According to a New York Times article, only 11% of the uninsured know about this next opportunity to opt in. How is this helping hugely expensive plan really helping the uninsured?
The American People are rarely told the whole truth by either the press or by most politicians. Americans have been told only half truths as well as outright lies about almost every important subject. This site will attempt to tell the whole truth about each subject, written and submitted by the most knowledgeable experts.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
ObamaCare Shunts My Patients Into Medicaid
This article appeared last week in The Wall Street Journal with 133 comments. You should see what people are saying!
ObamaCare Shunts My Patients Into Medicaid
Knocked out of private insurance, they are forced to settle for longer waits and worse care.
Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
IRS TARGETING SCANDAL
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IRS TARGETING SCANDAL
WIKIPEDIA - 2013 IRS controversy
In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for closer scrutiny based on their names or political themes. This led to wide condemnation of the agency and triggered several investigations, including a Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal probe ordered by United States Attorney General Eric Holder.[1][2] Initial reports described the selections as nearly exclusively of conservative groups with terms such as "Tea Party" in their names. Further investigation revealed that liberal-leaning groups and the Occupy movement had also triggered additional scrutiny,[3][4][5][6] but not at nearly the same rate as conservative groups.[7][8][9] The only tax-exempt status denial by the IRS involved the revocation of a previously granted tax-exempt status for a progressive group.[10] The use of target lists continued through May 2013.[11]
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THE BLAZE - $1 Million Bounty to Be Offered for ‘Smoking Gun’ in IRS Targeting Scandal
May 21, 2014
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FOX NATION - The IRS Targeting Scandal, Lois Lerner and Contempt of Congress - The Truth Must Be Uncovered May 7, 2014
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DISCOVERTHENETWORKS.ORG - THE IRS SCANDAL: TIMELINE
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THE HUFFINGTON POST – IRS Targeting May 26, 2014
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THE FOUNDRY - Lawmakers Seek Details on IRS Targeting From Justice Official - May 23, 2014
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THINKPROGRESS.ORG - New Records: IRS Targeted Progressive Groups More Extensively Than Tea Party April 23, 2014
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WASHINGTON TIMES - The long line of conservatives targeted by the IRS October 3, 2013
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TIME - Emails Point to IRS Official’s Role in Targeting Conservative Groups May 25, 2014
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THE WASHINGTON POST - IRS admits targeting conservatives for tax scrutiny in 2012 election - May 10, 2013
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FOX NEWS - The cost of Freedom - "Smoking Gun" in IRS targeting scandal?
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THE BLAZE - New Emails Reveal IRS Targeting Coordinated from Agency's Headquarters
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Bengahazi - 2014
Supporting Articles
-------------------------------------------JW Smoking Gun: Benghazi Documents Point to White House on Misleading Talking Points
April 29, 2014 - (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that on April 18, 2014, it obtained 41 new Benghazi-related State Department documents. They include a newly declassified email showing then-White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes and other Obama administration public relations officials attempting to orchestrate a campaign to “reinforce” President Obama and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy.” Other documents show that State Department officials initially described the incident as an “attack” and a possible kidnap attempt.
The documents were released Friday as result of a June 21, 2013, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the Department of State (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-00951)) to gain access to documents about the controversial talking points used by then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice for a series of appearances on television Sunday news programs on September 16, 2012. Judicial Watch had been seeking these documents since October 18, 2012.
The Rhodes email was sent on sent on Friday, September 14, 2012, at 8:09 p.m. with the subject line: “RE: PREP CALL with Susan, Saturday at 4:00 pm ET.” The documents show that the “prep” was for Amb. Rice’s Sunday news show appearances to discuss the Benghazi attack.
The document lists as a “Goal”: “To underscore that these protests are rooted in and Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy.”
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Judical Watch - Weekly Update: JW Finds Benghazi Smoking Gun! May 2, 2014
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/weekly-update-jw-finds-benghazi-smoking-gun/
JW Smoking Gun: Benghazi Documents Point to White House on Misleading Talking Points
To say this has been a busy week at Judicial Watch is a massive understatement. In fact, this has been one of the most important and eventful weeks in the history of Judicial Watch. On Tuesday, we released explosive new Benghazi scandal documents which immediately precipitated a Washington firestorm that placed the Obama White House on the defensive and may even lead to criminal charges.
And what’s the big discovery that had every news outlet in the country headlining Judicial Watch’s work?
On April 18, 2014, JW obtained 41 new Benghazi-related State Department documents. They include a newly declassified email showing then-White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes and other Obama administration public relations officials attempting to orchestrate a campaign to “reinforce” President Obama and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy.” Other documents show that State Department officials initially described the incident as an “attack” and a possible kidnap attempt.
