OBAMACARE PREDICTIONS

9 ObamaCare Predictions That have Come True

http://blog.heritage.org/2014/05/05/9-obamacare-predictions-come-true/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell

The Foundry – Robert Moffit – 5/5/2014

1. The individual mandate is an enforcement nightmare.

2. The law will create new disincentives to work.

3. The law, particularly the employer mandate, will impose new costs on businesses that undercut jobs and wages.

4. The law undermines competition and further consolidates health insurance markets.

5. The law guarantees major premium increases.

6. The law discourages insurance enrollment among the young.

7. The law’s Medicare savings would not financially strengthen Medicare.

8. The law’s Medicare changes will result in reduced benefits and threaten seniors’ access to care.

9. The law compels taxpayers to fund abortion and weakens protections of the right of conscience.

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OBAMACARE: 2.65 MILLION SHORT OF PAYING CUSTOMERS

House Committee Obtains Accurate ObamaCare Enrollment Figures that HHS says aren’t available

http://godfatherpolitics.com/15408/house-committee-obtains-accurate-obamacare-enrollment-figures-hhs-says-arent-available/

Godfather Politics – Dave Jolly – 5/3/2014

“On April 17, 2014, President Obama declared the success of his law, claiming that 8 million Americans had signed up for health insurance, but data from the insurance providers reveals that the president’s figure is largely misleading. As of April 15, 2014, insurers informed the committee that only 2.45 million had paid their first month’s premium for coverage obtained through the federally facilitated marketplace. While the administration has relied on questionable nationwide figures to boast the law’s success, the state-by-state breakdown compiled by the committee underscores the serious problems facing some states.”

The insurance companies reported that only 2.45 million people have actually paid their first month’s payment for the policies they purchased through the federal exchange. Add that to the various state exchanges and the figure comes to around 5.36 million that have successfully paid for their policies, which is 2.64 million short of Obama’s reported 8 million enrollees.

The results obtained by the House committee revealed the following breakdown of the successfully paying Obamacare policy purchasers:

“Nationwide (as of April 15, 2014), 67 percent of people had completed enrollment and paid their first month’s premium and 33 percent had not. Of those who had paid their first month’s premium:

Under 18: six percent;

Ages 18 to 25: 10 percent;

26 to 34: 15 percent;

35 to 44: 16 percent;

45 to 54: 23 percent;

55 to 64: 29 percent;

65 and older: 1 percent.”

If this breakdown holds true, by this time next year, the insurance industry will be in dire straits. They will be forced to increase the costs for healthcare policies which will lead many Americans to cancel because they will no longer be able to afford the high prices. The insurance industry will also be forced to turn to the federal government for a multi-billion dollar bail out, just like what happened to the auto and banking industries several years ago. And guess who ultimately pays for the multi-billion dollar bailout? Yep, you and me.

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OBAMACARE RESULTS IN LOST HOURS

OBAMA'S SOLUTION:  RAISE THE HOURLY RATE

(But employers cannot afford to pay higher wages)

OPINION: Let's Restore Hourly Wages Cut by Obamacare

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/restore-hourly-wages-cut-obamacare-cantor/story?id=23070950&singlePage=true&utm_source=majorityleader.gov&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cantor-restore-wages

ABC News - Rep. Eric Cantor – 3/27/2014

Just look at the math. In 2013, President Obama supported a $9 minimum wage. This year, he proposed a $10.10 minimum wage, which at the federal level turns out to be an increase roughly equal to the amount of wages a minimum wage employee would lose if they had their hours cut by 25 percent, as is happening under one provision of Obamacare. Coincidence?

Here’s how Obamacare creates those wage cuts. Under the law, an employer is required to offer government-mandated health care plans to full-time employees if they have 50 or more employees. The law then goes on to define a full-time employee as someone working 30 hours or more per week.

This added regulation makes it prohibitively expensive for many employers to keep all their employees working more than 29 hours, so hours are reduced, no new hires are made, and often jobs are simply cut.

The president is attempting to distract people from these wage cuts by proposing a minimum wage increase, but that would only make matters worse. The CBO found that about 500,000 jobs would be lost under the president’s proposal. One survey by staffing company Express Employment Professionals found that 54 percent of minimum wage employers would reduce hiring and 38 percent would lay off employees if the president’s proposals were adopted. Several more surveys and polls found similar findings.

