Health Care Loophole Costs Millions/billions

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1383567&position=0

‘Dumper’ scam bleed$ us dry
Dodgers jump on, off insurance, costing Mass. taxpayers millions
By Frank Quaratiello
Boston Herald
Friday, November 25, 2011

Law Professor on Health Care Bill

http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/entries/general/the-truth-about-the-health-care-bills

The Truth About the Health Care Bills

Michael Connelly,
Retired Constitutional Law professor
Posted August 12, 2009

Maxine Explains the Health Care Bill

Maxine sums up the health care bill

Let me get this straight. We're going to be gifted with 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 who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and to be financed by a country that's broke.

Well ... what could possibly go wrong?

Pyrrhic Victory for Dems

This is not health care reform, not even insurance reform. Drug industry and insurance industry support the boondoggle bill. Rep. Lynch (D-MA) revealed the insurance industry exception to anti trust laws remains untouched. The bill encourages trial lawyers to continue abuses they blame on others. Three mindless politicians lead down "The road to hell [which] is paved with good intentions." (George Bernard Shaw) Greek philosopher Cleobulous: "The chief source of evil among men is excessive good." Socialism or not the process corrupted the Constitution and embarrassed Congress if that is at all possible. Polls show Congress at 11 percent favorability. 37 years after Archibald Cox said he tried to restore faith in government Harvard Bozo Obama comes along and makes sure fewer still trust the government. Congress gives more credibility to organized crime than the elected criminals in DC. Massachusetts and Harvard University voters support the corruption having not cleaned up the Boston FBI and the state government since James Bulger ran them.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1241691

Dems show fight when it matters

By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Florida Suing Health Care Bill

[From article]
"Moments after Congress voted to approve President Obama's health care legislation, Florida's Attorney General announced he will file a lawsuit to declare the bill unconstitutional."

http://www.abcactionnews.com/content/news/local/story/McCollum-to-file-lawsuit-against-health-care-bill/7QhmgA087UqkF2fDKWC8eQ.cspx

McCollum to file lawsuit against health care bill
Reported by: Chad Cookler
ABC News
Email: ccookler (at) abcactionnews.com
March 21, 2010
Last Update: 11:54 pm

Tea Party Protests Health Care

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/20/tea-party-activists-make-stand-health-care-vote/

Thousands of Tea Partiers descended upon the Capitol in an effort to derail the march toward "Obamacare" by pressuring undecided lawmakers to vote "no" Sunday. (FNC)

Updated March 20, 2010

Tea Party Activists Make Last Stand Against Health Care Vote

FOXNews.com

Just days after holding a rally in Washington, Tea Party activists returned Saturday to make one final stand against the health care reform bill ahead of an expected Sunday vote.

Dems Damned, Pass or fail

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/20/why_democrats_are_doomed_if_obamacare_passes_104860.html

March 20, 2010
Why Democrats Are Doomed if ObamaCare Passes
By Dick Morris
Real Clear Politics

Deem and Pass Dead?

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/88031-dems-ditch-deem-and-pass

Dems ditch 'deem and pass,' moving toward an up-or-down vote

By Roxana Tiron and Michael O'Brien
The Hill
March 20, 2010 02:17 PM ET

Hatch: Not Over Till It's Over

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Sen-Hatch-R-Utah-says-Dems-are-nuts-to-think-tomorrows-vote-ends-health-care-debate-88731582.html

Sen. Hatch, R-Utah, says Dems are "nuts" to think tomorrow's vote ends health care debate

By: Mark Hemingway

Washington Examiner
Commentary Staff Writer
03/20/10 3:54 PM EDT

Obama Attacks Insurers

[From article]
"Obama has taken to lambasting the insurers. Never mind that, as Robert Samuelson of Newsweek points out, the profits of the largest insurers amount to only .4 percent of total annual medical costs -- which are fundamentally driven by the price and volume of care."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/uglier_and_uglier_VsWyOAuWOvkqlrQZwYdJSI

'Uglier and uglier'
The final drive to ObamaCare
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:47 AM, March 16, 2010
Posted: 1:30 AM, March 16, 2010
Rich Lowry

