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I have some question about the Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare: 1. What does the drug formulary cover and are there drug tiers ( from really cheap to expensive brand name. I switched to Medicare when I turned 65 and stayed with Kaiser. The only real difference I can tell is with the drug formulary. Medicare’s is much smaller and more restricted. If they aren’t on the formulary you have to pay full price. I didn’t have any mediations that were not on the new formulary, but I don’t have diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s or AIDS for example. I don’t know...

Is anyone else reminded of the movie 'The Talented Mr Ripley' when hearing Obama and his Pravda Media constantly comparing Obama to International political luminaries?

Good solution!

I just saw a video shot of the White House and the flag is being flown at half staff. I can only assume this is due to Mandela's death. I am curious if it customary to fly the flag at half staff for death of foreign leaders.

If you have Obama rent-a-mob demonstrators in your area today, here's your sign. Print it out. Show up. Spend money. Fight back.

So I'm going through my RSS feeds this morning for good articles to post and come upon this headline: Montreal deploying fleet of facial recognition drones for 24/7 patrolsSounds believable...one of my little hot-button topics (government surveillance)...so I check it out: The City of Montreal has purchased 24 drones to help law enforcement tackle crime as authorities look to cut back the police force over the next 15 years. The UAVs, equipped with facial recognition technology, will be armed to ‘neutralize suspects’. "It's very exciting," the chief of police for the borough where the drones will be deployed, Montreal North,...

Why not? Can Obama dictate the type of payments that doctors can and cannot accept? Is this part of Obamacare? This company, while geared toward travelers, seems to be based in Belize. http://offshorehealthinsurance.com/ Perhaps they can grow their market.

Peshawar , Procession of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf continue on the 9th day in Peshawar , workers of PTI take the picture during the procession and they send back two NATO container from Hayat Abad and didn’t permit it too goes to Afghanistan. On Sunday the PTI member of KPK assembly Arbab Jehandad along with his three armed people and workers reached to the Hayat Abad Toll Plaza on 10.30 and they start protest. During protest the worker of PTI stopped so many afghan transit vehicles on road side and they demand to permit the workers to check the container....

Sorry, this is not the right thread,but I rarely post.But,I really need help.I always find fellow freepers not only intelligence but very caring.My husband had his third stroke three weeks ago at age 5.He worked all his life for every we have,he was self employed. All our savings have gone to hospital bills & living expenses. I was a stay at home mom,& for the past few years have been his caregiver,but I must find a job in order not to lose my home for my children. I need advice on what I should do.Is there a career that pays...

This past week I took my kids to see the second movie in the Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire. While it is a violent series, I cannot think of a better movie or book series to open the door to moral and political discussions with our teen and preteen kids. For those unfamiliar with the Hunger Games, it is the story of a gladiatorial competition in a futuristic totalitarian regime, which requires each of 12 isolated districts to select a teenage boy and girl by lottery to fight to the death until only one “victor” survives. The story centers on...

So I sit down to watch the Macy's Day parade with my 9 yr old daughter, a 40+ year tradition for me, and NBC and Macy's decide the 3rd act will be the musical act from Kinky Boots, promoting homosexuality and cross dressing. It took about 2 seconds for my daughter to see that something was not quite right when she noticed the cross dressing Cabernet singer. "Dad, that's a man, and he's kinda creepy." Thank you Macy's and NBC for making me discuss cross dressing deviates on Thanksgiving Day. I dont think, however, that my conversation with my daughter...

"Oh give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." Psalm 107:1 I witness that this is true. Even in hard times, the Lord God continues to bless and help us through if we seek Him. The same is true for our nation right now. Let's give thanks to God for our many blessings this Thanksgiving, and turn to Him If we do, and put our whole hearts into that effort...then He will heal our nation. Read II Chron. 7:14

Well well we have the real message os Obamacare...Its not "Obamacare" its really "VoodooCare" with Barak and Michelle as Chied Priest and Pristice and Valerie Jarett as Medicine Woman... Its all hype, it never gets delivered and it doesnt do what it says...ITS all message like a Nigerian email, and its all hype like "three care monte"... Its rules constantly change, like the smoke and mirrors of Voodoo...what been missing so far are the turkey bones

