Great stuffREPUBLICANS ANSWER TO OBAMACARE:"GET YOUR OWN GOFUNDME PAGE & BEG FOR DONATIONS!!!"hno:##)face)(*^%
Tea Partying, Anti-Obamacare Ex-Sheriff Now Begging for Help to Pay Medical Bills
Aww! The Bundy Ranch "freedom fighter" has had to set up a GoFundMe site for his wife and himself.
By Brad Friedman / The Brad Blog
March 2, 2015
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This story is reposted with permission from The BradBlog.
The courageous 'Tea Party' leader and former County Sheriff who hid behind the women on the 'front lines of freedom' at the Bundy Ranch last year, is now asking the public to pay for much needed health care for both himself and his wife. Via TPM...Former Arizona county sheriff Richard Mack, a fierce opponent of Obamacare and a leader in the "constitutional sheriff" movement, is struggling to pay his medical bills after he and his wife each faced serious illnesses. The former sheriff and his wife do not have health insurance and started a GoFundMe campaign to solicit donations from family and friends to cover the costs of their medical care.Well, huh. If only the tens of millions of Americans who were unable to receive health care prior to enactment of the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), had just made a public name for themselves and then created GoFundMe sites to convince others to give them money to help pay for their care.
"Because they are self-employed, they have no medical insurance and are in desperate need of our assistance," reads a note on Mack's personal website.
Mack, the founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, suffered a heart attack in January and is in recovery. His wife fell ill late last year. Mack is on the board of Oath Keepers, a right-wing fringe group made up of police and military veterans, and is known for supporting Cliven Bundy in his standoff against the federal government. He is also an ardent opponent of Obamacare.
Others paying money to help their fellow countrymen receive health care. Now where have we heard that before? Oh, yeah. Too bad Mack appears to have been too much of a dumbass to sign up for Obamacare following his heart attack in January and prior to the close of this year's open enrollment period. We suspect he would have received great care at an affordable rate.
In case you don't recognize the name, Mack is the guy who, during the wingnut uprising in support of scofflaw Nevada rancher/bigot Cliven Bundy last year, discussed the Tea Partiers' courageous plan to use their wives as human shields. "We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front," Mack told Fox "News". "If they are going to start shooting, it's going to be women that are going to be televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers."
Here's hoping both he and his wife receive the important medical care they deserve, even if other people are paying for it --- just as they would have, without begging, had Mack bothered to sign himself and his wife up for that federal tyranny known as Obamacare.
Man Who Would Rather Go Blind Than Get Obamacare Now Going Blind.
Who should save the sight of an uninsured South Carolina man who can’t afford eye surgery? That’s the question the Charlotte Observer asks in a story about a 49-year-old Republican who declined to sign up for Obamacare because he “prided himself on paying his own medical bills,” and is now upset that the Affordable Care Act won’t bail him out.
Luis Lang, a self-employed handyman from Fort Mill whose clients include the federal government, told the Observer he “knew the act required him to get coverage but he chose not to do so. But he thought help would be available in an emergency,” like the mini-strokes and deteriorating vision he suffered in February.
It’s not available though, because that’s not how insurance works. Insurance companies are profitable because they take your money before you incur major medical expenses, not because they save new customers’ eyes for free. It’s almost like the needs of the market aren’t aligned with the needs of actual human beings, as if the American healthcare system encourages people to gamble that they’ll stay healthy instead of getting insurance, and forces society to bear the costs when the house wins (which is always).
If only there were some way to make people get insurance, and maybe even help them pay for it to save all of us money in the long run.
Nahhh, that’s crazy.
Anyway, Lang is now stuck in a position where, suddenly having come around on this whole insurance thing with the impending loss of his eyesight, it’s too late for him to sign up under what his wife calls “The Not Fair Health Care Act.” Furthermore, his income has dropped now that he’s out of work, making him ineligible for a federal insurance subsidy. (What about Medicaid, you ask? Well, South Carolina was one of 17 states that opted out of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.)
For now, Lang’s doctor, Malcolm Edwards, will keep treating him for free, but he doesn’t have the expertise to do the surgery Lang needs. And he can’t force his patient to take care of himself.
“There’s a lot of talk about personal responsibility in health care reform,” the Observer observes, “so it’s probably fair to note that Lang is a smoker who has, by his own account, been inconsistent in his efforts to control his diabetes.”
Cool.
