Obama Say I Dare You to Repeal Obamacare

Obama is taunting the GOP to try and repeal Obamacare. The president is arrogant and out of touch with mainstream America. In fact, Obama tells the GOP that they went to voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill, but wasn't paid for. The problem of Obama plight is that Bush was able to sustain it with a strong economy; 57 weeks of economic growth after Sept 11. Also, the tax cuts to business kept the unemployment around 5.7%. Obamacare cost more than the 2 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Obama increased spending during an economic turmoil and started a war in Libya without asking Congress permission. Unemployment is still at 10% (Gallup survey) and inflation is through the roof. So, there is no comparison to the matter.

(CBS NEWS) In what he thought was a private chat with campaign donors Thursday evening, President Obama offered the most revealing behind-the-scenes account to date of his budget negotiations with GOP leaders last week.

CBS Radio News White House correspondent Mark Knoller listened in to an audio feed of Mr. Obama's conversation with donors after other reporters traveling with the president had left the room.

In the candid remarks, Mr. Obama complains of Republican attempts to attach measures to the budget bill which would have effectively killed parts of his hard-won health care reform program.

"I said, 'You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we're stupid?'" recalled the president of his closed-door negotiations on the bill to fund the federal government until September.

Mr. Obama said he told House Speaker John Boehner and members of his staff that he'd spent a year and a half getting the sweeping health care legislation passed -- paying "significant political costs" along the way -- and wouldn't let them undo it in a six-month spending bill.

Mr. Obama bemoaned GOP leaders' attempts to attach a measure to the budget bill which would have cut funding for Planned Parenthood.

"Put it in a separate bill," the president said he told Boehner and his staff. "We'll call it up. And if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don't try to sneak this through."

Universal Healthcare in UK is a Nightmare, Same Too with Obamacare

Obamacare is the same as Universal Healthcare seen throughout Europe and Canada. It is rationed care using "death panels" to determine outcome and cost savings. Therefore, a persons life is inconsequential to the cost effectiveness of a procedure or therapy. It is a bitter truth, but people in America refuse to accept it. Obamacare means death to all seniors citizen because they are not cost effective to tax payers. It means survival of the fittest. The younger you are means a better chance to get treated faster; in order that, they will more productive to society. It means temporary fix with a pill than a permanent solution with a procedure.

(BBC) Surgeons say patients in some parts of England have spent months waiting in pain because of delayed operations or new restrictions on who qualifies for treatment.

In several areas routine surgery was put on hold for months, while in many others new thresholds for hip and knee replacements have been introduced.

The moves are part of the NHS drive to find £20bn efficiency savings by 2015.

The government said performance should be measured by outcomes not numbers.

Surgeons have described the delays faced by patients as "devastating and cruel". Peter Kay, the president of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), says they've become increasingly frustrated that hip and knee replacements are being targeted as a way of finding savings.

"We've started to get reports over the last nine months that access to these services are being restricted. General Practitioners were told not so send as many patients to hospital, maybe to delay referrals until the end of the financial year while perhaps introducing thresholds for surgery."

He says that simply delaying surgery by one means or another does not improve the outcome for patients as their condition can deteriorate.

"The double jeopardy is that patients wait longer in pain, and when they have the operation, the result might not have been as good as it otherwise would have been had they had it early. "

Professor John Appleby, chief economist at the Kings Fund, says it is a mystery why these operations are being targeted for savings. "I find it difficult to understand. Hip operations are quite expensive, but patients get a lot of benefit for that money. This is actually very good value for money indeed."

These delays and restrictions are a response to the financial challenge facing the NHS in England. The scale of it was set out under the last Labour government, but the decisions on how to find those savings are being made now.

The coalition government has stopped performance managing the 18 week waiting time, although it remains a legal right under the NHS constitution.

A Department of Health spokesman said: "When clinicians and patients are making decisions about joint replacement surgery, it is right that other procedures - which could provide better outcomes for patients and provide better value for taxpayers - are also considered.

