Coin Toss's Blog

Thanks, Obamacare: Doctor Shortages, Jobs Destroyed, Coverage Dropped

The Supreme Court’s decision last month to uphold the Obamacare mandate tax did not vindicate the propriety or efficacy of the law itself, a point Chief Justice Roberts explicitly statedin his ruling.  “It is not [The Court's] job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices,” he wrote.  As we learn more about Obamacare’s practical consequences, the urgent need for repeal becomes increasingly apparent.  Consider the following news items from the past week alone:

(1) “Doctor Shortage Likely to Worsen with Health Law”:

The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that in 2015 the country will have 62,900 fewer doctors than needed. And that number will more than double by 2025, as the expansion of insurance coverage and the aging of baby boomers drive up demand for care. Even without the health care law, the shortfall of doctors in 2025 would still exceed 100,000. Health experts, including many who support the law, say there is little that the government or the medical profession will be able to do to close the gap by 2014, when the law begins extending coverage to about 30 million Americans. It typically takes a decade to train a doctor.

“We have a shortage of every kind of doctor, except for plastic surgeons and dermatologists,” said Dr. G. Richard Olds, the dean of the new medical school at the University of California, Riverside, founded in part to address the region’s doctor shortage. “We’ll have a 5,000-physician shortage in 10 years, no matter what anybody does.” Experts describe a doctor shortage as an “invisible problem.” Patients still get care, but the process is often slow and difficult. In Riverside, it has left residents driving long distances to doctors, languishing on waiting lists, overusing emergency rooms and even forgoing care. “It results in delayed care and higher levels of acuity,” said Dustin Corcoran, the chief executive of the California Medical Association, which represents 35,000 physicians. People “access the health care system through the emergency department, rather than establishing a relationship with a primary care physician who might keep them from getting sicker.”

The article goes on to mention the draining pool of doctors who are accepting new Medicaid patients, which will throw up another obstacle to care for indigent Americans — especially after the entitlement program undergoes a massive, Obamacare-mandated expansion.  As opponents of the law repeatedly warned, access to health coverage does not equal access to health care.  In Canada and other countries with socialized medicine, everyone is “covered,” but doctors are scarce, innovation is curtailed and treatment is limited.  This can lead to long waiting periods, government rationing, perverse doctor lotteries and denied care.  Furthermore, Democrats chose to exclude meaningful tort reform from their 2,700 page bill, further hanging physicians out to dry.  This is why older doctors are quickly shuffling towards retirement, and many promising young students eschew medical school in favor of other careers. Obamacare takes our demographic struggles on this front and makes them even more acute, much sooner.

(2) “One in 10 Employers Plans to Drop Health Benefits, Study Finds:”

About one in 10 employers plans to end workers’ health insurance as the new healthcare law takes effect, according to a new study. The finding could bolster opponents of the law, who argue that its changes to the healthcare system will force workers out of insurance plans they like. Supporters of the law say most people will keep their current coverage. Surveying 560 U.S. companies, consulting firm Deloitte found that 9 percent of employers are planning to drop employee health benefits within three years. Eighty-one percent said they would continue covering employees, and 10 percent said they were not sure.

Is your employer among the 19 percent that are either planning to drop coverage, or are still considering it?  Let’s also recall the president’s verbatim promise during the healthcare debate: “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”

Post Continues on townhall.com

http://bighealthreport.com/4212/thanks-obamacare-doctor-shortages-jobs-destroyed-coverage-dropped/

---

DHS Gears Up for Civil Unrest Prior to Presidential Elections

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered masses of riot gear equipment to prepare for potential significant domestic riots at the Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention and next year’s presidential inauguration.

The DHS submitted a rushed solicitation to the Federal Business Opportunities site on Wednesday, which is a portal for Federal government procurement requisitions over $25,000. The request gave the potential suppliers only one day to submit their proposals and a 15-day delivery requirement to Alexandria, Virginia.

As the brief explains, “the objective of this effort is to procure riot gear to prepare for the 2012 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the 2013 Presidential Inauguration and other future similar activities.”

http://visiontoamerica.com/11216/dhs-gears-up-for-civil-unrest-prior-to-presidential-elections/

CBO: Obamacare levies $1 trillion in new taxes

President Obama’s health care law raises taxes by $1 trillion, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office.

The individual mandate — which the CBO calls a “penalty tax,” in apparent deference to Chief Justice John Roberts — will produce $55 billion in “penalty payments by uninsured individuals,” the CBO told House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in a Tuesday letter. Of course, the framers of the law didn’t design the mandate as a tax, and so it produces less revenue than any other provision in the bill.

The “additional hospital insurance tax” is the largest tax increase in Obamacare, projected to bring in $318 billion in new revenues. According to the 2010 report from the Journal of Accountancy, this tax hits “high-income tax payers” — individuals making over $125,000 a year or households making over $250,000 a year.

Post Continues on washingtonexaminer.com

---

 

 

http://bighealthreport.com/4157/cbo-obamacare-levies-1-trillion-in-new-taxes/

More Evidence Obama Literally Not Doing the Job of President

The job of President of the United States is one that every occupant until Barack Obama has taken seriously. Every President prior to Barack Obama understood that the job entailed things like holding press conferences, meeting with members of Congress to compromise on budget issues, and learning the latest news about economic and international developments from the nation's best experts. 

These things matter, because the President of the United States must be intellectually prepared to make important decisions about the future of our country. But  President Obama has focused on the celebrity aspects of his job and neglected doing much of anything that involved actual work. He's  spent plenty of time on the golf course (more than 100 rounds in three and a half years), raising money (163 fundraisers and counting), giving campaign speeches, vacationing, and playing basketball.

Last month, ABC News spelled out the gory details of just how much time President Obama has spent raising money:

In the first 12 days of June, Obama has attended 21 fundraising events.  All told, he has now attended 163 re-election fundraisers for his campaign and the Democratic Party – almost double the number George W. Bush attended in his entire first term (86) and more than any other president in history.

But as for the real work of the job, President Obama has been a no-show.

Consider this evidence:

He’s not received an economic briefing in over a year—since April of 2011.

He’s held only three full press conferences since last June.

He’s spent no time whatsoever meeting with members of Congress on budget matters. In fact, in his administration, almost every statutorily required budget submission has been late.

In the last six months, he's not met once with his jobs council.

Almost four years after the American people elected him to hold the office of President, a growing number of Americans are coming to a stark conclusion. Barack Obama is not serious enough about the job to be worthy of it

Michael Patrick Leahy is a Breitbart News contributor

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/28/More-Evidence-Obama-Literally-Not-Doing-the-Job-of-President

She Feels Your Pain – Michelle Obama Sports $6,800 Jacket to London Soiree …Update: Jacket Cost More Than What Average US Family Makes in 1 Month

Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, July 29, 2012, 7:51 AM

The liberal media was all upset that “elitist” Ann Romney wore a $990 top during a May interview on “This Morning.” Yet this same media cheered the fashion and style of Queen Michelle Obama whose taste in sweaters cost her over $2,000 a pop.

But, yesterday Michelle Obama outdid herself.

Michelle Obama wore silver-and-white J Mendel for the evening soiree at Buckingham Palace. (Daily Mail)

The Embroidered Cap Sleeve Jacket costs $6,800.

The jacket cost more than the average American family makes in a month ($4,284).

And, she does this as Americans continue to suffer through a deep recession and record unemployment.
Michelle feels your pain.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/while-americans-suffer-michelle-obama-sports-6800-jacket-at-london-party/cap-sleeve-jacket/

Could a Muslim judge in America get away with this?

He let a fellow Muslim off the hook for assaulting an anti-Islam protester, scolding the victim of the beating because he should have known his foam sign would "p--- off other people." "I'm a Muslim. I find it offensive," the judge said. Now find out what the Judicial Conduct Board said about this judge's actions in the "zombie Muhammad" case.

 http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/judge-in-zombie-muhammad-case-reprimanded/

Did U.S. Navy pray bin Laden into paradise?

Within 24 hours of being killed by U.S. Navy SEALS, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was reportedly given a Muslim burial at sea.
Existing U.S. Navy rules require the prayer for Muslim burials include the following: “O Allah, forgive him, have mercy on him, pardon him, grant him security, provide him a nice place and spacious lodgings, wash him (off from his sins) with water, snow and ice, purify him…make him enter paradise and save him from the trials of grave and the punishment of hell.”
Did the U.S. military -- which has cracked down on chaplains praying in Jesus' name -- actually send this mass murder to his eternal reward with such soothing words?
We may be about to find out ...
Read the latest now on WND.com.

