Obama and Obamacare hates sick people (emphasis mine and reformatted):

…The husband is 57, the wife 61. Both have cancer — the husband’s is in remission while the wife’s is in aggressive and expensive treatment.

The couple had been obtaining health insurance under Wisconsin’s high-risk-pool program, created in 1979, which provides health care to about 20,000 residents and is subsidized by a state tax on everyone else’s health-insurance plans. Under that plan, the couple paid a premium of $767 a month and had out-of-pocket expenses capped at $10,000 a year, meaning their overall costs were around $19,000. Eligibility for Wisconsin’s high-risk-pool program comes from being rejected by two commercial insurance companies. Under Obamacare, those companies can’t reject anyone because of preexisting conditions, so the high-risk pools will be eliminated [Jan 1 – Skip].

Finding information about enrolling in Obamacare has been a nightmare. The husband has tried to review plans at Healthcare.gov over 40 times at all times of the day and night with no success. He called the Obamacare 1-800 number two weeks ago. A friendly woman promised to send him a packet of information that never arrived. In the meantime, the only place he can get any information is the insurance companies, which are providing him quotes that are roughly double his current costs.

The “bronze plan” doesn’t include necessary care, so the couple is looking at the “silver plan,” which starts at $1,400 a month. They are still trying to get an exact handle on the out-of-pocket expenses, but right now it appears as if the total cost will be in the range of $40,000.

The husband has been given three different estimates of the subsidies he will receive from the federal government, from $726 a month to $911 a month. Although that will soften the blow, they will still likely be paying more. (Nothing is certain yet given the rat’s nest of Healthcare.gov).

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 “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what. My view is that health-care reform should be guided by a simple principle: Fix what’s broken and build on what works.”

– President Obama, June 2009, to the AMA

 Well, once again, we see the Progressive / Socialist lie (glad to see that Steve remembered Joe Wilson’s “YOU LIE!“ during the SOTUA).  And it was a lie:

[A]ccording to health care analyst Bob Laszewski, about 19 million people are currently in the individual health insurance market and 16 million of them are going to lose their current plan thanks to Obamacare.

Now many of those people will qualify for tax payer subsidies that will help them afford the higher premiums. But how many people that currently have individual health insurance will qualify for any help?

Well, according to a recent Kaiser Study, that number is less than half. Just 48 percent of people now buying their own insurance will be eligible for a tax credit that will help protect them from sticker shock.

That’s 8 million Americans who, like Deborah Cavallaro will be “infuriated because I was lied to.”

And for those Progressives whose mantra is that we should EMBRACE Big Govt because non-partisan technocrats, who have our best interests at hears would NEVER LIE to us, here’s this:

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“The examples we hear from people with narrowed minds  try to make us believe that only the ones who have made it are entitled to what they earn (and all of it).”

“[F]reedom, if it is to work well, requires not only strong moral standards but moral standards of a particular kind, and that it is possible in a free society for moral standards to grow up which, if they become general, will destroy freedom and with it the basis of all moral values.”  – F.A. Hayek    (H/T: Cafe Hayek)

The title, obviously, are two of the Ten Commandments.  The second is from a Letter to the Editor from a well known Leftist in my local area (Laconia Daily Sun, 10/22/56, after the jump).  The third was a cautionary note by Hayek from 1961.  Unfortunately, it seems that the last has been ignored, the first has been mightly scorned, and all we have left is is a willingness to steal from others.

Such old notions of morality – don’t steal, don’t covet –

Sidenote:  I do wonder how many of the unchurched would even know the true meaning of the word “covet”?

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Steve brought us the plight of 3 month pregnant Jennifer Harris to us.  Seemingly, she had the TANSTAAFL moment when she got the bill from her brand new OppressiveCare policy (emphasis mine):

Now [Jennifer] Harris, a self-employed lawyer, must shop for replacement insurance. The cheapest plan she has found will cost her $238 a month. She and her husband don’t qualify for federal premium subsidies because they earn too much money, about $80,000 a year combined.

