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13. January 2010 by admin.
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13. January 2010 by admin.
1-13-10 ObamaCare- a web report- the status of obamacare on the blogosphere
THE depth of Obamacare’s problems is illustrated by this week’s visit to the White House by one of the administration’s biggest supporters — Big Labor — which is unhappy with a proposed excise tax on expensive or “Cadillac” health insurance plans to help pay for the $900 billion program.
Because of our efforts, insurers are now required to cover reconstructive surgery for children with deformities.
Is that what Democratic candidates will say on the stump in 2010? After spending a year explaining the disaster of American health care and pushing for change, they can tout, short-term, only symbolic regulations of the insurance industry - regulations, incidentally, that already exist in many states.
Both Politico and local ABC affiliate WISN bury the lede a bit in their coverage of a town-hall meeting conducted by Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) in Milwaukee. It’s understandable, as the controversy over racially-charged comments by Harry Reid are leading the political news these days. More significant, though, is the fact that Democrats are still facing town-hall fury over ObamaCare — even presumably safe Democrats like Feingold.
Dr. Lee Hieb, “AMA Doesn’t Speak for Most Doctors” was so strikingly analogous to the plight so recently published by my columns along with others who have taken up the cudgel for our senior citizens in their case against the American Association of Retired Persons…
What the AMA is doing and has done to many of its doctor members (many of whom have also done as AARP members have, by resigning) the AARP has done to its many long-time members. And basically, that is to give them the shaft in favor of drawing favor (and obscene wealth) with the U. S. Government…
http://blogsforvictory.com/2010/01/12/poll-57-have-obamacare-completely-figured-out/
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 17% believe passage of the legislation will achieve the stated goal of reducing health care costs. Fifty-seven percent (57%) think it will lead to higher costs.
Fifty-two percent (52%) also believe passage of the legislation will lead to a decline in the quality of care.
ObamaCare Deathwatch
http://seldomwrong.blogspot.com/2010/01/obamacare-deathwatch.html
Democratic Brahman Charles Rangel says that the nonconference noncommittee deliberations to arrive at a final healthcare revolution are in serious trouble, so expect no bill until February.
By February, this issue will be frozen to death. History, it seems, is calling differently than some understood it to be calling.
ObamaCare and the Commerce Clause
http://reason.com/blog/2010/01/11/obamacare-and-the-commerce-cla
The Wall Street Journal’s Jess Bravin reports on some of the potential constitutional problems with ObamaCare:
Since the New Deal era, the Supreme Court has broadly interpreted congressional authority under the Commerce Clause. Congress has successfully invoked that power to limit the amount of wheat farmers can grow, ban racial discrimination at restaurants and prosecute medical patients for raising marijuana to alleviate their symptoms.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/01/12/amishcare-trumps-obamacare/
If you oppose government-mandated healthcare, there is a way you can opt-out: Become Amish.
Federal health care reform will require most Northern New Yorkers — but not all, it turns out — to carry health insurance or risk a fine.
Hundreds of Amish families in the region are likely to be free from that requirement.
The Amish, as well as some other religious sects, are covered by a “religious conscience” exemption, which allows people with religious objections to insurance to opt out of the mandate. It is in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, making its appearance in the final version routine unless there are last-minute objections.
Are Republican Opponents Of ObamaCare “Traitors”?
http://soundpolitics.com/archives/013652.htmlThat was the argument Seattle talk show host Dave Ross made near the end of his program on December 24th……It was not entirely clear why Ross thought that Republicans who oppose ObamaCare are “traitors”, nor did he say whether he thought the large minority of Democrats who also oppose ObamaCare are also “traitors”. As I understood him — and he didn’t make a very coherent argument — Republicans who oppose ObamaCare are traitors because the plan had so many features that would be wonderful for the country.
ObamaCare Penalizes Marriage
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/obamacare-penalizes-marriage/
Hidden in President Obama’s health care bill is a huge marriage penalty. Both the Senate and House bills would set up yet another federal program to provide financial incentives to subsidize marriage avoidance and illegitimate offspring.
Even though all evidence shows that marriage is the best remedy for poverty, lack of health care, domestic violence, child abuse and school dropouts, federal welfare programs continue to discriminate against marriage and instead give taxpayer handouts to those who reject marriage.
Wait Till the ObamaCare “Selling” Starts
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/216351
Juan Williams says of ObamaCare, which contains, at least in the Senate version, the Cadillac tax on generous benefits that’s likely to smack many union workers, who certainly aren’t rich:
I think it passes, and, it’s interesting, the Democrats are the ones at this point who can stop it, and this kind of discussion doesn’t help. And the question is do the unions get so mad at President Obama and say you didn’t live up to the promises you made to us on the campaign trail. You said this would help the working man, and in fact, this may in a very obvious way penalize working people in the country.
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