By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative-leaning appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care law, as the Supreme Court prepares to consider this week whether to resolve conflicting rulings over the law’s requirement that all Americans buy health care insurance.

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a split opinion upholding the lower court’s ruling that found Congress did not overstep its authority in requiring people to have insurance or pay a penalty on their taxes, beginning in 2014.

The suit in Washington was brought by the American Center for Law and Justice, a legal group founded by evangelist Pat Robertson. It claimed that the insurance mandate is unconstitutional because it forces Americans to buy a product for the rest of their lives and that it violates the religious freedom of those who choose not to have insurance because they rely on God to protect them from harm. But the court ruled that Congress had the power to pass the requirement to ensure that all Americans can have health care coverage, even if it infringes on individual liberty.

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“They’re small. I couldn’t speak to all 1,800 of them, but some of the lists that I have seen have been very, very small companies. They will not have a big impact on the economy of our country,” Nancy Pelosi said in an interview with CNBC.

McDonalds, one of the nation’s largest employers in recent years, has received a waiver.

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LINK TO COMPLETE ARTICLE, RELATED ARTICLES AND VIDEO:
www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/28/pelosi_defends_obamacare_waivers_to_1800_firms_theyre_small_companies.html
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Hmmm, so Pelosi lives in “Opposite Land” where a “small” company is really GI-NORMOUS….

 -Admin II Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.
“Disobedience to tyrants is Obedience to God.”  -Benjamin Franklin.

(Reuters) – Americans’ opinion of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform in October reached its lowest point since the law passed in March 2010, according to a monthly poll by the non-profit, non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

The view of the law has been roughly evenly split since its passage, but in October 51 percent said they had an unfavorable opinion, while 34 percent said their opinion was favorable, poll results released on Friday showed.

In September, the split was 43 percent to 41 percent. And October’s gap is closest to the one the poll tracked in July 2010, when the division was 50 percent to 35 percent.

The gap widened largely because the law appeared to be falling out of favor with Democrats, whose support dropped to its lowest point of 52 percent from 65 percent in September.

Although Democrats were still much likelier to view the law favorably than Republicans or independents, the percentage of Democrats who said they and their families were better off under the healthcare law dropped significantly to 27 percent in October from 43 percent in September.

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COMPLETE ARTICLE AT:

http://srnnews.townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2011/10/28/us_support_waning_for_obama_healthcare_law_poll

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My question is:
WHY are the numbers even THAT high?!! Even the average Democrat has to see that the taxes, regulations, restrictions, costs…of this Marxist Obama-care HURTS THEM TOO!

The support should be in SINGLE digits! j/s.

 -Admin II Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.
“Disobedience to tyrants is Obedience to God.”  -Benjamin Franklin.

Obama’s Health Care Law Penalizes Marriage, Analysts Say

By Jim Angle

Published October 27, 2011

| FoxNews.com

A new wrinkle has surfaced in the implementation of the federal health care law that critics argue will impose a significant penalty on women and marriage.

The law includes generous subsidies for the uninsured so they can afford to buy coverage in the new insurance exchanges that are part of the legislation.

But several analysts told Congress Thursday the nature of the subsidies has an odd effect.

“The way this bill is structured, there are disincentives for women to marry and disincentives for women to work,” said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. “And for a bill that’s supposed to make Americans healthier, these disincentives are truly startling.”

Critics say that beginning in 2014, Americans will find it more advantageous to stay single than marry because it will be easier to afford health coverage.

Why? The new law provides generous subsidies for those without insurance so they can buy it on the new exchanges, but the subsidies are tied to one’s income level and there’s the rub.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/27/obamas-health-care-law-penalizes-marriage-analysts-say/#ixzz1c5fuhLjP

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To GET on Obama-Care will KEEP people ON Welfare and other entitlements, i.e. NOT working, and NOT married.

THAT is “Obama’s America”!!

 -Admin II Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.
“Disobedience to tyrants is Obedience to God.”  -Benjamin Franklin.

