The ObamaCare Fiscal Cliff and obamatax

While Congress and our nation’s news cycles are obsessed with the so-called “fiscal cliff” and the proposed tax hikes on the “rich,” some of the most devastating hits to the wallets of Americans in 2013 are sliding in under the radar: The stealth costs of ObamaCare.

Contrary to the oh-so-earnest promises made by President Obama when he was selling ObamaCare to the nation, the new healthcare law is driving up costs for every American.

Here are just a few of the troubling signs we are seeing…

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Blue Shield of California is looking to increase their rates 13-20% next year.

The Kaiser health plan wants to raise rates 9%.

Bloomberg News is reporting…

“Health insurance premiums may as much as double for some small businesses and individual buyers in the U.S. when the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions start in 2014, Aetna Inc. (AET)’s chief executive officer said.

“We’ve shared it all with the people in Washington and I think it’s a big concern,” the CEO said.

Aetna is our nation’s third largest health insurance company.

Michael Turner wrote on National Review Online that a majority of ObamaCare’s $1 trillion new or increased taxes will take effect in 2013, including…

“An increase in Medicare payroll taxes; cuts in Flexible Spending Accounts; new business taxes; medical device taxes and…Middle-class workers will also be among the biggest losers from the changes that Obamacare imposes on tax-deductible medical expenses – amounting to a $500 tax hike.”

Congressman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) has a list of 20 new or higher taxes being imposed on American families and businesses on his congressional website.

And, as the icing on the cake, Michael Turner reports…

“ObamaCare will add roughly $1.5 trillion to the debt over the next ten years.”

These are at least 20 more reasons why ObamaCare must be defeated in court!

As you may know, Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit against ObamaCare was revived by the Supreme Court late last month.

Thankfully, I will once again be arguing in federal court on behalf of tens of millions of Americans who want to keep ObamaCare’s socialist mandate from doing irreparable damage to our nation.

Because of the remarkable Supreme Court ruling granting a rehearing of Liberty University v. Geithner, our case against ObamaCare, I will be delivering oral argument before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, contending that mandates in the misnamed “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” are completely unconstitutional!

I believe our lawsuit is now America’s best hope to end the federal takeover of our healthcare system and its deadly impact on our culture.

You can play a pivotal role in derailing Obamacare.

Dear Patriot, I’m asking you to join with at least 100,000 of our faithful Liberty Counsel team members in signing our “Amici Book” for our revived case against ObamaCare.

The all-new “Amici Book,” which is Latin for “Book of Friends” will be placed at our Counsel’s Table…. directly across from Attorney General Eric Holder’s team from the Department of Justice (DOJ)!

With your signature in the book, you can in effect be with me in that federal courtroom.

Please take a moment right now to sign the Amici Book and declare that you will personally stand with me in the daunting challenge of taking on the Obama administration and the Department of Justice:



We have no choice but fighting with all of our might!

As you know, this outrageous law is actually the complete socialization of our nation’s medical system. It MUST be stopped before it destroys our medical services industry, makes taxpayer-funded abortion a permanent part of our culture, and bankrupts our already weakened economy.

Together, we CAN stop this outrageous government takeover of the world’s most advanced healthcare industry in court! Together, we can save America from being turned into just another second-class socialist state!

Dear Patriot, signing our Amici Book HERE will unite you in Liberty Counsel’s cause of defeating an unprecedented expansion of federal power and the outrageous imposition of ObamaCare’s unconstitutional mandates.

Please, send Liberty Counsel into this historic courtroom battle with your prayers, support, and this tangible evidence of your ever-present encouragement! Click here to sign Liberty Counsel’s powerful new Amici Book:

http://www.libertyaction.org/372/petition.asp

As much as the media has positioned ObamaCare as President Obama’s “crowning first-term achievement,” we know that the law was only passed by sleight-of-hand legislative manipulation, backroom deals, and outright bribery.