America is not working when Washington is creating incentives for businesses to cut back the hours and reduce the wages of hardworking Americans. America is not working when Democratic policies, like Obamacare, encourage people to be fired rather than hired.

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SEN. RON JOHNSON: GOVERNMENT WORKERS MUST PAY FOR INSURANCE

Sen. Ron Johnson’s Obamacare lawsuit widens GOP rift

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/sen-ron-johnson-files-lawsuit-over-obamacare-b99178067z1-238881801.html

JS Online – Patrick Marley – 1/6/2014

The suit notes that under the Affordable Care Act, members of Congress and their staffs are to receive health insurance coverage either created under that law or offered through the online insurance exchanges set up by the law. Johnson brought his lawsuit five days after that provision was to kick in.

The suit says the Office of Personnel Management has essentially designated the federal government as a small business by allowing members of Congress to buy insurance through an exchange set up for employers with fewer than 100 workers.

"The federal government has millions of employees, and even Congress itself has more than 11,000 employees. Obviously, neither the federal government nor the Congress could possibly qualify as a small business under the (Affordable Care Act)," the suit says.

The suit contends the personnel office passed a rule beyond its legal authority. Further, the rule violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, the suit says, because it treats members of Congress and their staffs differently than employees of small businesses who buy insurance through the exchange. That's because private-sector employees cannot buy insurance through the exchanges using tax-exempt payments from their employers.

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OBAMA-SCARE – THE STORIES JUST ARE STARTING

Alabama Mom’s Obamacare Horro story and open letter

http://eaglerising.com/3950/alabama-moms-obamacare-horror-story-open-letter/

Eagle Rising – Onan Coca – 1/3/2014

This is a long post that details every single setback caused by ObamaCare as experienced by a family of four who have on-going health concerns.  It starts with affordable heathcare for their family and the government mandated that caused destitution for just one family.  

A mom from Alabama has been railroaded by the Obama administrations implementation of Obamacare, and now she's taken pen to paper to tell everyone her story. Here's her open letter to anyone who will listen.

December 22, 2013

The Affordable Care Act is leaving my children uninsured as of January – so how can this law have the word Care in it?

An Open Letter to the Obama Administration and American Citizens:

           

          My family’s journey with securing our new insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) started on October 1, 2013.   I have decided to write this letter to let the American people know what it has been like for us.   We are a family of four, with two little boys’ ages seven years old and three years old.   My husband and I have had full time jobs for 6 years and 13 years respectively.  We have been with the same two companies for those years.  We are a middle class family; we own our three bedroom two bath house, we own two cars, and previously provided our own insurance for the four of us.  We have coverage through Individual Blue from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama until 12/31/13. Our premiums have been $380.00 a month, which also included dental coverage for all four of us. 

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OBAMACARE: SUBSIDIZE VOTERS WITH CHEAP GOVERNMENT INSURANCE

What ObamaCare is Really About

This will make you sick!

I'm a 54 year old consulting engineer and make between $60,000 and $125,000
per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are work
projects out there for me.

My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per year, working as a
part-time mail clerk.

For me, making $60,000 a year, under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade
policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a $5,000 deductible, costs
$482 per month.

For my girlfriend, the same exact policy, same deductible, costs $1 per
month. That's right, $1 per month. I'm not making this up.

Don't believe me? Just go to http://www.coveredca.gov/ , the ObamaCare website for

California and enter the parameters I've mentioned above and see for
yourself. By the way, my zip code is 93940. You'll need to enter that.

So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a scheme that involves putting the cost burden
of healthcare onto the middle and upper-income wage earners. But there's a
lot more to it. Stick with me.

And before I make my next points, I'd like you to think about something:

I live in Monterey County, in Central California. We have a large land mass
but just 426,000 residents - about the population of Colorado Springs or
the city of Omaha.

But we do have a large Hispanic population, including a large number of
illegal aliens, and to serve this group we have Natividad Medical Center, a
massive, Federally subsidized county medical complex that takes up an area
about one-third the size of the Chrysler Corporation automobile assembly
plant in Belvedere, Illinois (see Google Earth View). Natividad has
state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed Tomography and Magnetic
Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room, and much more.
If you have no insurance, if you've been in a drive-by shooting or have
overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go. And it's essentially
free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is uninsured.

