COLLECTIVISM AND SOCIALISTIC CONTROL

Control is the key focus of collectivism

http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/control-key-focus-collectivism/

Freedom Outpost – Dale Pflug – 9/5/2014

Americans have been in a 100+ year war to resist the transformation of our republic into a democracy, then to socialism. The American shift to socialism has reached an alarming stage with the move to a powerful centralized federal government. States' rights have been surrendered. During the past 50 years, we have watched socialism increase with the federalization of education, environment control and adoption of national health care with the addition to ObamaCare. (A more appropriate name might be DemocracyCare!)

Individualists, particularly freedom loving Americans, learned the importance of a republic from their Founding Fathers who insisted on maximum freedom and limiting government to its most basic functions. Today, the state has become more powerful while allowing a large role of big corporations with central planning and crony capitalism. Coercion plays an increasing role in ensuring individuals is control by, and serve the will of the state. Nationalization of health care, for example, has forced people to buy health insurance. Big government has invaded every aspect of our lives.

Federal control of the educational system has provided the necessary dumbing down of the citizen that has increased surrender of individual freedoms. Individualism is best characterized by freedom of the individual while control is the key focus of collectivism. Many people wonder if the fate of America is destined to collapse as every collectivist societies that have gone before it. The risks associated with this change are huge. A massive effort to stop this collapse would be costly and take decades to achieve if even possible. Each citizen should study the contrast between individualism and collectivism. There is extensive information available about collectivism on the Internet. A good starting point is: www.freedomkeys.com/collectivism.htm.

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MEDICAID PREMIUMS WILL BE REPAID TO STATE WHEN YOU DIE

States to seize estates to payback cost of Medicaid

http://godfatherpolitics.com/13727/states-seize-estates-payback-cost-medicaid/#!

Godfather Politics – Dave Jolly – 12/26/2013

It’s possible that if Sofia Prins of Port Townsend, Washington had not read the fine print for her fiancé’s, Gary Balhorn, Medicaid application. What she read shocked her as it said that if you’re 55 or older and receive Medicaid, the state can require your estate to pay back coverage after you die.  Prins realized that in the truest sense, Medicaid is not free insurance, rather it is a loan against a person’s estate.

The Seattle Times picked up their story and word started to spread.  In states like Washington, the lower Medicaid standards are allowing more Americans to qualify for Medicaid.  If they do, they are then not eligible for any of the federal subsidy for the purchase of healthcare.

So if you are 55 to 64 and receiving Medicaid, you had best warn your heirs that the state you live in may be coming for all or part of your estate to recover the cost of your free healthcare.  If they want to know why this is being enforced more now than in the past, remind them that Obama has always been about redistributing the wealth.  By that I meant he wants redistribute it from us to the government.  Therefore, you’re better off spending it all or giving to your family while you are still alive so there is no estate for them to seize.

 

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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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OBAMACARE WEBSITE - NO PRIVACY

OBAMACARE WEBSITE – NO EXPECTATION OF HIPPA COMPLIANCE

There is no expectation to privacy when an American citizen uses the ObamaCare website to enter personal private information before finding out if he / she is eligible for ObamaCare insurance. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOk0vOup4yA

YouTube – 5 minutes

 
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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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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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WHICH OBAMA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HEALTHCARE.GOV, BARACK OR MICHELLE?

Michelle Obama’s College classmate’s firm built Obamacare website disaster
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/michelle-obamas-college-classmate-toni-townes-whitley-built-obamacare-website/
Freedom Outpost – Dean Garrison – 10/26/2013

First Lady Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website.

Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of '85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

Townes-Whitley and her Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.

Toni Townes '85 is a onetime policy analyst with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, West Africa. Her decision to return to work, as an African-American woman, after six years of raising kids was applauded by a Princeton alumni publication in 1998.

Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-is-executive-at-company-that-built-obamacare-website/
Daily Caller – Patrick Howley – 10/26/2013

George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal’s parent company, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract.

As reported by the Washington Examiner in early October, the Department of Health and Human Services reviewed only CGI’s bid for the Obamacare account. CGI was one of 16 companies qualified under the Bush administration to provide certain tech services to the federal government. A senior vice president for the company testified this week before The House Committee on Energy and Commerce that four companies submitted bids, but did not name those companies or explain why only CGI’s bid was considered.

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SINGAPORE SOLVES WELFARE – WHY CAN’T U.S.?

What we can learn from Singapore

http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2013/09/21/what-we-can-learn-from-singapore-n1705789/page/full

Townhall – John C. Goodman – 9/21/2013

Click the link to read this entire article – ONE NATION ACTUALLY SOLVED PROBLEMS!!

