Thought for Today

"Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost."

~~~~~ Dr. Marcia Angell

Stop Governor Haslam's Expansion of Obamacare in Tennessee through Medicaid

Petition Background (Preamble):

In accordance with Public Chapter 662 of the State Tennessee, Governor Haslam has called the 109th Tennessee General Assembly into special session for the purpose of passing a resolution authorizing him as governor to enact a wavier for Medicaid, known as Insure Tennessee.

Insure Tennessee as determined by the Tennessee Attorney General is Medicaid Expansion.

The funding mechanism for Medicaid Expansion is the Affordable Care Act commonly referred to as Obamacare. Obamacare is both immoral and unconstitutional and any effort to legitimize it should be defeated without reservation or cause.

By expanding Medicaid the state of Tennessee further legitimizes an unconstitutional act and increases the federal debt by over $22.5 billion over the next ten years.

Petition:

For these reasons we the undersigned request in the strongest terms possible that the members of the 109th Tennessee General Assembly vote NO on Governor Haslam's request for authorization to expand Medicaid.

Stop Governor Haslam's Expansion of Obamacare in Tennessee through Medicaid Petition | GoPetition

Deliberate or Inadvertent?

Six of the nine justices of the Supreme Court are Roman Catholic, including Obama's appointee Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In addition to Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Sonia Sotomayor all are Catholic. Particularly considering that the Supreme Court is presently deciding the constitutionality of ObamaCare, I've been wondering whether Obama's thumb in the eye to all Catholics, obviously including those six Justices, was deliberate or inadvertent.

I'm inclined to think Obama knew exactly what he was doing. After all, he deliberately insulted the Supreme Court right to its members' faces during last year's State of the Union address. Consider, too, that in implementing this new policy, he disregarded the advice of Vice President Joe Biden and former White House Chief of Staff Bill Dailey, both Catholics, then coldly put Catholic HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius out front to announce it – much as the Nazis put the Jewish kapos in charge of loading the rest of the Jews into the cattle cars.

This summer, when the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of ObamaCare, let's hope they remember this egregious insult and return the favor in kind.