How to BLOCK OBAMACARE in Your State

Reaganite Republican ^ | 05 January 2013 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Here in the darkest days -so far- of the nightmarish Obama era, it seems the monstrous statist power-and-tax-grab known as 'Obamacare' is here to stay... or is it?

Judge Roberts might have sold us down the river, but there's still plenty of fight left in conservatives. And it's not just us right-wingers-clingers either: fact is, Dear Leader's unwanted and unloved quasi-nationalization of the US healthcare industry has never enjoyed majority public support in this country- same as the day they rammed it through. At least half the electorate still wants it repealed.

We all know we're being screwed here, yet Americans aren't the type to lay back and learn to enjoy it: with states' rights as a last line-of-defense remaining in the Obamacare battle, the healthcare scheme needs the (voluntary) establishment of state-operated insurance exchanges to work. Alas, only 15 states have said they're willing to do so, and without them, this dog won't hunt. 

The widespread state-level resistance seems have caught the White House by surprise, so why not twist the knife in your own state- and help finish off this big, dumb Frankenstein?

A new site -BlockExchanges.com- aims to consolidate efforts to keep Obamacare exchanges from being established in each of our states, which in turn would force Congress to either re-write or repeal the entire law...

So, what are health care exchanges, and why are we so concerned about stopping them? 

Exchanges are the bureaucratic mechanism for enacting ObamaCare in the states, an online marketplace where individuals must shop for their government-approved insurance plan. They are also the clearinghouse through which the government will distribute the premium subsidies to help people purchase their regulated insurance. The exchanges are also required to collect the data that allows the government to enforce the “employer mandate”, the penalty employers must pay if they do not insure their employees. 

But most importantly, the health care exchanges are voluntary to the states, and without them ObamaCare cannot function. 

This is because of a flaw in the bill itself, the “Affordable Care Act”, which only authorizes a state-created exchange to distribute the subsidies. Without the subsidies, there is no incentive to participate in ObamaCare at all. 

This leaves states with the critical option – do they participate in ObamaCare and subject their residents to the massive cost increases and government control of their health care, or do they opt out and force the government to reopen the health care law? 

The answer should be clear – if enough states opt out of the exchanges, we still have the chance to dismantle ObamaCare. The states should stand their ground, and for the federal government to deal with the mess they have created...

They've got an 'Action Map' over there where you can find the current status of exchange implementation in your state,
check it out and do what you need to do- this could be big.

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[Jacquerie]

Rather than give my email to a third party, I sent a separate email to Governor Rick Scott in FL.

Thanks for the encouragement. The States can throw lots of sand into the gears of Obamacare.

[napscoordinator]

If states would stop taking welfare money from the Federal Government then MAYBE they will be able to resist Obamacare, but since they are in love with money and freebies from the federal government as much as a welfare queen, they will implement Obamacare. The way they are going to implement it is by combining it with medicaid and other freebies so that the states have no choice. Our chance of getting rid of Obamacare is mostly gone. Our federal government has destroyed states rights by showing the states the almighty dollar.

[imardmd1]

Thanks for the encouragement. The States can throw lots of sand into the gears of Obamacare.

Harping on the necessarily concomitant "death panels" ought to help fit Obamacure with cement boots.

[Jacquerie]

When Obama’s medical star chamber/death panel of unidentified ghouls start knocking us off, it will do wonders for the T-Shirt industry.

“Obamacare murdered my _____ “
“Who's Next?”

[shoff]

Though it’s too late in New York you might find it interesting how New York’s health exchange was formed. It was called a co-op at the time.

Health insurance companies to abandon New York?

With the start of ‘Free” mandates like birth control on New York Health Insurance companies and pending regulations under Obamacare will they end up bankrupt? Will they be one more causality of failed economic policies like Circuit City, Woolworths, Readers Digest, Blockbuster, and Boarders books that Obama can add to his list of accomplishments?

Well not to worry Obama has our backs on this one. Just six months into his presidency and nine months before the Democrats made Obamacare law he was meeting with his supporters. The purpose was to divvy up the windfall he expected from the Healthcare mandates.

The plan formulated was to create Healthcare Co-Ops to replace the taxpaying profit driven insurance companies he expected to be shovel ready soon after Obamacare was implemented. This in spite of his failures to pick winners in green energy and as Keiser Health stated most health insurers launched under the federal government over 40 years have gone bust and even Obama’s cabinet expects a 40% failure rate. So who has he picked to entrust the healthcare insurance of the millions in New York State? Someone you probably never heard of, Sara Horowitz. So who is she and what are her qualifications?

Sara Horowitz has the right stock for almost any Obama fleecing scheme. Her grandfather was vice president of the International Ladies Garment Workers and her father a lawyer for the same. Like most garment workers daughters she received degrees from Cornell and Harvard specializing in law. Despite this handicap she managed to start her own union for Freelancers called the Portable Benefits Network to collect dues and offer health insurance to freelance workers. Sort of a union without any representation in any company or any say in wages or benefits.. As per Open secrets she contributed a mere $500 to Obama in September 2008. She could see her fortunes looking up and changed the name to Freelance Insurance Company. By June of 2009 she was meeting with Obama in the White House. Seeing the way to untold tax dollars her Freelancers PAC gave $2,000 to Democratic candidates in 2010. At the same time her trolling for Health care dollars lobbying firm was inoculated with $150,000. The end result of these investments was a $341 million dollar subsidy at zero or one percent interest to start a Co-Op in New York.

Obama who is not at fault for the poor economy, high gas prices and credit down grade has New York covered. He selected a faithful union lawyer, and a Democratic contributor with no medical experience to “invest” 341 million to see if she can run a nonprofit, non taxpaying Co-Op for the rest of us. It probably should be noted that when the freelancers union changed health plans before it was a fiasco and her union only has 25,000 members. Her union can rightly claim that the rates they charge are lower than other plans but they do not insure anyone over 65 years old. Could this be a harbinger of the New York Co-Op? Keeping costs down by not insuring shovel ready clients?

It is good to see that the Obama administration has our best interest at heart and will not let us down if those greedy insurance companies abandon us ahead of impending mandates according to plan.

[Clump]

Pfl

[G Larry]

OH and AZ just caved.

Time for a new line in the sand.

[Graewoulf]

GREAT Thread! Thanks!

[Lou L]

Our federal government has destroyed states rights by showing the states the almighty dollar.

Indiana was one state to recognize that there's a limited supply of federal dollars, and that to accept them initially for such an exchange, would mean that state taxpayers would be paying for them years and years afterward.

[Reaganite Republican]

Well, in OH Kasich only caved on the Medicare expansion, no?

That’s not the Obamacare exchange, it’s another issue

[Reaganite Republican]

Thank you kindly, my FRiend