Why Is ObamaCare Punishing Companies That Try To Make Health Care Affordable?

 

Investor's Business Daily  "Bureaucracy: The central goal of ObamaCare is supposed to be to make health care more affordable. So why is the IRS threatening massive fines on businesses that try to help their employees buy an ObamaCare plan?

"Back in 2013, the IRS issued a startling new rule. Any business that doesn't provide insurance but does help employees with the cost of their own insurance will be fined $100 per day — which works out to $36,500 a year — per employee.

"In the bizarre logic of the Obama administration, a company that offers such help is actually providing a group plan, one that doesn't meet ObamaCare's ridiculous array of mandates and regulations.

"Allegedly, the goal of the penalty — which went into effect this month — was to keep businesses from dumping workers into the ObamaCare exchanges. But to small businesses that have been helping their employees in this way for decades, it's a devastating blow.
"This is a brand-new penalty that nobody knew about, and it's huge," Jack Mozloom of the National Federation of Independent Business told The Hill." . . .Read More 

The Galen Institute:  ObamaCare Co-ops: Cause Célèbre or Costly Conundrum? 

 . . . "But the 23 co-ops that were created had significant start-up costs, no experiential data upon which to set premiums, generally had to pay extra to lease physician and hospital networks, and had few people in the companies and none on their boards with insurance experience.

"The idealism has quickly faded.  After receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in government start-up loans, most co-ops are surviving now on what remains of more than $2 billion in federal “solvency loans” and on the promise of future “shared risk” payments that are likely to produce only a fraction of the revenue co-ops have booked." . . .

 

Period!

Black Lives Matter co-founder threatens to shut down GOP convention

Examiner.com

 

"While appearing on MSNBC Saturday, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors told hosts filling in for Melissa Harris-Perry that her group would shut down the GOP convention if the opportunity arises. She also spoke of the "murder of Mike Brown" in Ferguson, Missouri. None of the co-hosts on the panel challenged her characterization.

"The statement was made after she was asked what she would like to see from candidates running for president. Cullors said she wants candidates to "actually call movement leaders" and arrange meetings to "have a conversation with us about what's happened this last year since the murder of Mike Brown." The Department of Justice, under former Attorney General Eric Holder, however, found no wrongdoing on the part of Darren Wilson, the former officer who shot Brown.

"Cullors also addressed a question regarding a statement made by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. On Thursday, he told a reporter in New Hampshire that "Black Lives Matter" is a "slogan" and that former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley should not have had to apologize for saying "all lives matter.' ". . . Hat tip to Joe Newby

Liberal Silliness

Is this the dumbest thing Hillary Clinton has said so far?
. . . "The reader may remember a focus group of Iowa Democrats who struggled to name one accomplishment of Hillary’s. In the absence of actual accomplishments, perhaps ovaries are the only “accomplishment” Hillary can muster. Conversely, not once has Carly Fiorina suggested her womanhood should be a determining factor in her electability."

Moron Patrol: Ohio State QB Explains Why Only “Black Lives Matter”   "I sincerely wish that the racial grievance mongers would for once stop segregating themselves into a corner. Every time they pull the “Black Lives Matter” card, they only alienate the rest of us. And in alienating us, they make it extraordinarily difficult for us to care about people like Sandra Bland.

"Speaking of which, I am getting ready to watch MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” show. I look forward to seeing how effectively she can further alienate me this weekend …

State forbids pastors calling homosexuality 'sinful'

 Lesbian mayor loses fight over 'transgender' ordinance  "The lesbian mayor of Houston, whose legal defense of a “transgender” ordinance passed by her council escalated to a national scandal when she subpoenaed the sermons of local pastors, has lost her fight in court."

Rutgers Media Professor says America is More Brutal than ISIS  “ 'SoCawlege reports that Deepa Kumar, associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and author of “Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire,” tweeted out recently that the United States is more brutal than ISIS because the U.S. has killed more people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.' ”

The US Is Getting Its First Agency For Trans Models   "Apple Model Management wants to give trans models a new stage."

NEXT FLAG ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK: CNN Says This Flag Is ‘Radical’   "You really just can’t this stuff up anymore. The left is getting really good at labeling things racist and getting them banned…but this?! Apparently, the ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ flag represents a ‘fringe’ ideology now, according to CNN. A CNN producer who grew up down the street from Louisiana movie theater shooter John Russel Houser describes him as a “very politically charged” man who had “fringe ideologies,” based on his flying a “Don’t tread on me” flag outside his house.

‘New low': Sally Kohn pimps twisted defense of Planned Parenthood organ trafficking

 Sally Kohn ✔ @sallykohn

Donating Fetal Tissue After An Abortion Or Miscarriage Is Totally Legal — And It's Actually A Great Thing !!!! #PP http://www.bustle.com/articles/98837-donating-fetal-tissue-after-an-abortion-or-miscarriage-is-totally-legal-and-its-actually-a …

 Late Night Host Said That Joking About Caitlyn Jenner Was Off-Limits. Seinfeld Sets Him Straight…
Seth meyers said the Vanity Fair cover was a beautiful thing.

