Category: ObamaCare

Surprise! Insurance Rebate May Stall In Employers Hands

Posted on by William Teach

Who would have thought that this could happen? Considering that Obamacare is well over 2,000 pages, written by all manners of different people and industries, and wasn’t read by anyone who voted “Aye”, it’s really surprising that there could be so many bugs (some intentional, many not) with the law. Like this surely unintentional bug […]

 

Obamacare Costs $1.9 Trillion AND Still Leaves 30 Million Uninsured

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Since the 5-4 decision to uphold Obamacare as constitutional through the taxing authority of Congress, the CBO gave their final grade. . : But it’s not biggie. : This entire overhaul is “deficit neutral” and will save money in the long run. : That’s what the Left try to sell us. : Even Joe Six Pack knows that something […]

 

Cook Medical Scraps Expansion Plans Over ObamaCare Medical Tax

Posted on by William Teach

The Democrats who wrote, passed, and support the “American Care Act” probably thought that companies would just roll over and willingly pay a higher tax rate for their medical devices. Alas, the Real World has intruded on the Dem fantasies of collecting more tax money to spread around to their campaign contributors and voters (Fox […]

 

Kristina Ribali Warns About “Squishy” Republicans at Smart Girl Summit

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Kristina Ribali, the New Media Director for FreedomWorks, detailed briefly the history of the organziation that really began in the 1980s as a think tank. : Ribali states that it’s now a “do” tank with Steve Forbes, Matt Kibbe, and Dick Armey leading the charge in the fight for limited government and economic freedom. Dick Armey, […]

 

New Taxes You’re Going To Pay To Fund Obamacare

Posted on by Michael Fell

Henry Blodget, writing for businessinsider.com,:  shares some:  valuable information that will come in handy:  when debating with “progressive” useful idiots whether obama”care”tax is really a tax or not. “Here are some of the new taxes you’re going to have to pay to pay for Obamacare: -A 3.8% surtax on “investment income” when your adjusted gross […]

 

People Still Think Obama’s Signature Legislation, ObamaCare, Is Terrible Legislation

Posted on by William Teach

Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass the bill to know what’s in it. Democrats did just that, by offering bribes and using cheap parliamentary tricks, despite massive outcry over the legislation, and now that we know what’s in it, it hasn’t gotten more popular. People are not resigned to accepting it. And the polls […]

 

Gov. Scott Walker Provides Some Facts On The Devastation Obamacare Will Create

Posted on by William Teach

In an editorial at the Washington Post, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker points out that Wisconsin, under his leadership, was able to appropriate $1.2 billion in increasing Medicare spending for his state by “putting in place the long-term structural changes needed to make our budget sustainable” which allows Wisconsin to make sure they take care of […]

 

Hmm: 83% Of Doctors Have Considered Quitting Thanks To Obamacare

Posted on by William Teach

The obvious solution is to mandate that doctors keep working under Comrade Obama (The Daily Caller) Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association. The DPMA, a non-partisan association of doctors and patients, surveyed […]

 

Is the individual mandate a penalty or a tax? Washington doesn’t seem to know

Posted on by Dustin Siggins

Since the Supreme Court ruled the individual mandate is a tax, the various Washington-based interests have pulled out all of the political stops in order to convince the American people that it’s a tax, unless it’s a penalty, in which case it’s a fine. Want to know for certain? Ask the 2009 version of President […]

 

NHS horror story: neglected patient calls police for water, dies of thirst

Posted on by Wintery Knight

I spotted this: UK Daily Mail: story on my FB feed from bioethicist: Wesley J. Smith. Excerpt: A young patient who died of dehydration at a leading teaching hospital phoned police from his bed because he was so thirsty, an inquest heard yesterday. Officers arrived at Kane Gorny’s bedside, but were told by nurses that he was in […]

 

Don’t Be Stupid, It’s Still the Economy

Posted on by Michael Fell

The United States Supreme Court has ruled.:  The obama”care”tax is Constitutional. Of course, that depends on what your definition of tax is. Institutionalized “progressive” leftists in the “mainstream” media have mockingly praised the majority opinion of swing vote Chief Justice Roberts.:  Conservatives have expressed scorn for Roberts over the decision.:  How long will it be […]

 

Mitch McConnell Says That Covering 30 Million People Isn’t The Point

Posted on by William Teach

I’ll admit, McConnell didn’t do a really good job of explaining the Republican position on Repeal and Replace, but, he did have a good point, which Obama cheerleader Greg Sargent misses Mitch McConnell’s appearance today on Fox News Sunday was remarkably revealing – it showed as clearly as you could want that the Supreme Court […]

 

Now more than ever we must continue praying for religious freedom

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

Since it is now proven that Obamacare is a tax, Father Z has a most excellent question: Isn’t it now the case that if the Obama Administration punishes St. Ipsidipsy Catholic Hospital in Black Duck for refusing to provide employees their abortifacient pills, then the Federal Government is taxing the exercise of religion? Why yes, […]

 