More senior citizens will die from Obamacare than from any other government action

Democrats sacred cow is Medicare and Social Security because it is the means to control senior citizens. Even though both entitlement programs are going bankrupt, Democrats will do anything to preserve it to protect the senior vote. Even though a special committee designed by Obama recommended to cut benefits and increase the retirement age to keep both entitlement programs solvent, Democrats are putting all the blame on the GOP for entertaining the thought in tinkering with Social Security and Medicare. But let us be honest, Social Security and Medicare aren't the real issue for seniors. It is the death panels and rationed care with Obamacare that really scares seniors. Rush is correct to say that senior citizens will die from Obamacare than from any other government action in this country.


Transcript from the Rush Limbaugh Show relating to the the DNC Chairman Debbie Schultz reaction to Paul Ryan's budget

SCHULTZ: We see a clear attempt for the government to back out of its commitment to seniors. As a result, many seniors in America will be forced into poverty, and worse, some seniors will end up dying because they are forced to put off getting that pain checked out due to huge out-of-pocket costs that will skyrocket for them. This Republican path to poverty is just wrong.

RUSH: Seniors will end up dying. The streets, ladies and gentlemen, will be littered with the corpses of seasoned citizens. This is like the good old days. This is exactly what they used to say. When did I make my GOPAC speech, 1994, 1995? This is hilarious. Back in 1994 the Republicans, of course, took over the House and the budget battle of 1995 is going on, the Democrats were saying the basic same stuff, extremist, gonna kill the elderly, gonna leave 'em dead to die on the streets, and I went to speak to GOPAC, and I opened up, said, "I want to welcome all of my fellow extremists as we sit here and plot the death of American seasoned citizens. And I just want to let you people know, I am taking it seriously. I went out and I bought my mother a brand-new can opener so she'll have no problem opening the dog food." Pat Schroeder goes to the floor of the House and makes a big speech suggesting that this is who they are, this is the Big Kahuna, the Big Kahuna Rush Limbaugh admits that he's gonna get his mother a can opener so she can easily eat the dog food. And then somebody said, "You know, that was a joke." She was profoundly embarrassed. They're just recycling it now.

Let me tell you something. Politico, are you listening? (laughing) More senior citizens will die from Obamacare than from any other government action in this country. More senior citizens will die due to health rationing of Obamacare than anything else that government does in its history, outside, of course, of the Civil War. It is Barack Obama himself conducting an ABC town hall way back, two years ago. Woman shows up and raises her hand, (paraphrasing) "Mr. Obama, I got a question." He says, "You may ask it." "My mother is 98 years old, needs a pacemaker. Her will to live is strong. She's perfectly fine except for the pacemaker. Will you permit --" you know, I'm cringing at that. Here we got a citizen asking the president, "Will you permit my mother to have a pacemaker?" and you know what Obama said? "Well, I don't think we can calculate spirit or will to live. Just give her a pill." So the leader of the regime says, "Give a pill, let 'em die."

There will be health rationing. Senior citizens, Paul Ryan is trying to save them. Paul Ryan is giving them an option to either stay in Medicare or join a pool in the private sector, whichever they can best afford, whatever they want to choose. It's called freedom of choice for their health care. It does not mandate they go before Obamacare death panels. And yet here's Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Republicans are gonna leave senior citizens as corpses in the streets. Some seniors will end up dying because they're forced to put off getting that pain checked out. So seniors are gonna sit around, they're gonna suffer pain, but they're not gonna be able to go to the doctor to get the pain checked out, and the pain's gonna be deadly, bam. There are corpses in the street. What's going to happen with Obamacare, they feel the pain, they go to the doctor, the doctor consults the regime, the regime says, "How old is this woman? Well, screw it, we're not gonna invest in making her well. She's only got five years to live anyway, so to hell with it. Give her a pill." That's what Debbie Wasserman Schultz is for. Here's a continuation of her reaction to Paul Ryan.

