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  • Swampdog 2012/06/30 20:42:37
    Swampdog
    +1
    Politicians never met a tax they didn't like.
  • frank 2012/06/30 18:33:35
    frank
    +1
    The sad part is it’s only the beginning. Please don't give him another four years.
  • panjok2 2012/06/29 17:45:41
    panjok2
    +1
    No wonder the Seniors are coming out in huge numbers in support of Mitt Romney for president in 2012....it is a life and death issue for all of us!! PS, keep walking and stay healthy!!
    Seniors BEWARE - BE SURE TO READ THIS ONE!


    Seniors"

    Forget about getting to age 75, this exact thing happened to me this morning at Danbury hospital here in Ct. I was scheduled for a cardio-lite stress test. This is a tread mill stress test where during the process they inject nuclear dye into your blood stream and then put you in a CAT scan or something similar and take a picture of your heart. If all is good the heart shows up red, if there are blocked arteries anywhere that portion of the heart shows up pink. I have had three of these tests in the past twelve years due to blocked arteries discovered in 2000. They use the test to determine if I need a roto router or a bypass operation.

    So I arrive at the hospital at 8 am this morning and I am in the process of checking in at Cardiology and the lady says that my appointment has been canceled. She makes a call and speaks with someone and hands me the phone. It is a nurse in cardiology who says that my medical coverage denied the procedure. I said it was routine, part of my heart maintenance process and ordered by my P...







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    No wonder the Seniors are coming out in huge numbers in support of Mitt Romney for president in 2012....it is a life and death issue for all of us!! PS, keep walking and stay healthy!!
    Seniors BEWARE - BE SURE TO READ THIS ONE!


    Seniors"

    Forget about getting to age 75, this exact thing happened to me this morning at Danbury hospital here in Ct. I was scheduled for a cardio-lite stress test. This is a tread mill stress test where during the process they inject nuclear dye into your blood stream and then put you in a CAT scan or something similar and take a picture of your heart. If all is good the heart shows up red, if there are blocked arteries anywhere that portion of the heart shows up pink. I have had three of these tests in the past twelve years due to blocked arteries discovered in 2000. They use the test to determine if I need a roto router or a bypass operation.

    So I arrive at the hospital at 8 am this morning and I am in the process of checking in at Cardiology and the lady says that my appointment has been canceled. She makes a call and speaks with someone and hands me the phone. It is a nurse in cardiology who says that my medical coverage denied the procedure. I said it was routine, part of my heart maintenance process and ordered by my PCP and with approval from my Cardiologist who is the head of Danbury Cardiology which is right where I was standing. She goes, "yes but we were denied our request". So I say, I have Medicare so what is my backup insurance doing denying anything. Then the bombshell, she says it was the Medicare board that denied the procedure.

    At that point, I turn to everyone behind me, and it was a long line, and I say to them "well you won't have to wait too long today because my stress test procedure was just canceled by a Medicare Death Panel. I am only 67 so can you imagine what is going to happen when we really get old". The entire waiting room and everyone there from patients to staff just went dead silent. So I turn to the front desk and tell them, " I guess I will have to write a letter to the editor of the Danbury News Times and call my Senators and Congressman and let them know the Death Panels have already convened". Then I walked out.

    By the time I got home the message machine was blinking. My PCP had already called and so did the hospital and guess what, Medicare decided to approve my stress test procedure and if I could get back down to the hospital they would fit me in right now for this 3 hour procedure. I told them I couldn't make it, that I was going fishing because I didn't know how many more fishing trips I could get in before I went into cardiac arrest but not to worry about me costing the government any money because I am a 30% disabled Army veteran, due to Agent Orange poisoning which is what caused this heart problem to begin with, and I qualify to be buried for free in a plain pine wrapper in the cheap graves section at any National Cemetary. I certainly don't want to cost our government any money so maybe we just won't do this procedure anymore and we can use the money to redistribute it to all of the illegals to keep them alive so they can mow the lawns at the National Cemeteries.

