NO bamacare

Here's an easy solution to the healthcare 'problem':

Let me keep my current insurance and change the president.

Tens of millions could be forced out of healthcare they had

The Obamacare Ripoff: more money for less insurance

Coverage may be unaffordable for low-wage workers

 

White House website at odds with latest obama  statement

Obamacare has doctors planning exit

Ex-ACORN operatives collecting taxpayer money

 

More excuses from the obama administration about  obamacare

Doctor offers brutal diagnosis about Obamacare

 

Obamacare Hypocrisy

You've heard the politicians, here's what Americans think about Obamacare 

Democrats Scramble To Distance Themselves From Obamacare

Paradox

Obully

Does Barack Hussein Obama, former senior lecturer on constitutional law (and NOT a professor as he likes to call himself **), NOT know how the US government works?


Does he not know about  ... 

Separation of powers?   Checks and Balances?

Has he forgotten that POTUS is but one part of the government?

I guess that Harvard Law degree ain't worth the big bucks it cost somebody.

Obama Warns 'Unelected' Supreme Court ... 

Barack Hussein Obama, employing his strongest language to date on the Supreme Court review of the federal health care overhaul, cautioned the court Monday against overturning the law ...

Combative Obama warns Supreme Court

Barack Hussein Obama on Monday challenged the "unelected" Supreme Court not to take the "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" step of overturning his landmark health reform law.

Obama Takes a shot at the Supreme Court

Barack Hussein Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the Supreme Court on Monday, warning that a rejection of his sweeping healthcare law would be an act of "judicial activism" ...

  
Obama Expects SCOTUS to Show Deference

Barack Hussein Obama, for the second straight day, put public pressure on the Supreme Court to uphold the federal health care overhaul -- saying the court has traditionally shown "deference" to Congress.

Hey, Obummer, read this:

Guide to the Branches of Government (for Kids)

The framers wrote the Constitution to provide for a separation of powers, or three separate branches of government. Each has its own responsibilities and at the same time they work together to make the country run smoothly and to assure that the rights of citizens are not ignored or disallowed.

This is done through checks and balances. A branch may use its powers to check the powers of the other two in order to maintain a balance of power among the three branches of government.

And when Obummer calls the Supreme Court justices 'unelected', well, consider this: candidates for SCOTUS are nominated by the president, but are confirmed by majority vote of the Senate, so in a sense they are 'elected'.

**  "Sen. Obama, who has taught courses in constitutional law at the University of Chicago, has regularly referred to himself as "a constitutional law professor," most famously at a March 30, 2007, fundraiser when he said, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution." 

 

A spokesman for the Republican National Committee immediately took exception to Obama’s remarks, pointing out that Obama’s title at the University of Chicago was "senior lecturer" and not "professor."

 Fact Check.org/2008/03/obama a constitutional lawprofessor/

Obamacare vs the U.S. Military

We're NOT hearing about this from the Mainstream Media, are we:

Obama to cut Healthcare benefits for the US Military

by Bill Gertz    

The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched.

The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges.

The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention.

The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon’s $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017.

Many in Congress are opposing the proposed changes, which would require the passage of new legislation before being put in place.

“We shouldn’t ask our military to pay our bills when we aren’t willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population,” Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “We can’t keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more.”

Administration officials told Congress that one goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees to reduce their involvement in Tricare and eventually opt out of the program in favor of alternatives established by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

“When they talked to us, they did mention the option of healthcare exchanges under Obamacare. So it’s in their mind,” said a congressional aide involved in the issue.

Military personnel from several of the armed services voiced their opposition to a means-tested tier system for Tricare, prompting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey to issue a statement Feb. 21.

Dempsey said the military is making tough choices in cutting defense spending. In addition to the $487 billion over 10 years, the Pentagon is facing automatic cuts that could push the total reductions to $1 trillion.

“I want those of you who serve and who have served to know that we’ve heard your concerns, in particular your concern about the tiered enrollment fee structure for Tricare in retirement,” Dempsey said. “You have our commitment that we will continue to review our health care system to make it as responsive, as affordable, and as equitable as possible.”

Under the new plan, the Pentagon would get the bulk of its savings by targeting under-65 and Medicare-eligible military retirees through a tiered increase in annual Tricare premiums that will be based on yearly retirement pay.

Significantly, the plan calls for increases between 30 percent to 78 percent in Tricare annual premiums for the first year. After that, the plan will impose five-year increases ranging from 94 percent to 345 percent—more than 3 times current levels.

According to congressional assessments, a retired Army colonel with a family currently paying $460 a year for health care will pay $2,048.

The new plan hits active duty personnel by increasing co-payments for pharmaceuticals and eliminating incentives for using generic drugs.

The changes are worrying some in the Pentagon who fear it will severely impact efforts to recruit and maintain a high-quality all-volunteer military force. Such benefits have been a key tool for recruiting qualified people and keeping them in uniform.

“Would you stay with a car insurance company that raised your premiums by 345 percent in five years? Probably not,” said the congressional aide. “Would anybody accept their taxes being raised 345 percent in five years? Probably not.”

A second congressional aide said the administration’s approach to the cuts shows a double standard that hurts the military.

“We all recognize that we are in a time of austerity,” this aide said. “But defense has made up to this point 50 percent of deficit reduction cuts that we agreed to, but is only 20 percent of the budget.”

