ObamaCare update: Actor Jake McClain Tweets bill as Dems prepare for more fallout

Actor Jake McClain is Tweeting every word in the ObamaCare Tax Bill. (Snip: @JakeMcClain)The ObamaCare Tax bill may be the biggest favor Democrats have ever done the Republican party. A quagmire of regulations, more than a dozen new taxes and arcane language in the legislation point to chaos, confusion and nasty surprises for those of us not in the federal political class.

Actor Jake McClain gets it.

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Now we all get healthcare, right?

Guest editorial by  G. Keith Smith, M.D.

After the election, a lot of people are excited that they can now get healthcare. Or maybe not quite yet, but by 2014, when ObamaCare is fully implemented.

The only problem is that healthcare is not like an Obama phone. The phones are all made by a standard process in a factory, probably in China, and they usually work.

You can use them to call a healthcare provider. But you usually get the “If this is an emergency, hang up and dial 911,” followed by the phone menu.

How will this change with ObamaCare? Doesn’t that give you a right to care?

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Uninsurance, Healthcare Reform, and Economic Myths

By G. Keith Smith, M.D. , guest contributor

Photo: CDC/Debora CartagenaThe myth that lack of health insurance is a cause of 18,000 deaths per year, along with nearly a million bankruptcies, has been promulgated yet again in The New York Times by economist Paul Krugman.

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Congress should ask Berwick why 3 government agencies got funds to do the same research

President Barack Obama couldn’t get Donald Berwick through the front door into the top position at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Obama slid Berwick in through the back door via a recess appointment. Life News said on Wednesday Berwick will finally testify before the Senate Finance Committee.

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Now we know what's in the healthcare bill: ObamaCare disaster

Updated on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 1:48PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Remember Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's comment about the healthcare bill--how we had to pass it so we could see what's in it? As time goes by, we're seeing what's in it and the net effect is that it will cost the government and the consumer more. The bill has already cost or will cost approximately 700 people their jobs because the government rolled student loans into the deal.

Think Google is blind to politics?

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Healthcare bill reality—more covered, more costs as predicted

By Kay B. Day

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) talks about solutions for healthcare in a video at the GOP congressional website.The government has finally admitted what I said about the government takeover of healthcare after an initial reading of HR 3200, one rung of many in the ladder of legislation that became Obamacare.

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Democrat health bill signed, sealed and delivering surprises, part 3

Pt. 3 of 3

Taxes and Center for Comparative Effectiveness place big question marks on healthcare bill’s cost and policy impact.

On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) commented on healthcare legislation passed by Democrats: "This fight is not over."As Democrats promise benefits to Main Street, some elements of their healthcare bill promise nasty surprises for those expecting more quality care for less money. What the bill arguably delivers in questionable promises of premium decreases by President Barack Obama, it may take back in taxes through the back door Democrats are so fond of.

Political analyst and Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Charles Krauthammer pegged one outcome—he predicted a national sales tax during an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday. The Washington Post reported the Obama administration was looking at a value-added tax (VAT) in May, 2009. National media said the idea came from a book written by the brother of the White House Chief of Staff, Ezekiel Emanuel who allegedly endorsed the idea in a book he wrote about guaranteed healthcare.

A VAT tax would not replace the income tax or any of the other numerous taxes the feds levy on everything from gas to cell phones—such a tax would be in addition to existing taxes.

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