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Obamacare: No Christian Insurance Companies Allowed

Posted by Philip Hodges

Nancy Pelosi’s always talking about how Obamacare is a “liberation” and a “freedom.” It signifies “health independence” that everyone will no doubt be celebrating tomorrow. It will give us all the “freedom” to pursue our happiness without concerns about potential illnesses. We’ll be able to be writers, cameramen and entrepreneurs all thanks to Obamacare.

You can “be all you can be,” as the Army used to say. Unless of course you’re a Christian who wants to operate an insurance company. That you can’t do without violating your conscience. The final version of Obamacare’s “preventive services” regulation forbids it:
“[U]nder the regulation, if a Catholic hospital, university or charity refuses to buy coverage for the objectionable services, the regulation affirmatively commands that the health insurance company providing coverage to the organization must provide the organization’s employees and their dependents with free sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs. If the “religious organization” self-insures, the regulation requires that the third-party administrator for the self-insurance plan must either pay directly for the objectionable services or “arrange” for an insurance company to do so—also free of charge to the employees and their dependents…. An insurance company that refuses on moral and religious grounds to pay for abortion-inducing drugs is barred by the regulation from taking as customers individual private citizens, for-profit corporations and their employees, non-religious non-profits and their employees, and religious non-profits and their employees.”
The only exceptions to this rule are actual “houses of worship,” as defined by the IRS. Since Christian organizations, universities and charities are not counted as “houses of worship,” they must provide coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives, and abortifacient drugs.
Pelosi calls this “freedom.” But Obamacare will force people to buy health insurance. And it will force insurance companies to offer certain “preventive services” that many people find objectionable. How “pro-choice.” We’ll all be “free” to do as we choose as long as what we choose is what the government mandates. Obamacare will “free” us from freedom and “liberate” us from liberty. It’s OK, though. Those things are overrated. It’s a lot safer and more secure to be chained to the government than to live life independent of it.

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Craigslist Ad Recruited Paid Protesters to Oppose Abortion Legislation in Texas



A grassroots political consulting group, whose major clients include the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was recruiting individuals on Craigslist and offering to pay them $1,300 to $2,200 a month to “protect women’s rights” in Austin, Texas for their client, Planned Parenthood.The ads, entitled “Keep America Pro-Choice” and “You Don’t Need To Filibuster To Stand Up To Anti-Pro Choice Politicians,” were placed on Craigslist by Grassroots Campaigns, Inc., for Planned Parenthood, a Grassroots spokeswoman confirmed to CNSNews.com.The phone number on the ad shown below was first posted on July 1, but has since been deleted. It directed readers to call the Colorado-based political consulting group at their Austin location for more information, not Planned Parenthood. (See Grassroots 1.pdf)The ad reads: “PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN 2013! Grassroots Campaigns is immediately hiring passionate and motivated people to help educate the public and identify new supporters to protect reproductive rights. We’re working right now to: keep birth control affordable, oppose attacks on women’s health, ensure healthcare access and expand global reproductive rights.” The ad also lists a pay range of $1300-$2200 per month.
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(CNSNews.com) – A grassroots political consulting group, whose major clients include the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was recruiting individuals on Craigslist and offering to pay them $1,300 to $2,200 a month to “protect women’s rights” in Austin, Texas for their client, Planned Parenthood. The ads, entitled “Keep America Pro-Choice” and “You Don’t Need To Filibuster To Stand Up To Anti-Pro Choice Politicians,” were placed on Craigslist by Grassroots Campaigns, Inc., for Planned Parenthood, a Grassroots spokeswoman confirmed to CNSNews.com.
The phone number on the ad shown below was first posted on July 1, but has since been deleted. It directed readers to call the Colorado-based political consulting group at their Austin location for more information, not Planned Parenthood. (See Grassroots 1.pdf)
The ad reads: “PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN 2013! Grassroots Campaigns is immediately hiring passionate and motivated people to help educate the public and identify new supporters to protect reproductive rights. We’re working right now to: keep birth control affordable, oppose attacks on women’s health, ensure healthcare access and expand global reproductive rights.” The ad also lists a pay range of $1300-$2200 per month.
Several calls by CNSNews.com to the Austin branches of Grassroots Campaigns and Planned Parenthood were not returned.
However, Grassroots Campaigns National Recruitment Director Christina Coliazzo told CNSNews.com by telephone from Boston, Mass. that her group has been working with Planned Parenthood since 2009. She said that the Grassroots Campaigns’ local office in Austin changes its ad language frequently to reflect what is “going on.”
Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican, called the Texas Legislature back for a second special session after state Senator Wendy Davis’ (D-TX10) failed filibuster attempt last week. The legislature is meeting this week to consider SB-5, a bill that would ban abortions after the 20th week of gestation.
The legislation is strongly opposed by liberals in the Texas Legislature and has been criticized by members of the U.S. Congress, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D- Calif.) who tweeted: "Inspired by courage & dedication of @WendyDavisTexas in standing up for women,” and President Obama, who also tweeted using the hashtag: #standwithwendy.
Grassroots Campaigns Inc.'s website said it began in 2003 by “canvassing on behalf of the DNC.” The ad seen below that ran on Craigslist in Austin says the group is a “non-profit agency.” (See Grassroots 2.pdf)
The organization is registered with the Colorado State Corporation Commission and with the Massachusetts State Corporation Commission.
Grassroots Campaigns has offices across the nation in many major cities, including Austin and Boston, where it is registered as a for-profit political consulting group to conduct “resource development on behalf of non-profit organizations,” according to the Massachusetts State Corporation Commission.
Grassroots Campaigns’ web lists the DNC, MoveOn.org, Operation Democracy, the American Civil Liberties Union, Environmental Action and Save the Children as clients it has worked with in the past.

