- Doctors increasingly declaring bankruptcy as Obamacare kicks in, causing widespread care shortages (Natural News, May 20, 2013)
Tags: Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Doctors, Global News, Government, Health, Healthcare, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, U.S.
- South Carolina to criminalize implementation of Obamacare; showdown with feds inevitable (Natural News, May 13, 2013):
More and more states are beginning to challenge the Obama Administration over what they view as unconstitutional abuses of power, especially regarding firearms and health care. The latest example comes from South Carolina, whose legislature has passed a measure declaring Obamacare to be “null and void” and criminalizing its implementation.
Lawmakers in the House passed the Freedom of Health Care Protection Act by a vote of 65-39, which seeks to “prohibit certain individuals from enforcing or attempting to enforce such unconstitutional laws; and to establish criminal penalties and civil liability for violating this article.”
Tags: Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Law, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, South Carolina, U.S.
- The Mathematical Reality Is We’re Losing Over 600,000 Jobs a Month That Have Been Hidden From View (SHFT Plan, May7, 2013):
The Dow Jones is soaring. The unemployment rate is stable. People are shopping. America is in recovery.
Or is it?
Despite all of the positive spin being put on the global and domestic economic recovery, the truth is that nothing of the sort is actually happening.
Tags: Barack Obama, Collapse, Economy, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, Society, U.S., Unemployment
- SC House Approves Bill Criminalizing Enforcement Of ‘Obamacare’ (CBS/AP, May 3, 2013):
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina House approved a bill Wednesday criminalizing the implementation of President Obama’s health care law in the state.
The Republican-controlled House voted 65-39 on the Freedom of Health Care Protection Act.
The act renders “null and void certain unconstitutional laws enacted by the Congress of the United States taking control over the health insurance industry and mandating that individuals purchase health insurance under threat of penalty.”
“This kind of victory occurs when the grassroots across the State come together and coalesce,” Chris Lawton, spokesman for the Greenville Tea Party, told The Greenville Post. “I could not be prouder.”
The bill declares “Obamacare” unconstitutional – despite the Supreme Court ruling last year that the Affordable Health Care Act was constitutional — and that there will be criminal penalties for enforcing the law.
Tags: Barack Obama, Constitution, Global News, Government, Healthcare, Law, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, South Carolina, U.S.
- ‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law (ABC News, April 30, 2013):
A new poll finds that many Americans are confused about the health care overhaul legislation commonly called “Obamacare.”
The Kaiser Family Foundation released results of a non-partisan study today finding more than 40 percent did not even know the law was in place.
“Four in ten Americans (42%) are unaware that the ACA [Affordable Care Act] is still the law of the land,” the report says, “including 12 percent who believe the law has been repealed by Congress, 7 percent who believe it has been overturned by the Supreme Court and 23 percent who say they don’t know enough to say what the status of the law is.”
The survey showed public opinion on Obamacare is at its second-lowest rating in the past two years. Continue reading »
Tags: Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Law, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, U.S.
Flashback:
- Obama exempt from Obamacare (Washington Times, March 23, 2010)
– U.S. lawmakers secretly negotiating to exempt themselves from Obamacare (Natural News, April 26, 2013):
Top lawmakers on Capitol Hill are negotiating a secret deal to exempt themselves from Obamacare. The Obamacare mandate is a total nightmare, of course, and it doubles health insurance rates while providing nothing resembling actual “health” care. It’s such a nightmare that the very people who passed it now want to exempt themselves from it.
That would leave it in a state where only the constituents are subjected to its onerous costs and mandates, not the lawmakers who passed it into law. How’s that for hypocrisy in America?
According to a report from Politico, “Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.” Continue reading »
Tags: Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Healthcare, Law, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, U.S.
- The Country Is Over (Monty Pelerin’s World, April 5, 2013):
Data are hard to deal with when your vision is on the wrong side of it. Those wanting to claim there is a recovery underway are having just this problem. These people either have no understanding of economics or they believe falsely that they can inflate “animal spirits” with their hyped reports and that will initiate a recovery.
