King Vs. Burwell Decision: Conversation NOT Over WASHINGTON, D.C. - Upon the announcement of the Supreme
Court's decision in King v. Burwell to uphold the Administration's
overreach, Congressman Trent Franks Chairman of the Constitution Subcommitee of
the Judiciary, made the following statement: "Today's ruling by the U.S. Supreme
Court on the constitutionality of ObamaCare's federal insurance subsidies is
disappointing, but not the end of the discussion. The very simple fact of the
matter is Obamacare violated the Origination Clause of the Constitution by
implementing the single largest tax hike in U.S. history with a
Senate-originated bill. Unfortunately the Supreme Court has thus far refused to
consider this reality.
"ObamaCare's effects have been an unmitigated disaster. With more uncertainty
on the horizon, this intrinsically flawed system will ultimately collapse upon
itself unless policy makers repeal or drastically change it. I will not give up
my opposition to ObamaCare and will continue to seek ways to replace our current
system with health care reform that is fostered through the private sector.
"There are four principles of reform I believe that government should
encourage when dealing with the health care system:
Every American, regardless of health or financial status, should have access
to affordable healthcare coverage of their choice.
Healthcare should be family-focused and patient centered. It must put
patients, in consultation with their doctors, in control of their healthcare;
not the patient's employer, and certainly not government bureaucrats
Americans should own and control their healthcare plan, and it should be
personal and portable.
Americans who are happy with their current plan should be allowed to keep
it."
More than One Third of Franchise Jobs in Every State are at Risk
While the White House is celebrating the third anniversary of
their health care law, the jobs of millions of American workers across the
country are at risk because of ObamaCare. According to a state-by-state
breakdown of data from a Hudson Institute study,
ObamaCare’s employer mandate jeopardizes the jobs of up to 3.2 million full-time
employees in the franchise industry. The data, released today by the
International Franchise Association (IFA), reveals that the potential for job
loss is especially high in the hospitality, restaurant and leisure industries –
the same industries where many secure entry-level jobs and learn skills that
allow them to move to higher-skilled work. With over one-third of franchise
employees in every state at risk, over 300,000 in California, almost 200,000
jobs in Florida and over 110,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, no one is safe from the
pain of job loss under ObamaCare.
Highlights from testimony
summarizing the study's findings:
This [employer mandate] penalty raises significantly the cost of employing
full-time workers, especially low- skill workers, because the penalty is a
higher proportion of their compensation than for high-skill workers, and
employers cannot take the penalty out of employee compensation packages.
Industries that have traditionally offered the greatest opportunities to
entry-level workers
– leisure and hospitality, restaurant
– will be particularly hard-hit by the new law. The franchise industry has
offered an entry point to low-skill workers, who have some of the highest
unemployment rates in America.
In addition to hiring more part-time workers, firms will have an added
incentive to become more automated, or machinery-intensive and employ fewer
workers.
Health care spending is sapping us all: individuals, employers and the government. Getting the system in check is a challenge for President Obama
The nation’s health care system has enough problems to give anyone a headache, and that probably goes for President Obama, too. The sober reality is that health care spending is on the rise, pinching already-strapped household budgets and sapping the government’s own health care programs. The affordability outlook is tough for both government and consumers.
The health care reform law takes full effect in 2014, though challenges still loom. People who don’t buy health insurance by that time could face new penalties.
So What If My Actions Are Lawless... What Are You Gonna Do, Impeach Me? I'm here for my lifetime...
And Elena Kagan's lawlessness is so clear that even her fellow liberals, like Eric Segall, a liberal law professor at Georgia State University, are no longer denying it.
Segall recently wrote inSlate Magazine:"Doing the right thing is easy when nothing important is at stake. Doing the right thing is much harder when there is a lot to lose. Elena Kagan is a loyal Democrat who owes her Supreme Court appointment to President Barack Obama. She is poised to review the constitutionality of Obama’s health care statute, which, if invalidated, might do serious damage to his re-election campaign as well as the Democratic Party. ... Elena Kagan should recuse herself from hearing challenges to the act."