SCHULTZ: No longer would Medicare be a guarantee of health insurance coverage. Instead, Medicare would become little more than a discount card. This plan would literally be a death trap for some seniors.

RUSH: All right, so we're back at it, just recycling the whole thing. Republicans and their budget: a death trap for senior citizens. A death trap. (laughing) I'm sorry. I can't avoid laughing at this. Now, I know some of you hear this stuff and you just get livid and you get angry. I used to, too. And some days I still do. You see, I can't imagine people believing this. I know some people are going to. But at some point this stuff's all gonna catch up with them. You can't keep going back to the well. If the dead are gonna be in the streets, they better show up at some point. You're gonna say that a policy is gonna lead to senior citizen corpses in the streets, there had better be some, otherwise you have no credibility.

New CBO Report Claim Repealing Obamacare Would Save $1.4 Trillion

It doesn't take rocket science to figure this no-brainer..............

(American Spectator) — Repealing the new national
health care law would result in gross savings of $1.4 trillion, a new report by the Congressional Budget Office finds.

During the health care debate, Democrats were hard pressed to keep up
with President Obama’s promise that the legislation would cost “around $900 billion.” So they employed the gimmick of delaying the major spending provisions until 2014 to make the legislation appear cheaper within the CBO’s ten-year budget window, then 2010 through 2019. At the time, I calculated that this tactic deferred 98 percent of the spending to the last six years of that period.

Well, now two years have passed, and the CBO’s budget window has shifted to 2012 through 2021 — and volià — the estimate that was $940 billion at the time of passage has suddenly gone up to $1.4 trillion. Keep in mind that this estimate still includes two years (2012 and 2013) prior to full implementation.

Clearly, the actual 10-year cost of the major coverage provisions is going to be even higher — likely something closer to $1.8 trillion.

A new Democratic threat to health care law

We don't need charity from these moderate Democrats. We want them out of office. Their insincere gesture is for political expediency.

Politico) A handful of moderate Senate Democrats are looking for ways to roll back the highly contentious individual mandate — the pillar of President Barack Obama’s health care law — a sign that red-state senators are prepared to assert their independence ahead of the 2012 elections.

They haven’t decided whether to propose legislation, but any effort by moderate Democrats that takes aim at the individual mandate could embarrass Obama and embolden Republicans who are still maneuvering to take down the health care law.

And it’s not just health care. The senators are prepared to break with the White House on a wide range of issues: embracing deeper spending cuts, scaling back business regulations and overhauling environmental rules. The moderates most likely to buck their party include Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jon Tester of Montana — all of whom are up for reelection in 2012 and represent states Obama lost in 2008.

O'Reilly Interviews Obama During the Super Bowl

From the O'Reilly interview, we know that Obama wants President Mubarak out of office immediately, wouldn't mind if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Egypt, didn't get the memo that majority of American don't want Obamacare, and surprised that many American aren't too crazy about the president. In other words, Obama lives in a bubble.

(Washington Post) President Obama sat down with FOX News host Bill O'Reilly on Sunday for a live interview that aired during pre-game coverage of the Super Bowl on local FOX broadcast stations.

The interview, which was preceded by a series advertisement-programming hybrids sponsored by E-Trade and Pizza Hut, showed the "O'Reilly Factor" host and the president sitting in the White House, one-on-one.

O'Reilly started with Egypt, asking the president when embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would leave office.

"Only he knows what he's going to do," Obama said. "Egypt is not going to go back to what it was. The Egyptian people want freedom. They want free and fair elections ... and so what we've said is you've got to start a transition now."

O'Reilly pressed the president to say, if he knew, when Mubarak would leave. "We can say that the time is now for you to start making a change in that country," Obama said.

"He has been a good partner when it comes to the peace with Israel," Obama said, adding that Mubarak was aware of certain U.S. foreign relations plans.

