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In the Weekly Republican Address, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas criticizes President Obama for his recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services without even a Senate hearing. Sen. Roberts says, “As part of the new health care law, Dr. Berwick will have to a cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare, obviously limiting seniors’ choices. Now as a result of the recess appointment, Dr. Berwick will take office through the back door without any formal public vetting as prescribed by the Constitution. This flies in the face of what was promised to be the most transparent administration in our nation’s history.” Sen. Roberts notes Berwick’s affinity for the British National Health Service: “Unfortunately, the British system rations care to contain costs. The following disturbing statement of Dr. Berwick speaks for itself: ‘most people who have serious pain do not need advanced methods; they just need the morphine and counseling that has been around for centuries.’ Now is this the person we want making health care decisions for us — for our parents– our grandparents — our children; grandchildren?” He concludes, “Americans will not know how much saving a life is worth until Dr. Berwick is calling the shots. There should be a public forum where he must address who should make medical decisions- your doctor? The patient? The family? Or the government? We urge the president to reconsider his recess appointment of Dr. Berwick and …

Watch this humorous debate about our national healthcare crisis. Get the facts about single payer national health insurance at www.pnhp.org or www.healthcare-now.org or www.hcfat.org. HR 676 the “Medicare For All” bill in Congress proposes single payer national health insurance financed by taxes resulting in cost savings of over $350 billion each year while providing health care to every American. Healthcare reform being debated now

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Entitlement Epidemic Fox News short but worthy piece, however, leaving out one key contributor to the entitlement mentality, our government. Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, Income Tax, The Federal Reserve, The Electoral College, and our Interventionist Foreign Policy are all based in a philosophy of entitlement.

Despite clear opposition from the American people, Democratic leaders in Congress are continuing with their efforts to ram through a bloated, trillion-dollar health care bill that will hike taxes, raise premiums, and cut Medicare. Republicans are urging Democrats to start over and work with Republicans to develop bipartisan health care legislation that will actually lower health care costs.

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Senator Tom Coburn, MD, and Senator John Barrasso, MD, discuss the 2074-page Senate Democrats’ health care reform bill. It will raise Americans’ taxes, raise insurance premiums, and cut Medicare.