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Saturday, June 30, 2012

WIN: Labor's view on ObomneyCare


What does SCOTUS upholding the ACA mean for you?



Organized labor is hailing the Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act.

SEIU President Mary Kay Henry says the Supreme Court rejected the cynical politics of Republicans opposed to health care reform and working people won a resounding victory.

National Nurses United says the ruling shouldn’t be the end of health care activists’ efforts to find a permanent fix for America’s broken health care system.

The nurse’s union says it will step up a campaign for a universal health care program based on patient need, not on profits or ability to pay – a Medicare for all.

The American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said now that the Affordable Care Act has been upheld healthcare has been put within reach of working families and they will be able to get treatment they need without battling big insurance companies.

Families USA was one of many organizations that had been arguing for the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

Shortly after the Supreme Court ruling came down Executive Director Ron Pollack held a conference call to tout what the upholding of the Act meant.

Pollack noted:

No longer will they be able to charge a discriminatory premium based on health status, like an adult who may have high blood pressure. No longer will a health company be able to discriminate against women in the premiums they charge exclusively because of their gender.

We spoke with National Medical Association President Dr. Cedrick Bright about why his organization supporting the legislation.

Bright stated:

The law helps to catch the vulnerable people, we'll have a safety net for vulnerable people who fall through the cracks. The law does allow, does not allow for insurance to deny any type of patients coverage if you have pre-existing conditions. The law doesn not allow for insurance to cancel your coverage when you get sick. The law allows you to continue to get care while in the past there were limits on the care you could receive.

One aspect of the act that isn’t discussed very often is how it will specifically benefit women.

Some 19 million women are currently uninsured, but in 2014 part of the law kicks in that will make Medicaid available to 10.3 million women.

Women, on average, pay higher rates for health insurance, but part of the law now prohibits insurance companies from charging based on gender rating.

Additionally, the law takes a big leap when it comes to maternity laws in the United States.

Businesses with more than 50 employees will now be required to allow nursing women to take a break for the purpose of relieving breast milk.

graphic: San Antonio business Journal

source: Workers Independent News

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Atheist Pig has a carton that many religious folks won't understand


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We don't want people with critical thinking skills . . .

We don't want people with critical thinking skills in corporations, now do we? Texas corporations want compliant Boy Scouts with personality  like Rick Perry.

Anti-intellectualism has become rampantg in the GOP particularly with the rise of the Tea Party. One of the major talking heads of the GOP, Rush Limbaugh, failed every course he took in college, even ballroom dancing!

Here's the passage from page 12 of their Texas GOP party platform manual:

We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a re-labeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.


source: http://www.farleftside.com/2012/6-29-12-critical-thinking.html


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NY Daily News: Chief Justice John Roberts to spend the summer in an "impregnable fortress"

John Roberts, as Zeus, ruling from on high.

"A day after drawing the ire of Republicans with his tie breaking vote to uphold Obamacare, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts quipped he would be spending the summer in an “impregnable fortress.”
Roberts’ humor underscores how he has been scorned by conservatives, who were counting on him to help strike down President Obama’s historic health care reforms."
Rightardia is certain Chief Justice Roberts made the right decision that was the best interests of US citizens.. Whether you call the individual mandate penalty a fine or a tax is not important. 
Based on the experience MA has with RomenyCare, the penalty will affect approximately 1 per cent of Americans who can afford insurance but are unwilling to purchase it. These are the Medicaid free riders or free loaders who go to the emergency rooms when they get sick. 
Once the Individual Mandate became law, insurance enrollment went form 90 per cent in MA to 98 per cent. All of the children in MA now have health insurance. 
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was based on the MA healthcare experiment. The Individual Mandate was a conservative idea, 
ObamaCare is a misnomer. It should be called ObomneyCare.

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see http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/court-jester-supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-cracks-wise-day-obamacare-vote-article-1.1105378
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Must have been a good week for America


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Friday, June 29, 2012

What good book would Mitt Romney take the Oath of Office on?


Rightardia would have never guessed the Supreme Court vote on the Affordable health act, so it is even possible Mitt Romney could be elected president

I wonder how evangelicals and fundamentalists would react when Mitt Romney were to be sworn in on the Book of Mormon.

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HealthCare.gov: No ACA employer mandate for 96 per cent of US businesses

There is no employer mandate for small businesses in the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA). it is clear he GOP is greatly exaggerating the effect of ACA on small business. 


The law specifically exempts all firms that have fewer than 50 employees – 96 percent of all firms in the United States or 5.8 million out of 6 million total firms – from any employer responsibility requirements.


Republicans aren't fooling anybody that ACA will kill jobs: 

The ACA is unlikely to have major aggregate effects on the U.S. economy and on employment primarily because the changes in spending and taxes are very small relative to the size of the economy. 

see http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/72041.pdf 


Small employers with fewer than 25 full-time equivalent employees and average annual wages of less than $50,000 that purchase health insurance for employees are eligible for the tax credit. 