Lang has set up a GoFundMe page, and people are donating—because even though it’s insane to blame Obamacare, the system really is fucked up—but they’re also chastising him for being “a poster child for what you claim to be against” and “voting against [your] own self-interest.”
WATCH: Terrified ‘Tea Party Patriot’ realizes he could lose Obamacare if GOP wins in 2016
David Edwards
15 Apr 2015 at 12:01 ET
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A conservative video blogger with over a million views on YouTube said this week that he would likely vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton because he was terrified that a Republican president would take away his affordable health insurance.
James Webb, a 51-year-old YouTube celebrity who devotes his “Hot Lead” channel to topics like his love of guns and ranting about gay men kissing on The Walking Dead, may have shocked his viewers on Monday when he revealed that he was torn over which party to vote for in the 2016 election.
“And I’m serious because I asked myself, ‘Which party has helped me out the most in the last, I don’t know, 15 years, 20?’ And it was the Democrat [SIC] Party,” Webb lamented. “If it wasn’t for Obama and that Obamacare, I would still be working.”
“With Obamacare, I got to retire at age 50 because if it wasn’t for Obamacare, I would have had to work until I was 65 and get on Medicare because health insurance is expensive when you’ve got medical problems,” he continued.
Webb said that he hoped to lose some weight and get in shape by taking advantage of a gym membership that was covered by his health insurance.
“But you know, the Republican Party, they haven’t done nothing for me, man. Nothing,” he remarked. “So, I’m leaning toward voting for Hillary unless something major comes up. I don’t trust the Republicans anymore because they’re wanting to repeal the Obamacare. And I don’t want them to do that, man, because then I’ll have to go to work again. My life’s already planned out.”
“Just a tough decision,” Webb sighed. “I voted for Republicans for 32 years, I’m a charter member of my Tea Party Patriots chapter. I’m also a veteran of the U.S. Army under Reagan, when Reagan was in. That was great when Reagan was in there.”
“Things have changed. So unless the Republicans change with it, I’m probably going to have to swing my vote over toward Hillary.”
Obamacare is a cluster fuck, the working world knows this, business owners know this, the medical profession knows this, the insurance industry knows this and the financial world knows this
The only people who still support such failure are those who are emotionally attached to the least prepared man in the room and the small minority of people who are better off with obamacare
We didn't need to fuck the vast majority of people to fill the holes that needed filling
And tens of millions of people still fall through the cracks, to suggest otherwise is so liberal
The only people who still support such failure are those who are emotionally attached to the least prepared man in the room and the small minority of people who are better off with obamacare
We didn't need to fuck the vast majority of people to fill the holes that needed filling
And tens of millions of people still fall through the cracks, to suggest otherwise is so liberal
Tell that to these 347 people.
by WYNTON HALL 25 Jun 2015
Mercy Health announced Thursday it will fire 347 workers due to “increasing challenges to our reimbursement structure as we adjust to reductions mandated by the Affordable Care Act,” the company said in a statement.
President and CEO of the Mercy system, Lynn Britton, said the Obamacare-induced layoffs are taking a toll on workers and their families.
“Changes such as these are difficult and distressing for everyone involved,” said Britton. “While our decisions support Mercy’s ability to stay strong and relevant in the face of challenges impacting all health care providers, today our thoughts and prayers are with those co-workers who are affected.”
Mercy Health’s firings will take place across the four states in which the health system operates, which includes Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Nationally, Obamacare remains deeply unpopular. The RealClearPolitics average of polls finds that just 43% of Americans support Obama’s signature legislative achievement.
Obamacare will cost U.S. taxpayers $2.6 trillion over its first 10 years.
But look on the bright side those unemployed 347 people can now get subsidized health care.
What a deal!
Man, is it ever working.
By DR. SUSAN BERRY 25 Jun 2015
In its reaction to Thursday’s Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare’s subsidies, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) said the ruling “keeps Obamacare on life support at taxpayer expense.”
“Obamacare itself destroys true insurance and places additional crushing burdens on those who provide actual care,” said Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of AAPS, in a press release. “This can’t be fixed by forcing taxpayers to pay a chunk of some people’s unaffordable premiums. What the Court has done is to further undermine the rule of law.”
The organization noted that, in its decision, the Court’s majority held that the “tax credits” and individual mandate were both needed to prevent Obamacare from experiencing a “death spiral.”