    So this Death Panel crap has started. If we don't vote this guy and his criminal cronies out of office this November then we will all die younger than we should as broke paupers as the country goes bankrupt. Feel free to distribute my note to anyone and make it a mission to not only make your vote count but on behalf of all of us please make an effort to change the thinking of anyone remotely willingly to get intellectually engaged in this critical time in our country's history.

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    WELL ISN’T THIS SOME SPECIAL NEWS GRANDMA AND PAPA!!!

    I had one of the most troubling, most disturbing conversations ever with Dr. Suzanne Allen, head of emergency services at the Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee . We were discussing the "future" and I asked her had she seen any affects of Obama Care in her work?

    "Oh, yes. We are seeing cutbacks throughout the services we provide. For example, we are now having to deal with patients who would normally receive dialysis can no longer be accepted. In the past, there was always automatic approval under Medicare for anyone who needed dialysis -- not anymore." So, what will be their outcome? "They will die soon without dialysis," she stated.

    What about other services? She indicated as of 2013 (after the election), no one over 75 will be given major medical procedures unless approved by locally administered Ethics Panels. These Panels will determine whether a patient receives medical treatment or not. While details on specific operating procedures and schedules, Dr. Allen points out that most life-threatening emergencies do not occur during normal hospital business hours, and if there are emergencies that depend to be resolve within minutes or just few hours, the likely hood of getting these Panels approval in time to save a life are going to be very challenging and difficult, if not impossible she said.

    This applies to major operations such as receiving stents, bypass surgery, kidney operations, or treating for an aneurysm that would be normally covered under Medicare today. In other words, if you needed a life-saving operation, Medicare will not provide coverage anymore after 2013 if you are 75 or over. When in 2013? "We haven't been given a specific date -- could be in January or July....but it's after the election."

    This is shocking to any of us who will be 75 this year. Her advice -- get healthy and stay healthy. We do not know the specifics of the actual implementation of the full Obama Care policies and procedures -- "they haven't filtered down to the local level yet. But we are already seeing severe cuts in what we provide to the elderly -- we refused dialysis to an individual who was 78 just the other day....we refused to give stents to a gentleman who was in his late 80s." Every day, she said, we are seeing these cutbacks aimed at reducing care across the board for anyone who is over 75.

    We can only hope that Obama Care will be overturned by the Supreme Court -- otherwise, this is a death sentence to those who are over 75....perhaps you should pass this on to your friends who are thinking of voting for Obama this year.

    Regardless if you have private health care coverage now (I have Aetna Medicare Part B) -- it will no longer apply after 2013 if the Ethics Panels disapprove of a procedure that may save your life.....
    Scary, scary, scary. Think about this? You? Your parents? Your loved ones?

    Didn't know about it? Of course, not. As Nancy Pelosi said...."well, if you want to know what's in the bill, you'll have to read it....." After it was passed.

