Do Not Laugh At This …

It’s nearer than you think …

What’s wrong with Big Government — Just tell me? OK I will.

All it takes is one true believer in the liberal theology at the Obamacare health ministry, and this rogue employee could then move you up, or down, in the cue for the transplant that you need to live, or the cancer treatment you need to live, or just let your imagination run wild after today’s IRS relevelations.

Just wait until the federal government crosses voter registration rolls and your income tax return with your health care needs and let’s see how that all works out for you.

You think this can’t happen, the Big Government that gives all can take it right back if they want.

That’s why the Bill of Rights outlines only God given rights, not rights given by government.

If you doubt me, ask Kathleen Sebelius for details. It must be repealed as soon as possible. All these issues were raised during the debate and runup to ObamaCare. Big Government running the country’s health care is a disaster.

It’s easy to understand liberals just think like one.

One other Obama scandal to watch

On top of everything else, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced on Monday that it will probe Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ efforts to shake insurance companies down for cash, to help “educate” the public about the ObamaCare disaster it hates.

That would be the same ObamaCare that will employ the corrupt Internal Revenue Service as enforcers.  What else does anyone need to know about it?

Those congressional subcommittee hearing rooms are going to be steaming like short-order grills for the next few months.

 

Holy Crap: HHS Secretary Sebilus Is Extorting Money From Health Care Industry To Promote ObamaCare

Are you kidding me? And you wonder where she got the $150 million for publishing propaganda fees.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has gone hat in hand to health industry executives, asking them to make large financial donations to help with the effort to implement President Obama’s landmark health-care law.Her unusual fundraising push comes after Congress has repeatedly rejected the Obama administration’s requests for additional funds to set up the Affordable Care Act, leaving Health and Human Services to implement the president’s signature legislative accomplishment on a shoestring budget.

Sebelius has, over the past three months, made multiple phone calls to health industry executives, community organizations and church groups and directly asked that they contribute to non-profits that are working to enroll uninsured Americans and increase awareness of the law, according to a Health and Human Services official familiar with the Secretary’s outreach who spoke on condition of anonymity.

What do these calls sound like, “Hi I’m HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. You may recall I have tremendous discretionary power over your company and entire industry. Would you like to donate to my favorite cause? Propagandizing healthcare for us? You would? Thank you so much.”

How much power over the healthcare industry does ObamaCare give Sebelius?

There are more than 2,500 references to the secretary of HHS in the health care law (in most cases she’s simply mentioned as “the Secretary”). A further breakdown finds that there are more than 700 instances in which the Secretary is instructed that she “shall” do something, and more than 200 cases in which she “may” take some form of regulatory action if she chooses. On 139 occasions, the law mentions decisions that the “Secretary determines.” At times, the frequency of these mentions reaches comic heights. For instance, one section of the law reads: “Each person to whom the Secretary provided information under subsection (d) shall report to the Secretary in such manner as the Secretary determines appropriate.”The powers given to Sebelius are wide ranging. In the coming years, if she remains in office, the former Kansas governor will be able to determine what type of insurance coverage every American is required to have. She can influence what hospitals can participate in certain plans, can set up health insurance exchanges within states against their will, and even regulate McDonald’s Happy Meals. She’ll run pilot programs that Democrats have set up in an effort to control costs, and be in a position to dole out billions of dollars in grant money.

But the full breadth of her powers will be known only over time, due to the ambiguity of the language in many parts of the health care legislation. As conservatives make the case for repealing ObamaCare over the course of the next several years, it will be imperative to highlight the arbitrary new powers given to an unelected bureaucrat.

I’m sure people who decline her generous invitation to pay up won’t suffer and negative consequences. Why it’s not like we just found out today Obama used the IRS to target conservatives. Oh, right. And naturally there won’t be a little something extra in the regulations for those that pony up. They are just doing it out of the goodness of their tiny, black, capitalist hearts.

You may recall, Sebelius was previously cited for violating federal law for mixing politics with her official duties.

Second look at Richard Nixon?

HHS budgets $150m to teach people how to enroll in Obamacare

Why would you need this if ‘wasn’t it supposed to be easy’.. Apparently not. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that HHS will spend $150 million to teach people how to enroll in the Obamacare exchanges, after a Democratic senator scolded her for running a poor “public information campaign.”

Isn’t it finny with Democrats they always take the position if only they knew …

 

Proof That ObamaCare Will Fuel Health Care Inflation

You have probably heard healthcare costs are going up, up and up some more, we have to give healthcare to all those illegals, what did you expect it would do???

Health Costs: Americans were promised that ObamaCare would make their health care more affordable. But a pair of studies show the new system has done nothing to lower health costs and will sharply raise them.

Between 2009 and 2011, U.S. health spending rose just 3.9% a year, the lowest annual gains in decades. The Obama administration was quick to claim credit for the slowdown, with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying ObamaCare had “contributed to the slowest sustained growth in health spending in 50 years.”

But two new studies make it clear that ObamaCare wasn’t behind the slowdown in health spending growth, and its “reforms” will undermine proven cost-control efforts in the years ahead.

