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Joseph Grant Takes Fall So Sarah Hall Ingram Can Screw Us With Obamacare

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May 17, 2013

IRS Official In Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

 

 

 

 

” The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.

Her successor, Joseph Grant, is taking the fall for misdeeds at the scandal-plagued unit between 2010 and 2012. During at least part of that time, Grant served as deputy commissioner of the tax-exempt unit.

Grant announced today that he would retire June 3, despite being appointed as commissioner of the tax-exempt office May 8, a week ago.

As the House voted to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act Thursday evening, House Speaker John Boehner expressed “serious concerns” that the IRS is empowered as the law’s chief enforcer.”

 

 

 

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Mark Levin : Abolish The IRS

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May 17, 2013

Mark Levin: “It’s Time To Kill The IRS”

 

 

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” MARK LEVIN: “Yes, we’re going to cover the ins and outs of this — we’re going to come into the weeds, but folks, it’s time to kill the IRS. That’s the bottom line. This agency has been corrupt since its founding. And the bigger the government gets, the more corrupt it gets, the more ubiquitous it gets. And I don’t just mean political partisanship and cronyism, I mean its abuses. We must fight the expansion of the IRS under Obamacare. We must fight to kill the IRS or critically wound it — politically — with either a flat tax or a fair tax. Now is the time to advance a liberty agenda. Now is the time to advance a Constitutional agenda.” (Mark Levin Show, May 15, 2013)”

 

 

 

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IRS Exec In Charge Of Tea Party Mess Now In Charge Of Obamacare And Awarded 6 Figure Bonuses

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May 17, 2013

IRS Tax Exemption/Obamacare Exec Got $103,390 In Bonuses

 

 

 

 

” Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harrassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.

More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director of the tax agency’s Obamacare program office, a position that put her in charge of the vast expansion of the IRS’ regulatory power and staffing in connection with federal health care, ABC reported earlier today.

Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year, for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.

Go here for a spreadsheet of the salary and bonus data for IRS employees getting bonuses between 2009 and 2012.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Do You Want The IRS Overseeing Your Medical Care ?

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May 16, 2013

Obamacare Is About Power

 

 

 

” Members of the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote Thursday to repeal all of Obamacare. Given that the House voted to repeal the law last year, some commentators and observers have questioned the need for another repeal vote.

However, the scandals coming to light over the last week perfectly make the case for why Congress must eradicate the law from the statute books.

On Friday, the Internal Revenue Service finally disclosed that it had spent years targeting tea party and other conservative groups, delaying their applications for non-profit status and giving those applications additional scrutiny — solely because of those groups’ political beliefs.

Also on Friday, The Washington Post revealed that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius personally asked health industry groups to contribute to Enroll America, a pro-Obamacare front group working to “educate” the public about the law’s supposed benefits.

While we don’t yet know all the details about these scandals, we do know that the IRS grossly abused its power at a time when Obamacare grants it massive new authority. The Treasury Department’s Inspector General has said Obamacare represents “the largest set of tax law changes in 20 years,” with at least 42 provisions adding to or amending the tax code.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Obamacare : If It Gets Any “Freer” None Of Us Will Be Able To Afford It

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May 13, 2013

ObamaCare Sends Cost Of Cancer Drugs Soaring

 

 

 

 

” If free health care gets any more expensive, no one will be able to afford it. In the latest example of reality smacking ObamaCare dreamers right in the face, we’re now finding out that those who need specialty drugs for afflictions like cancer and multiple sclerosis are going to get stuck paying gigantic co-pays as the price for the low premiums ObamaCare promised.

To try to keep premiums low, some states are allowing insurers to charge patients a hefty share of the cost for expensive medications used to treat cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and other life-altering chronic diseases.

Such “specialty drugs” can cost thousands of dollars a month, and in California, patients would pay up to 30 percent of the cost. For one widely used cancer drug, Gleevec, the patient could pay more than $2,000 for a month’s supply, says the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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More On Obamacare Big Brotherhood

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May 13, 2013

 

Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info To IRS

 

 

 

” So why will the Obama IRS require your personal identifying health information? 

Simply put, there is no way for the IRS to enforce Obamacare’s individual mandate without such an invasive reporting scheme.  Every January, health insurance companies across America will send out tax documents to each insured individual.  This tax document—a copy of which will be furnished to the IRS—must contain sufficient information for taxpayers to prove that they purchased qualifying health insurance under Obamacare.