The pro-Hitler rants of Louisiana theater gunman who idolized Timothy McVeigh and called for lone wolf attacks on the 'failing filth farm' of America

Daily Mail

. . . "After the pub was shut down he hung a swastika flag outside for several weeks as a sign of protest

"He also tried to hire a man to light a law office on fire in the 1980s because the lawyer represented pornographic theaters, which he detested

"Houser has also been revealed to be an active online commenter, who has professed his distaste with the state of the American economy and morals

"He was a supporter of the Tea Party and Westboro Baptist Church while also applauding the actions of Hitler and Timothy McVeigh
Court documents also show that he suffered from mental illness and that his family had him committed to a mental hospital in 2008

"His ex-wife, Kellie Maddox Houser, said she became so afraid of him that she hid their weapons, according to another 2008 court document

Big Surprise: Loretta Lynch and DOJ to probe wrong group

 
M. Catharine Evans   . . . "Planned Parenthood knows the Obama administration and his media whores have their backs. Obama has blessed their “practices.”

"For AG Lynch, PP doctors describing how to carve up a human being before he or she is dead and then sell the parts is a big yawn. On the other hand, she can’t wait to kill the messengers at [The Center for Medical Progress]."

SICK: Democrats Seek Federal Investigations of Group Behind Planned Parenthood Videos
"Let the harvest continue.
"Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and California Attorney General Kamala Harris demanding they investigate the Center for Medical Progress for the videotaped sting operation that revealed Planned Parenthood traffics in body parts of aborted babies.
"The letter was signed by three other Democrats, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA) and Rep. Yvette Clarke (CA)."

The text of the Democrat letter:  
 "Schakowsky, Lofgren, Nadler and Clarke send letter to Attorneys General asking for investigation into Center for Medical Progress"

. . .  The video was also filmed without the consent of the Planned Parenthood doctor, which may violate California law. . . .

Hillary Defends Planned Parenthood After “Attack”

. . . "If you listen to Hillary Clinton and the mainstream media, you might think Planned Parenthood is a victim and not the unborn babies whose organs were harvested and bargained over like a bunch of spare parts.

"Our watchdog media hasn’t thrust a microphone into Mrs. Clinton’s face asking for comment like they would do with Republicans, they’ve just allowed her to address the scandal on her own terms, and in Hillary’s world, it’s Planned Parenthood which needs defending." . . .

 

How's that Obama-Kerry-Iran love affair going?

Ali Khamenei Just Tweeted A Picture Of President Obama Committing Suicide 

  Khamenei.ir ‏@khamenei_ir

US president has said he could knock out Iran’s military. We welcome no war, nor do we initiate any war, but..

Obama Admits Lifting Sanctions Against Iran Will Help Regime Fund Terror
. . . "Iran has proven that it is willing to change its priorities and its strategy,” Mr. Obama added. “We have sent a clear message to the Iranians – though we closed the deal, we still have not closed account. I hope that solutions will be reached diplomatically, but if necessary, there is also a military option. ' ” . . .File this under "yeah, right".

The next president better be prepared to inherit a mess with Obama holding press conferences to discuss what a mess the new president has made of  his peaceful world. TD

Secretary of Defense 'concerned' that 'Iran will not obey the agreement'   " Now he tells us. Well, actually he didn’t really tell us in the sense of an announcement to the general public or via the media. The declaration came during a question and answer session with troops in Iraq." . . .

 Congress Must Hold Obama Accountable for His Deception

"By lying and withholding information about the agreement, he gives aid and comfort to America’s enemy. "

Andrew C. McCarthy    Read more

 

The Only Post Jawa Report Will Ever Write About John Russell Houser

 Why do murdering loonies seem to always have three names?

http://www.cagle.com/2013/04/mass-murderer/

JAWA Report

John Russell Houser committed his act of murder as a last gasp attempt to make name for himself and his evil Nazi ideology.
We don't really focus on this kind of terrorism. But say if StormFront ran into technical difficulties, fine with us. But somewhere on the far left nuts and the far right nuts converge into just plain nuts.

One day after John Russell Houser killed two people and wounded nine in a movie theater in Lafayette, La., a picture is emerging online of a man caught up with a number of far-right ideas and fascinated about “the power of the lone wolf.”

“Do not mistake yourselves for one minute, the enemy sees all posted on this website. I do not want to discourage the last hope for the best, but you must realize the power of the lone wolf, is the power that come forth in ALL situations,” Houser wrote on a forum dedicated to the New York chapter of Golden Dawn, Greece’s far-right neo-Nazi political party.

