Obama's Biggest Supporters to Get Whacked With 59% Tax Rate
JammieWearingFool — ... facing new fees and penalties. The $544 billion tax hike would violate one of President Obama's ironclad campaign promises: No family will pay higher tax rates than they would have paid in the 1990s. Oh, so he lied? There's a stunner. If you're a New Yorker, click the image above if you really want the depressing details. But don't complain to me. We tried to warn you, but you voted for Obama in overwhelming numbers. Meanwhile, if you think you can somehow keep your own insurance, think again . The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more Americans ...

UH OH: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care fo…
Instapundit — UH OH: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. ...

A Real Killer
A Blog For All — President Obama and his fellow Democrats are hell bent on ramming through a health care reform act that doesn't actually reform health care and will end up increasing the costs for health care, will kill job creation in small businesses, put a damper on the economy, and may end up killing patients in need of care. Moreover, one of the plans actually outlaws private health care providers , making the government solely responsible for health care insurance in the nation. For starters, how exactly can a byzantine health care delivery system such as the one proposed result in lower ...

How to Deal With Enemies
Daily Pundit — IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor’s Business Daily — It’s Not An Option Congress: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we ...

YES, VIRGINIA, IT IS NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE: OBAMACARE WOULD MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO BUY PRIVATE INSURANCE
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — GLENN: UH OH: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. ...

Socialized health care and the death of choice
Michelle Malkin — Two more Obamacare items worth your attention this morning: 1) Investors’ Business Daily shines light on a provision in the Democrat takeover bill that will effectively kill off the market for individual insurance and funnel consumers into the “public option:” When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of ...

Obamacare Will Outlaw Private Health Insurance Plans!
Gateway Pundit — We were warned. Verum Serum revealed earlier the real goal of the Obamacare is to rid the nation of private insurance options. We just didn't think it would come so soon. In 2003 Obama said he was a proponent of single-payer universal health care system for America. It looks like he will get it. Obamacare will outlaw individual private coverage. Investor's Business Daily reported: Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment ...

We Learned To Love It
small dead animals — We Learned To Love It You will too. It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. And after that, they'll make private billing from your doctor illegal, and private "for profit" diagnostics illegal, and well, there's not a lot they won't make illegal to ensure that you, your doctor, your technicians, and your nurses don't desert the system for greener pastures. And while you may not learn to love things like "doctor ...

Democrat Health Care Bill Will Outlaw Private Insurance
Say Anything — ... your current health insurance plan under the bill proposed by Democrats in the House as of the first day that bill takes effect you won’t be able to make any changes to it.  If you quit your job and drop your health care you won’t be able to sign up for another plan.  If you’re getting your first job and leaving your parents’ health insurance plan to get your own insurance for the first time you won’t have much in the way of choice. Just government health care. When we first saw ...

To Save American Health Care …
Jules Crittenden — ... … they have to destoy it. Take it away, International Business Daily :  When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance ...

IBD: House Dems Bill will make Individual Health Insurance Illegal
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Talk about over-reaching: Chairman Waxman’s bill will make private health insurance illegal for individuals. I know, it can not be! But it is, here is the editorial from the Investors Business Daily: When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice ...

ObamaCare Bans Private Insurance
Moonbattery — ... There's a reason Democrats try to ram their massive bills through quickly before anyone can read them. Look what someone found in the upcoming ObamaCare legislation: ...

Obamacare: The mask is off
Patterico's Pontifications — [Posted by Karl] Kudos to Investment Business Daily for uncovering a doozy in the House version of Obamacare: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The ...

ObamaCare Bans Private Insurance
Right Wing News — There's a reason Democrats try to ram their massive bills through quickly before anyone can read them. Look what someone found in the upcoming ObamaCare legislation: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we ...

