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Congress Says: Obummercare for you not for me!!!!!!!

What do you think about the Obamacare exemption for Congress excluding government workers from the Affordable Care Act?

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News Link • Healthcare So THAT’S What They Mean by “Affordable Care” 08-02-2013 • Lew Rockwell blog .... thanks to “Obamacare,” health insurance premiums in that state are about to increase by as much as 198 percent – for starters.... Congress has exempted itself and its employees from the increased health insurance costs of the Orwellian-named “Affordable Care Act.” Health insurance will remain affordable FOR THEM and for them only. Read Full Story

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For Obamacare, Congress exempted themselves from the Affordable Care Act in a deal arranged by President Obama. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the Obamacare implementation in California could be a disaster in terms of identity theft and fraud according to the California insurance commissioner. Another study claims the Affordable Care Act could cause people to leave their jobs and even Unions are criticizing Obamacare.

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Unfortunately people don't seem to remember little things such as Congress members thumbing their noses at regular folks. So we get the same old, same old every time.
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August 1, 2013 Obamacare Is For The “subjects” Not For The Rulers! IRS Chief: We Would Rather Have Our Current Plan Than Obamacare



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Don't that beat all!!!!

House passes resolution to prevent IRS from Enforcing Obamacare.

With the recent and ongoing scandals of the Internal Revenue Service that have been in the media recently, it’s caused many Americans even more concern that this agency would be the one enforcing the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. It’s not that we weren’t concern about the agency to begin with as it seems it has nothing but a tyrannical history behind it. However, the House of Representatives passed HR 2009, the Keep the IRS Off your Health Care Act of 2013, on Friday with a vote of 228-185 with four Democrats crossing the aisle to vote in favor of the resolution. HR 2009, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia), and it prohibits the IRS from having any role in the enforcement of ObamaCare. Price said, who is a physician, said:

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20 hours ago by Tim Brown House Passes Resolution To Prevent IRS From Enforcing Obamacare 155 Comments Share591 Tweet87 9 Share928 With the recent and ongoing scandals of the Internal Revenue Service that have been in the media recently, it’s caused many Americans even more concern that this agency would be the one enforcing the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. It’s not that we weren’t concern about the agency to begin with as it seems it has nothing but a tyrannical history behind it. However, the House of Representatives passed HR 2009, the Keep the IRS Off your Health Care Act of 2013, on Friday with a vote of 228-185 with four Democrats crossing the aisle to vote in favor of the resolution. HR 2009, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia), and it prohibits the IRS from having any role in the enforcement of ObamaCare. Price said, who is a physician, said: “By voting to prohibit the IRS from implementing or enforcing any part of President Obama’s health care law, the House of Representatives has taken an important step toward protecting the health care of American citizens today. The Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act has the support of over 140 cosponsors in the House and has been endorsed by numerous organizations and thousands of Americans who share our commitment to preventing any of our fellow citizens from having to answer to the IRS when it comes to their personal health care decisions. The IRS clearly has not been able to prudently and impartially enforce current tax laws. It has abused its authority by targeting individuals and organizations. There’s no reason to trust this massive agency with one of the most personal aspects of our lives – our health care. Instead, we ought to be empowering individuals and families to make their own health care decisions. There are many positive ways to pursue a patient-centered health care system. But to get there, we need the Obama Administration and Senate Democrats to stop siding with the Washington bureaucracy and to start standing up for the rights and health care choices of the American people.” The Act’s purpose is “To prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from enforcing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.” The House Resolution lists four reasons for the resolution. Congress finds the following: (1) On May 10, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service admitted that it singled out advocacy groups, based on ideology, seeking tax-exempt status. (2) This action raises pertinent questions about the agency’s ability to implement and oversee Public Law 111-148 and Public Law 111-152. (3) This action could be an indication of future Internal Revenue Service abuses in relation to Public Law 111-148 and Public Law 111-152 given that it is their responsibility to enforce a key provision, the individual mandate. (4) Americans accept the principle that patients, families, and doctors should be making medical decisions, not the Federal Government. The resolution states that “The Secretary of the Treasury, or any delegate of the Secretary, shall not implement or enforce any provisions of or amendments made by Public Law 111-148 or 111-152.” In other words they will not be able to enforce PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) and HCERA (Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act). Though the House has tried more than forty times to repeal Obamacare, this is not what this resolution is. It is more of an attempt to get around it. Rep. John Barrow (D-GA); Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT); Rep. Michael McIntyre (D-NC); and Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) all crossed over and voted with Republicans to pass the resolution. Barack Obama has threatened to veto the bill but chances are, that won’t be necessary. The Democrats hold a slim majority in the Senate and are not likely to approve any variation on the bill, although two versions have been introduced in the Senate over the past few months. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) wrote, “ObamaCare is a train wreck for American individuals, families and businesses. We now know that the health care law implements a massive tax on the American people and raids Medicare as a main source of funding, health care insurance premiums have sky rocketed since its passage and its implementation has been so disorganized that the President has had to delay key provisions of the legislation.” “And now, President Obama wants you to further answer to the Internal Revenue Service which has violated your trust and forfeited its claim to a reputation of fairness and impartiality,” Issa wrote. “The IRS has also requested $439 million in new spending to hire nearly 2,000 new agents just to implement the unpopular health care law.” Issa laid out many problems with the IRS that has come before his committee. “The facts speak for themselves – ObamaCare has been and will continue to be a disaster impacting every American. I am committed to dismantling, defunding and repealing ObamaCare so that American families, individuals and businesses have the freedom to choose quality, affordable health care that meets their individual needs.”

