A new year is fast approaching, and President Obama is almost into the second year of his second term.
Historically, any president who is in office during a period of economic distress isn’t very popular among the general public.
Our economy, like a car, needs to be maintained. The repairs needed to stabilize our country financially are less like installing a new water pump and more like rebuilding a late model hot rod. Anybody can replace a water pump, but only a specialized mechanic can completely rebuild a car from scratch.
The president is receiving a lot of flak from the public concerning the Affordable Care Act he signed into law on March 23, 2010. It is a radical change in the way Americans live their lives and it may be too much change for many to handle at once. If we had to compare this upheaval to any other event in U.S. history, we could compare it to the end of the Articles of Confederation and the birth of the U.S. Constitution; a gamble which was successful.
Many are in outrage over Obamacare, but few know what the fuss is all about. The following excerpt is from the Affordable Care Act preamble: The preemption provisions… amended by the Affordable Care Act, are not to be “construed to supersede any provision of State law which establishes, implements, or continues in effect any standard or requirement solely relating to health insurance issuers in connection with group or individual health insurance coverage except to the extent that such standard or requirement prevents the application of a requirement” of the Affordable Care Act. Accordingly, State laws that impose on health insurance issuers requirements that are stricter than the requirements imposed by the Affordable Care Act will not be superseded by the Affordable Care Act.
Yes, President Obama did claim that existing health care policies would be grandfathered into the Affordable Care Act, but many people will lose their existing policies. Our previous president assumed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and started a war based on that assumption. Right or wrong, the means to both ends were to save American lives.
Those losing their existing health care policies are reasonably upset. According to CNN’s Chris Frates, “Virginia, Kentucky and Idaho have told insurance companies that they must scrap insurance plans that don’t meet the [new] minimum coverage requirements… It was easier just to start from scratch.” Ultimately these changes were made at the state level.
The column also states that almost half of the 600,000 policies in Kentucky will be cancelled. The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a little more than 4.3 million residents, according to the 2010 census. So, of the more than 4 million people in that state, there are only 600,000 private health care policies. The bill was signed into law because of figures similar to that. What is the right to life if there is no right to health?
As with everything else, it is much easier to pay the cost up front instead of in the backend. The Supreme Court indeed believed so when it upheld the Affordable Care Act. On Truecostblog.com’s List of Countries with Universal Healthcare, it is stated that “Thirty-two of the thirty-three developed nations have universal health care, with the United States being the lone exception.” Norway was the first nation to develop universal health care in 1912, and a multitude of countries followed Norway’s example throughout the 20th century, including other European countries, Canada and countries in the Middle East and Asia.
No, I do not believe Obamacare is perfect, but no one else is trying to reform our current system. The states and commonwealths should come together and provide a body for universal health care at the state level. If Georgia mandates that drivers have car insurance, then why can’t we have universal health care?
Brandon White, Junior
Communication Major
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OF LIES?
Nobody has escaped the horror stories which Obamcare is producing. Except for the
Silence from the Alphabet TV cable channels, left-minded stations and the mainstream media, the public would have a better understanding of the truth. Obama’s administration has lied to us, with politicians being bombarded with the stream of problems arising since the inception of the Affordable Care Act that is NOT “affordable” and there is no end in sight. Each state has massive amounts of insurance policy cancellations, costs are skyrocketing and that’s not only for businesses, but individuals. Millions of Americans are losing their individual health care plans.
Despite being told by Obama, “If you have a health care plan you like, you can keep it.” These hardworking Americans are being cancelled, forced into new plans with outrageous premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. Americans were blatantly lied to. Now the Democratic Party has the nerve to say,” They’re not cancellation notices—they’re transition notices to Obamacare.” MORE LIES! Older people find themselves with the mandate policies, which determine that they have to pay for abortions, childbearing and treatments they don’t need, with co-payments doubled and Federal exchange policies exploding with extra costs.
