15 Reasons Why The Obamacare Decision Is A Mind Blowing Disaster For America

Michael Snyder - The American Dream

June 29, 2012

You can almost always count on the Supreme Court to do the wrong thing.  In fact, just about every major decision by the U.S. Supreme Court over the last 40 years has been bad for America.  Many were hoping that the Supreme Court would strike down Obamacare, but the truth is that we all should have known better than to expect them to get something right.  So now America is headed for a complete and total disaster as Obamacare is fully implemented over the next several years.  Obamacare is going to absolutely shred the infrastructure of our medical system, it is going to send health insurance premiums soaring, it is going to dramatically expand the size and the scope of government, it is going to fundamentally alter the relationships between doctors and their patients and it is one of the largest tax increases in U.S. history.  Not only that, it is also going to add about a trillion dollars to our national debt over the next decade.  So no, the Obamacare decision is not good news.  Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation in American history, and now we are stuck with it.
It was a 5-4 decision to uphold Obamacare, and the swing vote was Chief Justice John Roberts who was appointed by George W. Bush.
After the vote today, it is hard to have any faith in the U.S. Supreme Court.  Many constitutional conservatives kept voting for Republicans in the hope that the direction of the Supreme Court would change, but it hasn’t.
Prior to the Obama administration, Republicans controlled the White House for 20 out of 28 years.  If Republicans were going to fundamentally change the nature of the Supreme Court, that was their opportunity.
But it didn’t happen.
Instead, what we have is a Supreme Court that is dominated by judges that have very little respect for the U.S. Constitution.  When I was in law school I got to study the Supreme Court pretty closely and I quickly realized that most of the time they simply do whatever they want to do and they make up whatever reasons they can to justify their decisions.
That sounds really bad, but that is the truth.
And thanks to the Supreme Court, we are stuck with Obamacare – at least for now.
The following are 15 reasons why the Obamacare decision is a mind blowing disaster for America….
#1 According to the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal government has the power to force you to buy private goods and services ^[2].  Now that this door has been opened, what else will we be forced to buy in the future?
#2 Obamacare is another step away from individual liberty ^[3] and another step toward a “nanny state” where the government dominates our lives from the cradle to the grave.
#3 The IRS is now going to be given the task of hunting down ^[4] and penalizing millions of Americans that do not have any health insurance.  In fact, the Obama administration has given the IRS 500 million extra dollars ^[5] “outside the normal appropriations process” to help them enforce the provisions of Obamacare that they are in charge of overseeing.
#4 Obamacare imposes more than 20 new taxes on the American people.  You can find a comprehensive list of Obamacare taxes right here ^[6].  If you love paying higher taxes, then you are going to absolutely love Obamacare once it is fully implemented.
#5 In an attempt to “control costs” and “promote efficiency”, Obamacare limits the treatment options that doctors and patients can consider.  This is likely to result in a decrease in life expectancy ^[7] in the United States.
#6 Obamacare is going to impose nightmarish paperwork burdens ^[3] on doctors, hospitals and the rest of the healthcare system.  This is going to significantly increase our healthcare costs as a nation.
#7 Obamacare is going to send health insurance premiums soaring ^[8].  This is especially true for younger Americans ^[9].
#8 Many small businesses are going to be absolutely crushed ^[10] by the provisions in Obamacare that require them to provide expensive health insurance coverage for their employees.  This is going to make them even less competitive with companies in other countries where businesses are not required to provide healthcare for their workers.  This is also going to make it even less attractive for businesses to hire new employees.
#9 Obamacare is going to make the emerging doctor shortage ^[11] in America a lot worse.  Surveys have found that we could potentially see hundreds of thousands of doctors ^[12] leave the medical profession because of Obamacare.
#10 Obamacare has already forced the cancellation of dozens ^[13] of doctor-owned hospitals.
#11 Obamacare is going to result in a much bigger federal government.  In order to fully implement all of the provisions of Obamacare, hordes of new government bureaucrats will be required.
#12 Thanks to Obamacare, you are going to have to wait much longer to see a doctor.  Just look at what happened once Romneycare was implemented in Massachusetts ^[14]….
In fact, we have already seen the start of this process in Massachusetts, where Mitt Romney’s health care reforms were nearly identical to President Obama’s. Romney’s reforms increased the demand for health care but did nothing to expand the supply of physicians. In fact, by cracking down on insurance premiums, Massachusetts pushed insurers to reduce their payments to providers, making it less worthwhile for doctors to expand their practices. As a result, the average wait to get an appointment with a doctor grew from 33 days to over 55 days.
#13 Obamacare contains all kinds of insidious little provisions that most people don’t even know about.  The following is one example from the Alliance Defense Fund ^[15]….
“Did you know that with ObamaCare you will have to pay for life-saving drugs, but life-ending drugs are free. One hundred percent free. If this plan were really about health care wouldn’t it be the other way around?”
#14 As if the U.S. government was not facing enough of a crisis with entitlement spending, it is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans ^[16] to the Medicaid rolls.  You and I will be paying for all of this.
#15 The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Obamacare will add more than a trillion dollars to government spending over the next decade.  Considering the fact that the U.S. government is already drowning in debt ^[17], how in the world can we afford this?
So what do you think about the Obamacare decision?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/15-reasons-why-the-obamacare-decision-is-a-mind-blowing-disaster-for-america.html/print/