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Illegal: If Obama Provides ObamaCare Subsidies For Congress and Staffers

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Politico reported that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will issue a ruling next week that will allow the federal government to subsidize the insurance plans Congressmen and their aides will be forced to buy on government healthcare exchanges due to Obamacare.
The news came just hours after the Heritage Foundation released an embargoed study to reporters that found there was no legal way for the administration to offer subsidies for Members of Congress and their aides without passing a legislative “fix.”
The Obama administration may have tried to preempt the release of that study; one of the study’s co-authors insisted to Breitbart News on Friday that no matter how creative the Obama administration gets, there does not seem to be a legal manner in which the federal government can grant the Obamacare subsidies.
Ed Haislmaier and Robert E. Moffitt, both of whom are Senior Research Fellows in the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, and Joseph A. Morris, an attorney in private practice who served as General Counsel of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 1981 to 1985, co-authored the study, titled, “Congress in the Obamacare Trap: No Easy Escape.”
Haislmaier emphasized to Breitbart News that “we don’t see a legal avenue, no matter how creative, for them.”
“We don’t know what they will come out with, or how they will try to to justify it,” he told Breitbart News. “If they do produce, then we will have a regulation to dissect.”
As the Heritage Foundation’s Rob Bluey wrote on “The Foundry,” it is indeed curious that “word of the Obama Administration ‘solving’ Congress’ problem was suddenly leaked to a couple reporters at 9 p.m. — just hours before the release of Heritage’s report (embargoed copies of which had been given to the media).”

The Administration’s strategy appears to be one of deliberately flouting the law, in the belief that it can get away with it because Congress will be the beneficiary and the American public won’t catch on to what they are doing. If the Administration really thinks it has a legal way under Obamacare for the federal government to continuing paying for the health care of members of Congress and their staff, why didn’t they issue the regulations at any point over the last three years?

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Citing Obamacare, Employers Tell Retirees To Seek Their Own Coverage




More than 40 percent of employers have eliminated their traditional group health coverage for retirees over the age of 65 in favor of giving these former employees a defined amount of money for them to buy their coverage on the individual Medicare plan market, according to a new survey. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)



Employer retiree health care coverage, which has been deteriorating for years amid high health care costs and waning employer interest, is headed for bigger changes thanks to the Affordable Care Act, a new study shows.
More than 40 percent of employers have eliminated their traditional group health coverage for retirees over the age of 65 in favor of giving these former employees a defined amount of money for them to buy their coverage on the individual Medicare plan market, according to a new survey of more than 540 companies by employee benefits consulting firm Aon AON +0.36% Hewitt (AON).
For most of these retirees, they have access to the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly so they are unlikely to be losing medical benefits. In some cases, it has been a rich benefit for retirees though it has dwindled over time in the face of rising health care costs.
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These days, retirees have more choices through the so-called Medicare Advantage plan market which includes offerings from the likes of health insurance giants Aetna AET -0.47% (Aet), Cigna CI -0.44% (CI), Humana HUM +0.2% (HUM) and UnitedHealth Group UNH -0.23% (UNH). It’s been costly for companies to continue to sponsor their own retiree coverage in part because of this mature market.
“With the (Affordable Care Act) legal and political landscape clarified, employers are looking to control costs, manage risk and source coverage through the most efficient means possible,” Maureen Scholl, chief executive officer of health care exchanges for Aon Hewitt.
“Individual market-based retiree health care sourcing strategies can create significant savings opportunities for all stakeholders,” Scholl added. “We expect to see many employers apply these strategies where possible and supplement them with modified group-based programs for those retiree populations where individual strategies do not make sense.”
No matter the strategy, retirees with company-paid health care coverage can expect changes. More than 60 percent of employer plan sponsors have “indicated they intent to review their retiree healthcare strategy in light of health care reform and make changes to take advantage of the law,” Aon Hewitt said.
Here are other results from the survey.



More than 60 percent of companies planning changes to retiree coverage, according to Aon Hewitt.

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In the meantime the powers that be are all exempting themselves from the "AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE ACT" good for you but not for me!!!! Awake yet????

Another thing to be aware of is that scammers are calling senior citizens up and trying to sell them things but what they are really doing is trying to get their personal information like birthday and SS#'s. If you have any seniors in your circle of family and or friends make them aware of this....Especially if it is a call they didn't initiate...

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Bumper Sticker Of The Day…

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Patriot Dreamer

You didn’t really think that members of Congress and their staffers would be subjected to ObamaCare like the rest of us, did you? After all, “some animals are more equal than others”. Link to article on their exemption from ObamaCare.