But what I want to understand that when you sign up your Social Security number is collected and then added to some massive data base. But then what about the ITIN numbers given freely by this incompetent government to millions of illegal aliens? Has this government found an excusable way, to add unknown numbers of foreign nationals, who shouldn’t be here in the first place? The Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) is a tax processing number issued by the Internal Revenue Service. IRS issues ITINs to individuals who are required to have a U.S. taxpayer identification number but who do not have, and are not eligible to obtain a Social Security Number (SSN) from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
ITINs are issued regardless of immigration status because both resident and nonresident aliens may have a U.S. filing or reporting requirement under the Internal Revenue Code. So are ITIN numbers exempt from bamacare, or do the citizens and legal resident taxpayers have to pay for these people who are still criminals under the law. ARE PROCURED SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS GOING TO BE ACCEPTED BY THIS DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT FOR HEALTH CARE? Can ITIN recipients bleed us even more and is their some slight of hand in this mandatory health care law, so these uneducated, itinerants further steal from us, because it fits into Obama’s plot, to turn our great nation into a third world toilet, just to get millions of more votes. Is this possibly a sly method allowing the population of illegal aliens to gain acceptance in Obamacare.
THE ONLY VICTORS IN THE FREE OF CHARGE OBAMACARE AND A IMMIGRATION AMNESTY ARE THE “FREE-LOADERS” AND SPONGERS WHO PLEAD LOW INCOME, (ILLEGAL ALIENS). AND OTHER PARASITES.
Just as with the carefully orchestrated re-reimbursement of child tax credits of illegal alien parents, of which the IRS is processing over $4.7 Billion dollars of illegal alien theft, that the people in Washington; specifically the Democrats who refuse to halt this legal robbery not allowing any vote on this outrageous example of Stealing taxpayer money. Either side of the coin is to blame for this repulsive genuflecting to illegal aliens, special interest, big industry since they are beholding to all these entities. Want to be educated about the incessant corruption in Washington and the states? Just click on THE PEOPLE’S legal site Judicialwatch.org and they will illustrate to you the criminal enterprises in Congress.
There is a basic, easy way to cut the job market from the thousands of illegal aliens arriving here daily:
We demand for—ALL THE PEOPLE—ALL THE CITIZENS—(Lawful Residence have a green card) a bio-metric Social Security ID card, that will slash the illegal foreign workers arriving here to a dribble; stopping voting fraud by non-citizens and halt criminals stealing credit, welfare and other citizen benefits. This programmed card that you would slide through a machine, just the same way you slide a charge card through would deny illegal alien parents from appropriating billions of dollars annually in child credits.
These extra dollars would go a long way in caring for our debilitated, mentally ill, homeless, mothers with two or three children, who cannot cope on a small amount of welfare and veterans that are being denied services. This is a digital document that cannot be counterfeited, even if stolen for reprehensible reasons? Your picture, your thumb-print and even an iris eye scan would distinguish you from anybody else. The manic fools in Congress of both political parties (not the TEA PARTY) are willing to keep spending trillions of dollars, but shy away from this federal issued ID card for a meager $2 Billion that the legislators say would cover every U.S. citizen. A card more powerful than E-Verify or means of enforcement internally or at the borders; a national ID card that Americans need urgently. I only hope some Patriotic American begins a petition, to
Command the legislators in Washington to get a biometric ID law in the Federal Register.
WE MUST IMPLEMENT A FOOLPROOF MEASURE AS A MANDATORY ID CARD, TO STOP ILLEGAL ALIENS VOTING IN OUR ELECTIONS, OR EVEN CITIZENS GOING FROM ONE STATE TO ANOTHER WHERE THEY PREVIOUSLY LIVED…VOTING TWICE OR MORE? THIS IS WHY LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS DO NOT WANT PHOTO ID USED, WHEN VOTING. COULD IT BE THAT THEY DO NOT WANT STEEL-CLAD ID, BECAUSE IT WOULD PUT OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF THE DISCOUNT LABOR POURING INTO AMERICA????