Category: Healthcare

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

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 […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

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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Illinois adds to Medicaid roles, good luck finding a Doc

Op-Ed: Why Do We Have a Medicaid Program? Illinois Review: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2013/12/why-do-we-have-a-medicaid-program-.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FbYHz+%28Illinois+Review%29&utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail By Alieta Eck, M.D. – A Star Ledger headline reads: “ObamaCare fuels applicant boom for NJ Medicaid—Advocate hails 35% increase in October.” Almost 22,000 new applications were filed in October, up from 16,000 in September. Is this a triumph? Was a 990-page law needed to […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

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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Feds cancel service to Seniors in El Paso!

by:  Diane Benjamin This notice was in today’s Pantagraph: Below is the part of the code referenced in the notice.  Calls to the manager have not yet been returned.  Is red tape going to prevent seniors on Medicare in El Paso from getting healthcare?  The code mentioned doesn’t say anything about the quality of the […]

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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 […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

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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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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Obamacare Just Gave Me A Death Sentence

Sounds like hyperbole, right?  Well, depends upon your perspective after you read what I have to say. Long time readers of FedUpUSA know me to some degree or another.  I’m a real person.  I’m not wealthy.  I’m not special.  I’m just your average person who happens to be rather opinionated and I share those opinions […]

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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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The Defund ObamaCare plan – Update

Update:  Word is already out that today’s vote was a setup for the Republicans in the Senate to kill it.  Tell them if they FUND IT THEY OWN it. #DoneWithGOP by:  Diane Benjamin First, ignore all the establishment #GOP saying it’s not going to happen.  2 weeks ago they said a vote to defund ObamaCare […]

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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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Another shot in the Illinois-ObamaCare scandal!

Governor Quinn’s “Indian H1B visa” Problem This is the continuation of the story we have been investigating for 9 months.  It’s not over yet! Springfield – Edgar County Watchdogs http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2013/09/governor-quins-indian-h1b-visa-problem/ Our work has been beyond reproach and it now appears the level of forked- tongue deception reaches levels well beyond the County Governments where we […]

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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 […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Somebody’s Lying

The next shot in the Illinois-ObamaCare scandal (Woof-Woof): http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2013/09/somebodys-lying/ Posted by Kirk Allen on September 5, 2013 Illinois Health and Family Services, under the direction of Julie Hamos, might want to take a long weekend and figure out who needs fired for lying to the public. In this FOIA request/response  I wanted to know who paid for the wining […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

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 […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Thank you Fox News-Updated with Video

See the Fox News video:  http://youtu.be/mt6s16lNHuU Source:  http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2013/08/thank-you-fox-news/ LInk to the Fox News story: The Chicago way? Illinois officials under fire for ObamaCare contracts A team of dedicated grass roots citizens have been working on exposing the questionable acts by our state HFS office and their circumvention of procurement laws by using an intergovernmental agreement […]

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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 […]

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ObamaCare Challenge: Judicial Watch

Dear Judicial Watch Supporter, Judicial Watch is considering litigation challenging President Obama’s rewriting of Obamacare.  Specifically, President Obama has unilaterally rewritten the law to delay the “employer mandate,” which was scheduled to go in effect on January 1, 2014, for at least a year.  At the same time, he did not rewrite the law to […]