The Obama administration is spending $8.3 billion to hide a key provision of Obamacare — deep cuts in Medicare Advantage — until after the November election.
Medicare Advantage offers seniors the option of choosing private insurance companies as an alternative to the government-run Medicare insurance program. So far 12 million seniors have enrolled in the program.
But President Obama has attacked the program, stating in a 2009 speech that it offers “unwarranted subsidies” that “do everything to pad [insurance companies’] profits and nothing to improve your care.”
So it came as no surprise when Obama’s healthcare reform plan sliced $145 billion from Medicare Advantage over the next 10 years. Medicare’s own actuary reported that Obamacare would force more than 7 million seniors off their private plans and back into traditional Medicare as insurers flee the market, according to Investor’s Business Daily (IBD).
To hide the cuts from seniors who would face losing Medicare Advantage just before the November election, the administration pumped $8.3 billion back into the program through “bonuses” to Medicare Advantage plans.
Those “bonuses” will make up for more than 70 percent of Obamacare’s scheduled Medicare Advantage cuts, and keep the program running through the election.
The plan is so “transparently political” that the Government Accountability Office has urged the Health and Human Services Department to cancel it altogether, IBD reported, adding: “Canceling is just the beginning.
“The bigger question lawmakers must answer is this: Can it really be legal for a Cabinet agency to spend $8.3 billion in taxpayer money simply to help Obama get re-elected?”
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 April 2012 09:03
Why I Do Not Like The Obamas
Written by Administrator
Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:42
Now this is hard hitting!!! Way to go!
Everyone in America should read this article, but very few will.
Well this guy has it absolutely on target.
The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn’t like the Obamas? Specifically I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obamas? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed their Christmas family pic.”
The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation.
I’ve made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don’t like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.
I don’t hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America. They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama’s raw contempt for white America is transpicuous.
"The new White House Executive Order of March 16, 2012, the so-called 'National Defense Resources Preparedness Order' is a clear blueprint for total government control over the civilian economy, under the guise of 'national defense.' This latest outrage against the Constitution reminds me of the totalitarian world of Orwell's 1984, where a few Ministries controlled everything. Below is our Counsel Ralph Fucetola JD's analysis of this Executive Order."
From Counsel Ralph: The White House has set in motion the regulatory basis for an American version of Lenin's "War Communism" whereby the entire civilian economy is militarized and marshaled as the Leader directs through five specific Federal Departments. Notice which Department now has control over which aspects of your lives.
This section quoted below provides for the take over of the means of production. It says that the Five Department heads can override private contracts and commandeer all the resources of all the people.This Executive Order, if allowed to stand, sets the legal basis for total government control over, as it says below, "food... energy... health... civil transportation... water... and all other materials, services and facilities..."
Sec. 201. Priorities and Allocations Authorities. (a) The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071, to require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other than contracts of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders, and to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense, is delegated to the following agency heads:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer;
(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and
(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.
Last Updated on Sunday, 18 March 2012 11:46
Detroit, Michigan; AMERICA'S NEW FACE
Written by Administrator
Friday, 09 March 2012 10:40
Be sure you read the bottom line . . .
Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler
DETROIT
By Frosty Wooldridge
For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit, Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!
With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.
Breaking Alert: The Obama Long Form Birth Certificate Was "Manufactured" And There Is More Than Sufficient Evidence To Move Forward On Cases Of Criminal Forgery And Fraud!
The evidence released by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Cold Case Posse was not just compelling, in the words of an Arizona state legislator who came to the press conference, the information released from this investigation was downright "troubling."
Of course, it's not news to to any of us, but now, it's pretty much official. What we all feared for so long has now been verified and vetted through a legitimate law enforcement investigation that obtained sworn affidavits and testimony from graphics experts, law enforcement experts and private citizens.
This is really something worth reading. Two years ago I had a cyst removed from my colon and was told that I should have a colonoscopy done every year. I had a hard time going through the procedure, and decided to not return for further tests. I am going with the lemon treatment (totally my choice) and now, two years later, I am doing fine. So, a tablespoon of "real lemon" (the concentrate in a bottle) in a glass of water every morning. What can it hurt? Subject: A must-read- The surprising benefits of lemon! I remain perplexed!
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This is the latest in medicine, effective for cancer! Read carefully & you be the judge. Lemon (Citrus) is a miraculous product to kill cancer cells. It is 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy. Why do we not know about
OH, THIS IS GOOD MEDICINE FOR OUR POLITICIANS. SHARE THIS ONE BIG TIME. Spending cuts and elimination of ineffective government agencies is the only way to bring down the deficit. Taxes don't pay down the deficit.
Video Blockbuster Revelation: Illegal Obama Actually Propped Up By Congress
Written by Administrator
Saturday, 04 February 2012 13:11
Video Blockbuster Revelation: Illegal Obama Actually Propped Up By Congress WHY WE HAVE TO SWEEP ALL INCUMBENTS OUT IN THE PRIMARIES! Between 2003 and 2008, Congress moved at least 8 times to change the definition of what constitutes a "Natural Born Citizen." Watch this rather impressive mini-documentary from Carl Gallups which already has over a half a million hits on YouTube, it will knock your socks off!
NIH study uncovers probable mechanism underlying resveratrol activity
Written by Administrator
Friday, 03 February 2012 15:02
Thursday, February 2, 2012 12 p.m. EST
NIH study uncovers probable mechanism underlying resveratrol activity
Findings may settle scientific debate surrounding this chemical found in red wine and other foods
National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues have identified how resveratrol, a naturally occurring chemical found in red wine and other plant products, may confer its health benefits. The authors present evidence that resveratrol does not directly activate sirtuin 1, a protein associated with aging. Rather, the authors found that resveratrol inhibits certain types of proteins known as phosphodiesterases (PDEs), enzymes that help regulate cell energy.
These findings may help settle the debate regarding resveratrol's biochemistry and pave the way for resveratrol-based medicines. The chemical has received significant interest from pharmaceutical companies for its potential to combat diabetes, inflammation, and cancer. The study appears in the Feb. 3 issue of Cell.
"Resveratrol has potential as a therapy for diverse diseases such as type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and heart disease," said lead study author Jay H. Chung, M.D., Ph.D., chief of the Laboratory of Obesity and Aging Research at the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. "“However, before researchers can transform resveratrol into a safe and effective medicine, they need to know exactly what it targets in cells."
