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Obamacare Tax Increases We Will All Feel

Obamacare Tax Increases we will all feel:

In 2014: Fine for no Health Insurance $95 or 1% of your Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) whichever is higher.

In 2015: The no insurance fine goes up to at least a minimum of $325 or 2% of (AGI), whichever is higher.

In 2016: The no insurance fine goes up to at least a minimum of $695 or 2.5% of (AGI), whichever is higher.

2017 forward – the fines index for inflation.  Even a $695 fine will not compel the younger subscribers that Obamacare is counting on to subsidize the older subscribers on the exchanges. They will simply pay the fine.

Note – illegal aliens are exempt from the fines.

Threshold for writing off medical expenses, now 10% of AGI, used to be 7.5%. This is a tax increase on people who had been getting that write-off.

Deferrals in to Pre-Tax Health Savings Accounts cut to $2500 limit. This is a tax increase on the middle class as this effectively cuts this write-off in half.

Compassion or Destruction

Is it Compassionate to give money and services to people to make them a permanent dependent class?

It is Compassionate to give them "Health Insurance" but NO Doctors.  (85% of doctors have considered quitting.)?

There are 100,000 gang members in Chicago (7/12/12 News) and they are currently in a gang war that has killed 245 people many who are innocent bystanders.  Is this compassionate to take away a man's means of supporting a family and self fullfillment that a job offers and instead make his provision unnecessary, becuase the government will take care of his children and girlfriends?

It is compassionate to disarm the good and Godly citizens of Chicago and instead allow 100,000 armed gang members, who believe it or not, do not follow the repressive gun restrictions in Chicago?  There are only 200 gang officers in Chicago.  Imagine if they actually organized together against the police.  Wow Destruction. (more)

 

• In the 1960s, there were 18 workers per Medicaid recipient. Today that number is 2.5.

• The number of Americans on disability has risen 19% faster than jobs created during this recovery.

• There are just 1.2 private sector workers per 1 person on welfare or working for government.

• There are now just 1.65 employed persons in private sector per 1 person on welfare assistance.

You can see where this is going: total collapse followed by “fundamental transformation,” just as the Cloward-Piven strategy predicts. Each time the Democrats come up with a new exercise in “compassion,” we know from bitter experience that (a) their cost projections are vastly underestimated, and (b) the program, once set on its course, must and will by its own internal, perverted “moral” logic grow until it consumes all available revenue. The program’s seeds of its own destruction — and that of everything it touches — are inherent from the start.

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Top 10 Violations of the Constitution by Obama and Congress

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/27/the-top-10-violations-of-the-constitution-by-obama-and-the-111th-congress/#ixzz19U2zL6Yu

Insurance Companies Profit from Obamacare

Why the Health Insurance Industry Supported Obamacare 

DrRich | July 29th, 2010 - 5:52 am

Why Big Health Insurance Supported Obamacare, Part II

The fact that the health insurance industry supported Obamacare from the very beginning was entirely missed by the mainstream press. This is perhaps understandable, since a) the mainstream press does not understand the dynamics of the healthcare system, and b) during the Obamacare drama, the health insurance companies had been assigned, and had graciously accepted, their vital role as the Forces of Evil. To the famously credulous members of the mainstream press, it was easy to imagine that the insurers were actually among the opposition.

But the insurance industry supported Obamacare from the start – and even before the start. During the Presidential race of 2008, for instance, managed care companies donated far more money to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than to any Republican candidate, even though both of these Democratic candidates publicly castigated the insurance companies for producing most of the problems in American healthcare, and promised to institute reforms that would drastically cramp their style and reduce their profits. MORE  Even More

British Healthcare Unhealthy

Grandmother disgusted at filthy hospital nursed and bathed other patients on her ward

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:09 PM on 29th January 2010

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Appalled: Janet Halsall was disgusted by the conditions in Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon

A grandmother was so disgusted by the filthy conditions and neglect on a hospital ward that she bathed and cared for the patients herself.

Janet Halsall, 74, was admitted to Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, for three days to have a scan on her liver, when she was shocked to see staff repeatedly ignore pleas for help and leave fellow elderly patients to ‘fend for themselves’. 

The kind-hearted pensioner was so appalled by the conditions in the hospital that she

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247030/Grandmother-disgusted-filthy-hospital-nursed-bathed-patients-ward.html#ixzz0e1gcBqyI

Conservative Action Project: The Individual Mandate in “Obamacare” is Unconstitutional

Posted on December 21st, 2009 by Robert Romano  LINK

MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT:

RE: The mandate under the Obama-Pelosi-Reid healthcare legislation requiring American citizens to purchase health insurance violates the U.S. Constitution.

