The number of Obamacare waivers now total 729. This represents a total of 3,000,000 Americans who are exempted from the taxation increases the remainder of us will be forced to pay this year. Their waivers are good until 2014, coincidentally the last year of taxation increase, and where the free government largess begins. There are several problems with this, which we should all have. First, who decides who gets to opt out, and who doesn’t? How is that determination made? My fear, is that picking who gets to opt out is totally dependant on who supported this monstrosity to begin with. Looking over the list of approved waivers, found within this link, I get the distinct impression that you will find zero companies or organizations who publicly opposed this monstrosity. You will find however 7 SEIU union locals. You will find GE. You will find the Teamsters. These were all the main cheerleaders telling the rest of us how good this was going to be. They now are exempt from the burdensome extra expense the rest of us have to pay in order to conduct business. The process for picking those worthy of waiver of course is located in the Law. It is one of the many sections which says, “at the discretion of the Secretary,” In essence, the Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sibelius gets to make up the rules for most of the new Law as she goes along. Any company or organization which the Administration likes, does not have to pay, and any they don’t, well hard cheese for them. The really insidious thing about it is, it is all perfectly legal according to the Law, (remember the constitution was thrown out in the passage of this nightmare.)
One of the things we were all told was this, “we must all purchase these policies, because if we don’t all pay into the pool, that will make the model unsustainable for everyone who does pay. So here we are a year later, and some lucky few of us have been exempted from the pool. This is crony capitalism. this is not the free market system which made our country great. This is the, “Party'” picking and choosing who works, and who benefits. The CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, of GE, one of the exempted companies, was just tapped by the Administration to head up the new Green Jobs Program at the White House. Coincidentally, GE’s new focus for its company is green technology and green infrastructure. So, when we are assured by our fellow citizens that we should trust completely the government, that these altruistic servants of the people are beyond reproach, and would never allow their own personal ambitions for power affect their decision making process, it makes me laugh. They are so brazen about their intentions to destroy our personal freedoms and free market system that it makes me wonder truly how anyone could possibly miss it. Bear in mind, the latest argument I heard on MSNBC posited by Chris Matthews was not that we conservatives interpreted the constitution wrong, but that the constitution should no longer apply at all to our nation. The constitution should just be considered null and void, because it has outlived its usefulness.
During the State of The Union Address on Tuesday, President Obama cited Ronald Reagan as a political figure he would like to emulate. I’ll assume for a moment that Obama really does admire Reagan, and that he was not merely invoking Reagan’s name because of Reagan’s popularity. In that case, we’re in luck, because we can hear for ourselves what Reagan had to say about what Obama inflicted upon us. Here it is:
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***COLDWARRIOR UPDATE: I was going to do a post on this article, but i’ll just add it here:
Patient care at risk under NHS reforms, experts warn
Patients could be denied hip, knee and hernia operations under unprecedented reforms to the NHS, the Royal College of Surgeons has warned ahead of a crucial Commons debate.
The people that wrote the health care bill admitted they are emulating the British system.
I wasn’t joking when i typed that treatment for a broken hip under Obamacare is going to be a wheel chair and some opiates…and your loved ones will have to bring back the wheelchair when your done with it. An unmended broken hip in a senior is a death sentence, you will die from pneumonia and have lovely bed sores; both from immobility. Just what the bean counters want; less seniors that they have to pay for. I am in this field, dont think I am kidding baby boomers…you will get this treatment first in a few years, then gen x and gen y will get it with both barrels as the system goes broke and has to shed patients. This has got to be stopped.