Thread: The Future of Obamacare

ObamaCare Cannot and Will Not Ever Be Repealed: Period.

Posted by Rodney Lee Conover on Apr 22, 2014

There was a time when ObamaCare could have been stopped, but it’s long over, so stop hoping for it or talking about it. Focus on Amnesty – that’s what Republicans have up their sleeves next for you.

ObamaCare is a done deal.

If you’re looking for the Republicans to get rid of the best thing they’ve ever had to kick the Democrat’s asses with – you’re a special kind of stupid. No matter how many times John Boehner lets House Republicans vote to repeal the ACA, it will never be repealed. Ever. Got it?

Do I have to explain it one more time? Fine:

ObamaCare was signed into law and no one wanted it, so Republicans were swept into the House majority in 2010 by the new Tea Party. The House could have defunded the ACA as per Article One, but they didn’t. They failed. No balls. Mostly a bunch of losers, it turns out. Two-thirds of them turned out to be RINO’s, seduced by DC and now along for the ride – voting like they’re told to – taking the money and giving you the high hard one.
Sure, they voted 47 or 50 times to repeal ObamaCare, but it never came up for a vote or even for debate in the Senate because of Harry Reid being the leader of the Democrat majority Senate. And even if it did, Obama would veto it.

That’s how our Representative Republic works. Defund, or live with it. You’re living with it. They could have funded the entire government except ObamaCare, but they didn’t.

Government didn’t have to shut down, either. Article One of the Constitution allows the House to defund single pieces of legislation while funding the entire rest of the government, so shut up already.

(By the way, will someone tell Bill O’Reilly how our government works? The Senate doesn’t “vote to defund” – the House does you dope. How’s that for pithy?)
Now I even hear my guy Ted Cruz saying he’s confident Republicans can soon repeal ObamaCare… uh-oh.

Even if we take back the Senate in 2014, guess what? Obama is still the President and will veto any repeal of his signature legislation. Duh.

Meanwhile, Republicans couldn’t be happier to have ObamaCare to run on, it being so unpopular with Americans. Forget that we’re suffering everyday with it – the ACA wins elections! And isn’t that more important that cancer patients losing their doctors, their plans, their hospitals, their treatments?

Let’s say there’s a miracle and the Republicans beat Hillary in 2016.. I know, I know, but just stay with me for a minute: The Republicans now have the House, the Senate and the White House. Aren’t we talking February or March of 2017 before they could actually repeal the ACA?

Do you have any idea how deep ObamaCare will have it’s tentacles in your life and the system as a whole by 2017? Repeal an entitlement then? Forget about it.
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Tens of millions, maybe a hundred million will be in the system and it will have been the law for seven years, steadily being implemented and worming its way into the bureaucracy with tens and hundreds of thousands of government employees, hospital personnel, compliance officers, departments, billing, IRS agents – by the tens of thousands..

It’s probably too late now – but three years from now? Pa-lease – too late for sure. Besides, give me one piece of evidence the Republicans will start doing the right thing if they get back in power? In 2000-2005 the GOP had the House, the Senate and the White House:
Did they cut spending a dime? No. Did they eliminate the Departments of Education, Energy, the EPA? Uh-uh. The GOP has been bitching about a Fair or Flat tax since I could walk, but did they reform the IRS or eliminate it? Hah! You mean disarm themselves? I think not.. In fact they became the most profligate spenders in the history of the U.S.

What about entitlements, did Republicans get rid of a couple when they had the chance – maybe privatize them? Did they at least reform entitlements? No, because they were too busy creating new ones. The Republicans were the worst stewards of the nation’s economy in the nation’s history… until Reid, Pelosi and Obama came along, of course.
Then all of a sudden, we’re the Party of cutting spending – look we got Paul Ryan!!

Cut me some slack you big-government lovers. Fact is, these guys sit around marveling at Barack Obama for how much money he’s been able to spend.

The GOP is not pissed at the debt, deficits or the spending – they’re just pissed that it didn’t go to their cronies – and now there’s no money left. Boo-frickin’ hoo.

Ridding you of ObamaCare was about defunding and now it’s lost. Done. Ain’t happening. The Republican’s took your money, your votes, your trust and screwed the pooch, friends. Now they have the best political weapon any Party has had since Watergate. You have ObamaCare now and you will always have it. End of story. That ship sailed and you better get used to it.
By the way, if you’re a conservative who believes in small government, the Constitution and individual liberty, The GOP despises you. They want you to go home and STFU.

