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5/22/2013 | Healthcare
'Obamacare' Costs Would Rise Even Higher With Labor Union 'Fix'
Christian Post
Labor union leaders are complaining they are getting shortchanged by the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare." They are asking the White House to allow the health care exchange subsidies to be used for their worker's health care plans, which could dramatically increase the cost of the ACA.
In an op-ed for The Hill, Joseph Hansen, president of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, claims that, unlike what President Barack Obama promised labor leaders during his 2008 campaign, many workers now represented by a labor union will lose their current health insurance when the new law goes into effect.
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Catholic Bishops: HHS Mandate “Unprecedented” Religious Violation
LifeNews.com
The nation’s Catholic bishops have taken a new comprehensive look at the Obama HHS mandate that compels religious groups and businesses to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.
The general counsel of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops states that the current proposed revisions of the Obama Administration’s contraceptive mandate are “an unprecedented …violation of religious liberty by the federal government” and must be changed.
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Obamacare to Add $6.2 Trillion to National Deficit; Obama Claimed It Wouldn't Add a Dime
Christian Post
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed three years ago with President Obama saying it would not add one dime to the federal deficit, is now projected to add $6.2 trillion to the deficit and inflict severe cuts to Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals and physicians.
When Obamacare passed in March 2010, many Americans believed they would soon receive the same lifetime healthcare benefits as every member of Congress, and without incurring additional costs for themselves, their families or their businesses. The truth, however, is the Government Accountability Office (GAO) anticipates the Obamacare entitlement program will place a heavy burden on the U.S. economy, which currently has a national debt of $16.7 trillion.
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Senator Will Use “Any Procedural Means” to De-Fund Obamacare
LifeNews.com
A newly-elected pro-life senator says he will use any procedural means available to him to force a vote in the Senate to de-fund Obamacare, the health care law that contains abortion funding and rationing concerns.
When the U.S. Senate this week takes up the continuing resolution to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2013, Sen. Ted Cruz (R.-Texas) will offer an amendment that will prohibit funding for the implementation of Obamacare during that period.
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New Continuing Resolution Doesn’t Include HHS Mandate Protections
LifeNews.com
The new Continuing Resolution introduced in the House of Representatives does not include the conscience protections against the Obama Administration’s HHS mandate that pro-life advocates were hoping for.
Leading pro-life groups have been supporting a new bill, the Health Care Conscience Rights Act, that would protect the conscience rights of pro-life advocates and companies that do not want to be forced to pay for birth control or drugs that may cause abortions under Obamacare.
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There is Still Hope Obamacare Can be Stopped in Court
LifeNews.com
“But Republican governors are folding like cheap lawn chairs,” you might say. “And political eunuchs in the GOP establishment are bowing to Obama like he bows to foreign dictators. Any hope of repeal is long dead, and besides, Chief Justice John Roberts put the final nail in the judicial coffin last summer, didn’t he? Any chance of killing the Obamacare zombie is gone, right?”
Wrong.
Not surprisingly, the mainstream media paid it little attention, but back in November the U.S. Supreme Court shocked many in the legal community by granting Liberty Counsel’s motion for a rehearing on its multi-pronged challenge to Obamacare. The high court ordered the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear arguments. This is extremely rare and means, almost certainly, that Chief Justice Roberts will get another bite at the rotten apple – this time, with a whole new quiver of legal arrows.
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Nine U.S. Senators Tell Court: Protect Hobby Lobby From Obama Mandate
Nine U.S. Senators and two U.S. Representatives, along with the Oklahoma Attorney General and 11 other key groups, filed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting the Becket Fund’s challenge to the HHS mandate on behalf of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. The HHS mandate forces the Christian-owned-and-operated business to provide the “morning after pill” and “week after pill” in their health insurance plan or face crippling fines.
“While any brief by sitting members of Congress is significant, this one comes from members who originally supported the federal civil rights law—the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993—which is at the heart of the mandate challenges,” said Kyle Duncan, General Counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “The brief leaves no doubt that Congress intended to protect the religious freedom of those like Hobby Lobby and its founder, David Green, against federal attempts to force them to insure abortion-inducing drugs.”
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FACT CHECK: Overreaching in State of Union speech
OneNewsNow
February 13, 2013 - President Barack Obama did some cherry-picking Tuesday night in defense of his record on jobs and laid out a conditional path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that may be less onerous than he made it sound.
A look at some of the claims in his State of the Union speech, a glance at the Republican counterargument and how they fit with the facts:
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HHS Mandate Revisions Will Force Religious Groups to Cover Abortions
LifeNews.com
On Friday, the Obama administration released proposed revisions to the controversial HHS mandate. The revisions offer no help for religious businesses, individuals or non-profit religious groups that don’t want to be forced to obey it.
A leading pro-life source on Capitol Hill provided an analysis to LifeNews about how the proposals play out.
