Posted on 12/29/2009 5:06:28 AM PST by Kaslin
New reasons emerge almost daily as to why Obamacare can and must be defeated.
1. The American people oppose Obamacare by almost two to one in the latest CNN poll. Other polls show lopsided opposition to passing either the Senate or House health care bill.
Public opinion is against the bill because of its obscene costs in higher taxes, burdensome debt, anti-freedom mandates, rationing and reduced care for seniors. The American people have awakened to the fact that Obamacare is transformational legislation that will drag us against popular will into European-style socialism.
2. The Democrats' double-counting of Obamacare's financial benefits has been exposed as a colossal lie. Harry Reid told the Senate that his bill strengthens our future by both "cutting our towering national deficit by as much as $1.3 trillion over the next 20 years" AND "strengthening Medicare and extending its life by nearly a decade."
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) refuted that assertion. CBO said the claim that Obamacare would provide these benefits simultaneously "would essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the government's fiscal position."
3. Obamacare is unconstitutional because of its mandate that all individuals must carry "approved" health insurance and all businesses must give health insurance to their employees whether or not the company can afford it. "Universal" coverage will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service with power to punish those who don't have such a plan.
Constitutional lawyers point out that the Commerce Clause does not give Congress the authority to force Americans to buy health insurance as a condition of living in our country because personal health insurance is not "commerce." The CBO wrote that "a mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action"; the Supreme Court has never upheld any requirement that an individual must participate in economic activity.
4. Since the Senate bill imposes sharp limits on health-insurance companies' ability to raise fees or exclude coverage, it likely will force many of them out of business. Obamacare is unconstitutional because it violates the Bill of Rights protections against takings without just compensation and deprivation of property without due process of law.
5. Other Obamacare provisions blatantly legislate racial and other forms of discrimination. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights sent two letters to the president and congressional leaders warning about the obnoxious requirements for racist and sexist quotas.
The Senate bill requires that "priority" for federal grants be given to institutions offering "preferential" admissions to minorities (race, national origin, sex, sexual orientation and religion). Institutions training social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, behavioral pediatricians, psychiatric nurses and counselors will be ineligible for federal grants unless they enroll "individuals and groups from different racial, ethnic, cultural, geographic, religious, linguistic and class backgrounds, and different genders and sexual orientations."
6. Obama's claim that "everybody" will now be covered creates few winners but lots of losers. Universal health insurance will be achieved by forcing young people to pay the additional costs (insurance for the youngest third of the population would rise by 35 percent), and by restricting and rationing care for the elderly.
7. According to Robert Samuelson in The Washington Post, the "wild card is immigration." From 1999 to 2008, 60 percent of the increase in the uninsured occurred among Hispanics, and Obama's refusal to close our borders will make this problem more costly every year.
8. Obamacare gives Medicare bureaucrats the power to ration health care by forcing doctors to prescribe cheaper medical devices and drugs. In the recent case of Hays v. Sebelius, the court ruled that Medicare doesn't have the right to make this rule, but Obamacare takes jurisdiction away from the courts to hear any appeal from decisions of the new Medicare Commission.
The "stick" applied to primary-care doctors is imposing financial penalties if they refer too many patients to specialists. The "carrot" is financial rewards to doctors who give up small practices and consolidate into larger medical groups or become salaried employees of hospitals or other large institutions.
9. The Senate bill contains at least a dozen of what can be described as bribes. Sen. Mary Landrieu received a $300 million increase in Medicaid funding for her state (known as the Second Louisiana Purchase), and a $100 million bribe to Sen. Ben Nelson gives Nebraska a permanent exemption from the costs of Medicaid expansion.
10. The Senate bill even has a four-page section artfully written to enable ACORN to get federal health care grants. This section describes grant recipients as "community and consumer-focused nonprofit groups" having "existing relationships ... with uninsured and underinsured consumers."
Question of the Day-
If Obama had to secretly choose between the health care bill’s passing and a plane load of American lives, would he choose the bill?
Help Phyllis! You almost single-handedly defeated the ERA. Lead us in this new fight too!
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I think we all know the answer to that..... and it ain’t very comforting is it?
I think we all know the answer to that..... and it ain’t very comforting is it?
God bless Phyllis Schlafly....her work is not yet done!
Back in the day, when I was a kid, I couldn’t understand why my dad simply LOVED Phyllis Schlafly. The ERA sounded like such a good idea to a teenager like me. He said, “Honey, you’re gonna have to trust me on this one. She is working for YOU and your future.” I thought Dad was a sandwich short of a picnic.
Fast forward a couple dozen years plus. Good thing that the feminists version of “no-fault divorce” didn’t become the law of the entire land. Because of Phyllis Schlafly, I actually had a “say” in my divorce, preventing me and my son from becoming instantly paupers.
Now I know why she is a heroine of our gal, Ann Coulter. Phyllis Schlafly protected more moms and women in her life than NOW will be able to, even if they exist another hundred years.
This is also the first step in ending Medicare and Social Security as we know it. The government is not representing us and we are being enslaved.
The legislation will go through because it is ordered from on high making which also helps move things towards integration with the EU where laws are not made by elected representatives but by a private committee with the European Parliament only being able to do a little tweaking.
The problem is not the mandated insurance program with its mandated medicine, but that the power that will force this through grew to where it cannot be stopped.
There is no Republic or Constitution. There will be mandated insurance with mandated care because the power structure wants more power and people more indebted, divided, sick, tired,conflicted, and bewildered.
The federal government rules everything and the financial overlords rule them. There is no force to stop them because all they need is the Supreme Court that says the federal government has no limits on power if a dollar is involved because of the commerce clause.
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Has mandatory auto liability insurance even been tested?
It's worth noting that Social Security used to be referred to by politicians as "social insurance". The official name for the program was OASI or "Old Age and Survivors Insurance". But there was during a federal court case in which the plaintiff argued that, because it is insurance, he has the right to cash out. In the government's defense the US attorneys had to respond that Social Security is not any kind of insurance and no one has any sort of equity in it.
...”The Senate bill requires that “priority” for federal grants be given to institutions offering “preferential” admissions to minorities (race, national origin, sex, sexual orientation and religion). Institutions training social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, behavioral pediatricians, psychiatric nurses and counselors will be ineligible for federal grants unless they enroll “individuals and groups from different racial, ethnic, cultural, geographic, religious, linguistic and class backgrounds, and different genders and sexual orientations.”...
This in itself will mean the end of high-performance, quality care in the USA. It means affirmative action policies applied to medical school admissions and promotions, which will inevitably result in lower academic and intellectual achievement and capability of physicians.
#11 - 4th Amendment violation. Gov’t has no business knowing your private medical data, including whether you have insurance.
Well said, poodle.
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It is very sad that a remarkable role model like Phyllis is either unknown to most Americans or mocked by the media because of her views. She is an amazing American. Thanks to liberal PC she will never get the credit she deserves while other women who have accomplished far less are made heroes.
Many have pointed out Phyllis stopped ERA in a time before we even had the web, the blogs, etc. Her organizing skills were ahead of their time. Let us hope she can still get her forces to help defeat this nonsense.
I agree.
She was a one woman wrecking ball and doesn’t get nearly the credit she deserves!
I hope she sees our posts. She’ll get all warm and fuzzy, no doubt.
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Their DC voice mail fills up real fast (on purpose one wonders), their email boxes only hold so much and the server can be brought down. So as an alternative we can use their local offices to do our contacting through.
Check with google your state should have a state chapter of Eagle Forum. Tennessee does. Get on their email list, and also email them stuff you find on FR, I do that for our state Eagle Forum leader, she also tracks the state legislative stuff as well as the national.
Its always in the lefts recipes for disaster, and always results in the same affirmative action mediocrity and malaise.
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