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Congress’s Exemption From Obamacare
National Review Online ^ | September 16, 2013 | John Fund

Posted on 09/16/2013 6:23:14 AM PDT by Biggirl

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To: listenhillary
Obama used the quiet of the August recess to personally order the Office of Personnel Management, which supervises federal employment issues, to interpret the law so as to retain the generous congressional benefits.

Clearly "Special Skills" (a legal term) were used to get special benefits unavailable to the rest of us. This is a calculated conspiracy to facilitate criminal conduct............ and incurs Federal charges.

REFERENCE "Special Skills" involves devising ways to benefit oneself using information that the average citizen does not have access to. These people---Obama on down---need to held to account L/E is advised to take immediate action WRT the relevant agencies. Filing falsified govt documents is a crime that incurs several felonies...... and could involve forgery.

================================================== STOP OBAMACARE ALERT Contact your state AG---ask him/her to issue a letter of inquiry to groups receiving federal "Navigator" grants. The inquiry should center on questions WRT how the group intends to protect consumer data.

In particular, the questionnaire should ask if the tax-funded "Navigator" program intends to transfer personal/ financial/medical data of the insured to the local/county/national Democrat Party, relevant Unions, banks, investment companies, drug companies, insurance companies. Trial Lawyers' associations and whether "Navigators" have sub rosa contracts with these, and other groups, to provide significant info to enrich databases for pecuniary purposes.

REFERENCE A West Virginia nonprofit has turned down a federal grant it received to help residents navigate new health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act after it received an inquiry from Attorney General Patrick Morrisey about how it would protect consumer information. Clarksburg-based West Virginia Parent Training Inc. did not respond to a letter it received from Morrisey directing it to answer 26 questions about the group's personnel and hiring practices, including employee background checks and employee monitoring programs, the Sunday Gazette-Mail (http://bit.ly/17M1QVe) reported. (Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...

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PLANNED PARENTHOOD WILL HAVE ACCESS TO SS#, TAX, MEDICAL INFORMATION
Breitbart Big Government ^ | 8/23/2013 | William Bigelow / FR Posted by markomalley

EXCERPT Planned Parenthood is about to obtain access to your Social Security number, tax form, bank account, and medical records.

With the advent of ObamaCare, consumers buying health insurance through health care exchanges will be required to speak to “navigators.” “Navigators” are supposed to help consumers find the best coverage and ascertain whether they are eligible for a federal subsidy.

Any “navigator” will have access to the federal data hub, which holds information from the Department of Health and Human Services, the IRS, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Defense Department, the Office of Personnel Management, the Veterans Health Administration, and the Peace Corps.

Planned Parenthood received $655,000 from the Obama administration to hire navigators. In Iowa, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland received $214,427; in Montana, Intermountain Planned Parenthood, Inc. got $295,604; and in New Hampshire, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England raked in $145,161.

And there is not much scrutiny over who these “navigators” will be; HHS will not require background checks or fingerprinting, and a previous criminal conviction, even if it was for identity theft , will not trigger a rejection. To make matters worse, the administration has cut the new employees’ training from 30 hours to 20 and reduced screening.

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OKLAHOMA WINS FIRST OCARE BATTLE: Quoting AG Pruitt--- "Obamacare was meant to be so open-ended that it could mean anything. We are seeing thousands of pages of new rules being written, both by HHS and the IRS. The open-ended interpretation of Obamacare enables this.....if the law doesn't contain a particular provision, no problem. They just make it up as they go along."

"Such is the case that involves the OK lawsuit."

“The court rejected the federal government’s argument that Oklahoma lacked standing to challenge the law, allowing us to proceed with this pivotal case,” “We’re optimistic the court will recognize what states have known for months that the IRS disregarded the law by making the large employer mandate effective in Oklahoma or in any of the 33 other states without a state health care exchange.”

REFERENCE Oklahoma challenged implementation of the Affordable Care Act after the IRS finalized a rule that would allow the federal government to punish “large employers,” including local government, with millions of dollars in tax penalties in states without state health care exchanges, which is not allowed under the health care law.

“Congress provided a choice for Oklahoma and other states in implementation of the health care law, and the IRS is attempting to take that away by rule,” General Pruitt said. “The administration miscalculated how many states would support this law, so now they’re using the IRS to push through provisions that Congress did not pass.”

21 posted on 09/16/2013 6:57:05 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Biggirl
THIS is where we FIGHT to the DEATH on Obamacare!!! The President, House and Senate members and ALL their staff need to be on the SAME OBAMACARE as we are, the peons PAYING for them!! OUTRAGEOUS!!

Write your newspapers, call Talk radio, go to Town Halls, call CONGRESS!!