They demonize the Tea Party and partner with the most evil people, funding campaigns to destroy conservative and Tea Party candidates. The GOP establishment takes money from labor unions, George Soros connections, John Podesta – it doesn’t matter - as long as they can gain power and money.

Republicans love ObamaCare and when they talk about repealing ObamaCare they are lying to you pal. Big time. They damn well know it cannot be repealed. Not now, not ever.

You better drop your concern about ObamaCare and focus on Amnesty ’cause that’s next. By the time 30 million undocumented Democrats are legalized, the current GOPster’s will be long gone.

Sleeping on beds of money.

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I am worried that this may be fact!!! None of them are doing anything to repeal Obamacare...

For all of you that didn't listen to reason when everyone warned you about the current "administration" and voted for them anyway..
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE...
That Administration says that Clivan Bundy owes them money, and so they surround he and his family with a 200 man armed Nazi Brigade...
Just wait until you realize how ignorant Obama Care is and decide not to join, and now it's YOU that owe "them" money in the form of a fine.


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Lawsuit Against Congressional Obamacare Subsidies Gets Support of 38 GOP Lawmakers


Thirty-eight Republican lawmakers came out in support of Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare subsidies for congressional staffers Monday night.

A group of 12 senators and 26 representatives, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Arizona Sen. John McCain, as well as the constitutionalist Judicial Education Project, filed an amicus brief in support of Johnson’s January lawsuit against the Obama administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

“The unlawful executive action at issue in this case is not an isolated incident. Rather, it is part of an ongoing campaign by the Executive Branch to rewrite the Affordable Care Act on a wholesale basis,” the filing reads. “The President of the United States is constitutionally obligated to take care that the law be faithfully executed; he does not have the power to modify or ignore laws that have been duly enacted by Congress and that he believes are constitutional.”

The brief coincided with Johnson filing his response to the government’s motion to dismiss his suit.

“This is just one example of the more than 20 unilateral changes made by the president to his own signature piece of legislation, but it was the one opportunity where I believe I had standing to challenge,” Johnson said in a statement. “Congress was clear: The misnamed Affordable Care Act required Congress and its staff to get its health coverage through the exchange and to do it without a tax-preferred employer subsidy, like anyone else who will lose employer-sponsored coverage.”

Lawmakers and staff are required to purchase health insurance from Obamacare exchanges due to a provision Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley worked into the law. But this required them to pay much higher premiums so they clamored for a work-around allowing the government to pay close to 75 percent of congressional staff’s health care premiums.

After pressure from lawmakers, President Obama reportedly promised Senate Democrats during a closed-door meeting in late July to find a solution. OPM accordingly issued guidance days later that allowed lawmakers and staff to keep their employee subsidies for purchase on the new exchanges.
But employers are prohibited from providing exchange plans to employees as a benefit, Roll Call reports. OPM’s guidelines claim a loophole in the law allows them to.

It appears that the subsidies have been helpful to Washington, D.C.’s Obamacare exchange, at the least. Though complete demographic data has not yet been released for each state’s health care marketplace, the District’s exchange has had the highest proportion of young adult sign ups for months — a feat no doubt aided by Congress’s young staffers, required to sign up and handed hefty federal subsidies.

The amicus brief was filed by D.C. law firm Jones Day. Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Arkansas Republican Rep. Tom Cotton were some of the prominent signers.

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John McCain what is he the spoiler!!! We will just have to see what happens!!

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5 Ways Obama Has Destroyed The Rule Of Law In America http://ow.ly/2FZNoC




5 Ways Obama Has Destroyed The Rule Of Law In America

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Barack Obama has no more legal right to change Obamacare all by his lonesome than Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, or for that matter, Justin Bieber does.








5 Ways Obama Has Destroyed The Rule Of Law In America

Posted by Joe For America on Apr 24, 2014

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When you allow unlawful acts to go unpunished, you’re moving toward a government of men rather than a government of law; you’re moving toward anarchy. And that’s exactly what we’re doing. — John Wayne

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. — George Orwell

Tell me why any American should respect the law?

