An Inconvenient Health Care Cost Truth from CMS: Obamacare and Wellness Medicine Programs … In the End, It Cost More

An Inconvenient Health Care Cost Truth …

Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the rest of their minions and state run media have said from the beginning that Obamacare healthcare reform would lower health care costs. They also claimed that slashing $500 billion from Medicare would have no effect on seniors. Oh contraire … Seniors and those concerned with rising health care costs, be very afraid.

It won’t cost trillions of dollars and it will reduce costs

However, from CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) comes this “Inconvenient Truth” via The Politico … the legislation the House passed last week would increase costs over the next decade by $289 billion. By 2019, health costs would rise to 21.1 percent of GDP compared to 20.8 under current law. (pdf report HERE)

With the exception of the proposed reductions in Medicare payment updates for institutional providers, the provisions of H.R. 3962 would not have a significant impact on future health care cost growth rates. In addition, the longer-term viability of the Medicare update reductions is doubtful,” the report said.

It will lower costs, not raise them and I am not taking money from seniors, really

In other words, outside of Medicare payment cuts to hospitals, the bill doesn’t curb increasing health care costs. And even the Medicare payment cuts will be difficult to sustain.

The analysis is more bad news for Democrats, who are facing increasing criticism that their reforms don’t do enough to control costs. Republicans released the analysis and jumped on the news.

It would appear that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have an Inconvenient Truth of their own … wellness programs cost more than treating the disease. This analysis is from a longstanding independent technical advisor to the Executive Branch and Congress. But I supposed they will be demonized and called a racist for providing bad news against Obama’s healthcare reform policy.

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Obamacare: The Government Control Take Over of Health & the Theft of Your Children, Grand Children and Generations to Come

What President, what Congressman, what political party would do this to children and future generations? Who in good conscience would inflict a $1.3 trillion debt on the people in the midst of a recession with over 10% unemployment?

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (US Constitution)

The passage by Nancy Pelosi and the House of Representatives of the latest version of the governments take over of health care in an attempt to control “We the People” not only is a slap in the face of personal liberties provided by the US Constitution, but also places a debt beyond comprehension to future generations. What happened to our civil liberties?

Hat Tip: Vanderbilt – ‘09

In the process of sacrificing the freedoms of our Country, the Radical Reformers are scrambling to rip apart the vision the Constitution provides for us. To finance their unrealistic attempts to remake America (and perhaps the world) to suit their foolish and peculiar aspirations, generations to come are being willfully robbed of their birthrights. We cannot let these Societal Misfits consume our children’s future by spending them into slavery!

How could a government place such a burden upon its people while forcing them to buy their insurance or fear fines and jail time. This is the same Obama government that refuses to imprison illegals, yet would arrest their own citizens for lack of government controlled insurance?

Even though only 29% of American voters would advise their Congressman to vote for Obamacare, Nancy Pelosi and the left wing radicals in the House did so any ways ramming a world of future debt down the throats of future generations, let alone a bad piece of legislation.  In the end, the vote could hardly be considered bi-partisan as only one RINO voted for Obamacare, the Pelosi edition, while 39 Democrats voted against it.

The cost of this healthcare bill will not only be the destruction of private insurance in the United States and enslaving Americans to a government run and controlled option, but the $1.3 trillion mountain of debt that future generations will never be able to pay off. However, since when does the government ever get the cost of any program correct. Just look at the projected costs of Medicare.

CT Senator Joe Lieberman put it best when he said that he would filibuster the bill and never let it come to a final vote because the cost and debt would create a worse problem than any perceived health care issue.

“The public option plan is unnecessary. It has been put forward I am convinced by people who really want the government to take over all of health insurance.”

Worse than that, we have a problem that is even greater than the health care problem and that is the debt.

“If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote…

The fact of the matter is that Obamacare will not cut costs, it will not improve insurance, it will not cover all the so-called uninsureds  … but it will cost future generations trillions of dollars for years to come. Obamacare will raise taxes on anything moving. How else does anyone really think this will be paid for?

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So Much for Obama’s Promise about No Taxes on the Middle Class, Pelosi Says Put Value Added Tax in the Table

How will Democrats pay for their agenda … TAX, TAX, TAX!

