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White House says 51 percent of company health plans won't meet Obamacare guidelines washingtonexaminer.com ^ | June 11, 2010 | Mark Hemingway Posted on Saturday, June 12, 2010 12:14:42 AM by Free ThinkerNY At Investor's Business Daily, Sean Higgins and David Hogberg have a doozy of a story: Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare. That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers. The documents — product of a joint project of the Labor Department, the Health and Human Services Department and the IRS...

Thousands of babies about to lose HIV/AIDS medication (Obamacare impact?) Medill Reports ^ | 6/8/2010 | J. Okray Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:11:08 AM by markomalley Thousands of babies with HIV/AIDS face the risk of death due to a pharmaceutical plant closing during a rise in demand for medication. Bristol-Myers Squibb is shutting down a plant in France this month, the only one that produces a pediatric HIV/AIDS medication approved by the World Health Organization. The closing creates a medicine shortage that could threaten the lives of 4,000-7,000 babies living in developing countries according to UNITAID. A Health...

Health Care Freedom Act Resurrected (Tennessee, Obamacare penalty provisions) 10th Amendment Center ^ | 6/7/2010 | Lesley Swann Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 2:10:22 AM by Qbert In a ninth inning push to protect Tennesseans from the penalty provisions of Obamacare, the state Senate made an unprecedented move to recall from committee SB2560, the companion bill to Rep. Susan Lynn’s Health Care Freedom Act (HB2622). If passed, HB2622 will write into law a policy statement for all Tennesseans that health care mandates or penalties for defying such mandates may not be carried out in the state of Tennessee. The...

White House and Allies Set to Build Up Health Law (campaign to "sell" it, using tax exempt org) NY Times ^ | June 6, 2010 | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Posted on Monday, June 07, 2010 7:02:32 AM by SmartInsight President Obama and his allies, concerned about deep skepticism over his landmark health care overhaul, are orchestrating an elaborate campaign to sell the public on the law, including a new tax-exempt group that will spend millions of dollars on advertising to beat back attacks on the measure and Democrats who voted for it. Americans will see the first evidence of the...

Fiscal Fraud of Obamacare Snowballing Already Human Events ^ | 6/2/2010 | Terence P. Jeffrey Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:06:29 AM by Qbert Remember the health care issue? Well, the fiscal consequences of the socialized medicine scheme enacted by President Barack Obama and Congress just two months ago are already beginning to snowball. Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, was one of the key architects and advocates of Obamacare. He was back on the House floor on Friday delivering an urgent plea to fellow Democrats that inadvertently --...

Courts' (conservative) leanings give Florida health-care reform lawsuit fighting chance Jacksonville ^ | 5/30/10 | Jeremy Cox Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 8:48:40 AM by Libloather Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's high-profile lawsuit against the federal health-care reform law has been the subject of hot debate in legal circles since it was filed in March. 60% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law Rasmussen Reports ^ | May 31, 2010 Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 8:59:24 AM by Clintonfatigued The latest weekly Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey on the recently passed national health care bill finds that 60% of...

Small Businesses Threatened With 1099 Tax Form Tyranny... NaturalNews.com ^ | Monday, May 24, 2010 | Mike Adams Posted on Sunday, May 30, 2010 3:48:41 PM by Windflier (NaturalNews) According to a recent report from CNNMoney.com, the massive U.S. health care system overhaul includes more than just a transition to government-run medicine. A small section hidden away in the 2,409-page bill requires all businesses to send 1099 tax forms to every company or individual from which they purchased more than $600 in services and goods throughout the tax year, beginning on January 1, 2012. As you'll see below, this new...

Republicans criticize Obama administration brochure on health-care overhaul Washington Post ^ | May28, 2010 | David S. Hilzenrath Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 3:25:58 AM by Innovative As the secretary of health and human services explains it, the government has an obligation to spread the word about the new health-care law. To that end, the department spent millions of dollars printing a glossy brochure and mailing it this week to 40 million Medicare beneficiaries detailing what Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called "the facts." Republicans see it differently. In Washington's political hothouse, one person's recitation of the facts is another's "gross...

Rossi: repeal health-care law & return to "limited" govt The Seattle Times ^ | May 26, 2010 | Jim Brunner Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:05:21 PM by DukeBillie Republican Dino Rossi finally made it official this morning, entering the U.S. Senate race for the seat held by three-term incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D). In a five-minute video posted to his web site, www.dinorossi.com, Rossi reaches out to voters upset with the direction the country is headed, citing rising unemployment, plummeting housing values, "wasteful" stimulus plans and "massive new debt as far as the eye can see." Study: 94%...

The Conservative Healthcare Conundrum National Review Online ^ | 22 May 2010 | Avik Roy Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010 7:30:11 AM by Notary Sojac While I am an admirer of Massachusetts psychiatrist Alexander Vuckovic for his role in electing Scott Brown, his most recent missive to The Weekly Standard contains a contradiction that dogs many Obamacare critics: if we are opposed to Sarah Palin’s death panels, are we simultaneously for unlimited government health spending? Many more Republicans have criticized the former than have proposed solutions to the latter. And unsurprisingly so, since none of the solutions to runaway...

