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Bachmann: Repeal Obamacare Before It 'Literally Kills' People!

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Bachmann:
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MN): The American people, especially vulnerable women, vulnerable children, vulnerable senior citizens, now get to pay more and get less. That's why we're here because we're saying let's repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. Let's not do that! Let's love people, let's care about people. Let's repeal it now while we can.

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As people of faith, I'm a born again believe in Jesus Christ. And I believe, as part of my duty as a believer in Christ and what he has done for me, that we should do for the least of those who are in our midst. That's my personal belief and my personal conviction. And that's why I want our government to create the space so that we can help people, because I'll guarantee you one thing, Mr. Speaker, this doesn't help people. (House floor, March 21, 2013)
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  • bike10
  • letsliveinpeace
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    • On Obamacare’s Third Anniversary, Here Are Three Ways The Reform Law Has Helped Real Americans

      Saturday marks the three year anniversary of President Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. While some the law’s most significant provisions won’t go into full effect until next year, many of its important reforms have already taken hold — and have already changed the lives of real Americans for the better. Here are just a few ways that the Affordable Care Act has bolstered the health and financial security of Americans from all around the country:

      1. Diabetic Arthur from California finally has health coverage after being uninsured for five years.
      Refusing coverage and treatments for sick Americans due to their “pre-existing medical conditions” has always ranked among the insurance industry’s most reviled practices. For decades, Americans have recounted horror stories about battling insurance companies while loved ones suffered — like 4-month-old Alex Lange, who was turned away by an insurer for being born “obese.” Thanks to Obamacare, that’s no longer legal, as the consumer protection for Americans with pre-existing conditions has already gone into effect for children. It won’t be extended to all Americans until 2014 — but that doesn’t mean Obamacare hasn’t already changed the lives of adults with pre-existing conditions, too.

      Through its state-based transitional Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) — a bridge program for American adults with pre-existing conditions that will cover them until the law is fully implemented — Americans like 56-year-old Arthur Yu have already been gaining coverage that was once unavailable to them. After losing his job in 2008 and running through his COBRA benefits, Yu remained uninsured for a full five years due to his diabetes and high cholesterol. “If something major happened to me, my savings would get wiped out,” he said. But after Obamacare’s passage, he was able to enroll in California’s PCIP program in 2012, giving him enormous financial — and medical — peace of mind.

      2. Connie from Arizona got a $79 rebate from her insurance company in the mail.
      On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Obamacare has helped seniors save over $6 billion on their prescription drug costs by closing the so-called Medicare “donut hole” — and that’s not the only way that the law is already saving Americans money.

      Because of Obamacare’s “80/20 rule” requiring insurers to spend at least 80 percent of the premiums they charge customers on actual medical care rather than overhead or profits, millions of Americans have received rebate checks — totaling $1.5 billion in 2011 alone — from their insurance companies in the mail. Arizona resident Connie Kadansky spoke to CNN about her personal experience with this measure after getting a $79 rebate from her insurer last summer, saying, “It was a surprise. My insurance agent tells me that my insurance is going to skyrocket. He hates Obamacare. I read the letter and I said to myself, ‘So what’s wrong with this? This is good.’”

      3. Chronically ill Jen from Illinois doesn’t have to worry about losing access to her dad’s health insurance.
      One of the reform law’s most popular aspects is allowing young Americans to stay on their parents’ health plan until they’re 26. In a time of economic uncertainty, that can mean the difference between life and death, and there are bountiful stories of how this Obamacare provision has personally touched real people. Last October, teenager Jen Rubino wrote a piece for the Huffington Post in which she recounted her struggles with a rare chronic illness, and the constant worry that she would lose access to her father’s health insurance once she got older. But as Jen put it, “everything changed when President Obama signed the Affordable Health Care Act.”

      In fact, over the last several years, the percentage of uninsured young adults in America dropped by record numbers, down to 27.9 percent of young people in 2011 from 33.9 percent in 2010 — meaning that 1.6 million young Americans gained coverage in just the first year of Obamacare’s implementation.

      http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/22/1759831/obamacare-three-years-america...

    • 1 month ago
  • cw9000
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      cw9000  

    • I guess this dumb bimbo doesn't know that she gets a socialized check and health care, at the expense of the taxpayers. I bet she doesn't tell her constituents, that she get free medical checkups at Naval Medical Bethesda.

    • 1 month ago
  • grammabet
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  • YourTaxes_MyPaycheck
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      YourTaxes_MyPaycheck  

    • Technically, and as History has repeatedly shown, the healthiest societies are those that keep the MOST FAT TRIMMED: such as Minorities, the Sick Elderly draining their national budgets, and all those children in the shape of a Steven Hawking.