Obama Betrays Campaign Promise to Label Genetically Engineered Food

Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association

June 28, 2012

Obama Betrays Campaign Promise to Label Genetically Engineered Food

In 2007, Senator Obama, campaigning for the presidency in the Democratic primary, promised to label genetically engineered food.
Now, if you write the Obama for America campaign about GMO labels, you get this response:
"Genetically modified crops hold out the promise of benefits like increased production and reduced reliance on pesticides. At the same time, some Americans want more information to help them choose their food. President Obama understands these concerns and is considering additional steps in this area."

What? How can he flip his position like that? What makes him believe Monsanto's lies? Why isn't he listening to the 9 out of 10 voters who want GMOs labeled? Is there anything we can do to get him back on our side before November?
The first step is to give Barack Obama a piece of our minds! Bill Maher did on his show last week, when he called the President out for breaking his campaign promise on GMO labels and putting Monsanto's Michael Taylor in charge of food safety. Please tell the Obama for America campaign what you think about broken promises.
Watch the Bill Maher Clip and Take Action
Note: Coverage of the Supreme Court's Obamacare ruling coming next week...

Monsanto's Sneak Attack on Organic and Non-GMO Farmers

Monsanto is using its money and influence to push Congress to attach a rider to the 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill that would effectively end judicial review of approvals of new genetically engineered crops.
If this rider (Sec. 733) isn't removed, organic and non-GMO farmers will lose their access to the court system and they'll have no recourse when the U.S. Department of Agriculture illegally approves new genetically engineered crops that threaten to contaminate their fields and seed supplies.
Monsanto's sneak attack is a response to successful lawsuits brought by the Center for Food Safety on behalf of organic and non-GMO farmers and seed growers that have attempted to block planting of genetically engineered sugar beets and alfalfa while the USDA conducted a court-ordered review of the dangers of contamination.
A vote to remove Monsanto's rider from the Agriculture Appropriations bill was expected this week, but now has been delayed until after Congress returns from their July 4th recess. Let's use this time to spread the word and send tens of thousands of letters to Congress!
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We’re halfway through 2012, and thanks to you, it’s been a good year so far. But we still have our work cut out for us, especially when it comes to GMO labeling laws.
There won’t be a top-down solution for GMO labeling as long as President Obama continues to allow his appointees, Michael Taylor, in charge of food safety at the FDA, and Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, to maintain GMOs are safe.
We need your help to pressure state and local governments to stand up to the Monsantos of the world, while we also work on citizen-powered GMO labeling initiatives.
If you haven’t pitched in this year, please consider a donation now. If you have, please pass this along to your friends, or share on social media. Thank you!
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Ronnie's Message from Rio: Unite and Fight for Survival

