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Which developed nations of the world offer birthright citizenship to children born of illegal aliens, tourists and other visa holders?

TRICARE is a government operated health care plan for Active Military and Military Retirees.

There are many Retirees who were told that one advantage to a military career was free healthcare for life. That turned out to be false and it keeps getting worse.

Another aspect of this is that the President specifically told the active and retired associations that there would be no increase during a face-to-face meeting.

A “ Shocking October Surprise” DoD Announces TRICARE Inpatient Fee Increase

NAUS (Nat'l Assoc. Of Uniformed Services) is outraged that DoD would independently raise hospital inpatient co-payments for retired service members, their family members and survivors covered by TRICARE Standard (The non- HMO type of TriCare). The DoD decision, announced Sept. 30, the day before the new fiscal year, runs starkly contrary to assurances previously given by President Obama and the DoD that TRICARE fees would not be increased in fiscal year 2010.

The current TRICARE Standard inpatient co-payment for military retirees is $535 a day. The $110 per day increase announced on Wednesday amounts to a whopping 20 percent jump and unfairly takes advantage of those who by necessity are hospitalized for life-saving care.

Unlike the previous three years, the House and Senate did not include prohibitions on TRICARE fee increases in their respective versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2010. They left them out believing DoD would follow through with its assurances that fees would not be raised. Final action on the 2010 NDAA (National Defense Appropriation Act) has yet to be completed, so there is still a possibility Congress could step in and repeal the fee increase that went into effect on October 1.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any TRICARE fees for FY2010,” said NAUS President Matz. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward. To restore confidence and honor its word, NAUS urged Secretary Gates to reaffirm DoD’s previous commitment not to raise TRICARE fees by rescinding the inpatient fee increase noting among many things that it breaks the sacred trust with those who have worn this country’s uniform.

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Parliament unanimously passed the Canada Health Act in 1984 and established a single-payer, publicly-financed health care system. To ensure a true government monopoly (is there any other kind?) Canadian provinces outlawed private health insurance.

Chaoulli v. Quebec UPDATE (June 9, 2005): In a 4 to 3 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down Quebec's law that prohibits private medical insurance.

Surgery postponed indefinitely for 1,000 Kelowna patients

- Cathryn Atkinson, April 8, 2008 [Globe and Mail]

Majority of Que. dentists quit health-care system

- March 27, 2008 [CTV.ca]

Why Ontario keeps sending patients south

- Lisa Priest, February 22, 2008 [Globe and Mail]

Will Socialized Health Care in the US Kill Canadians?

- Don Surber, March 3, 2008 [Acton Institute]

Wait times for surgery, medical treatments at all-time high: report

- October 15, 2007 [CBC News (Canada)]

The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care

- David Gratzer, Summer 2007 [City Journal]

Cancer patients question why PET scan not covered

- May 28, 2007 [CBC News]

BC Medical Association: Waiting Too Long for Hip and Knee Surgery Costs $10,000 Per Patient-Maximum Wait Times Should Be No Longer Than 6 Months

- June 28, 2006 [CCN Matthews]

Ont. physician turns away patient for being 55+

- March 17, 2006 [CTV.ca]

Canada inches toward private medicine

- Rebecca Cook Dube, August 8, 2005 [CS Monitor]

Doctor defends private cancer clinic

- Gillian Livingston, July 15, 2005 [Canadian Press]

Dogma trumps truth in health-care issues

- D’Arcy Jenish, July 7, 2005 [Ontario Business News]

Why Canadians Purchase Private Health Insurance

- Walter Williams, June 20, 2005 [Capitalism Magazine]

Doctor welcomes health ruling

- June 9, 2005 [CBC Montreal]

Patients shouldn't wait more than 8 weeks for cardiac defibrillator: experts

- May 24, 2005 [Canadian Press]

Grads fail to slow doctor shortage

- Jennifer O'Brien, May 21, 2005 [London Free Press]

Free Canadian health care comes at cost

- April 10, 2005 [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]

Canada's drug tab reaches $22 billion, report suggests

- Sheryl Ubelacker, CP, April 6, 2005 [London Free Press]

