VIGILANCE AWARD GOES TO MEMBER Gordon Ray Kissinger

Following the sequester debacle in which Obama and his cohorts were swiftly found to be lying through their teeth, his polling numbers have begun to fall and, folks you ain’t seen nothing yet.

As the realities and costs of the Affordable Healthcare Act—Obamacare—kick in, when he leaves office, he will be remembered for inflicting pain and suffering on Americans.

As the various aspects of Obamacare become active, the impact on everyone will reduce their income and increase their costs. In retrospect it will be seen as the largest poison pill any President or political party ever swallowed. Recall that Obamacare was passed December 24, 2009, Christmas Eve, by a straight Democrat party vote, none of whom had even read the legislation.

The House passed the bill with a vote of 219 to 212 on March 21, 2010, with 34 Democrats and all 178 Republicans voting against it. At 2,000-plus pages, it has now been joined by thousands of pages more to implement it. It is a regulatory nightmare.

In January, the author of “Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis”, John C. Goodman, wrote of Obamacare’s impact on your tax bill. “You will join other Americans in paying more than $500 billion in nineteen new types of taxes and fees over the next decade to fund health reform. Some of the new taxes will be indirect and will be passed on to you in the form of higher prices, higher premiums, or lower wages.”

As Americans address paying their 2012 income taxes, here are some of the new taxes that will afflict some or all of them at some point.

# A tax on medical devices. This will cover “everything from surgical instruments and bedpans to wheelchairs and crutches. Even pacemakers and artificial hips and knees are taxes.” If Obamacare is not repealed, it will rake in $20 billion over the next decade.

# A tax on health insurance. Beginning in 2014, there will be a $60 billion tax on health insurance that will be felt in higher premiums. A typical family of four will have to spend nearly $1,000 a year.

# A tax on drugs. If you think prescription drugs are expensive now, some drug makers have already begun to raise prices.

Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on March 20, 2013 at 5:12pm: ‘Not One Dime’: Obamacare Projected To Add $6.2 Trillion To U.S. Deficit

March 20, 2013 By Breaking News

Congress is likely to follow precedent and bypass the new health care law’s draconian payment cuts to doctors and hospitals, causing the law’s cost to balloon by trillions of dollars.

It turns out President Obama was right when he said his health care law wouldn’t add one dime to the federal deficit.1 Figures from the Government Accountability Office suggest that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will in fact add 62 trillion dimes over the next 75 years.2 (To give that $6.2 trillion some perspective, our national debt is currently $16.7 trillion.) Sometimes called the congressional watchdog, the GAO is the official auditor for the U.S. Congress. GAO is the agency that designated Medicare and Medicaid as high-risk programs because they are particularly vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse, and improper payments. And it is likewise the agency that ultimately will be tasked with identifying all the bureaucratic snafus associated with Obamacare as it continues to roll out, affecting more and more Americans.

Federal Budget on an “Unsustainable” Path

In the meantime, GAO has issued a report that paints a bleak picture of Obamacare’s impact on our fiscal future. An important takeaway is shown in Figure 1.

No matter whether we use current law (labeled the “baseline extended” scenario) or current policy (labeled the “alternative” fiscal scenario), the January 2010 projections (calculated before Obamacare was written into law) show U.S. public debt3 is soon headed toward historically unprecedented4 and economically unsustainable levels.5 The baseline scenario essentially assumes we follow current law to the letter. Thus, for example, the baseline scenario for last fall assumed that Medicare would slash payment rates to physicians by 26.5 percent on January 1, 2013, since that was what the law at the time required.

Read More at The American . By Christopher J. Conover.

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Comment by PHILIP SCHNEIDER on March 19, 2013 at 10:38am: I find it absolutely astonishing how easily Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are getting media coverage and our two "leaders" sic, in congress are satisfied with getting an occasional invitation to the White House for breakfast with Obama.

The difference in Political Action indicates clearly WHO is interested in preserving our way of life and the US Constitution and who is playing a game of two party politics.

Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on March 19, 2013 at 6:09am: In Response to RedState, Mitch McConnell Doubles Down on Surrender

By: Erick Erickson | March 18th, 2013 at 01:08 PM

“Mitch McConnell is playing three card monty with the Republican base and thinks we are foolish enough to believe his distractions.”