“It doesn’t seem right to make the middle class pay so much more in order to give health insurance to everybody else,” said Harris, who is three months pregnant. “This increase is simply not affordable.”

Jennifer Harris at least has the ability to pay the 262% increase in premiums that the Democrat’s forward looking vision for health care has delivered unto us. Well, I assume she does. She lives in California. $80K/year doesn’t buy as much in the PRC as other parts of the country.

She has come smack right up to that ill-named notion of “Free Money” up close and personal – nothing concerning money is “free”.  Too bad that doesn’t happen more often – that the decisions and votes made by greedy Politicians aren’t brought home more often so that “producers and earners” can watch their hard earned money waft out their doors and windows.  That sense of “someone else will pay” is going to hurt a whole lot more people people just because Obama and Progressives DO wish to hurt others by redistributing their hard earned Private Property.  Folks like Jennifer Harris (and Bernadette Loesch of Laconia) are going to quickly learn that Progressives (like Willy Sutton before them) are now reaching to where the real money is – the middle class (Sutton merely picked on banks; at least he was honest about his thieving ways). 

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When Common Core arrived many states and districts just accepted it and signed on, only to discover just how bad it really is.  Teachers, parents, and administrators got caught in a bind as they tried to make sense of what has turned out to be an impossible curriculum to teach or test.

We had a great discussion about this with Ann Marie Banfield a few weeks back (Audio here and here) during which she mentioned NYC in particular- If they had stocks in the town square more than a few school board presidents, superintendents, and others would be in them having their faces used to make salads with rotting vegetables.

People are livid.

Which brings me to this; an open letter from an association of New York State Principals, to all parents in New York State, with regard to new testing. that looks more like an effort to keep themselves out of those stocks.  Or maybe it is something else.  You decide.

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The Obama Administation knew all along that as many as 50-60% or more of us would lose our plans under ObamaCare.

From Right Wing bastion – NBC

Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, “the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.”  

That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.

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Lib Cartoonist: Sarah Palin was Right (sort of)!

Palin, along with other commenters, remarked that the epic failure of the Government run Healthcare rollout seems intentional and is designed to get us to single-payer, which was the plan all along.  Liberal Cartoonist Ted Rall, writing at the Daily KoS of all places, has unkind words for the Obama Administration, and kudos to Palin and company for other reasons – He argues that Obama and Company are all idiots (something we on the right have been saying that for years).

Rall adds his own take on the excuses used to dismiss the disastrous roll out.

If Team Obama had been plotting Canadian-style socialized medicine all along, they wouldn’t have floated all those dumb “heckuva job, Barry”-style excuses that turned healthcare.gov into the president’s Katrina moment:

• Too much volume. But corporate websites routinely handle more than the ACA sites. Besides, the feds knew that, in a nation with tens of millions of uninsured people, tens of millions of people were going to check out the website. The truth, as any idiot could plainly see, was that volume wasn’t the issue. Lousy coding was.

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Some interesting news from Adam Cahn at Cahnman’s Musings…

Last night, we were invited to join the Facebook group “Draft David Barton for U.S. Senate.”  Putting it mildly, that piqued our interest.  Cahnman’s Musings has spent a substantial amount of time tracking this rumor today.

According to multiple sources, last week a meeting occurred between Tea Party leaders and a representative for Barton.  Sources report both sides left the meeting encouraged.  Right now, speculation Barton might run is “legitimate.”

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Earlier today I received an interactive phone poll from Norwalk, IA and it was clear that somebody was polling for the upcoming Congressional Republican primary race here in CD-1. All the regular blather of “if you feel strongly about this issue, press 1….” and the like.  Most of us have hung up on these kinds of things, especially near the END of the race (even we political junkies have a breaking point).  This one, however, I took to the end and found one thing kinda strange.

It was clear that the two announced candidates were part of this – and one “rumored” one:

1. Frank Guinta
2. Dan Innis
3. Jeff Chidester.

I can see the first two, but who (heh!) would be looking to ascertain Jeff’s strength in the race?  Either of the first two to see if Jeff is a credible risk (if so, make sure that they pronounce Jeff’s last name correctly)?  Now add this:

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