But Kagan's not interested in doing the right thing. Why should she be interested in doing the right thing? After all, not doing the right thing is also easy when no one stands up to you.
And that must change right now. Our so-called Republican leaders must draw a line in the sand. If they don't, the Obama Regime, like a steamroller, will only become more brazen in its lawlessness with each passing day.
It's time to force the issue. It's time to put a stop to this lawlessness and our so-called Republican leaders can start doing the right thing here and now by calling for the immediate impeachment of Elena Kagan.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
HHS
suspends controversial program in healthcare law By Sam Baker
The Obama administration will not implement a controversial piece of the
healthcare reform law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
said Friday.
Sebelius said the department will not continue trying to implement the CLASS
program, which was intended to provide insurance for long-term care. Republicans
charged that the program’s financial structure was unsustainable, and Sebelius
conceded as much Friday.
“We have not identified a way to make CLASS work at this time,” she wrote on
the Huffington Post. Read
the complete story here.
OBAMACARE
By The
Numbers
$2.6 Trillion:
True
Cost Of ObamaCare Once Fully Implemented.(Office Of The
Speaker Of The U.S. House Of Representatives, Report, 1/6/11)
$701 Billion:
Amount
ObamaCare Will Add To The Deficit. (Office Of The Speaker Of The U.S.
House Of Representatives, Report, 1/6/11)
$575 Billion:
Cost
Of Medicare Cuts In ObamaCare. (CMS Chief Actuary Richard S. Foster,
Memo, 4/22/10)
Cost
Of ObamaCare “Glitch” Allowing The Middle-Class To Qualify For Medicaid.(Avik
Roy, “The 450 Billion Glitch: 3 Million Extra Middle-Class Americans Eligible
For Medicaid Benefits,” Forbes,
6/21/11)
$401 Billion:
Increase
In Federal Entitlement Spending From ObamaCare. (“The Budget and
Economic Outlook: An Update,” Congressional Budget Office,
August 2010)
$210 Billion:
Amount
Of Income Taxes Collected Over 10 Years Through ObamaCare.("Estimated Revenue Effects Of The Manager's
Amendment To The Revenue Provisions Contained In The 'Patient Protection And
Affordable Care Act,"Joint Committee On Taxation
Report, 3/20/10; Editorial, “Taxes
Upon Taxes Upon…,” The Wall Street Journal,
7/11/11)
$145 Billion:
Cost
Of ObamaCare Cuts To Medicare Advantage.(CMS Chief Actuary Richard S. Foster,
“Estimated Financial Effects Of The 'Patient Protection And Affordable Care
Act,' As Amended,” Memo, 4/22/10)
$80 Billion:
ObamaCare’s
CLASS Program “Zombie” Savings In The Federal Budget. (Ricardo
Alonso-Zaldivar, “‘Zombie’ In The Budget: Long-Term Health Care Plan,” The Associated Press,
10/8/11)
$60 Billion:
Health
Insurance Tax On Businesses. ("Estimated Revenue Effects Of The Manager's
Amendment To The Revenue Provisions Contained In The 'Patient Protection And
Affordable Care Act,"Joint Committee On Taxation
Report, 3/20/10; Editorial, “Taxes
Upon Taxes Upon…,” The Wall Street Journal,
7/11/11)
$50 Billion:
Cost
Of Fixing A “Glitch” That If Left As Is, Will Leave Millions Without
Affordable Health Care Coverage. (Julian Pecquet, “Health Care Law
Could Leave Families With High Insurance Costs,” The Hill’s “Health Watch,”
7/21/11)
$32 Billion:
Cost
Of 40% Tax On High Cost Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage. ("Estimated Revenue Effects Of The Manager's
Amendment To The Revenue Provisions Contained In The 'Patient Protection And
Affordable Care Act," Joint Committee
On Taxation Report, 3/20/10; Editorial, “Taxes
Upon Taxes Upon…,” The Wall Street Journal,
7/11/11)
$27 Billion:
Taxes
Imposed On Manufacturers And Importers Of Branded Drugs. ("Estimated Revenue Effects Of The Manager's
Amendment To The Revenue Provisions Contained In The 'Patient Protection And
Affordable Care Act,"Joint Committee
On Taxation Report, 3/20/10)
$20 Billion:
Taxes
On Medical Device Manufacturers. ("Estimated Revenue Effects Of The Manager's
Amendment To The Revenue Provisions Contained In The 'Patient Protection And
Affordable Care Act," Joint Committee
On Taxation Report, 3/20/10; Editorial, “Taxes
Upon Taxes Upon…,” The Wall Street Journal,
7/11/11)
$15 Billion:
Funds
Collected Through A Tax On Annual Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenses. ("Estimated Revenue Effects Of The Manager's