This new tax information document must, at a minimum, contain: the name and health insurance identification number of the taxpayer; the name and tax identification number of the health insurance company; the number of months the taxpayer was covered by this insurance plan; and whether or not the plan was purchased in one of Obamacare’s “exchanges.” “

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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South Carolina House Passes Obamacare Nullification

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May 9, 2013

South Carolina House Passes Bill Making ‘Obamacare’ Implementation A Crime

 

 

 

” The South Carolina state House passed a bill Wednesday that declares President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to be “null and void,” and criminalizes its implementation.

The state’s Freedom of Health Care Protection Act intends to “prohibit certain individuals from enforcing or attempting to enforce such unconstitutional laws; and to establish criminal penalties and civil liability for violating this article.”

 

 

 

 

 

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They Passed The Bill … Now We Know What’s In It … And It Stinks

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May 5, 2013

Schumer Admits ObamaCare ‘Partly’ To Blame For Rising Premiums

 

 

 

 

 

” It’s been a bad week for ObamaCare. First, Harry Reid agreed with the legislation’s principle author, Max Baucus, in his grim assessment and promptly jumped on the ObamaCare train wreck bandwagon.

Now, Chuck Schumer, of all people, has admitted that ObamaCare is “partly” to blame for rising health insurance premiums. Here’s Schumer speaking with an NBC local affiliate in New York:

SCHUMER: Our insurance department is empowered to protect families and we’re going to watch them like a hawk to make sure they do. Because if they don’t, these rates could go through the roof.

REPORTER: Is it because of ObamaCare?

SCHUMER: It’s in part because of ObamaCare but health care costs have been going up by double digits for years and years and years. The good news is in this bill there’s a way to stop it.”

 

 

 

 

 

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” Obamacare Is “Working Fine”

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May 1, 2013

President Says Obamacare Is Going Great

 

 

 

“ Obamacare is “working fine,” President Obama said yesterday in his press conference. It’s made health insurance “stronger, better, more secure than it was before.”

Right. There’s nothing to worry about, which is why Members of Congress are trying to exempt themselves and their staffs from Obamacare.

In reality, health insurance premiums are rising, and states—meaning taxpayers—are staring down some astronomical expenses. A new study from the Government Accountability Office cites Obamacare and Medicaid costs as budget busters for states that are just starting to get their budgets in order.”

 

 

>>> See How Much Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Would Cost Your State

 

 

 

 

 

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Nearly Half Of Americans Clueless About “Obamacare”

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May 1, 2013

‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law

 

 

 

 

” A new poll finds that many Americans are confused about the health care overhaul legislation commonly called “Obamacare.”

The Kaiser Family Foundation released results of a non-partisan study today finding more than 40 percent did not even know the law was in place.

“Four in ten Americans (42%) are unaware that the ACA [Affordable Care Act] is still the law of the land,” the report says, “including 12 percent who believe the law has been repealed by Congress, 7 percent who believe it has been overturned by the Supreme Court and 23 percent who say they don’t know enough to say what the status of the law is.”

The survey showed public opinion on Obamacare is at its second-lowest rating in the past two years.

Less than half – 40 percent – of adults viewed the ACA favorably, whereas 35 percent said they viewed it unfavorably. Another 24 percent said they did not know or refused to answer.

Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, one of the original crafters of the bill, earlier this month predicted a chaotic implementation process for the Affordable Care Act. “I just see a huge train wreck coming down,” Baucus, D-Mont., said.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Congress Attempts To Exempt Itself From Obamacare

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April 25, 2013

Lawmakers, Aides May Get Obamacare Exemption

 

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” Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.

The talks — which involve Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Obama administration and other top lawmakers — are extraordinarily sensitive, with both sides acutely aware of the potential for political fallout from giving carve-outs from the hugely controversial law to 535 lawmakers and thousands of their aides. Discussions have stretched out for months, sources said.