The maximum credit will be available to employers with 10 or fewer full-time equivalent employees and average annual wages of less than $25,000. 


To be eligible for a tax credit, the employer must contribute at least 50 percent of the total premium cost.


For 2010 through 2013, eligible employers will receive a small business credit for up to 35 percent of their contribution toward the employee’s health insurance premium. 


r Tax-exempt small businesses meeting the above requirements are eligible for tax credits of up to 25 percent of their contribution.


For 2014 and beyond, small employers who purchase coverage through the new Health Insurance Exchanges can receive a tax credit for two years of up to 50 percent of their contribution. 


Tax-exempt small businesses meeting the above requirements are eligible for tax credits of up to 35 percent of their contribution.


For more information on tax credits, visit http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=223666,00.html.

See Increasing Choice and Saving Money for Small Businesses | HealthCare.gov

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Gov. Duval Patrick explains Romenycare and the Individual Mandate


Gov. Patick explains Romneycare that is identical to the Affrodable Health Care Act to Chuck Todd.

Todd also internviewed Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas. Twenty five per cent of TX residents have no insurance coverage.

Senator Hutchinson's approach to health care appears to be the staus quo. Hutchinson exaggerates the cost of the so-called tax increase.

Hutchinson suggests people making $75,000 a year canot afford health insurance. Huh?

The two interviews provide an insight on the different views of the two parties on healthcare. It is clear that the Republicans wants to repeal Affordable Health Care but have no real alternative plan.

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Republican spin machine winds up

David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to the President

Republicans are all over the news today suggesting the Americans will lose choice on their health care. Much of Affordable Health Care Act is already in effect and Rightardia is not aware of many people, if any, who have had to change insurance providers or doctors.

Many Americans are afraid of the mandate which will only effect people who can afford healthcare but do not have it. There are also hardship exemptions for the poor.

So this fine or tax is selective.  It will not effect most Americans.

David Axelrod was on the Morning Joe and explained the Affordable Health Care Act eliminates pre-existing conditions and lifetime caps. Children are now covered on their parent's policies until age 26.

Many people now have health insurance who did not have it before.

He also said the government will control costs by requiring insurance companies to provide preventive care and also demanding that insurance companies must have medical loss ratios of 80 per cent and rebate premiums to policy holders that don't meet that standard.

The era of insurance company windfall profits is over. 

see http://www.csgmidwest.org/policyresearch/jan11medicallossratio.aspx

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Health Care Dissent: Here's What The Conservative Wing Wanted To Happen


The Huntington Post has an article by Ryan Grim that examined the dissenting opinion of the four conservative judges.

Essentially, the conservatives wanted to throw the baby out with the bath water completely invalidating the law.

Talk about judicial overreach!

Health Care Dissent: Here's What The Conservative Wing Wanted To Happen

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Obama's Response To Supreme Court Health Care Ruling


The video explains what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will mean to the middle class.

Obama said:

It should be pretty clear that I didn't do this because it's good politics," I did it because it's good for the country.


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JPMorgan loss may reach $9 billion

Jamie Dimon
The last JP Morgan loss number Rightrdia heard ws $5 biillion. Now the loss is expected to be around $9 billion.

photo: Flickr

See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/jpmorgan-trading-loss-9-billion_n_1633443.html
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Jessica Ehrlich on the Supreme Court ruling


JE Header

This is a victory for Floridians and middle class families across the country. 

Now is the time to look towards the future. This law has already improved insurance coverage for so many. It gives American's with pre-existing conditions the ability to get health insurance, and it allows young adults to stay on a parent's health insurance until they are 26 and closes the prescription drug “doughnut hole”.

Help me fight for Florida in Washington. Click here and donate before our deadline Saturday. 

Can you believe that Bill Young voted to strip millions of Americans of coverage by repealing this bill? He would rather burden families and seniors even more while giving tax breaks to billionaires. Just recently he also voted for a budget that would end Medicare as we know it and raise costs on seniors by $6000 a year. 

But the law isn’t perfect, and we must do more. Having lost my dad to a terminal illness, I have seen how financially devastating sky rocketing health care costs can be. I want to bring that experience to Washington to fight for working families.

Will you donate before my big deadline on Saturday to help me fight for Floridians in Washington? There are just a few days left! 

Onward,

Jessica

Jessica will compete against the GOP fossil, CW Bill Young, in Florida's 10th Congressional District. Bill Young is competing his 20th term in congress and needs to go home and retire.

CW Bill Young is the GOP poster child for term limits. 


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Science Daily: Date of earliest animal life reset by 30 million years

two conceptions of  Urbilateria


ScienceDaily (June 28, 2012) — University of Alberta researchers have uncovered physical proof that animals existed 585 million years ago -- 30 million years earlier than previous records show.


Of course, plants and mosaic organisms that had features of both plants and animals existed before the first animals.

See Date of earliest animal life reset by 30 million years

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CNN, Fox News get Supreme Court health care ruling wrong in bid for speed | masslive.com


Both CNN and Fox news got the healthcare ruling wrong in the rush to get the story out first.

