*Hat tip to CJ
john Holmgren posted videos
4 years ago
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Obama to Crush Economy with Massive CO2 Taxes as Early as Next Week
*Hat tip to CJ
This guy has GOT to go....now. Send him back to Kenya. Let him bankrupt his own people.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
A true blue American hero.
this man is putting his freedom and reputation on the line for the US Constitution and his country....asking the Idiot-in-Chief to PROVE he's a natural born citizen. Does Obama have to turn over the document during "discovery"?
In my book, this is a true blue American hero.
OBUMMER-CARE PAIN BEGINS
-Democrats threaten companies hit hard by health care bill Washington Examiner
*Hat tip to LakeLady
-SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED
*Hat tip to LakeLady
-SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED
*Hat tip to Golgotha
Tracking Acorn’s Rebranding Process: A Handy Guide
-Tracking Acorn’s Rebranding Process: A Handy Guide - Big Journalism
*Hat tip to Lake Lady
good chart
*Hat tip to Lake Lady
good chart
"After America , There is No Place to Go"
*Hat tip to Karin
Karin received the article about and the note below from a friend:
"As I have had discussions with others, we feel he is not looking to make a second term as president. He wants something higher - world leader. If he destroys the US military and the US, and there are major problems in the Middle East, there won't be a military like the US to control the world without a world government. It's only a matter of time.. We are getting
closer."
Still Much to Fear From Commercial Real Estate Loans
-This idiot can't even manage his own tax returns, but he's going to "manage" the commercial real estate bust? Based on the failures of his personal and public policies so far, I have ZERO confidence in him. What about you?
Sunday, March 28, 2010
A Black Man's POV on Obama
-A Black President, the Progressive’s Perfect Trojan Horse - Big Journalism
Hat tip to CJ
Hat tip to CJ
SELF-HATING WHITE MEDIA THINK THEY ARE RACISTS!
-Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com
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-White men shun Democrats -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
So nice of them to ascribe THEIR racism to the rest of us because we aren't Socialists!
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-White men shun Democrats -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
So nice of them to ascribe THEIR racism to the rest of us because we aren't Socialists!
Democratic Lawmaker Leads Bipartisan Effort to Repeal NAFTA
Now here is a bill I can get behind...even if it was written by a Democrat.
*Hat tip to Kati
Ways & Means Committee Timeline of Major Provisions in the Democrats’ Health Care Package
The chart below that was put up on Facebook by the Ways & Means Republicans is worth a quick read through.*Hat tip to CJ and B (I have the PDF file if anyone wants it)
Notice the gradual strangulation of Medicare. Also, the mandates are almost certain to drive insurance companies into insolvency. Essentially everything is covered, but reimbursements are reduced. Ergo, care will be permitted, but severely rationed. In other words there is legal right to treatment but application and delivery of care is restricted by time, money and legal provision.
Nicely played game. All theory, no practice. But isn't that always the same old story of socialism? It looks great on paper, but very uneven in reality.
Timeline of Major Provisions in the Democrats’ Health Care Package
Ways & Means Republicans on FACEBOOK & TWITTER
2009
•2‐year tax credit (total cap of $1B) for new chronic disease therapy investments
•Medicare cuts to hospitals begin (long‐term care (7/1/09) and inpatient and
rehabilitation facilities (FY10)
2010
•States and Federal officials review premium increases
•FDA authorized to approve "follow‐on" biologics
•Increase brand name pharmaceutical Medicaid rebate (from 15.1% to 23.1%)
•Medicare payments to physicians in primarily rural areas increase (2 years)
•Deny "black liquor" eligibility for cellulosic biofuel producers credit
•Tax credits provided to certain small employers for health care‐related expenses
•Increase adoption tax incentives for 2 years
•Codify economic substance doctrine and impose penalties for underpayments
(transactions on/after 3/23/10)
•Provide income exclusion for specified Indian tribe health benefits provided after
3/23/10
•Temporary high‐risk pool and high‐cost union retiree reinsurance ($5 B each for 3.5
years) (6/23/10)
•Impose 10% tax on indoor UV tanning (7/1/10)
•Medicare cuts to inpatient psych hospitals (7/1/10)
•Prohibits lifetime and annual benefit spending limits (plan years beginning 9/23/10)
•Prohibits non‐group plans from canceling coverage (rescissions) (plan years
beginning 9/23/10)
•Requires plans to cover, at no charge, most preventive care (plan years beginning
9/23/10)
•Allows dependents to stay on parents’ policies through age 26 (plan years
beginning 9/23/10)
•Provides limited protections to children with pre‐existing conditions (plan years
beginning 9/23/10)
•Hospitals in "Frontier States" (ND, MT, WY, SD, UT ) receive higher Medicare
payments (FY11)
•Hospitals in “low‐cost” areas receive higher Medicare payments for 2 yrs ($400
million, FY11)
2011
•Medicare Advantage cuts begin
•No longer allowed to use FSA, HSA, HRA, Archer MSA distributions for over‐thecounter
medicines
•Medicare cuts to home health begin
•Wealthier seniors ($85k/$170k) begin paying higher Part D premiums (not indexed
for inflation in Parts B/D)
•Medicare reimbursement cuts when seniors use diagnostic imaging like MRIs, CT
scans, etc.