    • 1 month ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • MSII
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      MSII  
    • letsliveinpeace:

      I'm just waiting for the inevitable, when someone catches "Mr.batshit-bachmann" with his underage rent-boi... You just know it's gunna happen. Didn't pray hard enough? I just have to get a laugh out of these lunatic snake-handlers. Just today passed a "church" with a sign reading P.U.S.H pray-until-something-happens. Perfectly sums up thee lunatics view of their "supreme" being. Like little kids they are pulling on gods sleeve screaming they want candy till they get what they want. This is the "depth" of these people's "theology", hand-in-hand with their lunatic "prosperity gospel". and jezuz wept...

    • 1 month ago
  • letsliveinpeace
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      letsliveinpeace  
    • MSII:

      Lol!! Oh you better believe it’s coming out real soon, the only thing…will Current have enough space to handle all the information coming out, concerning Marcus?
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      I agree with Gandhi's famous quote "I like your Christ, I do not like your christians. Your christians are so unlike your Christ.

    • 1 month ago
  • WagonMaster
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  • WalmartRamen
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      WalmartRamen  
    • Paratus:

      repeal this disaster of a bill... So we all could have a very big bill to pay from all the uninsured that would drive up cost to non use!

      Does the rich care that the cost will be too high for norm people to use it?
      No the rich will just pay cash for their health care.
      They have RepublicanCare they don't care others only their own money!
      Just think of all the uninsured in the work place & workers comp claims from
      workers with no money to pay their own med bills.
      All the time those Tea Baggers are saying kill ObamaCare!
      They don't care about you!!!

    • 1 month ago
  • corderodedios
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      corderodedios  

    • Sometimes even blind pigs find acorns. On this, she's right, but I doubt she's in favor of making Medicare universal. Thank Obama for handing wackos like Bachmann wedge issues.

    • 1 month ago
  • WalmartRamen
  • WagonMaster
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      WagonMaster  
    • corderodedios:

      Not the best, due to meddling from industry at the onset, but, I feel a step in the right direction. Why should the most prosperous nation in the world treat its underprivileged like....well,, the underprivileged. I feel Governments responsibility is to take care of it's people...like the nearly 1 million Veterans Compensation back logs for our returning wound warriors. Just as one example.

    • 1 month ago
  • corderodedios
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      corderodedios  
    • WalmartRamen:

      That's so true. And our "President" has handed the high road to the RepubliCons on so many potential wedge issues (extrajudicial assasinations, secret arrests, vacating habeas corpus, detainment without charges or access to an attorney, drone slaughters, shipping American citizens arrested and detained secretly and without charges overseas for "interrogation-" meaning torture) that it will be tough for the evildoers amongst RepubliCons to find someone distasteful enough to lose in 2016. Although, I suppose, they were able to come up with Palin in 2008 and Romney/Ryan in 2012.

    • 1 month ago
  • corderodedios
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      corderodedios  
    • WagonMaster:

      I agree. But, what is "underprivileged?" If what you mean that folks actively excluded from the workforce - which is done deliberately to keep wages and benefits low and Corporate profits high - folks whose exclusion subjects they and their families to excess morbidity and mortality, makes their homes subject to foreclosure, causes they and their children to go hungry - in short, makes them suffer and die disproportionately only to feed the mania for wealth and power of the one-percenters - then you are right on.

      The "step in the right direction" may be just that, technically, but it also amounts to a sop to keep the Left in line, thinking that they have won something. It's like the drug benefits Freespiritmust is talking about in a response below - illusory. In the face of increasing costs and Corporate profits, reimbursing a small proportion of increasing costs is like putting your money in a bank at 1% interest while the cost of living increases many times that. You're losing money in a bank, as if one has a choice in the matter. Unless you are in the investor class, a one-percenter, you lose. Period.

    • 1 month ago
  • WalmartRamen
  • MSII
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    • batshit-bachmann spewing up more tea-vangelical lunacy, what's new? Her and her crews "plan", pray-away-the-sick! layin-on-a-hands!

    • 1 month ago
  • cpad
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    • sugarmountian:

      Truth! She's got the same helter-skelter eyes are the run-of-the-mill snake-handler and the same lunatic "beliefs". All perfectly in line with tea-vangelical lunacy.

