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Sen. Ted Cruz Ends His ‘Defund Obamacare’ Senate Floor Speech After Having Spoken For 21 Hours And 19 Minutes
– Ted Cruz continues speech throughout the night (The Daily Caller, Sep 25, 2013):
Update, 12:04 p.m.: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his “defund Obamacare” Senate floor speech Wednesday at noon, having spoken for 21 hours and 19 minutes.
Read highlights from earlier in the morning below:
While most other senators were sleeping Tuesday night, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz continued his extended speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate in protest of President Obama’s health-care law. He’s now been speaking for more than 21 hours.
Cruz has been speaking since about 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday. He started his speech by saying, “I plan to speak in support of defunding Obamacare until I am no longer able to stand.”
Senator Ted Cruz: ‘I Intend To Speak In Support Of Defunding Obamacare Until I Am No Longer Able To Stand’ (Video)
– Cruz says he’ll talk until ‘I am no longer able to stand’ (CNN, Sep 25, 2013):
Washington (CNN) — Republican Ted Cruz of Texas was still on the Senate floor talking Wednesday– a dramatic step in defense of his high profile and controversial plan to prevent any funding for Obamacare.
“I intend to speak in support of defunding Obamacare until I am no longer able to stand,” he said Tuesday.
“All across this country, Americans are suffering because of Obamacare. Obamacare isn’t working.”
Why Is Obamacare So Unaffordable? Because It Was Conceived As A Political Weapon Of Mass Economic Destruction
– Why is Obamacare so unaffordable? Because it was conceived as a political weapon of mass economic destruction (Natural News, Sep 25, 2013):
Right now, all across America, employees are receiving notices that their insurance coverage is being dropped because it isn’t “compliant” with Obamacare. Simultaneously, employers everywhere are slashing jobs, cutting hours and downsizing their operations just to stay afloat by avoiding the most punishing requirements of Obamacare. Across the economy, Obamacare is devastating American workers and casting tens of millions of people into a state of despair.
Why is Obamacare — the “Affordable Care Act” — so unaffordable? Why is it causing jobs, hours and insurance policies to be gutted all across America? Because it was designed as a political weapon to destroy private sector jobs so that more people would become dependent on government entitlements, food stamps and welfare programs.
Mass victimization is a political strategy, and Obamacare is the weapon
It’s time you learned the truth about Obamacare and how victimization is a political “weapon of mass destruction.” The Democratic party thrives primarily on victimization. The more destitute workers become, the more they demand handouts from politicians, and no party is more willing to widely distribute handouts than the Democratic party. Ensnaring people in a cycle of poverty and dependence is the democrats’ long-term re-election strategy. The more people who live in poverty, in other words, the more powerful the Democrats become.
(In fairness, the Republicans’ long-term re-election strategy is to ensnare nations in endless wars, conflict and engineered terrorism. But that’s another article altogether. For the record, I endorse the platform of the Canary Party.)
Move Over, Obamacare. Here Comes Obamaschool
– Move Over, Obamacare. Here Comes Obamaschool (Ludwig von Mises Institute, Aug 30, 2013):
The president gave a speech on August 22 in Buffalo outlining his proposal to “reform” the student loan program. He acknowledged that the program has some problems, but assured the audience they are easily fixed. Just take the principles behind Obamacare and apply them to education. The president personally “guaranteed” that his proposals would make college more affordable.
Obamacare For Dummies: The ‘Affordable Care Act’ In One Chart
– Obamacare For Dummies: The “Affordable Care Act” In One Chart (ZeroHedge, Aug 19, 2013):
Earlier today we learned that while some executives at Forever 21 were previously confused by Obamacare, subsequently they appear to have rectified their confusion… and full-time staffing levels. Of course, there would have been no confusion had Forever 21 known what it was getting with Obamacare. So for the benefit of all their executives, and for all others who may still be confused by America’s new healthcare system, here, once again, is the chart that should explain everything.