In 1984, Singapore instituted a revolutionary idea: a system of compulsory saving for medical expenses. That was the same year my colleagues and I at the National Center for Policy Analysis introduced the idea of Health Savings Accounts in this country.

After almost three decades, Singapore has now come to the attention of a lot others, including a book by Brookings, and a whole slew of posts by bloggers.

At the risk of disappointing you, Singapore does not have a free market for health care. What it does have is an alternative to the European/American welfare state, in which private saving and private insurance do what employers and governments do in other countries. The Singapore philosophy is:

• Each generation should pay its own way.

• Each family should pay its own way.

• Each individual should pay his own way.

• Only after passing through these three filters, should anyone turn to the government for help.

If the United States adopted a similar approach to public policy, there would be no deficit problem in this country.

A shift from the public to the private sector. The most important thing Singapore has accomplished in health care (in contrast to all the other developed countries) is an enormous shift of money and power from the government to the private sector. Since 1984, the Singaporean government's share of the nation's total health care expenditure dropped from about 50% to 20%. When you stop to think about it, that's incredible.

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STATES MUST NULLIFY OBAMACARE

Mark Levin Refuted – keep the Feds in check with Nullification, not Amendments

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/09/mark-levin-refuted-keep-feds-check-nullification-amendments/

Freedom Outpost – Publius Huldah  9/14/2013

This 4500-word article disputes the case raised by Mark Levin in his latest book.

Her conclusion:

It is the duty of the individual states to nullify unconstitutional acts of the federal government.

Chart – Federal / State structure

http://publiushuldah.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/chart-showing-federal-structure-3-1-part-a2.pdf

This chart will get you started. Learn about nullification. Form delegations and go to your State Legislators, educate them and demand they start nullifying unconstitutional acts of the federal government.

States should nullify obamacare!

If Legislators aren't willing to renounce federal funding, recall or defeat them!

James Madison Rebukes Nullification Deniers

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/01/james-madison-rebukes-nullification-deniers/

Publius Huldah – 1/31/2103

Federalist No 44

http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fed44.htm

Founding Fathers Info – James Madison - 1/25/1788

What should states do when the federal government usurps power?  Advice from James Madison, Father of the US Constitution

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/what-should-states-do-when-the-federal-government-usurps-power-advice-from-james-madison-father-of-the-us-constitution/

Freedom Outpost – Publius Huldah – 5/1/2013

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OBAMACARE / BOEHNER CARE - DON'T FUND IT

Tea Party Patriots explains the proposal to enact ObamaCare / Boehner Care in the House and Senate – please sign their petition

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/sign-the-petition-to-stop-funding-for-obamacare/

Don’t Fund it – Online petition to defund ObamaCare

http://dontfundit.fwsites.org/?source=GBLiveReadDontFundIt

  
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OBAMACARE RATE INCREASES IN WISCONSIN

WI Office of Insurance –  Note the dramatic rate increases for young people in Wisconsin.

http://oci.wi.gov/pressrel/0913rateinfo.htm

Percent Increase From Pre to Post 2014, Average Per Area
Age	Milwaukee	Eau Claire	Green Bay	Madison	Appleton	Wausau	Kenosha	LaCrosse
21	78.11	68.75	53.73	124.85	54.18	77.44	37.59	88.53
40	40.85	48.35	53.73	73.43	36.75	35.03	15.15	41.58
63	45.48	58.12	22.54	70.04	32.01	26.07	9.72	37.29

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AFL-CIO AT ODDS WITH OBAMACARE

AFL-CIO nearing formal criticism of ObamaCare

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/321243-afl-cio-nearing-formal-criticism-of-obamacare

The Hill – Kevin Bogardus – 9/10/2013

LOS ANGELES — Unions, after a contentious and difficult process, are on the cusp of issuing formal criticism of ObamaCare at the AFL-CIO convention.

The AFL-CIO Executive Council is expected to consider a resolution, subject to fierce internal debate, that will call for changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — setting up a potential floor vote this Wednesday before the convention closes. Frustration has grown within labor as the Obama administration has failed to offer a fix to temper union worries over the law.

A copy of the draft resolution, obtained by The Hill, praises aspects of ObamaCare and states that the AFL-CIO supports the law’s goal of providing healthcare coverage for all. But the four-page document lays out a laundry list of complaints against ObamaCare — at times taking aim at the administration.

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OBAMACARE “EXCHANGES” WILL USE PLANNED PARENTHOOD

ObamaCare takes Planned Parenthood abortion biz to a whole new level

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/obamacare-takes-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-to-a-whole-new-level/

LifeNews.com – Susan T. Muskett – 9/5/2013

President Obama’s health care law, ObamaCare, takes the federal government’s relationship with Planned Parenthood to a whole new level. On August 15, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Planned Parenthood affiliates in Iowa, Montana, and New Hampshire will be funded to serve as ObamaCare “Navigators.” Their combined funding will total over $655,000.