"He knows a lot of bad things about us," O'Reilly said. "So I'm just worried that he might go off the reservation. "

The conversation then turned to the question of the Muslim Brotherhood, a non-secular faction that is currently involved in talks with the Egyptian government. "I think that the Muslim Brotherhood is one faction in Egypt," Obama said. "There are a whole bunch of secular folks in Egypt...educators, civil society in Egypt that want to come forward as well.

"What I want is a representative government in Egypt," Obama said, when pressed as to whether he would want the Muslim Brotherhood becoming the leading political party.

Discussion then turned to the health-care reform law and a recent decision by a Florida court judge to strike down the president's signature reform effort. "I think the judge in Florida was wrong," said Obama, citing 12 other judges who had thrown out suits challenging the law. When O'Reilly said it would go to the Supreme Court, Obama countered that legal challenges still had other levels of the judicial system to go through.

"I'm not prepared to go back to a day when," if you have a pre-existing condition you "can't get help."

O'Reilly then read an editorial from the Wall Street Journal that described the president as being open to a re-distribution of wealth.

"The Wall Street Journal would probably paint you as a pretty left-wing guy," Obama said, when O'Reilly finished reading.

O'Reilly then claimed a majority of Americans disapproved of the health-care law, asking the president for his take. "Actually, I think it's pretty evenly divided, Bill," Obama said.

Obama and O'Reilly continued to spar over the nature of the health-care law, with O'Reilly claiming that many Americans feel that the president was intruding on their freedoms, "I give you credit, you've got a pretty big viewership," Obama said, again countering the claim that a majority of Americans did not support the law.

O'Reilly then asked whether the president was moving towards the political center, joking, "We were set up over there and they moved you a little bit to the center."

"Now, our focus is not on re-fighting the battles of the last two years," Obama said. "I'm the same guy and my practical focus...is how do we out-innovate...out-compete the rest of the world."

Asked about the worst part of the job of being president, Obama joked, "First of all, I got the jacket on on Super Bowl Sunday," later saying that the biggest problem was "being in the bubble."

"Over time you feel like you're not able to have a spontaneous conversation with folks," Obama said.

"I'm a lot grayer, that's for sure," the president continued when O'Reilly said others had told him Obama had changed.

"I think they'd say I'm basically the same guy as when I came in," said the president.

"Can I tell you what they say?" asked O'Reilly, "You're much more guarded."

"There's no doubt that the weight of the office has an impact," said Obama going on to say that the more he was in the job the more he enjoyed it.

"Does it disturb you that so many people hate you?" O'Reilly said.

"The people who dislike you don't know you," said Obama. "The folks who hate you they don't know you. What they hate is whatever funhouse mirror image of you that's out there. So you don't take it personally."

O'Reilly ended by turning back to the night's main event and the question of who would win.

"Once my Bears lost, I don't pick sides," Obama said. O'Reilly then asked if the president cared about the game. Obama said he did and that he wanted "a good game."

"I have to get out of here, because I'll frighten [J. Lo]," O'Reilly said, referring to singer Jennifer Lopez who was attending the White House Super Bowl party.

"I schmooze with everbody once they come," said Obama, insisting that once the game started he would focus and not allow guests to interrupt.

O'Reilly then plugged a longer, taped interview to air Monday.

In 2012 Election, 24 Democrats Seats are up for Re-election that Needs to Be Voted Out

A nice reminder how your vote in last November election was a waste of time. Look at those Incumbent Democrats, who promised to repeal Obamacare, lied to the voters. For instance, look at West Virgina Democrat Senator Manchin. He supported and voted for Obamacare. During his 2010 Senate campaign, he promised to repeal it. The 2012 election is coming next year. There will be 24 Democrat seat up for re-election vs. 10 Republican seats. Don't be an "noob" and let the Democrats lie to you again!

