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“On Thursday, the six-month anniversary of the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a number of its most central consumer protections take effect, just in time for the midterm elections,” the New York Times says. Starting now, insurance companies will no longer be permitted to exclude children because of pre-existing health conditions, which the White House said could enable 72,000 uninsured to gain coverage. Insurers also will be prohibited from imposing lifetime limits on benefits. The law will now forbid insurers to drop sick and costly customers after discovering technical mistakes on applications. It requires that they offer coverage to children under 26 on their parents’ policies.”
"President Obama told a Cabernet-sipping crowd of Democratic donors on Wednesday night that his more disheartened fans should give up the whine," the New York Daily News reports. "'We cannot lose heart. We cannot give up,' Obama said at the Roosevelt Hotel, where a reception and dinner shook loose $1.4 million for the party's uphill struggle in the midterm congressional elections."
Roll Call on Obama's fundraiser last night: "Obama Uses Interruptions to Underscore Rallying Cry for Party."
Today, Treasury Secretary Geithner will deliver a speech defending TARP. “This is not just our program to eulogize. The Bush Administration started the job. We finished it. And stabilizing the financial system is not just our success to tout.”
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Does anyone think that the Republicans are releasing their “Pledge” on this date by accident?
Clearly it was designed to take attention away from HCR benefits that take effect today.
That’s how politics works …. Gota love it.
And don't forget Aetna, Cigna and Anthem's announcement (isn't this what we usually call a conspiracy?) that they will no longer offer children only policies? You gotta love it.
There is no reason for them anymore since they can be covered under the parents until age 26. Other Blues, non-profits, are doing the same, (Oregon for example), why do you only mention Aetna, Cigna and Anthem? All insurance companies will follow suit on this one.
Also, some states are still going to require they be offered in situations where lets say a divorce is in play, the parent that does not have legel custody may be required to provide health insurance, they may still have to option to purchase a child only policy. That remains to be seen.
You miss the point - it's a child only policy. Maybe the parent can't afford coverage for themselves, their employer's plan won't/can't cover children, maybe the child is very ill and the employer doesn't want that added burden on their plan, or even as you mention - in cases of divorce. And so why should it be left up to some states to require coverage?
It isn’t conservatism v liberalism as is trying to be sold as the cause; socialism isn’t even close to being a scare (in fact, with long running neglect, irresponsibility and a conservative concentration the pendulum has literally swung far to the right). No, what is really happening is a concerted effort to, both overtly and covertly, effect domination by an ultra-conservative mentality which favors only the few. There is a real effort to capture people’s thinking, to deceive and manipulate public opinion, by using emotional appeals to biases, prejudices and fears, disinformation, scare tactics and more, all cutely, boldly, aggressively and obnoxiously presented, to keep people from being rational and instead to have them be fearfully excited and to support positions and candidates that favor only the few. Special Interests and the influential, powerful and extremely wealthy few, all who stand to greatly gain, are ‘pulling the strings’, are spending the effort and the money and are perpetrating the con and the Republicans, both Tea Party and regular, have become their ‘puppets’.
The proof is seen in that what they want is to return to ‘more of the same’, more of what they had under Bush-Cheney, more of what cost the majority so much and what caused the problems – when what we saw was the majority, including the total middle-class, constantly loosing and only the very wealthy consistently gaining. Who can actually believe that if given the power and the control that after they set things back, repealed the changes and returned to ‘more of the same’, that then they who have clearly demonstrated they are against all change, they would then implement the real needed changes? Who of the majority can survive more given to the few as it significantly costs everyone else? Bush-Cheney completely focused on benefit for only Special Interests and the select few while giving the majority only apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge to rationalize their actions and manipulate public opinion; this country really can’t afford to return to ‘more of the same’.
All this arguing over the HCR law is going to be moot since the Federal Courts will spend at least a year before the supreme court finally decides if it is constitutional. I believe if any one provision is found to be illegal the whole bill will be thrown out.
