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Ten New Reasons Why Obamacare Can Still Be Killed - Townhall.com



New reasons emerge almost daily as to why Obamacare can and must be
defeated.


1. The American people oppose Obamacare by almost two to one in the
latest CNN poll. Other polls show lopsided opposition to passing either the
Senate or House health care bill.


Public opinion is against the bill because of its obscene costs in
higher taxes, burdensome debt, anti-freedom mandates, rationing and reduced
care for seniors. The American people have awakened to the fact that
Obamacare is transformational legislation that will drag us against popular
will into European-style socialism.


2. The Democrats' double-counting of Obamacare's financial benefits has
been exposed as a colossal lie. Harry Reid told the Senate that his bill
strengthens our future by both "cutting our towering national deficit by
as much as $1.3 trillion over the next 20 years" AND "strengthening
Medicare and extending its life by nearly a decade."


The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) refuted that assertion. CBO said
the claim that Obamacare would provide these benefits simultaneously "would
essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus
overstate the improvement in the government's fiscal position."


3. Obamacare is unconstitutional because of its mandate that all
individuals must carry "approved" health insurance and all businesses
must give health insurance to their employees whether or not the company can
afford it. "Universal" coverage will be enforced by the Internal Revenue
Service with power to punish those who don't have such a plan.
Constitutional lawyers point out that the Commerce Clause does not give
Congress the authority to force Americans to buy health insurance as a
condition of living in our country because personal health insurance is
not "commerce." The CBO wrote that "a mandate requiring all
individuals
to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal
action"; the Supreme Court has never upheld any requirement that an
individual must participate in economic activity.


4. Since the Senate bill imposes sharp limits on health-insurance
companies' ability to raise fees or exclude coverage, it likely will
force many of them out of business. Obamacare is unconstitutional because it
violates the Bill of Rights protections against takings without just
compensation and deprivation of property without due process of law.


5. Other Obamacare provisions blatantly legislate racial and other forms
of discrimination. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights sent two letters
to the president and congressional leaders warning about the obnoxious
requirements for racist and sexist quotas.


The Senate bill requires that "priority" for federal grants be given to
institutions offering "preferential" admissions to minorities (race,
national origin, sex, sexual orientation and religion). Institutions
training social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, behavioral
pediatricians, psychiatric nurses and counselors will be ineligible for
federal grants unless they enroll "individuals and groups from different
racial, ethnic, cultural, geographic, religious, linguistic and class
backgrounds, and different genders and sexual orientations."


6. Obama's claim that "everybody" will now be covered creates few
winners but lots of losers. Universal health insurance will be achieved by
forcing young people to pay the additional costs (insurance for the youngest
third of the population would rise by 35 percent), and by restricting and
rationing care for the elderly.


7. According to Robert Samuelson in The Washington Post, the "wild card
is immigration." From 1999 to 2008, 60 percent of the increase in the
uninsured occurred among Hispanics, and Obama's refusal to close our
borders will make this problem more costly every year.


8. Obamacare gives Medicare bureaucrats the power to ration health care
by forcing doctors to prescribe cheaper medical devices and drugs. In the
recent case of Hays v. Sebelius, the court ruled that Medicare doesn't
have the right to make this rule, but Obamacare takes jurisdiction away
from the courts to hear any appeal from decisions of the new Medicare
Commission.


The "stick" applied to primary-care doctors is imposing financial
penalties if they refer too many patients to specialists. The "carrot"
is financial rewards to doctors who give up small practices and consolidate
into larger medical groups or become salaried employees of hospitals or
other large institutions.


9. The Senate bill contains at least a dozen of what can be described as
bribes. Sen. Mary Landrieu received a $300 million increase in Medicaid
funding for her state (known as the Second Louisiana Purchase), and a
$100 million bribe to Sen. Ben Nelson gives Nebraska a permanent exemption
from the costs of Medicaid expansion.


10. The Senate bill even has a four-page section artfully written to
enable ACORN to get federal health care grants. This section describes
grant recipients as "community and consumer-focused nonprofit groups"
having "existing relationships ... with uninsured and underinsured
consumers."





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