Amid the secrecy of the Barack Obama administration in Washington, somewhere there are the details of the U.S. Navy Seal raid in Pakistan and the subsequent burial at sea of Osama bin Laden.
Ever wonder what really happened?

Now officials at Judicial Watch have gone to court to pry that information loose.
The organization that monitors government actions and prosecutes misbehavior said yesterday that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Navy for records showing “any funeral ceremony, rite or ritual” for bin Laden before he was buried at sea.
The government has reported that after the May 2, 2011, Navy Seal Team Six raid that led to bin Laden’s capture and death, the al-Qaida leader reportedly was transported by the USS Carl Vinson and then buried at sea “in accordance with Muslim law.”
According to Navy regulations cited by Judicial Watch, the burial ceremony would have included a prayer to “Allah” to allow bin Laden to “enter paradise and save him from the trials of grave and the punishment of hell.”
Judicial Watch confirmed it has requested “Any and all records utilized, referenced, or relied upon during the preparation and execution of any funeral ceremony, rite or ritual for Osama bin Laden on the USS Carl Vinson prior to his burial at sea. This request includes, but is not limited to, the text of any prepared remarks or prayers, any instructions provided to those in attendance, or any instructions or guidance regarding the handling of bin Laden’s remains.”
The organization also wants access to “Any and all records of communication between any official or employee of the Department of the Navy and any official or employee of any other government department, agency or office regarding any funeral ceremony, rite, or ritual for Osama bin Laden prior to his burial at sea.”
The information request had been submitted in March and a response was due before the end of April, but Judicial Watch said it had not gotten anything.
“Barack Obama is playing politics with bin Laden’s death and ignoring the rule of law – especially the transparency laws that his appointees violate with impunity,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “I suspect the Obama administration is embarrassed by the burial ceremony, which explains our having to go to court to get basic information about this important piece of history.”
When word of the raid on the Pakistani compound where bin Laden was found and killed by Navy SEALS came out, ABC reported that bin Laden was buried at sea within 24 hours of his death – to follow Muslim law.
Reports at the time said bin Laden’s burial was conducted by a Muslim seaman, who said prayers.
It was ABC that reported at the time that bin Laden was buried in the Indian Ocean.
And existing U.S. Navy rules require that the prayer for Muslim burials includes the following: “O Allah, forgive him, have mercy on him, pardon him, grant him security, provide him a nice place and spacious lodgings, wash him (off from his sins) with water, snow and ice, purify him…make him enter paradise and save him from the trials of grave and the punishment of hell.”
Judicial Watch also is demanding the bin Laden post-mortem photos and video.
Obama administration officials continue to withhold those records.
Judicial Watch also sued the Obama Defense Department and CIA for access to records detailing communications between the Obama administration and Kathryn Bigelow, the Hollywood filmmaker who reportedly received classified information from administration officials in preparation for her upcoming film.
According to records already discovered by Judicial Watch, the Obama Defense Department suggested the commander of SEAL Team Six could be made available for the project.
http://www.wnd.com/2...burial-records/

News That Will Be Ignored By Establishment Media

Ordinarily, the story of a heroic citizen saving lives would be big news. But not when it demonstrates that an armed citizenry stops crime and saves lives.  The national media will ignore this dramatic story. Don Hudson of ABC4 News in Salt Lake City reports:

 A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith’s store.

Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it into a weapon. Smith’s employee Dorothy Espinoza says, “He pulled it out and stood outside the Smiths in the foyer. And just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people. You killed my people.”

Espinoza says, the knife wielding man seriously injured two people. “There is blood all over. One got stabbed in the stomach and got stabbed in the head and held his hands and got stabbed all over the arms.”

Then, before the suspect could find another victim – a citizen with a gun stopped the madness. “A guy pulled gun on him and told him to drop his weapon or he would shoot him. So, he dropped his weapon and the people from Smith’s grabbed him.”

http://visiontoamerica.com/11193/news-that-will-be-ignored-by-establishment-media/

Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components.
The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to
agitate for their so-called 'religious rights.'