Mitch McConnell wants to clear the air based on my earlier RedState post. In the post, quoting Yahoo! News, I noted McConnell said, “When it came to Obamacare, we gave it everything we have, everything we have, and we just lost.”

In response to this morning’s post, Mitch McConnell’s press team sent out an email blast with the transcript of the speech. They reached out to my office insisting I fix a quote from a news story that itself has not changed the quote. Nonetheless, the McConnell team insists the actual quote is, “We gave it everything we had, and we just barely lost the legislative fight.”

Okay, but what else did Mitch McConnell say. From his own transcript:

Obamacare should be repealed root and branch. And we’re not backing down from this fight. We’ve taken the same approach to Obamacare. We gave it everything we had, and we just barely lost the legislative fight. The Supreme Court ruling last summer was another blow. But I can’t just stand by and look at that assault on liberty behind me and do nothing.

He immediately then declared, pointing to the rules and regulations of Obamacare, “Ladies and Gentlemen: if there were ever a symbol of what we’re fighting against, that tower is it. And grounded in the principles that unite us, we’ll fight this and every other assault on liberty that the Left throws at us — until we restore the American ideal.”

Pay close attention to that.

McConnell had next to him, as a prop, the rules and regulations enacted under Obamacare. His prop was not the law itself, but rather the rules and regulations stemming from the law.

Mitch McConnell is playing three card monty with the Republican base and thinks we are foolish enough to believe his distractions. He thinks we can pick fights now on regulations. But the regulations will keep coming and the Senate Democrats will keep blocking any and all repeals unless Mitch McConnell actually picks a fight on Obamacare itself — not the underlying rules and regulations.

I wonder how many people actually think he had the 2,000 page law next to him, instead of the regulations.

The only existing way to defund Obamacare is to fight on the continuing resolution. Unless Mitch McConnell has the testicular fortitude to shut down the government until the Democrats agree to defund Obamacare, he can bluster all he wants and spin all he wants, but the result is the same.

Mitch McConnell has no will to fight to kill Obamacare. He’s only willing to use its rules and regulations and props to claim we’ll fight on that ground instead of the ground we should be fighting on — defunding Obamacare itself.

That McConnell went out of his way to re-spin his well packaged nonsense into something more than it is suggests he is really and truly scared of the Republican base, but is too much a creature of Washington to really fight. All he knows is spin, throw red meat, and then blame someone else for his failures.

http://www.redstate.com/2013/03/18/in-response-to-redstate-mitch-mc...

Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on March 18, 2013 at 5:05pm

Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on March 18, 2013 at 5:00pm

March 18, 2013

Greetings,

The Senate held important votes last week on defunding Obamacare and the Second Amendment I’d like you to know about. If you have a moment, please read and share the latest news with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. As always, it’s an honor to represent you and the Great State of Texas.

All the best,
TC Sig
Ted Cruz

DEFUNDING OBAMACARE

All 45 Senate Republicans presented a united front and voted unanimously in favor of Sen. Cruz’s amendment to defund Obamacare in the upcoming Continuing Resolution. Unfortunately, the amendment was defeated on a party-line vote; all Senate Democrats voted against it. While it’s disappointing the amendment did not pass, Sen. Cruz is proud that all Senate Republicans recognized the threat Obamacare poses to our still-struggling economy and came together to force this matter for a vote in the U.S. Senate.

Shortly before the vote, Sen. Cruz delivered his first major speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, highlighting many of the promises Obamacare has already broken. Please take a moment to watch and share if you can.

Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on March 18, 2013 at 2:44pm: Mitch McConnell Declares Surrender On Obamacare

18 Mar 2013

by Erick Erickson

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore

Joining Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell is declaring surrender on Obamacare. He will no longer fight it.

You’d never know that if you paid attention to his preferred words about Obamacare at CPAC. McConnell told the crowd that “Obamacare should be repealed root and branch.” He also told the crowd that those who think he’s given up the fight are wrong. He pledged to continue to fight. I call bull.

The part of his speech that McConnell hopes you ignore is him saying, “When it came to Obamacare, we gave it everything we have, everything we have, and we just lost.” He’s also signaling that the Senate Republicans will neither filibuster the continuing resolution nor shut down the government.

The continuing resolution is the best vehicle to use as a fight to defund Obamacare. Republicans will not, despite their rhetoric right now, fight on the debt ceiling to undermine Obamacare. This is the fight.

