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Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.

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"GOP Raises More Questions Over Healthcare Waivers", The Hill


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"The Debt Ceiling and Obamacare", The American Thinker

D4PC Opinion: Congress and the president continue to congratulate themselves on their work in negotiating a deal which allegedly addresses our nation's deficit and long-term debt issues. Unfortunately, among the items off the table was ObamaCare. The Congressional Budget Office, which provided the numbers that are the basis of the debt ceiling "savings," is still using the same set of outdated numbers in their calculations that they used in March of 2010 when they originally scored the cost of ObamaCare. Anyone who has been following this blog understands that the facts have changed monthly as the law has been dissected and more hidden costs have emerged.

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Scherz: "A Trojan Horse Named IPAB", The Washington Times

"IPAB is the Trojan horse of Obamacare. Like a Trojan horse or a worm invading your computer, IPAB will infect and corrupt the entire system once it has been embedded as part of the health care bureaucracy. IPAB has almost limitless power over Medicare spending. Written into the Affordable Care Act are provisions that essentially make its decisions exempt from congressional oversight and impervious to administrative or judicial review".

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"Counting Up Obamacare's Health Cost Inflation", Forbes.com

"This week's Obamacare Bombshell". Things not looking good for president and Obamacare supporters since BO's own Medicare actuary reveals how his single legislative victory is a financial trainwreck and will make every alleged problem in our healthcare system much worse. Not surprising, healthcare costs are now calculated to increase more than without this federal takeover.

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"America Owed An Honest Obamacare Cost Estimate", The Washington Times

Caught in another deception on the "true" costs of their healthcare takeover, Obama administration officials now changing the rules regarding mandated insurance coverage and who picks up the tab.