Why 'job-killing' is fitting description for ObamaCare

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) might be able to switch the phrase ‘job-killing’  in H.R. 2 in response to the left’s call for more civil dialog, but one thing’s for sure. ObamaCare (official title Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) is a job killer. That assertion has been verified by a fact-finder media site normally thought of by conservatives as leaning left.

Talk to the folks in Lynn Haven, Florida.

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Dems and allied media mislead on CBO cost for ObamaCare repeal

Updated on Friday, January 7, 2011 at 1:13PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Republicans plan to follow through on attempts to repeal ObamaCare, aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Democrats and their allied media have stepped up to the plate to defend a bill most of them haven’t read, and their primary defense of the bill is that repealing it will increase the deficit. CNN’s header left no room for debate—“Analysis: Healthcare repeal will cost $230 billion.”

Fact is Democrats and allied media are misleading the public by citing that figure and have conveniently left out numerous cautions and even disclaimers the Congressional Budget Office included in a Jan. 6, 2011 letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner.

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Was ObamaCare a linchpin in plans for failed amnesty bill?

As Democrats in Congress colluded to shove ObamaCare (technically the Patient  Protection and Affordable Care Act) down taxpayers’ throats, I repeatedly tried to warn people the bill was a failure on several fronts. I correctly predicted working Americans’ health insurance premiums would not decline. I correctly predicted job losses (those started immediately after the bill was signed—in Sallie Mae, an entity not even related to healthcare).

I correctly predicted increased costs for the government (IRS cops to enforce the individual mandate and continuance of predictable fraud that has plagued Medicare and Medicaid for decades.)

As the bill progressed, I also pointed out that very few in Congress had actually read the thousands of pages in the bill which was in my opinion another step towards socialized medicine lusted for by Dems for many years. A Democrat never met a socialist principle he didn’t like.

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Thomas More Law Center wants ObamaCare ruling reversed

The Thomas More Law Center wants to reverse the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge George Caram Steeh who was the first federal judge to rule on the merits of Obamacare. The bill’s formal title is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

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AG McCollum to Fox: Mandate is ‘middle pole’ in Obamacare tent

Florida attorney general Bill McCollum told Fox News on Tuesday the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is like the “pole in the middle of the tent.” If the mandate falls, the whole tent collapses. McCollum said that’s because “there’s no other funding mechanism.”

McCollum was one of the first to point out the vulnerability of the PPACA (commonly called ObamaCare) because of the lack of a severability clause in the bill.

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Schumer steps up to mic for Democrat messaging

Republicans in Congress should be smiling today after an announcement that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has appointed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to handle messaging for the Democrat Caucus in the next Congress.

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GOP impact: Dem committee chair wants 1099 proviso in PPAC repealed

One backdoor tax tucked into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (HR 3590) was a proviso expanding reporting for small businesses via IRS form 1099. This requirement mandated that small businesses report the payment of more than $600 to any individual or corporation (as opposed to contractors). Small businesses like The US Report and others across the land will be subject to this requirement and completing the extra paperwork would cost more time or money depending on whether you use a tax preparer or do the return yourself.

Current chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Democrat Max Baucus (Mont.) wants the provision repealed. CNN Money said,  “Top Democrats are uniting with Republicans in a show of support for small business owners: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Friday that he will introduce legislation to repeal the expanded 1099 reporting requirements set to take effect in 2012.”

Freshmen in the US House of Representatives don’t fit the traditional politico mold.

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