Nancy in the News
April 21, 2013
- Sen. Barto featured on KAET’s Horizon - RE: price transparency legislation
- New AZ law limits future HOA’s control of parking on public streets
- AZ bill tells HOAs they do not control public streets
- Senate revives vetoed medical care pricing bill
- Why hospitals don’t want you to know their prices [Read more]
Can you visualize a Trillion?
September 29, 2012
Millions…..Billions……Trillions – what’s the big diff?
It’s difficult to fathom, but a trillion is a one with 12 zeroes (1,000,000,000,000). Not helping? How about this comparison? 1 million seconds is 12 days; one billion seconds is 31 years; and one trillion seconds: 31,688 years.
Want more? Try this visual.
Now remember the U.S. BORROWS .40 of every Federal dollar it spends! Is it any wonder we are $16 Trillion in debt and falling further behind every day. How to dig out? [Read more]
DocTalk with Senator Barto
August 28, 2012
DocTalk Radio is a televised radio show focused on your health. Recently, DocTalk Radio host Dr. Anne Borik invited Sen. Barto to join the program. Listen to these short program segments…
How is Obamacare going to affect patients?
How do we address the high cost of health care?
How do we deal with the uninsured?
Log on to http://www.kqcklive.com/ every Wednesday at 1pm Arizona time! [Read more]
What do we do Now?
July 14, 2012
Yes – we’re riled up. After the Court’s convoluted Obamacare ruling, rulings against Arizona’s common sense ‘ID at the polls’ law & SB 1070 (see below), Obama’s unconstitutional Dream Act Exec. Order, and this week’s action gutting welfare reform - it’s clearer than ever that we must Win in November. But how?
Vote, of course, but to put it bluntly – we’ve got to put our money where our mouth is! Most of us don’t have a lot of extra money right now, but if you do have a job, participation this year – even in a small way – even if you’ve never contributed to a campaign before – is imperative. And I’m not talking about my campaign. [Read more]
Repeal and replace with what?
June 28, 2012
For “Obamacare Upheld-still bad law”, click here.
The solution to health care is not a trillion–dollar government takeover. The solution is to give consumers and healthcare providers more power, more control, and more choices.
Competition that drives efficiencies and effectiveness in other economic sectors can have the same effect in the health care system, if given the chance to work. [Read more]
2012 session missed healthcare (My Turn)
May 23, 2012
“You can’t change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight”.
Speaker/author Jim Rohn may not have had Arizona in mind, but his principle certainly applies. The Arizona Chamber summed up our situation like this, “the Legislature hit reboot on the Arizona economy and turned what was a basket case into a best case.”
While almost every state suffered precipitously low revenues during this recession and historically slow recovery, how did Arizona end this year in the black with significant savings to spare – while creating 47,000 new jobs in February & March alone? Especially considering that Arizona was one of the states hardest hit.
In short, we acted like grown-ups. Like thousands of Arizonans who lost their nest eggs, jobs, and homes, the state made our budget work while funding essential priorities – education, public safety and health care for the most vulnerable. The 2013 budget is balanced, as will be the 2014 budget – without the borrowing, sweeps and rollovers previous budgets employed – and without additional cuts. [Read more]
Obamacare: What we know NOW
March 23, 2012
States in opposition? Should States Implement Obamacare’s ‘Essential Health Benefits’ Mandate? Also: Ala opts out of Affordable Care Act component
Why breast and other cancer survival rates will plummet after Obamacare: Radiologist speaks out video.
Why more trauma centers? Boom in trauma centers can help save lives, but at what cost?
Are you still a member? How the AARP made $2.8 Billion by supporting Obamacare’s cuts to Medicare [Read more]
Obamacare’s results…so far
January 8, 2012
President Obama assured Americans in March of 2010: “If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”
Not so fast. According to the Heritage Foundation, studies show millions will lose the coverage they have.
What is actually happening across the country as a result of the 4.2 billion words in rules and regs in place to date – and what can we expect if the law stands? “Obamacare in Pictures” tells the real story.
To ‘Exchange’ or not to ‘exchange’
August 20, 2011
Here’s the question: Should states suing to overturn Obamacare in court be implementing the law at the same time?
The answer should be obvious – but some states, including Arizona, are “putting out the welcome mat” to the law by enabling a central part of the harmful and unconstitutional law. In fact Arizona just applied for a $29.8 million establishment grant to accomplish this. Obviously I oppose these plans and I’m not alone. Click on the above Goldwater Institute piece by Diane Cohen and this one by John Graham: Health Insurance Exchanges.
What is an Insurance Exchange?: Exchanges are the agencies through which half a trillion dollars in subsidies will flow to eligible consumers and eventually to insurers and health plans which qualify under new Federal rules. [Read more]
Just say no to Obamacare Exchange
August 20, 2011
Whether to implement Obamacare while fighting the law in court is a hot topic in state legislatures across the country but most legislators attending last summer’s conservative legislative conference in New Orleans (ALEC) agreed that states have plenty of reasons to say “no thanks” to instituting a huge part of the new law in their state statutes: insurance exchanges.
They felt so strongly about it, in fact, that Sen. Barto’s resolution against implementing state-run Obamacare exchanges was overwhelmingly approved by the organization’s Health and Human Services Task Force, which will help legislators rebuff exchange legislation in their states in upcoming sessions. Watch a two minute video here. The resolution follows: [Read more]
