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Room Full Of Doctors Walk Out On Obamacare Session At National Conference

AUTHOR John Hawkins

It’s no secret that physicians aren’t happy with Obamacare. Polls of doctors have shown time and time again that a significant number of them plan to cut back hours, reduce patient loads or even abandon the profession entirely because of the restrictions the law will place on them. In other nations with socialized medicine, shortages of doctors are very common. We’re about to start experiencing that in America as well.

Last week-end, doctors at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Government Relations found a more tangible way to show their unhappiness with Obamacare.

Video at the Page Link:

During a Government Relations session that focused on implementing the Affordable Care Act, they simply got up and left.

If you have a good doctor, you better be REAL NICE to him and if you don’t, you better find one soon. Once Obamacare fully goes into effect, a good doctor is going to be hard to find.


http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/0...al-conference/

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good for them .

Obamacare Being Used As Backdoor To Give Illegal Immigrants Free Healthcare






AUTHOR Bookworm


One of the things that helps people get things done is to make it easy for them to get things done or to imply that they are required to do an act to obtain a much-desired benefit. The Obama administration is attempting to make it easy for people to registering for ObamaCare to vote, and has done so in a way that makes them think they have an obligation to do so if they want their benefits. Having gone this far, it’s reasonable to believe that the administration is hoping that people registering to vote under these circumstances will feel obligated to register as Democrats in order to keep their benefits.
Paul Bedard, who writes the Washington Secrets blog for the Washington Examiner has had a chance to review the 61-page long draft version of the application for ObamaCare. He caught the administration’s little trick, one that simultaneously removes barriers to access for voter registration, makes voters think that they have to register to get ObamaCare benefits and, by virtue of being associated with Obama’s signature work, gently steers people in the direction of the Democrat party:

The 61-page online Obamacare draft application for health care includes asking if the applicant wants to register to vote, raising the specter that pro-Obama groups being tapped to help Americans sign up for the program will also steer them to register with the Democratic Party.
On page 59, after numerous questions about the applicant’s identity and qualification for Obamacare, comes the question: “Would you like to register to vote?” The placement of the question could lead some to believe they have to register to vote to get health care.
In the introduction of the document, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services declare: “This document-the ‘questionnaire’-represents each possible item that may need to be asked for successful eligibility determinations.”

Fortunately, this is only the draft version, and Rep. Charles Boustany, Jr.(R-La.), who is chair of the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee, has already written to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to let her know she can’t get away with this one:

The draft documents wander into areas outside the department’s purview and links applications for health insurance subsidies to voter registration. The position of the question could lead some to think voter registration is somehow tied to subsidy eligibility.

Boustany is not just displeased with the question’s appearance in the draft bill, since the question about registration can still easily be deleted. He’s also concerned about the question’s implications when it comes to government data collection. According to Bedard, Boustany sees two alarming issues:

What does HHS plan to do with all the information it collects on each applicant and will pro-Obama groups like AARP and Families USA that might be tapped as “navigators” to sign people up to Obamacare, steer them to register as Democrats. Others have indicated that groups like Planned Parenthood and ACORN could also act as a navigator.

One of the distinguishing features of all tyrannical governments is the massive amount of information that they collect about ordinary citizens. Armed with this information, a government can control and, if necessary, blackmail people.
The Obama government is not a tyrannical government. Saying so would be such an exaggeration that it would cast into doubt the speaker’s credibility and intelligence. However, the Obama administration is engaging in behaviors that are never associated with liberty-based governments and that, as noted, are always associated with tyrannies.
Put another way, it’s always a bad sign when government starts trying to collect too much information about the citizens over whom it has control. It’s therefore important to nip this behavior in the bud, as Rep. Boustany is trying to do.

http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/0...ee-healthcare/

Reid: Obamacare a 'Train Wreck' if Badly Implemented



Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, accompanied by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.

Thursday, 02 May 2013 09:29 AM
By Courtney Coren

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that he agrees with fellow Democrat Max Baucus that the Affordable Care Act will be "a train wreck" if not properly implemented.

"Max said unless we implement this properly it’s going to be a train wreck and I agree with him," Reid told radio host Rusty Humphries.

Reid was referring to what the Montana senator had told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius two weeks ago at an April budget hearing.

"I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Baucus said. "You and I have discussed this many times, and I don’t see any results yet."

