Posted on 12/25/2013 8:10:35 PM PST by Dqban22
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“The unveiling of the dictatorial debacle that is Obamacare absolutely flabbergasts me. It is stunning on so many levels, but the most shocking aspect of it for me is watching millions of free Americans stand idly by ....
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Where’s and what’s your action professor? Alot of posters have already pointed out your comments many many times.
Unfortunately, every day makes it more unlikely that the solution will ever come through the ballot box and many on the left will discover that once revolutions start, it is uncertain who and how many will be sacrificed in the coming upheaval.
That's part of it. Another part is that the cultural Marxists have succeeded in their "long march through the institutions."
A large number of Americans have absorbed the tenets of Marxism in everything but name.
Obama's just kicking over a dead tree.
The MSM will ignore this....spread the word on FB and Twitter.
agree, if the MSM did the job they should do, lots of corruption in Washington might just get cleaned out or not voted into gov’t in the first place....just wish they would treat democrats with the vigor they do republicans. Plus stop the lies about republicans=evil and democrats=good. MSM is bringing down this country.
Outstanding. Bookmarked. Thank you!!!
“Unfortunately, every day makes it more unlikely that the solution will ever come through the ballot box and many on the left will discover that once revolutions start, it is uncertain who and how many will be sacrificed in the coming upheaval”
I have a feeling the crowds won’t be as forgiving as they were in the first Civil War.
Where is your spine, America ?Laura Hollis, as a professor at Notre Dame, teaches at the most incredible Catholic campus in America I've ever seen (the grotto, Sacred Heart Basilica, the golden dome), yet she does not offer the answer to building a spine. Maybe she has done so in other posts, but me and my spine go to Eucharistic Adoration (time before the Blessed Sacrament), daily Mass, recitation of the Holy Rosary, and frequent Confession. ALL available at the University of Notre Dame.
But unlike Harvard or Yale, Northwestern or Southern Cal, all once Christian universities but now secular schools, Notre Dame has the weapon to combat all heresies; namely Notre Dame Herself. The modernists may have their day, but, like the song says, Notre Dame will win over all. For the modern infidels to take control here, they would have to blow our dame off the dome, rip the heart (the Eucharist) out of Sacred Heart and lastly, rock by rock, tear the grotto apart. And legions of Her sons and daughters would willingly die martyrs before they would allow that to happen. -Tom O'Toole, '81 http://www.fightingirishthomas.com/2007/03/upon-these-rocks-faith-and-notre-dame.html
Realistically speaking, Obama is our King. We may was well face the facts.
“Where is your spine, America ?”
America is a very law abiding country. And conservatives are amongst the most reflexively law abiding. Regardless of whether the law is just or constitutional.
If there was a law passed ordering conservatives to be sent to concentration camps, the question that most would be asking is not whether they should resist or hide. No. It would be how many bags they’re allowed to take with them.
Perhpas a beginning rumble has started. One can hope, LOL.
Let the counter-revolution begin.
It's time the IRS became the target instead of the other way around.
As long as Americans have their smartphones, reality shows, Facebook and entertainment they won't even notice what has happened.
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The Poles were the ones who began the great pushback of Solidarity, supported by JPII and Ronald Reagan.
Americans have had a great advantage to live with freedom since our ancestors came to this shore.
The professor is right - what Obama represents is a failed philosophy. It is actually a hollow philosophy that will not be able to stand once it is really pushed.
The end of it will require Divine intervention. And when it comes we will be ready.
The doctor won’t see you? Analysts warn ObamaCare plans could resemble Medicaid
Published December 26, 2013
• FoxNews.com
Those signing up for private health care coverage on the ObamaCare exchanges may be in for an unpleasant surprise — they’ll have insurance, but they might have trouble getting the doctor to see them.
As hundreds of thousands enroll for coverage beginning Jan. 1, analysts are warning that the plans are likely to give them access to fewer doctors and hospitals. So much so, they warn, that the system could begin to resemble Medicaid, the health care program for low-income Americans.
“Indeed, I think this will eventually be like Medicaid,” said Merrill Matthews, director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance.
Matthews said the only way many insurers are going to be able to control costs is by “simply clamping down on the amount they are willing to pay.”
Just as with Medicaid, analysts warn that if payments get too low, many doctors might start refusing to see patients. That will leave more and more patients jockeying to see fewer and fewer doctors.
They emphasize, then, that having health insurance won’t necessarily translate into access to health care.
“About half of the physicians in many communities refuse to take Medicaid patients because the payment system is just too low,” said James Capretta, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Doug Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, suggested some of the plans on the exchanges are going in the same direction.
“If you look at something where you get a dollar by treating a private payer, you get about 70 cents out of Medicare for that same treatment, you get about 55 cents out of Medicaid for that,” he said.
He added: “You know, ObamCare started to look like Medicaid of the future, and in the Medicaid in the present, you can have the insurance but a doctor won’t see you.”
By the end of March, the Obama administration hopes to increase the number of people on Medicaid by 9 million, and the number in private plans by 7 million. New Medicaid enrollments so far have far outpaced enrollments in private plans on the exchanges.
But since Medicaid patients already have access to relatively few doctors, expanding that population while opening the door to lower payments for private insurance raises the prospect of rationing, as too many people chase too few doctors.
“These networks are going to be jammed with people,” Robert Laszewski, president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, said. “Far more than they’re treating now, and I don’t doubt that we’re going to have problems with access to these doctors. There just aren’t going to be enough of them.”
For now, the Obama administration is trying to move past a year of some ups and many downs for its health care law, and encourage people to sign up during the final three months of open enrollment. President Obama said in his year-end press conference that enrollment has picked up considerably as problems with the federal exchange website have been addressed.
“The law is working: More than half a million Americans have enrolled through HealthCare.gov in the first three weeks of December alone — and 800,000 more are on track to get Medicaid through their states,” he said in an email message on Sunday.
Obama continued to stress that the law is providing health insurance to those previously unable to get it. “Now, thousands of Americans are signing up for coverage every day. That matters. It means financial security for families all across the country. It means freedom from the fear that one illness or accident might cost you everything you’ve worked so hard to build.”
Fox News’ Jim Angle contributed to this report.
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