Jude : Bleeding the Patient
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... better descriptive for it than that, but the the whole thing is so unwieldy and terrifying that I'll probably just wait for them to mix up a bunch of letters and create an acrobatic acronym for the Obama-Youth-Corp-Census-Community-Canvassing-Nationalization-Force. They'll probably call it GOOD, or JUSTICE. Meanwhile, we all know that single-payer is, if not the admitted goal, then the eventual outcome of the path Obama is telling everyone to 'buck up' and get onto. Now we see that "the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new ...

IBD: Individual Private Health Insurance Illegal Under House Bill
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Yesterday afternoon, IBD laid the following bombshell on its readers (HT to dscott, I also heard Rush mention this a short time ago; bolds after title are mine): ...

CBO Director Says ObamaCare Will Boost Deficit
Wizbang — ... recess. Maybe there are some people left in Washington that actually care about their reputations. After months of listening to the Obama administration's nonsense about reducing the deficit by taking over healthcare, it's refreshing to hear someone actually testify during this debate that such ideas are ridiculous. Kudos for Mr. Elmendorf for calling it like he sees it. There are growing signs that the ObamaCare Express may be stalling as voters learn more about the costs and other heretofore undisclosed features that reveal the scheme to be a blatant government takeover of ...

Dems Health Care Plan FORCING You to Join Gov’t System
Flopping Aces — ... be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.” He didn’t let up. “If you like what you’re getting, keep it,” Obama said. “Nobody is forcing you to shift.” So how does Obama explain this? It’s Not An Option By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Congress: It ...

The Wingnuts Apparently Will Believe ANYthing
Seeing the Forest — ... -- by Dave Johnson So now the wingnuts are trying to claim that the House health care reform plan makes private insurance illegal . ...

Well, It Is Sort Of An Option
JustOneMinute — ... Memeorandum with an editorial blasting the House Democrats health care bill as legislating the end of private insurance.  Their lead: When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:"Except as ...

Meredith Jessup: Under House Plan, Private Health Coverage is NOT an Option
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... outlines a provision to make individual private medical insurance illegal. We're not even kidding. After consulting the House Ways and Means Committee to confirm the meaning of the specific language, Investor's Business Daily reports: It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states: "Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage ...

Health care “reform”: when Obama said…
neo-neocon — ... …you’ll be able to keep your present coverage, this is what he meant. And Investor’s Business Weekly had to dig into the fine print of the jumungous bill to ferret it out: ...

Jude : Bleeding The Patient
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... better descriptive for it than that, but the the whole thing is so unwieldy and terrifying that I'll probably just wait for them to mix up a bunch of letters and create an acrobatic acronym for the Obama-Youth-Corp-Census-Community-Canvassing-Nationalization-Force. They'll probably call it GOOD, or JUSTICE. Meanwhile, we all know that single-payer is, if not the admitted goal, then the eventual outcome of the path Obama is telling everyone to 'buck up' and get onto. Now we see that "the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new ...

Good To Know
Obsidian Wings — ... It's nice to get definitive proof that some bloggers really don't bother to do basic research before posting something, and we got some today. Here's a scary article from Investment Business Daily: ...

Good To Know
Political Animal — Good To Know It's nice to get definitive proof that some bloggers really don't bother to do basic research before posting something, and we got some today. Here's a scary article from Investment Business Daily: "It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. (...) Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states: "Except as ...

I Agree With Joe Biden!
No Runny Eggs — ... Someone should get Joe a copy of the House bill or a subscription to Investors Business Daily.  If he had either, he would note the following: ...

BREAKING: Glenn Reynolds uncritically links to total right-wing bullshit.
INSTAPUTZ — ... It's nice to get definitive proof that some bloggers really don't bother to do basic research before posting something, and we got some today. Here's a scary article from Investment Business Daily: ...