“Therefore, it reasoned, Congress must have intended them to apply even in the 34 States that declined to establish an Exchange,” the press statement continued.
“Statements by ‘disappearing’ MIT economist Jonathan Gruber that Congress deliberately intended to withhold subsidies as an ‘incentive’ for States to establish Exchanges were evidently disregarded,” stated Orient.
AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly observed, “If the Court had applied the plain meaning of the statute, then the 34 states that declined to establish exchanges would be free to develop their own approaches without the interference by Obamacare. Instead, the Court distorted the statute to rescue an unsuccessful law.”
Dr. Richard Amerling, associate professor of clinical medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, and president of AAPS, tells Breitbart News he anticipated the Court’s decision back in March in his column at Newsmax, and that the upshot of the decision is that nothing is changed.
“Obamacare is still a disaster, a costly scam that funnels billions of taxpayer dollars directly to the insurance industry, and that accelerates the bureaucratization of medicine,” he said. “And while we were focused on Obamacare, the Republican Congress passed MACRA [Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015], which cements into place the centralized control of medical practice through ACOs [Accountable Care Organizations], bundling, and other forms of ‘pay-for-performance.’”
With the Supreme Court’s additional blow dealt to physicians in private practice who do not wish to be part of the medical bureaucracy, Amerling states he and his organization are down to their “last line of defense.”
“We are encouraging more and more physicians to opt out of Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare – which are all starting to look the same,” he explained. “We must preserve a crop of independent, private physicians who will safeguard the Hippocratic practice of medicine. And we must do this while we still can.”
Dr. Gerard Gianoli, a specialist in Neuro-otology and Skull Base Surgery at The Ear and Balance Institute in Covington, Louisiana, tells Breitbart News the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was supposed to remedy the problems of cost and access regarding healthcare.
“Unfortunately, not only has the ACA not fixed these problems, but it has actually made them worse,” he said. “The Supreme Court’s ruling today further entrenches the third party payment system that mainly benefits the health insurance companies. With all medical care running through insurance, this will continue to increase costs — as noted by requests for 25-50 percent premium increases by the private insurance companies.”
Gianoli continues:
Access to healthcare is actually reduced by two mechanisms — narrowed networks and higher deductibles — both made worse by the ACA. The only solution to this is a president and Congress that will repeal the ACA and restore a true free market to medical care as we have seen in Refractive Eye Surgery, Cosmetic Surgery and Third Party Free Medical Practices. All three of these have reduced cost while increasing quality, unlike the current system.
“It is amazing to me that so many Americans feel that free markets are the best way to minimize cost and maximize quality in every industry, except for health care,” he added.
By DR. SUSAN BERRY 25 Jun 2015
In its reaction to Thursday’s Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare’s subsidies, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) said the ruling “keeps Obamacare on life support at taxpayer expense.”
“Obamacare itself destroys true insurance and places additional crushing burdens on those who provide actual care,” said Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of AAPS, in a press release. “This can’t be fixed by forcing taxpayers to pay a chunk of some people’s unaffordable premiums. What the Court has done is to further undermine the rule of law.”
The organization noted that, in its decision, the Court’s majority held that the “tax credits” and individual mandate were both needed to prevent Obamacare from experiencing a “death spiral.”
“Therefore, it reasoned, Congress must have intended them to apply even in the 34 States that declined to establish an Exchange,” the press statement continued.
“Statements by ‘disappearing’ MIT economist Jonathan Gruber that Congress deliberately intended to withhold subsidies as an ‘incentive’ for States to establish Exchanges were evidently disregarded,” stated Orient.
AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly observed, “If the Court had applied the plain meaning of the statute, then the 34 states that declined to establish exchanges would be free to develop their own approaches without the interference by Obamacare. Instead, the Court distorted the statute to rescue an unsuccessful law.”
Dr. Richard Amerling, associate professor of clinical medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, and president of AAPS, tells Breitbart News he anticipated the Court’s decision back in March in his column at Newsmax, and that the upshot of the decision is that nothing is changed.
“Obamacare is still a disaster, a costly scam that funnels billions of taxpayer dollars directly to the insurance industry, and that accelerates the bureaucratization of medicine,” he said. “And while we were focused on Obamacare, the Republican Congress passed MACRA [Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015], which cements into place the centralized control of medical practice through ACOs [Accountable Care Organizations], bundling, and other forms of ‘pay-for-performance.’”