    This is a graphic reminder of the need to stay healthy. Get your plot now at Forest Lawn....while they last. Is this a death sentence to those of us who will reach 75?.....Yes!
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  • Frank 2012/06/29 16:17:50
    Frank
    +2
    Just the beginning people........... Obama was half right about his change....... He's going to take more money from the middle class and give it to the so called poor. The rich will still be rich.........
    Vote te man out of office before it's to late.....
  • Mary Philliber 2012/06/29 14:04:02
    Mary Philliber
    +2
    So now we have a bill that the majority of the people didn't want, and a President who LIED to the american people about this bill. He said it was not a tax, he said you get to keep your doctor and insurance. Companies are going to drop everyone cuz it is cheaper for them to pay the "tax". Then you will end up on gov run insurance. And if the gov can't run the post office they sure as hell can't run health care. Talk to some veterans about their gov run insursance.
  • panjok2 Mary Ph... 2012/06/29 15:35:06
    panjok2
    +1
    look at the license branch! what a joke this bill is! I hope my grandma and grandpa don't ever need a major surgery because they won't be allowed to get it! Obama says "just give em a pill" that's what he would do for his grandma!
  • Ashley 2012/06/29 13:40:06
    Ashley
    +2
    Lets hope it motivates people to vote in November for Romney
  • Ira 2012/06/29 12:39:18
    Ira
    +2
    Rush? I am out of here.
  • Michelle 2012/06/29 09:08:22
    Michelle
    +2
    Increase only if you refuse insurance and how many of us do? Oh when it available and more available now
  • D Hanes 2012/06/29 02:30:35
    D Hanes
    +1
    It sure is.. and it is going to be the final nail in the coffin of the middle class. Get ready for third world lviing america.. Barry has got what he wanted.. stupid pig!
  • superangrymonkey 2012/06/29 02:17:52
    superangrymonkey
    +1
    You love it.
  • cudlow 2012/06/29 00:45:47
    cudlow
    +3
    Both losers of the main parties want this horrible, anti-American ruse to continue. Our only hope is to elect conservatives to the house and senate to override either an Obama or a rombama veto!
  • A Found... cudlow 2012/06/29 01:17:46
    A Founding Father
    +2
    You are on to something there. There really are millions of freeloaders who have used the ERs as their free medical facilities for decades. Now, they are being asked to pay something toward the costs they incur. Freeing them again of this "burden" will likely get them to vote for your "conservative" agenda. Romney promised to restore their rights to freeload on the very first day of his term in office. That is powerful rhetoric and will play loudly among the illegals and despots who have never felt a need to pay for their snotty nose kids in the ER.
  • panjok2 A Found... 2012/06/29 15:45:51
    panjok2
    +1
    no they won't have to pay anything! The ones who use the ER as their doctors office are the poor and the illegals who will either be under the free part of obamacare or not under anything at all! I didn't see a thing in the bill that says illegals who don't pay taxes are going to be added to this! So basically we will still be paying for them through taxes and now some of us who aren't Obama's buddies will lose our insurance! Obama let all his buddies opt out of Obamacare! My company will surely drop our healthcare and are already talking about it! There is be rationed healthcare just like everywhere else and the govenment will now decide if you deserve surgery or not! THIS IS OBAMACARE!
  • A Found... panjok2 2012/06/29 21:25:37
  • panjok2 A Found... 2012/07/04 12:26:06
    panjok2
    Everything I wrote is true! I did not make up anything in my comment! I am sorry Obama has fooled you into actually believing that this could ever work! Well, it will work at making our healthcare suck as bad as other countries do! Maybe you should spend some time and learn about Europe ,Canada and see how their system is and how people that need basic surgery cannot get it without government approval!
    If you have healthcare right now, then you know that there are certain things that are covered and that doctors have to diagnose you a certain way in order to be covered! With Obamacare it is the government who decides what surgeries you get and what the doctor has to diagnose you with in order to get that surgery!

    I cannot wait for the day that Obamacare affects you and you will look back and say...That Panjok2 was right" I have read most of the bill and I have kept a very close eye on all the news about Obamacare! I watched both sides debate the constitutionality of it b4 the supreme court decided the case! You don't have to believe me because I know the truth! Yes, I want people to pay their share but this is nothing more than a flawed attempt! Please answer one question for me! If you worked really hard in school or in your trade/profession to get a job and you had great he...
    Everything I wrote is true! I did not make up anything in my comment! I am sorry Obama has fooled you into actually believing that this could ever work! Well, it will work at making our healthcare suck as bad as other countries do! Maybe you should spend some time and learn about Europe ,Canada and see how their system is and how people that need basic surgery cannot get it without government approval!
    If you have healthcare right now, then you know that there are certain things that are covered and that doctors have to diagnose you a certain way in order to be covered! With Obamacare it is the government who decides what surgeries you get and what the doctor has to diagnose you with in order to get that surgery!