Because it’s moral? Not necessarily. Slavery was once the law of the land. Abortion is the law of the land today. Even in a nation like America, it’s not unusual for laws to be unfair, unjust, and even immoral.

Is it because laws represent the will of the people? Not anymore. Today, the “law” is often summarily created from murky statutes by unelected bureaucrats who face no consequences for destroying people’s lives.

Well, is the law at least equally applied? Absolutely not. Your political affiliation and how well connected you are to the regime in charge can have a direct bearing on whether you’re prosecuted for breaking the law and how serious the penalty will be.

So, what’s left?

Respect for the law? Why should anyone respect arbitrary, immoral laws that aren’t equally applied and don’t reflect the will of the people? Under Barack Obama, the “law” in this country has become nothing more than whatever you can get away with and we’re likely to feel the consequences of that for decades to come.

1) Obamacare is whatever Barack Obama says it is: Barack Obama has no more legal right to change Obamacare all by his lonesome than Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, or for that matter, Justin Bieber does. He simply doesn’t have the legal authority to delay the employer mandate, delay taxes that are written into law, or give subsidies through federal exchanges to places where no state exchange were set up. Yet, Obama has delayed or changed the meaning of the law 19 times as if he were Kim Jong-un, as opposed to the President of a republic.

2) There are different laws for Tea Parties and the Occupy Movement: In city after city, the Occupy Movement was allowed to protest without expensive permits, participants were allowed to illegally camp and in some places they were allowed to break the law with impunity, which is why it’s so staggering that there were still almost 8,000 arrests by the time all the dirty hippies abandoned their tents and rape-free zones to go home and take showers. Meanwhile, Tea Party groups across the country weren’t given any similar breaks.

Tea party activists…accused officials in at least four cities of giving preferential treatment to anti-Wall Street protesters, and one group in Richmond is asking the city to repay $8,000 spent for permits and other needs.

…The Richmond Tea Party said Mayor Dwight C. Jones’ administration sought permit fees, portable toilets and other demands for their events, but has given Occupy Richmond a free pass. The occupation has grown to a tent city, with a makeshift library, a volleyball net and a row of portable toilets. Jones has said that because he is a product of the civil rights movement he has allowed the Occupy protesters to remain since Oct. 17.

“He’s sympathizing with them,” said Colleen Owens, a spokeswoman for the Richmond Tea Party. “We would never, as a tea party, have gotten away with not complying with the law.”

Tea party organizers had to buy liability insurance, hire police and emergency personnel and even keep a defibrillator on site, Owens said.

When groups all across the country are charged thousands of dollars for permits and liability insurance solely because of their political beliefs while other groups are given a free pass, there is no equality under the law.

3) Illegal immigration becomes legal: Admittedly, George W. Bush did a mediocre job of securing the border and enforcing immigration law. However, as a practical matter, illegal immigration isn’t “illegal” anymore. Obama has illegally passed his own version of the DREAM Act, illegally handed out work permits to people who are breaking the law, and for all intents and purposes, has stopped detaining illegal immigrants who haven’t been charged with other crimes. Acording to Senator Jeff Sessions, “at least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.” This is despite the fact that being here illegally is a crime and the people who broke that law did so knowing that the penalty was deportation. Tens of millions of immigrants have been welcomed to this country because as EVERYONE is well aware, we already have a “path to citizenship” for non-Americans and it’s called following the law.

4) The IRS illegally targeted Tea Partiers: If the IRS ever comes after you, try refusing to hand over documentation for years and pleading the 5th Amendment and see what happens to you. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll end up in the same minimum security prison that Wesley Snipes went to after some advisors convinced him he didn’t have to pay taxes. Yet, after the IRS targeted Tea Partiers because they were conservative, tried to refer them for prosecution to the DOJ, and illegally released some of their information to outside parties, the IRS officials have been refusing to cooperate with the investigation. If the IRS wasn’t guiltier than Wesley Snipes, it would be cooperating just like the rest of us are forced to do when we face an audit.

5) Eric Holder encouraged state attorney generals to refuse to defend traditional marriage in court: In other words, if your state passes a ban on gay marriage, Holder wants state attorney generals to undercut the will of the people in order to further his political agenda. So according to Eric Holder, whether the people of a state get to have a representative in court depends on whether or not liberal attorney generals agree with their opinion or not. As John Suthers, the attorney general of Colorado, said,

I have been attorney general of Colorado for nine years, during which time the state has enacted laws that span the philosophical and political spectrum. I personally oppose a number of Colorado’s laws as a matter of public policy, and a few are contrary to my religious beliefs. But as my state’s attorney general, I have defended them all — and will continue to.