The administration is asking troops to get by without the equipment and force levels needed for global missions. “And now they are going to them again and asking them to pay more for their health care when you’ve held the civilian workforce at DoD and across the federal government virtually harmless in all of these cuts. And it just doesn’t seem fair,” the second aide said.

Spokesmen for the Defense Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not respond to requests for comment on the Tricare increases.

The massive increases beginning next year appear timed to avoid upsetting military voters in a presidential election year, critics of the plan say.

Additionally, the critics said leaving civilian workers’ benefits unchanged while hitting the military reflect the administration’s effort to court labor unions, as government unions are the only segment of organized labor that has increased in recent years.

As part of the increased healthcare costs, the Pentagon also will impose an annual fee for a program called Tricare for Life, a new program that all military retirees automatically must join at age 65. Currently, to enroll in Tricare for Life, retirees pay the equivalent of a monthly Medicare premium.

Under the proposed Pentagon plan, retirees will be hit with an additional annual enrollment fee on top of the monthly premium.

Congressional aides said that despite unanimous support among the military chiefs for the current healthcare changes, some senior officials in the Pentagon are opposing the reforms, in particular the tiered system of healthcare.

“It doesn’t matter what the benefit is, whether it’s commissary, PX, or healthcare, or whatever … under the rationale that if you raise your hand and sign up to serve, you earn a base set of benefits, and it should have nothing to do with your rank when you served, and how much you’re making when you retire,” the first aide said.

Military service organizations are opposing the healthcare changes and say the Pentagon is “means-testing” benefits for service personnel as if they were a social program, and not something earned with 20 or more years of military service.

Retired Navy Capt. Kathryn M. Beasley, of the Military Officers Association of America, said the Military Coalition, 32 military service and veterans groups with an estimated 5 million members, is fighting the proposed healthcare increases, specifically the use of mean-testing for cost increases.

“We think it’s absolutely wrong,” Beasley told the Free Beacon. “This is a breach of faith” for both the active duty and retiree communities.

Congressional hearings are set for next month.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars on Feb. 23 called on all military personnel and the veterans’ community to block the healthcare increases.

“There is no military personnel issue more sacrosanct than pay and benefits,” said Richard L. DeNoyer, head of the 2 million-member VFW. “Any proposal that negatively impacts any quality of life program must be defeated, and that’s why the VFW is asking everyone to join the fight and send a united voice to Congress.”

Senior Air Force leaders are expected to be asked about the health care cost increases during a House Armed Services Committee hearing scheduled for Tuesday.

Congress must pass all the proposed changes into law, as last year’s defense authorization bill preemptively limited how much the Pentagon could increase some Tricare fees, while other fees already were limited in law.

Tricare for Life, Tricare Prime, and Tricare Standard increases must be approved, as well as some of the pharmacy fee increases, congressional aides said.

        Current law limits Tricare fee increases to cost of living increases in retirement pay.

NObamaCare

This was forwarded to me, author unknown, but obviously someone who understands Obamacare better than the fools who support it:

Let me get this straight: 

  We've been "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't,

  written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it,

  declared deficit neutral by a CBO that underestimated Social Security and Medicare costs by about 100 trillion dollars, give or take a few trillion,

  passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, but exempts themselves from it,

  gaveled into law by a House Speaker who states we have to pass the damn bill to find out what's in it,

  signed by a President who smokes, 

  supported by a first diet guru with a beam like the backside of a battleship, 

  exclaimed to be a big effin' deal by a VP with a bad plug job, 

  with funding administered by a Treasury Secretary who doesn't pay his taxes, 

  to be overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, 

  and financed by a country that's broke. 

                        What could possibly go wrong?

$940 Billion

That's the newly announced price tag on the Health Care reform bill.

It's supposed to somehow reduce the deficit.


Obummer has whined to Dummycrats that his presidency depends on passing health care reform - this year.

And so, Madame Pelosi has urged the Dummycrats to sacrifce their jobs, if need be, to pass this legislation, which nobody with a working brain cell wants (in its current form).    Let's start with her job.

The POTUS and Congress have forsaken every other issue - the economy, jobs, foreign policy (well, except for Israel which Obummer has pretty much thrown under the Hope'n Change bus), terrorism, and, oh yeah, that pesky war in Afghanistan, in order to concentrate on health care reform.

I guess community organizers aren't good at multi-tasking or organizing a government?

Don't Do It For Teddy

The Dummycrat's new rallying cry is "Do It For Teddy".

This is in reference to passing the god-awful Health Care Reform Bill.

Oh, yeah, voting for something as a memorial to someone regardless of its merit is always such a good idea. NOT.

I learned this lesson years ago during the 1964 presidential election.

My best friend's father said he was voting for the Democratic candidate (LBJ) in memory of the assassinated JFK.

Please note, he was not voting for Lyndon Baines Johnson, he was voting for a Democratic candidate ... no matter who it was.

And perhaps a lot of people felt that way because LBJ was elected and became one of the worst presidents ever. If you think Bush's war (Iraq) was bad, then just Google Vietnam War. That is LBJ's legacy.

Health Care Reform, as it is currently being promoted, is just as big a quagmire with just as far-reaching consequences.