McConnell has a history of throwing red meat to the crowd then turning his back on them. Last February, Jim DeMint offered an amendment to defund Obamacare. McConnell refused to offer it up as a Republican amendment in the Senate because he did not want to anger Harry Reid. The backlash caused McConnell to promise a month long PR campaign about Obamacare the following month.

Read more from this story HERE.

Read more: http://joemiller.us/2013/03/mitch-mcconnell-declares-surrender-on-o...

Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on March 18, 2013 at 2:00pm: Oklahoma House Passes Obamacare Nullification Bill

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State Representative Mike Ritze, a doctor and surgeon, has been a fierce opponent of Obamacare since its inception. He made headlines last summer when he introduced Obamacare nullification legislation that would not only render Obamacare null and void, but also would criminalize any federal agent attempting to enforce Obamacare mandates and regulations inside the state of Oklahoma.

Now that the Oklahoma state house is back in session, the bill was voted on and passed by a vote of 72 to 20. Even though the bill differs from its original form in that it no longer imposes fines and jail times for those federal agents seeking to enforce the federal healthcare law in Oklahoma, it does still acknowledge that the law is unconstitutional and renders it null and void inside state borders.

Opponents of the bill have predictably stated that whatever laws the federal government enacts have to be honored, because they are by default the “law of the land.” They say that just because some guy in a state house of representatives doesn’t agree with a federal law doesn’t give him the authority to ignore the law.

But that’s not really what’s at issue here. What’s at issue is whether or not Obamacare is a law that is consistent with the U.S. Constitution. Opponents of Ritze’s bill point to the so-called Supremacy Clause in Article VI which reads, in part, “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof…shall be the supreme law of the land.”

“…[I]n pursuance thereof” is the key phrase, and Representative Ritze uses this phrase to support his legislation:

“There is no provision in Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution where the states delegated to Congress the authority to make a citizen purchase health care or pay a fine. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is an example of federal overreach, and my legislation will authorize the state via the will of the People to ignore it and ban the enforcement of it. They fail to understand how the country is supposed to operate. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist, No. 33: ‘It expressly confines this supremacy to laws made pursuant to the Constitution.’ Alexander Hamilton got it right. Congress and the Supreme Court got it wrong.”

Now that the bill has passed the House, it’s headed for the Senate. Representative Ritze thinks the chances of the bill making it to the Governor’s desk is 50/50. And if the Governor does sign the bill into law, expect the feds to throw a fit like they did when Texas tried to nullify the TSA.

Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/9931/oklahoma-house-passes-obamacare-n...

Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on March 18, 2013 at 1:58pm: Americans will Curse Obama for Obamacare

18 March 2013

Following the sequester debacle in which Obama and his cohorts were swiftly found to be lying through their teeth, his polling numbers have begun to fall and, folks you ain’t seen nothing yet.

As the realities and costs of the Affordable Healthcare Act—Obamacare—kick in, when he leaves office, he will be remembered for inflicting pain and suffering on Americans.

As the various aspects of Obamacare become active, the impact on everyone will reduce their income and increase their costs. In retrospect it will be seen as the largest poison pill any President or political party ever swallowed. Recall that Obamacare was passed December 24, 2009, Christmas Eve, by a straight Democrat party vote, none of whom had even read the legislation.

The House passed the bill with a vote of 219 to 212 on March 21, 2010, with 34 Democrats and all 178 Republicans voting against it. At 2,000-plus pages, it has now been joined by thousands of pages more to implement it. It is a regulatory nightmare.

In January, the author of “Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis”, John C. Goodman, wrote of Obamacare’s impact on your tax bill. “You will join other Americans in paying more than $500 billion in nineteen new types of taxes and fees over the next decade to fund health reform. Some of the new taxes will be indirect and will be passed on to you in the form of higher prices, higher premiums, or lower wages.”

As Americans address paying their 2012 income taxes, here are some of the new taxes that will afflict some or all of them at some point.

# A tax on medical devices. This will cover “everything from surgical instruments and bedpans to wheelchairs and crutches. Even pacemakers and artificial hips and knees are taxes.” If Obamacare is not repealed, it will rake in $20 billion over the next decade.

# A tax on health insurance. Beginning in 2014, there will be a $60 billion tax on health insurance that will be felt in higher premiums. A typical family of four will have to spend nearly $1,000 a year.

