A Look At The History Of Health Care Individual Mandate
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 25th, 2012
Good morning!
I realize I am going to be posting late this morning. What can I say, I slept late. I really needed it.
This clip was from The Rachel Maddow Show a few days ago. I am just now watching it. And after watching it, it proves the point that has been said over and over again: ABO - Anybody but Obama. The republicans have been clear on this point…clear that defeating Obama, even at the expense of our country…even at the expense of the lives of the American people, is their main goal.
Will 30 million Americans receive health care in 2014? This week the Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether the health care individual mandate, the portion in the health care law that requires that every individual who can afford it, to either have health insurance or pay a small fine, is constitutional.
What will the court rule? The odds don’t look good. I’m not surprised at this since we all know SCOTUS is BAPF, and 5 of the appointed justices voting against the law, are republicans. But wait a minute don’t the republicans want a health care mandate? Wha’at? No No No. They are against Obama and everything he stands for. Surely they don’t support him in his health care mandate. They’ve been very verbal about how against it they are.
But they weren’t always against an individual mandate – The republicans first came up with an individual mandate back in the 1990′s, and supported it all through the 2000′s. Yep, it’s true.
Watch the clip:
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June 25th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
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June 25th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Republicans often complain about the cost of food subsidization for the poor, but the reality is some of their biggest and most powerful constituents are profiting from SNAP, aka Foodstamps, in several sinister ways. The total budget for The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is $72 billion a year.
A bombshell report by eatdrinkpolitics.com tells the not so difficult to believe tale of how big businesses lobby heavily in Washington, D.C. to keep the food that can be bought through food assistance programs unhealthy and cheap, while mega banks like J.P. Morgan literally skim billions off the top by forming payment processing agreements for all now electronic transactions.
In total there are three sectors of big business which profit immensely from the general poverty of society. They are food retailers like Walmart, food manufacturing corporations like Kraft, and Coca-Cola and the most dubious of all — big banks like J.P. Morgan which profit from every sale paid for with government subsidized money.
Indeed, mega bankers have figured out a way to make money off of those who don’t have enough to feed themselves. Is there anymore of a disgraceful scenario that you could envision? Is there anything as lowly and despicable as using the weakest in society for financial gain? Alas, these are questions for others than a lowly journalist such as myself.
How much did these colossal entities each profit from the poor? It is difficult to say with exact certainty the dollar amounts because it is not Congressionally mandated for such records to be kept. Who do you think made that a rule, by the way? However, for example, nine Walmarts in Massachusetts received over $33 million in revenue from SNAP sales. In Oklahoma Walmart received $500 million in sales over two years.
Coca-Cola, Kraft, and other companies are privately owned and not legally obligated to disclose how many products they specifically sell, or where. Nor are stores obligated to release what consumers bought which items with their SNAP funds. It is however known that Coca-Cola, Kraft, and the Corn Refiners of America all banded together to kill a bill in Florida that proposed to disallow SNAP purchases for so-called “junk food.” As is expected, big business triumphed again.
The real story here is J.P. Morgan and their multi-billion dollar scheme of money funneling.
Florida has a seven year agreement which saw J.P. Morgan rake in a profit of $123 million.
In New York the bank earned over $112 million by processing payments over five years, earning up to $1 for every single SNAP purchase made in the state.
Washington paid $74.3 million over seven years.
One question that needs to be asked is how much were states spending to print food stamps in comparison to how much they pay J.P Morgan to process transactions electronically? I’d wager it is was cheaper to print the stamps.
Why should private entities that have business agreements with SNAP have the only knowledge about products bought with public money? More transparency is the ethical and civilly correct policy to champion.
Nearly half of all SNAP participants are children. In 2011 an average of $137 was delivered to 44.7 million people each month.
Over 41% of people who receive food assistance have jobs and earn an income.
June 26th, 2012 at 6:44 am
The race seems to be breaking down according to race. If white america turns out in huge numbers Obama is lost because when in doubt we whites vote white.
Then there is the third that will vote only white. That leads Obama up the river without the proverbial paddle.
June 26th, 2012 at 6:54 am
Once again the BAPF on the Supreme Court decided to allow cops to stop and ask people if they are citizens. Before you accuse this white woman of playing the race card if you are stopped for jaywalking or driving with a broken headlight, the police can ask to see your papers.
Only those whites who qualify for instant admission to Michelle’s LSOS Club will claim that you’ll be asked to show your papers if you do not appear to be Latino, or any race that is not white.
Somehow, I don’t imagine the police are going to be checking the papers of the blond white guys.
Any white person who says that is not true gets an automatic spot in Michelle’s LSOS Club.