By choosing these Planned Parenthood affiliates to be Navigators in the federally facilitated Exchanges, these Planned Parenthood affiliates will now have the seal of approval of the federal government as an entity that consumers can contact for help in applying for coverage.

Moreover, HHS plans to list the Navigators (e.g., Planned Parenthood) in each federally facilitated Exchange on HHS’ official government website as a resource to help consumers. [78 Fed. Reg. 42848].

And then there are the ObamaCare “certified application counselor organizations.” What are certified application counselor organizations, you might ask? You won’t find the term anywhere in the massive ObamaCare law.

The federally facilitated Exchanges will designate certain organizations – community health centers, health care providers, social service agencies, etc. – to be certified application counselor organizations. (A state Exchange can do so also). These organizations will in turn certify their staff members, as well as their volunteers, to be counselors who will assist applicants in completing their applications for health insurance and for federal assistance programs. The organizations and counselors are not expected to be paid by the Exchanges.

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OBAMACARE HURTS LOW-WAGE WORKERS THE MOST

ObamaCare cuts workweeks to record low
http://freebeacon.com/obamacare-cuts-workweeks-to-record-low/
Washington Free Beacon - 8/30/2013

Employers of low wage workers are cutting work weeks as Obamacare implementation comes closer, according to Investors Business Daily.

Workweeks have shrunk over the last 18 months for 30 million workers in industries where non supervisors make about $14.50 an hour or less. Analysts say that employers are cutting hours for low wage workers to avoid penalties required by Obamacare. According to Business Daily:

As a whole, low-wage industry groups added just shy of 1 million jobs in the 18 months through June, but total hours worked grew one-third slower than payrolls over that span. In effect, the shorter workweek in low-wage industries boosted payrolls by 320,000.

For a profit-making firm facing a 40% federal and state tax rate, the $3,000 annual, nondeductible fine employers may face for each worker who accesses ObamaCare subsidies is equal to $5,000 in deductible wages.
Thus, for a worker earning $15,000 in compensation, ObamaCare could raise an employer’s cost by one-third.

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OBAMACARE IS A LOSS FOR AFL-CIO

Citing ObamaCare, 40,000 Longshoremen quit the AFL-CIO

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/01/Citing-Obamacare-40-000-Longshoremen-Quit-the-AFL-CIO

Breitbart – Warner Todd Huston – 9/2/2013

In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.

In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the disillusion of their affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO's support of Obamare.

"We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along," McEllrath wrote in the letter to Trumka.

The Longshoreman leader said, "President Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits." But, regardless of that promise, the President has pushed for just such a tax and Trumka and the AFL-CIO bowed to political pressure lining up behind Obama's tax on those plans.

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KAISER FOUNDATION 2013 HEALTH BENEFITS SURVEY

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation 
http://kff.org/report-section/2013-summary-of-findings/
8/20/2013

The survey includes Abstract, summary of findings, report, methodology, endnotes

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OBAMACARE EXPLAINED WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER

ObamaCare’s small business health insurance tax credit:  “Who’s on first?”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/08/16/obamacares-small-business-health-insurance-tax-credit-whos-on-first/

Tea Party Economist – Gar North – 8/16/2013

Six-minute video explains how ObamaCare functions and why it doesn’t work.

So, you think that small businesses (under 50 employees) will take advantage of the health insurance tax credit?  Well, think again.

The following is real. This is the federal bureaucracy at work.

Remember when Nancy Pelosi said this? “But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” Here’s what the Democrats who voted for it did not read.

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PHONY PRESIDENT CAUSES REAL SCANDALS

America’s New Truth – Real Scandals – Phony President

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/americas-new-truth-real-scandals-phony-president/

Patriot Update – Susan Horton – 8/11/2013

Under Obama care: Age 25 Males   Source: David Kessler Wall St. Journal

• living in San Francisco will pay 62% more /month
• Ohio will pay 88% more /month
• Missouri will pay 89% more / month
• Indiana will pay 91% more /month
• Nevada will pay 101% more /month
• Obama’s Campaign promise was Health Care costs will go down $2500/yr. for family of 4

Three weeks ago they didn’t have the technology to verify income so at the same time Obama delayed the Employer Mandate he decided to NOT enforce the income eligibility requirement. He basically invited fraud and liar loans. You say you qualify for a subsidy so we are not going to check your income.     

Their strategy is not complicated. A reasonable prediction is that if a significant amount of people start receiving subsidies, they won’t stop but will fight harder to keep them. In modern times no major entitlement that has been implemented has EVER been unwound. There’s no action greater to encourage economic growth through jobs in America than the repeal and reversal of all or parts of this law that’s destroying our Country. It’s the working class that suffers the most.