Most national governments and multinational corporations who gathered in Rio are still pushing feeble reforms that amount to too little, too late. While Big Ag, Big Biotech, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Timber, and Big Finance push their united “Green Economy,” agenda, a major segment of the global gra ssroots remain fragmented and divided, bogged down in thousands of defensive single-issue battles.
The good news, in Rio and across the world, is that the global grassroots are finally rising up and saying, “Hell no!” to business as usual. Real change, not the hollow “change you can believe in” of the Obama administration, was in the air in Rio. Climate activists are ready to unite and survive by closing the ranks and taking on the Climate Criminals.
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ROBERTS AFFECTED BY MEDICATION

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MICHAEL SAVAGE: ROBERTS AFFECTED BY MEDICATION

Swing vote in Obamacare case suffered epileptic seizures

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Talk radio host Michael Savage told his listeners today that the use of mind-altering drugs to treat seizures could explain why Bush-appointed Chief Justice John Roberts upheld Obamacare today along with four liberal colleagues.

Roberts shocked most analysts by siding with Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in a 5-4 decision upholding the lynchpin provision of the president’s signature legislation, the so-called individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act.

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Savage told his “Savage Nation” listeners that on the way to the studio for his program tonight he visited a world famous neurologist he knows, and they talked about Obamacare.

The physician urged Savage to check out Roberts’ history with epilepsy, referring him to a New York Times report in August 2007. The article said that after Roberts suffered a seizure, doctors were weighing whether to treat him with powerful drugs with “troubling side effects,” including mental slowing and forgetfulness.

Roberts had suffered a seizure 14 years earlier. The seizures meet the criteria for epilepsy, the Times report said, because they were “unprovoked,” meaning that they were not caused by a head injury, a drug reaction or another known factor.

The neurologist told Savage that Roberts’ cognition could be affected by taking epilepsy medicine.

“I’m going to tell you something that you’re not going to hear anywhere else, that you must pay attention to,” Savage said.

“It’s well known that Roberts, unfortunately for him, has suffered from epileptic seizures. Therefore he has been on medication.”

Savage said that “if you look at Roberts’ writings you can see the cognitive disassociation in what he is saying.”

“Roberts has no logic in what he said,” Savage asserted.

“He said the law is a tax, but if the law wasn’t written as a tax, how can he say it’s taxation?”

Savage was referring to the fact that the Obama administration had argued that the law’s mandate for individuals to buy health insurance was based on the power given to Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate trade. The administration, including President Obama himself, had vehemently argued that the mandate was not a tax.

Tipping point

Savage noted that while most pundits had believed the Supreme Court would strike down the mandate, Savage predicted on his show Tuesday that Roberts would uphold Obamacare. He based his prediction on the fact that Roberts read the majority opinion in the Arizona immigration law case, which backed the Obama administration in striking down most of the law.

Savage opened his show today declaring that “a tipping point has been reached” in the “dawning of red America.”

“We are now becoming Venezuela and on the way to becoming Castro’s Cuba,” he said.

Many conservatives, he said, have been “misled into believe that if only you elect a Republican, things will change.”

“Let me remind you, Roberts is the spawn of George W. Bush,” Savage said. “Roberts is a compromised Supreme Court justice.”

He predicted Obamacare will bankrupt America.

“Who is going to pay for the fraud, waste and corruption called Obamacare?” he asked.

Savage argued that the same people who are failing to control Medicare and Medicaid are in charge of trying to control Obamacare.

“America is over as you know it,” he said.

A plan to get rid of Obamacare

Citing his book “Trickle Up Poverty,” Savage contended Obamacare could have been overturned by citing the Schechter brothers U.S. Supreme Court case decided during the Franklin Roosevelt administration in 1935.

Under FDR’s socialist-style “New Deal” regulations, customers could buy a whole or half coop of chickens but could not select particular birds. The policy conflicted with the religious beliefs and practices of the Jewish Schechter brothers. Under kosher laws, unhealthy animals must be removed from the stock.

A lower court found the four brothers guilty of allowing their customers to buy individual chickens, and they served jail time.

Ultimately, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the brothers, holding that FDR’s regulations exceeded congressional power under the Commerce Clause.

Justice Louis Brandeis remarked at the time: “This is the end of this business of centralization, and I want you to go back and tell the president that we’re not going to let this government centralize everything.”

Savage said the “same message should be sent to Obama.”