And if it doesn’t, here is an additional explanation
Obamacare Strikes At Forever 21 Which Forcibly Demotes Some Workers To 29.5 Hours Per Week
– Obamacare Strikes At Forever 21 Which Forcibly Demotes Some Workers To 29.5 Hours Per Week (ZeroHedge, Aug 19, 2013):
A firestorm broke out during the weekend over the latest part-timing impact from Obamacare (covered here extensively previously), this time in the form of a leaked memo by retailer Forever 21, which announced that some employees would be demoted to part-time status. The memo, which announced forcible part-time changes would take place on August 18 with full loss of benefits to take place by August 31, was leaked by a disgruntled employee on their Facebook page.
The highlight from the memo:
Company-wide, Forever 21 recently audited its staffing levels, staffing needs and payroll in conduction with reviewing its overall spending budget. As a result, we are reducing a number of full-time non-management positions…. As a Part-Time employee your regular schedule will not exceed 29.5 hours per week.
As is well known, with the ACA mandating companies who employ 50 full-time workers or more to provide health insurance coverage, one much exploited loophole is to cut full-time workers to part-time status, i.,e., have them work less than 30 hours. Or 29.5 hours in this case. Following this forcible full-time demotion, employees will lose medical, dental, vision and voluntary coverage on Aug. 31 and will no longer accrue paid time off.
The memo is below:
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America: Where Hard Working, Productive Members Of Society Pay For The Health Care Of Everyone Else
– America: Where Hard Working, Productive Members Of Society Pay For The Health Care Of Everyone Else (Economic Collapse, Aug 4, 2013):
Everybody in America wants health care – but most Americans seem to want someone else to pay for it. In the United States today, the way that our system works is that the hard working, productive members of society pay for the health care of everyone else. At least under socialism everyone gets the same benefits. Our system of health care is a very twisted version of socialism where millions upon millions of very hard working people are forced to pay for the health care of others, but often can’t afford to purchase decent health insurance for themselves. Personally, I don’t have a big employer paying for my health care so I have to buy it myself, and I just got a letter from my health insurance company telling me that I have another massive rate increase coming up. Have you gotten a similar letter? Health insurance premiums are going up all over America, and this is just the beginning. In fact, the CEO of Aetna says that health insurance rates for many Americans will double when the major provisions of Obamacare kick in next year.
It would be bad enough if hard working Americans just had to pay for their own health insurance. But no, they are also expected to pay for the health care of members of Congress, employees of the IRS and other federal agencies, state and local government employees, their adult kids (because they can’t afford health insurance), the elderly, the poor, and now under Obamacare they will also be expected to subsidize the health plans of tens of millions of other Americans that are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.
Obamacare Full Frontal: Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time
– Obamacare Full Frontal: Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time (ZeroHedge, Aug 2, 2013):
When the payroll report was released last month, the world finally noticed what we had been saying for nearly three years: that the US was slowly being converted to a part-time worker society. This slow conversion accelerated drastically in the last few months, and especially in June, when part time jobs exploded higher by 360K while full time jobs dropped by 240K. In July we are sad to report that America’s conversation to a part-time worker society is not “tapering”: according to the Household Survey, of the 266K jobs created (note this number differs from the establishment survey), only 35% of jobs, or 92K, were full time. The rest were… not.
What is worse, however, is when one looks at job creation broken down by “quality” in all of 2013. The chart below does the bottom line some justice:
Read moreObamacare Full Frontal: Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time
Obamacare Is Going To Ruin Your Medical Care And Your Life (10 Reasons)
– 10 Reasons Why Obamacare Is Going to Ruin Your Medical Care… and Your Life (Activist Post, July 31, 2013):
Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D
Of course you’ve heard of “liar loans”—in the heyday of subprime mortgages, unscrupulous lenders handed out mortgages to practically everyone with a pulse. “So you’re saying you make $100,000 a year? Great, check this box titled ‘McMansion.'”
