Posted on 03/28/2012 4:41:54 PM PDT by mykroar
This week, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court have been listening to oral arguments about the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
According to polls, 56% of Americans favor repealing the health care reform law. Then again, a decision on fundamental rights and constitutionality should not be a popularity contest. What’s more, according another poll, 1 in 7 Americans believes the Supreme Court has already repealed the Affordable Care Act. So much for polling.
How’s about, instead, we look at some facts:
1. Millions of Americans have already benefited from ObamaCare
In 2011, an estimated 86 million Americans used provisions in the Affordable Care Act to get preventative care through their insurance plans, care that insurance companies previously subjected to co-pays or deductibles but now must provide for free. Over 2.5 million seniors have saved an estimated $1.5 billion thanks to prescription drug discounts included in health care reform.
At least 2.5 million young people now can stay on their parents’ health insurance until age 26. And 4 million small businesses can now claim a tax deduction for providing health insurance to their employees, which so far over a quarter-million small businesses have claimed, providing insurance for 2 million workers.
2. The law won’t fully take effect until 2014
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/28/5-reasons-obamacare-is-already-good-for/#ixzz1qSQAFUZh
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#2 - it already good because it hasn't taken effect yet (that might actually make sense, because once it does it won't be).
#5 - something had to be done. Fine, but that doesn't mean anything and everything - Constitution be damned. {As an aside, I've seen the libs making this their argument for perpetuating the Global Warming Climate Change myth: "we should do something just in case - because what if we're right?}
Shouldn’t there have been a BARF ALERT?
Just sayin, you know?
From “the Soros Files.com”
Sally Kohn, a former senior strategist at the Soros-funded Center for Community Change, has been hired as a Fox News Contributor. Soros is the controversial hedge fund billionaire, convicted of insider trading in France, who finances the “progressive” movement in the U.S.
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“Millions of American” took something from other Americans that they did not earn or plan for, thus making them wards of the state.
Sally Kohn is more mannish than Rachel Maddow - and THAT is saying something.
“but now must provide for free”
TNSTAAFL
Let me give this a shot...
At least 2.5 million young people now can sit on their unproductive a$$'s until age 26 while productive people are forced to pay for their drug infested laziness while working for a living to fill tax coffers.
For the last three days, I’ve heard the individual mandate gurgling as it has circled the drain. If it goes down, so will all the “benefits” Fox now praises, and ObamaCare itself, and — saddest of all — Fox.
-- and my premiums only went up $184 a month.
She gets on top and Rachel HATES it!
Sally Kohn Dyke
That would be enough for me to fire the author for being mentally handicapped.
She goes on:
“It’s amazing all the pre-emptive attacks on a law that, for the most part, hasn’t gone into effect yet”
Amazing idiocy.
My next door neighbor already got his benefit from the new system. He was 80 and got an infected cut in his leg that became gangrenous. The doc said he could not do anything about it because he was too old for treatment. Well Tony was pretty healthy right up to that point. He died in one of the newly fashionable hospices. Another fellow at church who has some resources needs a bypass and was refused because of his age. He went offshore and got the work done. He will be around for a long time yet, so long as he can get out of the country if he has more problems. The word is these things don’t kick in until 2014. Guess again. The thing is already working around the edges.
A few comments here. She is quite wrong when she states the Republicans didn’t have a plan. They had one, it just didn’t reward attorneys who just happen to be major Democratic contributors. As to the cost factor, I believe she has her headlines mixed up. As a senior citizen I resent that an additional 3.8% of my income will be taken because of the investment tax. Even more if President Obama increases the capital gains tax. Seems to me that this is a redistribution of wealth more than healthcare. And lastly, I will probably die earlier as a result of a panel deciding if I need a certain procedure. In summary, I pay more for healthcare (despite having paid for it all of my working career), I get to pay for someone else’s healthcare by virtue of additional taxes, I have to live on less - thus destroying my “golden years”, and I will probably die earlier. What a plan for seniors. No wonder AARP endorses it.
It will take care of you from cradle to grave, and shorten the journey from one to the other.
It’s a shame this nation is so ungrateful for all the hard work that liberals do to make our lives so much better. We can’t understand 2,700 pages of a bill that was voted on before it was read. And now 5 right-wing radical judges are going to strike down a law that was designed to help us poor dumb folks in fly-over country.
Yes. And some narrow-minded hateful people don't like Ponzi schemes even though some of the early beneficiaries are already cashing in and the scheme hasn't collapsed yet.
Why do you suppose that is? < / sarcasm >
Seniors have the ability to blow obammunism clean out of the water. I hope they take the chance. I fear the strategy is to gin up so much chaos that Seniors are afraid to go to the polls.
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