When asked about the high-level bipartisan talks, Michael Steel, a Boehner spokesman, said: “The speaker’s objective is to spare the entire country from the ravages of the president’s health care law. He is approached daily by American citizens, including members of Congress and staff, who want to be freed from its mandates. If the speaker has the opportunity to save anyone from Obamacare, he will.” “

 

 

 

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Obama’s Claim Of Obamacare Being “largest middle-class tax cut for health care in history” … Another Lie

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April 17, 2013

ObamaCare Taxes Will Increasingly Bite Middle Class

 

 

 

” When President Obama was selling his signature health care reform bill back in early 2010, he described it as the “largest middle-class tax cut for health care in history.” The costs would be largely paid by taxing insurance companies “that stand to gain a lot of money and a lot of profits” and by making “sure that the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share on Medicare.”

The press at the time picked up this theme. The New York Times, for example, called ObamaCare “the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.”

But a closer examination finds that ObamaCare’s three biggest taxes — a Medicare surcharge, the so-called Cadillac tax and an insurance premium fee — will increasingly hit the middle class because of how the law indexes them for inflation and medical costs.”

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Beware Of Doctors … They Can Take Your Rights Without Your Knowledge … Thanks To Toomey-Manchin

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April 17, 2013

The Toomey-Manchin Proposal Will Allow Doctors To Block Your Right To Guns

 

 

 

” The proposal will allow a doctor to add a patient to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) without ever telling the patient he or she has been added.

There would be no due process requirement. Not all doctors will be able to do it with the same ease, but many will. Knowing a doctor could add him to a federal database as mentally ill without his knowledge could potentially dissuade a patient from going to the doctor in the first place to get help.

Worse, if the doctor does so and makes a mistake, the patient would have to actively work through the system to get himself removed — guilty before being proven innocent. In some states, should a doctor flag you as having mental illness without your knowledge, you may very well see the state come collect your previously purchased guns.”

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New Obamacare Created Work Week – 30 Hours

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April 16, 2013

Nation’s Biggest Movie Theater Chain Cuts Workweek Because Of ObamaCare

 

 

 

” The nation’s largest movie theater chain has cut the hours of thousands of  employees, saying in a company memo that ObamaCare requirements are to  blame.

Regal Entertainment Group, which operates more than 500 theaters in 38  states, last month rolled back shifts for non-salaried workers to 30 hours per  week, putting them under the threshold at which employers are required to  provide health insurance. The Nashville-based company said in a letter to  managers that the move was a direct result of ObamaCare.

“To comply with the Affordable Care Act, Regal had to increase our  health care budget to cover those newly deemed eligible based on the law’s  definition of a full time employee.”

- Memo sent to managers of Regal theaters

 

“To manage this budget, all other employees will be scheduled in accord with  business needs and in a manner that will not negatively impact our health care  budget,” the message continues.

Regal, which had revenue of $2.8 billion in 2011, is the latest company to  respond this way to the Affordable Health Care Act’s requirement that employees  at companies of a certain size who work more than 30 hours per week be provided  health coverage. Applebee’s and Olive Garden also scaled back the hours of  workers. A handful of colleges have cut hours because of the law, including Palm  Beach State College in Florida and New Jersey’s Kean University. Critics say the  law is boomeranging on working folks.

“Mandating businesses to offer health care under threat  of debilitating fines does not fix a problem, it creates one,” he  said. “It fosters a new business culture where 30 hours is now  considered the maximum in order to avoid paying the high costs associated  with this law.”

 

 

 

 

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Obamacare Does Create Jobs … LOL

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April 5, 2013

ObamaCare To Create 100,000s Of Jobs In The Field Of Explaining ObamaCare

 

 

 

” Democrats always said that ObamaCare would create a lot of jobs and while currently it’s hard at work destroying jobs, especially at the working class level, like most medical centralization boondoggles, ObamaCare will create a lot of jobs in the field of explaining what it is and how to survive it.

Tens of thousands of health care professionals, union workers and community activists hired as “navigators” to help Americans choose Obamacare options starting Oct. 1 could earn $20 an hour or more, according to new regulations issued Wednesday.

It is still not clear how many navigators will be required. California, however, provides a hint. It wants 21,000.”

 

 

 

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Obamacare And The Permanent Democratic Majority

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April 3, 2013

Public Outrage As Obamacare Is Used For Illegal Alien Voter Registration

 

 

 

” Democrats have one primary goal.  They want the one essential ingredient for carrying out their other plans (such as undermining the Second Amendment or socializing the economy). This goal is to get voters, enough voters that the Democrat Party will have a perpetual majority. It buys illegal immigrants by promising them free food, putting them on welfare, and subsidizing the same education Americans can no longer afford. Democrats know that, once amnesty occurs, the immigrants will vote Democrat. In the same way, Democrats demonizes conservative blacks (such as the recent vile attacks against Dr. Benjamin Carson) because, as Col. Allen West said, they can’t risk losing control over a black community that has been brainwashed through welfare and victim politics into voting Democrat.”