We all know how this charade ended. Now Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., an acclaimed expert on the subject of Obamacare, warns that the delay of the employer mandate by one year will force Americans into a single-payer system, raising insurance premiums and encouraging “liar subsidies” that might prove fiscally devastating. Not to mention that under the new health care system, you may well end up dead… — Dan Steinhart Editor, Casey ResearchObamacare is a hodgepodge of new regulations, requirements, and penalties. I’d like to start by defining three terms, which, while obscure today, should begin to enter our everyday vocabulary as Obamacare continues to take effect:
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Goodbye Full-Time Jobs, Hello Part-Time Jobs, R.I.P. Middle Class
– Goodbye Full-Time Jobs, Hello Part-Time Jobs, R.I.P. Middle Class (Economic Collapse, July 15, 2013):
A fundamental shift is taking place in the U.S. economy. In fact, this transition is rapidly picking up momentum and is in danger of becoming an avalanche. The percentage of full-time jobs in our economy is steadily declining and the percentage of part-time jobs is steadily increasing. This is not a recent phenomenon, but now there are several factors which are accelerating this trend. One of them is Obamacare. The truth is that Obamacare actually gives business owners incentive to cut hours and turn full-time workers into part-time workers, and according to the Wall Street Journal and other prominent publications this is already happening all over the United States. Perhaps this is part of the reasons why the U.S. economy actually lost 240,000 full-time jobs last month.
In a recent article entitled “Restaurant Shift: Sorry, Just Part-Time“, the Wall Street Journal explained the choices that employers are faced with thanks to Obamacare…
The Affordable Care Act requires employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent workers to offer affordable insurance to employees working 30 or more hours a week or face fines. Some companies have said the requirement could increase their costs significantly, although others have played down the potential hit.
The cost for small firms to comply with the health law will depend largely on the number of additional full-time employees that sign up for employer-sponsored coverage. Average annual premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in 2012 were $5,615 for single coverage and $15,745 for family coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. That is up from $3,083 and $8,003, respectively, in 2002.
Thankfully the implementation of this aspect of Obamacare was recently delayed, but a lot of employers are saying that it won’t make a difference. They know that it is coming at some point, and so they are already making the changes that they feel they will need to make in order to comply with the law…
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Obamacare Delayed By One Year: What Does It Mean? 6 Questions And Answers
– Obamacare Delayed By One Year: What Does It Mean? 6 Questions And Answers (ZeroHedge, July 3, 2013):
Confused by last night’s bombshell white flag of defeat by the Obama administration which delayed the implementation of the employer mandate, aka the “shared-responsibility rules” by one year until 2015 derailing the public education campaign that the rollout of Obamacare was set to take place in October? Then the following list of 6 questions and answers from Politico analyzing the ins and out of the decision is for you.
From Politico: 6 questions about the Obamacare mandate
Does this derail Obamacare?
It doesn’t derail it. But it hurts, at least in how the public sees it and how the critics can talk about it.
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Obamacare To Punish Healthy Eaters As Insurance Rates Double Or Triple For Those Who Choose To Take Care Of Their Health
– Obamacare to punish healthy eaters as insurance rates double or triple for those who choose to take care of their health (Natural News, July 2, 2013):
According to an analysis just published by the Wall Street Journal, healthy people will pay double or triple their current health insurance rates under Obamacare. Rates for those with chronic disease, however, will be reduced as all the healthy people subsidize their disease lifestyles.
The net effect is that people who choose to follow a healthy lifestyle — eating well, taking nutritional supplements, exercising and avoiding junk foods — will be financially punished by the federal government while those who choose to follow a disease and sickness lifestyle — eating junk foods, taking meds, refusing to exercise, etc. — will be rewarded by government.
This is the essence of socialized medicine: punish responsible citizens while rewarding those who refuse to take care of their health.