    • 1 month ago
  • WalmartRamen
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  • WalmartRamen
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      WalmartRamen  

    • With Mitt I was worried about the uninsured! So where the insurance comps.
      Why have insurance if you can't afford to use it! I was going to drop my
      insurance if Mitt made it. So I could get my full pay check so I could afford
      to get cold med or something if I needed it! Not have a $1000 DR bill or
      to have my meds at Walgreens be $500 with me only having at most
      $295 in the bank after bills!

      People like me where the 160 million of the working class people they where worried about. Added all up it was looking
      like 313 million uninsured. It really would take 80, 100 million to kill things!
      Drive up the cost to the point of non use!

      Why didn't the Republicans call up their insurance comps &
      have a talk with them about it? I don't know!!!!

      It's their RepublicanCare that will kill us they don't care!

    • 1 month ago
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • The GOP health care plan literally kills people. While Bachmann was yammering, she never really said how getting affordable health care to all was going to get done. Bottom line, the GOP doesn't want everyone to have health care. As for women, the GOP is taking away all options for them to get affordable health care.....that's why they are defunding and shutting down Planned Parenthood centers. They're refusing to expand Medicaid through federal funding. All they do is lie.

    • 1 month ago
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    • Everytime she gins up this kind of attention, she immediately hits her "fan base" up for cash... dunno if she taught Palin or Palin taught her.

    • 1 month ago
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      labman57  

    • Bachmann is concerned that Ted Cruz is stealing her thunder ... and her title as reigning Congressional delusional nut case, and so she steps up to the House floor mic, stares creepily into the camera, and delivers her standard rant about the evils of Obamacare and the government trying to kill Grandma and the kids.

    • 1 month ago
  • FreeSpiritMuse
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      FreeSpiritMuse  

    • There are many people who are being helped.

      Obamacare Has Helped Seniors Save Over $6 Billion On Their Prescription Drugs

      As the health reform law approaches its third birthday, Obama Administration officials are noting that one of its provisions has already helped seniors on Medicare save $6.1 billion on their prescription drug costs.

      Obamacare ensures that more prescription drugs are covered under Medicare by closing the “donut hole” coverage gap. Even as the cost of prescription drugs has continued to rise, the health law gives discounts to Medicare beneficiaries so seniors continue to be able to afford the medication they need — one of its most popular provisions. On Thursday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that more than 6.3 million Americans in the Medicare program have saved more than $6 billion on prescription drugs.

      http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/21/1754711/obamacare-donut-hole-6-billio...

    • 1 month ago
  • corderodedios
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      corderodedios  
    • FreeSpiritMuse:

      If you trace the "news" about the $6Bn back to the original HHS.gov press release and study the numbers, you'd find some problems. The coverage seniors receive for "donut hole" expenses are right now trivial, and heavily favor brand-name pharmaceuticals over generics, and will plainly be offset by continued, predictable increases in the cost of these drugs when the "hole" disappears in 2020. Insurance costs are skyrocketing along with the cost of drugs - health insurance corporations have resumed paying handsome dividends to their investors, and pharmaceutical corporate profits are "soaring" under Obamacare (http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic...:drug-company-profits-soar-under-medicare-drug-plan&catid=43:investigations).

      So where do these obscene profits the Corporate healthcare infrastructure is making as "Obamacare" kicks in come from? They're coming from the very people, Muse, that you believe are "saving" money. Look into it yourself and do the math the next time you believe some third-hand recapitulation of government press releases, aka propaganda. It's all myth, ultimately self-serving to the one-percent. Part of the Big Lie.

    • 1 month ago
  • WalmartRamen
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    • corderodedios:

      "donut hole" expenses are not trivial.
      generics don't work like brand-name pharmaceuticals.
      Keep in mind your talking about heart med, life of death types of med.
      Old people don't play games with their med!

      The cost of med is going down.
      If there was uninsured massively the cost would be up.
      As the cost of them gets passed on up to people with insurance.

      The new health care engine just got started.
      They are making Doctors file more paper work, on billing!
      Thank god! Those greedy charging my insurance like $1000 for a X-Ray
      $100 toothbrush etc...
      That alone brings down the cost of health care along without the uninsured
      costing more to fix!

      The drug company profits soaring, but it is noted!
      It won't last.

    • 1 month ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • cpad
  • cw9000
  • letsliveinpeace
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      letsliveinpeace  

    • What is wrong with Bachmann, and her district? How in this reality is it possible for her to stand on the house floor and release such a diarrheal discharge from her mouth? The blatant insanity desperately requires an intervention, assessment of competence and heavy medication. She is mentally unfit for office.

    • 1 month ago
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