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58,000 Californians Lose Their Private Health Insurance as Two Carriers Pull Out of Market



Fifty-eight thousand Californians are about to learn just how hollow was President Barack Obama’s promise that “if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan” under ObamaCare. That’s because two of the companies that offer individual coverage in the Golden State have decided to pull out of that market next year when the healthcare law’s individual mandate takes effect.

The latest departure from California’s individual market is UnitedHealth Group, Inc., the nation’s largest health-insurance company. “UnitedHealth said it had notified state regulators that it would leave the state’s individual market at year-end and force about 8,000 customers to find new coverage,” the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
Just a fortnight earlier, Aetna, Inc., made a similar announcement, leaving its 50,000 individual-insurance customers in the lurch come January.
Both companies have a relatively small share of the individual market in California. UnitedHealth had two percent of the market, while Aetna had five percent. Both say they will continue to provide coverage in the group market, typically through employers.
“The business model of health insurance is fundamentally changing and some companies are willing and able to adapt,” Georgetown University professor Sabrina Corlette told the Times. “Given the limited market share those carriers had, UnitedHealth and Aetna have made the calculation that it required too much of an investment to change their strategy in California.”
The reason the business model is “fundamentally changing,” of course, is ObamaCare. “Starting Jan. 1,” wrote the Times, “the federal healthcare law forces insurers to accept all individual applicants regardless of their medical history and provide a comprehensive set of benefits with limits on patients’ out-of-pocket spending.”
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No Law Should Ever Be Longer than the Constitution

Posted by Gary DeMar








The Affordable Care Act — ObamaCare — consists of 2700 pages of new laws and the new immigration bill is about half that size coming in around 1200 pages. This is just the beginning. Once the lawyers, courts, bureaucrats, and later acts of Congress get their greedy vote-begging hands on these new laws there will be no end to what they’ll find in their pages.

The Constitution of the United States was written on four sheets of parchment. If you count the Preamble and all 27 Amendments (remember there were originally only ten), it comes out to 20 typed pages. If you don’t count the signatures and amendments, the document consists of 11 typed pages.

No single Amendment is a full page. Many are only a single sentence in length.

The First Amendment covers a multitude of freedoms: religion, press, assembly, speech, and the right to petition the government. It does it with only 45 words.
Those original four sheets, about 4500 words, were good enough to serve as a document to govern a nation.
Can you imagine a 1200-page immigration bill with similar interpretive powers for Congress and the Courts? Consider how much damage these two governmental branches have been able to do with just four sheets of parchment. What will they be capable of doing with 1200 pages of an immigration bill and 2700 pages of a healthcare bill that will enable them to govern every facet of our lives?
The Constitution takes about 30 minutes to read. The Declaration of Independence has 1,458 words, with the signatures, but is slower reading. It takes about ten minutes of reading time.
I’d be willing to wager that there are some members of Congress who haven’t read either document all the way through.

There’s a very good chance that not a single member of Congress has read the Affordable Care Act or the most recent Immigration bill.
Then there’s the question of who actually wrote these bills? I want a list of names.
We didn’t elect these people, so they shouldn’t be writing our laws.
Here’s a short proposed Amendment to the Constitution: “All laws must be written by those elected to office. If it was good enough for our founders it should be good enough for you.”

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