Too bad John Boehner refused to hold the legally required up or down standalone vote on ObamaCare the tax. All tax bills must be approved by the House and ObamaCare never has been.
11/3/13, "Could Virginia Start Forcing MD's to Accept Medicare and Medicaid Patients?" Kerry Picket, Breitbart
"Kathleen Murphy, a Democrat who is running for the House of Delegates against Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock, told a forum in Great Falls on Saturday that doctors should be forced to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients:
"FYI last night at the Great Falls Grange debate, Democrat delegate candidate Kathleen Murphy said that since many doctors are not accepting medicaid and medicare patients, she advocates making it a legal requirement for those people to be accepted.
She did not recognize that the payments are inadequate to cover the doctors' costs. She also did not recognize there is a shortage of over 45,000 physicians now and that it is forecast to be 90,000 in a few years.
Democrats appear to want to make physicians slaves of the state, but Democrats don't admit they would just drive more doctors out of practice into retirement and other occupations. The Obamacare law and regulations are causing millions of people to lose their health insurance, drop many doctors and hospitals. The HHS internal forecast is 93 million Americans would lose their health insurance due to the Obamacare law and rules about adequacy of insurance.
Many more people will be uninsured. The penalties for being uninsured start at $95 per year, but the penalties can't be collected by the IRS if a person does not have a tax refund to attach."
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is promising to go toe to toe with the Republican state legislature to set up an Obamacare state exchange in Virginia. Additionally, McAuliffe is running on a campaign promise to expand Medicaid across the Commonwealth.
However, according to the National Center for Policy Analysis, there are simply not enough doctors in Virginia to accommodate such an expansion under Obamacare:
"Effect of the ACA on Virginia's Physician Supply.
As in other states, Virginia's physician supply is relatively "inelastic," meaning the number of physicians cannot increase quickly to accommodate the rising demand for medical services an influx of newly insured Medicaid enrollees would create. Virginia physicians have little if any capacity to expand the number of patients they treat. Currently, there are about 29,472 physicians in Virginia, of whom an estimated 22,215 are actively involved in patient care.12
About 85 percent of Virginia's active doctors work full time - so there is little excess capacity.
According to the Virginia Department of Health Professions Healthcare Workforce Data Center, two-thirds of Virginia's active physicians are more than 44 years of age, while 20.1 percent are 60 or older. Thus, many of these physicians will retire in the next few years. A number of economic studies indicate the newly insured will nearly double their consumption of medical care. Yet the demand for health care will continue to rise. Furthermore, an aging population will require more medical care. Across the U.S. 78 million baby boomers are either retired or headed that way in the next decade."" via Free Republic
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Comment: Everyone knows medical care was never the goal. The goal was chaos:
5/2/1966, Piven and Cloward, The Nation:
"Produce fiscal disruption in local and state governments...create a climate of militancy...drain local resources indefinitely...
"By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption...that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty."..."If this strategy were implemented, a political crisis would result that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty."...
5/2/1966, "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty," The Nation, by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
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60's Frances Fox Piven was back for 2011 Occupy:
1/23/11, "How dare you publicize my call for violence? It might provoke violence against me (Frances Fox Piven)!" American Thinker, Thomas Lifson
Piven expressed "her desire to see Greek-style riots (remember, there were deaths in these riots) in the United States."...
"Yet another example of the leftist double-standard at work. Accurate reporting (which contained absolutely no call for violence) on Fox-Piven's explicit call for violence is demonized, while
- the person hoping for violence is canonized as a victim.
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12/14/11, "A Proud, Angry Poor," Frances Fox Piven, The Nation
"Still, the movement has to respond to the police sweeps of its encampments by becoming broader and more hard-hitting. It has to firmly include the vast number of people who have been marginalized by the rhetoric of American politics and by the realities of the American economy. In many places the homeless have joined the encampments. That is a beginning. But it’s not enough. To fully realize an ethic of inclusion, the poorest and most benighted Americans should become part of our protest movement. We need to increase their numbers at our demonstrations, and we need to undertake the protest actions that deal with their most urgent needs—including the attacks on the social safety net that hit them hardest."
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'Obama is the living embodiment of the Cloward-Piven strategy:'
"The living embodiment of the Cloward-Piven strategy,...“Obama is the ne plus ultra of the twin strains of anti-American leftist thought, the spawn of the gangster ethos of the 1920s and ‘30s and the fashionable Marxism of the ‘revolutionary’ year of 1968.”" Michael Walsh
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7/26/12, "The People v. The Democratic Party," FrontPageMag, Mark Tapson
A discussion of Michael Walsh's new book.
"Despite the Democratic Party successfully selling itself as the political champion of social justice for the poor and the dispossessed, its actual history reveals it to be otherwise:
Always wrapping itself in the false cloak of righteousness and celebrating the folk wisdom of the demos, the Democrats have consistently championed class envy, social division, and often – quite nakedly – racism, if they thought it would buy them votes.