Janice
June 26th, 2012 at 6:56 am
I expected more out of the Supreme court. They should have upheld the whole law because it was a copy of federal law.
They did uphold one part about arresting an illegal with probable cause when stopped on another infraction……;but even that doesn’t make any difference.
Obama and Neapolitano have just said that they will not do anything for Arizona. In other words…if Arizona cops call for ICE when they discover an illegal…ICE or Immigration have orders not to respond.
In other words they will not do their job in Arizona. This too is unconstitutional. Obama is a tyrant.
June 26th, 2012 at 6:59 am
Tell your democratic buddies to quit buying their votes and they won’t come here. Send your kid to a school that’s been overtaken by those that love Mexico more than they appreciate the US. I bet your child will have allot of trouble getting ahead in that environment.
Nobody can serve 2 masters. They just want more, just like the dems taught them. Move to AZ. I double dog dare you.
I ‘m not surprised at all, at the amount of tricks the dems are forcing this country to turn just for a few more votes. Human nature and mob mentality is a tragic yet predictable thing to behold regarding charismatic leaders. The Jonestown incident comes to mind
June 26th, 2012 at 7:00 am
The GOP is
anti-working class
Anti-women
Anti-minorities
anti-environment
anti-science
anti-humanity
anti-sanity
Pro- 1% rich
Pro-rednecks who are stupid enough to vote republican
Pro-hillbilly who are stupid enough to vote republican
Pro-christian fanatic bigot
Pro-KKK
Pro-aryan nations
Pro-rich white male protestant
Pro-indentured servitude
pro-wars;lots an lots of wars
Pro-insanity
June 26th, 2012 at 7:09 am
Racial profiling has been ruled constitutional by the SCOTUS. What else would you expect from a race that found rounding up american citizens by race and putting them into concentrating camps.
That same court would not have permitted German citizens to be rounded up but Japanese citizens that was okay. So what is new about this decision.
It is okay to discriminate when the citizen is non white. How fast would SCOTUS have nixed rounding up white hicks with pickup trucks after that hick bombed the federal building in Oklahoma?
I agree with Janice above. Only those whites that would qualify for instant admission to Michelle’s LSOS club would claim that “Stop and check for citizenship laws isn’t racial profiling.
Hana
June 26th, 2012 at 7:10 am
“Yet, in the end, a majority of the court bought the federal government’s argument after all. This lesson should buoy supporters of Obamacare. Oral argument on the health-care law went decidedly against the administration.”
I disagree. The Court finding in favor of Obama is a precursor to ruling against ObamaCare on Thursday — so they’ll look balanced.
Whatever. Obama must go. For the good of us all…
June 26th, 2012 at 7:14 am
The House is voting to declare the US Attorney General in contempt of Congress. How much do you want to bet that it goes against Obama along party lines.
Danielle
June 26th, 2012 at 7:16 am
I have two words to describe those on this page arguing against re-electing Obama.
Bush Amnesia
June 26th, 2012 at 7:35 am
Damn, some of the crazy fucking whites on SCOTUS have discarded all pretense to being other than politically motivated.
But that asshole Scalia needs to be sat down and told that his comments border on undermining the institutional stability of the country.
When people can’t look to the supposedly independent branch of government the Supreme Court to be independent, then revolution will appear to be the only option.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent comment that the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause doesn’t apply to discrimination against women because “Nobody [at the time of its passage] ever thought that’s what it meant.” says he’s not only a bigot, and a fool but truly Bought And Paid For.
Alycedale
June 26th, 2012 at 8:08 am
I have often said that when white america promotes one of theirs as “brilliant” in his field, it usually means he has less that average intelligence in that field, but a gift for making them feel that he is smart.
Scalia is the poster boy for that argument.
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Arizona’s entire immigration law should be upheld, Scalia wrote, because it is “entitled” to make its own immigration policy. At one point, he cites the fact that before the Civil War, Southern states could exclude free blacks from their borders to support the idea that states should be able to set their own immigration policies.
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Only a white boy could voice such an obviously racist opinion without being forced out of office by a outraged populace.
I definitely agree that he endangers the Institutional stability of this country. To show that he is so politicalized is irresponsible.
That statement also shows how inept he is at addressing the interpretation of the US Constitution. When he makes his argument about what a state is “entitled” to do someone should explain Constitutional Law 101 to the idiot.
We are not talking about the Confederation of States, we are talking about the Federation of States. It really doesn’t matter how much he wiggles and squirms to avoid being discovered as a BAPF member of SCOTUS, his rulings make it abundantly clear whose pockets he answers to.