Amendment To The Revenue Provisions Contained In The 'Patient Protection And
Affordable Care Act," Joint Committee
On Taxation Report, 3/20/10; Editorial, “Taxes
Upon Taxes Upon…,” The Wall Street Journal,
7/11/11)
$13 Billion:
Tax
On Flex Spending Accounts. ("Estimated Revenue Effects Of The Manager's
Amendment To The Revenue Provisions Contained In The 'Patient Protection And
Affordable Care Act," Joint Committee
On Taxation Report, 3/20/10)
According to the Supreme Court
government cannot mandate healthcare the ruling was made on this in 1925.
Supreme Court has said Congress cannot control
the practice of medicine.
The Supreme Court has already spoken out
against Congress making universal health care the law of the land. Direct
control of medical practice is beyond the power of the federal government. This
is a decision of the Supreme Court, decided April 13, 1925, Linder vs. the
United States. Then there is this case decided in 1926 that said,
“Congress, therefore cannot directly
restrict the professional judgment of the physician or interfere with its free
exercise in the treatment of disease, Lambert vs. Yellow".
You could also look at
Oregon vs. Ashcroft in 2004 or Conant vs. Walters in 2002. However, they all
give similar judgments restricting congress’s authority over medicine and
making it clear that the states have this right not congress.
What was done by the Obama minions in
the dead of night with Pelosi in the lead is therefore beyond the power of
congress to enact and for Obama to sign.
What is being done
about the Obama Administration's blatant disregard for the law? be # In A “Twist … Discovered Only After The Complex Bill Was Signed” ObamaCare Will
Allow Millions Of Middle Class People To Receive Free Medicaid. “President
Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people
get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers
say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.” (Ricardo
Alonso-Zaldivar, “Medicaid For The Middle Class?” The Associated Press, 6/21/11)
Up To Three Million Middle-Class Americans Could Qualify
For Medicaid Entitlement Intended Only For Those Below The Poverty Line. “Up to 3 million people
could qualify for Medicaid in 2014 as a result of the anomaly. That's because,
in a major change from today, most of their Social Security benefits would no
longer be counted as income for determining eligibility.” (Ricardo
Alonso-Zaldivar, “Medicaid For The Middle Class?” The Associated
Press,
6/21/11)
·“It Might Be Compared To Allowing Middle-Class People To
Qualify For Food Stamps.” (Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, “Medicaid For The Middle Class?”The Associated Press, 6/21/11)
The “Glitch” Could
Cost Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars. “If we do a
back-of-the-envelope calculation, in which the average annual Medicaid
expenditure per early retiree is $15,000 per year, the ten-year cost of this
glitch could be as high as $450 billion.” (Avik Roy, “The 450 Billion
Glitch: 3 Million Extra Middle-Class Americans Eligible For Medicaid Benefits,”
Forbes, 6/21/11)
Even
Medicare’s Chief Actuary Says The Policy “Just Doesn’t Make Sense.” “Medicare
chief actuary Richard Foster says the situation keeps him up at night. ‘I don’t
generally comment on the pros or cons of policy, but that just doesn’t make
sense,’ Foster said during a question-and-answer session at a recent professional
society meeting.”(Ricardo
Alonso-Zaldivar, “Medicaid For The Middle Class?”The Associated Press, 6/21/11)
Medicare Chief
Actuary Robert Foster Says The “Glitch” Received “No Attention At All.” “‘This is a situation
that got no attention at all,’ added Foster. ‘And even now, as I raise the
issue with various policymakers, people are not rushing to say … we need to do
something about this.’” (Ricardo
Alonso-Zaldivar, “Medicaid For The Middle Class?” The Associated Press, 6/21/11) Research: www.gop.com
Monday, May 16, 2011
Just
The Facts
Obama’s Failure To Provide Real Solutions And Leadership Will
Guarantee The Bankruptcy Of Medicare
THE TRUSTEES FOR MEDICARE AND SOCIAL
SECURITY REPORT THAT OUR ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS ARE GOING BROKE FASTER THAN
PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
Social Security and; Medicare
Trustees: Medicare’s Trust Fund Will Be Exhausted In 2024, Five Years Earlier
That Predicted Last Year.
