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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Place ObamaCare On Hold!




America needs your vote on the "Time Out on ObamaCare" Act, bill number S.281, authored by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX).

This amendment would COMPLETELY halt the ObamaCare health care nightmare from being implemented pending a final judicial ruling on its constitutionality.

ObamaCare is bad medicine for America because it kills jobs, bankrupts the government, drives up everyone's health insurance costs, puts bureaucratic “boards” in charge of rationing care, and ruins the world's best health care system – NOT A PERFECT SYSTEM, BUT THE WORLD'S BEST!  The 2800+ page ObamaCare bill was INTENTIONALLY set up with hidden agendas and “costs” which were not to be revealed to the public until AFTER the November 2012 elections.  There are currently 26 states in court to repeal this bill, and currently the number of waivers granted stands at 1400+ including seven entire states.  Most of these waivers have gone to Obama constituents who SUPPORTED ObamaCare, but do not want to suffer under its oppression.  More than 1400 waivers have already been issued to businesses and unions, AARP, more than 50% of all waivers have gone to unions, 20% of all waivers have gone to Ms. Pelosi’s district, and Mr. Reid’s whole state has been waivered, ALL supporters of ObamaCare.  This is CRONYISM in it’s ugliest form!  The sheer numbers of waiver requests has been so large that the House and Human Services (HHS) announced they were shutting down all waiver requests as of September, 2011, but appears to still be issuing waivers because of public outcry.  HHS has still refused to release details or criteria on how waivers are granted and refused.  Selective implementation and enforcement of ObamaCare OR ANY LAW is the first sign of tyranny.  A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law inevitably leads to corruption, ultimately resulting in tyranny.

Polls have consistently shown that a solid majority of Americans want Washington to reverse the GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER of health care and adopt a patient-centered approach.  The Obama Administration is rushing to implement this unpopular law in the face of the opposition of a majority of the American public, a majority of the House, a near-majority of the Senate, and a majority of the states, which latter are suing to have the law stayed on constitutional grounds.  Obama’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found that Obama’s promise of 4 MILLION new jobs is false, and CBO estimates that ObamaCare will ACTUALLY destroy more than 800,000 EXISTING jobs.  Before casting his vote in favor of ObamaCare, Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat, described it as "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of"(sic).

Since December, 2010, two federal district judges, in Virginia and Florida, have declared unconstitutional ObamaCare's "individual mandate" requiring all U.S. residents to purchase health insurance (the linch-pin of the entire, 2801-page law).  The rulings in these and other cases are being appealed by the Obama Administration's lawyers. The judge in the Florida case made clear that he is effectively ordering the government to stop enforcing the law on the 26 states who are parties to the lawsuit; yet the Obama administration has indicated it WILL NOT halt implementation.

To avoid wasting more time and money imposing costly burdens on individuals and employers that may eventually be ruled null and void by a decision of the Supreme Court, Congress MUST vote on and ultimately adopt Sen. Hutchison's "Time Out on ObamaCare" Act, bold legislation that would impose a moratorium on further implementation of ObamaCare the until the courts render a final judicial decision of its constitutionality.

WE THE PEOPLE ARE REQUIRING YOU TO SUPPORT THE CONGRESSIONAL OATH YOU TOOK WHEN YOU ACCEPTED OFFICE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS, TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GOD BLESS AMERICA

This fax was sent to POTUS, Gov. Perry, GOP Candidates Romney, West, Senators Cornyn, Hutchinson, Rubio, Snowe, McConnell, Reid, Feinstein, Reed, Murray, Boxer, Tester, Kyl, Representatives Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, DeMint, Poe, Rand Paul, Levin, Pelosi, New first-term House Republicans Berg, Noem, Crawford, Gosar, Benishek, Nunnelee, Guinta, McKinley, Griffin, Huizenga, Ellmers, Rigell, Womack, Runyan, Heck, Kelly, Herrera, Gardner, Palazzo, Nugent, Lankford, McCarthy, and various Conservative and Liberal media outlets.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Medicare is For ALL of Us - NOT Just Seniors!

We must transform Medicare into a retirement program that is protected from Federal criminal misuse of the funds contributed by taxpayers!  This way it can protect EVERY  participant's investment - not just the current seniors who have suffered tragic federal mis-appropriation of their contributions.  It can then also protect the babies born this year when they become senior citizens and need the funds they will have contributed into a new, PROTECTED Medicare system.


President Obama is trying to destroy the Medicare system so the government will have their hands on the throats of all of us forced into ObamaCare, if he can prevent ObamaCare's demise.  For those of you who are on Medicare, read the article below. It is about the monthly amount of money you are going to pay in Medicare premiums in 2011, 2012 and the huge increase you will pay in 2013. It's a short but very important article: 


Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment); however, the per person monthly Medicare insurance premiums are being increased as follows:

2009 premium of $96.40
2012 premium of $104.20
2013 premium of $120.20
And increases to a whopping $247.00 in 2014!
Thank You Obamacare!

