Posted on 11/11/2016 9:25:12 AM PST by fwdude
I have said this before many times: it was implemented in such a way that it cannot be undone, and was done this way intentionally.
There is a huge, worthless, useless jobs program bureaucracy behind this, buildings, offices, furniture, computers, and...government employees.
They made it as massive as they could to cement it in place...intentionally, to protect against it.
I am not hopeful.
The budget is not subject to filibuster... So Obamacare was passed by attaching it to the budget otherwise MA Senator Scott Brown would have been the 41st vote against it at the time.
Paul Ryan has been clear that a repeal of Obamacare would be passed as part of a budget... Not subject to filibuster
The Democrats nationalized 1/6th of the US Economy into a Democrat Cash Cow. E-v-e-r-y conniving Democrat voted for O/Care---parroting Obama's Big Lie "If you like your plan, keep your plan.
ALL the untraceable O/Care money from enrollments, fines, penalties, taxes, fees, and asset confiscation (from Medicaid users) goes to your "reliable, trustworthy government."
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Some observers note that the Democrat-controlled Senate passed Obamacare "after a series of unsavory transactions that purchased the aye votes of several shrewdly extortionate Democrats"....with a huge pile of money still unaccounted for.
The most unsavory was Landrieu's $4.3 billion "Louisisana Purchase."
THE PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Sen Landrieu (recently lost her reelection bid) sold her aye vote in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu
FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount. MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. He needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage. In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied. Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare----not the measly $200 million but $4.3 billon was attached to the Obamacare bill earmarked for Landrieu.
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How $4.3 billion to Landrieu was calculatedly attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Reid failed to catcH and fix it, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity.
The $4.3 billion handoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare....and how tax dollars were laundered to get lock-stepping Democrats' votes.
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It's not "gone" if some of the most pernicious provisions are allowed to remain. Forcing coverage of pre-existent conditions turns insurance into something other than insurance.
It ALL goes or it leaves a trace of infection to flare up and destroy.
Step one on day one: President Trump gives everyone a waiver for Obutt care. The insurance companies also no longer have to comply with all the liberal mandatory crap in the insurance they offer.
"Obamacare" is a sitting president's blunder of Ceausescu-esque proportions. In Obama's feeble mind, the ACA was not about healthcare.
Far from it.
The conniving Obama calculated the ACA to consolidate Democrat power that was supposed to install a permanent Dumbocrat majority. So much for that ding-dong idea....b/c 30 lockstepping Dumbocrats who voted for it were ousted in the 2014 Democrat Demolition Derby. Several retired knowing they could not be reelected.
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WHERE IS THE MONEY? O/care also allocated some $6 billion tax dollars----spending money for Dumbocrats ----which has yet to be traced.
The Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest. Egged on by Pelosi, Democrats slavishly voted for Obamacare by an historic straignt-party line vote. But not one Democrat told Americans about Obamacare's Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).
THE PAYOFF--WHO GETS THE MONEY? In 2010 Taxpayers are extorted $500 million, in 2011, $750 million, 2012, $1 billion, 2013, $1.25 billion, 2014, $1.5 billion, and, in 2015 and on, $2 billion
<><> Where is all that money going?
<><> Was cashing-in the incentive in getting the thing passed?
The sound of West Wing wire-transfers to states and to offshore banks is almost palpable.
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REFERENCE ACA SEC. 4002. PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH FUND.
(a) PURPOSE. It is the purpose of this section of the ACA to establish a Prevention and Public Health Fund (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Fund’’), to be administered through the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, to provide for expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs.
(b) FUNDING.—There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, and appropriated, to the Fund, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated—
(1) for fiscal year 2010, $500,000,000;
(2) for fiscal year 2011, $750,000,000;
(3) for fiscal year 2012, $1,000,000,000;
(4) for fiscal year 2013, $1,250,000,000;
(5) for fiscal year 2014, $1,500,000,000; and
(6) for fiscal year 2015, and each fiscal year thereafter, $2,000,000,000.
(c) USE OF FUND.—The Secretary shall transfer amounts in the Fund to accounts within the Department of Health and Human Services to increase funding, over the fiscal year 2008 level, for programs authorized by the Public Health Service Act, for prevention, wellness, and public health activities including prevention research and health screenings, such as the Community Transformation grant program, the Education and Outreach Campaign for Preventive Benefits, and immunization programs.
(d) TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—The Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of may provide for the transfer of funds in the Fund to eligible activities under this section, subject to subsection (c).
Why do you suggest Mr. Trump violate his oath? -- "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
No, he can kill ObamaCare by doing his sworn duty:
constitutional right to privacy of medical records [from the government].
According to my congress person, the repeal and replace of O’Care is already written and has guaranteed signers of the bill.
So, I don’t know where you’re getting your info .. but I can guess.
I would love Trump to repeal it retroactively, refunding the tax penalties charged by the IRS back to the people who had to pay.
With the “Democrat” Illinois and New Hampshire senators now gone, that will be much easier.
Unless they can ALL be strong-armed into a reconciliation repeal, there is no majority.
The problem was always about the COSTS of medical care, not the quantity of people without it. So what factors figure into the costs? The talking heads(backed by lawyers) say Medical Malpractice Reform accounts for very little in the cost of medical care....well, every little bit counts. Are there monopolies in those that produce medicines/equipment...let's look there. To the extent Wall St. plays a factor...remove that impediment.
A top-down study/investigation is required...get the best minds together and..."work the problem, people".
Insuring the truly needy is fine, insuring a bunch of deadbeats and dumping the costs on the backs of the producers...with the only intent being getting a permanent democrapic voter-base...that's as insane as open borders and it puts America on a track of third-world status at warp speed.
It was a demonrat turd...flush it.
However, Trump can revoke any 0bama EOs that Obama issued that propped up 0-care.
He could also direct the IRS not to collect the penalty.
This would cause it to collapse, and it would have to be repealed.
Obamacare lived by budget reconciliation, it will die & be replaced by budget reconciliation.
Anything less is a serious betrayal of his voters by Mr. Trump.
Nuclear option. Good for the goose, and all.. Ain’t that right, Harry?
Crumple it and toss it into the garbage can. It’s that easy.
If it’s the political aspect you’re worried about, have no fear.
What politics creates, politics can destroy.
Obamacare is in a death spiral as far as the private insurance goes. This will force a change rather quickly. I can't see a Trump admin making illegal payments to insurance companies to keep it alive.
Snowflake alert!
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