(NewsMax) Here's how your Senator voted on Obamacare repeal:

Alabama: Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Alaska: Begich (D-AK), Nay Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Arizona: Kyl (R-AZ), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea
Arkansas: Boozman (R-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Nay
California: Boxer (D-CA), Nay Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Colorado: Bennet (D-CO), Nay Udall (D-CO), Nay
Connecticut: Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay Lieberman (ID-CT), Not Voting
Delaware: Carper (D-DE), Nay Coons (D-DE), Nay
Florida: Nelson (D-FL), Nay Rubio (R-FL), Yea
Georgia: Chambliss (R-GA), Yea Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Nay Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Idaho: Crapo (R-ID), Yea Risch (R-ID), Yea
Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Nay Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Indiana: Coats (R-IN), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Iowa: Grassley (R-IA), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Kansas: Moran (R-KS), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Kentucky: McConnell (R-KY), Yea Paul (R-KY), Yea
Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Nay Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Maine: Collins (R-ME), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Maryland: Cardin (D-MD), Nay Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
Massachusetts: Brown (R-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Nay Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Minnesota: Franken (D-MN), Nay Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Mississippi: Cochran (R-MS), Yea Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Missouri: Blunt (R-MO), Yea McCaskill (D-MO), Nay
Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Nay Tester (D-MT), Nay
Nebraska: Johanns (R-NE), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Nay
Nevada: Ensign (R-NV), Yea Reid (D-NV), Nay
New Hampshire: Ayotte (R-NH), Yea Shaheen (D-NH), Nay
New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Nay Udall (D-NM), Nay
New York: Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Nay
North Carolina: Burr (R-NC), Yea Hagan (D-NC), Nay
North Dakota: Conrad (D-ND), Nay Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Ohio: Brown (D-OH), Nay Portman (R-OH), Yea
Oklahoma: Coburn (R-OK), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Oregon: Merkley (D-OR), Nay Wyden (D-OR), Nay
Pennsylvania: Casey (D-PA), Nay Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Rhode Island: Reed (D-RI), Nay Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
South Carolina: DeMint (R-SC), Yea Graham (R-SC), Yea
South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Nay Thune (R-SD), Yea
Tennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Yea Corker (R-TN), Yea
Texas: Cornyn (R-TX), Yea Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Utah: Hatch (R-UT), Yea Lee (R-UT), Yea
Vermont: Leahy (D-VT), Nay Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Virginia: Warner (D-VA), Not Voting Webb (D-VA), Nay
Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Nay Murray (D-WA), Nay
West Virginia: Manchin (D-WV), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay
Wisconsin: Johnson (R-WI), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Wyoming: Barrasso (R-WY), Yea Enzi (R-WY), Yea

Senate repeals part of health care law

GOP plan is to dismantle each provision of Obamacare one by one....

(Politico) The Senate voted Wednesday for the first time to repeal a piece of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rolling back a new tax reporting requirement that’s been universally panned by business owners.

The amendment to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement passed 81-17 with broad bipartisan support.

The provision would have required business owners to file 1099 tax documents on all cumulative purchases from a single vendor that total more than $600 in a year.

It was included in the health law because it would have raised about $17 billion in previously uncollected taxes. A bipartisan collection of business groups have opposed the provision, arguing that it would bury them in paperwork.

The repeal would be paid for by requiring the Office of Management and Budget to find the funding in unspent but appropriated funds.

Obamacare Repeal Failed in Senate But There is Still Hope

The fight is not over......

(The Hill) The Senate on Wednesday voted down a repeal of President Obama’s healthcare law in a 47-51 party-line vote.

The vote came two weeks to the day the Republican House voted 245-189 to repeal the law, and just days after a federal judge ruled Obama’s signature legislative achievement is unconstitutional.

Republicans have vowed to carry the fight forward, saying they will seek to de-fund the law as it is implemented. The GOP also has promised Wednesday’s repeal vote will not be the last in this Congress.