Remember when President Barack Obama ran on during the 2008 election and has continually said that there would be no taxes on the middle class? Remember when Obama said that only people who make more than $250 will have taxes increases? We were warned.

Appearing on The Charlie Rose Show, Nancy Pelosi was asked, “Does a value added tax have any appeal to you?”

Pelosi, appearing on PBS’s “The Charlie Rose Show” asserted that “it’s fair to look at” the VAT as part of an overhaul of the nation’s tax code.

“I would say, Put everything on the table and subject it to the scrutiny that it deserves,” Pelosi told Rose when asked if the VAT has any appeal to her.

 VIDEO HERE

Folks, a value added tax (VAT) is a national sales tax on all goods made to be paid by everyone. Not just those who make over $250K. It would mean on top of all the other income taxes and state sales tax would come a national sales tax. This is how Democrats look to pay for their liberal agenda. Notice Pelosi did not say no when asked. How else did anyone think that a European type socialist programs were going to be paid for but by European type taxes?

In a recent Rasmussen poll, 67% of American voters say no to a National Sales Tax or the value added tax that Nancy Pelosi was referring to.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi floated the idea of a national sales tax in a recent television interview, but a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 67% oppose a national sales tax on all goods and services.

Twenty percent (20%) favor such a tax, while 13% are undecided.

Pay for Mandatory Obama Insurance or Pay Fine and Go to Jail … Face Legal Action from the IRS

Obama Healthcare change you can believe in … Jail time!

Democrats complained that there were no death panels in the Obamacare healthcare bill. What about Obamacare throwing you in jail!

Just yet another reason why to never allow the US government to get involved with healthcare.

Unbelievable, does the United States still does have a Constitution? Americans who fail to pay the mandatory for not buying health insurance coverage under Obamacare would face legal action from the Internal Revenue Service.   What on earth! Violators could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty.

The Joint Committee on Taxation later rejected an amendment submitted by Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) that would’ve eliminated the individual mandate.

Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) questioned the Committee’s Chief of Staff, Thomas Barthold, about the penalty, arguing that many Americans don’t believe a mandate on the purchase of health insurance coverage is constitutional.

Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) later received a handwritten note from Barthold that confirmed his concerns: people who fail to pay the $1,900 fee for not purchasing coverage under Obamacare would be charged with a misdemeanor, charged a penalty of up to $25,000 or face up to a year in jail. 

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More Hope and Change from the Obama Administration: Cap & Trade Will Cost American Households $1,761 a Year

More Obama Hope & Change:

Hey America, ready for this expense during a recession? I thought President Obama said that he would not pass a tax on the middle class? Obama also said that “Tax & trade” would not cost this much. The budget director and the President admit it will result in high energy costs for “We the People”.

Barack Obama, never met a tax he did not like. He just does not stop in his taxing of the people and business. How is the economy suppose to grow?

From the lips of the Obama Administration … Cap & Trade will cost American households $1761 a year.

The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.

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Tea party Shock and Awe … Washington, DC Tea Party … WOW!!! We the People March on Washington …

You cannot silence “WE THE PEOPLE”

This is about that little document that our Government has forgotten about called the US Constitution.

The Constitution of the United States of America

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

WOW!!!, h/t Instapundit

THEY’RE HERE!!! … WOW

Welcome to “We the People”

Check out the numerous Tea Party pics here at Prismine.

The Tax Payers March on Washington … we are tired and we are not going to take it any more. If any of you have watched TV coverage of the 9–12 Tea Party in Washington, DC, can I just say wow! God bless the folks that showed up to voice their opinion. They comer from all across America … hey Pelosi and the Dems, still think this is astroturf?

It appears that 100’s of thousands may have ascended upon Washington, DC.

BTW, President Obama escaped to Minnesota. What’s the matter Mr. President, sis you not want to witness the shock and awe of the Tea Party go’ers? Just like the many coward Democrat politicians that were too scared to have town hall meetings to face their constituents, Barack Obama hightailed it out of town so not to witness the beauty of Democracy in action.

You can watch the Tea Party Live on the Internet HERE from 1 to 4.

Make sure you watch on Fox News from 1 – 3 pm ET Saturday, September 12, 2009. Watch here also Fox online, Talk Live HERE.

Traffic DC cams 

Thank you to the 9–12 Project and Glen Beck

Ephesians 6:12 – One of the protesters had a sign that appropriately stated the following:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

Michelle Malkin with a phenomenal roundup.