Savage reasoned that the Schechters’ lawyers could have taken another tack and won on the ground that their religious freedom was being violated. Under Obamacare, he noted, there were exemptions for various religious groups, such as the Amish and Christian Scientists.

So he urges other religious groups to find their own grounds for exemption until there are so many exempted from the system, it won’t be able to sustain itself.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/michael-savage-roberts-affected-by-medication/

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We can REPEAL OBAMACARE FULLY

Subject: Dick Morris: Send a Shockwave to Washington, Repeal Obamacare Fully

Special Sponsored Message From the League of American Voters Urgent Message From Dick Morris Dear Fellow American: The shocking Supreme Court ruling — a seeming victory for Obama — may turn out to be his worst nightmare. Indeed, a sleeping giant, the American people, will be awakened. And Obama and his supporters in Congress will pay a heavy price for pushing radical legislation that has already caused private insurance rates to skyrocket. The Supreme Court ruled on a narrow issue of whether the individual mandate is legal. But they did not rule on whether the law is a good or a bad one. Most importantly the Court affirmed what I and many critics of Obama have been saying: Obamacare is a tax! It is a tax on every individual to force them to buy health insurance. It is a tax on almost every small business that falls under its onerous strictures. It is a tax on seniors who will see benefits cut by $500 billion — who will now have to pay more out of pocket expenses — and who will be subject to rationing boards known as "death panels." It is a tax on citizens and healthcare providers slapped with new excise fees. It is tax on our most successful income earners — who will now see their capital gains and dividend tax rates be raised by 20 percent! We must oppose and repeal Obama's "tax." We must expose the big lie about Obamacare, the lie that it improves health care in America. It doesn't. It just makes the system worse for everyone. The League of American Voters — a grassroots organization I support — has been leading the fight against Obamacare. Their efforts have already paid off with polls now showing the American people reject Obamacare. Thanks to the League, more and more members of the House of Representatives and Senate now agree with you and me — Obamacare must be repealed FULLY. If you agree with me — Go Here Now. I can assure you we are within striking distance of doing this. In fact, I can tell you that many Senators who voted for Obamacare now deeply regret it. They wish they could change their vote. But their vote for Obamacare is etched in stone. It can't be changed now and we can put the noose around these Senators for making such an outrageous vote. I am helping the League shape a national media campaign to expose Barack Obama and his supporters in the Senate and the House. The League urgently needs your help to do this. We can really expose the massive Obama taxes that are set to trigger next year — the most massive tax increase in history. We need to act fast. Already the liberal media spin doctors are peddling the claim that Obamacare is here to stay. They are telling another lie. It can be repealed. But the League needs your help today — Please Go Here Now. The League is headed by its National Chairman Michael Reagan. Michael is the son of President Reagan and one of America's most respected conservatives. Michael agrees with me. We can REPEAL OBAMACARE FULLY. But we need to do a massive TV, radio and Internet ad campaign. That's where we need your help. If you can make a donation today to the League of American Voters, we can begin our national campaign within days. We need to act soon. Please donate today — Go Here Now. Thank you. Dick Morris P.S. The Supreme Court ruling may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, the worst thing Barack Obama ever wished for. We need to counter millions being spent by left-wing groups to back Obama's agenda. Please help the League now. Go Here Now. Paid for by the League of American Voters. Contributions to the League of American Voters are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Contributions from individuals and corporations are permitted by law and welcome. League of American Voters    |    722 12th Street N.W.    |    Fourth Floor    |    Washington, D.C. 20005 This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received this League of American Voters email because you subscribed to it or someone forwarded it to you. To opt out, see the links below. TO UNSUBSCRIBE To remove your email address from our list, please click here. This email was sent by: League of American Voters 722 12th Street N.W. 4th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005 1421421

