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Obama's Unaffordable Uncaring Act And Congressman Lowenthal's Coming Choice in 2014



(Dec. 20, 2013) -- The cruelties spun as compassion by the Obama administration regarding its Unaffordable Uncaring Act continue. Late yesterday (Dec. 19), the Obama administration's Health and Human Services Dept. decreed (days before a Dec. 23 deadline) that consumers whose health insurance was cancelled because it didn't fit ObamaCare's dictates will be allowed to buy so-called bare-bones "catastrophic" coverage and won't have to pay penalties if they go without insurance in 2014.

The offer only applies for the coming year to ease consumers' "transition" to ObamaCare's dictates, the Dept. of HHS says. Wow. The only thing missing from this is the salutation "Dear Serfs."

Forbes.com has a must-read analysis of latest madness mandated by White House whims and those who ran Congress in 2010: "Utter Chaos: White House Exempts Millions From Obamacare's Insurance Mandate, 'Unaffordable' Exchanges"

In the 1960s, Congressional Dems broke with Lyndon Johnson. In the 1970s, Congressional Republicans broke with Richard Nixon. Today's Dems can either break with President Obama (whose "if you like your health insurance you can keep it" earned him "Lie of the Year" from PolitiFact.com and highest "Pinocchio" rating from the Washington Post) and revise the deeply flawed Unaffordable Uncaring Act or we expect voters will send additional House Dems and possibly some Dem Senators to the wastebasket of history.

Our thoughts are with Edie Sundby, a California woman fighting an especially deadly cancer (who earlier this year walked the entire 800 mile length of the El Camino Real California Mission route.) In November 2013, she wrote in the Wall Street Journal that she had great cancer care and health coverage, and thanks to ObamaCare's mandates, she lost it...and now wonders how long she'll live. LBREPORT.com linked to her words here.

Congressman Alan Lowenthal (D., Long Beach-West OC) inherited the 2010 law (which he supported in campaigning for Congress in 2012.) In 2014, he'll have to go beyond his initial Nov. 2013 non-responsive response when we asked if he'll introduce or support legislation to allow greater freedom and flexibility than the current law allows. In 2014, Congressman Lowenthal will have to decide whether he'll enable or defy Presidential lies that are causing pain, hurting families and, yes, in some cases hastening deaths.


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