelosi
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Leaders, Committee Chairs and newer Members of Congress held an enrollment ceremony in the Rayburn Room of the Capitol this morning to sign the revised Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act and send it to President Obama for his signature into law. The House passed the bill last night, which completes Congressional work on health insurance reform, by a vote of 220 to 207; the Senate passed it yesterday afternoon by a vote of 56 to 43.

Organizing for America- Virginia


Image by Barack Obama
supporters visit Rep. Connolly’s office to thank him for his support for health insurance reform.

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Question by _______: Do you think it’s a “surprise” that a majority of Americans STILL oppose Obama’s healthcare bill?
This blew my mind. The fact that people are still opposed to this bill is a “surprise” according to this public health professor at Harvard….. Seriously??

Is this the kind of bullsh*t advice/analysis Obama has been receiving?? Are these people really this clueless??

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100415/ap_on_bi_ge/us_ap_poll_obama_health_care

“The surprise of this poll is that you would expect people to be more supportive of the bill now that it’s the law of the land — and that’s not the case,” said Robert Blendon, a Harvard public health professor who follows opinion trends on health care. “The election for the House is going to be competitive, and health care is clearly going to be an issue.”