Last year, 2,735 babies were born at Natividad. 32% of these were born to
out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were Hispanic. Less than 20%
could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71% listed their native
language as Spanish. Of these 876 births, only 40 were covered under [any
kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers paid for the other 836.
And in case you were wondering about the entire population - all 2,735
births - less than 24% involved insured coverage or even partial payment on
behalf of the patient to the hospital in exchange for services. Keep this
in mind as we move forward.

Now consider this:

If I want to upgrade my policy to a low-deductible premium policy, such as
what I had with my last employer, my cost is $886 per month. But my
girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very same level, for just $4 per
month. That's right, $4 per month. $48 per year for a zero-deductible,
premium healthcare policy - the kind of thing you get when you work at IBM
(except of course, IBM employees pay an average of $170 per month out of
pocket for their coverage).

I mean, it's bad enough that I will be forced to subsidize the ObamaCare
scheme in the first place. But even if I agreed with the basic scheme,
which of course I do not, I would *never* agree to subsidize premium
policies. If I have to pay $482 a month for a budget policy, I sure as hell
do not want the guy I'm subsidizing to get a better policy, for less that
1% of what I have to fork out each month for a low-end policy.

Why must I pay $482 per month for something the other guy gets for a
dollar? And why should the other guy get to buy an $886 policy for $4 a
month? Think about this: I have to pay $10,632 a year for the same thing
that the other guy can get for $48. $10,000 of net income is 60 days of
full time work *as an engineer*. $48 is something I could could pay for
collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a month.

Are you with me on this? Are you starting to get an idea what ObamaCare is
really about?

ObamaCare is not about dealing with inequities in the healthcare system.
That's just the cover story. The real story is that it is a massive,
political power grab. Do you think anyone who can insure himself with a
premium policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone but the political party
that provides him such a deal? ObamaCare is about enabling, subsizdizing,
and expanding the Left's political power base, at taxpayer expense. Why
would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies for $4 a month?
For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a better job or
income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare coverage? Heck,
why study engineering when I can be a schlub for $20K per year and buy a
new F-150 with all the money I'm saving?

And think about those $4-a-month babies - think in terms of propagation
models. Think of just how many babies will be born to irresponsible,
under-educated mothers. Will we get a new crop of brain surgeons and
particle physicists from the dollar baby club, or will we need more cops,
criminal courts and prisons? One thing you can be certain of: At $4 a
month, they'll multiply, and multiply, and multiply. And not one of them
will vote Republican.

ObamaCare: It's all about political power.

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OBAMACARE DOES NOT LIST ABORTION COVERAGE

FALSE:  Sebelius is wrong: Obamacare web site doesn’t list which plans cover abortion

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/18/false-sebelius-is-wrong-obamacare-web-site-doesnt-list-which-plans-cover-abortion/

LifeNews.com – Mallory Quigley – 12/18/2013

“HHS failure to address the abortion coverage transparency issue in Obamacare is unacceptable. We urge both chambers of Congress to immediately pass the Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act,” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Without this legislation, millions of Americans are likely to be unknowingly enrolled in health plans that include abortion coverage.”

Last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in response to a question from Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), testified that abortion coverage information in insurance plans is “available for every customer,” and that “it is on the website.”  After the testimony the Charlotte Lozier Institute undertook to research a variety of plan documents for health insurance plans on the federal exchange to discern which ones do and do not cover abortion.  CLI found that it is still nearly impossible for individuals to know which plans force enrollees to pay a mandatory abortion surcharge.

 

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HOSPITALS ARE NOT IN THE OBAMACARE EXCHANGE

Obamacare is rationing care by cutting hospitals from insurance networks

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/18/obamacare-is-rationing-care-by-cutting-hospitals-from-insurance-networks/

LifeNews.com – Jennifer Popik – 12/18/2013

Despite numerous and repeated assurances from President Obama that if you liked your insurance plan you could keep it, hundreds of thousands who have had individual health insurance policies that were terminated against their will are finding that the replacement policies available in the state and federal “exchanges” typically severely restrict the doctors and health care facilities in their plan networks.

The polling is confirming a new and growing reality–American’s current insurance plans are gradually disappearing, while the new Obamacare exchange plans are going to be more restrictive, with less access to doctors and healthcare centers with specialized expertise and high reputations for providing effective life-saving medical treatment.