# A tax on drugs. If you think prescription drugs are expensive now, some drug makers have already begun to raise prices.

Read More: http://emergingcorruption.com/

Read more: http://MinuteMenNews.com/2013/03/americans-will-curse-obama-for-oba...

Comment by PHILIP SCHNEIDER on March 17, 2013 at 7:51pm: The most HORRIBLE aspect of Obamacare was at a total legislative page count of 2700 when it's language was passed with only liberal progressive radical democrat votes, THAT was only the "Public Notice Part". The real damage came later as 20,000 additional pages of rules and regulations have been added and we are still counting.

This was, as you recall, the sinister subversion of the US Constitution where the liberal progressive democrat machine legislators met behind closed doors and passed the legislation admonishing We the People that we'd have to wait until the bill was passed before we would know what's in it.

And now the democrats have invented a new way to govern ie: pass a bill with a "TITLE" only and fill in the actual details and blanks later. In the Obamacare case 20,000 pages of blanks!

It amazes me how little the Republicans seem to accomplish with Boehner and McConnell at our conservative helm compared to the democrats with 20,000 pages in just one bill alone!

You know of course that Obamacare has very little to do with healthcare and has more to do with total control of every aspect of our lives. If you don't . . . . . you haven't been paying any more attention than Mr. Boehner or McConell.

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Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on March 17, 2013 at 6:45pm: Obamacare to Add $6.2 Trillion to National Deficit; Obama Claimed It Wouldn't Add a Dime

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed three years ago with President Obama saying it would not add one dime to the federal deficit, is now projected to add $6.2 trillion to the deficit and inflict severe cuts to Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals and physicians.

When Obamacare passed in March 2010, many Americans believed they would soon receive the same lifetime healthcare benefits as every member of Congress, and without incurring additional costs for themselves, their families or their businesses. The truth, however, is the Government Accountability Office (GAO) anticipates the Obamacare entitlement program will place a heavy burden on the U.S. economy, which currently has a national debt of $16.7 trillion.

According to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank, patients and their physicians are going to feel the full impact of the costs associated with Obamacare, and not only by adding $6.2 trillion to the national debt, but in ways that are far more tangible to families, and especially senior citizens.

In his analysis of the GAO's report, Chris Conover, an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, notes the current law already requires "Medicare to slash physician fees by 25 percent next January (under the Balanced Budget Amendment)." He adds that by 2030, Medicare payments to physicians will be 60 percent less than payments received from patients who have private health insurance plans.

Likewise, Conover shows payments to hospitals that provide services to Medicare and Medicaid patients will be paid 61 percent less for procedures than payments from private health insurers; and physicians eventually will be paid 74 percent less under Medicare than private insurance.

"First, cuts of that magnitude will create huge problems of access to care," Conover said in a statement to The Christian Post on Friday.

"The Medicare actuary projects that 40 percent of Part A providers will be operating in the red by the year 2050. No facility can operate in the red year after year after year. So many of these facilities will close entirely, meaning patients will have to travel longer and farther to get care. This will disproportionately hurt low-income patients for whom transportation barriers are an issue."

He continues, "For the facilities that stay open, quality clearly cannot be as high for a facility whose payment rates are 61 percent lower than for private pay patients. Just as Medicaid patients have already experienced, there will be much longer waiting times for care, visits will be much shorter and less informative.

According to Conover, the least-advantaged will feel the greatest impact by these changes in healthcare since they're the ones most in need of patient education regarding lifestyle choices. "Far more patients will get turned away entirely, meaning that it will increase the burden on safety net facilities whose emergency rooms will become even more overloaded as the private delivery system essentially shrinks."

"There also is likely to be cost-shifting back onto private patients as providers seek to offset their losses on public patients by raising their charges for paying patients. But this will merely expand the payment gap between private and public patients," he added.

Conover told CP it's important for Americans to understand that the bad news won't be limited to public patients. "Crowded emergency rooms are a problem for the entire community, both from the standpoint of costs and being able to access critical care when needed."

He also emphasized that contracts negotiated in the exchanges tend to be based on Medicare payment rates.

"As Medicare payments decline, some people in the exchanges in the least expensive plans may discover that they, too, are less desirable customers to some providers since their plans are limited to Medicare payment rates," Conover said.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/obamacare-to-add-6-2-trillion-to-...

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