Disease is a matter of cause and effect, not luck
Obamacare Employer Mandate, “Shared Responsibility Payments” Delayed Until 2015
– Obamacare Employer Mandate, “Shared Responsibility Payments” Delayed Until 2015 (ZeroHedge, July 2, 2013):
How do you know the
IRS’government’s takeover of the US healthcare system will be a smashing success? It, or rather the mandatory reporting and “employer shared responsibility payments”, were just delayed by one year. The sheer and utter chaos and vocal protests behind the scenes for the administration to agree to this unprecedented step (back) are palpable.Just released by the US Treasury’s Blog:
Continuing to Implement the ACA in a Careful, Thoughtful Manner
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California Schools To Train Kids To Sell ObamaCare – Covered California Grants $37 Million To Promote OBAMACARE
Related info:
– Obamacare To Double Cost Of Insurance For Average Californian
– BREAKING NEWS: Rate Shock: Obamacare To Increase Individual Health Insurance Premiums By 64-146% In California
– Companies Cut Hours Of Full-Time Employees To Avoid Obamacare
– IRS: Obamacare To Cost The Average American Family $20,000 A Year In Health Insurance Alone!
– Doctors Increasingly Declaring Bankruptcy As Obamacare Kicks In, Causing Widespread Care Shortages
– California Schools to Train Kids to Sell ObamaCare (Human Events, June 20, 2013):
The Los Angeles Unified School District will use a state grant to train teens to promote ObamaCare to family members. Covered California, the state’s health insurance exchange, announced grants of $37 million on May 14 to promote the nationally unpopular law.
LAUSD will receive $990,000. The district listed as a primary outcome for its project, “Teens trained to be messengers to family members.”
Two-Thirds of Americans Don’t Know If They Will Insure Under Obamacare
More on Obamacare:
– Obamacare To Double Cost Of Insurance For Average Californian
– Doctors Increasingly Declaring Bankruptcy As Obamacare Kicks In, Causing Widespread Care Shortages
– South Carolina House Approves Bill Criminalizing Enforcement Of ‘Obamacare’
– ‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% Of Americans Unaware It’s Law
– U..S. Lawmakers Secretly Negotiating To Exempt Themselves From Obamacare
– Companies Cut Hours Of Full-Time Employees To Avoid Obamacare
– IRS: Obamacare To Cost The Average American Family $20,000 A Year In Health Insurance Alone!
– Labor Unions ‘Turn Sour’ On Obama, Finally Read Obamacare Fine Print, Realize Costs Set To Spike
– Two-Thirds of Americans Don’t Know If They Will Insure Under Obamacare (CNBC News, June 3, 2013):
There’s no assurance folks will be buying insurance under Obamacare, and that could spell trouble for the Affordable Care Act.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans who currently lack health insurance don’t know yet if they will purchase that coverage by the Jan. 1 deadline set by the ACA, a new survey revealed Monday.
And less than half of those in the survey released by InsuranceQuotes.com think they’ll get better health care after Obamacare takes full effect. Nearly 50 percent believe the ACA will make it more difficult for them to get tests and procedures done in a timely manner, according to the phone survey of 1,001 adult Americans conducted in early May.
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Obamacare To Double Cost Of Insurance For Average Californian
Reported this before …
– BREAKING NEWS: Rate Shock: Obamacare To Increase Individual Health Insurance Premiums By 64-146% In California
… but some readers might have missed it.
– Obamacare To Double Cost Of Insurance For Average Californian (Zerohedge, June 2, 2013):
Last week, the state of California claimed that its version of Obamacare’s health insurance exchange would actually reduce premiums. But, as Forbes reports, the data that the executive director of California’s ‘exchange’ released tells a different story: Obamacare, in fact, will increase individual-market premiums in California by as much as 146 percent. The exuberance that Peter Lee exclaimed over the ‘savings’ is a misleading comparison. He was comparing apples – the plans that Californians buy today for themselves in a robust individual market-and oranges – the highly regulated plans that small employers purchase for their workers as a group. If you’re a 25 year old male non-smoker, buying insurance for yourself, the cheapest plan on Obamacare’s exchanges is the catastrophic plan, which costs an average of $184 a month; but in 2013, on eHealthInsurance.com, Forbes explains, the median cost of the five cheapest plans was only $92. In other words, for the typical 25-year-old male non-smoking Californian, Obamacare will drive premiums up by between 100 and 123 percent. The desperate spin of the PR disaster is incredible as talk of a ‘rate shock’ is now very prescient, “these extraordinary increases are up to 15 times faster than inflation and threaten to make health care unaffordable for hundreds of thousands of Californians.”