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We Will Ram It Down Your Throats

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March 31, 2013

 

 

Obama: Federal Agents Will Enforce ObamaCare, Even If Your State Says No

 

” ObamaCare is not popular. It was not popular when it was enacted, and it has not become any more popular now, especially as people have begun to see the fall-out from this regulatory nightmare, such asskyrocketing insurance costs. Many states, which saw voters respond to ObamaCare by electing Republican legislatures in 2010, subsequently enacted bills exempting them from ObamaCare’s costly and limiting provisions. Unfortunately, Obama does not care.

In an interview with The New American, John Doak, Oklahoma’s Insurance Commissioner, reported that he received a letter from Gary Cohen, who is the Deputy Administrator and Director of the federal Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (“CCIIO”). In that letter, Cohen stated unequivocally that the federal government will impose ObamaCare regulations on insurance companies operating inside Oklahoma. Politico reports that Obama’s administration has sent similar letters to Missouri, Wyoming, and Texas.”

 

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Medicaid Expansion Is About Money And Control , Not Health

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March 29, 2013

 

Medicaid Expansion: Déjà Vu All Over Again

 

 

 

” Republican governors are following the script of Obama and Clinton in their campaign strategy for the Medicaid expansion that is needed to implement ObamaCare: The cast of earnest white coats and tearful upstanding, hard-working patients with hard-luck stories. Statements that sound as though they were written by the same PR firm. The same dire consequences of inaction.

“It’s just the right thing to do,” is a favorite concluding sentence.

What “it” basically means is to get the “free” federal money before somebody else does. Since it doesn’t cost “us” anything, at least not at first, it’s a “no brainer” to just grab it. It means billions of dollars, and thousands of jobs, for “us.

But if we exercise our brains for a minute, we see that in reality the billions go to “them,” not “us.” They are the ones in the expensive suits lurking in the background and attending the closed-door meetings. They are the million-dollar-a-year executives of managed-care companies or administrators in big hospital chains. They get the billions and trickle a portion down to people in scrubs and white coats who do real work, for the care of approved patients. They are the real players; the visible ones are props, shills, or camouflage. They are the decision-makers, who decide who is eligible for what.

They don’t think like doctors. Doctors ask, “What is the best way to help this patient with hepatitis c?” Rather, they ask, “Is this person with a certain set of social characteristics worth spending some of ‘our’ resources?” “

 

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Sebelius : Premiums Will Go Up

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March 27, 2013

HHS Secretary Sebelius: Some Premiums Will Rise Under ObamaCare

 

 

 

” Is the administration gently trying to prepare the public for higher premiums under ObamaCare? Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted yesterday that the health law would cause higher premiums for some in the individual insurance market, reports Reuters:

“Everything is speculation. I think there’s likely to be some shifting in the markets,” she told reporters at the White House.

The law, also known as “Obamacare,” eliminates discriminatory market practices that have imposed higher rates on women and people with medical conditions.”

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First Budget In Four Years Uses Gimmicks To Hide Trillion In New Taxes

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March 25, 2013

 

Senate Democrats Adopt First Budget in Four Years

 

 

 

” Lawmakers on Saturday voted 50-49 to endorse a fiscal 2014 measure that proposes to raise $1 trillion by clamping down on tax breaks for the wealthy while paring spending on defense, farm subsidies and other programs.

“Budgets are about far more than numbers on a page — they are about the values and priorities of the American people,” said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat and the plan’s chief sponsor.

The proposal highlighted differences between the two parties over taxes, spending and the size of government. The vote clears the way for the next phase in Washington’s budget battle, which probably will revolve around the need to raise the U.S. debt limit. Federal borrowing authority is scheduled to expire May 19.

Republicans said the Senate Democrats’ proposal would do too little to rein in government red ink.

“Honest people can disagree on policy, but there really cannot be disagreement on the need to change our nation’s budget course,” said Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the chamber’s Budget Committee.

Four Democrats voted against the final version: Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. All are up for re-election in 2014.”

