Barrett is an originalist just like the late Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she clerked 22 years ago. Clerks at the time say she was Scalia’s favorite. She believes in judicial restraint, and looks to the text and original intent of legislators — and the Constitution — when interpreting the law.
Scare Tactics, and Lies about Preexisting Conditions Defies ‘Common Sense’ during the first day of Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings! Now with the Republicans ready to send out Aid checks for the American People to combat the Democratic backed and intentionally targeted China COVID-19 Virus at America and the American People, you got to know that it’s the ‘Radical Left’ who would rather, that is instead of looking after the needs of the American people during the Pandemic, exploit the pandemic to advance their ultimate goal of gaining power at all costs by the ‘Left’ lying about their falsely perceived notion that President Trump has no interest in protecting Americans with pre-existing conditions!
The bottom line here is that the once ‘Progressive,’ but now the ‘Radical Left,’ couldn’t come up with a platform other than a Socialist Platform, that if Hillary would had won we’d all be living under today minus of few of those constitutional rights that we’ve witnessed being attacked on a daily, and actually before as we’re learning today, President Trump’s inauguration day back in January of 2017, and because of that missed opportunity to finish off what Obama started by trying to destroy America from within, is now suffering from the consequences of that election by putting all their eggs in that one corrupted election attempt basket, and now as a result, having nothing to offer the American people that the American People are willing to get behind, and to this day I can pretty mush guarantee you, that the American People, and like the people of the member nations of the European Union, never would have seen it coming before it was too late, and therefore, without knowing it either, dodged that ‘Proverbial’ Socialist Hillary bullet!
Obamacare: The Unconstitutional and Partisan Law that Pelosi said “Had to be Passed if You Wanted to Know What was in It”
What you probably didn’t know is that Obama, after Obamacare became the law of the land, illegally and unconstitutionally changed the Law via Executive Orders some 24 times! The only question I have to ask is there anybody out there that saw the Mainstream Media give the American People the reason why Obama, because of these illegal and unconstitutional actions, call out for Obama to be impeached?
◾Obama altered law – (A president has no authority to alter law) Delayed upholding the Employer Mandate Law (ACA) until 2015 – Individual Mandate will be enforced. A President does not have that authority – Article. I. Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States; The president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed” -Article II, Section 3; Equal Protection Clause -14th Amendment.
◾In direct violation of ACA Law (Section 36B ) ordered subsidies be paid under Federal Exchange. Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3.
◾2 Executive actions mandating private health information on patients be turned over to NICS – Violation of HIPPA law.
◾ACA (Obamacare) mandate – SCOTUS rewrote legislation and made it a tax because there is no Constitutional authority for Congress to force Americans to engage in commerce. SCOTUS has no authority to Legislate or lay taxes. Article I Section 1 & 8.
◾Contraceptive, abortifacients mandate violation of First Amendment
◾Healthcare waivers – No president has dispensing powers
◾Refuses to acknowledge state’s 10th Amendment rights to nullify Obamacare
◾Obama altered law – ACA Medicare cuts delayed until 2015. Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3.
◾Obama altered law – Enforcement of eligibility requirements for ACA delayed until 2015. Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3.
◾Obama wavered ACA Income Verification Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3.
◾Obama altered law – Delayed ACA caps on out of pocket expenses until 2015. (when implemented premiums will skyrocket) Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3.
◾Obama shelves part of the ACA Law for Insurers, extending the life of non-qualifying (according to ACA) plans until Jan. 1, 2015. Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3. Violation of the Take Care Clause, Separation of Powers.
◾Obama waved ACA individual mandate for those that lost their insurance. Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3. Violation of the Take Care Clause, Separation of Powers.
◾Obama alters ACA law and exempts companies employing between 50-100 full-time workers from business mandate until 2016. Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3.
◾In total, Obama has unilaterally altered ACA 24 times. Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3. Violation of the Take Care Clause, Separation of Powers.
What you need to understand here is that before the ‘Radical Left’ tried to shove Obamacare down the throats of every American, is that they were doing it in the same way they violated the Constitution when they allowed a unqualified candidate to run for the Presidency, and now becoming more than apparent that the only way the ‘Radical Left’ is going to accomplish anything at all is to either change the rules, violate the Constitution, or ignore the ‘Rule of Law!’ Which by the Way they’re getting pretty good at, especially when they have the ‘Mainstream Media’ assisting their every move!