In a December 13, 2013, Wall Street Journal article, Timothy W. Martin explains

“According to the McKinsey report, which looked at federal and state‑run insurance exchanges in 20 cities including Los Angeles, Atlanta and Houston, about 60% of health plans offer coverage at a smaller number of hospitals than comparable current individual plans. McKinsey identified 120 health plans in those markets by examining federal and state exchange filings, as well as provider information listed on individual insurer and hospital websites. Some of these new plans limit coverage to one or two large hospitals.

“The number of hospitals accepting insurance from a consumer who buys coverage on the exchange could be 60% lower than the number of hospitals in current individual plans, according to the McKinsey report, which included the 20 largest hospitals in each market that it measured.”

While many are quick to blame insurers, the real culprit is the Obamacare requirement that exchange bureaucrats exclude insurers who offer policies deemed that allow “excessive or unjustified” health care spending.

 
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OBAMA THE DICTATOR DECLARES CONSTITUTION AND CONGRESS NULL AND VOID

The Constitution says:

Congress makes the laws

The President enforces laws.

Congress forgot to IMPEACH Obama’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS.

By unilaterally changing Obamacare, Obama is making a mockery of the Constitution

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/unilaterally-changing-obamacare-obama-making-mockery-constitution/

Freedom Outpost – Michael Snyder – 11/23/2013

Since when can a president change a law all by himself? By unilaterally declaring that certain provisions of Obamacare will not be enforced, Barack Obama is making a mockery of the U.S. Constitution. For those that have not read it, the U.S. Constitution says that the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed“.

So when Obama declares that he will not enforce certain provisions of Obamacare for a year, he is directly violating the Constitution. And as Stanford Law School Professor Michael McConnell wrote back in July, the Office of Legal Counsel for the Justice Department “has always insisted that the president has no authority, as one such memo put it in 1990, to ‘refuse to enforce a statute he opposes for policy reasons.’”

 This is an open and shut case. If the U.S. Congress still had a shred of respect for the Constitution, they would immediately demand that Obama enforce the law as written.

IF OBAMA REFUSED, THEY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY IMPEACH HIM.

We are a country that is run by the rule of law, and just because Obama’s new law completely screws up one-sixth of the economy does not mean that he can unilaterally change it. In our system, Congress makes the laws and the president enforces them. If we allow any president to unilaterally change laws whenever he does not like them, then that puts us dangerously close to having a dictator in the White House.

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OBAMACARE MAKES YOU PAY FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S IRRESPONSIBLE SEX

72 items Obamacare requires your health insurance to cover

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/72-items-obamacare-requires-health-insurance-cover/

Freedom Outpost – Darwin Rockantansky – 11/20/2013

Click the link for a comprehensive list copied from Healthcare.gov.

Your insurance policy changed and thus was cancelled.

President Obama and the Democrats want to make sure that YOU pay for the consequences of the irresponsible sexual activities of everyone else in America.

This is why over five million INDIVIDUAL insurance policies were cancelled. 

SMALL BUSINESSES are next.

If you aren’t in the first wave of cancellations, JUST WAIT!  Your turn is coming up soon!

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OBAMACARE'S SUCCESSES: DESTROY CAPITALISM

Why ObamaCare is a fantastic success
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/21/why-obamacare-is-fantastic-success/
Fox News.com - Wayne Allyn Root – 10/21/2013

[This is a brilliant article that succinctly lays out the 'back-door' plan of ObamaCare.]

How stupid is the GOP? They still don’t get it.

The GOP needs to stop calling ObamaCare a “trainwreck.” That means it’s a mistake, or accident. That means it’s a gigantic flop, or failure. It’s NOT.

This is a serious, purposeful attempt to highjack America and destroy capitalism. This is a brilliant, cynical, and purposeful attempt to damage the U.S. economy, kill jobs, and bring down capitalism.

It’s not a failure, it’s Obama’s grand success.

ObamaCare is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate- so we agree under duress to accept big government.

The tell-tale sign isn’t the disastrous start to ObamaCare. Or the devastating effect the new taxes are having on the economy. Or the death of full-time jobs. Or the overwhelming debt. Or the dramatic increases in health insurance rates. Or the 70% of doctors now thinking of retiring- bringing on a healthcare crisis of unimaginable proportions. Forget all that.

