Posts tagged health care

4:20 am - Thu, Apr 5, 2012

Judges order Justice Department to clarify Obama remarks on health law case

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One justice in particular chided the administration for what he said was being perceived as a “challenge” to judicial authority — referring directly to Obama’s latest comments about the Supreme Court’s review of the health care case.

The testy exchange played out during a hearing over a separate ObamaCare challenge. It marked a new phase in the budding turf war between the executive and judicial branches.

“Does the Department of Justice recognize that federal courts have the authority in appropriate circumstances to strike federal statutes because of one or more constitutional infirmities?” Judge Jerry Smith asked at the hearing.

Justice Department attorney Dana Lydia Kaersvang answered “yes” to that question.

A source inside the courtroom, speaking to Fox News afterward, described the questioning by Smith as pointed.

Smith also made clear during that exchange that he was “referring to statements by the president in the past few days to the effect … that it is somehow inappropriate for what he termed unelected judges to strike acts of Congress.”

“That has troubled a number of people who have read it as somehow a challenge to the federal courts or to their authority,” Smith said. “And that’s not a small matter.”

Smith ordered a response from the department within 48 hours. The related letter from the court, obtained by Fox News, instructed the Justice Department to provide an explanation of “no less than three pages, single spaced” by noon on Thursday.

If Obamacare is ruled constitutional, here are 7 more things the Obama administration may soon require everyone to purchase

(NaturalNews) The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week about Obama’s health care law, which has been challenged by twenty-six states. The crux of the legal arguments center around whether the federal government can mandate private citizens to purchase a product or service they may not even want or need. (I don’t buy health insurance, for example, because I prefer to invest in healthy eating and superfoods.)

If the Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Obamacare, it would mean a limitless expansion of federal government authority to dictate to Americans what they must buy — and then to financially penalize Americans who don’t buy those products or services. This is precisely the model for Obamacare, which financially punishes those who fail to buy private health insurance by fining them through the IRS.

I began to wonder: What else might the government force Americans to buy if they are granted this absurd new power by the Supreme Court? I’m sure there all sorts of things the government would want to push for its selected business buddies who profit from Obama’s new consumption mandates. So here are ten more things the Obama administration may soon require people to purchase (or else!).

#1) A Chevy Volt

Since nobody is voluntarily buying Chevy Volts, for the good of the auto industry we must all be forced to buy them! That will keep Detroit in business and create jobs for the economy. Keep America strong!

Chevy dealers will be staffed with military personnel toting M4 rifles, and those rifles will be pointed at customers to make sure they “comply” with Obama’s new economic program. Those who refuse to buy a Chevy Volt will be punished by being forced to buy a Chevy pickup.

#2) Annual flu shots

With so many people figuring out that flu shots are total medical quackery and are intentionally laced with mercury preservatives, it’s no wonder most people don’t want to buy them anymore.

Without public demand for vaccines, the vaccine industry might collapse! And that would be terrible for the fat cat CEOs who run those companies and also sit on the boards of all the other global elite corporations. The answer? Mandate annual flu shots for every person, every year! Get your flu shot, or we’ll throw you in prison and jab you there!

#3) Terrorism insurance

What? You don’t own terrorism insurance? Then how will you keep your family safe with all the countless terrorism attacks happening every day?

Coming soon: Obama’s buddies will set up a whole new insurance scam called “terrorism insurance,” and they’ll use false flag terror attacks to remind people why they need to keep buying insurance policies. All Americans will be forced into buying these terrorism insurance policies, and those who don’t will be called anti-American traitors.

What? You don’t have terrorism insurance? You must be one of those anti-government nuts who also owns gold. Yeah, that’s a sure sign of being a terrorist yourself.

#4) Pink slime

Given that nobody in the country wants to buy pink slime anymore — that’s the new term for “mechanically separated meat” that has suddenly become widely known across the ‘net (http://www.naturalnews.com/035255_pink_slime_USDA_school_lunches.html) — the government may simply force everybody to buy it!

Yep, every month you’ll have your “pink slime quota” that you must meat — er, I mean meet — by purchasing pink slime at the grocery store, filling out twelve pages of documentation describing your purchase, then mailing it off to Washington with proof your purchase to a whole new federal department called “Food Usability for All” or just “F U All” for short.

