ObamaCare Primer: An underfunded ‘train wreck’ with Harry Reid driving the engine

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act otherwise known as ObamaCare has earned a new name from key Democrats—“train wreck.”

Photo: Deborah Cartagena/CDCSen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Obama’s captain in ramrodding the bill, and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), commander of the reconciliation that stuck everyday Americans with one of the most poorly written, lobbyist-friendly bills in our history, both used the “train wreck” metaphor to describe a bill the Democrat Party promoted as though it was the second coming of Jesus or Pachamama, depending on your spiritual bent.

Thing is, that wrecked train had both Reid and Baucus at the wheel. And now in his customary deceptive manner, Reid is blaming Republicans.

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Obama administration spends millions to put a new blush on Obamacare

By Wendy N. Powell, contributor

Photo: CDCThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is becoming increasingly less popular with Americans and concurrently less partisan in Washington.

Many in Congress who supported the law are changing their support consistent with the public sentiment, and because concerns are rising about political futures over support for what was once marketed as the answer to American health care woes.  

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The Medicare Free Wellness Visit: I’d Rather See a Veterinarian

By guest contributor Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D.

A friend went in for his Medicare free “wellness visit,” compliments of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He assumed it was like a doctor’s annual check-up. After all, when he took his dog to the vet for a wellness visit, little Sparky was examined and tested for worms. So my friend made the mistake of asking the doctor to listen to his heart and lungs – just because that is what we expect physicians will do. Then he got a bill.

Neither my friend nor his physician realized that if the patient was actually touched during the free wellness visit, it ceased to be free.

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Yarmuth goes to bat for ObamaCare Tax bill, doesn’t talk about ‘uninsured’

It's easy to understand why Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat from Kentucky, was smiling as he tried to claim ObamaCare is not a tax bill. (Screen Snip: Fox and Friends video)

Democrats like Kentucky Rep. John Yarmuth are going to bat for the ObamaCare tax bill. Yarmuth wants it both ways. Democrats approved of Chief Justice John Roberts' classification of the mandate as a tax. That's the only reason the bill was deemed legal.

Yet Yarmuth and his colleagues are trying to claim the tax bill is not a tax bill.

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ObamaCare tax bill further complicates an immorally complicated tax code

Chart shows the increase in tax rules, with a sharp uptick once Democrats gained control in the 2006 elections. ObamaCare adds more rules to an immorally complicated tax code. (Graphic: The Cato Institute)People are talking about the ObamaCare tax bill’s impact on our healthcare, wallets and personal liberty, but there’s another impact that’s been overlooked.

Our immorally complicated tax code just got more complicated.

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All eyes and ears turn to SCOTUS for healthcare, other opinions

I'm blogging this live.

Fox News reported the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional as related to the Commerce Clause as The US Report predicted from the moment we (actually) read the healthcare bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called ObamaCare.

You can't force people to engage in commerce at the federal level.

However, the SCOTUS blog is saying the mandate survives as a tax. The Dept. of Justice claimed at various times the mandate was a penalty or a tax, depending on their politics.

These are early comments; this is undeniably going to be a complex ruling.

President Barack Obama's initial take was that this was not a tax. DOJ adopted the tax argument for political purposes because as it now stands, Congress can tax your teeth if they want to.

The decision is one more reason, in my opinion, to vote out any politician who voted for a bill that is based on cost shifting.

It's a sad day in America that SCOTUS has been neutered by a Democrat administration bent on socializing U.S. healthcare.

It's good that SCOTUS had the good sense to limit the insane expansions of the Commerce Clause.

It's bad that Americans have lost a key pillar of freedom. Thank the nearest Democrat for the increasing involvement of the federal government in your lifestyle choices and your relationship with your doctors. Your children can thank the nearest Democrat when this new entitlement program bankrupts our nation.

Political Math Blog had fun with political healthcare bill

Political Math Blog is one of those websites you really should bookmark. The blogger always has something interesting up and a recent Tweet alerted me to one of his posts that should be a classic. If you read here regularly, you know about my obsession with the revenue bill Democrats call the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as ObamaCare.

You also know that I read the bill as the House and Senate played politics and I declared it one of the worst pieces of legislation I'd ever seen. Time proved me correct on points like the 1099 repeal, the implosion of CLASS and the fact the bill was nothing more than a tax bill aimed at increasing the government's market share on health insurance.

Anyway, that Tweet from Political Math Blog on Twitter pointed to this video. I wish I'd seen it earlier because if I had, I'd have posted it then as one of my many rants and analyses!

Enjoy: