As the debate over ObamaCare raged, President Obama strenuously denied the charge that the mandate (requiring Americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine) was a tax during an interview with George Stephanopoulos.
Now that several states, including Virginia and Missouri, are fighting back, however, the Obama administration has changed its tune in court.
According to The New York Times, "In a brief defending the law, the Justice Department says the requirement for people to carry insurance or pay the penalty is 'a valid exercise' of Congress's power to impose taxes."1
Finally, the administration has conceded what the freedom movement has been warning Americans about all along: the mandate is nothing more than another way to reach into our pockets.
ObamaCare wasn't about reforming health care... it was about grabbing even more POWER and forcing us to submit to their agenda.
Big Government will grow even bigger as the IRS alone could hire thousands of new employees to "ensure compliance" with the mandate.
Even worse, the IRS may diminish or completely withhold your tax refund unless you either carry Obama-approved health insurance or pony up more of your money to cover the fine.
And the power of politicians and bureaucrats will expand dramatically as they FORCE U.S. citizens to buy insurance as a condition of citizenship and seize unprecedented control over American health care and businesses of every size.
That is... unless everyone who loves liberty stands up and FIGHTS BACK.
Once again, the Champion of the Constitution is leading the way.
To combat this new tax and defend our health freedoms, Congressman Ron Paul has introduced H.R. 4995, the End the Mandate Act, which would completely REPEAL ObamaCare's mandate on citizens and businesses.
Failing to carry Obama-approved health insurance could cost households and businesses thousands of dollars.
If you agree that we can't let this stand, won't you please sign the first page of Congressman Ron Paul's END THE MANDATE Act (H.R. 4995?)
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Medicare Chief Accountant Reports ObamaCare Costs More Than Advertised.
Richard Foster, is Chief Actuary of Medicare the nation's number one accountant for the federal government's largest unfunded entitlement. Foster's job is to estimate future costs for a government program that literally saves lives. He's been in the position for the past 15 years, studying the issue of health costs and reporting on Medicare's solvency.
Foster recently published the Medicare Trustees Report, as he has since the mid-1990s. Required to evaluate the law as written, he provided legislators with the conclusions they wanted.
Based on Foster's report, the White House claimed that the trustee report showed the Affordable Care Act would make Medicare stronger.
But the report was unsigned. In place of Foster's signature, the Medicare's Chief Actuary instead inserted a statement dismissing the entire report as "unreasonable" and "implausible" and encouraged everyone to view the alternative report instead.
Foster's Appendix:
What ObamaCare's creators didn't foresee is that Foster is a civil servant unwilling to play the part of the fool.
In an unprecedented repudiation of the Trustee's report, Foster constructed an "alternative scenario" - that's bureaucratic jargon for "the truth" -
ObamaCare not only doesn't bend the cost curve down, it will likely bend it up and allow health care costs to consume even more of the nation's GDP.
According to Mr. Foster, ObamaCare will increase Medicare's share of the economy by 60% between now and 2040 - almost twice the administration's claim of 35%.
ObamaCare Makes Medicare Weaker. The dollars-and-cents reality of ObamaCare's effect on Medicare is that, it will cause:
Cuts in Medicare spending of $575 billion over the next decade.
7.5 million Medicare Advantage enrollees to lose their coverage and cause another 7.5 million to face higher premiums and benefit cuts.
Push 1 out of 7 American health care facilities - hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home
health care agencies, and hospices - into the red.
Medicare physician fees to be reduced by 30% over the next three years.
Many doctors to quit seeing Medicare patients entirely.
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