Before the ‘Radical Left,’ and because the ‘Radical Left’ has no other products to sell the American people that comes close to beating all American Constitution guaranteed rights, and so they need to eliminated those same guaranteed rights, but also eliminate the ‘Checks and Balances’ that protects those rights, and the main reason why the Obama Administration needed to ‘stack’ the leadership positions of the DOJ, FBI, and CIA with corrupt ‘appointed,’ leaders who were not elected who wouldn’t have been exposed by the ‘Deep State’ run ‘Paid to Report’ Mainstream Media, which we are finally seeing the proof of today with the gradual release of the unredacted handwritten notes by Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan, that in the last couple of days revealed to the world what the world already knew, and that is President Obama was privy to the Russian Hoax from day one, and let it continue knowing it was hurting the same country that President Trump was trying to make Great again!
All you need to know as an American Citizen is that the Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, and Nadler, and still hoping not the RINO’s that remain hidden in the ‘Swamp’ that needs to be drained this election with members of both sides of the aisle who because of no Term Limits, and no legislation drawn up in terms of protecting our sovereignty by initiating a Federally Mandated Photo Voter ID Law that every country that competes with America both ideologically and financially, already has, and has had for decades!
FLASHBACK…….
I always get tired of people defending Obamacare…so occasionally I feel I need to post this…
HOW OBAMACARE BECAME THE “LAW OF THE LAND”
New 3/12/2016 exchange enrollment data released by the Obama administration on Friday reveal in multiple ways that Obamacare is failing to live up to its goal of providing affordable care.
That’s no small problem when the law mandates that people buy coverage or face a fine. The fact that enrollment grew only modestly in the law’s third year despite the ramping up of the mandate penalty underscores the reality that Obamacare only offers poor options to far too many millions of people.
The Department of Health and Human Services also revealed that the exchanges ended 2015 with just under 8.8 million paid enrollees nationwide, down 25% from the 11.7 million sign-ups to start the year. As of last March, once the unpaid total was culled, there were 10.2 million members.
SO HOW DID OBAMACARE BECOME A LAW? IT’S ACTUALLY PRETTY INTERESTING.
If you recall, the Democrats in the House couldn’t pass their version of a Healthcare law. Because all revenue bills must originate in the House of Representatives, the Senate found a bill that met those qualifications: HR3590, a military housing bill. They took out essentially all of the wording of it and turned it into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare. It gets better. The Senate at that time had 60 Democrats, just enough to pass Obamacare.
After the bill passed the Senate, the Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy died. In his place, Massachusetts elected Republican Scott Brown. That meant that, if the House made any changes to the bill, the Senate wouldn’t have the necessary number of votes to pass the corrected bill, since they knew no Republicans would vote for Obamacare. So, they made a deal with the Democrat‐controlled House of Representatives: The House would pass the Senate bill without any changes, IF the Senate agreed to pass a separate bill by the House that made changes to the Senate version of Obamacare. This second bill was called the Reconciliation Act of 2010.
It made a bunch of detail changes and added some things. So, the House passed PPACA, the Senate bill, as well as their Reconciliation Act. So now PPACA was ready for the President to sign, but the Senate still needed to pass the Reconciliation Act from the House. Confused yet?
Now, remember that the Senate only had 59 votes to pass the Reconciliation Act since Republican Scott Brown replaced Democrat Ted Kennedy. In order to pass the Reconciliation Act, therefore, the Democrats in the Senate DECIDED TO CHANGE THE RULES!
They declared that they could use the “Reconciliation Rule”—this is a different “reconciliation” than the House bill now. This rule was only used for budget item approval, so that budget items could be passed with only 51 votes in the Senate, not the usual 60. This rule was never intended to be used for legislation of the magnitude of Obamacare.
Too bad… they used it anyway. So then both of the “Acts” passed both houses of Congress and were then signed by President Obama.