Wolf Blitzer and reporter Kate Bolduan reported that the individual mandate had been struck down.

Bill Hemmer said during the "breaking news" that the individual mandate had been declared unconstitutional. Fox anchor Bret Baier tweeted the same misinformation.

Pam Bondi visibly shaken by the Supremes' ruling




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So was Rick Scott, the FL governor who started mumbling incoherently about the ruling. 


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Sarah Palin thanks the Supremes

John Roberts, as Zeus, ruling from on high.

Sarah Palin thanked the Supreme Court and the Almighty after the high court ruled in favor of President Obama’s Affordable healthcare  law.

The former Alaska governor believes that the survival of the healthcare reform law will spell doom for Democrats in November.


Palin said: 

Thank you, SCOTUS. This Obamacare ruling fires up the troops as America’s eyes are opened. Thank God.

Meanwhile other conservatives are posting about moving to Canada which has a single payer medical system.

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see http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-sarah-palin-thanks-god-and-supreme-court-for-healthcare-ruling-20120628,0,4333189.story

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Obama on the Supreme Court Decsion



President Obama said this on the Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Health Care Act:

Today's decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives are more secure because of this law. 


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LATimes: Chief justice leads Supreme Court's support of healthcare law


The decision was a 5-4 vote, with the court's four liberal justices joining with the chief justice.

Chief Justice John Roberts,Jr.  agreed with the law's conservative critics who said Congress does not have the power to mandate the purchase of a private product such as health insurance.

Roberts explained the Affordable Care Act does not impose a true legal mandate on Americans. It simply requires those who do not have health insurance by 2014 to pay a tax penalty.

Roberts said:

The federal government does have the power to impose a tax on those without health insurance.

If your happy and you know it, clap your hands! 
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco)and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)

Chief justice leads Supreme Court's support of healthcare law - latimes.com

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The conservative dream for America


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Obama's chances improve on Intrade

While Obama's numbers have improved, Mittens have dropped. Mittens' chances are now 42.3 per cent.

Gallup gave Obama a 2 point edge today. However, the electoral college is the key to victory.

Rightardia thinks the outsourcer -in-chief attack may have been a fatal blow to Mittens.

Of course, Romney has been running on his private sector record and his alleged ability to create jobs. the questions is: what country will these job be created in?

Rightardia has pointed out in numerous articles that the job creation record of Republicans is inferior to Democrats.

Truthful Politics has noted that the average amount of private sector jobs created during Democratic Presidential terms is 1,463,220 and the average amount during Republican Presidential terms is 642,000.

see http://www.truthfulpolitics.com/http:/truthfulpolitics.com/comments/u-s-job-creation-by-president-political-party/

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The wrong man for the times


The Vatican's doctrinal department said US nuns focused too much on poverty and economic justice while keeping “silent” on abortion and same-sex marriage.

Pope Benedict then declares Female Priests are akin to Paedophiles.

A Vatican then appointed an American bishop to “rein in” the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

The sisters were also reprimanded for making public statements disagreeing with the bishops over their attacks on health care reform.

Pope Benedict seems to be little more than an ultra-conservative monarch who is out of touch with American Catholics. 

You can expect the Pope to visit the US before the election. He will tell the bishops which way he wants the flock to vote. Then the sermons about the evils of abortion and homosexuality will be given before the 2012 elections.

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Nuns on the bus

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Washington Post Refuses Team Romney’s Request for Retracting Bain Outsourcing Story | The Moderate Voice



The Moderate Voice  has excellent article on the WaPo article that stated that Bainn capital was an outsourcing pioneer. The article is likely to do permanent damge to the romeny campaign.

The Moderate Voice stated:

Romney campaign officials on Wednesday met with top editors at the Post to request the paper retract the story. According to Politico’s Dylan Byers, who broke the news of the meeting, Romney staffers intended to argue that the article’s charges were incomplete or inaccurate. Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul declined to give any details of the meeting.


However, The Washington Post is standing by its story and will not retract it.

Post spokeswoman Kris Coratti said:

We are very confident in our reporting. 

The Romney campaign initial argument was that the Post doesn’t make the distinction between “outsourcing” and “off-shoring" which was a weak defense.

In "outsourcing," organizational functions is contracted out to another coporation. While Mitt was governor he did ousource a state call center to India.to save money.

Offshoring rusually refers to the relocation of a corporation from the US to a foregn country.

The Post reported examined SEC filings. Bain Capital under Romney did, in fact, own companies that were the first to outsource jobs oversees.

Breitbart is contesting the story which it sugests was coordinated between the White House and the WaPo. See http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/06/27/Wapo-refuses-to-retract-romney-bain.


Rightardia will also be checking Politifact and the FactCheck for their take on the WaPo article. So far only Factcheck has commented on Call Center outsourcing when Romney was governor.

See Washington Post Refuses Team Romney’s Request for Retracting Bain Outsourcing Story | The Moderate Voice

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