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Obamacare: Day 60
America Held Hostage
Roundup of News & Views
No. 19. Nov 29, 2013
1 Day Left
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
"The law of the land"
Read it at The Government Printing Office
The Week Ahead
House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing schedule for the week of December 2, 2013
Medicare Advantage: What Beneficiaries Should Expect Under the President’s Health Care Plan (PPACA)
The Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing webcast will be available at http://energycommerce.house.gov/.
Article at House.gov
Article at House.gov
Countdown to November 30 Deadline
October 25: Sebelius in San Antonio: Obamacare Site Will be Fixed by November 30
Article at WOAI radio
October 28: White House Says ACA Exchange Glitches To Be Resolved by November 30
Article at California Healthline
November 20: Sebelius softens promise of Healthcare.gov fix by November 30
"The 30th of November is not a magic go, no-go date. It is a work of constant improvement."
Article at Columbus Dispatch
Article at Spokesman-Review
November 20: HealthCare.gov Web site crashes as Sebelius watches at sign-up site
"Uh oh."
Article at Washington Post
November 26: "The system will not work perfectly on Dec. 1, but it will operate much better than it did in October"
Article at ABC News
November 27: Insurers: Despite deadline, Obamacare glitches persist
Insurers are still getting inaccurate and duplicative data. And that's even if it makes it to them at all. "There's no part of us that thinks all of this will be fixed in three days from now," an industry official said.
Article at CNN
November 27: Obama Admin: Please Don't Use Obamacare Website This Weekend
Article at Breitbart
November 30: ?????
Only hours away.
Corruption
Community Organizations: Obama’s corrupt power grab
Obamacare outsources the important job of enrolling the uninsured in health plans, taking it from government and entrusting it to community organizations. Why outsource? Because it eliminates public scrutiny, accountability, and the necessity to be nonpartisan. Community activists can say and do things that government employees can’t, such as urging people to register as Democrats.
Article at Human Events
Community Organizer: Busted!
A Director of Enroll America, a group dedicated to signing people up for Obamacare, is on video agreeing to help obtain a private list of potential Obamacare enrollees' data for election/political purposes.
Enroll America appears to be sharing data and working directly with an explicitly political group called Battleground Texas, activities that Project Veritas' O'Keefe notes “are prohibited unless certain conditions are met.” Adrian Bell, the regional field director for Battleground Texas, proudly notes the group was “started by President Obama’s national field director” and is “dedicated to turning Texas blue.”
Chris Tarango, Texas Enroll America Communications Director, was videoed by Project Veritas.
Complaints have been filed with the IRS and the Attorney General of Texas.
Article at Project Veritas
Article at The New American
Article at National Review
D.C.-Based Health Care Exchange May Have Engaged in Illegal Political Activity
DC Health Link, the Obamacare exchange for the District, online communications with OFA (Organizing for Action, formerly known as Organizing for America, BarackObama.com) allegedly violated Hatch Act
Article at Washington Free Beacon
ACORN Redux: The ObamaCare Navigators Nightmare
“You lie because your premiums will be higher”
One fired, three suspended after undercover health care video
Article at Frontpage Magazine
Article at Fox DFW
Your Tax Dollars at Work
How the Authors of Obamacare Protected Insurance Companies
A safety net known as the three R's - Reinsurance, Risk Corridors, Risk Adjustment.
Article at National Journal
Article at Washington Examiner
CMS letter to state regulators on ObamaCare “fix” hints at “risk corridor” bailout for insurers
Article at Hotair.com
Bill Introduced to Prevent Insurance Industry Bailout
Warning that the latest ObamaCare "fix" could compel the federal government to bail out insurance companies, Republican senators have introduced a bill to prevent taxpayer funds from being used to prop up the industry.
"The idea that the federal government should be bailing out insurance companies in order to make ObamaCare work, that's not something a lot of people are aware of"
The provision has been in the law since passage, but Rubio and other senators raised concern about it after President Obama announced last week that he would allow insurance companies to continue to offer out-of-compliance plans.
Article at Fox News
Administration Offering Insurers 'Bribe' to Reinstate Plans
The Obama administration is offering a "thinly described illegal bribe" to entice insurance companies to reinstate plans they have canceled, Karl Rove says.
Appearing Thursday (Nov 14) on Fox News Channel's "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren," Rove held up a three-page letter sent out Thursday by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services explaining that the "risk corridor program" would be expanded to help companies "ameliorate unanticipated changes in premium revenue."
The problem, Rove said, is that the risk corridor program applies only to "qualified plans" under the Affordable Care Act – not to grandfathered plans.