When it comes to resale value, electric vehicles don’t hold their charge. Electric cars lead our list of the cars and trucks that lose their value faster than average. Also ranking poorly are some big-ticket luxury cars, and, not surprisingly, older, lame-duck vehicles that are late in their product life cycle and about to be replaced. On a list of predicted residual values for 2013 models produced by ALG Inc., the bottom three examples are the battery powered Nissan Leaf; the Lincoln MKS, a more upscale, expensive cousin to the Ford Taurus; and the Mercedes-Benz CL Class, a two-door version...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is spewing 50 percent more methane — a potent heat-trapping gas — than the federal government estimates, a new comprehensive scientific study says. Much of it is coming from just three states: Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. That means methane may be a bigger global warming issue than thought, scientists say. Methane is 21 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, the most abundant global warming gas, although it doesn't stay in the air as long. Much of that extra methane, also called natural gas, seems to be coming from livestock, including manure,...

Why can't private plans continue to be offered even if they don't meet Obamacare coverage requirements?

Republican Governor Tom Corbett, who announced he's running for re-election next year, likes to tell Pennsylvanians he hasn't raised taxes. He ran for office four years ago saying he wouldn't raise taxes. But that's exactly what he is doing today when he signs a "transportation funding bill" to fix roads and bridges along with subsidizing public transportation systems (especially in the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh areas). The bill replaces an out in the open 12 cent a gallon gas tax at the pump with a backroom tax on gas at its wholesale price. It also raises registration fees for vehicles in the state...

Archaeologists digging in Turkey have found the guardians of the "Gate to Hell" -- two unique marble statues which once warned of a deadly cave in the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, near Pamukkale. Known as Pluto's Gate -- Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin -- the cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition. It was discovered in March by a team led by Francesco D'Andria, professor of classic archaeology at the University of Salento.

The Iranian government stuck it to President Barack Obama today with government run television broadcasting "Down with America" during live coverage of the return from Geneva to Iran of Foreign Minister Javir Zarif after completing a deal on Iran's nuclear program with the U.S. and leading world powers, according to a BBC reporter.Ali Hamedani, Persian reporter for the BBC, posted on Twitter:IRIB is covering Zarif's arrival in Tehran with a montage of anti American pictures. Subtitle is down with America in Persian and English.When asked if "down with America" is a step up in anti-American rhetoric from the Iranian government's...

Kelly aired a great compilation of how proud Obama was of the ACA being called ObamaCare. And now suddenly, LOL, he and the other Dems refuse to call it ObamaCare. Any one know where it may be? Not on YouTube or The Fox Pages. Thank you.

Funny timing coming off the heels of backroom MSM confab at the WH. Multiple artices w the same meme just today, aimed at Low Information Voters. Reuters cites statements w no supporting facts, of course in this, their article: Decision time for Tea Party movement in U.S. political contests http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/20/us-usa-politics-teaparty-idUSBRE9AJ08X20131120 Who ever heard of the pollsters in this Flint Journal article? articles????? http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/11/tea_party_polls_unpopular_inde.html Susan J. Demas: Tea Party's popularity falling after alienating independents, women By almost a 2-to-1 margin (44 percent to 25 percent) in the LE&A/Denno poll, women see the Tea Party as a negative force This is just...

I am by no means an expert in parliamentary rules, but I think I know enough to be dangerous. I have been contemplating writing a letter to my RINO senator, Arlen Toomey, requesting that he uses the unanimous consent rule in the Senate to slow things down a bit. My understanding (correct or add to this) is that unanimous consent is frequently used in the Senate; for such reasons as dispensing with reading bills, or accepting the journal. My understanding is also, since it is unanimous, it only takes one senator to object to a unanimous consent motion to slow...

Beirut (AFP) - Jihadists cut down a 150-year-old oak tree in Atme, on Syria's border with Turkey, after they accused locals of worshipping it, a pro-jihadist source said. "Thank God almighty, the tree... aged more than 150 years has been removed, after people were worshipping it instead of God," said the source on Thursday via his Twitter account named "our call is our jihad". He also posted pictures of a man in a black mask using an electric saw to cut down the tree. A black Al-Qaeda-style flag bearing the Islamic profession of faith had been planted on top of...