Democrat Comparing Republicans as Nazi is Getting Old

It really sucks to be the Minority. Democrats shove a bunch of worthless legislations down our throat and they call Republicans Nazis. Well, look who is calling the kettle black. If Democrats what to play, they need to go to the back of the bus! It's the GOP turn to play hard ball. The GOP were voted to overturn all of Obama's bad policies. This is the first step of many paybacks the GOP has in store for Democrats.

(ABC News) In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and compared rhetoric on the issue to the work of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels

Cohen says,“They say it's a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels ... You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That's the same kind of thing."

In addition, Cohen also said, “The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it--believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover."

The Tea Party Movement Took the House and Repealed Obamacare

The new Tea Party Members of the House of Representatives took the 112th Congress and repealed Obamacare as promised!

(Politico) House Republicans passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care plan Wednesday, taking their first major step toward rolling back the massive overhaul that has dominated the American political landscape for almost two years.

The vote was 245 to 189, and unanimous GOP support gave the vote the same partisan feel of the March vote to pass the law, underscoring once again the hardened political lines of the health care debate. Only three Democrats backed the repeal, a smaller number than Republicans had once predicted.

Great Achievement in Liberal History

I thought a little humor today would be nice. Enjoy.

Blue Shield of California readies 59% increase in rates. Blames Obamacare

Obama say that his health care plan will reduce the deficit. Obama said we can keep our own health insurance and doctor. BULL!! Obama is destroying our present healthcare system in order to promote his government option plan. Insurance premium will rise, many insurance companies will fold, and good doctors are leaving or limiting their practice. These are the attributes of Obamacare.

(LA TIMES) Another one of California’s largest health insurers has stunned individual policyholders with news of huge rate increases -- this time it’s Blue Shield of California seeking hikes of as much as 59% for tens of thousands of customers March 1.

Blue Shield’s plan comes less than a year after Anthem Blue Cross tried and failed to raise rates as much as 39% for about 700,000 California customers.

San Francisco-based Blue Shield said the increases were the result of fast-rising healthcare costs and other expenses resulting from the new healthcare laws passed last year.

Blue Shield said the cost of health coverage is being driven up by large hospital expenses, doctors' changes and prescription drug prices. Blue Shield spokesman Tom Epstein said other factors also contributed to three increases in five months.

On Oct. 1, he said, Blue Shield imposed increases averaging 18%, and reaching as high as 29%. Those hikes had been delayed for three months while state regulators examined Blue Shield’s filing, costing the company tens of millions of dollars.

Epstein said Blue Shield raised rates again Jan. 1 to pay for reforms under the national healthcare overhaul and a new state law that bars insurers from charging women more than men. (Some policyholders will pay less under the state gender law, while others will pay more.)

A third round of hikes scheduled for March 1 comes in response to rising healthcare costs, he said. Those increases will average 6.5% and be as high as 18%.

Boehner fires back at Dem senators with vow to push forward with repeal

Boehner reminds me of a Teddy Roosevelt motto, "Speak softly, but carry a big stick." It is good to know that Boehner won't take any flack from these Democrats!

(The Hill) Boehner's office responded to a letter sent by the Senate's top five Democrats, vowing to block a House bill repealing healthcare reform, with a terse, 65-word note.

Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer, Murray and Stabenow:

Thank you for reminding us – and the American people – of the backroom deal that you struck behind closed doors with ‘Big Pharma,’ resulting in bigger profits for the drug companies, and higher prescription drug costs for 33 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D, at a cost to the taxpayers of $42.6 billion.

The House is going to pass legislation to repeal that now. You’re welcome.

- Speaker-Designate John Boehner’s Press Office

The note comes in response to a letter released on Monday by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) office, in which the Democrats promise to block a bill repealing benefits within the healthcare law.

Obama Quietly Put Death Panel Back into Obamacare

Knowing Obamacare cannot survive without Death Panels, Obama was able to sneak in Death Panels back into Obamacare through new Medicare regulations.

(NY Times)- When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.

Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.