There will not be an economic recovery given the economic policies of this country. A recovery is not unlikely, I would argue it is closer to impossible if not impossible. The reasons for this position are not complicated. In short, the nation has become an out-of-control welfare state that is rapidly destroying the incentives to work or create jobs. Government policies appear designed toward this end. One doesn’t need a high IQ or an advanced degree in economics to understand the problems.
There are innumerable factors responsible for the decline of the US. Only three important ones will convey why the economy is dying: Continue reading »
Tags: Barack Obama, Bonds, Debt, Economy, Fed, Federal Reserve, Government, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, U.S., Unemployment
- Obamacare prompts fears for low-wage workers as employers exploit the rules (Guardian, March 29, 2013):
Labour groups warn some big firms are cutting workers’ full-time hours to avoid paying health costs for those who need it most
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- Companies cut hours of full-time employees to avoid health care (Press TV, March 29, 2013):
Under the law that takes effect next year, large employers are exempted from contributing anything towards healthcare costs of employees who work under 30 hours a week.
For full-time workers, companies must offer affordable insurance or face steep fines. Employers seeking to dodge this responsibility could impose 29-hour ceiling on workers, Flocks says, and push many onto public insurance subsidies, straining state and federal budgets.
Three years after the passage of Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, labor advocates are warning that it could have the unforeseen consequence of harming some of the very low-wage employees it seeks to aid.
The legislation’s incentive scheme, they say, could cause a shift toward part-time work that extends beyond companies like Papa John’s and Darden Restaurants, which last year publicized their plans to cut employee hours to avoid costs under the new law.
According to Sara Flocks, Public Policy Coordinator for the California Labor Federation, most at risk is the so-called contingent workforce: those employees with already fluctuating hours, no job security, and little power to bargain with management.
These are the workers whose hours can most easily be slashed by employers seeking to avoid paying health insurance. The Raw Story
Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Global News, Government, Healthcare, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, U.S.
- Obamacare to soon cost the average American family $20,000 a year, announces IRS (Natural News, Feb 1, 2013):
Under Obamacare, American families are forced to buy conventional health insurance that primarily benefits the pharmaceutical industry. By 2016 — just three years from now — the cheapest health insurance plan available will cost a typical American family $20,000 a year, the IRS has now announced.
Here’s the news: The IRS just published descriptions of the financial penalties American taxpayers will pay if they fail to purchase the rip-off health insurance mandated under Obamacare.
“The examples point to families of four and families of five, both of which the IRS expects in its assumptions to pay a minimum of $20,000 per year for a bronze plan,” reports CNS News.
It goes on to report, “The IRS’s assumption that the cheapest plan for family will cost $20,000 per year is found in examples the IRS gives to help people understand how to calculate the penalty they will need to pay the government if they do not buy a mandated health plan.”
We warned ya: Obamacare has always been a financial scam
Tags: Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Health, Healthcare, IRS, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, U.S.
- Labor Unions Finally Read Obamacare Fine Print, Realize Costs Set To Spike, “Turn Sour” On Obama (ZeroHedge, Jan 31, 2013):
It is a well-known fact that nobody in Congress ever reads, or even skims, any law, and especially not the fine print, it passes until long after it has been enacted into law. It appears the same is just as true for the biggest pillar of support for the Obama administration: America’s labor unions, whose liberal vote every election is instrumental to preserving the outflow side of America’s welfare state. As it turns out, it was the same labor unions who enthusiastically supported the primary accomplishment of the Obama administration in the past 4 years, Obamacare, only to realize, long after it has become reality that, surprise, their healthcare plan costs are about to go up. And, as the WSJ colorfully summarizes, they are now “turning sour.“
Union leaders say many of the law’s requirements will drive up the costs for their health-care plans and make unionized workers less competitive. Among other things, the law eliminates the caps on medical benefits and prescription drugs used as cost-containment measures in many health-care plans. It also allows children to stay on their parents’ plans until they turn 26. Continue reading »
Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Global News, Government, Healthcare, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, Society, U.S.
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