The real sign that this is a purposeful attack upon capitalism is how many Obama administration members and Democratic Congressmen are openly calling Tea Party Republicans and anyone who wants to stop ObamaCare “terrorists.”

They are calling the reasonable people…the patriots…the people who believe in the Constitution ... the people who believe exactly what the Founding Fathers believed…the people who want to take power away from corrupt politicians who have put America $17 trillion in debt…terrorists?

1. ObamaCare was intended to bring about the Marxist dream -- redistribution of wealth.
Rich people, small business owners, and the middle class are being robbed, so that the money can be redistributed to poor people (who vote for Democrats).

2. ObamaCare was intended to wipe out the middle class and make them dependent on government.
Think about it. Even Obama’s IRS predicts that health insurance for a typical American family by 2016 will be $20,000 per year. But how would middle class Americans pay that bill and have anything left for food or housing or living? People that make $40K, or $50K, or $60K can’t possibly hope to spend $20K on health insurance without becoming homeless.

Bingo.

3. As a bonus, ObamaCare is intended to kill every decent paying job in the economy, creating only crummy, crappy part-time jobs.
Why? Just to make sure the middle class is trapped, with no way out. Just to make sure no one has the $20,000 per year to pay for health insurance, thereby guaranteeing they become wards of the state. Brilliant.

4. ObamaCare is intended to bankrupt small business, and therefore starve donations to the GOP.
Think about it. Do you know a small business owner? I know hundreds of them. Their rates are being doubled, tripled and quadrupled by ObamaCare.

Guess who writes 75% of the checks to Republican candidates and conservative causes? Small Business.

Obama is bankrupting his political opposition and drying up donations to the GOP. Brilliant.

5. ObamaCare is intended to make the IRS all-powerful.
It adds thousands of new IRS agents. It puts the IRS in charge of overseeing 15% of the U.S. economy. The IRS has the right because of ObamaCare to snoop into every aspect of your life, to go into your bank accounts, to fine you, to frighten you, to intimidate you. And Obama and his socialist cabal have access to your deepest medical secrets.

6. ObamaCare is intended to unionize 15 million healthcare workers.
That produces $15 billion in new union dues. That money goes to fund Democratic candidates and socialist causes -- thereby guaranteeing Obama’s friends never lose another election, and Obama’s policies keep ruining capitalism and bankrupting business owners long after he’s out of office.

It's not failing, it's working exactly according to plan. Obama knows what he’s doing. Stop apologizing and start fighting.

Oh and one more thing…Conservatives aren’t “terrorists.” We are patriots and saviors. We represent the Constitution and the Founding Fathers. We are the heroes and good guys. Unless you get all this through your thick skulls, America is lost…forever.

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ONE BLACK DOESN’T CARE FOR AMERICA’S BLACK LEADER

My fellow Black Americans – I’m going to criticize Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/fellow-black-americans-im-going-criticize-dear-leader-barack-hussein-obama/
Freedom Outpost – Taleeb Starkes – 11/11/2013

Our Father who art in the White House, hallowed be thy name. Thy Constitution-less Kingdom come, thy will be done, in America as it is in the hood. Give us this day, our daily handouts and forgive our criminality, although we won't forgive the White man for criminalizing us. And lead us not into self-sufficiency, but deliver us from patriotism. For thine is the Constitution-less kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever and ever and ever.

The protectionism isn't surprising since their primary duty is to hide the fact that Dear Leader has no clothes.

Even so, outside of the palace walls, his subjects weren't granted Obamacare waivers like his cronies. As a result, millions of cracked eggs are appearing in real time and very few omelets.

 
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OBAMACARE: WISCONSIN PREMIUMS UP; CARE DOWN

Obamacare hitting Wisconsin residents with double whammy
http://watchdog.org/115035/wisconsin-health-care-obamacare/
Watchdog.org  - Adam Tobias - 11/7/2013

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsinites are being forced to play a game of “Press Your Luck” with Obamacare, and so far they’ve been hit with a double whammy.

Not only will the average Wisconsin resident who purchases health insurance on the individual market see a nearly 70 percent increase in their premiums, they also can expect the state’s doctor shortage to get even worse.

And those residing in rural areas and small towns will have even higher premiums than their neighbors living in and around cities. That’s because too few insurance companies are participating in places with sparse populations, a cost analysis by the New York Times says.