Congressional supporters of the new policy, though pleased, have kept quiet. They fear provoking another furor like the one in 2009 when Republicans seized on the idea of end-of-life counseling to argue that the Democrats’ bill would allow the government to cut off care for the critically ill.

While the new law does not mention advance care planning, the Obama administration has been able to achieve its policy goal through the regulation-writing process, a strategy that could become more prevalent in the next two years as the president deals with a strengthened Republican opposition in Congress.

Associaled Press Top Ten News for 2010

Not the finest year for Obama. In fact, there are many that didn't make on the top 1ten list. Let not forget Arizona's enactment of a tough law against illegal immigration, Greece going bankrupt, a Supreme Court decision to suspend campaign finance, the great flood in Tennessee that wasn't reported, and the volcanic eruption in Iceland that caused trans-Atlantic air travel chaos. I wonder what 2011 will bring?

Here are 2010's top 10 stories, in order:

_GULF OIL DISASTER: The April 20 explosion at a BP-leased rig killed 11 workers and unleashed a deep-sea spill that ultimately spewed at least 170 million gallons of crude into the Gulf. Consequences included devastation for fishing and tourism industries, a huge and costly cleanup effort, a management change at BP, and creation of a $20 billion fund to pay for damages.

_HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL: After bitter political wrangling, President Barack Obama was able to sign into law one of his major campaign promises — a $1 trillion health care overhaul intended to expand coverage to more Americans. But Republicans used public misgivings about parts of the plan as a springboard for election gains, and the overhaul faced a welter of lawsuits challenging its constitutionality.

_US ELECTIONS: President Obama called it a "shellacking" — an election in which the Republicans surged to a majority in the House of Representatives, and gained more governor's offices and legislative majorities. The Democrats were able to hang on to their edge in the Senate, leaving the U.S. with at least two years of divided government.

_US ECONOMY: Economists said the deepest recession since the Great Depression was over, and consumers began to spend more as the year neared a close. But the unemployment rate stayed well above 9 percent, and home prices were weighed down by foreclosures and sluggish demand.

_HAITI EARTHQUAKE: Already the Western Hemisphere's most destitute nation, Haiti was shattered by an earthquake on Jan. 12 that killed at least 230,000 and left millions homeless. Crucial reconstruction projects were slow to get started; disease and political instability added to the woes.

_TEA PARTY MOVEMENT: Though it lacked the trappings of traditional political organizations, the tea party movement had a profound impact on the 2010 election, influencing the stances of Republican leaders and enabling some maverick challengers to oust GOP establishment candidates in the primaries.

_CHILE MINE RESCUE: In a year of disasters and squabbles, this was a miraculous feel-good story. Trapped nearly a half-mile underground for 69 days after an Aug. 5 mine collapse, 33 Chilean miners were freed one-by-one while an entranced global audience watched on television.

_IRAQ: U.S. forces formally ended their combat role and looked ahead to planned withdrawal, while Iraqis endured months of bitter political haggling after an election that failed to heal Sunni-Shiite divisions.

_WIKILEAKS: First came the online postings of a huge batch of U.S. military documents from Iraq and Afghanistan, Then WikiLeaks started releasing a cache of classified State Department diplomatic cables, creating embarrassment for Washington in its dealings with other nations.

_AFGHANISTAN: After months of deliberation, President Obama ordered a troop surge in a major bid to turn the tide of the nearly 10-year-old war. Intense fighting pushed the Taliban out of some longtime strongholds, but the militants remained resilient, and Afghanistan remained beset by corruption and ineffectual government.

OBAMACARE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

This one paragraph says it all. Obamacare is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!

(Bloomberg)The Obama administration’s requirement that most citizens maintain minimum health coverage as part of a broad overhaul of the industry is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled, striking down the linchpin of the plan.