That’s why the legal battle against ObamaCare is among the most historic pieces of litigation ever fought in the United States federal courts. And Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit is now at the forefront of all judicial efforts to have the law overturned!

Stand with my team and me once again in this special way by clicking here and adding your name.

http://www.libertyaction.org/372/petition.asp

THANK YOU for all you do, and especially if you can support Liberty Counsel HERE.

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman Liberty Counsel

The Outright Deception of ObamaCare

Another day, another mandate!!!!!

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just announced that any and all FDA approved “contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for women with reproductive capacity,” will be provided under ObamaCare “without cost” in college/student-based health plans, and for women of college age but not attending school.

But, of course, SOMEBODY will be paying for all those “sterilization procedures” and abortion inducing drugs for college aged women – enrollees in ObamaCare, whether it offends their consciences or not! This HHS announcement comes on the heels of a similarly disturbing revelation that a minimum of one dollar a month from every ObamaCare participant will help pay for someone’s abortion. If you find the sudden emergence of these “mandates” appalling, then please join me in committing to pray that ObamaCare will be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court!

”Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare,” needs to be a cry resounding throughout our land! Click here to add your name to Liberty Counsel’s “Book of Remembrance” as your commitment to pray for exactly that:

Click http://www.libertyaction.org/346/petition.asp HERE

Now, please read this very important update below.

Patriots,

Just when Americans desperately want to believe that we’ve heard the end of ObamaCare’s immoral and unconstitutional mandates, Barak Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have launched yet another assault against pro-life Americans and unborn children– and our First Amendment freedom of conscience!

These mandates are only the beginning of what is coming under ObamaCare.

Now, it’s all in the “HHS rules.”

Liberty Counsel warned that ObamaCare authorizes unaccountable bureaucrats, like Sebelius, to create rules for its implementation and thereby bypass the legislature.

From the beginning, we argued that ObamaCare was the largest abortion funding in history, and we pointed out that ObamaCare would mandate for the first time in history direct funding of abortion by the $1 abortion fee (in addition, of course, to many other abortion mandates). Now, what we argued when we filed suit in 2010 has come to light.

Not only do the HHS rules require health insurance providers to provide abortion-inducing drugs like Ella and Plan B free of charge, as you’ve heard in the news, but the provision setting a premium to cover abortion is also in the HHS rules that implement ObamaCare.

The life-ending mandates contained in ObamaCare (especially for the pre-born – and in the “death panels” that determine who will live and who will die) have become so reprehensible in their implementation that as I write this message, I feel I must pause and pray, “God, forgive our nation! And, please, Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare!”

The “Book of Remembrance” is a permanent record containing the names of multiplied tens of thousands of deeply concerned Christians who are faithfully crying, “Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare!” throughout the period of time leading up to the expected announcement of the Court’s holdings in June.

Liberty Counsel’s “Book of Remembrance” is a way for you to play a direct role in STOPPING ObamaCare now and for all time!

In just the short time we’ve called on God-fearing Americans to join us in focused prayer to end this scourge, over 25,000 of your fellow patriots have made that commitment.

Think of it this way: We are taking our petitions to the Highest Court in all creation – to the Most High Supreme Judge – to our eternal Advocate, Who is seated on the Throne of Heaven!

How can Believers NOT commit to pray? This is a national nightmare that MUST come to an end! Click here to add your name to the roll of those who are committing to pray over the next several weeks:

http://www.libertyaction.org/346/petition.asp

The outright deception of ObamaCare.

ObamaCare has now been exposed as being an engine of death for pre-born Americans. And it is destroying our precious freedom of conscience by FORCING participants to pay premiums for various methods of destroying viable human life!

ObamaCare was only passed through sheer deceit and overbearing manipulation of our legislative system almost 2 years ago to the day.

++The ObamaCare showdown begins in just six more days!

Next Monday, the United States Supreme Court will hear three days of oral argument on the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Law” (ObamaCare) cases. Their deliberations will include many of the key components of Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit against ObamaCare.

We must fervently pray to be delivered from the murderous, unaffordable, deceitful snares of ObamaCare!

I am once again calling on you to add YOUR name to the “Book of Remembrance” and to show your commitment to pray, “Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare!”

When you sign our “Book of Remembrance,” we will send you a free bumper sticker that declares, “Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare!” Click here to see this full-sized, high-quality vinyl product and to sign the book:

http://www.libertyaction.org/346/petition.asp

This legal battle against the government takeover of the American healthcare system is arguably the most historic litigation ever fought in the United States federal judiciary! It is truly worthy of every American Christian’s best prayer effort.

Thank you in advance for your prayer support and continuing partnership with Liberty Counsel. May God richly bless you!

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman

Liberty Counsel

P.S. Under ObamaCare mandates, everyone will be forced to pay for killing the unborn. We must pray against this immoral and unconstitutional law! The “Book of Remembrance” is simply your commitment to pray, “Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare!” from March to June. Please pray for the Supreme Court Justices, their deliberations, and their decisions.

Abortion Surcharge in ObamaCare

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week that a minimum of one dollar a month from every ObamaCare participant will help pay for someone’s abortion. The “abortion surcharge” is cleverly hidden in the insurance premium, but not allowed to be listed as a line item. If you find that thought upsetting, as I do, then please join me in committing to pray that ObamaCare will be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court!

Thousands of participants in Liberty Counsel’s focused prayer campaign are already calling upon the Lord to “Deliver us from ObamaCare.” But we need your prayers, too! Click here to add your name to Liberty Counsel’s “Book of Remembrance” as your commitment to pray:

http://www.libertyaction.org/346/petition.asp

In case you missed the breaking news about ObamaCare this week, please read my very important update below – Mat.

Patriots,

It’s now official. Contained in just-released Health and Human Services guidelines is yet another mandate that requires an “abortion premium” for the establishment of state health care exchanges.

According to our friends at LifeNews...

“To comply with the accounting requirement, plans will collect a $1 abortion surcharge from each premium payer… The enrollee will make two payments, $1 per month for abortion and another payment for the rest of the services covered.

As described in the rule, the surcharge can only be disclosed to the enrollee at the time of enrollment. Furthermore, insurance plans may only advertise the total cost of the premiums without disclosing that enrollees will be charged a $1 per month fee to directly subsidize abortions.”

Here’s the bottom line: All Americans were lied to by our President, who promised that ObamaCare would not enhance abortion services, nor would taxpayer money be used to fund these murderous procedures!

And you will certainly remember the President’s oh-so-sincere promise that “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.”
It turns out that, too, was a convenient “misrepresentation.”

++CBO Report: ObamaCare cost estimates have doubled!

Yesterday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its most recent projections revealing that ObamaCare’s costs will be nearly double what the President promised and Congress approved – from $900 Billion to $1.76 Trillion. But independent analysts say the true cost will, in all likelihood, far exceed $2 Trillion over that ten-year span.


We have been saying all along that the Obama administration used accounting trickery to insure that his healthcare package came in under $1 Trillion. Now that, too, has been CONFIRMED.

Far fewer people will be able to obtain employer plans – or keep their existing plans – than was falsely promised.

Further, the CBO report disclosed the likelihood that four million people – more than four times the original estimate – will be unable to have access to healthcare services through their employers.

++We must fervently pray to be delivered from the murderous, unaffordable, deceitful snares of ObamaCare!

I was taken aback when President Barak Obama, the leader who habitually shuns National Day of Prayer observances, called for a “prayer vigil” to rally public support for his cornerstone legislation this week.


As I said at the time, I applaud the President’s desire to submit ObamaCare to the Lord, but I think he may be very surprised at His response!

I am requesting that ALL friends of Liberty Counsel rise up in an unprecedented wave of unity – and PRAY – not to sway public opinion – but, as Joel 1:14 declares, to “Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.”

Beginning March 26th, the United States Supreme Court will hear three days of oral argument on the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Law” cases. Their deliberations will include many of the key components of Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit against ObamaCare.