    I cannot wait for the day that Obamacare affects you and you will look back and say...That Panjok2 was right" I have read most of the bill and I have kept a very close eye on all the news about Obamacare! I watched both sides debate the constitutionality of it b4 the supreme court decided the case! You don't have to believe me because I know the truth! Yes, I want people to pay their share but this is nothing more than a flawed attempt! Please answer one question for me! If you worked really hard in school or in your trade/profession to get a job and you had great healthcare coverage and pay because of your hard work! Would you think it was fair to lose that coverage and be put on a lesser Obamacare? But, at the same time your neighbor who had no education but worked for a union was able to keep his great coverage because Obama made them exempt from it, along with other groups? How can you think that it is fair for some... but not for all? If you are behind Obamacare, then you are behind this!
    Oh, and did you know... that most of our politicians had their accountants change their portfolios to include a bunch of healthcare providers? They did and if they were stock brokers they would be in prison for insider trading!
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  • panjok2 A Found... 2012/07/04 13:27:14
    panjok2
    Ambassadore, I wanted to let you know about the president you support!

    Quit Trashing Obama's Accomplishments you say?


    Here is an impressive list of accomplishments:

    First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

    First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

    First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States

    First President to violate the War Powers Act. .

    First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .

    First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

    First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

    First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

    First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

    First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

    First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.

    First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of...





































    Ambassadore, I wanted to let you know about the president you support!

    Quit Trashing Obama's Accomplishments you say?


    Here is an impressive list of accomplishments:

    First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

    First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

    First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States

    First President to violate the War Powers Act. .

    First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .

    First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

    First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

    First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

    First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

    First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

    First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.

    First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

    First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space.

    First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

    First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

    First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

    First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

    First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

    First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

    First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

    First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. .

    First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.

    First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

    First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

    First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.

    First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.

    First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

    First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

    First President to repeat the Holy Quran tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

    First President to take a 17 day vacation.

    How is this hope and change working out for you?
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  • A Found... panjok2 2012/07/04 13:51:06
    A Founding Father
    I think you will regain some sense of happiness if you become an active supporter of the guy in the magic underwear and vote for him in the upcoming
    election. My best wishes for your full recovery.
  • panjok2 A Found... 2012/07/04 14:29:04
    panjok2
    I knew you couldn't answer my question nor debate the issue! I know...I know..it's hard to when you don't have a leg to stand on! Probably because Obama has let the government cut it off instead of spending the money to save it! lol that was funny!
  • tracy.m.miller1 2012/06/29 00:11:41
    tracy.m.miller1
    +2
    Get ready for the pinch!
  • Pele Emerging 2012/06/28 23:51:19
    Pele Emerging
    +2
    Sorry, if Rush Limbaugh says it's Thursday, I'm going to check the calendar. When he's called on his lack of facts, he always claims he's an entertainer and not the news, but he wants to be taken seriously.
  • lark 2012/06/28 23:43:58
    lark
    +3
    of course it is. The Big O is the worlds biggest LIAR
  • Jackie G - Poker Playing Pa... 2012/06/28 23:39:36 (edited)
    Jackie G - Poker Playing Patriot
    +3
    You bet it is - 19 brand new taxes in the bill and the additional mandate tax. Who will pay? The middle class and it will kill them

    thomas Sowell
  • drdos1943 2012/06/28 23:35:22 (edited)
    drdos1943
    +6
    If Romney plays it right, Justice Roberts just handed Romney the presidency.

    More than 60% of voters and doctors are against ACA. If they vote on that issue alone, forgetting the president's failure on the economy, Obama is toast in November.

    What's more, the Supreme Court declared the Individual Mandate to be a tax (which was the government's defense of the law), which will be the largest tax increase for the middle class in the history of the United States, proving Obama no longer to be the protector of the middle class. If the so-called penalty had been proposed as a tax originally, even Democrats would not have voted for the Health Care bill. Americans have now been subject to a fraud unprecedented in our history.

