Tag: ObamaCare

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

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 […]

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Phony Republicans on the McLean County Board

Below are the members of the McLean County Board.  3 were absent from the vote on accepting $170,000 grant to enroll area residents in ObamaCare. Members Don J. Cavallini, District 1  Republican Stan Hoselton, District 1 Republican Jim Soeldner, District 2 Republican Matt Sorensen, District 2 County Board Chairman Didn’t vote as chair (R) Julie […]

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The truth about ObamaCare

Evidently the Il GOP has no clue what is really happening in this country because of ObamaCare.  I could post links all day about the destruction this bill is wreaking on our country.  Obama lied, failed to meet deadlines, massively underestimated the cost, wrote his own rules, and put the IRS in charge of your […]

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A plan for the GOP

Update:  29 Senators and 138 House members have agreed to de-fund ObamaCare.  My video of Aaron Schock made MSNBC last night!  They love the GOP having a hard time at Town Halls after what the Democrats went through in 2009. by:  Diane Benjamin Since the Republican plan is “Can’t we all just get along?”, I […]

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Medicaid Pays Below What It Costs To Take Care of Patients

By ANNE SCHIEBER | Aug. 9, 2013 Dr. Donald Condit is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hand abnormalities. He would like to accept more patients on Medicaid but says he can’t because the costs are too high and the reimbursements too low. “Medicaid pays us way below what it costs us to take care of [patients],” Condit said. […]

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Fly on the Wall: ObamaCare Update!

From and eyewitness who buzzed me: The vote was unanimous except for one person.  That person questioned spending the money.  He was then ridiculed by the others for not taking FREE MONEY. The clueless are ruling us! Thanks one person!  Sorry, didn’t get a name.  Here are the members of this committee: Benjamin Owens, District […]

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Aaron Schock: defunding ObamaCare

This video is from Rep Schock’s Town Hall Monday in Heyworth.  He doesn’t understand that ObamaCare will destroy healthcare in this country.  See the previous post.

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Obamacare’s Branch of the NSA

Community organizers will use a Federal Data Hub to sign up people for subsidies — and even ballots. By John Fund President Obama has had a poor record of job creation, but at least one small economic sector is doing well: community organizing. The Department of Health and Human Services is about to hire an army of […]

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Conservatives sick of ObamaCare have a plan

GOP SENATOR SAYS COALITION TO BLOCK AND DEFUND OBAMACARE IS GROWING, NAMES NAMES U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told TheBlaze Monday he has recruited more than a dozen Senate Republicans to help him defund President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law. Fifteen Republican senators, including Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ted Cruz (Texas), John Cornyn (Texas), […]

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New York premiums will go down by 50% because of Obamacare? Not quite.

by: C. Steven Tucker  July 17, 2013 http://csteventucker.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/new-york-premiums-will-go-down-by-50-because-of-obamacare-not-quite/ The front page of today’s New York times has an article written by Roni Caryn Rabin and Reed Abelson that states that premiums will “be at least 50% lower on average than those currently available in New York“. To what do they contribute this miraculous drop in premiums? That’s […]

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COURT BATS OBAMACARE BACK TO SUPREMES

Chief Justice John Roberts and his cohorts on the U.S. Supreme Court will get a second chance to slap down the health care takeover known as Obamacare. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Constitution’s Commerce Clause is enough authority for Congress to demand employers purchase private health insurance for their […]

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The left wants to go down defending the imploding ObamaCare law!

They can’t implement it, they can’t finance it, you can’t keep your doctor, premiums are massively rising, jobs are now part-time, doctors are quitting, hospitals are laying people off, and it’s killing the economy but . . . From an email sent today: BREAKING: Koch-Financed Group To Run Aggressive Anti-Obamacare TV Ads The New York […]

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Indiana Hospital Chain Firing 865 Employees—Can’t Afford ObamaCare

by STEPHEN FRANK ObamaCare, if successful, if going to bring 30 million new people to the health care system.  If successful, hospital and doctors costs will go down—not through efficiencies, but due to lower reimbursements.  And, doctors are quitting the profession since they are unable to afford the mandated digitizing of medical records—which when accomplished will […]

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Why Congress is hated

In 2011, 60 Minutes exposed that insider trading was legal for members of congress, but illegal for everyone else.  Congress quickly passed legislation making it more difficult for them to profit from information they have, but us little people don’t.   Last month congress repealed the part of the legislation requiring internet disclosure.  http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-27/news/ct-edit-stockact-20130427_1_long-dormant-bill-insider-identity-theft  This protects them […]

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House GOP Votes to APPROVE Obamacare

Rep Adam Kinzinger was interviewed this morning on Cities 92.9.  He parroted Boehner’s comments.  What does the GOP stand for?  Why should they keep control of the House when they won’t cut spending and de-fund ObamaCare?  Why haven’t they demanded a budget in 4 years?  Why did they re-elect Boehner as Speaker when he obviously isn’t standing […]