Reid blamed Republican opposition to the health care law as the reason the administration hasn’t spent enough money implementing the law.

"Here’s what we have now: We have the menu but we don’t have any way to get to the menu," Reid said, according to a report on The Hill.

Reid explained to a caller to the radio show that President Barack Obama will take money from less-important aspects of Obamacare in order to educate the public about the law.

"I wish we had the money just to do this on its own, but he’s agreed, he’s determined he’s going to take money from some of the other things that he feels are less important in the healthcare bill and put it on letting you and others know what’s in the bill. And what they can do to either accept parts that would be helpful to them, or not," Reid said.

Reid said he is still a strong supporter of the healthcare law overall.

"I believe that a country of our size, the only superpower left in the world, it’s not right that we have 50, 60 million . . . people with no health insurance," Reid said. "We have a program where health insurance shouldn’t go to the people that are rich, people who are upper-middle class.

"I believe the middle class and people who are below the middle class deserve to go to the hospital when they are sick. You shouldn’t have to declare bankruptcy when you have a traffic accident or some dreaded disease hits your family," he said.

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Obamacare Affects Part-Time Employment Yet Again

Mike Shedlock

At a business level, the penalty for not offering a qualified healthcare plan is $2,000 per person, for companies that have more than 30 full-time employees.

As I have discussed before, Obamacare is behind the surge in part-time employment as corporations have been cutting hours worked and hiring more part-time workers to make up the difference.

Part-time employment rose this month by a whopping 441,000 as private average weekly hours fell 0.2 to 34.4 hours and average weekly earnings fell from $824.52 to $821.13 due to fewer hours worked.

For details see Jobs +165,000, Part-Time Employment +441,000; Unemployment Rate 7.5%; Dow Tops 15,000

Nullification Bill Passes South Carolina House

A constitutional showdown may be coming up as South Carolina House passes bill making ‘Obamacare’ implementation a crime.

The South Carolina state House passed a bill Wednesday that declares President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to be “null and void,” and criminalizes its implementation.

The state’s Freedom of Health Care Protection Act intends 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.”

The measure permits the state Attorney General, with reasonable cause, “to restrain by temporary restraining order, temporary injunction, or permanent injunction” any person who is believed to be causing harm to any person or business with the implementation of Obamacare.

Earlier this year in her state of the state address, Gov. Nikki Haley said that South Carolina does not want and cannot afford the president’s plan, “not now, not ever.”

“To that end, we will not pursue the type of government-run health exchanges being forced on us by Washington,” she said. “Despite the rose-colored rhetoric coming out of D.C., these exchanges are nothing more than a way to make the state do the federal government’s bidding in spending massive amounts of taxpayer dollars on insurance subsidies that we can’t afford.”

IRS the Enforcer

The court ruled Obamacare a tax because the IRS collects the penalty if people opt out of the system. The penalty will come on Federal income tax returns. Still, it will be curious to see precisely how this would be handled.

Analysis of Penalty Rates

Aside from South Carolina, who will opt out of the system, and what happens then? The answer involves a comparison of various penalty rates.

At an individual level, Fact Check notes the minimum penalty for not having insurance in 2014 is a mere $95. Government will probably waste far more than that attempting to figure out who has insurance and who doesn't.

For 2014 anyway, regardless of what South Carolina does or does not do, low income people will likely opt out across the board if their employer does not provide insurance.

The minimum penalty for 2015 will be $325 and for 2016 and beyond, $695 indexed per inflation.

Fact Check notes the tax is higher for higher incomes "But the penalty can never exceed the cost of the national average premiums for the lowest-cost bronze plans being offered through the new insurance exchanges called for under the law."

For a couple making $100,000, income thresholds might mean a combined penalty of about $2,000 compared to insurance costs of roughly $10,000 for family coverage based on models for state exchanges.

At upper income levels, healthy people may compare the cost of insurance with higher penalties and make the decision to opt out.

Here is an interesting point: "The law prohibits the IRS from seeking to put anybody in jail or seizing their property for simple refusal to pay the tax. The law says specifically that taxpayers “shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution or penalty” for failure to pay, and also that the IRS cannot file a tax lien (a legal claim against such things as homes, cars, wages and bank accounts) or a “levy” (seizure of property or bank accounts)."

In addition to encouraging more part-time work, the law as written is begging for noncompliance regardless of what states like South Carolina do.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

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