REPEAL THE EFFING BILL!!!
NOW!!!
SIGN THE PETITION TO PROTECT PA FROM OBAMACARE!
Posted on 03/24/2010 2:50:24 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
There is no fixing President Obama’s healthcare takeover that was jammed through on a partisan vote with secret deals, kickbacks and carve-outs. This Mediscam bill must be repealed.
The Democrats promised their bill would reduce the deficit, decrease healthcare costs and lower insurance premiums. It does the opposite by exploding our national debt and raising $569.2 billion in new taxes in their quest to control one-sixth of the economy. Worse yet, it imposes an unconstitutional mandate on Americans and permits the government funding of abortion.
All of this was done in the face of overwhelming public outrage and bipartisan opposition in Congress. This process has been an insult to our democracy and threatens our nation’s prosperity and freedom.
The Democrats lied to Americans about the true cost of Mediscam by using Bernie Madoff-style accounting tricks to hide the trust cost of their takeover.
Mediscam takes money from other unfunded entitlement programs. It raids $52 billion from Social Security. It cuts nearly $500 billion from Medicare and doesn’t count the hundreds of billions needed to compensate doctors who treat elderly patients. It adds millions of people to Medicaid, a failing program that many doctors and pharmacists refuse to participate in. Medicaid won’t do its patients any good if a doctor won’t treat them or a pharmacist won’t fill their prescriptions.
To pay a portion of the new costs, ObamaCare will takeover student loans. President Obama will shut down private lenders this summer, sell expensive loans to 19 million college students and use the profits to finance “ObamaCare.” It also taxes companies that manufacture medical devices, like Pacemakers, stifling innovation in the very sector that provides Americans with life-saving goods.
Government bureaucrats are now preparing to dictate the terms of our healthcare system. President Obama’s law says Americans must purchase Washington-formulated insurance plans or pay stiff penalties, a requirement that defies the Constitution and is a boon to the insurance companies the Democrats pretend to despise.
The law calls for an expansion of the Internal Revenue Services. A new branch that I call the “Internal Medical Service” will hire thousands of people to track down and penalize Americans who don’t comply with the new rules.
Americans objected to this takeover at every turn, peacefully protesting for over a year and begging their leaders not to take away their healthcare freedom. They asked for common-sense solutions such as buying health insurance across state lines, stopping frivolous lawsuits that drive up costs, and giving the same tax breaks to those who don’t get insurance from employers.
Washington didn’t listen.
When a President and a Congress collude to violate the Constitution and ignore the American people, everything our nation stands for is at risk.
Mediscam won’t deliver what was promised and will cost Americans far more than the country can afford. Thankfully, most of the plan doesn’t go into effect until 2014.
It’s not too late to undo the damage. There’s still time to stop it.
I introduced a bill to repeal this monstrosity after President Obama signed it into law. Tens of thousands of Americans are supporting this effort. I posted a petition to repeal the bill, at www.repealitpledge.com, late Sunday evening after the House passed it the bill. And more than 50,000 people have already signed it, pledging to support conservative candidates in 2010 who vow to repeal President Obama’s healthcare takeover.
We can repeal this bill by repealing Democrats in November.
When you see a horror story about TerriSchiavoCare that does NOT have anything to do with abortion, remember: This is a horror that the Catholic bishops were in FAVOR of.
I just signed the pledge - it’s up to nearly 120,000 by now.
Instead, they just go along for the ride until the fire gets too hot. Just because they are in the minority doesn't mean they have to abdicate their principles and keep their opinions to themselves.
You are talking about the wrong guy here. DeMint has been hard core for stopping 0bamacare from get get go. And is hard core for repealing 0bamacare today. He's been very consistent in the right direction.
I don’t know if the GOP ever drafted a bill independently. It wouldn’t have gotten out of committee. They do say on their website what their broad goals would be for reforming the health care system.
And I do think there is a strategery (apologies to George W. Bush) here. The GOP wanted the Democrats to immolate themselves, knowing what witches and warlocks they had become. They might well have done it.
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act Of 1988
Me too. But you know, the time for signing pledges, sending emails, making calls to legislators, turning en masse at town hall meetings, streaming into DC to express our discontent, etc. is over. We tried, and how we tried. But in the end we were lied to and ignored.
I don't know what's next, but we need to figure it out and get busy doing it.
I fear violence is in our future. Not on the part of us who are so discouraged and demoralized by the realization that those running the country right now ignore the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, but rather from those of the entitlement society whose programs and benefits are going to be seriously curtailed when we run out of credit and ink for the presses. The word unsustainable is overused these days but there isn't a better one to describe situation our country's finances are in these days.
In a perverse sort of way I think a message is being sent by the number of firearms that are being purchased, the universal shortage of ammunition and the huge increase in applications to legally carry a concealed weapon. Of course all of this is a direct threat to society, unlike the millions of street thugs who have armed themselves over the years without worrying about the legality of their carrying habits</sarcasm>
Even if the road we are on under this administration and Congress didn't lead straight to disaster it would be a road that I would not choose.
My $0.02 is that it would be well to plan to head off Rat cheating at the polls which will be tried in every foul way, such as corrupting the election offices, letting the likes of Black Panthers prowl the polling places, etc. Also chew the ear off any RINO that even thinks about amnesty. I think Obama stuck his big fat foot about as deep in it as he could and if the public is allowed a fair answer it will be HELL, NO!
I wouldn’t argue that point with you at all but a lone voice from afar is difficult to hear. Why weren’t they speaking as one. I’m just frustrated with everyone who espouses so so many principles when they want your vote, then when we want them to vote, it is like trying to nail jello to a tree, no structure, no form, no staying where it is supposed to be.
and suddenly we are all lambs.
We need to do more than vote name recognition here in Indiana.
Sen. Jim DeMint: There is no fixing President Obama's healthcare takeover that was jammed through on a partisan vote with secret deals, kickbacks and carve-outs. This Mediscam bill must be repealed.Thanks SmokingJoe.
John Boehner said if the GOP wins the House he pledged to DEFUND it. It needs to happen then repeal, sue, gut, destroy, immolate, wreck, sabotage and kill ObamaCare.
The FBI and ATF do not have enough firepower or agents to take us all on. And they know it.
Republicans like DeMint have been fighting this from the get-go. In fact, it was DeMint who fired the first shot on this by predicting it would be Obama's Waterloo.
I have confidence in the courts, the states, and the people that this thing won't see the light of day.
I wonder if ANY college students realize that this is going to cost them, ON AVERAGE, an EXTRA $1700 [over what they pay now] during the life of the loan ???
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