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Way to go Drew !
I guess I'll have to start following the Magic now......................
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Fixed. If anything, actual care will be more difficult to get. You can't increase the use of an exclusive-use resource without decreasing availability.
Very well stated.
Our ACA advocates on the board seem to have a blind spot to this, no matter who posts it.
Everyone (supposedly) will be covered, but there are limited resources (and I contend then will get even scarcer) and an increased amount of clients.
There will be delays
There will be panels.
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In 1946 the National Mental Health Act was passed, as was the Hospital Survey and Construction Act, or Hill-Burton Act. In 1951 the IRS declared group premiums paid by employers as a tax-deductible business expense, which solidified the third-party insurance companies' place as primary providers of access to health care in the United States.
The Medicare program was established by legislation signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) amended the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to give some employees the ability to continue health insurance coverage after leaving employment.
2003 President George W.Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act which included a prescription drug plan for elderly and disabled Americans.
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Tone of dissent shows health law could have been wiped out
The statement Justice Anthony Kennedy read from the bench Thursday shows just how close the Affordable Care Act came to being annihilated by the Supreme Court.
“In our view, the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety,” Kennedy said.
In the written dissent, Kennedy was joined by Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, writing against the majority decision upholding the individual mandate under Congress’s taxing power. The dissenting justices noted that the law refers to it as a requirement and a penalty with only the “flimsiest of indications to the contrary.”
The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, rewrites the law, Kennedy said in his bench statement.
"What Congress calls a penalty, we call a tax," Kennedy said. "In short, the court imposes a tax when Congress deliberately rejected a tax."
In the written dissent, the four justices argued that “judicial tax-writing is particularly troubling.”
“Taxes have never been popular … and in part for that reason, the Constitution requires tax increases to originate in the House of Representatives,” the justices wrote. “That is to say, they must originate in the legislative body most accountable to the people, where legislators must weigh the need for the tax against the terrible price they might pay at their next election, which is never more than two years off.”
At issue is not whether Congress had the power to frame the minimum coverage provision as a tax, but whether it actually did so, the dissenting justices wrote.
“In a few cases, this Court has held that a ‘tax’ imposed upon private conduct was so onerous as to be in effect a penalty,” the dissent reads. “But we have never held—never—that a penalty imposed for violation of the law was so trivial as to be in effect a tax. We have never held that any exaction imposed for violation of the law is an exercise of Congress’ taxing power — even when the statute calls it a tax, much less when (as here) the statute repeatedly calls it a penalty.”
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I have. Admittedly going to the rally wasn't my intended objective. I was on the red line headed to my normal stop (at the time) on the K St. side of Farragut and I was confronted by some unusual characters on the metro.
Anyway, long story short, I ended up spending my "lunch time" that day at a tax day rally down in D.C. back in 2010. Literally, there were people with wooden musket toys, 18th and 19th century military outfits, bear skins, effigy dolls, Harry Reid's with "suggestive" and decidedly German (circa 1940s) 'staches, and other nuts. But there were also people there to listen and learn who were decidedly normal. Few were minority. No black or brown. Quite a few Asians (suprisingly). Mostly older women (Asians). 50+ white males were the dominant demo. A lot of pamphlets. Big buses transporting people with cotton neon shorts and homemade shirts.
Anyway, the impression that I was left with is that it would be difficult for that group to make a significant mark on the type of mainstream republican party voter needed to win in 2012. I think that the essence of their message (though principally strong) may be slightly too esoteric.
I may be a little judgmental because I had to scold a few for standing stationary on both sides of the metro escalator.
Stand on the right. Walk on the left. Thank you.
Very revealing post.
I hope that you had your designer sunglasses off, so it was easier on you to look down your nose.
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Very interesting result.
at least to those not fixated on one aspect.
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Went on the physician message boards. All I can say is, good luck finding a doctor and/or getting an appointment.
Every physician I know (30 - 40) thinks the same way, including a few family members.
Whenever I have stated that over the past two years, the liberal critics just sneer and say "what else are they going to do?" and make remarks about greed.
We'll see.
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By your comments, I'm pretty sure you've never been to a Tea Party event. Or at least your impressions of them come from MSNBC.
Obamacare is a big deal because it directly affects the economy.
As Mr. Romney emphasized about the economic fallout that would occur if Obamacare was left in place.
“If we want good jobs and a bright economic future for ourselves and for our kids, we must replace Obamacare,” he declared. “That is my mission. That is our work, and I’m asking the people of America to join me.”
“If you don’t want the course President Obama has put us on, if you want instead a course that the founders envisioned, then join me in this effort,” Romney added. “Help us. Help us defeat Obamacare, help us defeat the liberal agenda that makes government too big, too intrusive, and is killing jobs across this great country.”
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I'm going to laugh hard if Romney takes office and issues an executive order directing the IRS not to enforce the law to collect that "tax". You know, Obama-style.
That won't work Koko, it will still be in effect, but without funding.
A much more thorough way of dealing with it is, simply granting a "waiver" to everyone as the administration has already done for over 1300 groups.
Government Accountability Office
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and this one directed towards Justice Thomas.
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From Mitt Romney's response to today's ruling;
“What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States,” he said. “And that is, I will act to repeal Obamacare.”“Let’s make clear that we understand what the court did and did not do,” Romney continued. “What the court did today was say that Obamacare does not violate the Constiution. What they did not do is say that Obamacare is good law, or good policy. Obamacare was bad policy yesterday. It’s bad policy today. Obamacare was bad law yesterday. It’s bad law today.”
Toward the end of his remarks — which lasted only a few minutes — Romney emphasized the economic fallout that would occur if Obamacare was left in place.
“If we want good jobs and a bright economic future for ourselves and for our kids, we must replace Obamacare,” he declared. “That is my mission. That is our work, and I’m asking the people of America to join me.”
“If you don’t want the course President Obama has put us on, if you want instead a course that the founders envisioned, then join me in this effort,” Romney added. “Help us. Help us defeat Obamacare, help us defeat the liberal agenda that makes government too big, too intrusive, and is killing jobs across this great country.”
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Few are more upset at today's decision than I am,
but this sure is an embarrassing thread,
go back out to the playground.
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B-Man that man has no way to prove anything he said b/c there is no way to prove it he's talking out of his ass to try and scare you into being violently against a Bill that hurts his political party. Plain and simple.
Wake up.
Huh...whats that....where am I?
LOL...Thanks for your concern, but my opinions are not formed by what I read on a political message board.
My 38 years in the healthcare field is sufficient to know how this bill will affect us.
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this all going to come down to swing states, and how those States are doing as far a recovery and jobs.... if it is good news, Obama wins. If they slump, he is very vulnerable.
Captain Obvious, huh?
That tears it B..........................I'm taking back my + reputation vote for you on the other board....lol
O.T. : I hope that you are not near any of the Colorado wildfires....stay safe.
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The bolded are a result of CORPORATE policy, not government.
Respectfully Mr. Cody.......those corporate positions did not change in a vacuum,
there were a response to government policy changes....
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How is not a distraction? Or useful?
It is obvious.
You may have heard, there is an election in November.
and the voters in each of the congressional districts deserve to know where their congressperson stands on the issue of repeal.
Not just campaign rhetoric, but an actual demonstration.
Let them show where they stand, so the people can make a proper choice......and that goes for either position.
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Well, the Taxed Enough Party has been just as strong as always, substituting grassroot campaigning for rallies, but your point is true enough.
First, those who dislike the mandate — which includes a majority of U.S. voters — will now have no recourse but to vote for Mitt Romney to repeal it.
Second, the only way the administration prevailed was to have Obama’s main legislative accomplishment redefined as one of the largest middle-class tax increases in the history of the country.
Does that really sound like a good political outcome to you?
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Its bittersweet for me, B- while I value the progress of being able to purchase insurance as an indivdual, and not be locked out of the market because my wife has pre-existing condition.....
This only means one thing.... a more powerful, furter reaching and self righteous representative Government.... that in and of itself has it own dangers, as we all know.
I have been supportive of the ACA from the beginnning, I have alway been clear about that. However, I will not pretend that 2400 worth of Pelosi schlopp is required legislation. This will, this issue needs ALOT of work, not only from Democrats who throw is all at the wall, but from the Conservatives who keep it is check.
I understand. You have always been very clear in your statements of support over the year.
I have no confidence that the same "lawmakers" who wrote the over-reaching bill, will now "work" to fix it.
and as for Cody's response that there is little that the Congress can now do, its up to the insurance companies...............thats a farce.
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Not really.
Yes, it is.
perhaps you could write an 8 paragraph reponse (that is full of hyperbole) to support your opinion.
But it won't change a thing.
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Wow, granted the ability to tax- WOW......
Now its time to start streamlining that 2400 pages behemouth to make it Work
That won't happen B....................and you know it.
its a sad day for all Americans.
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There are several democrats that have already voiced that they will also vote for censure.
The only Bipartisan vote will be FOR censure, but it will still be media-spun as extremists-racists.
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Originally the spot was going to be "The most uppity Mulatto in the world" but it didn't poll as well.
Of course, everything in the satirical video in the original post was about the President's actions since taking office,
not his skin pigmentation.
But hey, I am sure that your response makes you feel better, that's whats important.
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do you even know what that phrase means... im not so sure you should answer that...
Okay, you sorry dolt, I should let you just keep digging, but everyone is enjoying your silliness too much
There is no such phrase as "intensive purposes"
its "for all intents and purposes".
and before you come back with the all too standard "whats the difference, my point is still the same" liberal response,
its because you kept insisting that "we" were all fools.
That is what we were laughing at.............
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Common, man. For all intensive purposes, regardless and irregardless are the same word, you moran.
Tom, you're killing me.
how many snarky references are in that post ?
intensive purposes.......................I'm still chuckling at that nonsense.
Has there ever been a great coach
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Vince Lombardi is certainly considered a great coach, and while Bart Starr was a good QB, I wouldn't call him great.
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