“Medicare's trust fund will run dry in 2024, five years earlier than forecast
just last year, and Social Security's will be exhausted by 2036, adding fuel
to the debate over cutting one or both programs to reduce annual budget
deficits.” (Richard Wolf, “Medicare, Social Security Running Out Of Money
Faster,” USA Today, 5/13/11)
The Nonpartisan CBO Projects
That Medicare’s Trust Fund Will Be Exhausted Even Sooner, In 2020.(“March 2011 Medicare
Baseline,” Congressional Budget Office, March 18,
2011)
When The Trust Funds Run Dry, Medicare Benefits Will Be Cut By At Least 10%,
And By 25% In 2045.
“If the trust
funds run out, the programs no longer would be able to pay full benefits. …
Medicare could pay 90% starting in 2024, dropping to 75% in 2045.” (Richard
Wolf, “Medicare, Social Security Running Out Of Money Faster,” USA Today, 5/13/11)
The Trustees Projections For
Medicare Are “Suspect” Because They Depend On Savings From ObamaCare That Are
Unlikely To Materialize. “The Medicare
figures are suspect, because they rely on billions of dollars in savings
projected under the health care law signed by President Obama last year.
Those savings depend on many factors, such as cuts in payments to doctors
that Congress habitually sidesteps, as well as improvements in doctors' and
hospitals' productivity.” (Richard Wolf, “Medicare, Social Security Running
Out Of Money Faster,” USA Today, 5/13/11)
YET, PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS REFUSED TO
SUBMIT A PLAN FOR PREVENTING INSOLVENCY
“Obama Has Long Resisted The
‘Entitlement Reform’ Movement.”
“Obama has long resisted the ‘entitlement reform’ movement, which is
currently focused on establishing a blue-ribbon commission that would present
Congress with a finished proposal -- presumably calling for steep cuts in the
nation's bedrock social safety programs -- for an up-or-down vote.”(Dan
Froomkin, “Obama’s Sense Of Entitlements,” The Washington Post, 2/20/09)
President Obama’s FY2012 Budget
“Declined To Propose Major Changes To Social Security, Medicare Or Medicaid.”