Americans Increasingly Think Repeal Is Likely
9:14 AM, Oct 19, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

The latest Rasmussen poll of likely voters shows that, by a margin of 16 percentage points (54 to 38 percent), Americans support the repeal of Obamacare. Among independents, the margin is 30 points — 61 to 31 percent.

Moreover, Americans are becoming increasingly convinced that repeal is not only possible but probable. Fifty-eight percent of Americans now think that repeal is likely. Fewer than half as many (28 percent) think that it’s unlikely. Such confidence in the repeal movement represents a high-water mark to date:  Rasmussen writes that the tally of those who think it’s “at least somewhat likely” that Obamacare will be repealed is “the highest ever measured since the bill became law 19 months ago.”

Jim Capretta explains that Republican presidential candidates’ pledges to use the reconciliation process, if necessary, to repeal Obamacare, offers further reason for voters to believe in the prospects of repeal.  He writes,

“Reconciliation is a special legislative process established by Congress to provide for expedited [filibuster-proof] consideration of important budgetary legislation….

“Reconciliation didn’t play a small role in Obamacare’s passage, as has been suggested [by some of its supporters]. Without reconciliation, Obamacare would not have become law at all….

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“It’s true that Obamacare includes some provisions that, on their own, might be considered non-budgetary, but not nearly as many as some may think. The entire machinery of the coverage provisions — the individual mandate, the Medicaid expansion, the employer requirements — is entirely fueled by federal money (in the form of both subsidies and penalties). Moreover, the state exchanges and the regulatory apparatus they are intended to impose are also financed by federal taxpayers. Repeal of all of these provisions, which are the guts of Obamacare, is plainly a budgetary matter, and therefore appropriate in reconciliation.”

The key is to have a president who would sign such a bill into law. Thus, the key to repeal — as it’s always been — will be to replace President Obama.

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Folks, lets be like Nike and- “Just DO it!”
Lets focus like a laser on REPEALING OBAMA!

-Admin II Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.
“Disobedience to tyrants is Obedience to God.”  -Benjamin Franklin.

The Obama administration announced Friday that it has suspended one piece of the landmark health care law which the president signed last year.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius told Congress in a letter that the CLASS Act, which was supposed to provide a new voluntary long-term care insurance program, was unworkable since no actuarially sound way could be figured out to run the program.

“I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time,” Sebelius said in her letter.

CLASS stands for “Community Living Assistance Services and Supports.”

The CLASS Act was a significant piece of the health care bill because it helped make it deficit neutral over the first ten years after enactment, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. Thus CLASS helped garner the votes to help the bill pass.
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Link to COMPLETE ARTICLE:

http://firstread.msnbc.com/_news/2011/10/14/8325174-obama-administration-halts-part-of-health-care-law#.Tpi6o5cHEBw.email

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Bullet Points-

1. WHY only get rid of the VOLUNTARY part of the law?
2. WHY pass a law that you could NOT figure out how to pay for?
3. WHY get rid of the ONE part absolutely NEEDED to get the votes to pass it in the first place?
4. WHY get rid of THE ONLY PART OF THE LAW that was fiscally sound?
5. WHERE in the Constitution does the President have the Constitutional authority to “halt” any part of any law?

NONE of the abominable “law” is Constitutional- NOT one comma!!
But this specific, surgical excising of portions a President- ANY President- does not like IS UN-Constitutional as well, and is an act of defiance. Obama has committed so many CRIMES he should have been charged and imprisoned with years ago…if nothing else lets WORK to make all these crimes and scandals a mountain that evicts Obama and the Libs (DNC & R.I.N.O) from every office in 2012!

 -Admin II Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.
“Disobedience to tyrants is Obedience to God.” -Benjamin Franklin.

WND has a PDF containing the full report located here.

The first point I want to bring to light is the Andy Griffith TV commercial the administration spent $700,000 developing, producing and marketing in favor of Obamacare.  For those who don’t remember, I’ve posted the ad below.