…Depending on one’s view of the laws in question, such a “litigation veto” may, in the short term, be a terrific thing; an unpopular law is defanged and the attorney general can take credit — indeed, he can be the hero to his political base and keep his political ambitions intact. But in the longer term, this practice corrodes our system of checks and balances, public belief in the power of democracy and ultimately the moral and legal authority on which attorneys general must depend.

….I fear that refusing to defend unpopular or politically distasteful laws will ultimately weaken the legal and moral authority that attorneys general have earned and depend on. We will become viewed as simply one more player in a political system rather than as legal authorities in a legal system. The courts, the governments we represent and, most important, the people we serve will treat our pronouncements and arguments with skepticism and cynicism.

When the “law” becomes little more than politics by other means, it deserves to be treated with the same rich contempt that we hold for politicians in this country. That has already started to happen, it’s not good for the country, and much to the chagrin of the liberals who love this lawlessness as long as they’re in charge, it’s not going to end with Obama.

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There’s TROUBLE right here in River City

Posted by Michael Becker on Apr 23, 2014

River City being the city by the Potomac, Washington DC, and “trouble,” at least for the Democrats, is two words. They start with “O” and “D” and they’re “ObamaCare” and “Denial.” Realistically, you could throw in another “O,” that being “Obama.”

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There’s a new poll out from the YG Network that’s not a good indicator if you’re a Democrat.

The poll found that 59 percent of independents and 55 percent of undecideds in the battleground districts disapprove of the president’s performance. Additionally, just 45 percent of those aged 18-44 and 46 percent of Hispanics in battlegrounds approve of Obama’s performance.

The President keeps talking about 8 million “enrollments” as a measure of success, they aren’t talking about how many people actually have paid the premiums or what the age distribution of the actual insured is.

They’re also doing nothing to assuage the real fear that people have with respect to their doctor and hospital will be.

In those same battleground districts where President Obama looks to be an anchor for any Democrat, ObamaCare’s numbers are even worse.

ObamaCare has a 39% approval rate and a 56% disapproval rate. In other words, there’s not likely to be a groundswell of voters showing up to make sure the racist Republicans who hate womyn and the poor don’t mess with their healthcare. There’s more likely to be a groundswell of people showing up who are tired of Democrats telling them how to run their lives and spend their money.

One-third of the poll’s respondents are concerned that they will see changes for the worse in their health insurance or will lose it altogether. Keep that in mind as late summer approaches and the state insurance commissioners announce the new rates for 2015 and businesses start announcing changes and price increases to their large group plans.

Republicans, and especially conservatives, can’t take anything for granted with this upcoming election. Democrats are good at getting out the vote and they’ve still got a very bitter taste left over from the Tea Party sweeps in 2010. They will do absolutely anything to hold the Senate. Absolutely anything.

Desperation breeds contempt and there’s never been a political group that is more desperate or holds more contempt for both the US Constitution and the American voter than Barack Obama’s Democrats.

It’s time to get involved. As the height of campaign season rolls around, candidates will be looking for help, and more than just money. You can be involved in a district where your help can make a difference. For instance, campaigns routinely have the technology to make calls to prospective voters from your couch. They provide the technology, the names, and the script. All you have to do is donate a couple hours out of your day to inform people and get them motivated to go to the polls.

Start planning now to make a difference

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Report: Nevada Obamacare exchange considered dumping all customers

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Nevada's Obamacare exchange and its lead contractor Xerox allegedly discussed dumping sign-ups from its queue and starting over while dealing with serious website glitches, according to documents released Wednesday.

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Matthew Callister, an attorney who has filed a class-action lawsuit against the exchange, released anonymous emails allegedly from a Nevada Health Link employee.

Callister took the opportunity to ask the author of the documents to come forward publicly, but in the meantime plans to use the emails as a guide for discovery during the lawsuit.

The documents allege that on November 8 and 9 last year, Xerox officials and former exchange director Jonathan Hager met regarding the website's technical problems and discussing cancelling all applications from that time on and asking customers to sign up all over again.
The proposed cancellations would also affect customers who had already paid their first premiums, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports.
By clearing out all enrollees, the exchange would have been able to rid itself of corrupted files that contained inaccurate information.

