Perhaps as
significant as the contempt citation Congress issued to Attorney General
Eric Holder is the likelihood Republicans will also go to court to
enforce a congressional demand for documents - a tactic pursued only
twice before in U.S. history.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/us-usa-congress-holder-idUSBRE85R06C20120628
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The
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (
Obamacare) may now be invalid because the Supreme Court ruled that it relies on a tax for implementation.
According to the United States Constitution, all tax bills must
originate in the House of Representatives. This law originated in the
Senate, because at the time the Democrats were selling it as a purchase -
not a tax. Since the Supreme Court has ruled that the law is indeed
based on a tax increase, it would have had to be initiated as a bill in
the House of Representatives.
Consequently, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Law is
unconstitutional on a different criteria than the ones considered by the
Supreme Court in this latest landmark decision.
http://www.examiner.com/article/obamacare-now-invalid-because-tax-bills-must-originate-house
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The Doctor Patient Medical Association has released a new survey of
about 700 doctors, and the results are bleak. Scary bleak. Among other
dismal figures,
Doctors' Attitudes on the Future of Medicine: What’s Wrong, Who’s to Blame, and What Will Fix It found that 83% of respondents are contemplating
leaving the industry
if Obamacare is fully implemented, owing to its disastrous projected
consequences. Indeed, they openly blame the healthcare law for their
industry's woes:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katehicks/2012/06/14/thanks_obamacare_83_of_doctors_surveyed_say_they_may_quit
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The Obama administration on Friday threatened to veto a defense
appropriations bill in part because it does not include higher health
care fees for members of the military.-
http://freebeacon.com/obama-to-soldiers-pay-up/
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The bizarre ObamaCare decision leaves unresolved the separate issue
of whether government can define what a church is and what it can do.
Will the courts also redefine the "free exercise" of religion?
For now, ObamaCare remains largely intact and so does its attempt to
rewrite the First Amendment by prohibiting the free exercise of religion
through its mandate that religious institutions provide contraceptive
coverage in violation of their church teachings and religious
consciences.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty says it will move forward with
litigation challenging a requirement from the federal health care law
that employers provide access to contraceptive services. "Never in
history has there been a mandate forcing individuals to violate their
deeply held religious beliefs or pay a severe fine ," said Hannah Smith,
lawyer for the group.
http://news.investors.com/article/616718/201206291848/obamacare-threatens-religious-liberty.htm
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IRS officials on background tell FOX Business the U.S. Supreme Court
ruling on health reform gives the IRS even more powers than previously
understood.
The IRS now gets to know about a small business's entire payroll, the
level of their insurance coverage -- and it gets to know the income of
not just the primary breadwinner in your house, but your entire family’s
income, in order to assess/collect the mandated tax.
Plus, it gets to share your personal info with all sorts of government agencies, insurance companies and employers.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. "We expect even more lien and
levy powers," an IRS official says. Even the Taxpayer Advocate is
deeply concerned.
The IRS army will inexorably increase in size, too. The IRS will now
add new agents to hunt down tax cheats, as it has been budgeted to spend
$303.5 million building a new system, erected on the back of its old
system, to oversee the effects of the health law, including making sure
people get the new tax credits they deserve under the law.
The TAO has noted Americans must now tell the IRS under the new law:
*Insurance plan information, including who is covered under the plan and the dates of coverage;
*The costs of your family’s health insurance plans;
*Whether a taxpayer had an offer of employer-sponsored health insurance;
*The cost of employer-sponsored insurance;
*Whether a taxpayer received a premium tax credit; and
*Whether a taxpayer has an exemption from the individual responsibility requirement.
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The day the Supreme
Court ruled in favor of ObamaCare, a friend called me. He's an
extremely dedicated, much-loved surgeon, and he was frustrated and livid
in equal measure.
"I've
actually had a lot of experience working in all different types of
environments," he began. "I've worked in a government-run socialized
medical care system, and I saw the waste and inefficiency.
"The
longer people worked in that system, the less work they wanted to do,
because the more you wanted to do, the more they dumped on you. So
after a while you stop doing it, because they're not paying you to do
more. Why should you do a difficult case, a difficult surgery that will
take you hours and hours to do?
