Tag: ObamaCare

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Community Health Care Story problems

By:  Diane Benjamin The paper did a story about the Community Health Care Clinic: https://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/years-later-community-health-care-clinic-still-responding-to-community/article_09100674-ae9e-5719-8808-176424142626.html Excepts: Illegal aliens can’t legally work, what infrastructure work are they doing?  Slave labor? Bloomington changed the JM Scott Healthcare Trust because they didn’t have many people needing help.  At the time they blamed the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid […]

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Normal: Buy Chicago

By:  Diane Benjamin The Normal Town Council had a long meeting last night by their standards.  They discussed employee health benefits and wellness programs at length.  I didn’t write about it before the meeting because I was waiting to see their comments. Normal has worked with Advocate for over a decade developing a wellness program […]

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Gold plated government

By:  Diane Benjamin Some months ago a presentation at a Bloomington City Council meeting talked about the ObamaCare Luxury Tax and how the City might be hit with HIGH penalties.  Some of the aldermen had never heard of it. From this link:  money.cnn.com/2015/12/18/news/economy/obamacare-cadillac-tax/ The tax has been delayed because people subject to the tax have […]

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Health Insur: Gov vrs US

By:  Diane Benjamin Tonight the Bloomington City Council will consider changing providers for Employee Health Insurance.  It could save A LOT of money: Under Obamacare, employers with “Gold plated” insurance were supposed to pay significant penalties.  Enactment of that provision got delayed after the people receiving it threw a fit at possibly paying more or […]

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What the McLean County Board didn’t get

When McLean County got offered money, they took it. The only NO vote was Chuck Erickson.  McHenry County is smarter. The top three things McHenry County taxpayers need to know about ‘free’ ObamaCare money 29 Oct 2014 | Naomi Lopez Bauman The McHenry County Board recently took a brave stance by voting to reject “free” […]

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Obama Dooms Seniors to Ravages of Aging

Source:  http://www.aim.org/guest-column/obama-dooms-seniors-to-ravages-of-aging/?utm_source=co2hog&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AccuracyInMedia+%28Accuracy+In+Media%29 Betsy McCaughey  —   January 2, 2014 On Oct. 1, 2012 the Obama administration started awarding bonus points to hospitals that spend the least on elderly patients. It will result in fewer knee replacements, hip replacements, angioplasty, bypass surgery and cataract operations. These are the five procedures that have transformed aging for older […]

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Think the IRS isn’t still attacking Obama critics?

I wrote previously about C Steven Tucker and the IRS:  http://blnnews.com/2013/11/29/irs-auditing-2-men-who-spoke-against-obamacare/ IRS Goes After Obamacare Whistleblowers:  An Interview with C. Steven Tucker By Arlen Williams This is an update published today in American Thinker:  http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/irs_goes_after_obamacare_whistleblowers_an_interview_with_c_steven_tucker.html Excerpts: By now, the news has spread online of the IRS audit notices sent to two Obamacare whistleblowers. On November 25th, cancer victim […]

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House subcommittee: Obamacare’s $300 billion Medicare Advantage raid will hurt seniors next year

Obamacare “raided” $300 billion for Medicare Advantage and seniors will begin feeling the cuts next year, according to an analysis Tuesday by the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. Obamacare took $700 billion from Medicare and $300 billion from Medicare Advantage alone for its own funding, according to the subcommittee. The cuts to Medicare Advantage […]

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IRS Auditing 2 men who spoke against ObamaCare

BOTH got letters from the IRS on the SAME day!  Illinois’s own C. Steven Tucker, who got a cancer patients insurance re-instated,  is one of them – the cancer patient the other.  IRS is obviously still being used by the Obama administration as a weapon. CANCER PATIENT WHO SAYS OBAMACARE CANCELED HIS HEALTH INSURANCE NOW […]

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Democratic Senator feeling the heat

Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana is running a Facebook ad in an attempt to save her seat from slaughter in the 2014 election. The Affordable Care Act isn’t perfect, but its hope and promise are certainly something worth fighting for. That’s why I introduced legislation to let those told they would be able to retain their plan keep it […]

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Real example of ObamaCare cost increases

by:  Diane Benjamin The name of the benefits provider isn’t important, but you should know this is a non-profit insurance provider.  Stated in the Benefit Information notice is this: It’s been more than 5 years since co-payments were last increased for prescription drug benefits, and even longer for most deductible and out-of-pocket maximums. The notice […]

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Preventing Stealth Euthanasia

by:  Diane Benjamin Yes death panels exist, and yes Obamacare takes $78 billion out of Medicare.  If you still don’t believe ObamaCare is meant to limit healthcare for the “non-contributing” members of society, then why would Benedictine University hold a conference on Preventing Stealth Euthanasia? Fundamental Transformation.  Die already!

