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Obamacare ‘fix’ could add millions of dollars in government costs

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“President Barack Obama’s proposal to allow people to keep canceled health plans for one year could end up costing the government millions of dollars. This is due to a provision of the Affordable Care Act called risk corridors that allows for insurers to share the cost of insuring more expensive customers.  There’s no good estimate yet as to how much the government’s share may be, but a rough calculation from the Kaiser Family Foundation said the difference could be tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars.  Insurance companies structured their premiums based on a balanced mix of healthy customers and sicker customers. That balance could now be in question.”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/15/politics/obamacare-fix-costs/

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Obamacare and the New Soviet Man

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“All that is missing from Emanuel’s blueprint is the punishment. If America’s youth does not live up to Emanuel’s version of the New American Man, they will not suffer the carnage of the kulaks. No one is suggesting that. But something will be done. And, with government, ‘something done’ always means coercion, even if it comes in the disguised form of an incentive that someone else needs to fund. Obama will not allow his signature legacy to become a signature failure. The extraordinary website problems attending Obamacare may be good news for its advocates. It distracts attention from what could be a far less solvable problem.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/34740/Wendy-McElroy-Obamacare-and-the-New-Soviet-Man/

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Paul Craig Roberts: How America Was Lost

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“Liberals and conservatives chasing after their favorite devils, such as child abusers and drug pushers, and prosecutors, judges, and police devoted to conviction and not to justice, have gradually eroded over time the concept of law as a protection of the innocent, With the atmosphere of threat created by 9/11, the final destruction of the protective features of law was quickly achieved in the name of making us safe from terrorists.  The fact that we are no longer safe from our own government did not register.  This is how liberty was lost, and America with it.”

http://paulcraigroberts.org/2013/11/07/america-lost-paul-craig-roberts/

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Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance

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“The administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.  Yet President Obama, who had promised in 2009, ‘if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan,’ was still saying in 2012, ‘If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.’  The White House does not dispute that many in the individual market will lose their current coverage, but argues they will be offered better coverage in its place, and that many will get tax subsidies that would offset any increased costs.”

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance?lite

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NSA tapped phones of 35 world leaders without Obama’s knowledge

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“You might think that if the National Security Agency were tapping the phones of dozens of world leaders, President Obama would be aware of this fact. Apparently not—according to a Wall Street Journal report last night, the NSA’s spy operations are so extensive that not even the president of the United States knows about all of them.  Based on interviews with US officials, the paper said that ‘President Barack Obama went nearly five years without knowing his own spies were bugging the phones of world leaders. Officials said the NSA has so many eavesdropping operations under way that it wouldn’t have been practical to brief him on all of them.'”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/nsa-tapped-phones-of-35-world-leaders-without-obamas-knowledge/

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Insurance Executives Meet With Obama Staff on Fixing Health Exchange

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“The heads of WellPoint Inc. (WLP), Aetna Inc. and at least 10 other insurers met with the Obama administration to discuss correcting flaws in how data from the U.S. health-care marketplaces is transferred to the companies. ‘Alpha teams’ of technology workers at the insurance companies and in the government ‘are working side-by-side to correct challenges,’ the White House said today in a statement. The administration didn’t provide additional details about the meeting, which included Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-23/insurer-ceos-head-to-white-house-to-discuss-obamacare.html

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The National Security Agency: America’s powerful electronic spy service

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“President Harry Truman set up the NSA through a secret directive in 1952, allowing the agency virtually free reign to snoop on the Soviet Union and to track communications entering and leaving the United States.  Congress imposed more oversight and stricter legal guidelines in the 1970s after a Senate inquiry exposed a string of abuses, including the use of the NSA to spy on Americans involved in anti-war and other protests.  The NSA’s budget remains classified but it is believed to be the largest in the intelligence community.  Now, each day the NSA intercepts more than a billion emails, phone calls and other types of communications, according to ‘Top Secret America.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/22/the-national-security-agency-americas-powerful-electronic-spy-service/

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Why 60% of All Americans Now Think Government Has Too Much Power

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“60% of all Americans believe the federal government has too much power. We’ve listed some of the major reasons why… According to a recent Gallup study, 60% of all Americans believe the federal government has too much power.  The percentage of Republicans who believe this is typically high, but recently the number of all Americans, Independents and Democrats included, dissatisfied with the federal government has grown to unprecedented levels.  Here are some recent examples of the large overreach of the federal government.”

http://www.atr.org/reasons-percent-all-americans-government-power-a7890

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Obama names campaign donor, Goldman exec as ambassador to Canada

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“US President Barack Obama named a Goldman Sachs executive and large campaign contributor as ambassador to Canada on Thursday amid potential rifts between the allies over the Keystone pipeline.  Bruce Heyman, managing director for private wealth management at the investment bank, lives in Obama’s base of Chicago and is a so-called ‘bundler’ who raised funds for the president’s campaigns.  Like previous presidents, Obama has regularly named prominent fundraisers to diplomatic posts, seen as one of the top rewards doled out to campaign supporters.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/20/obama-names-large-campaign-donor-goldman-sachs-exec-bruce-heyman-as-ambassador-to-canada/

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