UPDATE I: Don’t forget Quincy, IL Tea Party will be covered by Fox News

Do not miss Internet brethren Andrew Breitbart (BigGovernment.com), Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and Jim Hoft (The Gateway Pundit) from the Quincy Tea Party. Also Dana Loesch (Danaradio.com) who has done a great Tea Party job.

12,000 PATRIOTS IN QUINCY, ILLINOIS!

UPDATE II: ABC News Reporting 1.5 Million People in Washington, DC

h/t: Protein Wisdom

From Michelle Malkin: 12:34pm Eastern: Police estimate 1.2 million in attendance. ABC News reporting crowd at 2 million. It was not thousands that showed in DC, it was millions!

Jim Demint, SC Senator spoke the the unpaid, non-astroturfed, friendly mob:

“I am not here to speak to you, I am here to stand with you.”

“If you continue to stand up and speak out, we will defend freedom in America”

More coverage and pics from Weasil Zippers.

Speakers from the DC Tax Payers March on Washington:

Betsy McCaughey, the Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York

“our Founding Fathers gave us a government in 18 pages.”

Mason Weaver: author and Metivaticanal speaker.

“I thought you wanted to hear a black man speak to you without of teleprompter … ropes and change.:

“We don’t need you to apologize for us. We are proud to be Americans.”

“We want our freedom back.”

Mike Pence, Indiana Congressman

This President and Congress are getting a history lesson. The Government is run by the consent of the people.

We want another health care plan that is based upon freedom.

They should be required to read this, the Constitution of the United States of America

No where is the Constitution can you find the word CZAR!

Doc Thompson, WRVA Radio Talk Show Host, Richmond, VA

To those that work in this building, Your soul belongs to the lord, but your career belongs to me.

The parting shot FROM 9–12 March on Washington Tea Party … CONGRESS CAN YOU HEAR US NOW, PRESIDENT OBAMA CAN YOU HEAR US NOW!!!

UPDATE III: Check out the pics massive crowds posted at WIZBANG

UPDATE IV: Does this look like Tens of Thousands as reported by MSM?

Who’s Going to Count the Pimps and Ho’s … US Census Bureau Dumps ACORN

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Yesterday the US Census Bureau sent a letter to the National Headquarters of ACORN notifying the group that the Census Bureau is severing all ties with ACORN.

The question remains, who is now going to count all the pimps and ho’s in the upcoming census in 2010? One thing is for certain, ACORN should have been given their walking papers long before the two “pimps & prostitutes” videos emerged.

The letter stated the following: (pdf of full letter here)

“Over the last several months, through ongoing communication with our regional offices, it is clear that ACORN’s affiliation with the 2010 Census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 Census efforts,” read a letter from Census Director Robert M. Groves to the president of ACORN.

“Unfortunately, we no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your many local offices. For the reasons stated, we therefore have decided to terminate the partnership,” the letter said.

The ACORN nut has been cracked. As Michelle Malkin states, it’s time to stop funding this corrupt organization with tax payer dollars.

From Flopping Aces, make room under the Obama bus.

If Van Jones was feeling lonely and singled out, he’s got some friends headed to join him under the bus…

Obama appointee, Robert Grove, has dashed off a letter, notifying the national ACORN headquarters he is severing all ties with the community organizing group for all 2010 census work.

We love to use this video from the 2009 Nashville Tea Party when it comes to ACORN

A special thanks to Andrew Breitbart BigGovernment.com for forcing the issue on ACORN. There is no way this corrupt organization should have ever been involved dealing with the US Census in the first place, but that’s what happens when you have a community organizer like Barack Obama as President. Gee Barack, that power grab attempt went well.

Hey ACORN … Nah, nah, nah … Nah, nah, nah … Goodbye!

Obama’s Soda Sin Tax the New Obamacare … Taking a Failed State Policy to the National Level

President Obama has never met a tax he didn’t like. Even one’s that failed miserably on the local level. NY Governor Paterson already attempted a soda tax and it bombed. Obama looks to float the idea of a “soda sin tax” on the American people.

So now Barack Obama is going to have government dictate what we can drink and single out specific beverage companies in the process? Doesn’t the soda scenario look just like Obamacare? We already have government run health care failures in Massachusetts and Tennessee. So what is Obama’s answer? If the fail in an individual state, it will work on the national level, NOT!