"You
might start out wanting to do it, but after a while, you just run out
of energy, because there's no incentive. You'd have to be a superhuman
being to continue to work in that system and not be worn down by it.
"Because
nobody wanted to work, it would take an hour to turn over the surgical
room. In my private practice now, it takes ten minutes.
"You know, doctors are people, and we're being hammered on all sides here.
It's the paperwork; it's insurance;
it's transitioning to electronic medical records, so the government can
get their mitts into your practice. It's lawsuits; it's rising
overhead and decreasing compensation; it's stress upon stress upon stress.
"And
a lot of doctors are going to say, 'Forget it. I don't want to do this
anymore.' Guys that are 5 or 10 years older than me are just going to
give up and walk away.
"Why
should I be a slave to the government? You know, it used to be that
doctors would do charity work at a charity hospital. Nobody wants to do
it anymore, because we're too overwhelmed.
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Democrats Next to Move to Unionize Obamacare Doctors
This will completely end any chance that doctors will care about
patients. They will instead become just another uncaring, slipshod union
hack that won’t much care about the excellence of his work because he’s
protected by union rules. Patients will no longer matter. http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/47750
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“
The fundamental provisions in the law that give federal bureaucrats
the authority to limit what Americans are allowed to choose to spend to
save the lives of their family members remain intact,” Balch said. He
outlined three specific provisions with these results.
The law gives the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
the authority to issue “quality standards” that “control all providers
of healthcare: doctors, hospitals, nurses, and so forth.” If a doctor
does not comply with these standards, he “will be unable to get
reimbursement from any of the insurance plans that all Americans will be
required to have” under the individual mandate, which was ruled
constitutional under the Congress’ power to tax.
Congress set up the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). This
group of regulators “is directed, starting in 2015 and every two years
thereafter, to make recommendations … to limit the ability of Americans
to put resources into healthcare so that they stay below certain goals
set forth in the legislation.” IPAB sets a price cap, a dollar amount
beyond which Americans cannot pay for care. All of those limits are
required to be below the rate of medical inflation.
http://freebeacon.com/mandated-rationing/
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Has your doctor been asking you if you've been feeling depressed?
Another detriment to ObamaCare: "...Centralizing these medical records
will allow the FBI to troll a list of Americans for ailments such as
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to deny them their gun rights, in
the same way that the Veterans Administration has already denied more
than 150,000 veterans their right to bear arms. Anonymous
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The White House is standing by its position that individual mandate
in President Obama's healthcare law is a penalty despite the Supreme
Court's decision to uphold it as a tax.
White House spokesman Jay
Carney told reporters traveling with Obama on Friday that the mandate
enforces a penalty, not a tax, because people have a choice whether
to obtain health insurance.
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/235699-white-house-mandate-is-not-a-tax-despite-scotus-ruling
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“(T)he government’s tax power theory is far more radical than the
Commerce and Necessary and Proper Clause theory precisely because the
Supreme Court has generally deferred to any invocation of the tax power
to raise revenue to spend for the general welfare. This normal deference
is why the mandate’s defenders shifted the argument from the Commerce
Clause to the tax power. Yet if its theory is accepted, Congress would
be able to penalize or mandate any activity by anyone in the country,
provided it limited the sanction to a fine enforced by the Internal
Revenue Service.
This is a congressional power unknown and unheard of before 2010. It
would effectively grant Congress a general police power. And we know
what existing doctrine says about such a power: ‘The Constitution . . .
withhold[s] from Congress a plenary police power that would authorize
enactment of every type of legislation.’ Such has been the Supreme
Court’s position from the Founding until today.”
Congress can’t do whatever it wants,” he said. “Under this ruling,
Congress can’t put you in jail for violating a future economic mandate.
This holding stands for that proposition. Congress also can’t coerce
states by withholding all existing Medicaid funding unless they agree to
new coverage. That’s a constraint the Court has never enforced before.
And the Necessary and Proper Clause cannot be used to salvage these
laws. And that’s a ruling we haven’t had before.”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/randy-barnett-says-roberts-tax-power-argument-is-lame-but-easily-fixed/article/2501028
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