From AbundantHope.net True US History Supreme Court's Obamacare decision hands federal government unlimited power to force you to spend 100% of your paycheck on things you don't even want By Mike adams Jun 29, 2012 - 1:26:50 AM Supreme Court's Obamacare decision hands federal government unlimited power to force you to spend 100% of your paycheck on things you don't even want Thursday, June 28, 2012 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (NaturalNews) Regardless of whether you agree with the fundamentals of Obamacare, the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has now ruled the federal government has the power to tax Americans into mandatory purchases of private industry products means an end to economic freedom in America. Why? Because it hands the federal government the power to force the American people to buy anything the government wants or face tax penalties for refusing to do so. It is the equivalent of announcing a federal monopoly over all private purchasing decisions. "The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, in his majority opinion. "Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness." Thus, the government can force Americans to buy anything it wants by simply characterizing the forced payment as a "tax." Economic freedom crushed by Supreme Court This article is not an argument so much about Obamacare itself, by the way; it's a red alert about a fundamental loss of economic freedom -- a shifting of private purchasing decisions to Washington D.C. Now, buoyed by the passage of Obamacare, the U.S. government can (and will) create new mandates that, for example, would force Americans to buy all the following: • A new car each year from Detroit, in order to "boost the U.S. auto industry." • War bonds to "support the war effort." • A year's supply of vaccines. • Life insurance from the government's "approved" sources. • Lawn fertilizer (the "lawn health care mandate"). • Intellectual property such as patented human genes already in your body. There is no limit to the reach of the Supreme Court's wild misinterpretation of the Commerce Clause, it seems. So now, all Americans can expect to get ready for the federal government to start laying out a long list of products and services we will all be taxed into buying from the crony capitalist buddies of those in power. Government hands economic monopoly to Big Pharma and the vaccine industry Perhaps the worst side effect is that Obamacare isn't really about health care at all. It's about protecting a Big Pharma monopoly over medicine; forcing consumers to buy into a system that offers zero coverage for alternative medicine, nutritional therapies, natural remedies or the healing arts. If Obamacare actually offered consumers a free market choice of where to get services, it would be a lot more balanced and effective. Instead, it forces consumers to buy into a system of monopoly medicine of drugs and surgery that would flat-out collapse if not for the monopolistic protections granted to the industry by the government itself. If given a free choice, most consumers prefer complementary medicine than straight-up "drugs and surgery" medicine, but complementary medicine isn't covered under Obamacare. The law is really just another corrupt, criminal-minded handout to the drug industry. And now, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, you can't even opt out! Abuse of power by the federal government knows no bounds That's the real kicker in all this: No more opting out of the private purchasing demands of the federal government! Americans are being pick-pocketed at an alarming rate, and it's only going to get worse now that this power has been unwisely handed to the federal government by a short-sighted Supreme Court. Because long after Obama is gone, other Presidents -- from any political party -- will abuse this precedent to force Americans into buying any number of products, services, or even intellectual property that we don't want. There is now no limit to what the federal government can force you to buy by calling it a "tax." Note, carefully, there is NO LIMIT to this "taxing" power. If you bring home a monthly paycheck of, for example, $3,000, the U.S. government can now mandate that you spend $2,999 of that on various products and services that it deems you must have "for your own protection." You no longer control your own take-home pay! The government can force you to spend it on things you don't want or even need! America, it seems, is starting to sound a whole lot like England under King George. Soon, we'll be living under our own modern Stamp Act from 1765, which eventually led to the American Revolution. Learn your history! As Wikipedia explains: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765) The Stamp Act 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. Like previous taxes, the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War. The British government felt that the colonies were the primary beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least a portion of the expense. The Stamp Act met great resistance in the colonies. The colonies sent no representatives to Parliament, and therefore had no influence over what taxes were raised, how they were levied, or how they would be spent. Many colonists considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent -- consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant. Colonial assemblies sent petitions and protests. The Stamp Act Congress held in New York City, reflecting the first significant joint colonial response to any British measure, also petitioned Parliament and the King. Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia. Protests and demonstrations initiated by the Sons of Liberty often turned violent and destructive as the masses became involved. Very soon all stamp tax distributors were intimidated into resigning their commissions, and the tax was never effectively collected. Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the colonies. British merchants and manufacturers, whose exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems exacerbated by the tax, also pressured Parliament. The Act was repealed on March 18, 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" by also passing the Declaratory Act. There followed a series of new taxes and regulations, likewise opposed by the colonists. The episode played a major role in defining the grievances and enabling the organized colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution in 1775. Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036329_Obamacare_Supreme_Court_economic_freedom.html#ixzz1zB28p6tQ © Copyright by AbundantHope.net all rights reserved