Posted on 06/23/2010 2:47:07 AM PDT by Cindy
AS I SEE IT
Congress must repeal Obama's health-care rationing plan By SEN. PAT ROBERTS
Special to The Star
SNIPPET: "U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican from Dodge City, Kan., is a member of the Senate Health and Finance committees. He voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
SNIPPET: "It has scarcely been three months since the new health reforms, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), were signed into law. Unfortunately, as I and many of my colleagues predicted, the promises made to the American people by the president and the majority are already unraveling.
The president promised Americans that if you like your insurance plan, you can keep it. Well, not exactly. Under regulations proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services to implement the new law, more than 51 percent of American workers could lose the plans they currently have.
By the administrations own estimates, small businesses are especially affected as many as 80 percent would not be able to continue to offer the plans they currently have. For many Kansans, this means their employer will drop their coverage altogether. Others will be forced to purchase a more expensive plan that complies with all of the new government mandates.
Either way, my fear that you wont be able to keep the plan you like is being confirmed.
The president promised Americans that their Medicare benefits wont change. However, the law cuts more than a half-trillion dollars from Medicare, with more than $100 billion cut from Medicare Advantage alone."
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/20/2031634/congress-must-repeal-obamas-health.html
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Posted on August 4, 2009 3:45:39 PM PDT by Cindy
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2009 AT 6:55 AM Facts Are Stubborn Things Posted by Macon Phillips
Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, “facts are stubborn things.”
Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to “uncover” the truth about the Presidents health insurance reform positions.
In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White Houses Health Reform Office, addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to “eliminate” private coverage, when the reality couldnt be further from the truth.
For the record, the President has consistently said that if you like your insurance plan, your doctor, or both, you will be able to keep them. He has even proposed eight consumer protections relating specifically to the health insurance industry.
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we cant keep track of all of them here at the White House, were asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Here are the complete videos that Linda refers to. First from the AARP:
And then from the President’s news conference:
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It’s really sad.
Even if Congress were not to repeal Obamacare it would be irrelevant as any federal version of health care is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution does not specifically list regulating health care as an enumerated power! The people are not bound to comply with an unconstitutional act! We are bound to uphold the Constitution in the face of a tyrannical, runaway government! The three branches operate only at the consent of the governed! The people will have the final say as to how we are governed!
Obama lies and Americans will die.
Shame on that Mitt Romney. How can the evangelical Christians support this guy?
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Home Briefing Room Statements & Releases
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release June 24, 2010
Statement by the President on Passage of H.R. 3962
Im pleased that Congress has acted to ensure the security of our seniors health care. A 21-percent pay cut to physicians payments would have forced some doctors to step seeing Medicare patients an outcome we can all agree is unacceptable.
We should also agree, as Ive said in the past, that kicking these cuts down the road just isnt an adequate solution to the problem. The current system of recurring cuts and temporary fixes was passed into law more than 10 years ago. Its untenable.
I believe we need to permanently reform the Medicare formula in a way that attacks our fiscal problems without punishing our hard-working doctors or endangering the benefits on which so many of our seniors rely. I look forward to working with Congress to achieve that goal, and Im gratified that in the meantime theyve taken the provisional step of blocking this pay cut.
Congress is impotent, cares not for the laws that created America.
Its all about favoritism and who has a secure alliance with the most powerful people in Washington DC.
The millions of working class people are just mindless cattle compared to the elitists. All congress will do is regulate the cattle feed and insure they are healthy cattle so they will produce more healthy cattle.
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