Healthcare
Fox News:Many large companies dropping health care insurance for their retirees
Just announced on Fox. One of the first “benefits” of Obamacare is news that companies with large populations of retirees that now have health insurance through their former employees will, instead, be dumped and forced onto Medicaid and Medicare. The resulting fines for the companies will be far less than continuing to pay for retirees’ […]
The Business Insider Guide To Gaming ObamaCare And Ripping Off The Taxpayer (It’s DOA Alert)
Actually, it doesn’t take too much.
Bryan Caplan explains:
Awhile back, Krugman loudly insisted that if you ban pre-existing conditions clauses, you also have to mandate insurance. While the new bill has a mandate, it doesn’t begin until 2014, and the penalty clause is absurdly small. Here’s what passes for “promoting individual responsibility”:
Requires most individuals to obtain […]
Oklahoma Senate Approves Health Care Opt Out
Oklahoma Senate approves health care opt out.
Published: March 23, 2010
The Oklahoma Senate has approved a measure that would allow Oklahoma voters to opt out of key provisions of the federal health care bill signed into law by President Obama.
The joint resolution approved Tuesday by a 36-11 vote would send to a vote of the people […]
It’s a Civil War: What We Do Now - Seven steps toward reclaiming America’s values.
It’s a Civil War: What We Do Now
Seven steps toward reclaiming America’s values.
A terrible thing happened to America on Sunday, March 21, 2010. The country took its biggest step ever down a road diametrically opposed to its original intent of keeping the state small so that the individual can be free and great.
In this unprecedented […]
ObamaCare Can Be Repealed (Obamacare is today’s Intolerable Act)
Late Sunday night, in a narrow and partisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the most significant piece of social legislation in over seven decades. It did so in the face of overwhelming and principled opposition from the American people. Large majorities of Americans oppose this legislation because it offends the historic American dedication […]
20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms
With House Democrats poised to pass the Senate health care bill with some reconciliation changes later today, it is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose.
Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians leaving the field in […]
Health Care Calculator:What does the health care bill mean to me? (Find Out Here If You’re Going To Win Or Lose From Healthcare Reform)
The health-care overhaul will change the way millions of Americans get health insurance and require nearly everyone to have health insurance or face penalties. A number of factors - including income, age, location and family size - will determine how it specifically impacts your life. This tool looks at what it could mean for your […]
Obama to sign health care reform into law, then promote it on the road (Vote the Rats out in 2010)
President Obama will sign sweeping health care reform legislation into law at the White House on Tuesday, according to two Democratic officials familiar with the planning.
Obama also will hit the road to sell the measure to a still-skeptical public, giving a speech Thursday in Iowa City, Iowa, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. Obama […]
U.S. Supreme Court: Challenges could (will) burst healthcare triumph
Democrats are sky high, celebrating the passage of healthcare reform against ferocious opposition from Republicans, tea partiers and the health insurance industry.
But looming challenges in a legal system dominated by a conservative U.S. Supreme Court threaten to bring them crashing back down to earth.
At least three state attorneys general, all Republicans, are vowing to challenge […]
Health overhaul promises pain, gain for businesses (Drug and the “Evil” Insurance companies are the winners)
When historians write the book on how President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul became law, they’ll need to leave space for some unlikely advocates: lobbyists for the drug, insurance and hospital industries.Last summer, executives from those groups visited the White House and pledged to do their part to help pay for the health bill. By […]
Exempted from Obamacare: Senior Staff Who Wrote The Bill
For as long as the political fight took over the past year, the abbreviated review process on the health care legislation currently pending on President Obama’s desk is unquestionably going to result in some surprises — as happens with any piece of mashed-up legislation — both for the congressmen who voted for it and for […]
CBS: Pelosi’s favorability ratings 11%, Reid at 8%…
Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.
Most Americans don’t have an opinion about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a new CBS News poll finds, even after more than a year of debate over the health care reform bill […]
Planned Parenthood: Pro-Abortion Bill a Victory, Executive Order Meaningless
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – Planned Parenthood called the pro-abortion health care bill the House approved late Sunday night a victory and applauded the financial windfall is expected to reap as a result. The abortion business also dismissed the executive order President Barack Obama promised Congressman Bart Stupak as harmless.
“For more than a year, Planned Parenthood […]
‘Spread the Wealth Around’ as Bill Imposes New Taxes
‘Spread the Wealth Around’ as Bill Imposes New Taxes
Link Only. Read full detail at Bloomberg
Shocking News:Liberal caucus leader will introduce new public option bill
Liberal caucus leader will introduce new public option bill By Michael O’Brien - 03/22/10 04:14 PM ETA leader of the House liberals’ caucus said Monday she’ll introduce new legislation to revive the public option.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), the co-chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said she plans to unveil legislation to add the government-run option […]
Bad news for Obama in CNN weekend survey results
CNN’s Opinion Research surveyors were hard at work over the weekend during the final hours of the successful push to win House approval of the Senate version of Obamacare. The results of the CNN/OR survey are out and they point to the most vivid reality of the Obamacare victory - 219 House Democrats were willing […]
Here Comes the Health Care Lawsuits
(CNSNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative civil liberties group, says it is preparing to file a federal lawsuit challenging the “flawed” health care package that passed the House 219-212 on Sunday night.
The law “fails the American people and does not provide permanent protections for the life of the unborn,” the […]
House Roll Call: Health Care Overhaul [How Did Your Congressman Vote?]
The 219-212 roll call Sunday by which the House passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
A “yes” vote is a vote to pass the bill.
Voting yes were 219 Democrats and 0 Republicans.
Voting no were 34 Democrats and 178 Republicans.
There are 4 vacancies in the 435-member House.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com .
Frum: Republican Waterloo
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum says it’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the GOP disaster. And he blames this “most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s” on conservatives and Republicans:
At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we […]
Destroying America from Within
As a Canadian, I am fully aware of how presumably rational and literate people can elect utter poltroons, nullities, and incompetents to political office. The Liberal prime minister from 1921-1930 and 1935-1948, William Lyon Mackenzie King, thought Hitler “might become one of the saviors of the world” and that “Kristallnacht might turn out to be […]