Michele Bachmann: Taking Away the Private Option
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Yesterday, I came across a great piece in Investor's Business Daily about how the House Democrats' Health Care Reform bill released earlier this week would mark the end of individual private medical insurance if signed into law. I've posted a part of it for you below, and I encourage you to read the entire piece. The bill as it's written would kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the government option becomes law. As I've mentioned in previous posts, Republicans want to expand access to affordable health care and ...

More things you should know about ObamaCare
Wizbang — ... and "openness" and "transparency" is attempting to ram potentially the single most destructive bill in the history of the United States through Congress before anyone has a chance to digest it and fully analyze its broad, long-term effects. Of course the reason for this is simple -- the more the bill is understood, the worse it looks. Consider President Obama's continual promises of "competition" and "choice" and "if you're happy with your existing insurance, you can keep it." Investor's Business Daily shattered these empty promises after reading only 16 pages of the 1000+ ...

Dems Move to "Nationalize Heathcare"
The Jawa Report — July 17, 2009 Dems Move to "Nationalize Heathcare" By outlawing private insurance? Via Investors Business Daily: Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw ...

Addendum: about that health care reform bill…
neo-neocon — ... that at least one person disagrees with that analysis of the health care bill by Investor’s Business Daily, the one that said it would call a halt to the purchase of new individual insurance policies in the private sector after the passage of the bill. ...

Just so we’re all clear
Knowledge is Power — ... “Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.... ...

Individual Private Insurance Would Not Be Illegal
Sound Politics — Individual Private Insurance Would Not Be Illegal Over on the public blog I saw a post that linked to a Investors Business Daily editorial which claimed a provision of the bill made "individual private medical insurance illegal." But here's a hint: the quoted text from the bill starts out, "Except as provided in this paragraph." When you see that, it's a hint that you should read the rest of the paragraph. If you read further, you find out the bill would only outlaw individual private health insurance that is not participating in the Health Insurance ...

Does the Democratic Health Care Plan Ban Private Insurance?
Power Line — That's a claim that is making the rounds these days, based on this editorial by the Investors Business Daily: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision ...

Surviving Mom Jeans
Crooks and Liars — ... spreading Wall Street rumours and urging viewers to buy Bear Stearns stock just before the investment bank collapsed, the Investor’s Business Daily’s scare-mongering with false claims the health care reform bill would make private medical insurance ‘illegal’, ...

Obama: “I’m Not Familiar With The ObamaCare Bill”
Pirate's Cove — ... During the call, a blogger from Maine said he kept running into an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance. He asked: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” ( ...

Choice And Risk
Dean's World — Ace makes a great point on one of the many problems  on the health care bill: On Fox & Friends, they offered another good talking point: Currently 90% of all Americans are covered by insurance. Obama’s vaunted plan will cover, theoretically, another 7%. So: We’re destroying the entire system to move from 90% to 97% coverage? And that 7%, of course, includes a lot of young people who think they don’t need health insurance because they’re young and healthy (and, in fact, they’re right, according to the ...

Choice And Risk
Classical Values — ... on one of the many problems on the health care bill: On Fox & Friends, they offered another good talking point: Currently 90% of all Americans are covered by insurance. Obama's vaunted plan will cover, theoretically, another 7%. So: We're destroying the entire system to move from 90% to 97% coverage? And that 7%, of course, includes a lot of young people who think they don't need health insurance because they're young and healthy (and, in fact, they're right, according to the statistics; even more right when you consider that each young person is forced to pay way too much ...

Obama Regime Calls for Healthcare Snitches
Moonbattery — ... Healthcare Stalinization Propaganda Czarina Linda Douglass asks us to believe that despite what's clearly written in the bill, ObamaCare will allow free market insurance to survive — as opposed to outlawing it so that we may have a Soviet-style "single payer" system. ...

Pick One, Mack
Knowledge is Power — ... “Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.... ...

A must-read discussion on Obamacare of life-and-death importance to every US citizen
Hyscience — ... During the call, a blogger from Maine said he kept running into an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance. He asked: "Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?" President Obama replied: "You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about."  ...