THE DARK SIDE OF OBAMACARE

Liberty Counsel

11/22/2011

Under ObamaCare: Abortion access is growing – even into our public schools; Healthcare costs now exceed many families’ budgets while services will soon have to be rationed; Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi overlooked a critical funding detail in their 2,000+ page bill and now the IRS may have to step in to “help”; the Medicaid rolls of states will expand 20 to 50 percent and could not be supported even with a thriving economy; and there are still no conscience protections for prolife healthcare facilities and service providers under ObamaCare.

These are just a few of the latest revelations concerning the government take-over of our medical system as the realities of ObamaCare become painfully clear.  Please read my urgent message below - Mat

Dear Conservatives,

After pausing on Thursday to give God thanks for our many blessings and joining loved ones to celebrate this wonderful American tradition, I will then be praying that He would deliver our nation from the CURSE of ObamaCare.

The chilling reality is that much of what we are thankful for in this great nation is in imminent danger of destruction if this deceitful, dangerous legislation is ever fully enacted.

I am not exaggerating.  America, as we know it, cannot survive full implementation of the intentionally misnamed “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” – a law  that protects no patient and cannot possibly be afforded.

++ The dark side of ObamaCare is darker than anyone thought. 

The Hill is reporting, “President Obama's healthcare law will leave millions of families without affordable coverage unless tax officials rewrite the rules on who gets subsidies…”

Why? Because in the Obama/Reid/Pelosi rush to ram ObamaCare down the throats of Americans, they overlooked a critical federal funding component for family subsidies. 

So, the IRS will have to get even more deeply involved in administrating the socialist ObamaCare program.

Last week, the IRS held hearings to determine if they will allow “workers' spouses and dependents to qualify for tax credits if employer-sponsored family plans are unaffordable” under ObamaCare’s deeply flawed funding mechanism.

Last week, we also learned that President Obama’s nominee to the Social Security Board, Henry J. Aaron, would be yet another key ObamaCare administrator who has spoken publicly in favor of healthcare rationing.

As you know, the leftist proponents of socialized medicine that rammed ObamaCare down America’s throat bristled when such boards were called “Death Panels,” but if Henry Aaron becomes the head of the Social Security Board, we’ll be one step closer to just such a reality!

++ Liberty Counsel remains in the thick of the battle against ObamaCare.

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the so-called “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”  On the same day, Liberty Counsel filed our lawsuit in Federal District Court against the unconstitutional provisions of ObamaCare.  We were the first private organization to file such an action. 

For over two years, Liberty Counsel has been battling ObamaCare – first by attempting to derail it in Congress and then in stopping its implementation process.

We’ve diligently fought in every possible arena: In courts of law; in legislatures; in the court of public opinion; and in the administration, funding, and enactment processes of this healthcare fiasco.

The fact is, you and I MUST continue to take every opportunity to defeat ObamaCare!

As I’ve said before, Liberty Counsel is standing at the epicenter of the battle against ObamaCare. Now, while our case against this outrageous law, “Liberty University v. Geithner,” is being held by the Supreme Court, we are redoubling our efforts to fight it in the court of public opinion and to stop its implementation by defunding it, fighting it administratively, or through whatever other lawful options become available!

Of course, we continue doing everything possible in the judiciary prior to the Supreme Court decision we expect inJune 2012, including filing a powerful Amicus Brief.  But we will be fighting in other ways, as well.

++Pro-death realities of ObamaCare are taking effect.

Now it is being widely reported that ObamaCare provides funding for school-based “clinics” which will open the door for organizations like Planned Parenthood to operate within our public schools. By law, abortions cannot be performed on school premises, but these new tax funded “clinics” can certainly act as conduits or referral services to encourage abortions at an outside provider. 

Plus, many pro-life healthcare organizations and workers are now faced with the reality that they will no longer be afforded protections for conscience rights under ObamaCare – which could mean sanctions or causing such organizations to close their doors. 

This healthcare “reform” law is, in reality, an unprecedented expansion of federal power and regulation.  And it represents everything that is wrong with the failed political philosophy of socialism.

++For now, the single best way to stop ObamaCare is at the      
     United States Supreme Court.

When the Supreme Court announced that it will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of ObamaCare, the Court made it clear that each of the essential constitutional questions in Liberty Counsel’s case opposing ObamaCare must be fully addressed. Our legal team is getting ready to file a critical brief at the Supreme Court’s order and one thing is clear...

Overturning ObamaCare’s unconstitutional mandates in the High Court is our best chance to stop this socialist nightmare before it gains any more momentum. 

We are preparing an extensive brief to the Court on a wide range of issues. Our Amicus Brief will be a significant factor in helping shape the Justices’ view of the facts. Will you help us move forward?