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Your future under ObamaCare

by:  Diane Benjamin This information was sent to me.  I blocked out the company name, it’s not important.  The Affordable Care Act affects everyone in America – get ready.  We were lied to by people who never read the bill.  I realize parts are difficult to read, but here’s the message:  “You will be paying more […]

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Memories of How Tom Cross brought Obamacare to IL two years early

by:  Illinois TEA Party Recently, Republican Tom Cross “forgot” that he brought Obamacare to Illinois two years early.  Former GOP Leader Tom Cross is currently running for State Treasurer against  Dupage County Auditor Bob Grogan. Bob Grogan is the DuPage County Auditor, a CPA, and a Certified Fraud Examiner, who has both public and private financial sector experience.  […]

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Desperation at BarackObama.com

The website doesn’t work, the cost isn’t affordable, the penalty is MUCH less, the deductibles mean the insurance will probably never pay out a dime – but the people exposing the truth are “shady groups”? Erin Hannigan, BarackObama.com To Me   Today at 2:32 PM There are 17 million uninsured young Americans who are now eligible to […]

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Holding a gun to the Republican’s head

by:  Diane Benjamin The Democrats called Republicans terrorist, hostage takers, and many other vile names when the GOP wanted to delay the implementation of ObamaCare.  The President said he would not negotiate with people holding a gun to his head. I’m not even sure it’s been 2 weeks since those comments.  How things change!  Have […]

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ATTENTION Main Stream Media. Regarding Obamacare, I TOLD YOU SO.

by: C Steven Tucker  Back on August 3rd, 2013 I wrote a piece exposing what I stated then will soon happen to millions of Americans if we do not support the Tea Party and Republican lead effort to defund Obamacare. In that piece, I stated when President Obama promised – “If you like your plan, you can […]

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Pantagraph has trouble reporting again

by:  Diane Benjamin Today reporter Paul Swiech did a front page story on Central Illinoisans trying to sign up for ObamaCare.  He did say most of the people expecting to sign up qualified for Medicaid.  Illinois expects to add 850,000 to the Medicaid roles in Illinois.  Even before adding all these people, Medicaid recipients had […]

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ObamaCare: ‘I was Laughing at Boehner, Until the Mail Came Today’

by:  Chris Banescu It’s finally dawning on liberals, leftists, and progressives that conservatives were telling the truth when they warned about the fundamental problems and dangers of The ‘Affordable’ Care Act (ObamaCare).  As reported in the San Jose Mercury News, reality came knocking for Obama voters and ObamaCare supporters last week.  And many of them […]

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Here’s what the CR debacle in Washington looked like:

Friday, 9/20/13 – The House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution that would fully fund the government (including things that Republicans don’t like) while at the same time defunding Obamacare. Result: House Republicans compromised on spending that they’d like to see cut in exchange for defunding Obamacare. Friday, 9/27/13 – The Senate stripped the defunding […]

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Obamacare Delay Would Give Democrats What They Really Want

Guest Editorial By George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 9/27/13 Source:  http://www.conservativehq.com/node/14958 In one of author Joel Chandler Harris’ classic Uncle Remus stories, the wily Brer Rabbit avoids becoming lunch and outsmarts Brer Fox by begging not to be thrown in the briar patch – which is where he actually wants to be. President Obama and […]

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Yes, the Republicans do have a replacement ObamaCare plan!

  H.R. 3121 Bill Text  |  Press Release |  Pocket Card  |  Dear Colleague | Two-Page Summary    Section-by-Section  |  Health Care Standard Deduction     Presentation  The centuries-old oath taken by health care professionals reads, “Do no harm.”  It is time for Washington lawmakers to take a similar approach when working to fix the problems that exist in our broken health care system.  Simply repealing […]

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Quinn solves the Pension problem by shipping jobs to India!