Drug Lobbyists Buy Ads tø Push Health Care

http://www.politico.com/politicopulse/

Drug industry preparing pro-reform ads – Anti-abortion groups mount final push – Pelosi leaning toward 'deem and pass' – Obama uses crowd to try swaying Kucinich
Politico
By: CHRIS FRATES
March 16, 2010 @ 6:09 AM

Elder Expression

Democrats and Health Care

[From Article]
"But the Democrats think it's a good strategy to call the Republicans 'The Party of No.' When it comes to Obamacare, Americans don't want a party of 'No,' they want a party of 'Hell, No!' or, as Rahm Emanuel might say, '*&^%$#@ No!'"

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35785



What Part of 'Party of No' Don't You Understand?

by Ann Coulter
Human Events

02/25/2010

Obama and Health Care

[From article]

"If everything, pro and con, has been said about the subject, by everybody, that means someone isn't telling the truth, right? I mean, if you've said X and not-X, that means you've probably said something that isn't true.[. . .]
the Democrats' plan is unpopular, period. [. . .]
That hasn't stopped him from talking out of every side of his mouth.[. . .]
if ObamaCare passes, Republicans will run on a promise to repeal it,"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/health_reform_hell_3OfIhTeLqd04OZZJbC5oeI

Health-reform hell
It's never going to be over
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:52 AM, March 12, 2010
Posted: 1:40 AM, March 12, 2010
Jonah Goldberg

Obama Plan Enriches Insurance Companies

[From article]

"President Obama declared on Monday. "We can't have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people." Yet Obama's plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, protect them from competition and guarantee their profits, all at the expense of consumers and taxpayers."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_president_gift_to_insurers_ttlSFsD8lwC18nbKyJddMO

The president's gift to insurers

By JACOB SULLUM

New York Post

Last Updated: 4:27 AM, March 11, 2010

Posted: 12:49 AM, March 11, 2010

Long Battle Over Health Care

[From article]
"the bill wouldn't exist in its current form if key senators hadn't been bought off with hundreds of billions of dollars in legislative bribes. That taint can't be undone.
[. . .]
Obama insists that it will cut the deficit, bend the cost curve down and reduce premiums, when it's likely to do the opposite on all three counts."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/it_won_be_over_xoPQrSR4kwOWoYCUfY76PN

It won't be over
The real fight starts after ObamaCare passes
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:38 AM, March 9, 2010
Posted: 12:14 AM, March 9, 2010
Rich Lowry

Politicians Mislead on Health Care

[From article]

"What politicians want to do is look good by imposing mandates, and then let the insurance companies look bad by raising the premiums to cover the added costs. It's a great political game, but it does nothing to lower medical costs."

Health 'reformers' in wonderland

By THOMAS SOWELL

New York Post

Last Updated: 1:33 AM, March 2, 2010

Posted: 1:18 AM, March 2, 2010

Obama's Misguided Health Care

[From article]
"look at Massachusetts -- which made health insurance mandatory in 2006, and now has the highest premiums in the country."

That's the model President Obama is trying to force on everyone.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/washington_knows_best_Ll5urBxopz4YPmney3RCrJ

'Washington knows best'
ObamaCare vs. state lessons
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:26 AM, February 25, 2010
Posted: 12:48 AM, February 24, 2010

Obama's Manipulations

"the White House's universal answer to all of its problems: "We just need to explain to these confused Americans how we've been right about everything." [. . .]

liberalism is never wrong, it just has a problem explaining to the mule-headed electorate that it's right about everything. Liberalism is always one more tutorial away from sunshine and lollipops for everyone.  [. . .]

his promises to change the tone in Washington"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/it_trap_jump_in_d74xjrMgczgr1b3vRIKIVM

It's a trap: jump in

The GOP & O's 'health summit'