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Craigslist Ad Shows Reality Hitting Obama Voter Right in the Mouth

By:  DUANE LESTER http://www.libertynews.com/2013/01/craigslist-ad-shows-reality-hitting-obama-voter-right-in-the-mouth/ I offer it without commentary and a couple minor edits. I think you’ll enjoy it:

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Welcome to your Orwellian future

Anyone who doesn’t think that this is the future of government run healthcare just hasn’t been paying attention. The UK is our future. Once Obamacare fails and the liberals and Democrats convince the American people that government run single-payer is the way to go, here’s what you can expect: Up to 60,000 patients die on the Liverpool Care Pathway each […]

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Health care law may mean less hiring in 2013

Many businesses plan to bring on more part-time workers next year, trim the hours of full-time employees or curtail hiring because of the new health care law, human resource firms say. Their actions could further dampen job growth, which already is threatened by possible federal budget cutbacks resulting from the tax increases and spending cuts […]

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Durbin: Medical Device Hypocrite

Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported: “A group of 17 Democratic U.S. senators and senators-elect have signed a letter urging for a delay in implementing a tax on the medical-device industry that is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1.” The signatories include a number of Democrats up for reelection in 2014 (Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), […]

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Veterinarians and pet owners don’t get a free pass on ObamaCare

by:  Scott Reeder, Illinois Policy Institute SPRINGFIELD – Is the Internal Revenue Service barking up the wrong tree? When ObamaCare was approved by Congress, few would have guessed that pet owners would be helping pick up part of the tab for the health care overhaul. But earlier this month, the IRS decided that most of […]

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Report: Obamacare Patients Likely To Struggle To Find Doctors

J.D. Tuccille|Dec. 5, 2012 6:01 pm The big selling point of the Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” to you and I — has been the extension of health-plan coverage to uninsured Americans. The implicit promise was that extending coverage would extend actual care. But yet another study suggests that these new medical customers, many of […]

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Welcome to the future of ObamaCare!

UK DOCTOR’S HORRIFYING ADMISSION REVEALS HOW SICK & DISABLED BABIES ARE PUT ON ‘DEATH PATHWAYS’, DEPRIVED OF FOOD & FLUID FOR 10 DAYS Sick children and even disabled newborn babies, are reportedly being discharged from NHS hospitals in England only to die  slowly at home or in hospices in an unfathomable manner. The innocent children […]

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Debate 1 – Here We Go!!!

By Craig Andresen on October 3, 2012 at 7:12 am Domestic Policy. That’s the topic of tonight’s first debate between the contenders for the presidency. Domestic Policy. Obama will be spinning faster than the centrifuges in Iran. He’s tried NOT to talk about Domestic Policy as the economy continues to drag itself along, barely alive. […]

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New Taxes in the Health Care Law

The Obamacare Taxes (Over $1.2 Trillion in New Taxes Collected in 10 Years).   The latest estimate is that Obamacare will cost $2.6 Trillion – Nearly $1.7 Trillion more than Obama promised.   Last update: August 22, 2012 Year Description Tax Revenue 2010 Tax on Innovator Drug Companies: $2.3 billion annual tax on the industry imposed relative to share of […]

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Boards and Commissions in the Health Care Bill

Just wait until you see the new taxes in the Health Care bill!

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TRUTH about the Paul Ryan (R) and Ron Wyden (D) Medicare Reform Plan.

by C. Steven Tucker When you hear Democrats repeat ad nauseam that “Republicans want to end Medicare as we know it.” Know that they are repeating PolitiFacts’s 2011 “Lie of the Year”. PolitiFact outlines the many reasons why this is lie.  The simple fact is that Democrats have already ‘ended Medicare as we know it” with […]

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GOP Healthcare Reform – Update

By Diane Benjamin Another uniformed Letter to the Editor appeared in Sunday’s Pantagraph.  The writer can’t be blamed for not knowing – the media will tell you NOTHING about what happens in the GOP House!  It doesn’t help that the Senate WILL NOT discuss ANY bills passed by the House.  It isn’t the DO NOTHING […]

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Vetting Dr David Gill

Excepts from their email:  Note: Bernie Sanders is a self-proclaimed socialist, Bernie and David quoted in the same email? YEP! Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on health care proved it’s possible for the good guys to win. Even a right-wing Court agreed that the federal government has wide authority to improve people’s lives — handing a major […]

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Life after #ObamaCare

Update:  Taxes next year are going to skyrocket!  If you don’t believe yet that the TEA Party is your ONLY hope to preserve Liberty and Freedom in America – welcome to socialist America. The mandate under the commerce clause was ruled unconstitutional, but Congress has the RIGHT to tax – even though it was never […]