The President will doubtless rally supporters outside the Supreme Court that day – but I believe that together, you and I will be joined by well over 100,000 believers – faithfully praying for every phase of the Court hearings and the deliberative period leading up to their ruling being released, probably in June.


Soon, I will be passing along specific prayer requests and key issues for which to pray effectively and fervently.

For now, let’s start with the painfully obvious: ObamaCare has now been exposed as being an engine of death for pre-born Americans. And it is destroying our precious freedom of conscience by FORCING participants to pay an “abortion premium”!

The fact that the new HHS “guidelines” require insurance providers to hide the “abortion surcharge” in overall premium payments clearly demonstrates the administration’s intent to deceive pro-moral Americans.


LORD, DELIVER US FROM OBAMACARE!

++Our commitments to pray will be recorded in a unique “Book of Remembrance.”

Our Book of Remembrance is based on the pattern described in Malachi 3:16...


“A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored his name.”
It commemorates the names of those joining a solemn assembly to petition the Lord in a time of great trouble – in fact, a time like this!

Our Book of Remembrance is the roll of a national gathering of Believers, convened on the Internet, covenanting to join in prayer in the Spirit of Joel 1:14.

It will contain the names of multiplied tens of thousands of deeply concerned Christians who will be crying, “Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare!” throughout the period of time leading up to the expected announcement of the Court’s holdings in June.

Our nation desperately needs 100,000 or more prayerful patriots to be included in Liberty Counsel’s Book of Remembrance. More than anything else, Liberty Counsel’s Book of Remembrance is a way for you to play a direct role in STOPPING ObamaCare now and for all time!

Click here to add your name to the roll of Believers who will commit to pray over the next several weeks:

http://www.libertyaction.org/346/petition.asp

When you sign our Book of Remembrance, we will send you a free bumper sticker that declares, “Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare!”
Click here to see this full-sized, high-quality vinyl product:

http://www.libertyaction.org/346/petition.asp

++We are totally committed to seeking God’s Hand of deliverance!
In early May 2011, as I entered the courtroom of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals facing the Department of Justice in our case “Liberty University v. Geithner,” I was carrying our Amici Book. If you will remember, the book was filled with over 76,000 names of people who had committed to pray for us that day and throughout this process.


As I’ve shared with you before, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled that the individual mandate is a “tax” under the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA), and thus the court does not have jurisdiction to rule on the merits until the “tax” is paid and a “refund” is sought by a taxpayer.

Thus, according to the appeal court’s logic, the case could not even be brought to the federal courts until the mandate becomes effective in 2014.

This ruling went against every court in America that considered ObamaCare! Every other court found that the mandate is a “penalty,” not a tax, and that the AIA does not apply.

There was never any doubt that the Supreme Court would be the final arbiter of the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Now, as I look back over these events, I CLEARLY see God’s providential Hand guiding the process and answering our prayers! And I expect nothing less than His blessing as the Supreme Court considers ObamaCare’s final disposition.

I know that God’s people were praying that day last May and throughout this long, drawn-out process. Further, I believe the Lord has uniquely prepared Liberty Counsel for this season in our nation’s history. I believe that God is bigger than all of this – and that our Fourth Circuit ruling and the DOJ’s appeal certainly didn’t take Him by surprise!

The Lord has continually honored our work and the prayers of His people. The evidence of that is quite clear!

That’s why I am once again calling upon you, Patriots,
to add YOUR name to the Book of Remembrance and to show your commitment to pray, “Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare!” To indicate your prayer commitment and to receive your free bumper sticker, click here:

http://www.libertyaction.org/346/petition.asp

This legal battle against the government takeover of the American healthcare system is arguably the most historic litigation ever fought in the United States federal judiciary! It is truly worthy of every American Christian’s best prayer effort.

Thank you in advance for your prayer support and continuing partnership with Liberty Counsel. May God richly bless you!

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel