LETS ROLL=The Fight to ‘Defund’ is a Fight for Liberty

[Stephanie]

Stay on your Representatives people, DEFUND this piece of crap INFRIMGMENT ON OUR RIGHTS AND LIBERTY
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Janet M. LaRue | Sep 23, 2013 Janet M. LaRue
Recommend this article Recommend 38 Tweet 314 Texas doesn’t have an ObamaCare Exchange—we have the Alamo.

Sen. Ted Cruz is our contemporary William B. Travis, commandant of the Alamo and defender of liberty. Standing with Cruz to defund ObamaCare are Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Think of them as Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and company.

These super smart senators, like the majority of Americans, get it. ObamaCare is the greatest internal threat to American liberty, perhaps in our entire history. Government-run healthcare is like government-run anything else, incomprehensible, costly, complex, counter-productive and corruption-inducing.

ObamaCare is toxic to liberty and contrary to our Constitution. The behemoth federal government will make our healthcare decisions while massively increasing our costs and taxes. Our chances of keeping the doctor and healthcare plan of our choice decrease daily as doctors discontinue practicing medicine. Other health care providers, such as the Cleveland Clinic and Vanderbilt University Medical Center are laying off employees and cutting budgets. Major health insurers are increasingly refusing to participate in Obama Care exchanges. The economy is on the Fed’s life-support, as Americans are anesthetized by “quantitative easing.” Full-time jobs are becoming part-time or non-existent to avoid ObamaCare penalties. Major employers such as Home Depot and Walgreens are moving employees from private insurance plans to healthcare exchanges. The ObamaCare enforcers at the IRS will have us in their auditing and penalty-imposing crosshairs. Just ask the Tea Party what that’s like.

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[Freemason9]

Yes.

The liberty to continue on in our roles as American wage slaves for the money holders.

 

[Stephanie]

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Obamacare Will Increase Health Spending By $7,450 For A Typical Family of Four

Chris Conover Chris Conover, Contributor

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 26: Ron Kirby holds a ...
Ron Kirby holds a sign while marching in protest of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Image credit: Getty Images North America via @daylife)

It was one of candidate Obama’s most vivid and concrete campaign promises. Forget about high minded (some might say high sounding) but gauzy promises of hope and change. This candidate solemnly pledged on June 5, 2008: “In an Obama administration, we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year….. We’ll do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States.” Unfortunately, the experts working for Medicare’s actuary have (yet again[1]) reported that in its first 10 years, Obamacare will boost health spending by “roughly $621 billion” above the amounts Americans would have spent without this misguided law.

What this means for a typical family of four

$621 billion is a pretty eye-glazing number. Most readers will find it easier to think about how this number translates to a typical American family—the very family candidate Obama promised would see $2,500 in annual savings as far as the eye could see. So I have taken the latest year-by-year projections, divided by the projected U.S. population to determine the added amount per person and multiplied the result by 4.

Interactive Guide: What Will Obamacare Cost You?

Simplistic? Maybe, but so too was the President’s campaign promise. And this approach allows us to see just how badly that promise fell short of the mark. Between 2014 and 2022, the increase in national health spending (which the Medicare actuaries specifically attribute to the law) amounts to $7,450 per family of 4.



Let us hope this family hasn’t already spent or borrowed the $22,500 in savings they might have expected over this same period had they taken candidate Obama’s promise at face value. In truth, no well-informed American ever should have believed this absurd promise. At the time, Factcheck.org charitably deemed this claim as “overly optimistic, misleading and, to some extent, contradicted by one of his own advisers.” The Washington Post less charitably awarded it Two Pinocchios (“Significant omissions or exaggerations&#8221. Yet rather than learn from his mistakes, President Obama on July 16, 2012 essentially doubled-down on his promise, assuring small business owners “your premiums will go down.” He made this assertion notwithstanding the fact that in three separate reports between April 2010 and June 2012, the Medicare actuaries had demonstrated that the ACA would increase health spending. To its credit, the Washington Post dutifully awarded the 2012 claim Three Pinocchios (“Significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions.&#8221

The past is not prologue: The burden increases ten-fold in 2014

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Obamacare Will Increase Health Spending By $7,450 For A Typical Family of Four - Forbes

 

[Freemason9]

This is highly unlikely, considering that Americans already spend far, far more on health care than nations with much, much better health care systems.

Do you know why health care costs in this country are so high? It's because everything costs much, much more. Duh. I wonder why that is? I wonder where the money goes?

 

[Borillar]

As long as they are in a defunding frame of mind, why not defund the DHS, TSA, DEA, and some of the other alphabet soup police state agencies.