Obama Promise We Can Keep Our Own Doctors But Didnt Tell that to the Doctors

There will be a national shortage of doctors in America. Obamacare will force many doctors to close their practice or severely restrict accepting certain patients. With the high cost of medical education, new medical graduates often worry how they will repay back the college loan and to make a living under Obamacare. Overall, it is extremely important to abolish this heinous bill!

(New York Post) For all the times that President Obama promised "you'll get to keep your doctor" under his health-care reforms, he apparently failed to ask any practicing doctors.

A recent survey finds that countless MDs will respond to ObamaCare by limiting which patients they'll see.

The Physicians Foundation asked 2,400 doctors and American Medical Association members what they thought of the new law; a full 67 percent were against it.

More important, it asked how they'd cope with the new rules (which don't fully kick in until 2014). Sixty percent said they feel compelled to "close or significantly restrict their practices to certain categories of patients." And 59 percent said the "reform" would oblige them to spend less time with the patients they do have.

Of course, many doctors already limit how many patients they'll take on who depend on government insurance (whose fees rarely cover an MD's costs). But it'll get worse under ObamaCare: In the survey, some 87 percent said they would significantly restrict Medicare patients and 93 percent said they'd significantly restrict Medicaid patients.

All in all, the survey found that 74 percent of doctors will alter how they practice.

Next Tea Party Target: Corporate America

Let's get the record straight. The American public got duped in believing the narrative from the Mainstream Media that corporations (big business) support Republicans. This assumption is a big time fallacy. In reality, Obama and many of his Democrat minions are under the payroll of big business. This relationship pushing a radical progressive agenda is destroying the freedom and liberty of all Americans.

(US News.com) Starting next year, the huge Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks will urge supporters to punish huge corporations like General Electric and Johnson and Johnson for backing President Obama's progressive agenda.

In an exclusive review for Whispers of their plan, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe says: "Tea Party activists are willing to tackle progressive CEOs just as they tackled progressive politicians. Judging by the results of the midterm elections, progressive CEOs should buckle up, because Tea Party activists are going to give them a very bumpy ride."

Obama Forces 700,000 Seniors Out of Medical Coverage

Obama laughs at 700 thousand more seniors. President Barack Obama is a bald faced liar and senior citizens will die thanks to this duplicitous Chicago politician.

Obama said while trying to pass his government takeover of your health care that you would be able to keep your doctor and health care plan. Like Jon Lovitz of Saturday Night Live, he lied and he knew it.

Last year we heard it over and over, I'm talking of course about President Obama's promise that if you like your plan you can keep it. Well forget it. Today it was discovered that another 700,000 Seniors will have to change plans, because health insurers are shutting down certain types of plans because of legislative changes and looming cuts to federal funding. That is on top of the announcement in August that three million seniors would have to get new providers.

Cigna Corp., Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, several Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and others aren't renewing hundreds of Medicare Advantage plans, which are Medicare policies administered by private insurers. The moves will displace some 700,000 beneficiaries who must find new policies, according to Humana Inc., a large seller of Advantage plans.

For 2011, the Kaiser Family Foundation said there will be a 13% decline in the number of Medicare Advantage plans. "

He lied about the Death Panels--there are two.

He lied about his takeover of your health care would bring down costs. "The pullback is largely due to a 2008 law that required the plans to have networks of preferred doctors, with the idea that managed care could be less costly and aggressive marketing could be curbed. Some providers of traditional fee-for-service policies decided to close the plans rather than invest in networks. But some insurers say the federal health-care overhaul, which includes $140 billion in cuts to reimbursements for Advantage plans over 10 years, is a factor as well.

Insurers are also saying as the market tightens up more plans will close and prices will go up."

Why would you expect to have costs go down if you cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare and add 32 million people to be served. Oh, all of this without adding a single doctor and lowering reimbursement fee for hospitals and doctors.

Thanks to the hack from Chicago, not only is our economy tanking, the value of our dollar going down 20%, but our very health is now in trouble. About 735 days to regime change--this is no longer about politics; it is about saving your life.