Nevada's exchange has continued to struggle with serious website glitches throughout the first enrollment period. Customers have struggled with a system that sometimes fails to communicate new coverage to the insurer, incorrect effective dates for insurance, and technical glitches on the consumer-facing side of the website as well.

One glitch kept multiple sets of records from being reconciled with Social Security numbers, according to Callister's documents. Tax credits "were all miscalculated…and not enough money was paid on the premiums," according to the letter.
Customer Larry Basich of Las Vegas, paid several months premiums for his health exchange insurance plan before suffering a heart attack and receiving $407,000 worth of care — only to have his bills denied by an insurer who was told the policy wouldn't be effective until months later.
Basich is one of Callister's original plaintiffs, and has been joined by over close to 60 exchange customers. After several months of negotiations the Health Plan of Nevada agreed to cover Basich's bills, the Review Journal reports.

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Democrats Confront Vexing Politics Over the Health Care Law

By JONATHAN MARTINAPRIL 19, 2014



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Agents with a health care group helped people at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta sign up for insurance before the deadline. Credit Virginie Drujon-Kippelen for The New York Times


ATLANTA — When Franklin D. Roosevelt established Social Security, he created generations of loyal Democrats. When Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, he built on that legacy, particularly with older Americans. And when George W. Bush instituted a new prescription drug benefit for Medicare, it helped reclaim elderly voters for Republicans.

But President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the $1.4 trillion effort to extend health insurance to all Americans, is challenging the traditional calculus about government benefits and political impact.
Even as Mr. Obama announced that eight million Americans had enrolled in the program and urged Democrats to embrace the law, those in his party are running from it rather than on it, while Republicans are prospering by demanding its repeal.

The reasons are complex and layered in the early assessments, but say much about the nation’s political polarization, its shifting fault lines of class and race, and a diminished faith in government.

Democrats could ultimately see some political benefit from the law. But in this midterm election, they are confronting a vexing reality: Many of those helped by the health care law — notably young people and minorities — are the least likely to cast votes that could preserve it, even though millions have gained health insurance and millions more will benefit from some of its popular provisions.
“The angry opponents are more mobilized than the beneficiaries,” said David Axelrod, the longtime adviser to Mr. Obama.

Young adults and minorities tend to vote in midterms at lower rates than older and white voters. And a poll by the Pew Research Center and USA Today found that more Republicans than Democrats will be influenced by a candidate’s stance on the health law.

As of last month, about 140,000 Georgians had signed up for coverage through the law’s exchanges, and about 28 percent of those were ages 18 to 34. Of the uninsured population in the state, 47 percent are white, 37 percent black, 10 percent Hispanic and 4 percent Asian, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Turnout among blacks in the state, who make up 30 percent of the registered voters, typically drops by about five percentage points in a midterm election, when the gap in black and white voter participation widens.

Increasing turnout beyond what is typical in nonpresidential years is particularly crucial to Democrats’ hopes here. But two Democratic scions in Georgia, Jason Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, who is running for governor, and Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former Senator Sam Nunn, a candidate for the Senate, are not invoking the health law as a way to stoke voter energy.

They have spoken in public about the law mostly to criticize it, did nothing to promote enrollment for insurance before last month’s deadline and declined interviews to even discuss the law. In a state where nearly 1.8 million people still lack medical insurance, the word “health” can scarcely be found on either candidate’s webpage.

Across the country, many Democrats have made the calculation that embracing the law offers more risk than reward.

The architecture of the law almost ensured this outcome. To win over centrist Democrats, the administration proposed a complicated, market-based overhaul that was undergirded politically by Mr. Obama’s promise that individuals could keep their existing health plans.

“It was sold as small, minor change because of the need to pass it through Congress and assure the vast majority of people that it wouldn’t disturb their existing health insurance,” said Stanley B. Greenberg, a Democratic pollster. “But why defend it, why mobilize behind it if it’s just small change?”

Mr. Obama’s loyalists say a broad-based, “single-payer” system was never politically feasible, and yet it was the lack of universality that made it easier for Republicans to portray it as an income transfer program from the better-off to the poor.