ACTION: We urge you to make this point to members of the U.S. Senate—and if a bill passes the Senate to impress upon members of both chambers of Congress—that the key provision in the healthcare legislation violates the U.S. Constitution.

ISSUE: Mandating that individuals must obtain health insurance, and imposing any penalty—civil or criminal—on any private citizen for not purchasing health insurance is not authorized by any provision of the U.S. Constitution. As such, it is unconstitutional, and should not survive a court challenge on that issue. Supporters of the legislation have incorrectly contended that the legal justification for the mandate is authorized by the Commerce Clause, the General Welfare Clause, or the Taxing and Spending Clause. Given that this mandate provision is essential to Obamacare; its unconstitutionality renders the entire program untenable.

• The individual mandate is unconstitutional unless there is a specific constitutional provision that authorizes it. The federal government is a government of limited jurisdiction. It has only enumerated powers. Therefore unless a specific provision of the Constitution empowers a particular law, then that law is unconstitutional. There is no such authorization for the mandate.

• The individual mandate is not authorized by the Commerce Clause. Most of those advocating the Democrats’ bill say that Congress can pass this legislation pursuant to its power to regulate interstate commerce. That argument is incorrect, because there is no interstate commerce when private citizens do not purchase health insurance.

• The Commerce Clause only covers matters where citizens engage in economic activity. The last time the Supreme Court struck down a law for violating the Commerce Clause, in United States v. Morrison (2000), the Court did so on the grounds that the activity in question was not an economic activity.

• The Commerce Clause only extends to persons or organizations voluntarily engaging in commercial activity. Government can only regulate economic action; it cannot coerce action on the part of private citizens who do not wish to participate in commerce. In the most expansive case for Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce, Wickard v. Filburn (1942), the Court upheld the agricultural regulation in question against a wheat farmer who earned his entire living from growing and selling wheat, making him a willing participant in interstate commerce.

• The Commerce Clause requires an actual economic effect, not merely a congressional finding of an economic effect. When the Court struck down the Violence Against Women Act in United States v. Morrison (2000), the Court noted that although the statute made numerous findings regarding the link between such violence and interstate commerce, it held that those findings did not actually establish an economic effect. Therefore the various interstate-commerce findings in the Senate version of the “Obamacare” legislation do not make the bill constitutional.

• The individual mandate is not authorized under the General Welfare Clause. The Supreme Court made clear in United States v. Butler (1936) and Helvering v. Davis (1937) that the General Welfare Clause only applies to congressional spending. It applies to money going out from the government; it does not confer or concern any government power to take in money, such as would happen with the individual mandate. Therefore the mandate is outside the scope of the General Welfare Clause.

• The individual mandate is not authorized under the Taxing and Spending Clause or Income Tax. The Constitution only allows certain types of taxation from the federal government.

• The Article I Taxing and Spending Clause permits duties, imposts, excises and capitation taxes — duties, imposts and excises are taxes on purchases. A capitation tax is a tax that every person must pay, and the Constitution’s apportionment rule requires that every person in each state must pay exactly the same amount. The Obamacare mandate is imposed on people who are making no purchase, and is a tax that some people in a state would pay, but others do not.

• The Sixteenth Amendment allows an income tax.  An income tax is imposed only on earnings, but people would have to pay this tax even if they had no income.

Therefore it cannot be any of these constitutionally-permitted taxes.

• The individual mandate is unconstitutional regardless of whether there are criminal penalties involved. There is no distinction between criminal and civil penalties for determining the constitutionality of legislation, and the penalty imposed in Wickard v. Filburn (1942) was not a criminal penalty. Therefore even if the criminal sanctions were removed from the legislation, the imposition of any penalty or consequence for not purchasing insurance renders the mandate unconstitutional.

• The individual mandate cannot be properly compared to requiring auto insurance. President Obama said in a Nov. 9 interview on ABC television that requiring people to buy health insurance and penalizing those that do not buy is acceptable because people are required to buy car insurance. That statement is untrue.

• Only state governments can require people to get car insurance. While the federal government is limited to the powers enumerated in the Constitution, the states have a general police power. The police power enables state governments to pass laws for public safety and public health. The federal government has no general police power, and therefore could not require car insurance.