Chief Justice Roberts Reelected Barack Obama On Thursday

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I know many of you may be upset at this article, but I think the election is now over. Obama will get a second term. I don’t say this happily, but barring any really controversial incident that makes Obama look bad — or worse than he is, I should say — it looks to me […]

 

obamacare: Tip of the Iceberg

Posted on by Michael Fell

Since the ruling by the United States Supreme Court on Thursday, June 28, 2012, the big news in America has been how the obama administration, then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid misrepresented the legislation to Congress, the Senate and the public. It was consistently presented as a cost […]

 

VIDEO: Democrats Next to Move to Unionize Obamacare Doctors

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In another sign that our healthcare industry is soon to be just another arm of the Democrat Party, Chicago are Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky thinks it’s a great idea if doctors unionize. This will completely end any chance that doctors will care about patients. They will instead become just another uncaring, slipshod union hack that […]

 

CNN Mistakenly Reported Roberts Overturned Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Seven minutes of “f**king humiliation” is how one CNN staffer described the morning faux pas the “most trusted name in news” made when it reported that Chief Justice John Roberts overturned Obamacare’s mandate this morning. As the Supreme Court of the United States was delivering its long awaited decision on Obamacare, CNN’s on-air news reader, […]

 

Killing Obamacare’s Individual Mandate: We Now Need 51 Votes In The Senate, Not 60

Posted on by John Hawkins

Today, Matt Lewis over at the Daily Caller pointed out an Obamacare angle that hadn’t yet occurred to me. Before the Supreme Court ruling, repealing Obamacare would have taken a majority in the House, the presidency, and 60 votes in the Senate to get past a Democratic filibuster. However, after the Supreme Court ruling, those […]

 

R.I.P. Liberty

Posted on by Michael Fell

On June 28, 2012 at 10:15 a.m. EST, obamacare was ruled unconstitutional via the Commerce Clause, yet ruled Constitutional on the grounds that it is a tax, even though the current White House occupant claimed it wasn’t a tax while jamming it through Congress and trying unsuccessfully to sell it to the American public. http://www.wtop.com/209/2109971/High-court-upholds-key-part-of-Obama-health-law […]

 

The Supreme Court just wrote Romney’s campaign ads

Posted on by Sunshine State Sarah

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock this morning,: the Supreme Court issued its opinion on ObamaCare today, with Justices Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and even swing-vote Kennedy voting to overturn the law as unconstitutional, but Chief Justice Roberts joined the liberal wing of the court in voting to uphold it. The Court ruled that even […]

 

Random Thoughts Related to the PPACA & Tomorrow’s SCOTUS Decision(s)

Posted on by Dustin Siggins

With the Supreme Court deciding tomorrow on the constitutionality of parts and the whole of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the political world is switching from tense to excited to nervous on what seems to be an hourly basis. The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein is not-so-subtly undermining the legitimacy of overturning the […]

 

Fundraise and Fore! obama’s Answer to World Events

Posted on by Michael Fell

Israel issued warnings over security problems with Egypt. Militants from the Sinai Peninsula crossed over into southern Israel Monday and fired on a border security fence, killing one Israeli. The IDF moved tanks and otherarmed forces to the Israel-Egypt border in response to the attack. Egypt is on the offensive against Israel. Egypt’s presidential election […]

 

Biased Media Reports Non-News

Posted on by Michael Fell

Once again, a proud, card-carrying member of the “progressive” Party Pravda is wasting readers’ time. The headline reads: “On eve of health ruling, Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicts ‘sharp disagreement’”. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77479.html How is it possible that Kyle Cheney is getting paid to spell bind readers with such gems as: “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg laid waste Friday […]

 

Europe Won’t Work in America

Posted on by Michael Fell

Spain’s economy is under such duress that the country is prepared to request a 40 billion Euro cash injection from the Euro zone this weekend. The request comes after Fitch Ratings reduced Spain’s credit by three notches on Thursday. This move will make Spain the fourth country to need a bailout since the European debt […]

 

Are Republicans to Blame for Washington’s Problems?

Posted on by Michael Fell

In a new book entitled “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks”,: author Norman Ornstein (described by Yahoo News, a card carrying member of the “progressive” Party Pravda, as a “scholar”), blames Republican for governance problems in Washington DC. Although Ornstein, shows a flicker of willingness to lay part of the blame at the feet of Democrat’s, […]

 

Obama White House Politicizes Mothers Day for Obamacare Push

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Nothing is sacred to this president. Nothing. Even Mothers Day is something for him to use to push his wrong-headed political policies as is evident on the White House website where the holiday meant to honor our nation’s moms is being used to push Obamacare. It would be bad enough if Obama had this appalling […]

 

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 […]

 

Some interesting history about the inspiration behind Florida’s lawsuit against ObamaCare

Posted on by Sunshine State Sarah

This week, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of: Florida vs. United States Department of Health and Human Services: (for an excellent recap,: please see this write-up by the Texas Public Policy Foundation), the lawsuit filed by the State of Florida against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare.” Florida’s previous […]