The PREZ CANNOT GET AWAY WITH THIS!!

22 posted on 09/16/2013 6:59:16 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: workerbee
Democratic and Republican staffers alike were furious, warning that Congress faced a “brain drain” if the provision stuck.

If congress is staffed with the "best and brightest" this country has to offer Why can't they come up with a balanced budget?

23 posted on 09/16/2013 7:03:08 AM PDT by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: Noamie
I would let go of my term limits push if we could instead have Congressional drug screening and a candidate psychological exam to weed out the power hungry and the immoral.

That means there would only be TWO members of Congress.

Jesus and the Pope.

24 posted on 09/16/2013 7:04:48 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Biggirl

Once again the incestuous relationships that dominate life inside the beltway come to light!

Do I dare say; our founding fathers had it right when they set up a Republic based on part time legislators who spent more time at their homes in the states/districts that elected them than in “the halls of power”.

Like it or not inside the beltway has become their own universe that bears little resemblance to what we endure.

We were accidently granted a glimpse into this beltway universe in late 1994 - after the “Republican Revolution”. CNN was interviewing a congressional staffer who had lost his job because his congress critter had lost his first reelection bid. The poor man didn’t know how he was going to pay his bills, feed his family, or put his child(ren?) through college. Welcome to life outside the beltway!! Towards the end of the interview the CNN reporter found out that particular staffer had been working in that congressional district office for more than a decade.

That’s right the staffer had more seniority than his boss. Do we need any further discussion on how 1,000 page bills mysteriously appear on the Congressional floor without any committee involvement? Why congress critters don’t take time to read those bills? Or, any justification for “We have to pass the bill to find out what is in it!”?

This attitude isn’t new - it has been building for more than 20 years. Only recently has the infection become so bad that they cannot hide it any more.


25 posted on 09/16/2013 7:07:04 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: Biggirl

Prostitution. Bribery. Blackmail. Thuggery. Hypocrisy.

Those were just some of the incendiary words thrown around the U.S. Senate last week, and that was just part of their new ethics criteria.


26 posted on 09/16/2013 7:07:10 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Biggirl

I just emailed my congresswoman and senators about how livid I am over this


27 posted on 09/16/2013 7:09:44 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: lurk
We must have every law apply to both government and citizens.

Our Overlords in DC don't deserve better than us peasants out in the hinterlands? /sarc

28 posted on 09/16/2013 7:22:44 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Muzzie killing muzzie what's the downside and who am I to stop them ?)
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To: Noamie

Generally, anyone who wants power shouldn’t have it.


29 posted on 09/16/2013 7:26:20 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Biggirl
Prostitution. Bribery. Blackmail. Thuggery. Hypocrisy

CALL IT WHAT IT IS; CORRUPTION

30 posted on 09/16/2013 7:29:33 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: yldstrk

y’all do realize that these emails, phone calls, and letters are received by - wait for it - staffers.


31 posted on 09/16/2013 7:50:37 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Henceforth, the Office of the President shall be known as IMPOTUS)
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To: Biggirl

A law must apply to all. A law that doesn’t apply to all is invalid.
There is no such thing as a “waiver.” “Waiver” means that the law will not be enforced. Selective enforcement is illegal and renders a law invalid.

The ruling elite has given itself special privileges, paid for by the public. It has made laws that it doesn’t plan to obey.

Does the public care? It cares more about kim kardashian’s butt than about congress.


32 posted on 09/16/2013 8:38:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back
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To: UCANSEE2

Yep.


33 posted on 09/16/2013 8:41:09 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: NonValueAdded

Oh I included that the “staff” whining about “brain drain” is total bullshit because there are plenty of people out here who are highly educated and intelligent people without jobs due to obama’s disastrous economic policies who would jump at a chance for a cushy “staffer” job in some senator’s or some congressperson’s office.


34 posted on 09/16/2013 8:45:48 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: dearolddad

because it’s not, the staffers are the loser relatives and loser sons and daughters of supporters who can’t get a real job


35 posted on 09/16/2013 8:46:46 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: listenhillary
What about the SUPREME COURT JUDGES and THEIR STAFFS???? ARE THEY UNDER OBAMACARE WITHOUT A SUBSIDY PAID BY US??

Hello REPORTERS.....THIS could be a STORY....LOOK INTO IT!!....yeah right.

36 posted on 09/16/2013 9:27:46 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: lurk
We must have every law apply to both government and citizens.

An amendment to that effect has been proposed and quietly buried. Is it 1776 yet?

37 posted on 09/16/2013 10:14:20 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Nip

All Democrat staffers and most of the Republican staffers are some of the most slithering scumbags you can imagine.


38 posted on 09/16/2013 12:48:35 PM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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