It'll be a time to remember in November

Obamacare likely to doom Dems in midterms


by Donnie Boston
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Mar. 29, 2010

Want some migraine relief over this health care nightmare?

First, stop the violence and death threats towards your elected officials and their families.

The humane thing to do would be to vote against the ones who gave a thumbs up to Obamacare. The November elections will be the perfect time to payback all the buffoons who have continued to kill this country since the time you've elected them to office.

There was not one Republican but many buffoons who chose to vote, once again, against the will of the voters. This time they did it in a big way by violating your fundamental values that you've earned a good part of your lives.

However, the Messiah will be arriving here on April 1, to tell you differently on how good his massive health care reform package will be for you and your country. Happy April Fools Day to the weaker minds who are willing to believe such rhetoric.

Do you remember when the little boy said to his dad in “A Bronx Tale” that a working man is a sucker? Well, give that little fella another $20 please, because Obamacare basically is telling you to “share your wealth” with more than 32 million other people who don't have health insurance in this country. And it doesn't matter if some of these people are beating the system, refusing to work or if they are an illegal alien. You will be giving them health care and paying through the nose for it, too.

The disastrous bill will cost you, they say, ah, only $9.4 billion. But when big government gets involved, you got to expect a lot more in cost than what they are telling you. Then there's them illegal immigrants who continue to cross our wide open borders that will continue to bang on their tin cans demanding more... more... more... So let's say Obamacare will at least end up costing you, ah, $2 trillion.

Many doctors are already saying they will file for early retirement or do something else since there will be a cap put on how much they will be able to charge insurance companies. So, a shortage of doctors has already come to mind in the near future. Tell me, why would the Messiah believe that they would amputate people's legs and arms for huge profits?

Already Bay State medical-device companies have threatened to take their plants – and thousands of jobs – out of the country due to the new 2.5 percent sales tax that would be imposed on them under Obamacare. This has alarmed Gov. Patrick who, of course, backed the bill.

Your private medical records will no longer be private, as many thousands of federal agents will be hired to monitor your health care coverage on a monthly basis. A national sales tax would likely be imposed to pay for them just like they have in Europe.

All your payments will be directed to the IRS. If they don't like what they see or if you don't have coverage, you will be fined dearly.

Employers will be hit with a fee. The $2,000-per-employee fee would be assessed on the company’s entire work force, minus an allowance. Employers would then have to lay off some of their workforce to cut cost.

At least $500 billion of your Medicare benefits that you have earned a good part of your life is expected to be slashed over the next 10 years to finance Obamacare.

Your premiums will increase in cost, too.

And the most dreadful thing of all, these charming reforms won't take effect until 2014. Only the taxes to pay for them will begin soon. It's like buying a car that's a lemon and not being able to even see if the darn thing runs until the finance has been fully paid off.

What was that old saying that Abraham Lincoln once said? “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Is Lincoln finally turning over in his grave, or is it fiction that a war has ensued between the people, as in Democrats versus Republicans?

If only November was a little closer.

While Obama, Pelosi and the gang receive convenient
health care treatment, Obama, is shown above, signing
into law his government-controlled health care package onto
the overwhelming majority of Americans who oppose it.

(DNN Staff photo)

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Health care reform a disaster in making



by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Mar. 22, 2010

The caller’s name was Bill, and he was addressing his remarks to Sen. Scott Brown. He was comparing the unfolding health-care fiasco to the old movie “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

“I feel like George Bailey,” Bill was saying, referring to the Jimmy Stewart character. “I grew up in Bedford Falls, and all of a sudden, it’s turning into Pottersville.”

And the Democrats are contemptuously laughing at us, just like Lionel Barrymore did with George and Uncle Billy. They’re hell-bent to take away your First World health care and replace it with a Third World model.

Barack and Pelosi still will be getting world-class treatment, of course, but for the rest of us, these are the good old days. And don’t worry about that new Orwellian-sounding “Health Choices Commissioner” - he, or they, are from the government, and they’ll be here to help you.

“People have made it clear, they don’t want this,” Brown was saying. “I hear it wherever I go. They want reform, but this isn’t reform. It’s morphed into something so much worse.”

