Posted on 02/03/2015 5:22:15 PM PST by Libloather
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The bill passed as a perfect example of partisan politics. Passing with a vote of 239-186, all but three Republicans and no Democrats pushed the bill through. Based on calculation by CBS News in 2013, following the 33rd repeal, the Daily Kos notes that Republicans had spent an estimated $72.5 million in tax payer money attempting to repeal the law.
Obamacare has resulted in a mix bag, proving to be less destructive than Republicans had warned, but not as effective as Obama and the Democrats had promised. Nearly 10 million more Americans have access to affordable health care, but many have reported a rise in premiums. Those who fail to qualify for an adequate subsidy, yet are mandated to purchase health care, face the tough choice of paying out of pocket expenses they can't afford, or get hit with a penalty when they file their taxes. Up to six million Americans are expected to be hit with a fine when they file in 2015.
While the probability that Republicans get Obamacare repealed is virtually non-existent, the health care law faces new challenges in the months to come. In June, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the King v. Burwell case, which will challenge whether the federal government is allowed to provide financial subsides to citizens to help purchase health care.
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how does one spend $70 million to pas a bill??
such a mystery!
Obamacare has resulted in a mix bag, proving to be less destructive than Republicans had warned
Complete BS. It is every bit as destructive and probably more so.
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YOU beat me to it. Wuz going to say the same thing. I’ll add to it the fact that the brunt of Obamacare problems haven’t even hit yet. (the bloating of the IRS, the tax impacts starting this April, the unemployment it causes).
Question: If no budget had been passed, as required by law, why was it legitimate to fund any part of government? — The simple point of the matter is that the elites don't really care about the law, they care only to subjugate you and I — having the veneer of legitimacy helps them enlist our fellow citizens in policing those who would step out of line
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Bob Dold, John Katko, and Bruce Poliquin voted no.
Say it ain’t so, Bruce.
Kakto is a freshman, beat Dan Maffei (elected in ‘08, defeated in ‘10, reelected in ‘12) by a huge 20 point margin, I don’t know why.
Bruce P is the surprising one.
“Both Katko and Poliquin said in statements Tuesday that while they did not support the Affordable Care Act, they couldn’t support its repeal without something immediately ready to replace it.
“Had Congress voted for the full repeal of Obamacare two years ago, families and small businesses would have been able to adjust to the change. Now, however, more than 60,000 Mainers have invested their time and energy in choosing health care plans that work for their families,” Poliquin said in a statement.
He continued, “If Congress fully repeals Obamacare, it must be fully prepared to replace it with a free-market alternative.””
Stupid a**holes, repeal isn’t gonna happen with Obama still there, this vote was purely symbolic and they gotta go and vote like drooling retards and embarrass the party.
I guess Dold couldn’t be reached for comment, little b*tch. He had no primary opponent so I’m not gonna b*tch about his election, Brad Schneider is a maggot who never cast a single correct vote and he deserves death for his annoying campaign commercials.
Poliquin has a welfare district ... sort of. half of northern Maine is prob living off the dole of BambiCare.
False. obama kept delaying and opposing Obamacare himself costing the country staggering amounts of money, in the billions, not mere millions.
I wonder if they added up the billions spent to formulate and “deem” the law passed, with all democrat votes and no republican votes.
This article does not mention how many doctors retired rather than go to work for the government administering socialist medicine.
This illiterate article is worse than worthless.
But, it should still be pointed out that the Republicans have continued to fund Obamacare, every step of the way since they were given back control of the House.
They control the purse strings, but you would never know it from their actions.
I don’t care if they spend $10 billion on repeal, if it gets repealed that will be a bargain.
Bill Bennett was defending Common Core on his morning radio show today.... Going head-to-head with a woman caller who was coherent in her insistence that the educational benchmarks of Common Core are beside the point, the point is the inherent preemption of educational standards and assertion of curriculum control by an organ of the federal government pro bono a mass of faceless "stakeholders" who are using the fedgov as an errand boy/power accumulator. We don't even know what their angle is (although their model seems to be the Third Reich), only that Arne Duncan is a tried and true Red tool.
Bennett wasn't having any. He didn't even care that the go-to guy on Common Core had had a long association with Bill Ayers in the Annenberg Project in Chicago. Bennett replied that that didn't mean anything, when as we all know, personnel is policy.
Bennett dismissed the woman caller by giving her a "homework" assignment: "Read the bill, read about Common Core." Translation: "You are ignorant. If you knew about the goodness of Common Core, you'd support it like I do."
This is what we have to put up with from GOP-e RiNO's who are all for expansive, runaway Government's overleaping its constitutional boundaries as long as it sounds like a good idea to them or confers a benefit [highly-trained human robots for their armies of money-generation] to them.
These guys are liberals and Progs who merely know how to add.
There was a working "handshake" group of two woman PhD-level experts on public policy and health care who "did the dirty deal" in 2008, according to an Oct. 2008 article by Howell Raines, former editor of the New York Times (until discredited by the Jayson Blair affair).
The woman who represented the Democratic Party was from Harvard University, and a specialist in health policy. The other was from American Enterprise Institute. They shook hands on certain ideas, and presto, Obamacare was a done deal, and absent Raines, the People were never supposed to know about it.
The GOP motive was solicitude for the drive of S&P 500 CEO's to dump their employee healthcare obligations (no matter the human cost to the employees) without leaving any fingerprints. This deniable strategy totally explains the actions of the so-called GOP so-called leadership.
It also implied dumping the White House on Hillary, the then-presumptive nominee, just in time for the 2009 stock market crash to fall on her.
Things didn't turn out quite as envisioned (nobody ever expects the Catamite Inquisition), but, as somebody said in Falling Down, "That's the concept."
And they voted for Cain, so it’s best if they die.
Paul v. Virginia, 1869
The Paul v. Virginia opinion contains the following statement.
"4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract of indemnity against loss."
Noting that Obama’s activist justices completely “overlooked” Paul v. Virginia in the Obamacare opinion, it has been pointed out concerning the excerpt above that the Supremes had essentially clarified that the Constitution’s Commerce Clause (1.8.3) doesn’t give the feds the power to regulate insurance. So I’m adding the excerpt from Paul v. Virginia to the list of excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions which indicate that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate healthcare purposes.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
”4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce [emphasis added] within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract of indemnity against loss.” — Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
meanwhile, Obama et al continue to destroy America
“In June, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the King v. Burwell case, which will challenge whether the federal government is allowed to provide financial subsides to citizens to help purchase health care.”
In the meantime, becaused it is FORCED on every true citizen (not the Exempt Ones), Trafficking in the selling of Human Body Mortgages by so called “insurance-banking” commences.
The new MBS, leveraged to any amounts, to any forced deductibles, any forced premiums, any forced coercion taxation, any forced account seizures. The selling and trafficking in Human Body Mortgages.
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