“Individuals and families that can actually purchase health insurance on the glitch-filled HealthCare.gov website are going to be in for a rude awakening when they find out their premiums will skyrocket,” said Brett Healy, president of Wisconsin’s MacIver Institute. “Rates are expected to double in parts of Wisconsin, which serves as further proof that the Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable.”

Wisconsin will experience the nation’s 10th highest premium rate hike under Obamacare, according to a report released this week by Forbes and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

the underlying regulations in the Affordable Care Act as one of the main factors in the escalating insurance costs.

Guaranteed issue, for example, requires policies to be offered to any eligible candidate without regard to health status, Feyman said.

The state has a shortage of more than 105 primary medical care physicians and close to 200 mental health doctors, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Services.
Some are predicting that Obamacare will add to that scarcity.

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WATCHDOG.ORG - LIST 66 ARTICLES ON OBAMACARE

http://watchdog.org/114137/top-hospitals-opt-out-of-obamacare/
Scroll to the bottom for a complete list

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NOBAMA CARE IN MANY HOSPITALS

Top hospitals opt out of Obamacare
http://watchdog.org/114137/top-hospitals-opt-out-of-obamacare/
Watchdog.org -  Tori Richards - 11/4/2013

Consumers, too, will struggle with the new system. Many exchanges don’t even list the insurance companies on their web sites. Some that do, like California, don’t provide names of doctors or hospitals.

The price differences among hospitals “can be pretty profound,” said Joe Mondy, spokesman for Cigna insurance. “When you are doing a cost comparison with doctors, you should look up the quality of the hospital as well. Hospital ‘Y’ could be great at pediatrics and not great at surgery.”
Insurers operating in the exchanges apparently are hesitant to talk about the trade-off between price and quality. Two of the nation’s largest insurers — Wellpoint and Aetna — refused to respond to a dozen calls and emails placed during the course of a week.


 
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OBAMA " iF YOU LIKE YOUR HEALTH CARE PLAN" ---- RIGHT????

http://eaglerising.com/2793/obama-lies-lying-lying/

three-minute video - President Obama:
"If you like your insurance plan, you can keep it."

Did you believe him, or not?  It doesn't matter any more.  We all are affected by his statements, his laws.

Period.  End of story.

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OBAMACARE CRONYISM: FIRST LADY AND FIRST ADVISOR

OBAMACARE CRONYISM

Did Jarrett and Michelle Pick Incompetent Website Firm?

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-obama-care/102813-676947-jarrett-balkissoon-wedding-influenced-cgi-selection.htm

Investors.com – 10/28/2013

Follow the links that start with the First Lady and the First Advisor

   Valerie Jarrett 

   Michelle Obama

Health Fail: Healthcare.gov's implosion may be due to one of its major developers being selected less for its technical competence than for cronyism. Perhaps the White House was hoping for a friends and family discount.

Why pick a Canadian firm with a French name to help develop the official ObamaCare website? It certainly wasn't based on the track record in developing health care software of CGI Federal, the IT contractor that orchestrated most of the Healthcare.gov website.
CGI Federal is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada's CGI Group (CGI stands for "Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique" in French, which roughly translates to "Information Systems and Management Consultants").

Its performance on Ontario, Canada's health care medical registry for diabetes sufferers was so poor that officials ditched the $46.2 million contract after three years of missed deadlines, the Washington Examiner has reported.

CGI is also the company behind the $2.7 billion failed, Liberal-launched Canadian Gun Registry that was so plagued with corruption and mismanagement it brought on an investigation by Canadian Auditor General Sheila Fraser.

Read the entire article.

 

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OBAMACARE OR THE AFFORDABLE BOAT ACT

Affordable health care explained using boats - Affordable Boat Act

The government has just passed a new law called: "The affordable boat act" declaring that every citizen MUST purchase a new boat, by April 2014. These "affordable" boats will cost an average of $24,000-$124,000 each. This does not include taxes, trailers, towing fees, insurance, fuel, docking and storage fees, maintenance or repair costs. 

This law has been passed, because until now, typically only financially responsible and working people have been able to purchase boats. This new laws ensures that every American can now have a "affordable" boat of their own, because everyone is "entitled" to a boat.  

In order to make sure everyone purchases an affordable boat, the costs of owning a boat will increase on average of 250-400% per year. This way, working taxpayers will pay more for something that other people don't want or can't afford to maintain. But to be fair, people who can't afford to maintain their boat will be regularly fined and children (under the age of 26) can use their parents boats to party on until they turn 27; then must purchase their own boat. 