ALL DONE BY DEMOCRATS WITHOUT A SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTE IN FAVOR OF IT. TO QUOTE DEMOCRAT REP. ALCEE HASTINGS OF THE HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE DURING THE BILL PROCESS: “WE’RE MAKING UP THE RULES AS WE GO ALONG” THEY CERTAINLY COULDN’T HAVE MADE THIS LAW WITHOUT IT.
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT?????
Obama violations against his own ACA Law!
AGAIN….
The Obama Administration, and in direct violation of ACA Law (Section 36B ) ordered subsidies be paid under Federal Exchange. Article. I. Section. 1; Article II, Section 3.
Obama took 2 Executive actions mandating private health information on patients be turned over to NICS – Violation of HIPPA law.
The ‘Radical Left’s’ Obamacare mandate – had the Supreme Court rewrite their own legislation and made it a tax because there is no Constitutional authority for Congress to force Americans to engage in commerce.
SCOTUS has no authority to Legislate or lay taxes. Article I Section 1 & 8, but if you think about it this decision goes hand in hand with the Supreme Court getting involved in not only killing 60 Million Americans because of their ‘Roe v. Wade’ ‘DECISION,’ but the ‘Citizens United’ ‘DECISION’ that allowed outside interests to help buy America’s Domestic and Foreign policies that is causing what’s going on in America today happening!
We already had the Obama ‘Green Deal’ where everyone of his biggest donors received a contract for Obama Green Agenda, but as it turned out every one of those contracts went bankrupt sticking the American taxpayer with a $36.5 Billion dollar bill! Then we had the Obama Administration go out of their way to reinvent the equivalent wheel by reconfiguring the Iran Nuclear Deal and giving Iran $150 Billion dollars with $1.7 Billion being delivered in the middle of the night in unmarked planes and in cash and precious metals on pallets!
In March of 2016, 8 months before the 2016 election with Obamacare in its sixth year, it was already labeled another Obama credited Legacy of Deception!
But the real crusher is that 4 years later the Pelosi and Schumer’s ‘Radical Left’ are still trying to shove it down the American people’s throats!
by DAVID CATRON
Do you remember this….. FLASHBACK 2016?
On the anniversary of its passage, the White House issued a statement from Obama containing all manner of hilarious claims including the following howler: “Thanks in part to this law, health care prices have risen at the lowest rate in 50 years … premiums for a family with job-based coverage are almost $2,600 lower than if trends from the decade before the law had continued.” As Emily Zanotti pointed out in this space, not even Chelsea Clinton buys that whopper.
The president’s claim that job-based family coverage costs less than it would had he refrained from meddling with health care flunks the laugh test. Employer-based health insurance premiums have continued to rise unabated. And, as the Kaiser Family Foundation reports, “Since 2010, both the share of workers with deductibles and the size of those deductibles have increased sharply. These two trends together result in a 67 percent increase in deductibles since 2010.” In his statement, however, Obama makes a specious claim about premiums while studiously ignoring skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs.
The claims the president makes about Obamacare are rife with such omissions. His claim that it has contributed to a slowdown in health care inflation, for example, is an Orwellian fantasy. According to a report produced by his own health care bureaucrats, the slowdown to which he refers began before the “reform” law was passed. Obamacare actually reversed the trend: “In 2014, U.S. health care spending increased 5.3 percent following growth of 2.9 percent in 2013 … The faster growth experienced in 2014 was primarily due to the major coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act.”
The president’s sixth anniversary statement also claims that Obamacare has made dramatic cuts in the uninsured rate, but that too conflicts with the facts. On September 9, 2009, Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to push his health reform agenda and said this about the uninsured: “There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage.” Naturally, he claimed his reform plan would drastically reduce this number. According to the most recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), “On average, about 27 million people … will be uninsured in 2016.”
In other words, despite extravagant claims made by the White House about Obamacare’s impact on the uninsured rate, the net reduction has been about 3 million. This is modest progress indeed, considering the enormous cost and rampant corruption that have characterized Obamacare’s passage and implementation. And yet the president’s celebratory statement contains the following claim: “Thanks to this law, 20 million more Americans now know the security of having health insurance.” What this means, of course, is that most of the 20 million were already insured but lost their coverage due to Obamacare.