“I think it is viewed more as a social welfare program than a social insurance program, but that’s not right because it is social insurance,” Mr. Axelrod said.

That contrasts sharply with Medicare and Social Security, which remain popular because almost everyone who benefits paid something into the system. “That was done because it sat better with the American cultural idea of self-reliance,” said David M. Kennedy, a Stanford University historian.

In addition, Republicans argued effectively that the law was changing the status quo, affecting people who already had private health insurance, said Representative David E. Price, Democrat of North Carolina.

“There was an ability to exploit the unknown, to exploit the fear of people losing something that they have,” said Mr. Price, a political scientist. “That wasn’t true with Social Security and Medicare.”

The focus on the law’s expansion of coverage for those of modest means has also overshadowed popular, more broadly enjoyed benefits like allowing parents to keep their children on their plans until they are 26 and barring insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions.

“This is where the communications failure has been so problematic,” said Ezekiel J. Emanuel, one of the law’s architects. “We haven’t really alerted Americans to the fact that there is much more to this than the exchanges that’s going to be really, really positive for all of us, not just those getting insurance.”

That view has not taken hold, especially among white voters who see the law as an act of government redistribution to the 15 percent of the population that is uninsured. In a New York Times/CBS News poll in December, just 17 percent of whites said the health law would help them while 41 percent said it would hurt; among blacks, 42 percent said it would help them while 15 percent predicted it would hurt. Four in 10 whites and blacks said it would have no effect on them.

This divide was easy to detect in Atlanta, where symbols of ethnic diversity abound — the city’s hip new barbecue restaurant, Sweet Auburn, is named after Atlanta’s historically black neighborhood and owned by a Chinese-American — but reminders of old divisions are just as evident.

Judy McDaniel said outside an enrollment event that she had “mixed feelings” even after her 42-year-old son was finally about to sign up for health insurance under the law. “I’ve been lucky enough in my career to afford my own insurance, and I’m not sure how I feel about supporting others,” said Ms. McDaniel, who is white and said she had voted against Mr. Obama.

At Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as pastor, black health insurance professionals signing up people on the final enrollment day predicted that the law would become more popular once it was less infused with politics.

“It’s going to happen when Obama is no longer the president,” Harold Hardee said. “You try taking Medicare away from folks now and they fight you.”
But when Medicare was passed in 1965, Americans had more faith in the federal government. Just 2 percent of those surveyed in a recent Quinnipiac Poll said they trusted Washington to do what is right almost all the time.

“In the ’60s, we felt like we could do anything,” recalled Joseph A. Califano Jr., a top domestic aide to Johnson. “We could feed the hungry, cure disease and clean the air. Now there’s just a lot more skepticism.”

Conservatives say that skepticism is well founded. “Systems that would have worked 30 years ago don’t work now,” said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker. “Outside the military and air traffic control, tell me a large bureaucracy that functions. It’s not that the country has changed. It’s that the country’s experience with systems has changed.”

This indifference was readily apparent on a recent morning at Octane, an Atlanta coffee shop filled with younger customers. As they sipped $4.60 lattes, several in their 20s said that they were supportive of the health law but that it would not have much bearing on their vote — if they voted at all.

Michael Martell, 26, a student teacher in North Carolina visiting a friend, said he had learned how vital it was to have health care from living in Spain. But as of now he is not eligible to vote in North Carolina’s pivotal Senate race because he is still registered in his native Illinois.

“I’m not really tied down to a single community, which makes it harder to be involved in politics,” he said.

Democrats say opinions of the law are destined to improve over time.

“There’s the reality of the program and the popular perception of it, and the more the perception aligns with reality the more you’ll see Democrats embrace it,” said Stacey Abrams, a Democrat and the minority leader of the Georgia House. But, she acknowledged, “we’re not there yet.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/us...ry-continues-5


Has anyone out there bothered to read the 2200 pages, and forget the changes the "man who would be king" has added to them???

Of course not!!!! What about the exemptions for friends and family??? The politicians, exempted!! The list goes on and on!!!!!!

You bet were not there yet because it has nothing to do with healthcare but all to do with control of you and yours from the cradle to the grave. If was so good why hasn't it been embraced by everyone, if it is good why do they need to force it on us???

If it was just healthcare for every American citizen it would be one thing but it isn't!!!

