Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) ventures into a hostile Tea Bag Rally and talks to Lydia – a well informed critic of the Health Care Overhaul. They debate the plan in some detail. This is one of the few recorded instances of civil discourse during the entire Health Care Debate available on YouTube
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2-1-1 is a free telephone directory, available throughout most of the United States, that offers access to health and human services information. Essentially, the directory serves as a resource for people looking to find government benefits and services, non-profit organizations, support groups, volunteer opportunities, donation programs, and other local resources that callers may be unaware of. In todays economy, access to these agencies can be vitally important for individuals and families who need immediate help. The services accessed through 2-1-1 vary from one community to the next; however, you can find a host of resources that can help you for just about any situation you face.
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In part 2 of 3 of Chris Wallace’s interview with Rush Limbaugh, he asked Rush about healthcare reform. Rush said that it’s an attempt by the government to steal 1/6 of the private sector economy and take control. Once they get control of healthcare, they will be able to make more decisions about how we run our lives.
Rush does not think individual mandates, forcing Americans to purchase health insurance, is constitutional.
Wallace also asks Rush about the success of Glenn Beck.
Rush also discussed his efforts to buy an NFL franchise, the St. Louis Rams, and how the Obama campaign played a role.
Wallace also asked him about his statement that going to drug rehab was the best thing that ever happened to him.
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Obamacare: Taxing The American People Into Oblivion
Steve Watson and Paul Watson
http://www.prisonplanet.com
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
H.R. 3590, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to give it its full title, is rammed full of tax increases which will further economically cripple Americans already laboring under the worst financial crisis since the great depression.
The partnering Reconciliation Act, currently in the Senate, also contains a raft of pork barrel and tax hikes, there to fund the trillion dollar cost of nationalizing medicine.
As reported by Bloomberg News today, analysis by the nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation reveals that the bill will generate $409.2 billion in additional taxes by 2019.
In addition, the Congressional Budget Office states that the bill also levies almost $69 billion more in penalties for those who fail to meet mandates to buy insurance.
The Journal of Accountancy boils down some of the tax hikes and penalty fees in H.R. 3590 and the Reconciliation Act the highlights include:
Excise Tax on Uninsured Individuals Individuals who fail to maintain minimum essential coverage will be subject to a penalty equal to $750. The fee for an uninsured individual under age 18 is one-half of the adult fee.
Excise Tax on High-Cost Employer Plans The federal government would impose a 40% tax on the value of employer-sponsored health coverage exceeding certain thresholds. Those levels are projected to be $8,500 for self only and $23,000 for any other level by the year 2013. This excise was announced with fanfare by the White House and labor unions in January and remains in the final bill.
Increase in additional tax on distributions from Health Savings Accounts and Archer Medical Savings Accounts not used for qualified medical expenses An increase from 10% to 20% on taxes of money in a health savings account not used for qualified medical expenses. For Archer medical savings accounts, an increase from 15% to 20%.
Additional Hospital Insurance Tax on High-Income Taxpayers High income tax payers, making on a joint return over $250,000 and a standard return over $200,000, are required to pay an additional 0.5% of wages. This applies to both self-employed, and regularly employed individuals.
Fees on Health Plans A fee applied to all health insurance providers based upon net premiums and any third party fees associated with the administration of those programs. The fees will total $6.7 billion annually. This figure begins at $8 billion in the Reconciliation Act and rises to $14.3 billion by 2018.
Tax on Indoor Tanning Services The act imposes a 10% tax on amounts paid for indoor tanning services. Like a sales tax, the tax will be collected from the person tanning when payment for the tanning services is made.
Business Insider boils down 15 more tax hikes here highlights include:
Tax on individuals without acceptable health care coverage A 2.5% income tax on individuals who do not have health care coverage, limited to a cost less than the average national health care premium.
Excise tax on elective cosmetic medical procedures A tax of 5% is levied upon the am mount paid for any cosmetic surgery. This does not include the need for such surgeries created by trauma or a disfiguring disease. If the tax is not collected by that professional completing the procedure, their business is still liable for the requirement.
The Reconciliation Act also legislates for the following surcharges: 1% surcharge on individuals making more than $350,000, 1.5% surcharge on individuals making more than $500,000, 5.4% surcharge on individuals making more than $1 million.
Yet more tax provisions in the bill are highlighted by INvestors Business Daily in their piece titled 20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms highlights include:
Taxes On Employers If you are a large employer (defined as at least 101 employees) and you do not want to provide health insurance to your employee, then you will pay a $750 fine per employee (It could be $2,000 to $3,000 under the reconciliation changes) (Section 1513).
Taxes on Pharmaceutical Companies The government will extract a fee of $2.3 billion annually from the pharmaceutical industry (Section 9008 (b)).
Taxes on medical device manufacturers The government will extract a fee of $2 billion annually from medical device makers (Section 1405).
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OVER 100 MORE examples of Fox News Bias at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
When Vice President Joe Biden spoke a blunt truth to President Barack Obama right before the President signed historic health care legislation into law last week, the coverage on Fox News was somewhat exaggerated while the benefits of the bill were downplayed during Fox News coverage of the bill signing as I show in this video.
The clip of Martha MacCallum covering Vice President Joe Biden’s statement to President Barack Obama that health care reform is a “big deal” comes from the Fox News program “America’s Newsroom” broadcast March 24, 2010, available online at http://media2.foxnews.com/032410/032410_ms_biden_NM_032410_10-13_FNC_MED.mp4
The subsequent clips of Fox News’ live coverage of President Barack Obama’s speech before signing historic health care legislation into law last week comes from the Fox News program “Happening Now” broadcast March 23, 2010, available online at http://media2.foxnews.com/032310/hn_obama_FNC_032310_12-28_FNC_MED.mp4
The image of my December 26, 2009 YouTube video titled “Fox News Omits $1.4 TRILLION in Health Reform Deficit Reduction?” comes from my YouTube video page at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1CKADNlAYo
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“The American people have told us they don’t want to be forced to buy health insurance that they don’t want and they can’t afford.”
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 
“The Colbert Report” this week found something a little ghoulish about the resurrection of the public option just in time for Halloween, though, as I argue in this video, the public option may be necessary to kill the real monster threatening the United States: rising health care costs.
The short clip from “The Colbert Report” I use in this video comes from a segment broadcast on Comedy Central on October 29, 2009, currently available in full at http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/253997/october-29-2009/threatdown—halloween-edition
The image of the bar graph comparing US health care spending to the spending in the other 29 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a public domain image available at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/International_Comparison_-_Healthcare_spending_as_%25_GDP.png
The original source of that graph (along with a lot of other great information) is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/CEA_Health_Care_Report.pdf
The images from the 2004 article in Health Affairs titled “How Does The Quality Of Care Compare In Five Countries?” come from the document available online at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/23/3/89
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At a press briefing, Fox News’ Major Garrett gets Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to admit that the President “misspoke” when commenting about AARP’s endorsing his health care reform plan.
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This is a video about an interview with John McCain in which he was asked if birth control should be covered by health insurance. As he stumbles through the question, he later realizes he wants to avoid the question. The purpose of this video is to show how different news stations covered the story. The news stations I chose were MSNBC, CNN, and FOX News.
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Health care flow chart