The Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force, an Innovations in American Government Finalist, presented before the National Selection Committee in May 2009. This collaborative effort of the Lawrence Police Department has reduced vehicular insurance fraud and has saved city residents over $15.5 million in annual insurance premiums.
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Later Obama said health care delay OK ‘to get it right’
The Senate will not vote on health care reform legislation before the August congressional recess, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.
We’ll come back in the fall,” Reid said at a Capitol Hill news conference.
“I think that it’s better to have a product that is one that’s based on quality and thoughtfulness rather than trying to jam something through.”
The Nevada Democrat did make clear that he believes the critical Senate Finance Committee can come up with a deal and pass health care legislation in committee before leaving for the August recess.
President Obama has been pushing for both the House and Senate to pass health care legislation before going on their August break — a goal that has appeared increasingly unlikely due to fierce Republican opposition and cost concerns cited by fiscally conservative Democrats.
Reid’s announcement did not change Obama’s timetable, according to a senior administration official. The president still wants the House and Senate to vote before the August recess.
Reid initially tried to blame Republicans, saying they’re the ones who tell him they want more time. But he also admitted, under questioning, that many of his fellow Democrats — including Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus — have said they too want and need more time.
All of the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee had a long meeting Thursday morning, just before Reid’s news conference, which one source described as “contentious” and several Democratic senators told CNN was “lively.”
Coming out of that meeting, Baucus said “there’s general agreement but there’s also general concern because this is so complex.”
“There are just so many different aspects and each state is significantly different from the other. So there’s general agreement about where the process is going, but there’s concern in different pockets,” he said.
Earlier Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had tried to be more upbeat about the prospects of getting a bill passed by the August recess, despite remaining differences among House Democrats.
Pelosi downplayed talk of a Democratic split, however, telling reporters Thursday morning that she believes the party “will reach consensus” on the issue.
“I am more confident than ever,” Pelosi said. “When we work out some of the differences that we have it will be very apparent to everyone else that the momentum is there. When the bill is ready, we will go to the floor and we will win.”
Pelosi also echoed Obama’s remarks from a prime time news conference Wednesday night, in which the president repeatedly emphasized that the spiraling costs of the current system would bankrupt the nation while denying coverage to millions more Americans.
But she, too, had a tough meeting with Democratic leaders Thursday morning.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-South Carolina, described the session as “the longest whip meeting we’ve had since I’ve been whip. And it might be one of the most contentious.”
Clyburn suggested delaying the recess for the House in order to pass a health care package.
“We are committed to getting this thing done before we go home for August recess,” he said. Otherwise reporters will say “that we went home on vacation in August without having done it. That’s the headline. And so we must stay here and get this done.”
The president was slated to take his reform pitch to Ohio Thursday afternoon, touring the Cleveland Clinic — a hospital he has repeatedly praised as a model of high-quality, low-cost care — and hosting a town hall meeting in Shaker Heights.
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White Australia’s ‘difficult’ relationship with alcohol + the consequent public health + safety nightmare are turning the country into a squalid, failed, self-indulgent, self-serving, confused + viciously self-righteous materialistic society devoid of any real purpose for its existence. Although under-aged drinking is a growing social + health issue, widespread pervasive social binge-drinking + alcoholism is still creating social disorder + expensive health costs community-wide…..
Despite a national health campaign, this year’s ‘schoolies’ on the Gold Coast (South of Brisbane, Queensland) has already gone down as the most appalling on record for under-age drinking + drunken disorder + violence, uhh. The war ever being waged on the roads is something else….. as an emotionally immature + spiritually dormant redundant society creates a lower order for itself in absolute denial of its own worthless conceited meaninglessness.
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This specifically notes the clauses/sections where you will be jailed & fined for not complying with will of the Police State called United States of America.
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(NaturalNews) Mrs. Bouchard seemed upset.
“I can’t afford health care as yet.”
The new health reform bill
Made her sickly and ill
“But I’d rather have cancer than debt!”
What’s really in Obama’s health care reform bill? Almost no one knows, and here’s why: It’s 1,017 pages long and written in an alien form of bureaucratic English that can barely be decoded by earthlings.
And yet, astonishingly, a U.S. Army translator has been found who speaks “Washington Doublespeak” and he was kind enough to decode the bill and post his plain-language findings over at FreeRepublic.com (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f…).
Below, we reprint what he found in the health care reform bill. As you read this, keep in mind that some of these translations are a bit loose with the interpretations, but I’ve personally spot-checked these points, and they are indeed all contained in the bill in one form or another (shrouded in Doublespeak language, of course).
Editor’s note: I don’t personally agree with every interpretation listed here, and some of the bill’s provisions are actually good ideas (like banning doctors from owning stock in health care companies). But overall, this interpretation points out many alarming provisions in the proposed health care reform bill…
From CMS at FreeRepublic.com:
• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the government option!
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
http://www.naturalnews.com/026733_health_health_care_healthcare.html
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