Read more at news.investors.com …

 

You’re Gonna Pay …

The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, a stop-gap measure for those who cannot get health insurance now until the Obamacare mandate kicks in next year, is running out of money because – surprise! – it has major cost overruns.”

It’s looking like those cost overruns will be dumped on the states, many of which haven’t approved the Medicaid expansion yet:

In a letter this week to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, state officials said they were “blindsided” and “very disappointed” by a federal proposal they contend would shift the risk for cost overruns to states in the waning days of the program. About 100,000 people are currently covered.

“We are concerned about what will become of our high risk members’ access to this decent and affordable coverage,” wrote Michael Keough, chairman of the National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans. States and local nonprofits administer the program in 21 states, and the federal government runs the remaining plans.

“Enrollees also appear to be at risk of increases in both premiums and out-of-pocket costs that may make continued enrollment cost prohibitive,” added Keough, who runs North Carolina’s program. He warned of “large-scale enrollee terminations at this critical transition time.”

The crisis is surfacing at a politically awkward time for the Obama administration, which is trying to persuade states to embrace a major expansion of Medicaid under the health care law. It may undercut one of the main arguments proponents of the expansion are making: that Washington is a reliable financial partner.

This is jut the tip of the ice berg, I’m afraid.

REVOLUTION

WATCH HIM STICK THE LANDING …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama’s overhaul, the nation’s leading group of financial risk analysts has estimated.

That’s likely to increase premiums for at least some Americans buying individual plans.

The report by the Society of Actuaries could turn into a big headache for the Obama administration at a time when many parts of the country remain skeptical about the Affordable Care Act.

While some states will see medical claims costs per person decline, the report concluded the overwhelming majority will see double-digit increases in their individual health insurance markets, where people purchase coverage directly from insurers.

Feds Fear Obamacare Roll-out May Be Like “Third World Experience”

Here it comes boys and girls, get ready for free. LOL … I think you are about to find out what free really is all about.

The Commonwealth Fund reported:

Federal officials are developing contingency plans in case the health insurance exchanges are not fully ready to begin enrolling people on Oct. 1, the head of the agency that’s building the massive 50-state marketplace structure said last week.

Gary Cohen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, also said there is “some possibility” that some states now conditionally approved to run their own marketplaces might not be able to launch them on Oct. 1. But he vowed that every state will have an exchange, which could mean the federal government might have to have more of a role than anticipated in states that can’t get to the finish line in time.

What If the Seuqester Stands and Nothing Happens

SPIN METER: In budget fight, sky is falling again…

It’s called backoff … at the AP sometimes it’s interesting how their news and commentary merge. This is commentary.

The SpinMeter at AP …

Here is CALVIN WOODWARD’s editorial:

President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it’s a good time to be alert for sky-is-falling hype.

Over the last week or so, administration officials have come forward with a grim compendium of jobs to be lost, services to be denied or delayed, military defenses to be let down and important operations to be disrupted. Obama’s new chief of staff, Denis McDonough, spoke of a ‘‘devastating list of horribles.’’

For most Americans, though, it’s far from certain they will have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day if the budget-shredder known as the sequester comes to pass. Maybe they will, if the impasse drags on for months.

For now, there’s a whiff of the familiar in all the foreboding, harking back to the mid-1990s partial government shutdown, when officials said old people would go hungry, illegal immigrants would have the run of the of the land and veterans would go without drugs. It didn’t happen.

GAO Confirms Obama Obama Administration Overstepped Bounds In Welfare Law Changes

So who is lying now???

The Obama administration’s efforts at extending executive authority were dealt a setback on Tuesday. The bipartisan Government Accountability Office flagged the administration’s end run around Congress in its July memo announcing changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) act, aka “welfare reform.”

The GAO said that the White House needs to give Congress the chance to block its plan that permits states to tweak the work requirements that needy families must satisfy in order to receive government assistance under the program.

The official word came in the form of a letter to lawmakers from GAO’s general counsel, Lynn H. Gibson, who wrote that the directive “must be submitted to Congress and the comptroller general before taking effect.”

In response to criticism of the directive, which was issued by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the White House has argued that the change was made to accommodate governors, including Republicans, who had requested greater latitude in how they administered their welfare programs. The administration also insisted that the constitutionally derived power of the executive branch permitted it to move forward without seeking congressional approval.

The limits on the scope of executive authority have been a constant game of tug-of-war between the administration and legislative branch. In June, GOP candidate Ron Paul accused the president of violating the War Powers Resolution in his decision to intervene militarily in Libya. Obama’s defiant response was captured in a CNN video that also featured Paul’s reaction.

Sen. Orrin Hatch praised the GAO findings Tuesday, saying:

This analysis is unequivocal that any changes must be submitted to Congress. Circumventing Congress, as this White House has done, is a flagrant abuse of our system of checks and balances and an insult to American taxpayers.

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said the agency was reviewing the GAO opinion, adding that the secretary still believes that the changes do not require congressional approval.