#5) Air tickets

Given that the TSA has utterly destroyed the U.S. travel economy with its illegal, perverted “hands down your pants” search and seizure protocol, Obama must mandate that everybody buy one air ticket a month, whether you need it or not.

Supporting the travel industry is patriotic, didn’t you know? And if you refuse to buy an air ticket each month, you’ll be visited by TSA agents in your own home who will conduct a crotch-and-anus search of your entire family in lieu of you actually showing up at the airport for the search. This will be called a “pre-search” for the travel you’re supposed to be taking. You can never be too safe in the war on terror, right? Now bend over…

#6) A gun - but you have to carry it into Mexico and sell it to a drug gang member

This might be called the “Eric Holder” program: Every American will be required to buy a firearm at a gun shop in a state bordering Mexico, then walk that gun across the border and deposit it into the hands of the Mexican drug gangs.

Oh, wait… that program already exists. It’s called “Fast & Furious” or “Operation Gunwalker,” and it was dreamed up by Attorney General Eric Holder to cause gun violence by having ATF operatives buy guns in America and sell them to Mexican drug gangs. (http://www.naturalnews.com/032934_ATF_illegal_firearms.html)

#7) Obama Water - with electrolytes!

Coming soon: Obama Water! It’s got electrolytes! And if you drink it, you’ll get free rent for the rest of your life.

Or should I just call it the Obama Kool-Aid?

Either way, the government will make you buy it, and you can bet it will be “enhanced” with government-approved fluoride chemicals. But they can’t actually make you drink it, so flushing always remains an option for getting rid of the stuff.

(LOL! Read More →)

(Source: addtoany.com)

4:49 pm: 1 note

Senator: Supreme Court would allow ‘an all powerful government’ by upholding Obamacare

“This case is extraordinary important to restraining the power of our government over the people of this country, it’s supposed to be the other way around, the people have the power over the government,” Kyl told TheDC.

I don’t think most people realize ^this. I’ve even heard more ignorant people refer to this as “free healthcare.” How is the government forcing you to buy something and then financially penalizing (or “taxing” or whatever bs term they have decided to call it today because even Obamacare’s legal defense team is unable to be consistent here) considered free?

The Supreme Court’s ruling over Obamacare will determine so much more than simply whether or not our country has socialized healthcare. This ruling could fundamentally change every American’s relationship with the United States government FOR-EV-ER. People laughed at some of the justices’ comments, such as when Justice Roberts remarked that if the government can force us to buy healthcare, couldn’t it also force Americans to buy cell phones in case of a national emergency. Or couldn’t the government force us to exercise too, since we all know that has health benefits and health consequences that ultimately end us in the same place that having no healthcare would?

I’m paraphrasing of course, but seriously: where would the line, if ever, be drawn?

Because we all know politicians keep their promises and this would only relate to healthcare and nothing else ever…right? Kinda like when the president promised not to sign the NDAA, then he signed it, but then he promised he wouldn’t ever use it. Uh huh. Sure.

Trust the government to tell us what we need? Absolutely not. If this horror passes the Supreme Court, I can’t even say this is the beginning of the end of the Constitution and our personal rights because, at this point with the Patriot Act, NDAA, and Obama’s latest peacetime martial law executive order, it’d merely be one more nail in the coffin of our once Constitutional Republic.

~Cloudy

4:32 pm: 1 note

Rethinking America’s Supreme Judicial Dictatorship

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

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The so-called system of checks and balances is a farce and a fraud; the reality is that all three branches of the federal government work together to conspire against the taxpayers for the benefit of the state and all of its appendages. As Judge Andrew Napalitano wrote in his book, The Constitution in Exile, the Supreme Court failed to rule a single federal law unconstitutional from 1937 to 1995. The Court is essentially a political rubber stamp operation with all of its black-robed ceremony being nothing more than part of the circus that is employed to dupe the public into acquiescing in its dictates.

There is no such thing as an “American union.” The original union was a union of the free, independent, and sovereign states. If that union still existed, then Wisconsin, Florida, Massachusetts, Alabama, and all the other states would have at least a say in the current discussion in the Supreme Court over whether or not the American system of healthcare should be Sovietized. They do not. Every television and radio talking head is feverishly awaiting the Pronouncement from Upon High from the black-robed deities of the “Supreme” Court on this issue.

