New Probe of White House Seeks to Find Whether Tax Dollars Are Boosting Democratic Campaigns

Questions over the use of taxpayer-funded resources for political purposes is not unique to the White House office; the Office of Special Counsel is currently investigating former Obama Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and has cited former Obama Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for violating the Hatch Act.

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HHS threatens to throw non-complying plans off the exchanges

"What happened on Thursday... will stand as one of the most lawless acts yet committed by this administration"

Sebelius screwed up other websites before Obamacare!

Why is it that liberals always fail up?

Obama, for example, quit being a Community Organizer after 3 years because he failed at it!

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Is this scandal number five or number six?

Actually, there are two potential scandals here...

Insider-trading probe of Medicare announcement reveals hundreds of HHS employees had secret info

Plus, there are FOUR separate scandals going on in the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) right now!

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2014: BE PREPARED

Excerpt from The American Spectator

When President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, aka "Obamacare") goes fully into effect in 2014, the American people will only then begin to see the implications of its thorough government takeover of health care, in all its glory. . .

Perhaps the most important and complex new IRS responsibility is to enforce the act's individual and employer mandates requiring individuals and employers to buy the health insurance not that they want, but that the federal government says they must have. This will effectively be a new burdensome payroll tax on the middle class and working people, and on job creators, as politics will force every politically correct benefit to be included in the required insurance, causing its cost to soar. That health insurance will likely cost $20,000 per year per family to start, rising rapidly after that. President Obama's 2008 campaign promise not to raise taxes on singles making less than $200,000 a year, and couples making less than $250,000, has been thrown aside and forgotten, with the Supreme Court ruling that the individual mandate is constitutional precisely because it is a tax.

Individuals who fail to comply and buy the health insurance chosen for them by Kathleen Sebelius will be subjected to a penalty of $695 per person per year, up to a maximum of $2,085 per family, or 2.5% of household income, whichever is greater. Pilla explains that "The gross applicable penalty is pro-rated to apply on a monthly basis 'for any month during which any failure' to have adequate coverage exists."
The PPACA precludes the IRS from using its levy power or filing tax liens to collect these penalties on individuals. But Pilla notes the IRS can offset the penalties against any federal income tax refund owed to you. The IRS can also seize any state or local tax refund you are due as well. And if you send any payment to the IRS that is not specifically designated in writing as applying to a specific IRS debt, the IRS can apply it to your health insurance penalty, and you will not be able to get it back.

The employer mandate is a new vicious tax on job creation that is already causing employers to cut back on hiring. . .

The New Face of Health Care -- the IRS

HHS: Neurosurgeons aren't allowed to treat anyone over 70

HHS has informed a conference of neurosurgeons in D.C. including ANS and CNS membership that when Obamacare is fully implemented, patients "units" over 70 years old will not be treated, but only allowed to have "comfort care" (i.e. no treatment for stroke, aneurisms, etc.)

Mark Levin interviews a neurosurgeon.

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Obama administration now demands our personal healthcare records

It’s been said a thousand times: Congress had to pass President Obama’s health care law in order to find out what’s in it. But, despite the repetitiveness, the level of shock from each new discovery never seems to recede.

This time, America is learning about the federal government’s plan to collect and aggregate confidential patient records for every one of us.

In a proposed rule from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal government is demanding insurance companies submit detailed health care information about their patients.

Obamacare HHS rule would give government everybody’s health records

HHS has knowingly set an impossible standard: life-saving treatment must be provided at no cost

Of course, that standard cannot be met. Even in countries that have “universal care,” life-saving treatments are rationed. People who cannot afford them are put on waiting lists, where some die, because there simply isn’t enough money to provide everyone with “free” care.

Obamacare freebies: Family planning first, then more

Waiver-Mania: no longer enforcing the rule of law but the rule of whim

If the US passes a law that then requires the government to issue over two hundred waivers in the first few months to avoid disastrous consequences for enforcement, doesn’t that indicate a problem in the law itself? That question should be foremost on voters’ minds as the number of waivers to ObamaCare issued by the Obama administration soars to 222:

ObamaCare waivers now up to 222

"This is prima facie admission that [Obamacare] is a failure!"

So says Fox Business News contributor (and erstwhile actor turned stock investor and money manager) Wayne Rogers, on hearing the news that 111 companies have been given health insurance waivers by the Department of Health and Human Services:

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Typically totalitarian

Now there is no standard at all, except for whatever Kathleen Sebelius decides she likes — and whom she wants to favor...

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Files Suit against Health Care Law

The group, which has 2,300 members, has filed the lawsuit in the U. S. Court for the District of Columbia against Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Michael Astrue.

The brawl over rate increases is a preview of ObamaCare...

Democrats and their media allies have found a new insurance piñata: WellPoint and its recent health-premium price increases in California. This spat deserves more attention, because its real lesson is what will happen to health insurance costs around the country if ObamaCare passes.

The WellPoint Mugging

Three Dirty Little Secrets in the Public Health-Care Plan

HAT TIP: HotAir.com

I just grabbed three sections to illustrate the three main "secrets"...

1)

First dirty secret of a public plan: Any plan has to involve administration costs, even if it operates on a non-profit basis. The obvious examples here are Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration plans. Costs have skyrocketed under both government-run plans while cutting back on the benefits both afford their patients, thanks to miles of red tape handled by legions of bureaucrats. Doctors get paid less and have to spend more to invoice for their services in Medicare and Medicaid, which has more of them refusing to take new patients under either plan.

However, a government-run plan can hide those costs by simply hiding them elsewhere, in the short term. Sebelius and Obama will juggle the books to make a show of solvency while they undercut the private market insurers, who have to pay their employees to process claims, handle member services, ensure compliance with miles of existing government regulations, and in some cases offer a small margin of return to their investors, who put up the money and risk for the insurance plans in the first place.

2)

Instead of having a robust health-care system that rewards providers and insurers for their work, the public plan and its inevitable market-killing characteristics will create an artificial shortage of health-care providers. Everyone will have coverage, but it may take months or years to get treatments, if at all. That is not a worst-case, hypothetical scenario, either; single-payer systems around the world share this commonplace result.

3)

When the administration talks about cost control via public plans, they really have no idea of the real costs of health care, and the real contribution a free market makes. In this case, they're about to kill the golden goose, and they're completely unaware of it. And that's the third dirty secret of Obama's public plan.

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