When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to
'the reasonable' Muslim demands for their 'religious rights,' they
also get the other components under the table. Here's how it
works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any
given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority
and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in
articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States -- Muslim 1.0%
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1%-2%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%

Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic
minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from
the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark -- Muslim 2%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in
proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halal
(clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food
preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves
-- along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

France -- Muslim 8%
Philippines -- Muslim 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow
them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate
goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law
over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population,
they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint
about their conditions ( Paris --car-burnings). Any non-Muslim
action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats
( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting,
jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and
church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres,
chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered
persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia
Law as a weapon and Jizya,
the tax placed on infidels:

Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%

Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Palestine -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam'
-- the Islamic House of Peace -- there's supposed
to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust,
Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity.
Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise
more power than their national average would indicate.

... health care

About one in 10 employers plan to drop health coverage when key provisions of the new health care law kick in less than two years from now, according to a survey to be released Tuesday by the consulting company Deloitte.

Nine percent of companies said they expect to stop offering coverage to their workers in the next one to three years, the Wall Street Journal reported. Around 81 percent said they would continue providing benefits and 10 percent said they weren’t sure.

The companies, though, said a lot will depend on how future provisions of the law unfold, since most of the key parts are scheduled to take effect in 2014. One in three respondents said they could stop offering coverage if the law requires them to provide more generous benefits than they do now, if a tax on high-cost plans takes effect in 2018 as scheduled or if they decide it would be cheaper for them to pay the penalty for not providing insurance.

http://visiontoamerica.com/11109/its-starting-nearly-1-in-10-employers-to-drop-health-coverage/

This nonsense gets so old. If you're not for Obama, you're a racist. If you support Romney, or anyone else opposing Obama, you're racist.

If you prefer vanilla ice cream over chocolate you're a racist.

What's truly pathetic is that a lot of the people syaing this have no other reason to vote for Obama other than his race - so who is really the racists here? They also conveniently forget Obama is only half-black.

*************************

Obama Spokeswoman Race Baits Romney Supportershttp://freedomoutpost.com/2012/07/obama-spokeswoman-race-baits-romney-supporters/

Here's the % changes

SOME WILL APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME WILL NOT. HOWEVER, ALL OF IT IS TRUE.

After three years of Obama ... 
 Here's your change!

 January 2009
 TODAY
 % chg
 Source

The above is the format for the following:
   
Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
 $1.83
 $3.86
 111%
 1
   
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
 $43..48
 $102..02
 129.7%
 2
   
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
 $38..74
 $91..38
 135.9%
 2
   
       
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
 $3.56
 $6.33
 78.1%
 2
   
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
 $9.66
 $13..75
 42.3%
 2
   
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb.Fob
 $13..37
 $35..39
 164.7%
 2
   
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
 7.6%
 8.3%
 9.2%
 3
   
Unemployment rate, blacks
 12.6%
 15.8%
 25.4%
 3
   
Number of unemployed
 11,616,000
 14,485,000
 24.7%
 3
   
Number of fed. Employees
 2,779,000
 2,840,000
 2.2%
 3
   
Real median household income
 $50,112
 $49,777
 -0.7%
 4
   
Number of food stamp recipients
 31,983,716
 43,200,878
 35.1%
 5
   
Number of unemployment benefit recipients
 7,526,598
 9,193,838
 22.2%
 6
   
Number of long-term unemployed
 2,600,000
 6,400,000
 146.2%
 3
   
Poverty rate, individuals
 13.2%
 14.3%
 8.3%
 4
   
People in poverty in U.S.
 39,800,000
 43,600,000
 9.5%
 4
   
U.S. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings
 5
 9
 n/a
 10
   
Present Situation Index
 29.9
 23.5
 -21.4%
 11
   
Failed banks
 140
 164
 17.1%
 12
   
U.S. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate
 89.76
 82.03
 -8.6%
 2
   
U.S. Money supply, M1, in billions
 1,575.1
 1,865.7
 18.4%
 13
   
U.S. Money supply, M2, in billions
 8,310.9
 8,852.3
 6.5%
 13
   
National debt, in trillions
 $10..627
 $14..052
 32.2%
 14 
   
 Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history.
Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane.
27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH! Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor;
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC;
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury