Obamacare: New Jersey college students lose their healthcare
Obamacare is now just over one month old and to be honest while I expected the results to be devastating I am surprised it has happened this fast. I am not talking about the website glitches for while that is a bigger issue than the Democrats are making it out to be, an even bigger issue is all the people who have already lost healthcare coverage.
At last count it was over 2,000,000 people including 500,000 in California and 300,000 in Florida and the number climbs higher every day. And the trend continues in new Jersey where it was just announced that college students in the state will lose the affordable healthcare coverage because under the guidelines of Obamacare it is not good enough for them.
Many students have found themselves in health care limbo this semester. Community colleges in New Jersey used to offer cheap health insurance for hundreds of dollars a year but they had to drop the practice because Federal Law prohibits the sale of bare bones policies.
Under the Affordable Care Act it would have cost more to run the program and the cost would have been passed on to students.
Now these students have no insurance and will have to go out and purchase a higher priced plan, and this law was supposed to make healthcare more affordable? It is hard to feel sorry for these students however for they are merely getting what they voted for.
Several CIA agents who were on the ground in Libya during the terrorist attack, including some who responded to the attack, are now scheduled to testify in front of the Congress about what they saw and what they know.
A House Intelligence subcommittee will hear from CIA security officers who are expected to tell a much more detailed story about the terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans last year, CNN has learned.
The men, described by sources as former Navy SEALs, former Army Special Forces and former Marines, were under contract to guard CIA agents on the ground there.
The security officers were among those who responded when Stevens’ compound was attacked on the night of September 11, 2012.
They will appear before lawmakers behind closed doors during the week of November 11, sources told CNN.
First, if there is anything to learn from Extortion 17 it is the fact that these former Navy SEALs had better be very careful about what they say for we have seen what can happen to them.
What these CIA agents have to say could be very damning to the Obama regime, but sadly this is a closed door meeting so it is quite likely we will never learn what was said in this meeting.
Hopefully their testimony will be leaked because the American people, and more importantly the families, deserve to know the truth, but I have a funny feeling that the Republicans already know much about what really happened on that fateful day and are just looking to keep up the pretense that they are trying to get to the truth.
As if it were not bad enough that we learned last week a college pal of Michelle Obama is a Vice President of the company which was contracted to build the Obamacare website we are now learning in this story that the Vice President of the firm which won the no-bid contract to fix the website is a major contributor to the president.
But a review of campaign and fundraising activities by a key executive associated with the general contractor for the surge, Quality Software Services Inc. (QSSI), raises substantial concerns regarding the appropriateness of awarding a no-bid “emergency” contract to a firm associated with over $1 million in donations to President Obama.
Jeffery Zients, former acting director of the Office of Management and Budget was appointed on October 25 to oversee a team of tech experts to repair HealthCare.gov. Mr. Zients said QSSI, a unit of United HealthGroup Inc.’s Ovum, was retained on an emergency basis to work with federal agency Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to get the website running smoothly for most consumers by the end of November.
Anthony Welters, Executive Vice President of UnitedHealth Group, and his family have gone all out to back President Obama’s ambitions. During the 2008 election cycle, his wife Beatrice bundled donations totaling between $200,000 and $500,000 for Obama’s campaign. In 2009, the pair was among the president’s top inaugural donors, contributing $100,000 and bundling an additional $300,000 for the events.
Talk about not letting a crisis go to waste, even a crisis which the president created–in this case he used the crisis to take care of another Democrat donor. But Anthony Welters is not the only one in the family that Barack Obama rewarded, Beatrice Welters now serves as Ambassador to Trinidad.
Didn’t Barack Obama promise to end this type of cronyism?
All Hallows Eve open thread
I have already written two posts tonight about the Obama regime and thought I would post something light for Halloween. Scroll down to see the latest goings on in regard to the IRS spying scandal and Obamacare.
Here is The Cure’s song ‘Lullaby.’ Happy Halloween and consider this an open thread. Nothing is off-topic.
According to this story the White House is putting intense pressure on the insurance companies to keep quiet about the disastrous results of Obamacare and the insurance companies are complying for the fear retribution if they speak out:
The White House is pressuring insurance companies not to speak publicly about Obama administration policies that could eliminate the existing health insurance plans of millions of Americans.
The administration made “clarifications” to the 2010 Affordable Care Act after it was passed that have already wiped out hundreds of thousands of existing health plans.
“Basically, if you speak out, if you’re quoted, you’re going to get a call from the White House, pressure to be quiet,” said CNN investigative reporter Drew Griffin on Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night. Insurance companies executives, Griffin said, ask heads of consulting firms not to criticize the Obamacare rollout debacle publicly
“They feel defenseless before the White House P.R. team,” Griffin said. “The sources said they fear White House retribution.”
Note the article I linked to above is using a report by CNN, not exactly a right wing organ.
As more information slowly makes it into the public arena we are learning why it was that Lois Lerner took the fifth when she was set to testify under oath in front of the Congress about the IRS scandal. The government cannot force a person to act as a witness against oneself and if this story is true she might have been doing just that for this new revelation is a clear cut violation of federal law.
Lois Lerner provided the Federal Election Commission personal and confidential information about several Tea party groups. Read more…
John McCain admits the GOP will push immigration reform after the primaries are over
The Republicans are now facing renewed intense pressure from both big business and Barack Obama to pass an immigration reform bill complete with amnesty in the near future. This is suddenly the big issue confronting the United States as many Americans are struggling to make ends meet.
There is no bigger proponent of immigration reform in the Senate than John McCain and today he might have let the cat out of the bag in regards to the Republicans’ plan on immigration reform:
there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform
Republican constituents do not support this measure and as a result the measure should be dead on arrival if the people we elect to represent us truly are interested in doing the people’s business, but here we can see what is really going on behind the scenes.
While the Republicans may be putting on a good face here, if John McCain is right, they really do not believe what they are telling us. They may be simply delaying action on this piece of legislation until after their bid for reelection is secured before they move on something they know their constituents do not want.
If this is the case it is all the proof that we need that the ruling class elite in Washington care more about their reelection than in doing what the people they are supposed to represent want and I can think of no better reason to vote all of these turncoats out of office than this. The problem is that if these people lose their primary bids there will be no hindrance on them to oppose this measure during the lame duck session. It looks as if the GOP is in bed with this idea and there is nothing we can do to stop it for they have sold us out…..
Newly released documents show Barack Obama knew people would lose their healthcare coverage under Obamacare
Yesterday America’s Watchtower reported that Barack Obama knew for three years that millions of people would lose their healthcare insurance once Obamacare became fully enacted and continued to lie about this result to the American people, now we have even more proof.
A newly leaked draft document from 2010 confirms that Barack Obama knew that the “grandfather clause” of Obamacare would eventually be rendered null and void because once insurance companies made any changes to their coverage the “grandfather clause” would be sacrificed: Read more…
Steny Hoyer admits Democrats knew people would lose their healthcare coverage under Obamacare
Yesterday was a bad day for the president; first the White House was forced to admit that some people would not be able to keep their healthcare coverage now that Obamacare is the law of the land, and then we learned Barack Obama has known for three years that millions of people would lose their healthcare coverage under his signature legislation.
Of course during those three years in which Barack Obama knew the truth he continued to tell the useful idiots that they would be able to keep their plan if they liked it, purposely lying to the American people to push his radical agenda.
And then today Steny Hoyer, when pressured by reporters, admitted that they all knew people would lose their healthcare coverage:
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