This not only highlights the president’s most notorious lie about Obamacare (“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.”), it dovetails with CBO projections about things to come: “Over the next few years, more employers are expected to respond to the availability of coverage through the marketplaces by declining to offer insurance to their employees. As employers change their insurance offerings, some of their employees are expected to enroll in coverage through [Obamacare exchanges].” Presumably, this will also be celebrated by the White House, at least until Obama is finally evicted.
Naturally, the president’s sixth anniversary statement steers away from a great many promises that he presumably hopes we have long since forgotten. For example, the CBO report expects the government to raise about $38 billion in penalties from people who flout the individual mandate by refusing to purchase coverage. Obama originally ran for president on a platform that included a pledge that he would never countenance a mandate in any health reform law approved by his administration. But a few months after taking office, he demonstrated that this was just another manifestation of his bent toward prevarication.
Even worse, for many Americans, was Obama’s phony abortion pledge. During the 2009 speech referenced above he said, “Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.” In 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigated of plans certified and sold by the Obamacare exchanges. The GAO discovered that 1,036 such plans covered abortion. In other words, while the Obama administration was bullying Little Sisters of the Poor to cover abortifacients, it was turning a blind eye to Obamacare plans that were breaking federal law by funding abortions.
Another fraud perpetrated by the president during his 2009 speech to Congress was included in his list of allegedly inaccurate statements made by opponents of his health care plan: “There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false.” That was too much for Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who responded by shouting “You lie.” Representative Wilson took a lot of heat from the media over this, but he was later vindicated when it was discovered that illegal immigrants have indeed been receiving hundreds of millions of Obamacare subsidies.
The list of individual lies goes on and on, but perhaps they can be summarized thus: The basic premise of Obamacare is deliberately deceptive. The president and his supporters sold it as a health reform bill meant to control costs, increase access, and improve quality. But virtually none of its provisions really addressed the components of our medical delivery system that affect these things. So, the most important deception was the pretense that it was ever about health care. That was the big lie. Obama and his accomplices called it “health care reform” when it was just a government power grab.
‘Trump signs executive order to lower drug prices in fight against Big Pharma!’
The order aims to provide Americans with the same prices foreign buyers enjoy!
“Just signed a new Executive Order to LOWER DRUG PRICES! My Most Favored Nation order will ensure that our Country gets the same low-price Big Pharma gives to other countries,” the president tweeted. “The days of global freeriding at America’s expense are over…”
“…and prices are coming down FAST! Also just ended all rebates to middlemen, further reducing prices,” he added in a follow-up tweet.
The Trump administration has regularly placed drug costs at the heart of its health policy, with the president already signing a series of four orders in July to lower drug prices.
The orders covered several measures, such as directing the Department of Health and Human Services to lower cost of certain drugs, including insulin and epinephrine. The earlier order also aimed to end a “shadowy system of kickbacks by middlemen.”
Obamacare isn’t the only way to protect people with pre-existing conditions. It’s just the unfairest way.
Obamacare compels insurers to charge the healthy and the sick the same price. That’s the major reason Obamacare premiums for 2019 are triple what they were in 2013.
A federal fallback insurance fund will provide a rock-solid guarantee for chronically ill people, and at the same time allow premiums to return to sane levels for healthy buyers. It will pay the medical bills of people with pre-existing conditions out of general revenues — not abandoning them but lifting the burden off premium payers in the tiny individual market and spreading it more broadly.
It’s no mystery how to do it. In 2010, a temporary federal Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan was established for people turned down by insurers, as a stopgap until the Obamacare exchanges opened.
What will a permanent fund cost? Based on the $32,000 spent per patient in the temporary fund, plus an adjustment for inflation, and predicting 400,000 to 500,000 enrollees at any one time, it’s likely to cost taxpayers roughly $20 billion a year. That’s money well spent helping the sick. And its way less than half the current cost of subsidizing healthy people to buy overpriced Obamacare plans.
Right now, the middle class, who are ineligible for a subsidy, are getting priced out of Obamacare. They’re hoping to enroll in so-called short-term plans that offer fewer benefits (no inpatient mental health care for example) and low prices based on a relatively healthy buyer’s low medical need. The Trump administration recently relaxed insurance regulations to help sticker-shocked consumers buy these plans.
