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A Town Hall Meeting sponsored by the El Dorado Hills Tea Party will be held Aug. 15 at 7 p.m. to discuss “Obamacare.”
The meeting will focus on the effects of Obamacare on healthcare, taxes, spending and Medicare, and will include a panel of distinguished experts. There will be Q&A session to answer questions and concerns. The meeting has no admission fees and will be held at Lakehills Covenant Church on 7000 Rossmore Lane in El Dorado Hills.
The panel will include Pacific Legal Foundation Attorney Tim Sandefur; Congressman McClintock’s Chief of Staff Igor Berman; Dr. Ronald Tachibana, M.D. Family Physician with Physicians Council for Responsible Reform; Pam McDonald, administrator with McDonald Medical Consultants and Midtown Primary Care Associates, Sacramento; and President of The Pacific Research Institute Sally Pipes.
Obamacare will cost Americans an extra $1.7 trillion as currently estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. What are some of the costs of this extravagant takeover of about 15 percent of the economy?
• Major impact on small business health care plans. Small businesses may be forced into government run exchanges or be fined for not providing coverage for their employees.
• Up to 21 new taxes from $65 billion in individual and employer penalties to a $20 billion tax on medical device companies.
• Reduction in the supply of doctors to provide medical services. We could lose between 25-40 percent of our practicing doctors who simply do not want to work in a government healthcare system. This is the experience of Canada — a shortage of qualified doctors.
• Doctors refusing to take Medicare patients because of the onerous paperwork and fixed price payments. And many others.
The Town Hall Meeting is being sponsored by the El Dorado Hills Tea Party as part of its commitment to return America to a country of limited government, fiscal responsibility and free markets.
For more information visit TownHallEDH.com.
Already private practitioners with years of service are being forced out of business because of Medicare cutbacks, exorbitant insurance premiums and overwhelming amounts of paperwork. While every scrap of government legislation produces some winners, and party loyalists write about their own benefits, most of us are S.O.L. when it comes to Obamacare.
Medicare cutbacks would be the money going to Kaiser, et al. Kaiser is not going out of business. At the Tea Party meeting find out how many are currently on Medicare out of total attendance. Would be interesting number. If you want to get rid of Obamacare, best you take over the House, the Senate, and the presidency. Good luck.
Two articles from a Berlin newspaper 1939, 2nd page;
ENTHUSIASTIC PARTY MEMBER GATHER; A loud and enthusiastic group of loyal party members gathered in the town square on a crisp Wednesday evening with flags flying and shouting slogans in support of………..
13 STUKAS DIVE INTO GROUND; Last night during a disastrous air practice 13 stukas dived into the ground. There were no survivors.
Nothing like good history lessons from 1939 English language Berlin newspapers.
Air shows are dangerous. This was not a fascist/Progressive meeting. The Tea Party does not controll any state or the federal government. I don’t see a historical connection.
The Impending Collapse of American Medicine
The U.S. health care “system” outspends ALL OTHER COUNTRIES in the WORLD yet millions of your U.S. Citzens have NO HEALTH CARE.
Other countries(Canada, Australia, Western Europe) spend about half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Among the 12 countries the U.S. system is consistently among the worst performer in health care efficacy. The WHO ranks the U.S. as 37th in the WORLD in health care system performance.
Oh, and why don’t you mention the shortage of doctors in the U.S. currently, or worldwide. Many countries are looking to India and China for doctors as will the U.S. as the education system spirals down. My uncle(a U.S. Citizen), who was a doctor moved to Canada to get away from the U.S. health care “system” with its insurance companies and lawsuits. I doubt that 25-40 percent of current doctors with their education will start waiting tables or bar-tending for a few hundred dollars a week.
A bit off the health care topic, but the Stuka Ju 87 was a German dive bomber fitted with an ear-piercing siren designed to spread psychological panic on those being bombed. A key to successful dive bombing is knowing when to pull up — be a bit late and you kiss the ground. When rolling over for a gun run in Vietnam I had two thoughts. One being pull up before its too late, and second, there was no back ground music as we see in the movies. Back to the health topic: Medicare for All.
More Tea Party Sign-Blight on the way…
Nothing like a group of old white people to gather for a good whining session.
Stukas, Sign-Blight, White people whining session, these are things I understand and I think we all can agree on. What I don’t know or understand is who is making all the money in the health care world and why has it become a right wing election year issue when both candidates think it’s the right thing to do?
The panel of ‘experts’ cited in the letter is a who’s who of Libertarians/cum/neo-fascists. McClintock’s Chief of Staf??? You guys must be kidding trying to pass him off as an expert on anything except mouthing his boss’s far right agenda.
John, his chief of staff is what you say, what I don’t understand is why do they keep his real counsel in the background, that would be Rocky Deal, former fighter pilot and Captain of the USS Oriskany whose office at McClintock headquarters is a shrine to the US Naval Services, very smart man, much smarter than McClintock and his staffer.
Thank you James! Medicare for All with the public opposition!
Medicare is currently provided for all. Now is that Medicare wrapped with Tricare with the premium paid by a government pension for all?
Currently less than 1% of Americans qualify for that type of medical insurance.
Holy Cow! I finally made it into the medical 1%.
However, it’s available to all — just head down to the recruiting station and make it 30 years without being killed or maimed. See how easy it is. Who wants to join to get into the medical 1%?
Steers, I can’t find any reference to 1%, I guess you just made it up. …. I support the new health care act; it’s a place to start, which Mitt has agreed upon in the past, a plan that can be refined to give America a national health care plan equal or better to any in the world. The old system had to many fingers in the pot that just wont let go because their making the kind of money that’s worth fighting for, and because of that the system is broken beyond repair. I now have all three daughters in college on our health care plan, what a relief, and with cancer and my wife retiring soon, I doubt if a new insurance carrier would insure me…Why is it that you fight so hard against it when your own candidate is the sperm donor of the Obama Health care plan, he’s just not in the picture anymore.
Hmm “Medicare for all!” Is the battle cry. But only the 1%’ers DESERVE their Tri-Care premiums to be paid by the government for life.
What happens to those that can’t afford a “SPECIAL” insurance plan? Is it fair that just because one was lucky enough to retire from a government job that they should receive a special class of medicine? What about those who didn’t have the opportunity to spend a carrier in the military? Why should they be subjugated to an inferior health care system? As someone who has raised many Foster Children I can tell you that the first thing we is take these children off of their medicare/medical and put them on our medical plan. Because we could see first hand how horrible government funded health care really is.
It’s easier than that, James. After all, Dick Cheney’s still alive, having done fairly well with government medical benefits. If he ever saw the inside of a recruiting station it was when seeking one of his five Vietnam-era deferments.
I’ll call you Mitt, first my condolences and prayers for your wife. Second my respect, admiration and sympathy for having 3 children in college at the same time. I have 5 right now. Finally my 1% is simple mathematics. Take how many people are currently eligible for Tricare and divide by 300 million. It’s actually less than 1% but I’ll call it that for expediency. Another point is your assumption that Romney is my, your words “sperm donor”. I’m a fiscal conservative. And at this point I’m willing for almost anyone to replace the failed regime of Obama.