Blue Cross, Aetna, United, Humana Flee Obamacare Exchanges

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Cowboy Byte


Major health insurance companies – Blue Cross, Aetna, United, Humana – have fled the Obamacare health care exchanges in various states, which are scheduled to start on Oct. 1.

Insurance companies like Aetna and United have said, “thanks, but no thanks” to the public health insurance marketplace set up under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, which will facilitate government subsidies to individuals and small businesses to buy approved health plans to comply with the law.




The ACA requires every American to have health insurance, or pay a penalty. Individuals who are not covered by their employer can enroll in the state or federal government-run health care “marketplace,” which will provide subsidies to individuals between 100 and 400 percent of the poverty line.
Aetna, a fortune 100 company with $34.2 billion in revenue, has pulled out of public exchanges in three states, and will not be part of the individual health insurance exchange in its home base, Connecticut.

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Blue Cross, Aetna, United, Humana Flee Obamacare Exchanges


August 7, 2013 - 5:16 PM

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By Elizabeth Harrington



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(CNSNews.com) – Major health insurance companies--Blue Cross, Aetna, United, Humana--have decided not to participate in various states in the Obamacare health-insurance exchanges that will be the only place Americans will be able to buy a health insurance plan using the federal subsidies authorized under the Obamacare law.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare), every American must buy a health insurance plan that meets minimum government specifications. If a person does not get health insurance through their employer, and is not on Medicaid, they can buy insurance through their home state's insurance exchange (which, depending on the state, will be run by either the state or federal government).
States will also operate exchanges where small businesses can buy health-insurance plans.
Individuals and families making up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level will qualify for a federal subsidy to help them buy their government-mandated insurance--but only if they buy their insurance on the government-run exchange.
Also under Obamacare, insurance companies are required to take customers with pre-existing health problems and to provide certain services mandated either by the law itself or by regulations issued under the law by the Obama administration--thus driving up the insurance companies' costs.
Aetna, a fortune 100 company with $34.2 billion in revenue, has pulled out of the government-run exchanges in three states, including the state of Connecticut, where it is based.
Founded in Hartford, Conn., in 1850, Aetna withdrew its application to participate in that state on Monday, the Hartford Courant reported. The company said it was withdrawing from there and in Georgia and Maryland because limitations the state governments would impose on their rates would not allow them to make money.
“We have spent considerable time identifying those states in which we can be competitive and add the most value to the market,” Aetna said in a statement. “As a result of our analysis, we have reluctantly concluded that we will withdraw certain Individual Exchange filings for 2014, including filings in Connecticut, Georgia and Maryland.”
“This is not a step taken lightly, and was made as part of a national review of our Exchange strategy,” the company said. “Unfortunately, we believe the modifications to the rates filed by Aetna will not allow us to collect enough premiums to cover the cost of the plans and meet the service expectations of our customers.”
California
Aetna will also not participate in California’s exchange, and a spokesperson told CNSNews.com that the company never intended to do so.
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“We did not withdraw exchange plans in California, as we never planned participation nor filed [Qualified Health Plans] QHPs to participate in the California exchange,” a spokesperson said.
Anthem Blue Cross has withdrawn its bid to participate in the California's government-run Obamacare exchange marketing insurance to small businesses.
United Health Group, the largest health insurer in the United States, has taken a passon California's individual health insurance exchange.
Aetna will stop selling health insurance policies to individuals in California all together, leaving nearly 50,000 existing individual policyholders to find new coverage by January. The company will continue to directly sell health insurance to employers in California--outside of the government exchange system.
‘If You Like Your Doctor,’ Hope Your Insurer Is Participating in the Exchange
“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period,” Obama said on June 15, 2009.
“If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period," he said. "No one will take it away. No matter what.”
That promise, however, has been revised by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which now says, “you may be able to keep your current doctor” in the health insurance marketplace.
“Most health insurance plans offered in the Marketplace have networks of hospitals, doctors, specialists, pharmacies, and other health care providers,” HHS said on its website for the health reform law. “Networks include health care providers that the plan contracts with to take care of the plan’s members.”
“Depending on the type of policy you buy, care may be covered only when you get it from a network provider,” they said.
President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) into law on Mar. 23, 2010. (AP)

With insurers opting out of state-run health insurance exchanges, individuals are left with fewer options.
Following Aetna's departure, only three companies remain in Connecticut’s “Access Health CT” exchange.
Similarly, only five insurers are participating in the exchange in Georgia, after Aetna and Coventry Health Insurance dropped out last week.
The Savannah Morning News noted that this will “leave residents of some parts of the state with limited choice.”
Two of the three largest health insurers in Wisconsin will also not participate in the state’s Obamacare exchange.
Though they will not participate in at least four state-run exchanges, Aetna said they “appreciate” the opportunity to work with state regulators on complying with the ACA.
“We have appreciated the chance to work with the regulators in each state for the past months on a variety of key issues regarding ACA implementation,” Aetna said in a statement. “We will continue to work with them, and various Exchange leadership teams, as we evaluate exchange participation in future years.”



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