 

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The Obamacare Hell Is Spreading Fast

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March 22, 2013

CVS’ ‘Progressive’ New Health Plan Forces Employees to Surrender Their Privacy

 

 

 

 

 

” CVS pharmacies is responding to ObamaCare by ordering its employees to reveal deep personal information or face higher insurance premiums.

The company announced Wednesday what it called “A Plan for Health,” that features a mix of rewards and penalties for employees.

Among the measures, employees must report their weight, body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels. Workers must also be tobacco free or enroll in an addiction program by next year.

As Yakov Smirnov might say, in Soviet Russia, your pharmacy prescribes YOU.

Employees who refuse will have to pay $50 more for health coverage each month, totaling $600 a year.

In a video released by CVS, a top executive said the plan is progressive and cutting edge. “These changes aren’t just about costs, they’re about us, each of us taking personal accountability for our own health,” said Lisa Bissacia, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. “

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Congress About To Suffer The Indignity Of Obamacare … Serves The B***ards Right … We Hope They Choke On It

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March 22, 2013

Obamacare To Hit Home On Hill

 

 

 

” Capitol Hill is about to get up close and personal with Obamacare.

As in being covered by Obamacare next year.

During debate over the law in 2009, Republicans insisted that if members of Congress were going to put their fellow Americans into health care exchanges, they and their staffs should be in there, too.

“It’s necessary and only fair for Congress to live under the rules we pass for everyone else,” said Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, one of several Republicans who pushed for that requirement.

But vague language in this part of the law — which was passed three years ago this Saturday — has led to a slew of quirks and questions.

Staffers who work in lawmakers’ personal offices go into exchanges — but those who work for committees don’t. And the lawmakers themselves get Obamacare — unless they are among the roughly 40 senators and 115 House members on Medicare.

And there’s a big thorny unresolved question about money: whether members and staffers in exchanges will still get a significant part of their health insurance premiums subsidized by their employer, just like other government workers. If they lose that subsidy, it’s like getting a pay cut of several thousand dollars.

“The sad thing is, too many Americans will be dealing with this in 2014 — not just Hill staffers,” said Courtney Austin Lawrence, legislative director for Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). “My general concern with the exchange and Obamacare goes far beyond my own individual coverage. I think it’s a bad policy for taxpayers, patients and physicians.” “

 

 

Illustration by Bob Gorrell

 

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Prepare For Healthcare Premiums To Double In Cost – Halve In Coverage

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March 21, 2013

 

Congressional Report: Obamacare Leads to Skyrocketing Premiums, 200 Percent Possible

 

 

 

” An exhaustive study by three congressional committees delivers startling news about the dire effects of Obamacare: President Barack Obama’s signature legislation could increase health insurance premiums by over 200 percent and render insurance coverage unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Broadly, the new report declares that Obamacare “breaks its core promise” to make healthcare coverage affordable.

The report, “The Price of Obamacare’s Broken Promises,” was prepared by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Majority Staff; Senate Committee on Finance, Minority Staff; and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Minority Staff.

“Studies and analyses from the Congressional Budget Office, independent actuaries, state insurance commissioners, health plans, benefit consultants, and others have reached the same conclusion: Obamacare will significantly increase premiums,” the congressional report states.

“Some estimates show some Americans facing startling premium increases of 203 percent because of the law.”

Illustration by Rick McKee

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Obamacare : Seven Feet Four Inches Of Regulations … And Growing

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March 13, 2013

Photo: 20,000 Pages of Obamacare Regulations

 

 

 

 

” Late last week, Obamacare regulators added more than 800 pages to an ever-growing document that will govern your healthcare.  The bureaucrats’ work product now prints out to 20,000 pages – nearly eight times the length of the infamous original bill:

That tower is already taller than Kobe Bryant (see update), and much of the law hasn’t even gone into effect yet.  According to the Government Accountability Office, Obamacare is projected to add $6.2 trillion to the nation’s long-term deficits, despite presidential assurances that it wouldn’t add a “single dime” to our red ink:

 

 

Not one dime , but 58 trillion dimes … Good grief 

 

 

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Applying for benefits under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul could be as daunting as doing your taxes.

 

 

 

And we wouldn’t want Fido to feel left out : 

 

Obamacare May Bite You At The Vet’s Office

 

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