Canadian health care is free and first-class -- if you can wait

- Beth Duff-Brown, March 19, 2005 [The Associated Press]

Pediatricians, parents warn of shortage of community-based care for children

- Colin Perkel, March 4, 2005 [The Canadian Press]

Access to specialists difficult: study

- February 16, 2005 [CBC Calgary]

Doctor shortages, frustrations vary from region to region, survey shows

- February 15, 2005 [Canada.com]

Montreal leads the country in offering private health care

- Aaron Derfel, February 12, 2005 [Montreal Gazette]

Canada falling short on medical imaging

- February 9, 2005 [Macleans.ca]

Creative incentives required to retain older doctors

- Dr. Charles Shaver, January 20, 2005 [Toronto Star]

MRI gap defies cash fix

- Mark Kennedy, January 14, 2005 [National Post (Canada)]

A boy's plight, a nation's problem

- Lisa Priest, January 13, 2005 [The Globe and Mail]

Where's proof private clinics cost more?

- Tom Brodbeck, December 4, 2004 [The Winnipeg Sun]

Surgery backlog tops 5,500 at kids' hospitals; One-year waits common

- Aaron Derfel, December 3, 2004 [The Gazette (Montreal)]

Hospital wait lists to get worse, Carriere says

- Chris Traber, November 14, 2004 [Yorkregion.com]

Frustrated patients can't handle ER waits

- Jennifer Stewart and Jeffrey Simpson, October 28, 2004 [The Halifax Herald Limited]

Private medical clinic opens in Montreal

...it answers, "an ever-increasing demand from the public for greater accessibility and quality of health services." - October 13, 2004 [CTV.ca]

Canadians have higher death risk than Americans after heart attack: study

- Sheryl Ubelacker, September 20, 2004 [Canada.com]

Canadian medical tourists in India

- Jeremy Copeland, September 20, 2004 [CBC News]

Doctor shortage cripples Canada's free health care

- Clifford Krauss, September 18, 2004 [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]

Canada's Once-Proud Public Health System in Crisis

- David Ljunggren, September 14, 2004 [Reuters (Ottawa)]

Hospitals to cut, again

- September 5, 2004 [Toronto Star]

Canada's Medical Nightmare

- Robert J. Cihak, M.D., September 1, 2004 [Health Care News]

Canada faces shortage of doctors

- August 19, 2004 [MSNBC]

Canadians losing faith in health system: poll

- August 16, 2004 [CTV.ca]

Ontario hospitals a health risk

- Michael Hurley, August 8, 2004 [Toronto Star]

Need surgery? Here's how long you'll wait

"It's inhuman. The quality of my life is horrible and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it." - Jason Fekete, July 28, 2004 [Calgary Herald]

Docs, nurses fed up

Canadian doctors and nurses are fed up with inter-governmental "bickering" that is dragging

Nancy Pelosi will ram through Waxman-Markey bill on Friday. Under the law:

•Compared to no cap and trade, real GDP losses increase an additional $2 trillion, from $7.4 trillion under the original draft to $9.4 trillion under the new draft;

•Compared to no cap and trade, average unemployment increases an additional 261,000 jobs, from 844,000 lost jobs under the original draft to 1,145,000 lost jobs under the new draft; and

•Peak-year unemployment losses rise by 500,000 jobs, from 2 million under the original draft to 2.5 million under the new draft.

The law would:

•Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.4 trillion;

•Destroy 1,145,000 jobs on average, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by over 2,479,000 jobs;

•Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation;

•Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 58 percent;

•Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent;

•Raise an average family's annual energy bill by $1,241; and

•Result in an increase of $28,728 in additional federal debt per person, again after adjusting for inflation

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WASHINGTON - A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack

stress the popular vote when they win that, but stress the Electoral vote when they win that?

For instance, Clinton got only 46% of the popular vote but won the Electoral count. Yet, when the same thing happened to Bush, they screamed and complained and still are, refusing to acknowledge that Two or three independent recounts by Democrat leaning newspapers verified the Bush win.