(per letter to customer-me) Effective 03/08/2014 INOVA Mt Vernon Hospital will no longer accept Humana's regional PPO. We switched to that PPO for 2013; had had PFFS and are checking to see if that plan will be accepted. I have a call out to our Humana rep to see if (as I suspect) this includes the entire INOVA system or just Mt Vernon (nearest to home).

Vice President Joe Biden visited a protest this morning being held by illegal aliens demanding amnesty.The protest is being held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Illegal aliens and their supporters are holding a fast to call attention for their demand for amnesty.Photos were posted on Twitter by "Fast for Families".In a tweet by Fast for Families retweeted by the official Obama administration Spanish language account, Biden was quoted as telling the protesters: .@VP: The 11 million people in the shadows are already Americans. #Fast4Families pic.twitter.com/tYecF6Mwo7

I realize there is not a whole lot we can do about the vote yesterday in the Senate regarding the rule change. However, I did call both of my senators from TN (Alexander and Corker) expressing my displeasure. Basically, I told them that this is what the appeasement from them (my two senators) has gotten us. The Dems want total control and inch by inch the GOP is giving it to them. I told both offices I would like to see some fight from them (I know, good luck!). I urge you to call your Senators and express your displeasure...

Ok, I did it. I flipped over to PMSNBC during a commerical. I caught Al Sharpton showing a clip of Rush talking about how Obama can be a dictator due to the Senate rule changes. Sharpton has no problems with the rule changes and yelled (he always yells on his program), "No, Obama is just doing what was elected to do, and elected again to do."

On November 12, 2013, this writer found himself accidently watching "The View". Within 15 minutes, this writer was enraged by some the the comments being made by Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg & alleged Repubican Joe Scarsborough. This writer was so angered, he felt it prudent to wait at least a day to respond. OBAMA'S PRESS CONFERENCE In the meantime, President Obama decided to give a press conference today, November 14,2013. Before we address correcting "The View's" perspective of reality, let us give appropriate time to President Obama's Press Conference. President Obama has admitted he lied about keeping your current...

California's newest wind turbines may be killing more than 100,000 birds a year, according to a peer-reviewed study to be published in December. Those mortalities seem to climb the taller wind turbines get. And California wind turbines kill more wildlife per megawatt than identical turbines in other parts of the country. ... The study, conducted by Scott R. Loss and Peter P. Marra from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Migratory Bird Center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Tom Will, appears in the December 2013 issue of the journal Biological Conservation. The study was based on a survey of...

Image if President Bush had a signature piece of legislation called BushCare and right now the BushCare website is still down (after a month and a half) and had ID Theft sized holes in the websites security. Imagine millions of Americans loosing their Healthcare Insurance due to BushCare after being promised that they could keep it and their doctors only to find out they can't. Imagine President Bush, overriding that legislation through Tweets and pronouncements; even suspending the law for a year in order to get past the next election cycle. What would the Mainstream Media do if it were...

Maine Dems running a poll

I would love to have the picture of Mrs. Bush and Michelle leaving Air Force One for a discussion board on Facebook, as we are in the middle of a discussion of how tasteless the current FLOTUS is compared to all other FLOTUS. Any other pictures of Michelle in her tasteless outfits would be welcome. Please post them if you have them! I'd like to ruffle a few liberal feathers. Thanks!

On Morning Joe this AM, Willie presented the following chart in an attempt to parlay the Administration line that Obamacare only affects a tiny number of policyholders.

The left-wing recipients of the medal of freedom.

I received this via e-mail "From March 21st 2010 to October 1 2013 is 3 years, 6 months, 10 days. From December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945 is 3 years, 5 months, 1 day. What this means is that in the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this federal government to build a working webpage. Mobilization of millions, building tens of thousands of tanks, planes, jeeps, subs, cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes, millions upon millions of guns, bombs, ammo, etc. Turning the tide in North Africa, Invading Italy, D-Day, Battle...