If you already have a boat, you can keep yours (just kidding; no you can't). If you don't want or don't need a boat, you are required to buy one anyhow. If you refuse to buy one, you will be fined until you purchase one or face imprisonment.  For those that cannot afford one, they will get a free boat with a monthly check for all ownership costs listed above at taxpayer expense.

Failure to use the boat will also result in fines. People living in the desert, inner cities or areas with no access to lakes are not exempt. Age, motion sickness, experience, knowledge nor lack of desire are acceptable excuses for not using your boat. 

A government review board will decide everything, including; when, where, how often and for what purposes you can use your boat along with how many people can ride your boat and determine if one is too old or healthy enough to be able to use their boat. They will also decide if your boat has out lived its usefulness or if you must purchase specific accessories, or a newer and more expensive boat. (Cash for Clunkers guidelines will be used).

Government officials are exempt from this new law. If they want a boat, they and their families can obtain boats free, at the expense of tax payers. Unions, special interest and major donors are also exempt. 

If the government can force Americans to buy health care, they can force you to buy a boat....or ANYTHING else..

Yea...it's that stupid...

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WHITE HOUSE “LIES” KNOWING 7-11 MILLION WILL LOSE INSURANCE

Aides debated Obama’s “if you like it, you can keep it” insurance lie

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/03/Obamacare-promise-aides-knew

Breitbart – 11/3/2013

. . . the White House knew that they were lying, but decided that the lie was necessary to push through Obama’s signature legislation. Jim Margolis, who advised Obama on media in 2008 and 2012, said, “With 20/20 hindsight, maybe this should have been parsed more carefully,” before quickly stating, “The president’s statement seems fair.” Speechwriter Jon Favreau said, “Simplification and ease of explanation were a premium, and that was true throughout the process.”

Ezekiel Emanuel, a former White House Obamacare advisor, said, “We thought we could fulfill the promise with this grandfathering clause.” With somewhere between 7 and 11 million Americans slated to lose their insurance before being forced into other insurance, that obviously wasn’t the case.

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OBAMACARE: ALTERNATIVES ARE READY

After repeal of Obamacare:  Moving to patient-centered market-based health care

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/10/after-repeal-of-obamacare-moving-to-patient-centered-market-based-health-care?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Heritage – October 31, 2013

Abstract:

Obamacare moves American health care in the wrong direction by eroding the doctor–patient relationship, centralizing control, and increasing health costs. True health care reform would empower individuals, with their doctors, to make their own health care decisions free from government interference. Therefore, Obamacare should be stopped and fully repealed. Then Congress and the states should enact patient-centered, market-based reforms that better serve Americans.

For a better life, Americans need a health care system that they, not the government, control. Consumers should have the ability to choose how to meet their health insurance needs in a free market for insurance. Taxpayers should benefit from a more efficient and affordable system for helping those who need health care but cannot afford it. Above all, patients, with their doctors, should make their own health care decisions free from government interference. 

The important first step is to repeal the Obamacare statute that puts the government in charge of health care. The second step is to let the country move to a patient-centered, market-based system that focuses on citizens and not on the government.

Principles for Reform 

To allow Americans to reclaim control of their own health care and benefit from competition in a free market for insurance and health care, Congress should repeal the Obamacare statute and enact patient-centered, market-based reforms based on five principles: 

  Choose, control, and carry your own health insurance;

  Let free markets provide the insurance and health care services that people want;

  Encourage employers to provide a portable health insurance benefit to employees;

  Assist those who need help through civil society, the free market, and the states; and

  Protect the right of conscience and unborn children. 

Key Points

1. 1 Obamacare moves American health care in the wrong direction. It undermines the doctor–patient relationship, centralizes health care decisions, and increases health care costs.
2. 2 Therefore, Obamacare should be stopped and fully repealed.
3. 3 Once this is accomplished, Congress and the states should pursue patient-centered, market-based reforms that get health care reform back on track.
4. 4 Such reforms should focus on letting individuals choose and control their own health insurance; allowing the free markets to respond to consumer demand; encouraging employers to provide portable health insurance to their workers; helping those in need through civil society, the free markets, and the states; and protecting the right of conscience and unborn children. 

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