•Medicare cuts begin to ambulance services, ASCs, diagnostic labs, and durable
medical equipment
•Impose new annual tax on brand name pharmaceutical companies
•Americans begin paying premiums for federal long‐term care insurance (CLASS Act)
•Health plans required to spend a minimum of 80% of premiums on medical claims
•Physicians in "Frontier States" (ND, MT, WY, SD, UT ) receive higher Medicare
payments
•Prohibition on Medicare payments to new physician‐owned hospitals
•Penalties for non‐qualified HSA and Archer MSA distributions double (to 20%)
•Seniors prohibited from purchasing power wheelchairs unless they first rent for 13
months
•Brand name drug companies begin providing 50% discount in the Part D “donut
hole”
•10% Medicare bonus payment for primary care and general surgery (5 years)
•Employers required to report value of health benefits on W‐2
•Steps towards health insurance administrative simplification (reduced paperwork,
etc) begins (5 yr process)
•Additional funding for community health centers (5 years)
•Seniors who hit Part D “donut hole "in 2010 receive $250 check (3/15/11)
•New Medicare cuts to long‐term care hospitals begin (7/1/11)
•Additional Medicare cuts to hospitals and cuts to nursing homes and inpatient
rehab facilities begin (FY12)
•New tax on all private health insurance policies to pay for comp. eff. research (plan
years beginning FY12)
2012
•Medicare cuts to dialysis treatment begins
•Require information reporting on payments to corporations
•Medicare to reduce spending by using an HMO‐like coordinated care model
(Accountable Care Organizations)
•Medicare Advantage plans with a 4 or 5 star rating receive a quality bonus payment
•New Medicare cuts to inpatient psych hospitals (7/1/12)
•Hospital pay‐for‐quality program begins (FY13)
•Medicare cuts to hospitals with high readmission rates begin (FY13)
•Medicare cuts to hospice begin (FY13)
2013
•Impose $2,500 annual cap on FSA contributions (indexed to CPI)
•Increase Medicare wage tax by 0.9% and impose a new 3.8% tax on unearned , nonactive
business income for those earning over $200k/$250k (not indexed to inflation)
•Generally increases (7.5% to 10%) threshold at which medical expenses, as a % of
income, can be deductible
•Eliminate deduction for Part D retiree drug subsidy employers receive
•Impose 2.3% excise tax on medical devices
•Medicare cuts to hospitals who treat low‐income seniors begin
•Post‐acute pay for quality reporting begins
•CO‐OP Program: Secretary awards loans and grants for establishing nonprofit health
insurers
•$500,000 deduction cap on compensation paid to insurance company employees and
officers
•Part D “donut hole” reduction begins, reaching a 25% reduction by 2020
2014
•Individuals without gov't‐approved coverage are subject to a tax of the greater of
$695 or 2.5% of income
•Employers who fail to offer "affordable" coverage would pay a $3,000 penalty for
every employee that receives a subsidy through the Exchange
•Employers who do not offer insurance must pay a tax penalty of $2,000 for every fulltime
employee
•More Medicare cuts to home health begin
•States must have established Exchanges
•Employers with more than 200 employees can auto‐enroll employees in health
coverage, with opt‐out
•All non‐grandfathered and Exchange health plans required to meet federallymandated
levels of coverage
•States must cover parents /childless adults up to 138% of poverty on Medicaid,
receive increased FMAP
•Tax credits available for Exchange‐based coverage, amount varies by income up to
400% of poverty
•Insurers cannot impose any coverage restrictions on pre‐existing conditions
(guaranteed issue/renewability)
•Modified community rating: individual or family coverage; geography; 3:1 ratio for
age; 1.5 :1 for smoking
•Insurers must offer coverage to anyone wanting a policy and every policy has to be
renewed
•Limits out‐of‐pocket cost‐sharing (tied to limits in HSAs, currently $5,950/$11,900
indexed to COLA)
•Insurance plans must include government‐defined "essential benefits " and coverage
levels
•OPM must offer at least two multi‐state plans in every state
•Employers can offer some employees free choice vouchers for health insurance in the
Exchange
•Government board (IPAB) begins submitting proposals to cut Medicare
•Impose tax on nearly all private health insurance plans
•Medicare payment cuts for hospital‐acquired infections begin (FY15)
2015
•More Medicare cuts to home health begin
2016
•States can form interstate insurance compacts if the coverage with HHS approval (2016)
2017
•Physician pay‐for‐quality program begins for all physicians
•States may allow large employers and multi‐employer health plans to purchase coverage
in the Exchange.
•States may apply to the Secretary for a limited waiver from certain federal requirements
2018
•Impose "Cadillac tax on “high cost” plans, 40% tax on the benefit value above a certain
threshold: ($10,200 individual coverage, $27,500 family or self‐only union multiemployer coverage.
OBAMA ON TRIAL IN HARLEM
-Take Down Obama: Save America ATLAH Media Network
I wish I could go to see this!
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