Robert,rt
June 26th, 2012 at 8:12 am
So how come the Caucasians that blew up the Federal building in Oklahoma didn’t prompt states to pass laws allow cops to stop and check the ID’s of whites cruising past federal buildings?
Trish
June 26th, 2012 at 8:35 am
Can Your Perfume Give You Diabetes?
We’ve known for years that chemicals called phthalates—types of plasticizers contained in many products, including furniture, toys, plastic bags and detergents, as well as in some cosmetics, including lotions, hair sprays and perfumes—can knock our endocrine systems out of whack, potentially raising our risk for obesity and hardening of the arteries.
What’s worse—a new study suggests that we can now add type 2 diabetes to the list of phthalate dangers.
The cosmetics part is especially creepy, since we do more than simply touch that stuff—we often massage lotions or makeup into our skin and spray perfume onto our necks, where we breathe it right in.
And if you should kiss someone wearing phthalate-containing cosmetics or perfume—what’s getting into your mouth?
I’m sure that the chemical and cosmetics industries will dispute the latest research and tell us that we should be perfectly happy to smear and spray their phthalates onto our bodies.
And you know, I hope they turn out to be right and that the products are safe. But I’m not waiting around to find out. I went ahead and talked to the researchers who found the diabetes link…and then I learned how to find phthalate-free cosmetics and perfumes.
WHAT LURKS IN OUR COSMETICS
The phthalates are put into many types of cosmetics because they do have some benefits. In perfume, for example, they help the scent linger longer…in nail polish, the chemicals reduce cracking by making polishes less brittle…and in hair spray, phthalates allow the spray to form a flexible film on hair, avoiding stiffness.
But phthalates in these products can be either absorbed through the skin or inhaled, which causes them to enter the bloodstream…and then, watch out!
In the study, the researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden drew fasting blood samples from more than 1,000 adults, looking for several toxins, including four substances specifically formed when the body breaks down phthalates.
Even after adjusting for typical type 2 diabetes risk factors such as obesity, cholesterol levels, smoking and exercise habits, researchers found that participants whose phthalate levels were among the highest 20% of the group were twice as likely to have type 2 diabetes when compared with those whose phthalate levels fell into the lowest 20% of the group.
Study author Monica Lind, PhD, an associate professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the university, told me that since she and her colleagues are among the first scientists to measure phthalate levels in blood, “high” and “low” are relative to this study—
in other words, it’s difficult to discern whether the levels of phthalates in this study were “high” on any kind of absolute scale.
And researchers didn’t track the amount of phthalate-containing products that participants used.
But the study does suggest that the higher the levels of phthalates in the blood, the higher the risk of getting type 2 diabetes, and that might reflect a greater use of products that contain them.
CHECK THE LABELS
Phthalates may increase the risk for type 2 diabetes by disrupting insulin production and/or inducing insulin resistance, Dr. Lind said.
But those ideas are disputed by the FDA, which states that “it’s not clear what effect, if any, phthalates have on health.”
In the US, the FDA does not require cosmetics or perfumes to be phthalate-free.
It does require nonfragrance ingredients to be listed on cosmetic products, but the loophole is that any ingredients that are parts of a fragrance don’t have to be listed—a manufacturer can simply put “fragrance” on the label.
As a result, according to the nonprofit Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, most cosmetics and perfumes that contain phthalates don’t list them on the label.
In other words, if the word “fragrance” is listed, then you won’t know for sure what’s in the product, unfortunately.
Knowing all of this, I can tell you what I’m personally doing going forward. I’m going to search online for cosmetics that are “fragrance-free” using the nonprofit Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep cosmetics database at http://www.ewg.org/skindeep and then choose among the products that are also phthalate-free.
For perfumes, specifically, I’m going to search online using the phrase “phthalate-free perfumes,” which leads me to many brands, such as Zorica of Malibu, Kai, Pacifica, Agape & Zoe Naturals, Rich Hippie, Honoré des Prés, Blissoma Blends, Red Flower Organic Perfumes, Tsi-La Organic Perfume and Ayala Moriel Parfums.
Source: Monica Lind, PhD, associate professor of occupational and environmental medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Her research was published in Diabetes Care.
June 26th, 2012 at 8:37 am
The proof is evident and more than adequate. Illegal Immigration is killing our country and economy and the US raxpayers who fund this debacle are SICK of it!
June 26th, 2012 at 8:39 am
It’s not the hispanics that are the problem (even though they are a huge problem) but the illegal muslims that came over the border – terrorists by the millions that Obama is protecting.
June 26th, 2012 at 8:40 am
Poor Scalia. Republicans keep digging themselves a bigger hole that they won’t be able to climb out of.
