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Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America: How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Constitutional Rights Paperback – January 1, 1656

by Grace-Marie Turner; James C. Capretta; Thomas P. Miller; Robert E. Moffit (Author)

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Broadside Books (2011-03-22)
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January 1, 1656
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0076TLX7M
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Broadside Books (2011-03-22) (January 1, 1656)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces

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Grace-Marie founded the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization, in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. She has been instrumental in developing and disseminating ideas to transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients.

She writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, patient-centered marketplace in the health sector and testifies regularly before Congress and advises senior government officials, governors, and state legislators on health policy.

Grace-Marie has been named repeatedly as one of “Washington’s 500 Most Influential People” on health policy by Washingtonian magazine and by Business Insider in 2020 as one of the 24 most powerful people advising the White House on healthcare.

She is the founder and facilitator of the Health Policy Consensus Group, a forum for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to analyze and develop policy recommendations, and she was a leader in developing the group’s Health Care Choices proposal. She writes a column for Forbes, has been published in hundreds of news outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today, and has appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and on countless radio and television programs.

She is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform, a book peer-reviewed and published by the University of Michigan Press, and has authored and contributed to numerous other books and white papers. Grace-Marie speaks extensively in the U.S. and abroad, including Princeton and Harvard Universities, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and the Gregorian University at the Vatican.

Grace-Marie also has served through presidential and congressional appointments on the National Advisory Board for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Long-Term Care Commission, and the Medicaid Commission. Her early career was in politics and journalism where she received numerous awards for her writings on policy, politics and economics.

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Susan L. Lider

A Clarion Call to Americans Who Cherish Freedom

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2011

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"Why Obamacare is Wrong for America" is a clarion call to every American who cherishes freedom.

As Nancy Pelosi famously said on March 9, 2010, "We have to pass the (healthcare) bill so that you can find out what is in it." Now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been passed into law, the book "Why Obamacare is Wrong for America" clearly and succinctly tells us what is in this pernicious law. This well-researched book, co-authored by four very knowledgeable people, explains what is in the new health care law, how it negatively impacts ALL Americans and what we can do to get it repealed. This will then pave the way to true health care reform, which is outlined in this book and makes lots of sense.

One reason "Why Obamacare is Wrong for America" is so helpful is that it gives a simple overview of the health care law and then explains how it impacts families and young adults, seniors, vulnerable Americans, you and your doctor, you and your employer and taxpayers. For example, the book points out how Obamacare uses "Medicare as a piggybank to pay for it." This will result in cuts to Medicare that will limit seniors' access to care.

This book also clarifies how Obamacare takes many decisions about your health care out of the hands of you and your doctor and puts them into the hands of government regulators. I know from personal experience that "one size fits all" does NOT work when it comes to individual health problems. We simply are not robots to be tinkered with, but human beings who want to be healthy.

As we have heard in the news, Obamacare is being challenged on Constitutional grounds regarding the individual mandate. "Why Obamacare is Wrong for America" does an excellent job of explaining this. In addition, the book points out that waivers under the new law are granted on an arbitrary basis, meaning people are not all equal in the eyes of the law as they are required to be under our Constitution.

The bottom line for me is that if I cannot make decisions about my own body, I am not free. How could this happen in America? I urge everyone to read Why Obamacare is Wrong for America and pay close attention to the last chapter, "What You Can Do to Put the Brakes on Obamacare."

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Barry Reese

Informative yet biased

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2013

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Informative. I am a moderate democrat. I wanted to learn about Obamacare from the other side of the aisle to give me a well rounded understanding of the bill. The author of this book makes some really good points and is very informative, but one has to be educated to see through the bias. After reading this book and becoming more informed, I definitely support Obamacare.

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Drake McHugh

Essential reading for defenders of a Free America

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2011

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Full disclosure about the reviewer: I lived in Eastern Europe and can attest first hand that Soviet-style central planning DOESN'T WORK! A book such as this one that systematically dissects and exposes the disaster awaiting America in the form of Obamacare is essential reading for any thinking person, whatever your political views and whatever your current opinion of the new Health Care Law. The tidal wave of waivers already issued from compliance with the law should be a dead giveaway to any thinking person that this law is fatally flawed. Read this book and you'll have a detailed understanding of how many ways it is dead wrong for a dynamic, economically healthy and free America.
America is always at its best when sticking to principles of individual freedom and free enterprise. The way forward with health care is true free enterprise, where individuals are incentivised to care about and take charge of their own health. True free markets in health care will deliver better care at lower costs in a way that empowers individuals, not an army of new East German border guards to police every aspect of your life. Obamacare as it stands greatly expands the powers of the IRS to terrorize Americans, while not providing incentives for even one additional doctor to care for Americans' health. Why Obamacare is Wrong for America is essential reading, put it at the top of your list!

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MichelleT

A Must Read!

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2011

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I highly recommend this book! I thought that I understood ObamaCare and what it meant for me and my family but after reading Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America, I realized I had no idea just how dangerous this law really is. The book's well-written and succinct (but very easy-to-read) chapters outline the impact of ObamaCare on families, seniors, young adults, taxpayers and examined how the legislation impacts my relationship with my doctors and my employer and its affect on my constitutional rights. I was terrified by what I read!

However, the book did not end there. The last chapter provides what I think is the best collection of ideas and action steps that I've ever read on what I can do to stop ObamaCare. I had thought it was a lost cause after the legislation passed last year but I am excited to know that not only can ObamaCare be stopped but I can do something about it!

If you've ever been curious about what ObamaCare is and its impact on your life, then you have to read this book. And if you want to know how it can be repealed and what you can do about it - this is a must read!

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Winston T. Hooker Sr.

(haven't read it yet)

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2013

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I plan to read it next. I am doing my taxes right now and writing my congressmen. It looks real promising.

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