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11:33 am - Tue, Mar 27, 2012

Kagan Must Recuse Herself from Obamacare Case

By Sen. Jeff Sessions, senior member of the Judiciary Committee

As solicitor general of the United States, Justice Elena Kagan served as the head of an office responsible for formulating the Obama administration’s legal defense of its domestic agenda priority — Obamacare. It could be no surprise to President Obama who appointed her to the Supreme Court that any former solicitor general would have many conflicts for years to come. Now, the Court will soon hear a constitutional challenge to the health-care law. Despite mounting evidence of her substantial participation in the administration’s legal defense of that law, she still has not announced whether she will recuse herself from presiding over the case as a justice.

According to Section 455(b)(3) of Title 28 of the U.S. Code, justices must disqualify themselves in cases where they have “served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser, or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case or controversy.” In United States v. Gipson, the Tenth Circuit held that judges must recuse themselves if they have “previously taken a part, albeit small, in the investigation, preparation, or prosecution of a case.” Other courts have suggested that, merely by virtue of a lawyer’s position as the head of an office during the preparation of a case, he or she is disqualified to sit as a judge on that case. For example, several U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal have held that U.S. attorneys who later become judges must recuse themselves from any proceeding that had been pending in any way in their offices, even if they were not substantively involved.

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100% conflict of interest much?

8:53 am: 88 notes

Anti-Government Extremist: 1 Year Later: Obamacare's Greatest Hits

antigovernmentextremist:

It’s been 365 days and about a fourth of the law has gone into effect. Let’s take a recap of what has happened so far:

1,328,381 people are exempt from some of its provisions. That number includes the entire state of Maine. I guess the rule of law doesn’t matter much to the Obama Regime.
What does any self-respecting President do to thwart elected officials regarding his unpopular legislation that ignited the flames of the Tea Party? Why, appoint his health czar on a recess appointment that’s what! Then he doesn’t have to go through that whole Senate confirmation business.
Kathleen Sebellius admits there is double counting in Obamacare. How much double counting you ask? $500,000,000,000
Florida Judge: Obamacare is unconstitutional and does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Commerce Clause.
And he really means it.
Senator Barack Obama speaks out against the Healthcare Mandate.
Clinton appointed D.C. judge rules in favor of Obamacare, giving the government authority to regulate “Mental Activity”
Enemies of Free Speech err..I mean Democrats want to ban the word “Obamacare”
When the remainder of the law in implemented in 2014, The Depeartment of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be America’s first trillion dollar a year cabinet department.
CBO: Obamacare will kill roughly 800,000 jobs when it’s all said and done.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield raised their premiums by 47% in Connectictut as a result of Obamacare.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida raise premiums 10 percent in the last year as a result of the legislation.
GHI in New York is raising premiums from 50% to 74%.
And these are just a few of many many more.
House Budget Chairmen Paul Ryan tears Obamacare apart.
CBO: Repealing Obamacare would reduce government spending by $540 billion (Not to mention allow more people to keep the money they’ve earned)
This graph illustrates Obamacare pretty well.
Obamacare is forcing healthcare costs for retirees through the roof.
Obamacare killed discount drug deals for children’s hospitals
It will also worsen the doctor shortage in 2015
Florida Judge rules Obamacare unconstitutional.
Comprehensive list of tax hikes in Obamacar e.
Obamacare ended the construction of 45 doctor owned hospitals.
HHS is using taxpayer dollars to pay google to alter Obamacare search results.
Obamacare IS a Government Takeover
Virginia Judge rules major parts of Obamacare are unconstitutional.
40% of p hysicians will find a new career as a result of Obamacare.
SEIU, a group that did a lot of muscle work for the bill, will cut insurance for thousands as a result of the bill (when their waiver expires of course).
Boeing is dropping healthcare for it’s employees altogether.
Tax credits for small businesses from Obamacare encourage small businesses to stay small and not hire.
In case you doubted the premium increases.
Middle class to be slammed with a 3.9 billion dollar tax increase in 2019 to pay for Obamacare.
Don’t want to pay the fee for not purchasing Healthcare? Say goodbye to your tax return.

So one year later and this is the behemoth that is Obamacare. I’m looking forward to another year of quality blogging material!

This was me celebrating the 1st birthday of Obamacare. Good times.

9:41 am - Tue, Nov 8, 2011: 167 notes

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