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New HHS Mandate Rules Force Hobby Lobby, Any Religious Biz to Comply
LifeNews.com
The Obama administration released new HHS mandate rules today that attempt to expand the number of religious groups that can opt out of the pro-abortion mandate — but that leaves religiously-run companies like Hobby Lobby out in the cold. Pro-life advocates oppose the mandate because it forces religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.
Thanks to a number of decisions in court related to lawsuits filed against the mandate by dozens of religious businesses and organizations, the Obama administration is under court order to revise the mandate. But the proposed changes don’t protect everyone who wants to opt out.
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Belgian Twin Euthanasia Story the Tip of a Chilling Iceberg
LifeNews.com
The case of the twin brothers euthanised in Belgium before Christmas is just the latest step in an escalation of euthanasia which is badly out of control.
In a case which attracted world attention, Belgian doctors announced earlier this month that a fortnight before Christmas they euthanised 45-year-old deaf identical twins who were going blind and thought that they had nothing to live for.
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Hospital Will Stop Delivering Babies, Thanks to Obamacare
LifeNews.com
The Obamacare legislation contains no safeguards to stop taxpayer funding of abortions or abortion businesses. Now, a Pennsylvania hospital has indicated it will stop delivering babies thanks to Obamacare.
The Obamacare law is causing physicians to cut the number of patients they see or leave their practices entirely — resulting in problems like this one. As AP reports:
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Obama Admin Still Trying to Force Bible Publisher to Obey HHS Mandate
LifeNews.com
The Obama Administration is still trying to enforce its abortion pill mandate against a Bible publisher which filed a lawsuit against it.
The mandate has generated massive opposition from pro-life groups because it forces employers, regardless of their religious or moral convictions, to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception under threat of heavy penalties.
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Obama’s HHS Mandate: Defeated in 10 of 14 Court Cases So Far
LifeNews.com
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund, one of the many pro-life groups that have been fighting the pro-abrotion HHS mandate in court, tell LifeNews that the Obama adminsitration has been defeated in 10 of 14 court cases, so far.
Although the cases are all in the lower court stage and the battle have been the kinds of early smirmishes that typically take place in long legal battles, ADF Senior Legal Counsel Matt Bowman is encouraged.
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Judge dismisses university challenge of ObamaCare
OneNewsNow
DENVER - A federal judge has dismissed Colorado Christian University's lawsuit challenging the healthcare overhaul pushed by President Barack Obama's administration.
The healthcare law requires coverage of certain preventive services, including birth control, sterilization, and abortifacients such as the "morning-after" pill. The university filed a lawsuit in 2011 that said its religious beliefs kept it from providing coverage for emergency contraceptives.
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Third Missouri Company Wins Battle to Stop HHS Mandate
LifeNews.com
A third company in Missouri has won its battle to temporarily halt the pro-abortion HHS mandate in Obamacare against it, because its religious values compel it not to fund abortion-causing drugs for its employees.
The St. Louis Beacon reports that the latest order was issued by St. Louis-based federal Judge David D. Noce for Sharpe Holdings Inc. of Bethel, Missouri.
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Dominos Pizza Founder Wins Emergency Order to Stop HHS Mandate
LifeNews.com
The founder of Dominos Pizza won his bid for an emergency order to prevent enforcement of the mandate while the lawsuit it filed against the Obama administration over the HHS mandate that forces religious employers to purchase drugs that may cause abortions for their employees continues.
Tom Monaghan calls requiring businesses, schools and other religious places to pay for such drugs a “gravely immoral” practice and filed suit earlier this month in federal court for Domino’s Farms, a business development complex he owns.
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Supreme Court Justice Won’t Block HHS Mandate for Hobby Lobby
LifeNews.com
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has refused to act favorably on an emergency appeal Hobby Lobby stores filed to stop enforcement of the HHS mandate against it.
After a federal court denied a request to temporarily stop enforcement of the abortion pill mandate against the Christian-operated business Hobby Lobby, it took its HHS mandate lawsuit to the Supreme Court. Late yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied its request to block the mandate and the millions of dollars in fines it will be subjected to starting January 1 for not complying.
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Appeals Court: Obama Admin Can Force Hobby Lobby to Obey HHS Mandate
LifeNews.com
A federal appeals court ruled today that the Obama administration can force the Christian-owned-and-operated business to obey the HHS mandate that compels it to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions for its employees. Earlier this week, a different federal appeals court reinstated two of the top legal challenges to the mandate. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College a major victory in their challenges to the HHS mandate. Previously, two lower courts had dismissed their lawsuits as premature because the Obama administration is expected to revise the mandate next year. However, the appellate court reinstated those cases.
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Only 15 States Opt to Run Obamacare Exchanges
CNBC
Only 15 states have told the federal government they plan to operate health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's reform law, leaving Washington with the daunting task of creating online marketplaces for two-thirds of the country.
On the eve of a federal deadline for states to say whether they will run their own exchanges, a top health care policy official told lawmakers that the exchanges will start enrolling eligible families starting on Oct. 1.
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