Article at Newsmax
Obama Administration proposes an IRS rule to violate PPACA
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act offers "premium assistance" — tax credits and subsidies — to households purchasing coverage through new health-insurance exchanges. The law authorizes premium assistance in state-run exchanges (Section 1311) but not federal ones (Section 1321). This past summer the Obama Administration proposed an IRS rule to offer premium assistance in all exchanges "whether established under section 1311 or 1321" - a clear violation of the law.
Article at WSJ
White House working with insurers to bypass HealthCare.gov: WSJ
Currently, customers who are eligible for subsidies can get them only when purchasing coverage on the exchanges. The Obama administration said it may allow big insurers to directly sign up those who qualify for tax credit
Article at CNBC
Lawsuit
Forty House Republicans side with Obamacare Origination Clause suit
All revenue-raising bills must originate in the House (Article 1, Section 7), and since the bill that became Obamacare was written in the Senate, House Republicans say that’s a problem.
Forty House Republicans filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Quoting the brief, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said in a press release, “If the Senate can introduce the largest tax increase in American history by simply peeling off the House number from a six-page unrelated bill, which does not raise taxes, and pasting it on the ‘Senate Health Care Bill,’ and then claim with a straight face that the resulting bill originated in the House … then the American ‘rule of law’ has become no rule at all,”
Article at Washington Times
Article at Roll Call
Case Resources at Pacific Legal
Legislative History of PPACA/Obamacare:
There are 7 versions of Bill Number H.R.3590 for the 111th Congress. Note the renaming and repurposing by the Senate.
1. Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 (Introduced in House - IH)[H.R.3590.IH][PDF]
2. Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 (Engrossed in House [Passed House] - EH)[H.R.3590.EH][PDF]
3. Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 (Placed on Calendar Senate - PCS)[H.R.3590.PCS][PDF]
4. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Amendment in Senate - AS)[H.R.3590.AS][PDF]
5. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Print - PP)[H.R.3590.PP][PDF]
6. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Engrossed Amendment Senate - EAS)[H.R.3590.EAS][PDF]
7. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Enrolled Bill [Final as Passed Both House and Senate] - ENR)[H.R.3590.ENR][PDF]
Source: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3590:
Constitution Check: Is Obamacare’s legality still in doubt?
Lyle Denniston looks at four potentially very significant new challenges under way to Obamacare.
Article at Constitution Center
Signature Lies
Obama: ‘I don’t think I’m stupid enough’ to mislead on website
Article at Washington Times
Yes Obama was Stupid Enough, Briefed Directly on Myriad Website Problems Before Launch
(ed: "dishonest" seems more accurate)
Article at The Pundit Press
Obama: We will reduce premiums $2,500 per family
Another signature lie.
Video at Youtube
The Royal Perogative
Delays
Obama says he will delay for one year the part of ObamaCare that requires all plans to meet stringent standards of coverage.
Article at The New American
Obama admin repeatedly modified ‘grandfathering’ rules
Article at Daily Caller
Krauthammer: An outbreak of lawlessness
For all the gnashing of teeth over the lack of comity and civility in Washington, the real problem is not etiquette but the breakdown of political norms, legislative and constitutional.
Article at Washington Post
Miscellany
The HMO Act
The HMO Act turns 40 this December, here is some health insurance history
Article at Citizens Council for Health Freedom
IRS creates plan on collecting taxes to pay for ACA
Article at Modern Healthcare
Opinion
Thomas Sowell: "An Old 'New' Program"
ObamaCare is in many ways old wine in new bottles
Article at Creators.com
Revealed: The Man Who Wrote Obamacare
Meet Robert Creamer, a federal felon, and the husband of Marxist Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). Creamer wrote 628 pages of Obamacare while he was in prison.
Recommended reading at American Thinker
Article at Western Journalism
Forget the website crashes: The real $1 trillion problem with Obamacare has yet to emerge
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Dr. Robert Nirschl — a practicing orthopedic surgeon, former faculty member of Georgetown and a former member of the legislative committee of the American Academy of Orthopedic surgery — dismissed the recent issues suffered by HealthCare.gov and the media feeding frenzy surrounding it, arguing that the systemic flaws within the law had not yet surfaced, and that when they do, it will be catastrophic.
Article at Daily Caller
The Purpose of the Welfare State
Defenders of the welfare state argue that its purpose is implied in its name: providing for the welfare of its citizens. That is done by the judicious transfer of resources to ensure that even citizens on the lowest rung of the socio-economic ladder have access to the material resources necessary to lead minimally decent lives. The problem is, once you look at actual political outcomes a little more closely, they do not resemble the intentions of the welfare state’s defenders.
Article at FFF.org
Socialism and Thanksgiving
Thread at Free Republic
ObamaCare's Looming Land Mine
Article at American Thinker
Read other editions of the Obamacare Roundup.
Violations of US Constitution File for the 2014 Impeachment of arrogant “B. Hussein Obama,” aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
It’s like a slow-motion trainwreck.
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