TO THE WEAK-KNEED REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRAT…..TO ALL THE COMMUNIST IN THE IG,FBI,CIA,AND U.S. Senators and the left wing media outlets…..Wake up america!!!! This goverment is the most corrupt we have had in years. The good old boy network is very much in charge.Mr. obama and pelosi are the puppet masters.How many of their good friends benefited by the agreement ” what a farce. All of the u.sSenators voted for this. I am ashamed to say I voted for the these corupted self serving politicians.With good reason they picked an out of towner to be president.All u.s departments need an overhaul. We need to rid ourselves of the puppet masters and the dept heads that bow down to obama and pelosi.I am sick of the lip service I have been getting from these dummies over violations, their friends are getting away with.in the goverment . Barack Hussein Obama , threatens friends and bows to Mmslim.
INPEACH OBAMA ,GOD OPEN YOUR EYES.///For us there are only two possiblities: either we remain american or we come under the thumb of the communist Mmslim Barack Hussein OBAMA. This latter must not occur.THE COMMANDER.
OBAMA goes about his business by speaking the lie. II Thessalonians 2 says that he comes "with all deceivableness of unrighteousness." Revelation 13:12 says, "and he spoke as a dragon...." Revelation 17 tells us that he was a false prophet, a prophet being one whose calling it is to speak and to teach. The armies of the world may have guns and tanks and bombs to bring people into submission; but the power of speech and ideas is a mighty power. In his initial attempts to destroy the cause of God Obama used a serpent to deceive the woman with crooked speech: "You will be like God." Now he uses a "dragon" who speaks crafty, lying words. His speeches will be heard by millions who will hang on his persuasive rhetoric. The content as well as the form of his speech will attract. Like most false prophets, he will even be sincere and passionate. But he is a liar. He adds dashes of truth to the mix, so that his lie tastes like truth. He will use all the right catchwords, using the language of the church, even throwing in a Bible text or two. But he is the ultimate Liar, and will deceive many.
OBAMA will use every tool available: school teachers, politicians, news broadcasters, artists, musicians, scientists and doctors, lawyers and businessmen. All will be pressed into the service of OBAMA to deceive men. But especially he will use those whose calling it is to persuade and to teach -- men who claim to be preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
THE COMMANDER,,, REPOST THIS IF YOU AGREE .. THE END OF AMERICAIf ,one asks what he should look for in the days to come, we say this: there will be political union all nations will be gathered together into one mighty empire. This is the first of obama. There will also be religious union, joining all the religions and religious empires of the world. The powerful ecumenical movement of today, led by the religions of Christianity, will in the end fully succeed, swallowing up all the other religions of the world. You may expect to see one man over it all. obama. The CommanderTO THE WEAK-KNEED REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRAT…..TO ALL THE COMMUNIST IN THE IG,FBI,CIA,AND U.S. Senators and the left wing media outlets////////07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised “Meet the Press” THEN Senator //Mmslim Barack Hussein Obama, was asked about his stance on the
American Flag.
General Bill Ginn USAF (ret.) asked //Mmslim Barack Hussein Obama, to explain WHY he doesn’t follow protocol when the National Anthem is played. The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171 “…During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, ‘Stand and Face It’.”
NOW GET THIS!! – - – - -
‘Senator’ //Mmslim Barack Hussein Obama, replied:
“As I’ve said about the flag pin, I don’t want to be perceived as taking sides”.
“There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression..”
“The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing.”
(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???)
//Mmslim Barack Hussein Obama, continued: “The National Anthem should be ‘swapped’ for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song ‘I’d Like To Teach the World To Sing’. If that were our anthem, then, I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as ‘redesign’ our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It’s my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of warring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails – - – perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments.”
“When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injustice which is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past”.
“Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path… My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country’s First black Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America “INPEACH OBAMA THE COMMUNIST ,GOD OPEN YOUR EYES.//////For us there are only two possiblities: either we remain american or we come under the thumb of the communist Mmslim Barack Hussein OBAMA. This latter must not occur.the commander
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