Posted on 08/08/2011 5:10:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Who can forget that rare moment of honesty during the campaign to pass Obamacare when Nancy Pelosi said “We have to pass the bill in order for you to find out what’s in it”?
Now we have it and almost daily there are new revelations about the staggering extent to which our private lives and individual freedoms have been stomped on.
We learn now that free birth control in the form of contraceptives, morning after pills, and sterilization is part of the grand Obamacare socialist dream-come-true.
The health insurance that Obamacare mandates that all employers provide and that all citizens acquire must pay 100 percent for these birth control products and services, with no deductible or co-pays. Birth control gets more preferential treatment than cancer or heart disease.
Liberals say government should be kept out of your bedroom. What they mean by this is that it shouldn’t interfere with what you do there, not that it shouldn’t force taxpayers to pay for it.
The provision mandating “preventive services” for women was grafted onto the thousand plus page bill, as it passed through the Senate, by Maryland Democrat Barbara Mikulski.
After Obamacare became law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius farmed out this general directive to the Institute of Medicine to determine what such “preventive services” should be.
This is cast as an arms length objective procedure. But in Washington, nothing is objective. There are only interests.
The Institute of Medicine’s website says it’s “an independent non-profit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public.”
But this “independent” organization gets 55 percent of its funding from the federal government. And it also gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry.
So, after months of lobbying by Planned Parenthood, financed in part by the $300 million dollars it gets each year from us taxpayers, the Institute of Medicine offered its “unbiased” recommendations that “preventive services” for women include birth control pills and morning after pills.
Obamacare is a masterpiece in its achievement of leaving no corner of our personal freedoms unviolated. It hijacks our pocketbook, our autonomy of action, and our conscience.
The result is to leave us economically and morally impoverished.
A tiny and narrow exemption is carved out so that non-profits with a defined religious mission, whose employees and target audience shares those same values, are not forced to provide insurance that includes free birth control services.
Liberals are committed to religious freedom as long as those religious values do not conflict with their liberal values. Which, practically, means all religion.
Meanwhile, what we have is another in a vast universe of mandated new health care entitlements that is Obamacare. It is the convoluted logic of the liberal mind to use government power to mandate and subsidize free goodies, to sever all links between individual behavior and its consequences, and then claim this will lead to lower costs and more efficiency.
It is no wonder that the financial markets have been tanking since the passage of the debt ceiling bill. That bill simply slaps a band-aid on a fiscal rupture that will start gushing red ink as soon as Obamacare kicks in full tilt in 2014.
The perverse truth is that Obamacare, sold by our president and congressional Democrats as fiscally responsible, is exactly the opposite.
The Congressional Budget Office forecasts huge deficits and growing debt, double what they are today, driven primarily by health care spending, fueled by Obamacare mandated entitlements.
Michele Bachmann was onto something by demanding repeal of Obamacare as a condition for increasing the debt limit.
Americans need to sober up. The challenges facing us are formidable.
Repeal of Obamacare is on a growing and most challenging list of things to do.
The whole worlds financial markets are falling today, and one can actually blame Obama and his failed ideology on it all.
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Obviously the author does not watch MSNBC Liberal Maddow. She taught me that ‘the government staying out of her bedroom’ means us being taxed to pay for others (women I don't know) birth control. Although Maddow probably has no use for birth control being a self proclaimed lesbian.
When you object to paying for others birth control, you are asking government to enter their bedroom. Such is the liberal education lecture on MSNBC.
Do away with all tax-exempt so-called “nonprofits” unless they feed, clothe or house humans. Unless they do that they receive no tax break. No nonprofits should receive a penny of government grant money on top of that!~
Who watches that lunatic Rachel Maddows? Other lunatics
And why would such an inexperienced individual want to take this on?? Gotta be that he was promised great rewards by Soros. O does not even like the real part of working, just the perks. They would not be that important to me, nor to most of us.
Hillarycare/Obamacare/Socialistcare/Totalitariancare. FORCED on “free” people. Terminate totalitarian mandates.
Thanks very much for posting, Kaslin.
OUTSTANDING article by Star Parker! HOORAY Star Parker!
She's good
Obama doesn’t believe in personal liberty.
Hey that's not nice :) I would put it :”Who actually believes Maddow...?”
At 9pm it's Maddow or Hannity, well Hannity just reads the script someone hands him and has his 3-4 member panel of all Republicans all agreeing with him, pretty boring. Maddow lectures of the ‘obvious’ benefits of Marxism and Homosexuality is way more entertaining and occasionally gives me post material.
Wow I didn't know Bob Beckel, who is just about on every Hannity panel is a republican. I learn something new every day. You obviously don't watch his show. Go ahead and stick with Rachel Maddows
Yes, she is. I've read many of her articles, but THIS is by far the best article I have ever read from her. THIS is GRRRRRRRREAT!
Obamacare is a masterpiece in its achievement of leaving no corner of our personal freedoms unviolated. It hijacks our pocketbook, our autonomy of action, and our conscience.
The result is to leave us economically and morally impoverished.
...use government power to mandate and subsidize free goodies, to sever all links between individual behavior and its consequences...
Americans need to sober up. The challenges facing us are formidable.
Repeal of Obamacare is on a growing and most challenging list of things to do.
Pro-life bump
btt
I never thought I’d hear myself say this but I honestly don’t know if there’s much point in including the “liberal perspective” in these shows.
Whether it’s Alan Colmes, Bob Beckel, or Juan Williams, etc., they all take the same monotonous, rote recitation—some more obnoxious than others:
Bush did it
millionaires and billionaires
(repeat “millionaires and billionaires” three times)
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
corporate jet-owners
Big Oil
leaven occasionally with bogus statistics
Lather, rinse, repeat.
When it comes to Juan, I get downright embarrassed watching him—the man who wrote “Eyes on the Prize” for God’s sake—make the same juvenile talking points mindlessly over and over again, with nothing to add.
It has become downright boring listening to libs blather on. They cannot do a decent job defending this administration. Maddow’s one trick is to project self-satisfied, confident smugness no matter what and tell whoppers with a straight face. Come to think of it, that’s Pelosi and Obama’s one talent as well.
Blaming Bush is so old news. At MSNBC
Out :”It is all Bush’s fault”
IN :”It is all The Tea parties fault”
It’s never his fault, or the rats fault
Bullseye, as she promotes Marxism and Homosexuality as well known established and obvious 'gems' to our civilization, and all Republicans are racists terrified of non-whites, and they hate women too. That's Mad-cow.
Over at FNC I love Cavuto's show the best, but Hannity is such a robot he is like a liberal parody of Republicans.
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