Aug 4, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT: We may not know it until we need it. Some of the medical care we assumed we would get automatically will soon be harder to obtain. A few more obstacles, a few more restrictions, before we can receive the specialized medical treatment or surgery that we need, that we took ...
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Aug 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE NEW AMERICAN) Priests for Life, a Catholic organization that has been on the front lines of the pro-life cause for the past 20 years, announced August 1 that it will not comply with the Health and Human Services (HHS) contraception mandate which went into effect on that date. The mandate, which is already ...
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Aug 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(NEWSMAX) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yet again stymied a Republican attempt to vote on repealing the healthcare reform law Thursday evening. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed that the Senate vote on repeal of Obamacare soon after it returns from vacation in September, The Hill reports. “Let’s have a vote,” McConnell said on the ...
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Aug 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Health Watch: A prominent left-leaning think tank is floating a plan for "next-generation" healthcare reform to address rising costs in the United States. Experts at the Center for American Progress (CAP) described the proposed efficiency-based market reforms as a natural continuation of the Affordable Care Act. "The promise of healthcare reform will only ...
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Aug 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: The Obama administration’s contraception mandate takes effect Wednesday to cheers from liberal women’s groups and protest from religious freedom advocates. Tuesday the administration heralded the implementation of eight facets of Obamacare’s preventative-care coverage for women, the contraceptive mandate among them. “President Obama is moving our country forward by giving women control ...
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Jul 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CAMPUS REFORM) Former Speaker of the House and current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told an audience of more than 600 college students last week that President Obama has signed many “expansions of freedom” into law since he took office in 2008. Pelosi, speaking at a youth conference hosted by the George Soros funded Campus Progress, ...
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Jul 27, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Give up your religion or your business, in other words... “The Newlands sincerely believe that the Catholic faith does not allow them to violate Catholic religious and moral teachings in their decisions operating Hercules Industries.” (CNSNews.com) - The Justice Department last week presented the Newland family of Colorado--who own Hercules Industries, a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning business--with ...
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Jul 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The penalty imposed by the Affordable Care Act on citizens who elect not to purchase health insurance will be at least $1,000 for most people, and more than $12,000 for high-income earners, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. “We can see that this is a big tax, particularly ...
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Jul 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Yahoo News: States could dodge a key part of the health care reform law because of a little-noticed mistake in the lengthy bill, according to a white paper by conservative health care experts Michael Cannon and Jonathan Adler. A missing word in the law's definition of a health insurance exchange could prevent the federal government from doling ...
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Jul 15, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Health Watch: The Obama administration is aggressively pushing states to implement the healthcare reform law now that the Supreme Court has upheld it. In the two weeks since the court issued its decision, the Health and Human Services Department has pushed out new grants, new policies and a new rhetorical standby: It’s time to ...
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Jul 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
From Nugent's Washington Times column on The SCOTUS Obamacare Decision: Chief Justice Roberts squandered the opportunity to restore judicial, financial and legislative sanity to a government that by any sane person’s standards is insane and addicted to centralized federal control of our lives. Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment ...
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Jul 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Floor Blog: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he's proud of Chief Justice John Roberts for his ruling on the healthcare reform law and plans to call him soon. Roberts joined the four liberal justices on the high court in upholding virtually the entire healthcare law. The 5-4 decision preserved ...
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Jul 5, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) - Only 6 percent of Americans think that health care is the most important problem facing the country, according to a new Gallup poll. When asked in June to identify the most important problem facing the country, a whopping 94 percent of Americans named something other than health care as the nation’s top problem, ...
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Jul 4, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
No, this can't be indicative of anything material, now can it? At the very least, it's appropriate. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts arrives for a lecture on the history of the US Supreme Court at the University of Malta today. Last week, Roberts' cast the key vote to uphold President Obama's health care law. (AP)
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Jul 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Health Watch: Mitt Romney's presidential campaign broke with congressional Republicans on Monday by arguing that the individual mandate upheld by the Supreme Court last week is a penalty, not a tax. The majority in the court's decision ruled it constitutional because it was a tax, and Republicans in Congress since that decision have ...
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Jul 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: The House as early as next week will pass legislation prohibiting the IRS from receiving any money from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the 2010 healthcare reform law. Passage of the financial services spending bill is especially timely in light of last week's Supreme Court ruling that ...
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Jul 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
FYI, according to the Universal System of Weights and Measures a crap ton is a dozen shitloads. Excerpted from Buzz Feed: The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold ObamaCare Thursday offered an immediate financial boost to Republican candidates at all levels, GOP operatives and fundraisers told BuzzFeed. While both the Romney and Obama campaign boasted that the decision ...
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Jul 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Stephen Moore, Senior Economics Writer with the Wall Street Journal, told FOX and Friends this morning that nearly 75% of Obamacare costs will fall on the backs of those Americans making less than $120,000 a year.
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Jun 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: President Obama is leading Mitt Romney thanks to a bump from last Thursday's high court healthcare ruling, according to a survey released Saturday from conservative polling outlet Rasmussen. Rasmussen’s latest daily presidential tracking poll finds Obama with 46 percent support from likely voters to Romney’s 44. The poll noted that this was ...
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Jun 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: The White House is standing by its position that individual mandate in President Obama's healthcare law is a penalty despite the Supreme Court's decision to uphold it as a tax. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters traveling with Obama on Friday that the mandate enforces a penalty, not a tax, ...
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Jun 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from The Washington Post: Did the Supreme Court just make the Affordable Care Act much less affordable? The calculations are complex, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said it will need some time to review the situation. But an early back-of-the-envelope analysis by a former CBO director suggests that Thursday’s ruling could sharply raise ...
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