Former First Daughter Barbara Bush Calls for Global Health Equity... PR Newswire ^ | May 17, 2010 | National Press Club Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2010 1:10:09 AM by SunkenCiv Barbara Bush will speak out about the extreme disparity in health care between the world's rich and poor at a National Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, May 26 and describe what the non-profit she heads is doing to improve public health in underserved communities here and abroad. Bush, 28, is the president of the Global Health Corps (www.ghcorps.org) , a group she helped found two years ago with input...

Obama government defends healthcare law in court Reuters ^ | May 17, 2010 | Reuters Posted on Monday, May 17, 2010 10:50:25 PM by SmartInsight The Obama administration has urged a court to reject an attempt to block a controversial new law overhauling the U.S. healthcare system, saying it was constitutional and any challenge was premature. A conservative public interest group, the Thomas More Law Center, had filed a lawsuit in Michigan on March 23, the day Obama signed the law, and asked the court for an injunction to block it from taking effect. Health Reform Threatens to Cram Already...

Obama government defends healthcare law in court Reuters ^ | May 17, 2010 | Reuters Posted on Monday, May 17, 2010 10:50:25 PM by SmartInsight The Obama administration has urged a court to reject an attempt to block a controversial new law overhauling the U.S. healthcare system, saying it was constitutional and any challenge was premature. A conservative public interest group, the Thomas More Law Center, had filed a lawsuit in Michigan on March 23, the day Obama signed the law, and asked the court for an injunction to block it from taking effect. Health Reform Threatens to Cram Already...

Obamacare’s Avalanche of IRS Paperwork (Small Business: Be prepared to fill more forms) National Review ^ | 05/17/2010 | Deroy Murdock Posted on Monday, May 17, 2010 1:59:18 PM by SeekAndFind Pres. Barack Obama promised Americans “health-care reform.” So far, “health-care form” is more like it. Obamacare is devolving into the Paper Industry Salvation Act of 2010. This new law spans 2,562 tree-killing pages. Far worse, it will force Americans to spend countless irritating hours completing, transmitting, and filing endless reams of federal paperwork. The scariest news for America’s forests may be a brand-new mandate that will compel each business...

New enforcement tools help fight health care fraud (You can't scam the Commiecare™ scam) Central Chronicle ^ | 5/13/10 Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 12:25:31 AM by Libloather Washington, May 13: The government says it recovered $2.5 billion in overpayments for the Medicare trust fund last year as the Obama administration focused attention on fraud enforcement efforts in the health care industry. Investigators have new tools this year to help crack down on health care fraud, with the Justice Department and the Health and Human Services Department working cooperatively to police companies. The newly enacted Affordable Care Act is...

Health law’s heavy impact (Money Grab: 3.8% Real Estate Sales Tax in Health Care Bill) The Spokesman-Review ^ Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 6:47:46 AM by quesney "Tax on Home Sales. Imposes a 3.8 percent tax on home sales and other real estate transactions. Middle-income people must pay the full tax even if they are “rich” for only one day – the day they sell their house and buy a new one." Schwarzenegger's revised budget plan is expected to eliminate health programs LA Times ^ | May 12, 2010 | Shane Goldmacher and Evan Halper Posted on Thursday, May...

The Truth About the Health Care Bill - by Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney Stormbringer (Sean Linnane blogspot) ^ | 5/12/10 | rae4palin Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:42:05 AM by rae4palin Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009 I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected....

Florida Suit Poses a Challenge to Health Care Law The New York Times ^ Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:42:44 AM by Blue Turtle Some legal scholars, including some who normally lean to the left, believe the states have identified the law's weak spot and devised a credible theory for eviscerating it. The power of their argument lies in questioning whether Congress can regulate inactivity -- in this case by levying a tax penalty on those who do not obtain health insurance. If so, they ask, what would theoretically prevent the government from mandating all manner of acts in...

With Obamacare Cash Comes New Abortion Supercenter for Planned Parenthood [St. Paul, MN] LifeSiteNews ^ | James Tillman Posted on Monday, May 10, 2010 5:10:57 PM by EternalVigilance ST. PAUL, Minnesota -- Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) has announced that they are constructing a new clinic and administrative headquarters in St. Paul. According to Sarah Stoesz, President of PPMNS, Planned Parenthood is anticipating a possibly increased demand for its services because of the new federal health care bill. Stoesz said that she was unsure "exactly what health care reform will mean for our patients." She continued,...

Rallies held across Canada to press for experimental MS treatment the globe and mail ^ | 5/7/10 | Ingrid Peritz Posted on Friday, May 07, 2010 1:46:50 PM by Nachum Louise Lessard has dreams at night in which she can walk effortlessly again. Gone are the cane, wheelchair and walker that have become her real-life companions. The former kindergarten teaching assistant began falling down and struggling to walk in 1999, and within four years, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Wednesday, Ms. Lessard rolled up in a wheelchair in a suburban park in Montreal to press for what she sees...