[rktman]

How about “we” save “it” all and totally defund it. Prolly not gonna happen. Heck, with the current crop of clowns, there will probably be an increase.

[DrPretorius]

In the tyrannical era of Hussein the monster, we’ve learned, or should have learned, that any statistic claim or budgetary assertion made by any agency of the US government is, prima facie, absolute, unadulterated bullshit. Any argument that uses a governmental statistic as its foundation is total nonsense and should be dismissed out of hand. And that’s that!

[fella]

Repealing all of obamacare would save half a trillion the following week.

[Don Corleone]

KEWL. Who will sign it into law?

[Paco]

What does "save" $500B actually mean? Does that mean the spending INCREASE is $500B less than projected? If so, we aren't "saving" anything. We're still losing our a$$ and increasing spending.

We need to eliminate baseline budgeting and talk about real numbers, real increases and decreases in spending year over year. I wish Trump and Cruz would talk about that.

[oh8eleven]

will save the taxpayer more than $500 billion
The taxpayer? Who gives a krap about them anymore?
Elected officials do more for illegal aliens and the Takers of Society while viewing taxpayers with distain.
Time for term limits for all polititians.

[KeyLargo]

Andrew Malcolm

Political News & Commentary

ObamaCare Extended To Policing Gun Ownership

BY THOMAS MCARDLE

11:09 AM ET

“If you like your gun, you can keep your gun” is definitely not anything you’ll be hearing from President Obama soon.

You may never have thought that a simple visit to the doctor could lead to the FBI breathing down your neck, but the president’s new executive actions on gun control could lead to just that, mortally wounding the long-established presumption of doctor-patient confidentiality.

Obama’s directives apparently trump long-standing federal rules preventing doctors from disclosing mental health matters. Now the executive branch will “expressly permit certain HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) covered entities to disclose to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the identities of individuals who are subject to a Federal ‘mental health prohibitor’ that disqualifies them from shipping, transporting, possessing or receiving a firearm.”

Currently, if a doctor discloses a patient’s private information without that patient’s authorization, the physician could be sued for malpractice or invasion of privacy. The president now apparently wants violating that confidential bond to be treated as an act that promotes public safety.

And the question of “mental health” is entirely subjective. If you tell your doctor you woke up Monday morning feeling like killing yourself, or that your spouse made you mad enough to reach for your hunting rifle, will that warrant a call to the FBI? Will a federal SWAT team then pounce, just in case you have a gun or two in the house? Such law enforcement overreach is by no means an outlandish scenario.

The ObamaCare database, it turns out, was only the beginning of this administration’s violations of the medical privacy of Americans. Now doctors are set to be enlisted in the nation’s federal gun police.

http://news.investors.com/010516-788091-obamacare-extended-to-policing-guns.htm