"@Sebelius did great fundraising for @EnrollAmerica, but will do even better for @Project_Veritas" (Daniel Francisco @DFrancisco7)

Caller on the Rush Limbaugh show yesterday said his wife was told she couldn't register at a medical clinic unless she answered the question: are there any guns in your house?

The MSM have special protection in our constitution but they are derelict in their duty to ask the questions of those in power. Please List your questions they should be asking...

Any predictions?

From my understanding, the ACA was supposed to make it that insurance companies couldn't discriminate against people with existing conditions. So shouldn't these millions of people losing their insurance be able to just get whatever coverage they need as soon as they get cancer or something (until the insurance companies go broke)? Yet, it's sounding like no one is planning to do that. What am I missing?

Barack Obama's conference call with supporters at the Organizing for Action website went down hard, according to reporters who took to Twitter to note the problems with the call.Obama was supposed to be rallying his supporters to stand by him through the travails of the rollout of the Obamacare website and implementation.Jared Rizzi, Sirius-XM Radio So far my ability to connect to the conference call where @BarackObama talks about website problems has been plagued by website problemsKathleen Hennessey, L.A. Times: Can't log on to OFA conference call. Technology hates Barack Obama these days. Or maybe it's me ...Jared Favole, Dow...

The facts 1. There are 21 US Senate seats held by Democrats in the 2014 election. 2. There are nine US Senate seats held by Democrats in the 2016 election. This is likely to be 10 due to a special election in HI in 2014. 3. Republicans need to pick up six senate seats to have a majority. The Analysis The failures of ObamaCare and broken promises by Democrat senators create a target rich environment in 2014. This is a year Republicans have to do well. Winning a majority in the senate by only one seat or maintaining the status...

Television was the established cutting edge media in 1963 drawing in the young and continuing a rise to its zenith in the decades to come. Radio and the newspapers had their place in the pecking order but they were on lower rungs. Television was dominated by three major networks with two of them (CBS and NBC) being the leaders in ratings and advertising dwarfing the third network (ABC) in those statistics. Cable distribution of television programs was in its infancy and limited mainly to retransmitting over the air stations from the cities to rural areas. Around 580 analog television stations...

Lonely at the Top By Ari Bussel I remember the look of then Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu at an underground command and control center in a city in Southern Israel crammed with foreign correspondents, when I introduced myself before asking my question, “Ari Bussel, Muslim World Today.” For those who know me, I am White Caucasian, and I look very much Western (some would say slightly “Middle Eastern”), although the most notable character is likely my unidentifiable, thick accent. But I definitely do not look like the representative of California-based Muslim World Today and Pakistan World Today. The readers of...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, remains "quite ill" and unable to speak because of tubes that are keeping his lungs clear of fluid, though he is relaxed, his former wife told a South African newspaper. "He remains very sensitive to any germs, so he has to be kept literally sterile. The bedroom there (in his suburban Johannesburg home) is like an ICU ward," Winnie Madikizela-Mandela told the Sunday Independent. "He is 95 years old and it is difficult for him, because of all the tubes that are in his mouth to clear the (fluid from his)...

These thoughts are my own and not necessarily those of Free Republic. ON ROB FORD Schadenfreude has never been so delightful. Talking heads worldwide are obsessed by the admitted illegal activities of a man, in a city, in a country, they didn’t care about yesterday. Someone in the parlor has done some very, very bad things – uttered the word “pu--y” to boot – and the titillating evil of it all is too much to handle. Of course, Justin Trudeau (son of Pierre,) now gunning for Prime Minister, elicited mild yawns and golf applause from Canada’s holier, hempier, and greener...

In the video below Air Force veteran Robin Temple tells her story of pain, suffering and massive malpractice at the hands of the Veteran’s Administration hospitals and doctors.

In a article trying to put a positive spin on Obamacare, the Baltimore Sun reports alarming Obamacare numbers in Maryland where only 1,700 signed up for insurance vs 84,000 who signed up for expanded Medicaid. As part of the Affordable Care Act, eligibility requirements were relaxed for Medicaid causing a mad rush for government paid for healthcare.