Category: Health

Catholic Organizations Sue Obama Admin. Over Contraceptive Mandate

Posted on by William Teach

Nancy Pelosi told us “we have to pass the bill to know what’s in it,” (NMP) Obama said “If you like your health insurance, you can keep it.” We were told that the more we know about Obamacare, the more we’d like it. How’s that working out? (CNS News) The Archdiocese of New York, headed […]

 

Contraceptive Mandate Forces Franciscan U. To Drop Health Insurance

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, that “compromise” didn’t assuage the university, and we can probably expect many more to follow suit (depending on who wins the election) (Life News) Franciscan University appears to be the first casualty of the new Obama HHS mandate that requires Catholic colleges, groups and businesses to pay for drugs that may cause abortions and […]

 

Aborting Born Babies: Are Only Liberals Truly ‘Human’?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In February of 2012, a pair of left-wing “philosophers” wrote a paper that claimed that babies aren’t human until they can become cognizant of themselves, aware that if they were to be “aborted” or killed they’d be losing something valuable, their lives. This, they claimed, justified abortion as well as post birth infanticide. Naturally they […]

 

GOP Study Shows Companies Would Save Money By Dropping Health Care Offerings, Paying Fine

Posted on by William Teach

Highlighting what we’ve known for quite some time (Washington Times) Trying to build their case that President Obama’s health care law will destroy traditional employer-sponsored insurance, House Republicans released a study Tuesday showing that the largest companies could save billions by kicking workers off their current health plans and pushing them into government-subsidized exchanges. In […]

 

Fearmongering Today: If Court Strikes Down Mandate, States Might Have To Pass Their Own

Posted on by William Teach

It’s time for another breathless look in the crystal ball to find out “OMG, if the mandate is struck down, Bad Things might possibly happen!!!!!!!” Remember when the news used to be about things that have happened, rather than seeing reporters do their best Madame Zelda impression? (Politico) If the Supreme Court strikes down the […]

 

No, Left-Wingers, the ‘Founders’ Did NOT Approve of Mandates or Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every few weeks leftist supporters of Obamacare will float the “fact” that our founders passed the first “national healthcare law” claiming that this supports Obamacare. The truth is, though, the history they claim supports them doesn’t in any way prove that the founders would approve of mandates in general or Obamacare in particular. This failed […]

 

Healthcare Death Panels Are Inevitable

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

>Much was made of Governor Sarah Palin’s use of the term “government death panels” to lambaste Obamacare. Left-wingers and Democrats everywhere scoffed at the term and accused Palin of demagogy and even lying. But the fact is, government death panels of all sorts are inevitable once government takes over healthcare. In fact, once government takes […]

 

Good News: Obama Admin. Diverts $500 Million To IRS For Obamacare

Posted on by William Teach

Remember, though, that Obamacare is somehow going to save the American people lots and lots of money (The Hill) The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law. The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside […]

 

Here We Go: “Being Uninsured Is A Mandate, Too”

Posted on by William Teach

It seems that, in Democrat World, the fact that the majority of American citizens are dead set against the individual mandate, and Obamacare, matters little, because Democrats know what is best for you stupid citizens, and you should be thanking them for forcing you to either purchase health insurance or pay a fine. Dem supporters […]

 

Obama Weighs In On Possible Mandate Ruling With Typical Pomposity

Posted on by William Teach

It’s hard to believe this guy was ever a Constitutional teacher…..well, maybe the constitution of Russia or Venezuala. But, then, it’s hard to believe someone with so little real world experience who authored no legislation would be elected President (Fox News) President Obama, employing his strongest language to date on the Supreme Court review of […]

 

Politico Hyperventilates Over What Might Happen If Obamacare Mandate Falls

Posted on by William Teach

So far, Liberals have been attempting to position who’s to blame if the Mandate falls, and the blame doesn’t include “it’s unconstitutional” and “people really hated it.” They’ve also pushing the notion that if the Mandate is ruled stupid, er, unconstitutional, then single payer should be instituted, what I think of as the “if you […]

 

If ObamaCare Falls, The Obvious Answer For Replacement Is….Single Payer?

Posted on by William Teach

The Stateists are really, really worried about the fate of ObamaCare. They’ve already started throwing around blame and coming up with excuses, said excuses not including “hey, it was unconstitutional” and “people really, really hated the Mandate.” And they’ve also decided to push something else if Obamacare goes down. Witness Eugene Robinson In arguments before […]

 

E.J. Dionne Works Hard To Spin A Possible Defeat Of The Individual Mandate

Posted on by William Teach

As we await the decision from the Supreme Court regarding the Mandate, and perhaps even the striking down of Obamacare, liberals are searching hard for ways to show that the problem wasn’t the law, but with the people who rule on the law. I highlighted a bit of that yesterday. And here comes ultra-liberal E.J. […]

 

Liberals Already Looking For Excuses If Mandate Goes Down

Posted on by William Teach

After a horrendous day for Obamacare’s chief council in front of the Supreme Court, one in which the far left justices had to remind him of his talking points, liberal supporters of this unconstitutional extension of the Central Government’s power are desperately reaching for any rationale to shift blame. Here’s James Carville “I think this […]

 

Comparison: Politico Lauds ‘Forceful’ Gov’t Obamacare Argument, Fox Notes it was Laughed At