• States do not require people to purchase car insurance. Driving a car is a privilege, not a right. States require people to get insurance only as a condition for those people who voluntarily choose to drive on the public roads. If a person chooses to use public transportation, or use a bicycle instead of a car, or operate a car only on their own property, they are not required to have car insurance, and cannot be penalized for lacking insurance.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE UNCONSTIUTIONALITY OF THE HEALTH CARE MANDATE, PLEASE VISIT THESE WEBSITES:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/LegalIssues/lm0049.cfm

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28463.html

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28620.html

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28787.html

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/10/30/ken-klukowski-open-letter-pelosi-gibbs-constitution-individual-mandate/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/02/beware-the-health-insurance-police/

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/interview-with-the-president-jail-time-for-those-without-health-care-insurance.html

http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=7a758af3-1b78-be3e-e03a-c0eea6d515c5

12/21/09

(All organizations are listed for identification purposes only)

CONSERVATIVE ACTION PROJECT

Edwin Meese, former Attorney General

Steven G. Calabresi, Professor, Northwestern Law School

Mathew D. Staver, Founder & Chairman, Liberty Counsel

Curt Levey, Executive Director, Committee for Justice

Marion Edwyn Harrison, Past President, Free Congress Foundation

Kenneth Klukowski, Senior Legal Analyst, American Civil Rights Union

Wendy Wright, President, Concerned Women for America

J. Kenneth Blackwell, Visiting Professor, Liberty School of Law

Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform

William Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government

Matt Kibbe, President, FreedomWorks

Jim Martin, President, 60 Plus Association

David McIntosh, former Member of Congress, Indiana

Colin A. Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring

Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council

Brent Bozell, President, Media Research Center

Brian McManus, Council for Affordable Health Insurance

Karen Kerrigan, President, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

T. Kenneth Cribb, former Counselor to the U.S. Attorney General

Richard Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com

Alfred Regnery, Publisher, American Spectator

 

NHS [UK] maternity services in meltdown

NHS maternity services in meltdown: A former midwife reveals how understaffed wards are sinking into chaos.

By Verena Burns
Last updated at 1:21 AM on 16th December 2009

Clutching her husband's hand and with agony and exhaustion etched on her face, a young woman struggled into a room in the maternity unit where I worked.

She was in the early stages of labour with her first baby, she was terrified, in excruciating pain and desperate for any crumb of support.

Helpless beside her, her overnight bag in his hand, her poor husband looked equally traumatised.

My heart went out to them. But I knew there was little I could do. With five other pregnant women to care for at the same time, all with hugely different and complex problems, I was rushed off my feet and didn't have the time to look after her properly, to allay her fears or to hear about how she wanted the birth to unfold.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1235921/Midwives-meltdown-A-NHS-worker-reveals-understaffed-maternity-wards-sinking-chaos.html#ixzz0ZpAg9lI9

WSJ - What the Pelosi Health-Care Bill Really Says

By BETSY MCCAUGHEY

The health bill that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing to a vote (H.R. 3962) is 1,990 pages. Here are some of the details you need to know.

What the government will require you to do:

• Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a "qualified plan." If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a "grace period" to switch you to a "qualified plan," meaning a plan designed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. If you buy your own insurance, there's no grace period. You'll have to enroll in a qualified plan as soon as any term in your contract changes, such as the co-pay, deductible or benefit.

• Sec. 224 (p. 118) provides that 18 months after the bill becomes law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide what a "qualified plan" covers and how much you'll be legally required to pay for it. That's like a banker telling you to sign the loan agreement now, then filling in the interest rate and repayment terms 18 months later. 

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One in six NHS patients 'misdiagnosed' (in UK)

Doctors were making mistakes in up to 15 per cent of cases because they were too quick to judge patients’ symptoms, they said, while others were reluctant to ask more senior colleagues for help.

While in most cases the misdiagnosis did not result in the patient suffering serious harm, a sizeable number of the millions of NHS patients were likely to suffer significant health problems as a result, according to figures. It was said that the number of misdiagnoses was “just the tip of the iceberg”, with many people still reluctant to report mistakes by their doctors.  Article from the UK telegraph. 

Obama in his own words - I believe in a Single Payer Heathcare System.

Case closed: (UK) 4,000 born in waiting rooms and more becuase of "Shortages"

Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.

The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.

Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209034/The-babies-born-hospital-corridors-Bed-shortage-forces-4-000-mothers-birth-lifts-offices-hospital-toilets.html#ixzz0PJ2SqZUG