The Republicans lost the black vote when they implemented the Southern Strategy under Nixon in the 60′s – and now the Republican Party is virtually insuring that Obama will win the Latino vote in November.
June 26th, 2012 at 10:16 am
Scalia is an example of why the Supreme Court Justices shouldn’t be appointed for life. 20 years of Scalia is more than enough for the citizenry of this country to have to put up with.
SCJusties should sit for no more than 20 years and then be retired.
Interesting how Scalia picks and chooses what the US Constitution address. He says women should be protected by the 14th Amendment because “Nobody [at the time of its passage] ever thought that’s what it meant.”
Using that logic he should not have made a corporation a person or made money a form of free speech, as he cited for the women “Nobody [at the time of its passage] ever thought that’s what it meant.”
But that would have meant he couldn’t collect from his employers. The BAPF traitor who have had to stick to his idiotic claim that if it wasn’t in the Constitution when it was written then the federal government has no power over it.
This is why the country is in the shape it is in. All white boy mentality. No one else has been allowed to contribute to the brain pool. It is obvious that the tiny brain of the white boy matches that little thing he calls a penis in his pants.
43 other white men couldn’t bring universal health care to a country that is the ONLY industrialized nation on the planet that doesn’t provide it for its citizens, Inane a best, totally inhumane at worst.
Don’t as don’t tell – only a tiny white brain and a majority of that race that is used to discrimination policies that affect OTWs would accept such a ludicrous premise.
Face it, “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” was white america’s hypocrisy at its most obvious to everyone but them. They saw nothing wrong with telling its citizenry that it was okay to die to keep their hypocritical asses safe, but it was too much for those who were willing to sacrifice their lives for white safety to be given the basic right to be themselves.
Basically, white America and their 43 white boy president were saying just die for us and shut the fuck up.
But at any rally you see the white hypocrites waving the flag and proclaiming how proud they are of their military. Bullshit must really be white.
June 26th, 2012 at 10:25 am
I’m sorry about the grammatical error in my above post, Scalia said that women SHOULDN’T be protected by the 14th Amendment because “Nobody [at the time of its passage] ever thought that’s what it meant.
Since I’m back let me point out Scalia also said that States should be allowed to discriminate inside its borders.
Using that logic, he would have voted against the Commerce Clause allowing the federal government to strike down discrimination in states based on the fact he believes States are “entitled” to decide what to do with the people inside its borders.
This is the man who the white boy continues to cite as a judicial giant. Yeah, “baby this is as big as they come” is more believable.
A good rule to follow is if white America is promoting something as brilliant, be suspect, REAL suspect.
Ruth
June 26th, 2012 at 10:27 am
Good Tuesday to you. A day after the SCOTUS ruling on immigration, the political ramifications are taking shape. The left, as usual, is saying that the provision that was upheld by a margin of 8-0 just shows how radical the Court has become, and even some talking heads are going as far as to claim that the November election, if Obamacare is struck down, is Barack Obama vs. the Supreme Court! Sickening.
As the Court becomes more in focus as Thursday draws nearer, Human Events will be there on Thursday with coverage from inside and outside the Court. But, now to the stories…
Law allowing Border Patrol to do their job moves through House — Audrey writes today: “Border Patrol agents must abandon their vehicles to chase illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and potential terrorists who illegally cross into the United States and onto federal lands that are designated as environmentally sensitive areas.
Legislation passed by the House last week to slash environmental red tape would allow law enforcement to “do the job they are paid to do,” said Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), who authored the language.” Read more below.
Obama’s failed Iraq policy threatens U.S. security –Contributor Bob Maginnis writes this week in HE: “Sen. Inhofe, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, continued ‘Now, the Iraqi leader that the Obama administration supports, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, threatens to turn the country away from democracy.’ The senator warns ‘If Iraq fails; history will find it due in part to President Obama’s failed foreign policy there.’” Read more below.
Primary Tuesday in NY, Utah — From the desk of Political Editor John Gizzi: “Tuesday, all political eyes will be fixed on Utah and New York and their respective primaries. Both states will select Republican nominees to the U.S. Senate and, in Utah, there will be particular attention paid to the challenge of former State Sen. Dan Liljenquist to six-term Sen. Orrin Hatch. In New York, the major political story will be whether former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman and 42-year Rep. Charles Rangel survives a Democratic primary challenge in the redistricted 13th District (Harlem) from State Sen. Adriano Espailliat.” Read more below.
ALSO — George Allen’s ‘macaca moment’ continues to follow him, literally AND Congress keeps a closer eye on CIA drone strikes. That and a lot more, down below.
Have a great Tuesday,
-Adam