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The first arguments by the government in support of the already wildly over budget Obamacare law were heard at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday and there is an interesting lesson in media bias that can be seen in the reporting of the day’s presentation. The difference between how the government’s opening arguments was reported […]

 

SCOTUS To Hear Core Arguments On Mandate Today

Posted on by William Teach

Monday was the preliminarily remarks, attempting to set certain boundaries and assess a few basic questions. Politico provides 5 takeaways, which include The feds’ taxing power argument may be D.O.A. The justices don’t seem willing to let the Obama administration have it both ways on the tax argument – a point that one of the […]

 

AP Asks Cheney’s Doctors if They Stopped Beating Their Wives Yet

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Like Jerry Seinfeld, the Associated Press did a masterful job of making a story out of nothing this weekend after news broke that former Vice President Dick Cheney was the recipient of a heart transplant. In fact, APs first paragraph is one of those masterful bits of psychological manipulation along the lines of the old […]

 

Politico: 5 Things To Watch In ObamaCare Hearing

Posted on by William Teach

That’s right, today is the day the oral arguments start over the constitutionality of Affordable Care Act. Perhaps they should start with the name, since the legislation is anything but affordable. Anyhow, the NY Times points out that day 1 will be excruciatingly boring, as it will be a discussion over whether the High Court […]

 

In Debunking Myths About Obamacare, Washington Post Forgets To Debunk Them

Posted on by William Teach

They’re just “challenging everything you know”, and essentially proving you, meaning those who understand Obamacare, rather than simply being cheerleaders for a bill you didn’t read, 100% correct (WP) 1. The “individual mandate” forces everyone to buy health insurance. The law states that, beginning in 2014, individuals must ensure that they and their dependents are […]

 

DOJ Argues No Severability With ObamaCare Mandate

Posted on by William Teach

With Obamacare, the 100% Democrats who wrote this intrusive and hated law forgot to put severability within, and there has been much discussion, even within court cases, that if the mandate to purchase health insurance or pay a fine/tax goes down, so does the whole bill. The DOJ accidentally makes a mistake in arguing that […]

 

Obama Not Too Excited To Celebrate Two Year Anniversary Of ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

He hasn’t been too excited to discuss it in public, either, mostly mentioning it during fundraisers with the 1%, who can already afford really good insurance plans. He rather failed to discuss it during the State Of The Union. He avoided the subject during the run up to the 2010 midterms. He must really be […]

 

On Contraception Mandate, HHS Runs More Rules Up The Flagpole

Posted on by William Teach

Far left liberal blogs, pundits, and elected lawmakers may think that the GOP opposition to the HHS contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient mandate on religious organizations is a “war on women”, but, even HHS and the Obama admin are starting to realize that the longer this debate goes on, the more the American public will come […]

 

More obamacare Lies

Posted on by Michael Fell

“obamacare” was sold on a lie and passed against the wishes of the majority of Americans. To make matters worse, in an unprecedented move, the man who administers Medicare and Medicaid was appointed in a clearly obvious move to bypass the Constitutional provision for Legislative oversight. You won’t be keeping your healthcare and your doctor […]

 

CBO: Cost Of ObamaCare Way Up, Those Covered By Private Insurers Way Down

Posted on by William Teach

Reuters is spinning hard, but, can’t quite get away from the dismal numbers, written to be as confusing as possible. The Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein is having none of it President Obama’s national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, […]

 

HHS Ruler With Unfettered Power Tells Us Why ObamaCare Is Grrrrrr-reat!

Posted on by William Teach

I wonder if Kathleen Sebelius has considered that she won’t always be the head of Health and Human Services, and that a Republican President could put a Republican in place who will have the same unfettered power to change everything up. Anyhow, she pens an op-ed for the Politico, telling us why the legislation that […]

 

Team Obama Really Excited To Treat Women As An Uninformed Voter Block

Posted on by William Teach

Whether or not this contraceptive/abortifacient mandate rule was intentionally passed to shift the focus from Obama’s pathetic record on the economy, deficits, debt, energy prices, wasting money, etc, that has been the upshot, with his buddies in the MFM falling right in line, such as this front page NY Times article: Obama Plans Big Effort […]

 

White House Quietly Works To Shape Debate On ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

Interestingly, Obama still mostly avoids any mention of ObamaCare in his campaign speechs (which is pretty much every appearance he makes), but, he puts his only real knowledge, community agitation, er, organizing, to work (NY Times) The White House has begun an aggressive campaign to use approaching Supreme Court arguments on the new health care […]

 

Bachmann Terms Obama A “Health Care Dictator”

Posted on by William Teach

I usually avoid back to back posts on our Failure In Chief, but, Michele Bachmann makes some good points in between going a bit overboard (The Hill) Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) suggested Tuesday that President Obama’s health care reform law could give the government a dangerous amount of power in individual’s health care decisions, going […]

 

Sebelius Says Reducing Population Will Pay For Cost Of Contraception

Posted on by William Teach

I’m not sure about you, but I find it interesting that so many Democrat/liberal policies seem revolve around population reduction, particularly in the Black community (CNS News) Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a House panel Thursday that a reduction in the number of human beings born in the United States will compensate […]

 

Does The Individual Mandate Violate Contract Law?

Posted on by William Teach

An interesting point from the Institute For Justice (via Hot Air) If government-mandated health insurance is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) case is argued in March 2012, the Institute for Justice warns in its amicus brief that there will be dire and predictable threats to […]