Yet seven advocacy groups, such as the American Psychiatric Association, sued to stop these plans to slam closed this escape hatch from Obamacare. The litigants said allowing the short-term plans would “draw low-risk people out of” Obamacare. That’s the point. Consumers want choices and lower premiums.
But as the polls show, they also want protections for people with pre-existing conditions. A federal insurance fallback program will accomplish that. Now is that time to get it done and put a stop to the demagoguery about pre-existing conditions. Let voters choose based on real issues, not a phony one.
By Betsy McCaughey
September 19, 2018
For all of you that might have forgotten Pelosi’s words of wisdom, let me refresh you memory, and if you want to put Pelosi back in charge of the House, which I believe Democrats won’t let happen to their Party after an 8 year sabbatical, then I’ll end this tirade with Pelosi’s “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it!”
The 4 lies about Obamacare, that no matter what these Progressive’s say, still apply, and are as follows:
Lie #1: “Affordable” Care.
Even the president’s ideological allies — like Michael Moore — acknowledge that the Affordable Care Act is far from inexpensive for most Americans and that it “risks being a cruel joke.”
For average Americans, the results are prohibitively expensive. “The cheapest plan available to a 60-year-old couple making $65,000 a year in Hartford, Conn., will cost $11,800 in annual premiums,” according to Moore’s math, as published in a New York Times editorial. “If both become seriously ill, they might have to pay almost $25,000 in a single year.”
The National Federation of Independent Businesses, an organization that represents nearly 11,000 entrepreneurs in New York state alone, said it has yet to find a single member whose health-care costs are going down under Obamacare. Instead, an “overwhelming majority” of businesses have reported increases in their insurance premiums, said Mike Durant, the NFIB’s New York director.
Lie #2: ‘It will prevent people from going into debt.‘
Patients with cancer and conditions such as multiple sclerosis or Crohn’s disease can now get insurance and financial but if annual out-of-pocket costs run much higher than expected, they might have to go into debt.
“There are certainly challenges for cancer patients,” said Brian Rosen, a senior vice president of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. These gaps “need to be addressed in order to fulfill the intention of the Affordable Care Act.”
Caroline Pearson, who tracks the health-care overhaul for the consulting firm Avalere Health, put it in even starker terms.
“Chronically ill people are likely to be under insured and face extremely high out-of-pocket costs,” she said. “While the subsidies help, there still may be access problems for some populations.”
Lie #3: ‘Obamacare will lower costs overall.’
The idea that people with medical insurance go to the emergency room less, and thus, help to reduce the overall cost of health care, isn’t necessarily true, as a study of Oregon Medicaid recipients has shown.
Researchers compared Medicaid recipients with those with no health insurance and found the following: That people with access to Medicaid went to the ER 40 percent more than those without insurance.
Lie #4: ‘More Americans will be insured.’
Approximately 2.8 million Americans have signed up for new health-care plans since the Affordable Care Act went into effect on Jan. 1. That’s less than the 3.3 million the federal government predicted would sign up and is also dwarfed by the 4.7 million whose insurance policies have been cancelled because of the overhaul.
Confirmation of ‘ACB’ Proves that the ‘Radical Left’ is out to get your Constitutional Rights, killing the Constitution, and Stealing the 2020 Election by allowing illegals to vote unconstitutionally! Let’s not forget how they stole the House back in 2018 by changing the rules on how votes are cast and counted, and now because Brenda Snipes, the Election Committee Chairman of Broward County Florida got caught stuffing the Ballot box because she couldn’t meet the the time deadlines that the votes had to be counted and reported by, and as a result now see ‘Blue’ State Governors eliminating th9ose same time deadlines and extending the period of time that votes can be received and counted after election day!
Back in 2018 the Democrats in Pelosi’s California stole the ‘House’ back for the Democrats by reversing 6 Republican ‘House’ seats that had been won on election day in Republican Strongholds, but because of the new rule changes on how votes were cast and counted, those same 6 seats were reversed within the days and weeks that followed the election due to the fact that 40% of the votes came in after election day, but still counted! This gave Nancy Pelosi her 2nd Gavel by only 4 votes, which is how she became the Speaker of the House today!
