Forum: Obama Health Care Reform

CVS Caremark pharmacy is telling its employees they must report specific personal health information or pay an extra $600 per year for their health insurance coverage.Among the measures employees are required to report are their weight, body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels....

With the precious little time they're actually spending at work, (only 126 days this year) you'd think the Republicans would spend it more wisely than trying to repeal the same law repeatedly, or renaming post offices. We have real problems to deal with, and the GOP is derelict in their duties...

Well, the TeaPublicans should be happy about the fewer covered Americans, but the lower cost must really twist their knickers.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jmIII4FgDvIW-bij_fdHF4v0Whbw?docId=48328c71af0241c39aef95fda77612f7 Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press – 25 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 6 million Americans — significantly...

About one in 10 employers plans to end workers' health insurance as the new healthcare law takes effect, according to a new study. The finding could bolster opponents of the law, who argue that its changes to the healthcare system will force workers out of insurance plans they like....

Health care benfits and incentives robo call by Mrs Slaughter At 11:15 Mrs Slaughter will call and tell me the tax incentives and benefits there are for the new health care rules...

Fortunately I was there to catch his reaction ;): <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OOXOv_duk6M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

John McCain is back and rallying against pharmaceutical corporations that have killed yet another cheap drug bill. Where did this guy disappear to in mid-2008? <iframe width="291" height="164" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_XaKVf56Da4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on health care, Mitt Romney says the decision is equivalent to a tax increase. More...

Obama warned the SCOTUS not to ignore precedent on the ACA ruling. Yet that is exactly what Roberts did. http://washingtonexaminer.com/york-roberts-dodge-at-heart-of-obamacare-decision/article/2500925 No one knew it at the time, but the key moment in the Supreme Court Obamacare case came on...

The Supreme Court Decision So this it will pass or not?

On this day in 2012. The SCOTUS will render its decision on Obamacare. I have no clue which way they will go. I hope they throw out the whole thing. Then we can have a real affordable Care act. Keep the parts of this abomination that work. The dependant coverage til age 26 is good. It...

<iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/meuMtcAP7DA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> But to be fair, what about prostates?

Source The Denver Post Some of the most widely used prescription drugs, including those to treat cholesterol and high blood pressure, could be available over the counter under a new proposal being weighed by government regulators. Food and Drug Administration officials said Wednesday they are...

Just when you thought the crazy couldn't get crazier... By this logic, whenever a woman releases an ovum into her fallopian tubes, she’s pregnant, well before the man has even entered the picture. This also means any woman who has had more than one period is a serial killer. Making Government...

Today (04-01-12) while listening to the radio (AM900) the subject was about the Canadian National Health Plan all I heard was one horror story after another. How the people with money were coming to the United States for treatment because of the delays in the .Canadian Health Care system. If this...

Great stuff. Court picks apart individual mandate... JUSTICE KENNEDY: Fundamentally Changes Relationship of Gov't... ROBERTS: 'Can the gov't require you to buy a cell phone?' 'Grave, grave trouble'... IRONY: Top court embraces case Obama made AGAINST HILLARY... Scalia: 'You Can Make People...

Remember when Obamacare was forced down our throats. Remember when the CBO said Obamacare would actually cut the deficit by 200 billion over ten years. Remember how we posted an article by past CBO head Elmendorf who said these numbers are only based on what the Demtards gave them. Well, now...

Where's NBR when you needs him to splain the numbers:p http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/280225/first-class-what-next-editors In a Friday bad-news dump that was a whopper even by its own standards, the Obama administration added to the announcement of a near-record annual deficit and an...

Perhaps the Church should stop competing for and accepting Government contracts (and money) in return for providing Social Services. Then it wouldn't be subject to government requirements that it treat its employees like adults. Source

Where is all this affordable health insurance that was supposed to be coming with Obamacare ? I checked out the rates, and they are no where near what I would call affordable.

American Obesity Rates from 1985 to 2008

Illegal for sure. http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2011/aug/judicial-watch-uncovers-new-documents-obama-administration-bankrolls-massive-internet- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it obtained documents from...

Cass Sunstein: Don't Hold Me to What I Wrote 8 Years Ago, I Was Young at the Time Nice to know I can still use that handy excuse for another decade or so. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-regulatory-czar-backs-2003-call-ol President Barack Obama’s regulatory czar retreated from a 2003...