    This is not a victory for the Democratic Party in the long run. It is an issue, unless they address it, that will be instrumental in defeating them in November.
  • A Founding Father 2012/06/28 23:35:22
    A Founding Father
    +3
    Reall stupid, but will be believed by a lot of RWNJs who have no minds at all. Let's watch the comments and laugh.
  • nofrills 2012/06/28 23:28:21
    nofrills
    +3
    obama must go! and REPEAL his 'hindenberg' health care!
  • bob h. 2012/06/28 23:17:02
    bob h.
    +3
    Wisely spoken by the biggest heath care user in the world. Deaf, morbidly obese, pill addict, decides common citizens have no meed for HC. You spin it, chubby.
  • kudabux 2012/06/28 23:07:59
    kudabux
    +4
    So, Rush, when are you moving to Costa Rica? buhbye
  • bob h. kudabux 2012/06/28 23:21:59
    bob h.
    +4
    He's looking for a big enough door to hit him in the a##.
  • jt bob h. 2012/06/28 23:28:24
    jt
    Hey bob glad to see you here...
  • bob'45 2012/06/28 23:05:56
    bob'45
    +5
    Now, more than ever, it's time to come together and do whatever it takes to defeat the Obama Regime in November. defeat obama
  • flaca BN-0 2012/06/28 23:04:44
    flaca BN-0
    +3
    isn't the tax only for those who can afford h/c but choose not to get it? Since most people have h/ins, how is it the largest tax increase in the history of the world?
  • bob h. flaca BN-0 2012/06/28 23:26:51
    bob h.
    +1
    Why does care. He doesn't pay for his?
  • drdos1943 flaca BN-0 2012/06/29 01:28:40 (edited)
    drdos1943
    +2
    ... and how is the government going to pay for the 30 million or so who are now eligible for "free" Health Care. The Supreme Court also ruled that states cannot be penalized for opting out of medicaid entirely if they so wish. In order to balance their budgets, they no longer must expand medicaid or suffer the withdrawal of federal medicaid funds, which the federal government had threatened to do. Instead, all those who cannot enter the state's medicaid systems or are dropped from medicaid, are entitled to receive federal health care. Guess who is going to pay for them through their taxes?

    One way or another, the retaining of ACA, as it stands now, will be the largest tax increase levied on Americans in the history of the U.S... and currently, the only way to avoid this situation is to get rid of the law... and as Romney has said that the only way to get rid of the law is to get rid of Obama. Unless the Democrats start revising the Health Care Law as soon as possible, there will be serious consequences for them in November.
  • unclepat 2012/06/28 23:02:35
    unclepat
    +4
    Of course Mt. Rushbo KNOWS that you'll only get taxed if you can afford health insurance and yet still refuse to purchase any!
  • Mary Ph... unclepat 2012/06/29 14:00:46
    Mary Philliber
    +1
    not true, if you read the bill you will find that there have been taxes added to everything. Medical devices, for instance. So no this is not just for those who don't have insurance. It is for everyone.
  • in vino veritas 2012/06/28 22:56:48
    in vino veritas
    +3
    We need a bold Patriot who loves America and the Constitution,Romney will buy us time but we The People need to clean house in the truest sense while there is still time.On 9/11/01 I maintained the belief we would overcome,today a sense of malignant urgency has me in its grip,I cant shake it,I am afraid.
  • unclepat in vino... 2012/06/28 23:06:46
    unclepat
    +3
    Translation: I was doing just fine letting the taxpayer pay for my freeloading ways but now I'll have to actually purchase my own health insurance. Oh well, all that talk about "personal responsibility and accountability" is something I'll have to actually live by! damn
  • in vino... unclepat 2012/06/28 23:10:52
  • unclepat in vino... 2012/06/28 23:16:01
    unclepat
    +2
    IF YOU ALREADY HAVE OR ARE SATISFIED WITH YOUR CURRENT INSURANCE THEN YOU DON'T HAVE SQUAT TO WORRY ABOUT....IDIOT!!

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