Hey Barack, BTW ever see how much sugar is in juice?

I though Obama said he would not tax people who made less that $250,000? Are you telling me that people who make less than $250K don’t drink soda?  Whether its a tax on the purchase or distribution of soda, the consumer will still pay the tax.

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Obama Speaks to the School Children, the Problem was not the Message , It was the Messenger … Socialism is not a Recipe for Individual Success

The final word …

The problem was not the Obama message, the problem was Obama as the messenger. I would like to think that any President should be able to talk to American school children to stay in school and take their education seriously. To strive for personal responsibility and become the best that they can be.

That was supposed to be Obama’s message. It’s too bad that Barack Obama does not believe this or his policies show it. Nor does much of Obama’s rhetoric. Since when do socialist policies promote individuals to succeed? The problem is that Obama’s message does not jive with his actions.

BTW, if we really want school kids to get the best education, why are they not offered vouchers?

But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed. (excerpt from speech)

Really Mr. President, you want people to succeed? What if they become rich and successful, won’t they then be demonized as the evil rich that you would look to tax at every turn? If they become wager earners of $250K or more, they suddenly become persona non grata with you. At every turn he looks to tax anyone of wealth so that he can share it with other.

Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide. (excerpt from speech)

Barack Obama wants you to become a doctor or police officer with your talents. Really? You mean Obama wants you to strive to be a doctor so he can accuse you of putting profits over patient care? Then he will socialize medicine so you make no income. Or you could become a police officer so when you arrest anyone of color Obama can say that you acted “stupidly”. Or maybe you can work for an insurance carrier where you can be demonized by Obama as being greedy and evil.

And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it. (excerpt from speech)

If you become a police officer I can insult you, cause a national fire storm and then invites you to the White House for a Beer Summit

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Liberal Media Bias: Obama is the Bridge that Leads Toward the Country’s Next Era … Please, He is a Bridge to No Where & Socialism!

Barack Obama … a bridge to socialism, federal debt and economic collapse!

Sadly, the MSM has become a propaganda tool for Obama’s liberal government and instead of demanding actions, asking questions and protecting “We the People.” They simply continue to make excuses for Barack Obama every inch of the way.

The MSM could not cover the story that Obama’s green jobs czar was a communist, race-baiting, slur hurling truther; however, the MSM did find time to attack bloggers and the Internet. Eight months into The One’s Presidency they are still carrying his water for this man with puff pieces that “Obama is a bridge to the next era”. Eight months into Obama’s Presidency they are still making excuses. The MSM will be making these same excuses come midterm elections and Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012. The fact of the matter is, every President inherits something from a previous Administration, some good, some bad. However, Obama has made matters worse with his policies and American voters have turned away from him and his socialist policies.

Good grief, the MSM is still trying to push the idea that Obama is a moderate.

Just a news flash to the NY Times and liberal media, Van Jones resined over the weekend under the cloak of darkness. We mention this because the story of Obama’s radical czar was never covered by the MSM. Only the fact that he resigned was while Van Jones blamed a smear campaign that was simply replaying his words for people to hear.

The love fest continues for the MSM with their chosen One, Barack Obama. In the face of a terrible economy, 9.5% then 9.7% unemployment, record federal debt, government takeover of auto companies and banks, teenage unemployment rate at 25.5% and a $787 billion stimulus that was nothing more than pork barrel favors for political support. Obama’s poll numbers have sunk quicker than the Titanic, yet the MSM keeps passing off the idea that he is all we got and he is some bridge to something. He might be the Bay Bridge with numerous cracks in it that forced it to be closed, that’s about it.

Barack Obama is no bridge to the future, he is a bridge to socialism which the American people are soundly rejecting. In essence, Obama is a bridge to nowhere but record debt and attempted government take over.

In a country of deep divisions and ideological extremes, impressions of Obama around here fall somewhere in the middle. Eight months into his presidency, he’s not the hero who will fix all the problems, nor is he the villain who caused them. Instead, he is seen as a bridge that leads toward the country’s next era — a guide into the new unknown.

Even the UK Telegraph can see that Obama’s policies are tragic mistakes that are comparable to the errors made during the Great Depression.

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