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Below are many other news sources that discuss the Benghazi scandal.
The “Smoking Gun” email on Benghazi.
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'Smoking gun' Benghazi email prompts renewed push for select committee
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FOX NEWS Benghazi scandal: When will Team Obama tell truth about night my nephew was killed?
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FoxNews.com Benghazi scandal: Get ready for Obama to change the subject By Rep. Michele Bachmann Published May 09, 2014
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TIME A Benghazi Scandal That’s Already Been Revealed: The CIA Believed A Media Mistake Mzzimo Clabresi May 8, 2014
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Global Research The Benghazi Scandal Is Obama’s Watergate But Worse By Joachim Haqopian May 2, 2014
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Slate - Shock #Benghazi Email reveals That Obama Whict House Agreed With the CIA Talking Points April 30, 2014
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New York Post May 3, 2014 Hillary Clinton should be worried as Benghazi coverup unravels.
New York Post - Former CIA big testifies Benghazi’s terror references were deleted April 3, 2014
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FRONTPAGE MAG May 6, 2014 Time for Truth & Consequences on the Benghazi Cover Up
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American Thinker -Benghazi cover-up is starting to unravel May 4, 2014
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USA Today Benghazi revelations revive coverup critics: Opinionline May 5, 2014
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Numerous emails from the White House, State Department, Susan Rice and others pertaining to Benghazi.
Obamacare
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| See Also "Why Obamacare is Wrong for America" |
OBAMACARE
THE LATEST –
WALL STREET JOURNAL -How to Run Against ObamaCare July 17, 2014
Draw attention to the Affordable Care Act's pernicious effects on ordinary Americans.
By Karl Rove
Mr. Rove, a former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, helped organize the political-action committee American Crossroads.
July 16, 2014 7:11 p.m. ET
Liberal columnists and Democratic strategists have taken to arguing that ObamaCare is working and no longer a political negative, implying that Democratic candidates should tout it on the campaign trail. Republicans should pray they do, assuming the GOP knows how to respond.
As presidential scholar George Edwards III
observed in his 2012 book "Overreach," the Affordable Care Act is
"perhaps the least popular major domestic policy passed in the last
century." It remains so today. A June 3 Fox News poll found 38% were
"glad the health care law passed" while 55% "wish it had never
passed." Only 29% thought "the country is better off" with the
law while 44% said America was "worse off."
But GOP candidates can't simply rely on attacking Democrats for having voted for ObamaCare or, in the case of nonincumbents, supporting it. They should draw attention to the law's pernicious effects on ordinary Americans.
Many people who lost their existing policies because they didn't comply with ObamaCare's mandates are finding their new premiums and deductibles are much higher. Republicans should routinely campaign with families who make this vivid and real by describing how this is affecting their household budget.
There should be a special emphasis on appearing with young workers. ObamaCare's "community rating" provision means young people are charged higher premiums and deductibles than they should be, to subsidize coverage for older people. Many older workers have bigger paychecks than the young families forced to shell out more cash than their risk profile would require.
Lining up in Miami to sign up for mandated health insurance, March 31. Getty Images
As insurers begin releasing details of next
year's insurance premiums, Republicans should reach out to and appear with
families getting hit by bigger bills. Mr. Obama promised premiums would go down
by $2,500 per family, as did most of the Senate Democrats running for
re-election this fall.
Yet many families have already seen significant price increases and will continue to see them. Recent analysis from the think tank America Next revealed that between 2010 and 2013 individuals suffered $6,039 and families $17,344 in higher premium costs because of ObamaCare's failure to cut them as promised.
This is in part because an estimated 27% of people who enrolled in ObamaCare have serious health challenges and draw on their coverage substantially more than the national average. This ObamaCare subset is roughly twice as large as the comparable group left with private insurance in the individual market.
The parade of horribles doesn't end there. ObamaCare discourages full-time jobs by requiring businesses to cover anyone working more than 30 hours a week. In June, the economy added a net of 288,000 jobs, but this was the result of America losing 523,000 full-time jobs and replacing them with 799,000 part-time ones. Only 12,000 of the 288,000 new jobs added last month were full-time. Appearing with people working part-time but desperate for full-time work will give a human face to the law's painful realities.
Then there are jobs never created because of ObamaCare. Small business owners are afraid of hitting the law's threshold of 50 full-time workers, which then makes them subject to mandates and penalties. Campaigning with small business people concerned about expanding their companies would be useful for corralling votes.
Health-care professionals like doctors, nurses, aides and hospital workers are seeing first hand the harm ObamaCare causes in their relationship with patients and their ability to provide quality care. Families who have lost access to treasured doctors and familiar networks should also be heard from.
