Michael Moore defends Obamacare and healthcare programs similar to it around the world. Moore says the only “things you maybe have to wait for” are a knee replacement surgery or cataracts. “Things that are not life-threatening,” Moore said on HBO’s “Real Time” with host Bill Maher. “The reason why you have to wait sometimes in [...]
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Currently there are some 14 million jobless Americans. And if you’re one of the thousands of North Texans looking for work, the competition is tough. Now, a new hiring limitation by one employer could make the job search even harder. The Baylor Health Care System has decided that if you use tobacco, in any form, [...]
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It’s been said a thousand times: Congress had to pass President Obama’s health care law in order to find out what’s in it. But, despite the repetitiveness, the level of shock from each new discovery never seems to recede. This time, America is learning about the federal government’s plan to collect and aggregate confidential patient [...]
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Bachmann: “I oppose any governor or president who mandates a family’s healthcare choices” Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann released a new web video today titled “No to Obamacare and Perrycare” in which she takes a stand against the abuse of executive power and crony capitalism. The video highlights her specific opposition to individual mandates in [...]
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A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled today that the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health care reform law is unconstitutional. “The power to regulate interstate commerce does not subsume the power to dictate a lifetime financial commitment to health insurance coverage,” he wrote in the ruling. The suit, filed by a couple in York, Pa., [...]
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A three-judge Fourth Circuit panel comprised of two juges appointed by President Obama and one named by President Clinton, has dismissed a Virginia-based lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the national health care law’s individual mandate, saying the state lacked standing to sue. The court did not get to the merits of the challenge by the [...]
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In June 2009, as he fought to pass the Democrats’ national health care bill, President Obama made a clear, unequivocal pledge. “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people,” Obama said. “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you [...]
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In the “Why are we not surprised?” department, Surfin’ Safari has learned that the government watchdog group Judicial Watch can prove the Obama administration used our taxpayer dollars to orchestrate a campaign to manipulate search engines to promote Obamacare. Under a Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, lawsuit, Judicial Watch learned through Department of Health and Human [...]
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Arizona won a victory against Planned Parenthood, the abortion and women’s health provider, after an appellate court removed the group’s injunction against state legislation that interfered with its activities, reports CNSNews.com. The Arizona chapter of Planned Parenthood had spurred the injunction against Gov. Jan Brewer’s 2009 law that set several requirements for those seeking an [...]
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Nearly two years after he infamously accused President Obama of lying about his health care overhaul, Republican Rep. Joe Wilson claims he was right all along. The South Carolina congressman was pilloried in 2009 for shouting “You lie!” at the president in the middle of a national address after Obama claimed the health care bill would not cover illegal immigrants. But Wilson is [...]
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President Obama poked back today at critics who like to describe his landmark health law as “Obamacare.” “I have no problem with folks saying ‘Obama cares,’” the president said at today’s town hall in Cannon Falls, Minn. “I do care.” “If the other side wants to be the folks who don’t care, that’s fine with [...]
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued its 301 page decision on ObamaCare on August 11. The majority (Chief Judge Dubina and Judge Hull) opinion consists of 207 pages, the dissent (Judge Marcus) of 94. The majority affirmed the decision of Judge Vinson holding the medical insurance mandate unconstitutional as beyond the limits of the Commerce [...]
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The Appeals Court for the 11th circuit ruled today that the individual mandate which is the central clause for the healthcare law pushed through Congress and the Senate by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid last year, violates the Constitution. A three-judge panel decided that “This economic mandate represents a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of [...]
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Today’s appellate court ruling underscores what we perhaps already knew: The Affordable Care Act is heading to the Supreme Court. The ruling, which declared the individual mandate unconstitutional but the rest of the law constitutional, makes it somewhat easier for the Supreme Court to overturn the individual mandate, as there’s now plenty of precedent for [...]
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Once again the Obama administration has demonstrated that it cares more for people who enter our country illegally and take jobs away from American citizens than it does for our own people. The Department of Health and Human Services announced that nearly $9M of taxpayer money will be used to help fund New Access Point [...]
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