On yahoo, posters to blogs are getting unbelievable positive responses to this. Please keep up the pressure to make Government come under this law, it is a winning emotional issue cementing the Republican point of view.
Which GOP senators were opposing their staffers from being exempted?
Makes sense in a way. The Statists think everyone is working for government anyway.
Newsflash!
Bill Bennett catches the bus weeks late. Enjoys his nap in the mean time.
How about calling out the entir totalitarian evil for what it is, Bill?
Hypocrisy. It’s what Democrats do.
Hardly the first time that major group of losers have exempted themselves from what they foist on us.
Well, hypocrisy IS the hallmark of the left, isn’t it?
"There has been a significant amount of inaccurate reporting on this issue. Like all Americans, everyone who works for the U.S. Congress, Members and staff alike, are subject to the requirements and benefits of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; it is the law of the land. The ACA requires that Members of Congress transition from the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program to the health insurance exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act beginning January 1, 2014. There have been no attempts to exempt Congress from this requirement. The federal government will continue to pay for employee's insurance premiums under the new health insurance exchanges, as do large employers across the country who offer health insurance to their employees."
Is this a bald faced damn lie? Obfuscation?
Not only is it unfair. It is also unconstitutional and illegal for the executive branch to change laws after they have been passed. These ‘exemptions’ are imperialism and are grounds for impeachment and prosecution.
I think this is not really exactly about stopping Obamacare. It is about Awakening a Sleeping Giant. People are fed up about Obamacare, yes, but they are fed up with the entire ObamaCrap that Pelosi, Reid, et al. are trying to foist on We the People.
This filibuster is a line in the sand. “We have had enough!” I think it is the beginning of the end for any of Obama’s agenda, for the Dems up for re-election in 2014, and frankly for the get-along Cozy Republicans in DC.
We have had enough!
Perspective
ObamaCare Making Doctor Shortage Crisis Even Worse
By SALLY C. PIPES
Posted 09/24/2013 06:40 PM ET
America’s doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem.
The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple.
And ObamaCare is only making things worse. Physicians are responding to the health reform law’s intrusive regulations and insufficient payments by treating fewer patients — or even abandoning the medical profession altogether.
One cornerstone of ObamaCare is its expansion of Medicaid, the jointly run federal-state health insurance program for the poor.
Starting in 2014, the program will cover all Americans with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level. The federal government will absorb 100% of the cost of this expansion through 2016, and then a declining share in subsequent years, until the feds’ responsibility rests at 90% in 2020. By then, some 12 million people will have gained coverage anew through Medicaid.
But the program is already dysfunctional. Reimbursement rates are so low — about 60% of the rate paid by private insurers — that doctors routinely refuse to see Medicaid patients. A recent study published in Health Affairs found that 33% of doctors did not accept new Medicaid patients in 2010 and 2011.
By throwing millions more people into the program without raising Medicaid payment rates, ObamaCare will make it even harder for patients covered by the program to secure care.
The story is much the same for the government’s other big health program — Medicare. More than 9,500 doctors opted out of treating Medicare patients in 2012. That’s almost triple the number that abandoned Medicare in 2009.
According to American Medical Association President Dr. Ardis Hoven, “While Medicare physician payment rates have remained flat since 2001, practice costs have increased by more than 20% due to inflation, leaving physicians with a huge gap between what Medicare pays and what it costs to care for seniors.”
Unsurprisingly, ObamaCare will exacerbate the problem. The law creates a new government entity — the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) — charged with ensuring that Medicare hits designated spending targets...
Good, now let’s ask George Hamilton what to think of the Sunshine Laws.
Fat chance of it happening:o(