New York Post

Last Updated: 9:12 AM, February 13, 2010

Posted: 11:52 PM, February 12, 2010

President Obama has in vited Republicans to sit down and talk through health care at a big "bipartisan summit" on Feb. 25.<p> </p><br> Some think it's a little late for such a conversation. After all, the Democrats have built their health-care palace from the ground up, using only Democratic labor and input; they just can't get it to pass inspection. So general contractor Obama invites Republicans to debate the blueprints, and just the blueprints. Oh, and he wants to debate them, not change them.<p> </p><br> "The president doesn't think we should start over," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer explained.<p> </p><br> Obama himself has said he's committed to the existing bill[s] in the House and Senate. He just wants to hash out ideas with Republicans, in front of TV cameras, at a summit because he thinks it would be good for America, or something. The Republicans can get whatever fixtures they want in the guest bathroom. Beyond that, they should just co-sign ObamaCare and shut up.<p> </p><br> The best you can say about the effort is that it fits into the White House's universal answer to all of its problems: "We just need to explain to these confused Americans how we've been right about everything." To that end, the White House wants to use Republicans as a skeptical prop-audience in one last infomercial for ObamaCare.<p> </p><br> The worst you can say is that it's a cynical trap, designed to make the GOP look out of touch, ill-informed and ideological. Indeed, there's a bipartisan consensus growing in Washington that the whole thing is a setup. Obama is going to say "nice doggie" to Republicans right up until the moment he smashes them with a rolled-up 2,000-page health-care bill.<p> </p><br> Liberals like the idea because they want the Republicans to get brained. They think that the GOP either doesn't have real ideas on health care, or that conservative ideas won't go over well with voters. They hope that Obama the law professor will expose all of this, forcing the American people to come to their senses and support legislation they've been hearing about nonstop for a year.<p> </p><br> Again, liberalism is never wrong, it just has a problem explaining to the mule-headed electorate that it's right about everything. Liberalism is always one more tutorial away from sunshine and lollipops for everyone.<p> </p><br> Even so, the GOP should go.<p> </p><br> Boycotting the event, as some have recommended, would rightly be seen as a sign of cowardice. Although there's no reason why the GOP has to play to the White House's script. Republicans should be respectful and serious, but they should also designate one or two representatives to speak for them.<p> </p><br> That's what Democrats did when they designated then-Sen. Obama as their sole voice in the White House meeting on the financial crisis in September 2008. Sen. John McCain had conceived that meeting as a grand showcase for his statesmanlike leadership. That didn't work out too well for McCain, and there's no reason to expect that Obama's plan is any more foolproof.<p> </p><br> That's the great irony in this whole stunt. Since he took office, Obama has been trying to use Republicans as one kind of foil or another. He started by castigating them as mindless drones of Rush Limbaugh. When Republican leaders opposed Obama's hyperpartisan stimulus, the president chastised them. "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told them.<p> </p><br> Then the White House and its supporters started casting the GOP -- and the burgeoning tea-party movement -- as a Hieronymus Bosch scene of racists and gun nuts. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared opponents of ObamaCare to opponents of civil-rights legislation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flatly questioned the patriotism of anyone who objected to Obama's policies. And so on.<p> </p><br> At every turn, Obama's agenda became less popular, his support among independents cratered, his promises to change the tone in Washington looked ever more transparent, and his magic spell over the press weakened. Gallup now has Obama in a statistical dead heat against a generic Republican opponent, and the Democratic Party is in near total free-fall, despite the fact it still has almost total dominion over Washington.<p> </p><br> Now the president has another brilliant plan. Once again he has Republicans exactly where he wants them. Only someone who thinks Obama is one explanation away from total victory should think the GOP has reason to worry.<p> </p><br> JonahsColumn@aol.com<p> </p><br>

Jonah Goldberg

Either Obama is Lying, or Sen. Harkin is Lying

"This cannot be right.

If Harkin is telling the truth, then that would mean President Obama is lying because at the GOP retreat, Obama stated that there were some “stray cats and dogs” in the legislation."

http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/31/sen-harkin-contradicts-obama-says-final-healthcare-deal-done-before-the-ma-election/#more-67486

Sen. Harkin Contradicts Obama, Says Final Healthcare Deal Done BEFORE the MA Election

by SusanAnne Hiller  
BigGovernment.com 
January 31, 2010