“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,” President Obama, September 12, 2008   I guess as time goes on, we will continue to learn what was inside that MAMMOTH health care bill that Obama "gifted" to us. From GOP.GOV Beginning January 1, 2013, ObamaCare imposes a 3.8% Medicare tax ... Read More

From the American Spectator In 2010 President Obama promised Obamacare wouldn't diminish health benefits for service families or retirees. He told the 9.6 million veterans and active duty personnel, who use TRICARE -- the Defense Department's health plan -- or go to Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals and clinics, that they would be better off: "If you're in the VA or TRICARE, this will not force you to change systems…veterans would be eligible, potentially, for this health care exchange where they could select ... Read More

Taking a break from my stay here in Australia to share with you some news I read today. Recently, my daughter, who now works in a Pharmacy, had a customer who was outraged because her birth control wasn't free. Perhaps she had just read the Glamour News Article. My daughter didn't know how to respond to that. I said my answer would have been, " Ma'am, nothing is free." It was just the day after Obama signed into Affordable Care Act requiring ... Read More

The thing that liberals count on is short memories. But somehow their own words come back to bite them From the Washington Times In ruling against President Obama‘s health care law, federal Judge Roger Vinson used Mr. Obama‘s own position from the 2008 campaign against him, arguing that there are other ways to tackle health care short of requiring every American to purchase insurance. “I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual ... Read More

Pelosi wasn't kidding when she slipped out the phrase you have to pass a bill to know what's in it. Obama's health care bill was so big, so bloated, that we're still finding hidden and little known things about it. From the Chicago Examiner ...inside the Health Care bill, hidden in the mountain of paper is funding for the new army called “Ready Reserve Corp”  sec.203 public health service act  Ready reserve. There was not talk about this funding that has ... Read More

2010 has  been an incredible year. For me, my blog serves me in a way to keep track of personal events, and our family had many this year. January opened with the excitement of Miquel and his band, Embers For Ashes playing at Rams Head in Baltimore. Not long after that, Christmas and New Year's joy and hope turned to sadness as we lost our friend Margie to cancer. Also in January, I also completed  the website for new clients, Severn Gas Pumps. ... Read More

My guess is the list of casualties under Obamacare will be an evolving and ever growing thing. Here are two recent stories: Modern Medicine reports: Healthcare reform will usher in a new era of medicine in which physicians will largely cease to operate as full-time, independent, private practitioners accepting third party payments. Instead, they will work as employees, as part-timers, as administrators, in cash-only "concierge" practices, or they will walk away from medicine altogether. These are some ... Read More

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Listen and learn some of the elements driving up the costs of health care. Carol Plato, an executive director of Martin Memorial Medical Center in Florida, gives a briefing on the specific costs and liabilities the hospital has incurred while treating illegal immigrants. After listening to that, makes the next image even more interesting: ... Read More

As people learn more about the health care bill, there is a surge of people who wish to repeal the bill. The number of Americans who want Congress to repeal President Obama's 10-year, $938 billion health care law is on the rise, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released today. According to the poll, 58% of Americans support repealing the law. That's up 4 percentage points from last week. But here is an interesting twist, it's not just the ... Read More

From CRS The Congressional Research Service confirmed in a memo Wednesday that rapists and sex offenders may get federally subsidized Viagra and other sexual performance enhancing drugs under the recently passed health care reform law — information that Republicans charge will haunt Democrats in upcoming elections. I am fairly certain that the even the people who wanted this rotten health care bill, didn't want this. From Fox News In a memo to the Oklahoma Republican, who is one of ... Read More

If You Think Healthcare Is Expensive Now, Wait Until It Is Free. If America was a car, our 'Check President' warning light would be on. Where will Canadians go for good healthcare if we Socialize ours? If You Like To Visit The DMV Than You Will Love Government Run Healthcare Recently some big companies have come out to say that the new Health Care Bill will cost them greatly, and this is something that Democrats want an explanation for. Are ... Read More

Did you get this email? I didn't, but found this on No Quarter. Maxine on Health Care Let me get this straight……we’re trying to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that also hasn’t read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t ... Read More

Ann Coulter thinks she has a good plan for the health care and it will only take one page instead of 2000. Her ideas: Congress will amend the McCarran-Ferguson Act to allow interstate competition in health insurance. We can't have a free market in health insurance until Congress eliminates the antitrust exemption protecting health insurance companies from competition. If Democrats really wanted to punish insurance companies, which they manifestly do not, they'd make insurers compete. Provide that the exclusive ... Read More

There seems to be a few conclusions out there on the Health Care Bill related to jobs: Nancy Pelosi declared that the bill would create four million jobs over the next ten years, with 400,000 new jobs created almost immediately. Pelosi relied on a study written by the left-wing advocacy group Center for American Progress for those figures, although the Bureau of Labor Statistics already predicts growth in the health-care industry of 3.2 million jobs without ObamaCare. Now, Americans ... Read More

