Posted on 09/03/2013 10:19:03 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act, was written with explicit language that it was to include everyone. No exceptions. Even members of Congress and their staff were mandated to follow the same rules as every other American citizen. This was apparently done to appease the Republicans and get their support for the bill. Then just before the 2012 elections several unions who had endorsed and campaigned for Barack Hussein Obama began to receive exemptions from the mandatory requirements. Then it was disclosed that members of Congress were concerned that their highly paid staff members would be persuaded to leave their cushy jobs if they had to pay for their own health insurance, like everyone else. So our Great Leader issued a decree that made them exempt and the government would continue to provide their insurance. Now we read that 40,000 union members have quit the AFL-CIO because they don’t like the idea of having to pay for their health insurance.
40,000 Longshoreman Quit AFL-CIO Blaming ObamaCare
In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation’s largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.
In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the disillusion of their affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO’s support of ObamaCare.
“We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along,” McEllrath wrote in the letter to Trumka.
The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their “Cadillac” healthcare plan.
What isn’t a surprise is that almost immediately after this announcement, some union leaders asked Obama to also exclude them from the mandatory coverage requirement. And it looks like they will get it. So what it all comes to is that the only people who will be forced to buy health insurance will be people who didn’t support or vote for Obama. In other words, Obamacare is really just a tax on Republicans.
In order to get Obamacare passed through Congress, then Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously remarked, “You have to pass the bill before you can see what’s in it.” But even when the bill was being written it had parts added for the expressed purpose of persuading certain groups from opposing it. Like the powerful NRA gun lobby. Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid inserted a clause in ACA that reversed a previous order to have family Physicians inquire if their patients had a gun in their house. Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, Obama issued his 23 Executive Orders to formulate Gun Control and one of those orders retracted the clause in Obamacare that Harry Reid inserted and once again, family doctors will be asking their patients if they own a gun. And since all medical records will be electronically stored and accessed by the government, anyone who admits they have a gun will be easily identified.
The true nature of Barack Hussein Obama’s government is becoming clearer and clearer every day. He admits he doesn’t need Congress to pass his laws, he can issue them by Executive Order. The Constitution is just an inconvenient piece of paper to him. He ignores and changes written laws to please himself and his friends and his supporters by issuing his Royal Decrees and Exemptions. It would not be surprising to learn he has a plan to remain in office after the end of his present term. And yes, there is a word for that, its called Dictator.
My name is Nelson Abdullah and I am Oldironsides.
Sarah Palin was right, but the 'death panels' be focused on Republicans.
Recall Valerie Jarret’s words - Payback?
Seems like a case for Judicial Watch? How can a law be enforced selectively?
http://www.judicialwatch.org/obamacare-challenge/
Judicial Watch is considering litigation challenging President Obama’s rewriting of Obamacare. Specifically, President Obama has unilaterally rewritten the law to delay the “employer mandate,” which was scheduled to go in effect on January 1, 2014, for at least a year. At the same time, he did not rewrite the law to delay the “individual mandate,” which requires nearly all Americans to have Obama-approved health insurance by that same date or pay a tax penalty.
How in the hell anyone with a sound mind would even consider voting “aye” on this ginormous piece of crap after san fran nan made her statement about voting for it to see what’s in it is beyond comprehension. That statement alone should have had demonkkkrats and republukkkrats alike voting “NAY”. Apparently we still have blithering mindless didiots all over d.c. Sheesh!
Obamacare passed the House on March 21st, 2010 with 219 democrat votes and ZERO republican votes
Obamacare passed the Senate on December 24, 2009 with 60 democrat (and independents who caucused democrat) votes and ZERO republican votes
Obamacare was signed into law by President obama on March 23, 2010.
So - who OWNS obamacare?
It is very simple. There are tons of idiots out there, who do not have sound minds.
The rats own it, but the Republicans will be blamed for it. Sad, but true.
Chief Justice Roberts was persuaded to vote to affirm ACA and stated is was because the mandate penalty was explicitly a tax. Now theOne is excusing preferred groups from a lawfully-enacted, constitutional tax. One wonders from where he believes this power derives and what other taxes he believes he can unilaterally negate.
“That statement alone should have had demonkkkrats and republukkkrats alike voting “NAY”.”
Not a single Republican in the House or Senate voted for it!
The 0 supporters are getting preferential treatment, er, subsidies and/or exemptions, on the backs of non-Union/non-0 supporters.
Sadly, we were outnumbered. Then again, I could only hope that it would have made a difference. But, that was a long time ago so what difference does it make now? Oh, wait. That was hildebeast commenting on another matter. The un-affordable care act carries on. Any cojones big enough to stop it? I guess we’ll see. What will the mid-terms hold?
Anyone can write to Judicial Watch and outline your concerns.
obamacarechallenge@judicialwatch.org.
OLYMPIA SNOWE facilitated getting it out of committee. She gave Max Baucus the political cover he needed (bi-partisan committee vote). She could have prevented it ever coming to the floor by voting against it there.
OLYMPIA SNOWE IS SINGLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MONSTROSITY. And then she retires. How convenient.
This is merely a clever ruse for Obama supporters. The idea that they can keep track accurately of tens of millions of people - sorry to have to remind all of us that tens of millions of Americans really did vote for this guy - is laughable to say the absolute least. And even if they could, they have hidden fees and taxes that will ensnare them anyway.
To which the answer should always be "If you really want to know, try breaking into my house some night".
Isn't a waiver an explicit admission that a tax law won't be enforced on some?
No legal expertise here, but it seems to me that laws should apply to everyone. Are Muslims, Amish, and others exempted from Obamacare also exempted from other laws such as red lights?
It seems logical that there should be some kind of challenge for all the ones who are exempted from Obamacare.
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