Senators Denounce Obama for Threatening 'Entire Constitutional System' By 'Nullifying' Immigration Laws

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On Thursday, 22 Republican senators, including even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), denounced President Barack Obama in a scathing letter for threatening America's "entire constitutional system" with his immigration "enforcement review" that threatens to "nullify" the nation's immigration laws.


"Your actions demonstrate an astonishing disregard for the Constitution, the rule of law, and the rights of American citizens and legal residents," the senators wrote in a letter to Obama. "Our entire constitutional system is threatened when the Executive Branch suspends the law at its whim and our nation’s sovereignty is imperiled when the commander-in-chief refuses to defend the integrity of its borders."
After intense pressure from pro-amnesty groups who fear that amnesty legislation will not pass this year, Obama's Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson met with advocacy groups last month to reportedly consider administrative actions--such as granting more forms of amnesty, not deporting illegal immigrants who have not committed "major" crimes, and allowing bond hearings for illegal immigrants--to further erode the nation's laws. The senators said they had "grave concerns" with these potential actions because they "would represent a near complete abandonment of basic immigration enforcement and discard the rule of law and the notion that the United States has enforceable borders."
"These policies have operated as an effective repeal of duly enacted federal immigration laws and exceed the bounds of the Executive Branch’s prosecutorial discretion," the senators wrote. "It is not the province of the Executive to nullify the laws that the people of the United States, through their elected representatives, have chosen to enact. Congress has not passed laws permitting people to illegally enter the country or to ignore their visa expiration dates, so long as they do not have a felony conviction or other severe offense on their record."
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who also signed the letter and has relentlessly debunked the notion that Obama is the so-called "deporter in chief," told Breitbart News that Obama's immigration policies also further hollow out the Middle Class that has been found to no longer be the world's wealthiest and hurt Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder Obama claims he wants to help.
"The Administration’s immigration policies are widening the income gap the White House claims it wishes to narrow," Sessions told Breitbart News. "American workers have a right to the protections our immigration laws afford, but the Administration has nullified those protections while simultaneously pushing to double the flow of future guest workers into the United States. These policies make it more difficult for the working poor of all backgrounds to rise into the middle class.”
He also said that even though "evidence proves that the Administration has collapsed immigration enforcement," with the result that "millions of struggling Americans have been deprived of their jobs and incomes," Congressional Democrats "continue to empower the illegality and stonewall all efforts to stop it.”
"Congress must work to end the lawlessness and restore constitutional order," he said.
The letter also cites figures from the administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealing that in 2013, "nearly all individuals removed from the United States were convicted criminals and recent border crossers." It also mentions a Los Angeles Times report that found that "since 2009, there has been a 40% decline in removals of individuals living and working in the interior of the country."
The senators also cited the testimony to Congress from Chris Crane, President of the National ICE Council, who said the Obama administration is not only handcuffing ICE agents but also taking "disciplinary actions against its own officers for making lawful arrests, it appears clear that Federal law enforcement officers are the enemy and not those that break our Nation’s laws.”
Sessions also noted to Breitbart News that net immigration levels have quadrupled over the last 40 years and cited Harvard Professor Dr. George Borjas, who has found high levels illegal and legal immigration from 1980–2000 have "resulted in a 7.4% wage reduction for American workers without a high school diploma."
"Currently, more than 1 in 4 Americans without a high school diploma is unemployed, underemployed, or marginally attached to the workforce," he said. "Research from Dr. Borjas also demonstrates that American workers competing each year with immigrant labor lose approximately $400 billion in wages."
The senators wrote that the Obama should not look for new ways to weaken immigration laws, especially since his administration has since 2009:

...issued policy directives and memoranda incrementally nullifying immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States – to the point that unless individuals in the country illegally are apprehended, tried, and convicted for a felony or other serious offense, they are free to live and work in the country.

"You swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," they wrote. "We therefore ask you to uphold that oath and to carry out the duties required by the Constitution and entrusted to you by the American people."
Those who signed the letter include: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, McConnell, Sessions, Richard Shelby (R-AL), Mike Lee (R-UT), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mike Johanns (R-NE), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), John Boozman (R-AK), David Vitter (R-LA), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Tim Scott (R-SC), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Ted Cruz (R-TX), John Hoeven (R-ND).
Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX), Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were the GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee who did not sign the letter.

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Let see what develops after all elections are coming up!!!!