“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” —Vladimir Lenin For the first time, Democrats admit what Americans already know about their health care bill: it would raise premiums, it's a windfall for drug companies and insurance companies, votes were secured through backroom deals, it cuts hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare, and it raises taxes. ... Read More

I am only one of many, a majority of people, who recognize that the health care system in the USA needs help, but are totally against the one Obama has ready for us. For those who still favor the idea, perhaps they should ask themselves, is it a good bill? If so, then why did it take so many sweetheart deals to get it pushed through this far, and that STILL might not be enough? Why can't this bill stand on ... Read More

If you ever had a doubt that our representatives read the bills they sign into law, spending trillions of dollars, or if they really care about transparency about what is IN the bills they sign, let Pelosi answer this for you. In answer to the Health Care Bill, she says, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." ... Read More

Politically, there has been a lot to blog about, but I have resisted. I think it's that overload often talked about. We are saturated with this stuff to the point that we turn it off after awhile, and some think, yes, that's the idea - saturate them and they will turn it off. One thing is for sure, Obama and the Democrat controlled congress is losing it's appeal to the everyday American. Even so they are trying everything to push this kind ... Read More

Perhaps I am in the wrong business? From The Hill Despite his push to rein in special interests, President Barack Obama sparked a boom on K Street with major new proposals on healthcare, climate change and financial policies. Healthcare clients spent the most overall on lobbying at $544 million, which was roughly $60 million more than in 2008. But there were more lobbyists (3,405) on healthcare issues than on either energy (2,311) or financial legislation (2,654). Lobbyists earned an ... Read More

In the video are a few key points of the bill that might surprise (and upset) you. Copy of the Health Care Bill HERE (PDF Format) ... Read More

This came to my email today... To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke. War on Poverty started ... Read More

“This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail.  It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.” “H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional ... Read More

Remember durning Obama's campaign the word "transparency" was said, and often, to the cheers of many people. I am not surprised that nine months into the presidency, we are looking for this transparency, in particular with the new legislation that no one even reads, they just vote on it. On Yahoo News: The push for transparency has become a running side debate in Congress, with lawmakers — often minority Republicans, but some Democrats too — pressing leaders to post measures online for 72 ... Read More

Did you know that Republicans have 30+ bills for Health Care reform that have had no acknowledgment from the Obama Administration? When Rep. Joe Wilson shouted out  "You lie!" during Obama's recent address to Congress, no doubt it's from the frustration of having ideas ignored while Obama stood there, in front of God, the American people and congress and said, ""My door is always open." From the Washington Examiner: "We knew the president would at some point say something like, 'and the ... Read More

Considering the vagueness of the health care bill, I wonder if people even know what they're fighting about. From Yahoo News: Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Frank O'Hanlon says about 100 people demonstrating in favor of health care reforms rallied Wednesday night on a street corner. One protester walked across the street to confront about 25 counter-demonstrators. O'Hanlon says the man got into an argument and fist fight, during which he bit off the left pinky of a 65-year-old man who opposed health care ... Read More

First to say, that I found this story on a site that openly supports Obama 100%. The person does however admit that there is something in the Health Care bill that alarmed him and would surely find disapproval among most Americans. (He says 95%) What does "device that is Implantable" in a health care bill mean to you? I found the bill HERE (H.R.3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009) ‘National Medical Device Registry 1 ‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall establish a national medical ... Read More

I got an email from Chuck Norris today explaining a little known fact in the health care bill, hidden on page 838. For some reason, telling parents how to be parents is considered part of the government's idea of health care. Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development. It's outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading "home visitation programs for ... Read More

I wasn't going to write about Obama's Health Care plan, but since his speech last night (what a load of crap that was), and today's Roll Call email, I felt the need to weigh in on this. According to Roll Call: Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority’s health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate. House Republicans are crying foul and claiming that the Democrats ... Read More

There was a time when Bill Clinton was in the White House, when it seemed he and his friends were trying to get away with so much, that he actually earned the nickname, "Slick Willy". Soon we will have to honor Obama with a similar nickname. Yesterday, I only saw part of Obama speaking to the American Medical Association, wooing them into his health care program. I don't know about you, but most doctors I know of, are very fearful of nationalized ... Read More

In a recent headline at Drudge Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills, I may have raised an eyebrow or two, and I even scanned the article quickly, but nothing surprising really struck me. Just like with other businesses, it’s common for campaigns to carry unpaid bills from month to month, but in Clinton’s case, it also could serve a strategic purpose. The New York senator’s presidential campaign ended February with $33 million in the bank, according to a report filed last week ... Read More