While most of the damage from raiding
Medicare to pay for ObamaCare is yet to come, seniors with Medicare Advantage
policies are seeing their benefits crimped by ObamaCare's cuts to Medicare
spending. They, too, can be effective witnesses.
By humanizing ObamaCare's shortfalls through stories from ordinary people, Republicans will help explode the myth of liberal competence and compassion, keep this issue fresh through the fall and cause voters to hold Democrats accountable at the polls.
Putting ObamaCare in the center of their campaigns will also force GOP candidates to spell out what they would do instead of ObamaCare. Americans do not want to return to the broken status quo in place before Mr. Obama made an even bigger mess of our health-care system.
ObamaCare was unpopular when it passed. Republican candidates must show through real-life examples why those concerns were fully justified, and how millions of lives have been unnecessarily disrupted by this liberal calamity.
Mr. Rove, a former deputy chief of staff
to President George
W. Bush, helped organize the political-action committee American
Crossroads.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - Reining inObamaCare—and the President Halbig v. Burwell is about determining whether the president, like an autocrat, can levy taxes on his own. July 22, 2014
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WALL STREET JOURNAL - Appeals Courts Issue Conflicting Rulings onHealth-Law Subsidies - Subsidies Seenas Crucial to Implementation of Affordable Care Act - July 22, 2014
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WALL STREET JOURNAL -Rulings Cloud Health Subsidy - Two Appeals Courts Split on Tax Credits ForMillions July 23, 2014----------------------------------------------------
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -- The Short Unhappy Life ofObamaCare – June 10, 2014
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TIME -- The Hidden Cliffs in Obamacare - As the Affordable Care Act becomes reality, so do some of its little-known inequities - May 29, 2014
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AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM The Fiscal Cliff's Hidden $1 Trillion TaxHike
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THE WEEK -
The hidden costs of ObamaCare
Higher
premiums could really kneecap the economic recovery -
January 1, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
FAST & FURIOUS
FAST & FURIOUS
Wikipedia gave an excellent general description of Fast & Furious.
ATF gunwalking scandal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The stated goal of allowing these purchases was to continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels, with the expectation that this would lead to their arrests and the dismantling of the cartels.[6][8][9] The tactic was questioned during the operations by a number of people, including ATF field agents and cooperating licensed gun dealers.[10][11][12][13][14] During Operation Fast and Furious, the largest "gunwalking" probe, the ATF monitored the sale of about 2,000[1]:203[15] firearms, of which only 710 were recovered as of February 2012.[1]:203 A number of straw purchasers have been arrested and indicted; however, as of October 2011, none of the targeted high-level cartel figures had been arrested.[6]
Guns tracked by the ATF have been found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexico–United States border, and the scene where United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed December 2010. The "gunwalking" operations became public in the aftermath of Terry's murder.[2] Dissenting ATF agents came forward to Congress in response.[16][17] According to Humberto Benítez Treviño, former Mexican Attorney General and chair of the justice committee in the Chamber of Deputies, related firearms have been found at numerous crime scenes in Mexico where at least 150 Mexican civilians were maimed and killed.[18] Revelations of "gunwalking" led to controversy in both countries, and diplomatic relations were damaged.[2]
As a result of a dispute over the release of Justice Department documents related to the scandal, Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting member of the Cabinet of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012.[19][20] Earlier that month, President Barack Obama had invoked executive privilege for the first time in his presidency over the same documents.[21][22]
To read the entire article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
There a numerous articles written on the "Fast & Furious gunwalking scandal. Below are links to some.
CNN JusticeFast and Furious gun turns up after Mexican resort shootout
By Evan Pérez, CNN Justice Reporter updated 7:44 PM EST, Tue December 31, 2013
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Los Angeled Times Full coverage: ATF's Fast and Furious scandal June 20, 2012
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The Hill --Report: 'Fast and Furious' gun turns up at Mexico shootout scene By Mario Trujillo January 01, 2014, 10:05 am
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Forbes Was Operation Fast And Furious Really Part Of A Secret Deal Between The DEA And Mexico's Sinaloa Drug Cartel? January 14, 2014
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CBS News - More Fast and Furious guns surface at crimes in Mexico August 14, 2013
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FOX NEWS - Gun from botched 'Fast and Furious' operation turns up after Mexican resort shootout January 2, 2014
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CBS Evening News A primer on the "Fast and Furious" scandal February 12, 2014
A very good description and dictionary of terms used
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New American --- Obama’s “Fast and Furious” Gun-running Scandal Grows May 28,2013
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The New American -- House Votes to Hold Holder in Contempt June 29, 2012
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