I guess after Chattanooga the freaking Nazis got afraid they were falling behind the Islamic terrorists. My feeling is he targeted Train Wreck due to his anti-abortion views and his hatred for Jews. Which is an interesting convergence, wherever you find Jew hatred you find terrorists. You hear the media whipping up a frenzy over right wing or extreme left wing terrorism while downplaying Islamic terrorism. But that's not to say there is no danger from the Nazi types as the Lafayette attacks demonstrate. But lets file Houser right next to James Holmes and let the Lord deal with him. I am comforted by the fact that Houser is in hell right now. I hope the rest of the Nazi jackoffs are now left staring at the absolute evil they have perpetrated on innocents. Because they are going to find themselves right next to ISIS members in hell.
Both Islamic Jew haters and Nazi Jew haters are dangerous. But the media frenzy is just what this murderous loser was looking for. Screw him.
We pray for the victims and their families.

Give me liberty or give me Obama

Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security
"Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.

"The push is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws regulating who gets reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, which is used to prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and others.

"A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease."
. . .
 "More than half of the names on the VA list are of people 80 or older, often suffering from dementia, a reasonable criterion for prohibiting gun ownership.

"But the category also includes anybody found by a "court, board, commission or other lawful authority" to be lacking "the mental capacity to contract or manage his own affairs" for a wide variety of reasons.

"The agency's efforts have been criticized by a variety of groups.

"Rosen, the Yale psychiatrist, said some veterans may avoid seeking help for mental health problems out of fear that they would be required to give up their guns." . . .
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http://libertyunyielding.com/ "I see on the news this morning that Obama wants to deny 2nd amendment rights to own weaponry to folks on Social Security. "Quit trashing Obama’s accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:"  By COL. ROBERT F. CUNNINGHAM and PATRICK RISHOR, The Gilmer Mirror   The Gilmer Mirror;   (Northeast Texas Newspaper) "Here's some of what he has done so far... 1.   First President to be photographed smoking a joint. 2.   First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. 3.   First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. 4.   First President to preside over a cut the credit-rating of the United States. 5.   First President to violate the War Powers Act. 6.   First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. 7.   First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party. 8.   First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs. 9.   First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters. 10.   First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. 11.   First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions. 12.   First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees. 13.   First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign. 14.   First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space. 15.   First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation. 16.   First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present. 17.   First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it. 18.  First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases. 19.   First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory. 20.    First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect(AZ, WI, OH, IN). 21.   First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago. 22.   First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal). 23.   First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case. 24.   First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. 25.   First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists. 26.   First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office. 27.   First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records. 28.   First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it. 29.  First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours. 30.   First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers. 31.   First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife. 32.   First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense. 33.   First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense. 34.   First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth. 35.   First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona). 36.   First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences." 37.   Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

Mr. Obama gets angry and petulant because we don't trust his foreign policy skills

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Krauthammer; The price of fetal parts

 

Charles Krauthammer

 “Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.”

— Barack Obama, address to Planned Parenthood, April 26, 2013

"Planned Parenthood’s reaction to the release of a clandestinely recorded conversation about the sale of fetal body parts was highly revealing. After protesting that it did nothing illegal, it apologized for the “tone” of one of its senior directors.

"Her remarks lacked compassion, admitted Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. As if Dr. Deborah Nucatola’s cold and casual discussion over salad and wine of how the fetal body can be crushed with forceps in a way that leaves valuable organs intact for sale is some kind of personal idiosyncrasy. On the contrary, it’s precisely the kind of psychic numbing that occurs when dealing daily with industrial scale destruction of the growing, thriving, recognizably human fetus.
. . .
 "What will be the reaction to these Planned Parenthood revelations? Right now, to try to deprive it of taxpayer money. Citizens repelled by its activities should not be made complicit in them. But why not shift the focus from the facilitator to the procedure itself?

"The House has already passed a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks. That’s far more fruitful than trying to ban it entirely because, apart from the obvious constitutional issue, there is no national consensus about the moral status of the early embryo. There’s more agreement on the moral status of the later-term fetus. Indeed, about two-thirds of Americans would ban abortion after the first trimester." . . .
Good grief, what is the philosophy of those in that one third? 

 

Waiving the Flag

HopeNChangeCartoons

"We're just going to be totally up front about the fact that there's no way B. Hussein could come out ahead, in our eyes, in his long-delayed decision to lower flags to half-staff for the victims of Muhammad Abdulazeez.

"We were aghast at his original decision not to lower flags while offering up rationalizations like "that's only for senior statesmen" or "we don't want to have to decide whether or not to do it every time a service member is killed." But since this dithering represented about the standard degree of assholery from this administration, we were willing to accept it and move on.

"But now Obama has ordered the flags to be lowered. Not because it was the right and moral thing to do, but because too many angry members of the public called him out on it. In a rare instance of genuine transparency, it was clear that Obama simply wanted to bury the story as quickly as possible, along with any troubling questions about Islamic radicalism in our nation.

"Hope n' Change is glad that the victims are now being shown appropriate respect, but saddened that the tragedy of their deaths was compounded by the spectacle of a president who cared only about his own agenda."