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BREAKING NEWS: Rate Shock: Obamacare To Increase Individual Health Insurance Premiums By 64-146% In California
Angela Braly, then-CEO of WellPoint, testified before Congress about allegations that its California unit, Anthem Blue Cross, was raising premiums on some customers by more than 30 percent. Last week, California announced that the Affordable Care Act would increase non-group insurance premiums by as much as 146 percent. (Image courtesy U.S. House of Representatives)
– Rate Shock: In California, Obamacare To Increase Individual Health Insurance Premiums By 64-146% (Forbes, May 30, 2013):
Last week, the state of California claimed that its version of Obamacare’s health insurance exchange would actually reduce premiums. “These rates are way below the worst-case gloom-and-doom scenarios we have heard,” boasted Peter Lee, executive director of the California exchange. But the data that Lee released tells a different story: Obamacare, in fact, will increase individual-market premiums in California by as much as 146 percent.
One of the most serious flaws with Obamacare is that its blizzard of regulations and mandates drives up the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own.
South Carolina To Criminalize Implementation Of Obamacare
– South Carolina to criminalize implementation of Obamacare; showdown with feds inevitable (Natural News, May 13, 2013):
More and more states are beginning to challenge the Obama Administration over what they view as unconstitutional abuses of power, especially regarding firearms and health care. The latest example comes from South Carolina, whose legislature has passed a measure declaring Obamacare to be “null and void” and criminalizing its implementation.
Lawmakers in the House passed the Freedom of Health Care Protection Act by a vote of 65-39, which seeks 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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The Mathematical Reality Is We’re Losing Over 600,000 Jobs A Month That Have Been Hidden From View
– The Mathematical Reality Is We’re Losing Over 600,000 Jobs a Month That Have Been Hidden From View (SHFT Plan, May7, 2013):
The Dow Jones is soaring. The unemployment rate is stable. People are shopping. America is in recovery.
Or is it?
Despite all of the positive spin being put on the global and domestic economic recovery, the truth is that nothing of the sort is actually happening.
South Carolina House Approves Bill Criminalizing Enforcement Of ‘Obamacare’
– SC House Approves Bill Criminalizing Enforcement Of ‘Obamacare’ (CBS/AP, May 3, 2013):
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina House approved a bill Wednesday criminalizing the implementation of President Obama’s health care law in the state.
The Republican-controlled House voted 65-39 on the Freedom of Health Care Protection Act.
The act renders “null and void certain unconstitutional laws enacted by the Congress of the United States taking control over the health insurance industry and mandating that individuals purchase health insurance under threat of penalty.”
“This kind of victory occurs when the grassroots across the State come together and coalesce,” Chris Lawton, spokesman for the Greenville Tea Party, told The Greenville Post. “I could not be prouder.”
The bill declares “Obamacare” unconstitutional – despite the Supreme Court ruling last year that the Affordable Health Care Act was constitutional — and that there will be criminal penalties for enforcing the law.
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‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% Of Americans Unaware It’s Law
– ‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law (ABC News, April 30, 2013):
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.
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U.S. Lawmakers Secretly Negotiating To Exempt Themselves From Obamacare
Flashback:
– Obama exempt from Obamacare (Washington Times, March 23, 2010)
– U.S. lawmakers secretly negotiating to exempt themselves from Obamacare (Natural News, April 26, 2013):
Top lawmakers on Capitol Hill are negotiating a secret deal to exempt themselves from Obamacare. The Obamacare mandate is a total nightmare, of course, and it doubles health insurance rates while providing nothing resembling actual “health” care. It’s such a nightmare that the very people who passed it now want to exempt themselves from it.
That would leave it in a state where only the constituents are subjected to its onerous costs and mandates, not the lawmakers who passed it into law. How’s that for hypocrisy in America?
According to a report from Politico, “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.”
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