This story is a continuation of the Illinois-ObamaCare scandal previously reported. H-1B Obamacare Illinois Bombshell by:  ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI Billions of dollars of IT contracts are wrapped inside the implementation of Obamacare, with federal tax dollars paying up to 90 percent of the cost for upgrading state Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS). These awards are some […]

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Could The GOP Actually Be About To Beat Obama?

Kurt Schlichter | Sep 23, 2013 I have to admit that the Congressional GOP’s Obamacare defunding strategy has me a little nervous – mostly because it just might work. When the GOP does something clever, I start looking for the other three horsemen of the apocalypse. Designing a strategy starts with understanding the ends you seek. Sure, […]

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Watchdogs: More NATIONAL PRESS on Illinois-ObamaCare scandal

Illinois’s Medicaid Scandal  A tale of questionable dealings and taxpayer risk By Jillian Kay Melchior Bollywood performers, a Boston boat cruise with an open bar, gifts of cigars and wine — the vendor working on Illinois’s expensive new Medicaid information-technology system entertains public officials in style, according to sources in the Illinois government. These whistleblowers tell National […]

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Why the #GOP is dead

House GOP Leaders Prepare “Hug It Out” Strategy to Fund Obamacare. Eric Cantor is always looking for new and imaginative ways to screw conservatives. He has Pete Sessions (R-TX), as Rules Chairman, helping him with his latest creative way to screw conservatives. I’ve already well documented Pete Sessions’s increasingly bitter attitude toward Ted Cruz and staggering contempt […]

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MENTALLY-CHALLENGED 24 YEAR OLD IN OAK LAWN DENIED HEALTH CARE UNDER ACA

The Illinois GOP and the establishment GOP in DC have no desire to defund ObamaCare.  They will not fight unless we force them to.  Read the story below. This is only the beginning!  Please contact your reps and Leadership: Please Call!! Speaker John Boehner: (202) 225-0600 Rep.Eric Cantor: (202) 225-2815 Sen. Mitch McConnell: (202) 224-2541 Sen. Dick Durbin: (202) 224-2152 […]

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Gov Quinn is outsourcing Illinois jobs to India!

More coverage on the findings of our Watchdog team: http://www.wandtv.com/story/23355753/watchdog-report-claims-state-it-jobs-could-be-outsourced Watchdog Report Claims State IT Jobs Could be Outsourced Posted: Sep 05, 2013 11:19 PM CDT CHICAGO – A government watchdog organization claims up to 100 state IT jobs could soon be outsourced. Adam Andrzejewski, who published the report as founder ofOpenTheBooks.com explains that Cognizant Technology Solutions, the […]

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The next shot in the Illinois-ObamaCare scandal

          If you missed the previous post: http://blnnews.com/2013/08/29/thank-you-fox-news/ Adam Andrzejewski Founder, openthebooks.com Source:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-andrzejewski/implementing-obamacare-by_b_3861333.html Implementing ObamaCare by Outsourcing Illinois Jobs to India CHICAGO- While everyone debates the policy points of ObamaCare, few understand that billions of dollars in IT contracts are wrapped inside the law. To meet federal mandates, states must upgrade […]

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ObamaCare triples rates for 1 family

Proof: Obamacare Raised Family’s Insurance by $600 per month! Posted 08/28/2013 | AMAC Authors http://amac.us/obamacare-rate-shock-an-amac-members-experience by Andrew Mangione – Many of you are familiar with my updates on AMAC’s activity on Capitol Hill and other topics that I’m privileged to bring to you here and in our other forums.  I recently received a disturbing piece of […]

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Public service for Liberals. Complete list of businesses to boycott over Obamacare.

by:  C Steven Tucker https://csteventucker.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/public-service-for-liberals-complete-list-of-businesses-to-boycott-over-obamacare/ Under a clause of President Obama’s health care law called the “Shared Responsibility Penalty“. Employers with 50 or more full-time employees – are now incentivized to reduce full-time worker hours to part-time hours. For many years, a ‘full-time employee’ was considered an employee who works 40 hours or more per week. Now, because […]

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MUST READ: Who Says the GOP Doesn’t Have an Alternative to Obamacare….NOT SO (Two Plans included)

President Obama has tried to defend his health care plan lately by criticizing Republicans for trying to roll back ObamaCare without offering any alternatives — despite the fact that Republicans have offered several. In a White House news conference a week ago, the president said: “They used to say, ‘well, we’re going to replace it […]