“Even as the administration said it
wants to reduce the deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years,
it declined to propose major changes to Social Security, Medicare or
Medicaid, which combined account for more than 40 percent of federal
spending.”(Perry Bacon Jr., “In Third Year, Obama Proposes A More Modest
Course,” The Washington Post, 2/14/11)
“The White House Hasn’t Posted A
Plan, And The President Called For Creating Another Group, Led By Vice
President Biden And Congressional Leaders, To Come Up With Legislation.”(Mark Murray And Domenico Montanaro,
“Obama’s First 2012 Campaign Speech,” MSNBC’s “First Read,” 4/13/11)
Obama Has “Steered Clear Of Fundamental
Changes To Medicare, Medicaid And Social Security — The Primary Drivers Of
Future Spending.” “In his most
ambitious effort to claim the mantle of deficit cutter, Obama proposed sharp
new cuts to domestic and military spending, and an overhaul of the tax code
that would raise fresh revenue. But he steered clear of fundamental changes
to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — the primary drivers of future
spending.”(“Breaking News Alert: Obama Unveils Plan To Reduce Borrowing By $4
Trillion Over The Next 12 Years,” The Washington Post,
4/13/11)
The Chicago
Tribune: “If Not The
Ryan Plan, Democrats, Then What?”(Editorial,
“What Real Leaders Do,” The Chicago Tribune,4/5/11)
· USA
Today: “Democrats Have Already Begun To Demonize The Ryan Plan, But Where
Is Theirs?”(Editorial, “Dems Bash GOP Budget, But Where’s Theirs?,” USA Today, 4/6/11) Source:
Republican National Committee Research. www.gop.com
Sunday, April 24, 2011
IBM OFFER REFUSED
Every American see this to see what President Obama really thinks and that he is anti-capitalist, anti-private-sector and cannot be trusted in telling the truth.
IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...
and was refused.... More proof it's not all about
health care; it is about SEIZING POWER andlimiting rights.It's about changing America into
a socialist nation. It's about making Americans dependent upon government. For all of their basic needs; Health, Food, Fuel, Shelter it's
about controlling our lives. unbelievablethat this offor wasn't acceptable to the Obama administration..No it's not he'an empty suit with a teleprompter....Who's pulling his chain?
What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his, before the healthcare bill debates, with a plan that would reduce healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama Administration's adamancy that the United States of America simply had to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even the most dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, "Tell me more!"
And what if I told you that the cost to the federal government for this program was nothing, zip, nada, zilch? And, what if I told you that, in the end and after two meetings, President Obama and his team, instead of embracing a program that was proven to save money -- projected to save almost one trillion dollars - a private sector program costing the taxpayers nothing, zip, nada, zilch - said, "Thanks but no thanks" and then embarked on passing one of the most despised pieces of legislation in US history?
Well, it's all true.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4366002/did-white-house-snub-fraud-fighter/
Samuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM, said in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that he offered to provide the Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama White House turned the offer down.
Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying during a taping of The Wall Street Journal's Viewpoints program on September 14, 2010:
"We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of the healthcare system by $900 billion...I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down."
A second meeting between Mr. Palmisano and the Obama Administration took place two weeks later, with no change in the Obama Administration's stance. A call placed to IBM on October 8, 2010, by FOX News confirmed, via a spokesperson, that Mr. Palmisano stands by his statement.
Speaking with FOX News' Stuart Varney, Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of US News & World Report, said, "It's a little bit puzzling because I think there is a huge amount of both fraud and inefficiency that American business is a lot more comfortable with and more effective in trying to reduce. And this is certainly true because the IBM people have studied this very carefully. When Palmisano went to the White House and made that proposal, it was based upon a lot of work and it was not accepted. It's really puzzling...These are very, very responsible people and don't have a political ax to grind.
In Mr. Obama's shunning of a private sector program that would have saved our country almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures, presented to him as he declared a "crisis in healthcare," he proves two things beyond any doubt: that he is anti-Capitalist and anti-private sector in nature and that he can no longer be trusted to tell the truth in both his political declarations or espoused goals.
Sources: http://capitolhillcoffeehouse.com/index.php/article/574 http://reimagineamerica.org/tag/sam-palmisano/ http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/02/ibm-exec-offers-save-900-billion-health-care-costs-obama-turned-h
Our forefathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their scared honor to give us a Republic with Liberty and Freedom and Benjamin Franklin upon leaving the signing of the Constitution said "we have given you a Republic, if you can keep it." Can we keep it? Are we going to stand by and let the government we elected take away our Freedom and Liberties? FREEDOM MUST BE DEFENDED, NOW IS THE TIME and WE ARE THAT GENERATION!!! Semper Fi
And Elena Kagan's lawlessness is so clear that even her fellow liberals, like Eric Segall, a liberal law professor at Georgia State University, are no longer denying it. 