This current system is a disaster, we are told, and people are dying in the streets. But none of these wonderful reforms kick in until 2014. Only the taxes to pay for them, which will start, well, tomorrow.

It’s the Democrats’ dream, our nightmare.

The Dems are buying off groups, already pitting Americans against Americans. The unions were supposed to get hosed with a huge tax on their Cadillac policies starting in 2013. Now they’ve gotten a stay of execution until 2018.

“The unions tell me, that’s a good deal,” Rep. Steve Lynch (D-South Boston) was saying. “How is that a good deal?”

It’s not a commutation, someone suggested. It’s a reprieve.

“Exactly,” said Lynch, the only congressman in all of Democratic New England who is actually going to follow his constituents’ wishes and vote against the bill.

The whole mess is presided over by a president who told an adoring audience of layabouts in Ohio last week that their premiums would be going down “3,000 percent.” Then he spun another spurious sob story about a woman “who increased her deductible to the minimum.”

Back at the White House, he made his NCAA tournament picks, misspelling “Syracuse” as “Sycacuse.”

When his mistake was pointed out to him by an ESPN anchor, the Messiah incoherently replied, “I just completely messed that up, didn’t you?”

Imagine George Bush saying any of the above. The derision would never end. But with this guy, the media just avert their eyes. It would be so un-PC to point out that the emperor has no clothes, or brains. He thinks car insurance is the same as health insurance.

And starting today, he has control of your health care, and mine. What could possibly go wrong?

Kelly an anti-health care protester from Connecticut
yells to passers-by during a Tea Party rally on
Saturday at Faneuil Hall. (DNN Staff photo)



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Romneycare a dud according to Obama

Picturing Obamacare in Massachusetts


by Michael Graham
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Mar. 15, 2010

So this is what it looks like when a mild-mannered, liberal community activist goes “nuclear.”

President Barack Obama didn’t use the “n” word - or even the “r” word, “reconciliation.” But he made it clear he’s ready to go to Democrat DefCon4, give the partisan launch codes and inflict Obamacare on the American people at any political cost.

In defending his decision to go nuclear, Obama talked about insurance company “abuses.” He talked about premium hikes in California. He talked about a sick mom in Wisconsin. He even talked (in extremely modest ways) about Republican ideas like tort reform and fighting Medicare fraud.

What Obama didn’t mention was Massachusetts.

In fact, despite having given (based on my calculations) some 57,432 speeches, press conferences, pep talks, pillow talks and interpretive dances on health care in the past 12 months, Obama somehow manages to leave us out of nearly every conversation.

This is telling, because we’re the one state already glowing in the radioactive haze of Romneycare, aka “ObamaCare: The Beta Version.”

Shouldn’t Obama have been bragging yesterday about bringing the benefits of Bay State reform to all of America?

As we prepare to wander into this coming nuclear winter of hyper-partisan politics - one in which we’re almost certain to see widespread political fatalities among congressional Democrats - I have to ask: If bringing Massachusetts-style “universal coverage” to America is worth this terrible price, why doesn’t Obama at least mention us once in awhile?

Maybe he thinks of us as the Manhattan Project of medical insurance reform. Too top secret to discuss. More likely, it has something to do with the nightmare results of this government-run debacle.

Here are a few “highlights” of the current status of the Obamacare experiment in Massachusetts:

It’s exploding the budget: Our “universal” health insurance scheme is already $47 million over budget for 2010. Romneycare will cost taxpayers more than $900 million next year alone.

It’s killing us on costs: Average Massachusetts premiums are the highest in the nation and rising. We also spend 27 percent more on health care services, per capita, than the national average. Those costs, contrary to what we were promised, have been going up faster here than nearly everywhere else.

It’s creating bizarre marketplace mutations: In Massachusetts, ObamaCare 1.0 is such a mess our governor is talking about imposing draconian price controls. He’s even suggested going to “capitation,” a system where doctors get a fixed amount of money per patient - and then that’s it. Which means it would become in your doctor’s financial interest never to see you again.

All this damage to the taxpayers, the insured and the responsible business owners . . . and for what?

The percentage of uninsured Bay State residents has gone from around 6 percent to around 3 percent.

In other words, it’s a dud.