In 52 days the continuing resolution which funds our Govt. will expire. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tx) has a bipartisan participation plan to pass the resolution that funds the “entire Federal Govt.”, every aspect of it, except any funding of Obama care. ”It should explicitly prohibit any funding, not even one penny of support under no circumstances”. Of course Harry Reid, Senate Speaker, and the Media, will impugn the Republicans saying they are shutting down the Govt., which will be untrue and outrageous. Mr. Cruz says he can turn their words right back on them.

“Should Pres. Obama shut down the Federal Govt. in order “to force” Obama care on individual families even though giant Corporations are getting waivers?” The Power is in the Purse and the House has the purse.  He continues to say, “It won’t be easy but if Republicans would actually stand up and fight explaining the truth against Reid’s argument, we can win this or at the very least defund parts, the most destructive ones, and/or delay the implementation”.

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OBAMACARE – AND A REPUBLICAN SOLUTION

Is there a Republican alternative to Obamacare?

http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2013/08/10/is-there-a-republican-alternative-to-obamacare-n1660684/page/full

there is a serious GOP proposal. It's called the Patients' Choice Act, sponsored by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.). This is essentially the health reform plan that John McCain proposed when he ran for president in 2008.

What does the Affordable Care Act do about all this? It leaves every single one of those perverse incentives in place and adds new ones! What does the Republican approach do? It eliminates every one of them by offering a fixed-sum, refundable tax credit for the purchase of private health insurance. Every individual and every family would get the same amount of help from government, regardless of where the insurance is purchased -? at the office, in an exchange or in the marketplace.

People would no longer be encouraged to buy employer-specific, non-portable coverage. Because the subsidy is a fixed sum, it would apply only to the core insurance we want everybody to have. Any additional insurance would be purchased with after-tax dollars. People would be discouraged from buying an additional dollar of insurance unless it was more valuable than a dollar spent on other goods and services.

The Republican approach is a defined contribution approach. People are given a sum of money to buy health insurance. They may add funds of their own to this amount. Suppliers of insurance will then be allowed to compete in the private marketplace to see what they can offer for premiums people can afford.

By contrast, ObamaCare takes a defined-benefit approach. The government intends to tell all of us what insurance we must have, whether it is affordable or not. Further, the ObamaCare approach double penalizes people who choose not to insure: failure to claim the credit means they will pay higher taxes and there is a penalty imposed on top of that.

MINIMUM BUREAUCRACY. The Republican bill is only 56 pages long. One suspects that the regulations needed to implement it would fall well short of the 20,000 pages needed to implement ObamaCare. Because the tax credits are the same for everyone, there would be no need for an exchange to verify income or establish that an applicant had not been offered affordable coverage by an employer or link electronically to five or six different government agencies. Uwe Reinhardt has written about the highly complex assignments the ObamaCare exchanges must carry out. So have I. By contrast, EHealth (a private online exchange that has allowed more than 3 million people to obtain health insurance) could handle the entire process under the Republican plan without spending millions of dollars on new technology ? as the Obama administration is doing.

If I could summarize these huge differences in one sentence, it would be this: The Republican approach is focused on getting rid of perverse incentives and treating everyone equitably, while the Democratic approach leaves the current system's perverse incentives and inequities in place and adds new ones.

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OBAMACARE – MORES STATES UNINSURED, CONGRESS INSURED

 Major health insurance companies bail on Obamacare state exchanges

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/08/major-health-insurance-companies-bail-on-obamacare-state-exchanges/

Freedom Outpost – Suzanne Hamner – 8/9/2013

As more information regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, is exposed, Americans around the country are waking up to the fact that this piece of legislation is anything but affordable. Participating health insurance companies have also discovered that limitations some state governments place on rates would not allow companies to make money.

CNSnews.com reported “major health insurance companies – Blue Cross, Aetna, United, Humana – have decided not to participate in various states in the Obamacare health-insurance exchanges that will be the only place Americans will be able to buy a health insurance plan, using the federal subsidies that the Obamacare law authorizes.”

United Health Group, the largest insurer in the United States, has also decided to pass on participation in the California exchange. Anthem Blue Cross withdrew its bid to participate in California’s Obamacare exchange market.

. . . individuals in California entirely leaving 50,000 existing individual policyholders searching for new coverage in January.

As soon as it was discovered, Washington would have to abide by this abominable healthcare law, Washington opted itself out after many threatened to leave their post. The ruling “elite” have, once again, stuck it to the average American while they enjoy their tax payer subsidized “golden” fleece health care. 

The message is becoming loud and clear to the American public: “We, the government, have ordained that we are in control and you, the people, will follow the law while we decide which ones we will follow while you continue to pay more and more to us to manage you.”

 
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