Only the Democrats could reinvent themselves so effortlessly, molting from the party of the Ku Klux Klan to the party of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the party of the aggressive atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair, who destroyed school prayer and helped set the country on its downward moral spiral in 1963, to the party of Bible-toting Baptist presidents (Bill Clinton) and the racist ravings of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. When your only principle is power, it’s easy to embrace flexibility and nuance.He moves on into the ‘50s, when the Cold War ratcheted up Democratic corruption and Soviet infiltration in the State Department, which as Walsh says, “remains the most consistently left-wing, at times anti-American, entity in the executive branch.” He briefly relates tales of such Communist agents as George Koval, “perhaps the Soviet Union’s most effective atomic spy” who looted secrets from the Manhattan Project labs, and Walter Kendall Myers, a State Dept. analyst who received a life sentence in 2010 for spying for Cuba for 30 years....
In his closing argument for this short but wide-ranging and entertaining work, The People v. The Democratic Party, Walsh posits that it’s time to consider abolishing that party entirely, for the good of the country:
"Is there a place in the American political system for a truly loyal opposition – one that does not seek “fundamental transformation” of our constitutional Republic but rather its betterment and continuance? Of course there is.
But is there a place for a criminal organization masquerading as a political party? If our nation is to survive, not any more.""
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Comment: The GOP has merged with Democrats so both so-called parties have to go.
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11/3/11, Masked Occupy Oakland, Ca. protesters on the street, reuters photo via BBC. These are the good guys, we're told.
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The following piece about crashing the US economy by taking advantage of famous American generosity applies to ObamaCare, illegal immigration, debt ceilings, etc.. Chaos is the goal:
2/2/13, "Cloward and Piven, immigration reform & ‘nothing left to lose’," Frank Miele, DailyInterlake.com
"Let’s face it, whether you are talking about immigration reform by George W. Bush, immigration reform by John McCain, immigration reform by Barack Obama, or immigration reform by Marco Rubio, all you get is the same old “nothing left to lose.” And maybe, at long last, they are right — maybe we have sunk so low, there is nothing left to fight for.
I envision Sen. Rubio singing this new version of the old song, tweaking the lyrics just a bit, so that he can end up with “You know feeling good was good enough for me and you all/Good enough for me and my Bobby Jindal.”...
Heck, we’ve been told over and over by the national media and the political establishment that illegal immigration can’t be solved. So it’s no wonder that Republicans start to believe there’s “nothing left to lose” if they just give up and go along with Democratic plans to convert criminal intruders into legal voters. After all, the logic goes, Hispanics and other minority voters already hate Republicans, so maybe they will like them better if they abandon their core principles and sell out to expediency. Yeah, that’s the ticket....
Adapting the philosophy of jiu-jitsu — where you use your enemy’s strength to defeat him — Cloward and Piven proposed taking advantage of the spirit of American generosity
to crash our economy. The idea was to create an ever-growing demand for social services (“free stuff,” as Mitt Romney injudiciously but accurately called it) until the money ran out and the suddenly re-impoverished lower classes rebelled and demanded a new system of government that would “equitably” distribute the nations’ wealth in a Marxist utopian pipe dream.
Cloward and Piven foresaw that a “massive drive to recruit the poor ONTO the welfare rolls” would challenge the resources of even a wealthy nation like the United States, leading to “a profound financial and political crisis.”
That crisis is here now, and has been for at least 10 years. It goes under a number of names — most recently the “debt ceiling crisis” — but most importantly it is a crisis which can only be worsened by inviting anywhere from 11 million to 30 million illegal immigrants into an already unsustainable system. Don’t be fooled by “feel good” rhetoric about the “American dream” or about “a nation of immigrants” — what we are talking about is hastening the pending collapse of America in the name of “social justice.”
Forget about “immigration reform.” This fight has nothing to do with immigration, and it has nothing to do with reform. Virtually everyone is for immigration — if it is done legally and with reason. We still welcome everyone who can help our country become stronger — those who pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to protect and defend liberty and the Constitution of the United States of America.
But that’s not what Marco Rubio is talking about. That’s not what President Obama is talking about.
So, no, I don’t support their immigration reform. I support real immigration reform — the kind which will make sure that immigrants learn our language, share our values, and love our culture. If instead, you mean surrendering to an invasion of people whose hope and aspiration is to convert America into a less free, less safe, less glorious place than it has been for 200-plus years, then count me out.
But I am realistic. The America I grew up in — the America that honored George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, that inspired Martin Luther King and John Kennedy — that America is no more. If you are looking for the America of rugged individualism, of innovative entrepreneurship, of patriotic fervor — if you are looking for the America that trusted in God, then move along. There is nothing to see here. That America is gone. Or as Mr. Kristofferson wrote: “Nothin’ left is all she left for me.”"
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