----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Hovermale
To: Ralph Hovermale
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 8:26 PM
Subject: HC Reform That IS Working In Texas - Why Not A National Plan?
Health care reform that actually works!
By William Tate
"Where's the Republican plan?"
It's one of the red herrings that apologists for Obamacare pull out of their bag of clichéd talking points when pressed to justify Democrats' attempt to grab control of 18% of the nation's economy.
Well, here's a modest proposal. Rather than looking to Massachusetts or Tennessee for examples of health care reform, why not look to Texas ?
The Lone Stare state has its problems, but in recent years it has made major progress in improving health care availability, especially in predominantly poor and minority regions. Being Texas , the solution wasn't budget-busting, either.
Their answer? They got rid of the lawyers.
Not literally. But they did take on that perennial pillar of the Democrat Party, the trial lawyers.
In an Op-Ed published in the San Francisco Examiner earlier this month, Texas Governor Perry points out that in 2003 the state implemented laws that shielded health care providers from trial lawyers "anxious to make a quick buck."
"We capped noneconomic damages at $250,000 per defendant, or up to $750,000 per incident, while placing no cap on more easily determined economic damages, such as lost wages or costs of medical care due to injury.
"We ended the practice of allowing baseless but expensive lawsuits to drag on indefinitely, requiring plaintiffs to provide expert witness reports to support their claims within four months of filing suit or drop the case...
"Changes were seen immediately, and continue to be felt. All major liability insurers cut their rates upon passage of our reforms, with most of those cuts ranging in the double-digits. More than 10 new insurance carriers entered the Texas market, increasing competition and further lowering costs.
"As a result, Texas doctors have seen their insurance rates decline by an average of 27 percent.
"The number of doctors applying to practice medicine in Texas has skyrocketed by 57 percent."
At a time when a debate rages over whether the U.S. has enough doctors, Texas has seen its number of doctors leap by about 15,000. And Perry points out that tort reform has brought service to critically underserved, predominantly minority and poor communities.
"The number of obstetricians practicing in rural Texas is up by 27 percent, and 12 counties that previously had no obstetricians now have at least one. The statistics show major gains in fields like orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, neurosurgery and emergency medicine.
The Rio Grande Valley has seen an 18 percent growth in applications to practice medicine, adding about 200 doctors to this critically underserved area."
According to state Representative Joe Nixon, many of Texas ' news physicians have moved to rural or underserved areas, and " Texas , once listed as 47th worst state in the ratio of doctors per citizen, will soon be in the lower 30s and improving."
Perry says Texas tort reform has had other benefits to patients:
"And what about the money that used to go to defending all those frivolous lawsuits? You can find it in budgets for upgraded equipment, expanded emergency rooms, patient safety programs and improved primary and charity care."
Further, according to the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, tort reform has resulted in an improvement in the quality of health care in Texas , with the percentage of complaints about medical care actually going down.
Yet, despite the striking evidence of tort reform benefits in the nation's second most populous state, this simple, basic and essential component of health care reform is completely missing from all Democrat proposals.
According to opensecrets.org, Democrats received over $178,000,000 from lawyers' donations during the 2008 election cycle -- three times what they donated to Republicans. Over $43,000,000 of that went to the Obama campaign.
Forty-three million reasons why Obamacare doesn't include the one component of health care reform that has been proven to work: tort reform.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
What o has done! - Nita e-mail
Thanks Nita!
Osama could do no worse things to our country than little o has done already. Are we set up for the kill which will dwarf 911? Am I insulting the mafia by suspecting they are in on this humongous diabolitical plot?
Our media were infiltrated through the libs in journalism schools throughout this once great country. They are happy with their win which set the proletariat, us- US- the conservative Americans into our dilemma.
Many libs will go down with us but that is small consolation. I want much better for them and for us.
Are none of these impeachable offenses?
Would that we had people truly representing our thoughts in "officialdom"?
God, please continue to bless America with common sense.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Nita Elliott
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 6:24 PM
Subject: Fw: Let's review an itemized list of some of Barack Obama's most recent actions since his inauguration
Whether you are an Obama fan,
or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to know....
Something happened... H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday,
behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It
wasn't mentioned on the news... just went by on the
ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.
Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas
Refugees to the USA . This is the news that didn't make
the headlines....
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the
expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration
assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and
"conflict victims" in Gaza .
The "presidential determination", which allows
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to
resettle in the United States , was signed on January 27 and
appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the
order provides a f ree ticket replete with housing and food
allowances to individuals who have displayed their
overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
Let's review...itemized list of some of Barack
Obama's most recent actions since his inauguration:
His first call to any head of state, as president, was to
Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian
territory.
His first one-on-one television interview with any news
organization was with Al Arabia television.
His first executive order was to fund/facilitate
abortion(s) not just here within the U. S. , but within the
world, using U. S. tax payer funds.
He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of
detainees halted.
He ordered overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.
He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the
USS Cole and the "terror attack" on 9/11.
Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of
Palestinian refuges to move to, and live in, the US at
American taxpayer expense.
These important, and insightful, issues are being
"lost" in the blinding bail-outs and
"stimulation" packages.
Doubtful? To verify this for yourself:
www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488
PLEASE PASS THIS ON... AMERICA NEEDS TO KNOW
WE are losing this country at a rapid
pace.
Osama could do no worse things to our country than little o has done already. Are we set up for the kill which will dwarf 911? Am I insulting the mafia by suspecting they are in on this humongous diabolitical plot?
Our media were infiltrated through the libs in journalism schools throughout this once great country. They are happy with their win which set the proletariat, us- US- the conservative Americans into our dilemma.
Many libs will go down with us but that is small consolation. I want much better for them and for us.
Are none of these impeachable offenses?
Would that we had people truly representing our thoughts in "officialdom"?
God, please continue to bless America with common sense.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Nita Elliott
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 6:24 PM
Subject: Fw: Let's review an itemized list of some of Barack Obama's most recent actions since his inauguration
Whether you are an Obama fan,
or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to know....
Something happened... H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday,
behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It
wasn't mentioned on the news... just went by on the
ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.
Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas
Refugees to the USA . This is the news that didn't make
the headlines....
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the
expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration
assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and
"conflict victims" in Gaza .
The "presidential determination", which allows
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to
resettle in the United States , was signed on January 27 and
appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the
order provides a f ree ticket replete with housing and food
allowances to individuals who have displayed their
overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
Let's review...itemized list of some of Barack
Obama's most recent actions since his inauguration:
His first call to any head of state, as president, was to
Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian
territory.
His first one-on-one television interview with any news
organization was with Al Arabia television.
His first executive order was to fund/facilitate
abortion(s) not just here within the U. S. , but within the
world, using U. S. tax payer funds.
He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of
detainees halted.
He ordered overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.
He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the
USS Cole and the "terror attack" on 9/11.
Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of
Palestinian refuges to move to, and live in, the US at
American taxpayer expense.
These important, and insightful, issues are being
"lost" in the blinding bail-outs and
"stimulation" packages.
Doubtful? To verify this for yourself:
www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488
PLEASE PASS THIS ON... AMERICA NEEDS TO KNOW
WE are losing this country at a rapid
pace.
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