Not only is the ad clearly propaganda, it’s not even accurate. In fact, it’s a down right lie.

But Republicans say the ad campaign goes well beyond general explanations of Medicare benefits, and argues in favor of the health-care law, whose repeal is favored by 59 percent of voters, according to a poll.

The campaign’s “promise that ‘benefits will remain the same’ is just as fictional as the town of Mayberry,” wrote Brooks Jackson of FactCheck.org.

The second front in the report, relevant to the healthcare horserace, is the fact that the Department of Health and Human Services paid an economist almost $400,000 to work as a PR agent for the government agency. During his time on the clock for the taxpayers, economist Jonathan Gruber wrote a plethora of op-eds in favor of Obamacare. Not once did he disclose his government pay.

The report also states that Gruber actually testified before the Senate… in favor of Obamacare without disclosing the $400,000 he was receiving.

These two stories are old news in a way, but now they’re a part of a larger report put forth by a member of Congress. And that can’t be good for the Obama administration.

-Eric Odom

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The Democrats and their leftist policy ilk were nice enough to throw us a bone on the healthcare mandate. Yes, folks, it is now public… there IS a way to avoid the Obamacare mandate. The newly discovered method is not only 100% legal, it was made known via Barack Obama’s solicitor general!

President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.

You read that right. All we have to do to avoid the government mandate is make less money and become less productive in society!

Obama’s economic recovery policy seems to be a simple plan of “the harder you work, the more productive you become, the more we’ll take from you and the less choice you’ll have.”

Gee… where do we sign up?

-Eric Odom

I’m not sure what part of “HEY! WE’RE OUT OF MONEY” the looters in Washington don’t understand. It’s absurd to think Obama’s economy goons are running around demanding an increase in their credit limit while cranking out multi-million dollar marketing campaigns for a new food group logo.

In an effort to simplify the message it gives the public on healthy eating, the federal government today unveiled a new icon to replace the complicated and confusing food pyramid: It’s a plate divided into four sections, with fruits and vegetables on one half and protein and grains on the other. A circle for dairy — indicating a glass of milk or container of yogurt — rests to the right of the plate.

Oh don’t worry though… it’s not just an expensive production video and high end flashy image makeover, they’ve gone ahead and given us an entire website dedicated to the new look. Welcome to ChooseMyPlate.gov.

Afraid the big multi-million dollar campaign might be a bit too overwhelming to understand? They’ve got you covered. The campaign comes stocked with a complete ten page instruction booklet that includes helpful tips like “Examples of Incorrect Usage” for the new logo.

Yep… nothing to worry about here. You might be broke, unemployed and unable to put gas in your tank, but now you know you might want to include an orange, a dinner roll, a piece of chicken and some green beans in your next meal. Aren’t you glad they’re here to help us idiots know better?

Here’s that big ole’ confusing logo we used to be stuck with.

Fortunately we’re all saved, though… now that we have this new logo aimed at bringing about the real change we were promised.

-Eric Odom

H/T: Healthcare Blog

P.S. I think it’s time we go ahead and send Congress their Pre-Declined credit cards!

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Maybe Obama’s new motto should be… “Who needs friends?”

According to a post over at Miller-McCune, Obama has failed to pick up allies on both sides of the debate over his unpopular government run healthcare system.

You might think in a debate over President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act would have one side arguing in support of it. But when Miller-McCune.com moderated a debate between an advocate of free-market approaches and one for a single-payer system, neither endorsed what’s come to be called Obamacare.

Just how bad is it? You be the judge.

Except for some sporadic head nodding — both want patients and doctors to have more choice, for example — there was only one significant source of agreement: that the country will be in worse shape once the legislation is fully enacted. Perhaps more troubling, what emerges during the 50-minute exchange is a labyrinth of viewpoints so hopelessly out of sync that any real, practicable resolution seems near impossible. But don’t take my word for it, read the tête-à-tête below (edited for clarity) and listen to the podcast of the extended interview and decide for yourself.

Read the full back-and-forth here.

-Eric Odom