With the Supreme Court’s additional blow dealt to physicians in private practice who do not wish to be part of the medical bureaucracy, Amerling states he and his organization are down to their “last line of defense.”
“We are encouraging more and more physicians to opt out of Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare – which are all starting to look the same,” he explained. “We must preserve a crop of independent, private physicians who will safeguard the Hippocratic practice of medicine. And we must do this while we still can.”
Dr. Gerard Gianoli, a specialist in Neuro-otology and Skull Base Surgery at The Ear and Balance Institute in Covington, Louisiana, tells Breitbart News the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was supposed to remedy the problems of cost and access regarding healthcare.
“Unfortunately, not only has the ACA not fixed these problems, but it has actually made them worse,” he said. “The Supreme Court’s ruling today further entrenches the third party payment system that mainly benefits the health insurance companies. With all medical care running through insurance, this will continue to increase costs — as noted by requests for 25-50 percent premium increases by the private insurance companies.”
Gianoli continues:
Access to healthcare is actually reduced by two mechanisms — narrowed networks and higher deductibles — both made worse by the ACA. The only solution to this is a president and Congress that will repeal the ACA and restore a true free market to medical care as we have seen in Refractive Eye Surgery, Cosmetic Surgery and Third Party Free Medical Practices. All three of these have reduced cost while increasing quality, unlike the current system.
“It is amazing to me that so many Americans feel that free markets are the best way to minimize cost and maximize quality in every industry, except for health care,” he added.
Tell Paul to start a Go Fund Me page or go to church and beg for charity. Less video gaming on his 60' flat screen TV he chose over catastrophic health insurance is healthier.
I'm sorry, but explain why someone else's health care is YOUR personal business again?
Oh, I forgot. You believe in a 'system' that's designed to line the pockets of the elite, provide FreeStuff™ for the lazy, stupid and illegal, lower the quality of care for everyone, while stripping ever more wealth from honest hard working Americans.
Oh, and the next thing you and the other libtards will be pissing and moaning about is "Americas shrinking middle class" face)(*^%
Fucking idiots.
who says health care should be my personal business? You guys have your blinders on, it's working and it ahould show
increased success over the years
Amazing how the fine print destroys left wing political slogans (AFFORDABLE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!)
Only progressives believe creating self-serving dysfunctional bureaucracies "solves problems"
Meanwhile, the same product free of government interference could be purchased on the open market at a fraction of the price.
It's gotta be the genes.
It has been demonstrated over and over how government intervention in the health care market over the last few decades has produced a vastly inferior product that is increasingly becoming unaffordable for responsible, hardworking honest citizens.
But like the good little commie hack you are, your 'solution' is always the same: MORE GOVERNMENT!
You don't care about quality affordable healthcare, all you care about is the creation of another wealth distribution program delivered by a corrupt political system. That is what Obamacare is - massive, dysfunctional, vote-buying wealth distribution.
Imagine the government FORCING YOU to buy a product the ruling class has deemed "good for you" in The Land of the Free?
OUTRAGEOUS! ##)
Dave, how dare you cite medical professionals representing the very best of their profession.
The quality, the professional standing, the education, the real world experience, the knowledge base of Obamacare opponents so far outweigh that of it's proponents it's an all time mismatch. It's a TKO 11 seconds into the fight, it's the USA vs Haiti in a war
Calling it a success is akin to calling the 2015 Phillies a success
It's working as much as the poor inner city democratic base is working
One has to work at being uninformed to think obamacare is a success. How can one miss so many facts?
Liberals think politics is akin to being a fanatic, and that's one big hurdle for society to overcome
The quality, the professional standing, the education, the real world experience, the knowledge base of Obamacare opponents so far outweigh that of it's proponents it's an all time mismatch. It's a TKO 11 seconds into the fight, it's the USA vs Haiti in a war
Calling it a success is akin to calling the 2015 Phillies a success
It's working as much as the poor inner city democratic base is working
One has to work at being uninformed to think obamacare is a success. How can one miss so many facts?
Liberals think politics is akin to being a fanatic, and that's one big hurdle for society to overcome
i have no problem forcing insurance. It would be much different if
those who refused insurance were told payment up front or too bad! people had no incentive
to buy insurance cause they would receive the care regardless if they had means to
pay and hospitals just ate the bill in mAny cases. I bet we would
have had much higher insurance participation of care was denied and uninsured told to
fuck off if did not pre pay