Congress also gave themselves a $3,000 a month Cost of Living Adjustment!

Obama must be defeated in 2012 in order to have a chance to repeal ObamaCare.  If that doesn't happen, the only chance to stop ObamaCare will be to use Nullification on the State level, or get a federal waiver.  Government officials, most Unions, Senator's  Pelosi's districts,  and Senator Reid's whole state!

Here is what Michelle Malkin had to say about most of these waivers going to Obama supporters who SUPPORTED the implementation of ObamaCare:


"Hear that? It's the escalating cry of American employers and workers trying to hold on to their health care benefits in the age of stifling Obama health insurance mandates: Gangway! Gangway! Save me! Waive me!

Obamacare refugees first began beating down the exit doors in October 2010. As I've documented since last fall, waiver-mania started with McDonald's and Jack in the Box; spread to Dish Networks, hair salon chain Regis Corp and resort giant Universal Orlando; took hold among every major Big Labor organization from the AFL-CIO to the CWA to the SEIU; roped in the nationalized health care promoters at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (whose board of trustees includes health care czar Nancy Ann DeParle); and is now gripping entire states (Maine, New Hampshire and Nevada all recently got in on the act).

The latest to catch the waive? West Coast liberals.

Yes, smack dab in the middle of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's congressional district, a cluster of San Francisco small businesses is among the latest recipients of get-out-of-Obamacare passes. As Jamie Dupree of Cox Media Group and Matthew Boyle of The Daily Caller pointed out this week, there are at least two dozen Bay Area companies -- including bars, restaurants, hotels, tourist shops, real estate and auto firms -- that have secured temporary, one-year reprieves from the federal law. It's the San Francisco Treat that voters didn't foresee until after the bill was rammed down their throats.

Another noteworthy waiver winner: Seattle-based REI. The trendy Pacific Northwest outdoor equipment retailer's progressive CEO and Democratic campaign donor, Sally Jewell, appeared with President Obama in 2009 to tout White House health care reform initiatives. Two years later, REI snagged a waiver to protect the health benefits of a whopping 1,180 workers from the very tentacles of the big government bureaucrats Jewell embraced at Obama's roundtable.

To date, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has granted federal health care law exemptions to more than three million American workers covered by more than 1,300 unions, companies and insurers who had voluntarily offered low-cost health plans with annual benefits limits. Meddling Obamacare architects outlawed those private plans -- nicknamed "mini med" plans -- in the name of "patients' rights." But without special waivers, the escapees would have been forced to hike premiums or drop insurance coverage altogether for mostly low-wage, seasonal and part-time workers.

Among the most recent union affiliates to secure pardons from the one-size-fits-all health policy that their bosses spent hundreds of millions of dollars of worker dues lobbying for:

- Teamsters Local 485 Health and Welfare Fund in Brooklyn, N.Y.

- Detroit and Vicinity Trowel Trades Health and Welfare Fund_

- Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1182 Security Benefits Fund_

- CWA Local 1183 Health and Welfare Fund

- Bakers Union and Food Employees Labor Relations Association Health and Welfare Fund

- Service Employees International Union Healthcare Illinois Home Care and Child Care Fund

- United Food and Commercial Workers San Diego Employers Health and Welfare Trust

- Welfare Fund of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15, 15A, 15C, 15D AFL-CIO

- United Steelworkers Local 1-0318 Health and Welfare Trust Fund

- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices Local 198 AFL-CIO Health and Welfare Trust

- Teamsters Local 617 Welfare Fund in Ridgefield, N.J.

- Teamsters Local 734 Welfare Fund in Chicago

- Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 60 Health and Welfare Fund

- New York State Nurses Welfare Plan for New York City Employed Registered Professional Nurses

The ultimate goal, it bears repeating, is to force a massive, revolutionary and irreversible shift from private to public insurance designed by government-knows-best bureaucrats.

Pelosi and the Golden Ticket Administrators in Washington deny preferential treatment for waiver beneficiaries. But the stench of waivers-for-favors won't be dispelled until and unless the Obama administration releases a full list not only of those who won exemptions, but also of those who applied and were denied.

With San Francisco businesses caught with their hands in the waiver jar, Pelosi's office could do nothing else but pout: "It is pathetic," said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill, "that there are those who would be cheering for Americans to lose their minimum health coverage or see their premiums increase for political purposes."

It is far more pathetic to have cheered, as Pelosi did on the one-year anniversary of Obamacare, the law's onerous benefits limits from which thousands of her own constituents have now been exempted.

Once again, the rest of America wants to know: Dude, where's my waiver?"


Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2010).


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