Prominent Economists Urge Obamacare Repeal

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First, you need to dig in and learn about the meaning of the study. Not just accept the ranking.
Second:
"In fact, the Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that the state could not bar prisoners from access to organ transplants and other support services without violating these Eighth Amendment rights."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=116967&page=1

Bill Hedges of MO 12:10PM January 19, 2011

You leave facts out because you know I will disprove.
By "ugly discourse", you must mean left actvist Fuller who threatened TEA leader on National show. On tape. Fuller repeats the liberal garbage...
The shooter, on the other hand, has no link to the right...

Bill Hedges of MO 11:49AM January 19, 2011

Why do the Republicans continue with the canard that the U.S. has the best healthcare system in the world? According to the UN, we rank 27th. Perhaps the congressmen are out of touch since they and those incarcerated in our prison system have assured healthcare, which even includes organ transplants.

Helen J Rockwell of OH 11:39AM January 19, 2011

Directly from the CBO letter the Left is using to promote the health care bill as decreasing the deficit:
"Thus, the act’s effects on the rest of the budget—other than the cash flows of the HI trust fund—would amount to a net increase in federal deficits of $226 billion over the same period.
Therefore, leaving aside the cash flows of the HI trust fund, CBO expects that PPACA would yield a net increase in budget deficits during the decade beyond 2019.
Unified budget accounting shows that the majority of the HI trust fund savings under PPACA would be used to pay for other spending and therefore would not enhance the ability of the government to pay for future Medicare benefits.
Therefore, enacting PPACA would increase debt held by government accounts more than it would decrease debt held by the public, and would thus increase gross federal debt."
The Dems base their claims on one sentence near the start of the letter:
"Given those changes in the financial flows of the trust fund, CBO estimates that the HI trust fund would have a positive balance of about $170 billion at the end of fiscal year 2019."
Note that this sentence covers only one small part of the bill - the HI trust fund, NOT the impact of the entire bill as it currently sits, which they state will have the net effect of INCREASING the deficit.

Junior of DC 11:24AM January 19, 2011

Bill please seek professional help. I don't think your meds are strong enough because I think your head is going to explode.
Roff saying that the Health Care Law should be repealed is like Regan saying that government is bad. He is/was delusional and help/helped with the ugly discourse that is occurring in this country today.

Tree Hugger of CO 11:04AM January 19, 2011

Although I believe that some parts of the health care legislation were necessary and a positive, it appears that the impact on small business is one of the results that has had a negative impact on employment and therefore our economy. Healthcare has also become a significant cost burden for local government, but that is more the result of the influence of the unions. In Massachusetts there also needs to be a major re-evaluation of the pension benifits that are paid to state employees. The press has mentioned several cases, for example, where "retired" state employees are allowed to collect their pensions and continue working for the state on a contract basis. While I have no personal complaint regarding the taxes we pay in Massachusetts, I believe that the burden on many, including small businesses, makes their lives much more challenging.
Thanks for taking the time to read my comment.

Bob Orem of MA 10:03AM January 19, 2011

The CBO, while supposedly non-partisan, can only score things in the way they are instructed, NOT the way they believe is necessarily correct.
In the case of the health bill, they were instructed to count Medicare "savings" twice, to NOT count the new monies gathered up front years before the costs kick in, double up on the "doc fix", and so on.
Hardly an accurate accounting of the true impact of the bill.

junior of DC 12:18AM January 19, 2011

Whoops. Mis-spelled "there".

Larry of CO 11:56PM January 18, 2011

Sort of gives the lie to the claim made every now and then that those horrible liberals won't let conservatives teach in our universities. But seriously, this is as it should be: proponents make their case and trot out like-thinking surrogates for all to see; opponents make their case and trot out like-thinking surrogates for all to see. CBO does its best to provide a non-partisan analysis. Some are persuaded. Some not. Their is a vote. The debate continues. Life goes on.

Larry of CO 11:54PM January 18, 2011

She did and that makes you a liar:
"Full text of Sarah Palin's statement1/12/11 7:15 AM EST Updated: 1/12/11 4:59 PM EST"
"Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sympathy."
"I agree with the sentiments shared yesterday at the beautiful Catholic Mass held in honor of the victims. The Mass will hopefully help begin a healing process for the families touched by this tragedy and for our country."
"Our exceptional nation, so vibrant with ideas and the passionate exchange and debate of ideas, is a light to the rest of the world. Congresswoman Giffords and her constituents were exercising their right to exchange ideas that day, to celebrate our Republic’s core values and peacefully assemble to petition our government. It’s inexcusable and incomprehensible why a single evil man took the lives of peaceful citizens that day."
"There is a bittersweet irony that the strength of the American spirit shines brightest in times of tragedy. We saw that in Arizona. We saw the tenacity of those clinging to life, the compassion of those who kept the victims alive, and the heroism of those who overpowered a deranged gunman."
"Like many, I’ve spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance. After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event."
"President Reagan said, “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47478.html#ixzz1B9bfpDDd

Bill Hedges of MO 11:09PM January 18, 2011