And now Obama is preparing to drop the Big One on bipartisanship and turn Congress into a political hot zone for the remainder of his presidency, in order to pass a similar plan.

Is it political suicide or just political stupidity? Or is it, as many Obamacare supporters hope, the beginning of a devastating assault on the private sector?

The damage Obamacare would do to the current health care system - where 85 percent of Americans are happy with their health care, by the way - could be so great, the only institution big enough to repair it would be the government. The fact that the government inflicted that damage would be a moot point.

No Hard Feelings: Mitt Romney says he doesn't feel
offended by the lack of attention President Obama
has given his mandated Mass. health care plan.
(DNN Staff photo)

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Deval goes desperado

Talking's soon to be taxable



by Michael Graham
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Mar. 8, 2010

The headline from ABC News said it all:

“What Taxes Will States Turn to Next? From ‘Sin Taxes’ to Complete Tax Overhauls, Cash-Strapped States Are Desperate for More Revenue.’ ”

“Desperate” is right. This ABC story reported increased state cigarette taxes, sales taxes and liquor taxes - and that was just Massachusetts.

Just kidding, just kidding. Massachusetts didn’t raise all those taxes just last year. No, it took our governor three years to increase them all. And now what is Deval Patrick doing? Trying to raise your sugar taxes.

And that’s when he’s not sneaking in the brand-new $5 “Talk to the RMV” tax.

“Customers were to incur the new $5 fee if they sp0ke with an RMV representative on the phone or go in to one of the 30 branches” for most license and registration renewals, the Herald reported recently.

It was a plan to punish you pathetic little taxpayers for daring to speak to a “public servant” at the RMV.

Hey, don’t you know they’ve got better things to do?

If you didn’t know about this new fee, don’t feel bad. You’re not supposed to. The Herald also found an internal memo revealing that the RMV intentionally avoided publicizing the new costs. “Customer advertising . . . will not include the administrative fee separately, but rather the stated renewal or duplicate fee will be listed as $5 greater,” RMV management wrote.

And why should they tell us? To Patrick, you’re just the chump who gets stuck with the check. In fact, now that Patrick’s Registry chief has moved the Framingham office to the Mass. Pike, many Metrowesters have to pay a toll for the privilege of driving to the RMV to pay this higher fee.

And that toll, of course, is already higher than it was when Patrick took office.

But have no fear. There were so many complaints, Patrick had to do an about face to take back his $5 fee immediately. Oh, it wasn't his fault. It was his administration's fault at the RMV who thought it was the necessary thing to do for whatever reasons.

But bottom line, it's pay, pay, pay. That is Patrick’s plan for your life, because Beacon Hill is going to spend, spend, spend. There are no other options. Just seven months ago, Patrick signed a $27 billion budget. Six months later, he proposed a $28.2 billion one - up more than a billion bucks, or an increase of 4.5 percent.

Did you get a 4.5 percent pay hike last year? Or the year before? No. Actually there’s a near-record chance you got laid off or took a job that paid less than you used to earn.

Patrick and Co. don’t care. You’re still gonna pay more.

Every other day, it seems this newspaper’s front page features yet another story of yet another government official running yet another scam to pocket your money. Cops earning $200K sipping coffee at detail duty. City workers who perform marriages and pocket the fees. Court officials who personally benefit when a citizen makes bail.

Is there any good news? Yes. Patrick’s approval ratings are even lower than Barack Obama’s. He’s in a neck-and-neck race with Charlie Baker, even with the distraction of third-wheel Tim Cahill in the mix.

Which means there’s a very good chance that abused Massachusetts taxpayers will be celebrating November’s election by popping the cork on the bubbly and lighting a Red Auerbach victory stogie.

Unfortunately, that champagne will cost more because of Patrick’s new tax on liquor (we now pay sales taxes on the excise tax included in the price of booze). And if Patrick gets his way, the price of that cigar will double when he raises the tax to 110 percent.

Perhaps that’s Patrick’s sneaky re-election plan: Might as well keep him because we won’t be able to afford to celebrate getting rid of him.

Gov. Patrick will stop at nothing from taking
more of your hard earned money due to his
irresponsibility to balance the state budget.
(DNN Staff photo)



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