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How Freedom Died

Posted on | June 15, 2010 | 19 Comments

Incredible: 

The White House on Monday outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them.
The regulations empower the administration to revoke the so-called grandfather status of businesses that shift “significant” new burdens onto employees — a considerable penalty that would subject those plans to all the consumer protections in the Democrats’ new healthcare reform law.

Government requiring companies to provide health insurance and mandating how much of that cost can be paid by employees.

It’s over. We’re Sweden.

Category: Health Care

Comments

19 Responses to “How Freedom Died”

  1. Roxeanne de Luca
    June 15th, 2010 @ 4:09 pm

    Congratulations, Democrats: you just gave businesses a massive incentive to fund the legal battle against ObamaCare, a whole new set of plaintiffs that will have the standing to challenge it, and a huge group of campaign donors.

    Oh, yeah, and you also screwed over your chances of a recovery in time for the 2012 elections. The boot on the neck of small businesses will ensure that the economy will continue to choke right up until Palin is sworn in.

  2. Roxeanne de Luca
    June 15th, 2010 @ 12:09 pm

    Congratulations, Democrats: you just gave businesses a massive incentive to fund the legal battle against ObamaCare, a whole new set of plaintiffs that will have the standing to challenge it, and a huge group of campaign donors.

    Oh, yeah, and you also screwed over your chances of a recovery in time for the 2012 elections. The boot on the neck of small businesses will ensure that the economy will continue to choke right up until Palin is sworn in.

  3. Roxeanne de Luca
    June 15th, 2010 @ 4:10 pm

    Er… a huge group of Republican campaign donors.

    As one of the gentle folk of suburban MA said the other day when I was dropping off campaign literature: “Is [he] a Republican or a Democrat?… Good! After what’s going on in Washington, I never want to see another Democrat again.”

  4. Roxeanne de Luca
    June 15th, 2010 @ 12:10 pm

    Er… a huge group of Republican campaign donors.

    As one of the gentle folk of suburban MA said the other day when I was dropping off campaign literature: “Is [he] a Republican or a Democrat?… Good! After what’s going on in Washington, I never want to see another Democrat again.”

  5. Andrew Sullivan
    June 15th, 2010 @ 4:51 pm

    I swear I will leave this country if Palin is ever elected. I will! This is not some idle Alec Baldwin threat, this is the real deal.

    Then you will all be sorry.

  6. Andrew Sullivan
    June 15th, 2010 @ 12:51 pm

    I swear I will leave this country if Palin is ever elected. I will! This is not some idle Alec Baldwin threat, this is the real deal.

    Then you will all be sorry.

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    June 15th, 2010 @ 2:29 pm

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  8. Bob Belvedere
    June 15th, 2010 @ 6:34 pm

    We’re NOT SWEDEN. We’re the Goddamn United Goddamn States Of Goddamn America, Stacy!

    Nil Desperandum – Never Despair.

    Fight the bastards for every inch of ground.

    Resist the regulations!

    Roxeanne de Luca’s ready and willing. Don’t let the bastards get you down.

    WOLVERINES!

  9. Bob Belvedere
    June 15th, 2010 @ 2:34 pm

    We’re NOT SWEDEN. We’re the Goddamn United Goddamn States Of Goddamn America, Stacy!

    Nil Desperandum – Never Despair.

    Fight the bastards for every inch of ground.

    Resist the regulations!

    Roxeanne de Luca’s ready and willing. Don’t let the bastards get you down.

    WOLVERINES!

  10. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 7:01 pm

    Sweden is actually going in the other direction. While I am no fan of Scandinavian Socialism, we would be lucky (relatively) if they tried to make us into Sweden. The financial-government model the Obama administration are pushing is more akin to the ones adopted by the Greeks.

  11. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 3:01 pm

    Sweden is actually going in the other direction. While I am no fan of Scandinavian Socialism, we would be lucky (relatively) if they tried to make us into Sweden. The financial-government model the Obama administration are pushing is more akin to the ones adopted by the Greeks.

  12. Rightwing Links (June 15, 2010)
    June 15th, 2010 @ 3:03 pm

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  13. Lonely Conservative
    June 15th, 2010 @ 9:32 pm

    Linked here:

    http://lonelyconservative.com/2010/06/employers-received-mob-style-warning-from-obama-administration/

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  14. Lonely Conservative
    June 15th, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

    Linked here:

    http://lonelyconservative.com/2010/06/employers-received-mob-style-warning-from-obama-administration/

    My site stopped sending pings and trackbacks.

  15. Estragon
    June 16th, 2010 @ 5:33 am

    If Obama can fire the CEO of GM and order BP to set up an “escrow fund” of $20 billion, why can’t he do this?

    I’m scared sh*tless, and I’m not even Jewish.

  16. Estragon
    June 16th, 2010 @ 1:33 am

    If Obama can fire the CEO of GM and order BP to set up an “escrow fund” of $20 billion, why can’t he do this?

    I’m scared sh*tless, and I’m not even Jewish.

  17. David R. Graham
    June 16th, 2010 @ 6:35 am

    Politicians have the upper hand over everyone, including especially commerce and industry (because politicians make the laws/run the courts), but not necessarily the Armed Forces.

    A nation’s Armed Forces alone have a potential upper hand on politicians (commerce and industry never do), but the gulf between potential and the will to actualize is very, very deep and wide.

    The only force vector (group) having a potential upper hand on both politicians (includes lawyers and judges) and Armed Forces, along with everyone else, is clergy, or what is the same thing, teachers.

    Clergy/teachers always actualize their potential upper hand (who is more powerful, the king/soldier or their teacher?) but the reality of that actualization has a very, very long wave length — i.e., it happens very slowly over an estimable span of time. But it always happens, irresistibly.

    So when things go bad on a wide front, the culpable party, the ones to blame, are the clergy/teachers.

  18. David R. Graham
    June 16th, 2010 @ 2:35 am

    Politicians have the upper hand over everyone, including especially commerce and industry (because politicians make the laws/run the courts), but not necessarily the Armed Forces.

    A nation’s Armed Forces alone have a potential upper hand on politicians (commerce and industry never do), but the gulf between potential and the will to actualize is very, very deep and wide.

    The only force vector (group) having a potential upper hand on both politicians (includes lawyers and judges) and Armed Forces, along with everyone else, is clergy, or what is the same thing, teachers.

    Clergy/teachers always actualize their potential upper hand (who is more powerful, the king/soldier or their teacher?) but the reality of that actualization has a very, very long wave length — i.e., it happens very slowly over an estimable span of time. But it always happens, irresistibly.

    So when things go bad on a wide front, the culpable party, the ones to blame, are the clergy/teachers.

  19. Employers Received Mob-Style Warning from Obama Administration :: The Lonely Conservative
    July 7th, 2010 @ 7:18 pm

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