Hands off my healthcare

The health care bill has passed and the new battles are in progress. 14 states have filed suit against the Federal government to stop this transgression on states rights.

The impact of this Bill is staggering.

High income individuals earning $250,000 or more will pay an addition ‘Health Insurance’ tax through their Medicare wage tax. Tack on an additional 0.9% tax there.

There is also an additional tax of 3.8% on interest, dividends, capital gains, annuities, royalties, and rents. This tax is based on the
‘gross income’.

Does your employer provide a great health care plan for you? Not for long. This bill imposes a an excise tax on insurance companies equal to 40% of premiums received on such ‘Cadillac plans’. So how does the bill define an excess benefit? Does your company pay $8,500 per year in premiums on your behalf? If so, the plan is excess. Who the hell do they think they are to tell us we cannot have good coverage? But let’s remember that ‘this is for the people’.

The act also imposes a non deductible ‘Industry fee’ on insurance companies. This is not a tax that companies can plan for. The Treasury Department will divide the total ‘fee’ among insurers based on their market share. This is the epitome of taxation without representation. The first year a total of $2 BILLION will be divided among insurers. By 2014 it will $9 BILLION. Do you still doubt that the intent here is not to destroy private insurance companies?

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and importers and medical device manufacturers are also now subject to similar fees.

I’ll have more but I’ve reached the end of my tolerance right now.

Narcissist In Chief

When he’s invited to Germany to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall he
declines. He’s too busy for that. God forbid that he may be present
when the name of Ronald Reagan might be mentioned in a heroic or positive light. This coming from the Nobel Prize winner who has already
indicted that he will attend the Nobel ceremonies. This from a guy who
hasn’t found time to decide on a policy for Afghanistan while our boys
and girls are being killed almost daily. This from a President who found time to run to Europe to lobby for the Olympics in Chicago. This from a man who hasn’t seen a piece of legislation that doesn’t need to be jammed through Congress at record speed. The priorities of this Administration continue to astonish onlookers.

President Obama felt justified watching a special extolling his virtues. The White House should have been embarrassed to say this out loud. His inexperience embarrasses this country every day.

By the way, Gibbs has previously said Obama had seen the special. So he watched a rerun of the show about himself!