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Have you seen the U.S. court Judges comments about Bamacare?
October 21st, 2010 | 
Author: By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press – 7 mins ago. PENSACOLA, Fla
Seeing that the Healthcare law does have valid challenges of being unconsitutional ….
In a written ruling, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson said:
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The court also needs to be decided whether it’s constitutional to penalize people who do not buy insurance with taxes and to require states to expand their Medicaid programs.
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Vinson largely agreed with the 20 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, saying Congress was intentionally unclear when it created penalties in the legislation. The states have argued that Congress is overstepping its constitutional authority by penalizing people for not doing something — not buying health insurance.
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The penalties for those who do not buy insurance are never referred to as taxes in the 2,700-page act, Vinson wrote.
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Vinson also took issue with the administration’s argument that the states and individual taxpayers must wait until 2014, when some of the changes take effect, to file any lawsuits. Vinson said businesses and states are feeling the ramifications of the law now.
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In states like Florida — where 26 percent of the state budget is devoted to Medicaid, according to the lawsuit — the law amounts to coercion, Vinson wrote.
—–> FINAL DECISION BY THE FEDERAL JUDGE — "Suit over health overhaul can go to trial"
There is also a lawsuit pending in Virginia. A federal judge there has allowed the lawsuit to continue, ruling the overhaul raises complex constitutional issues.
The other states involved in the lawsuit Vinson is hearing are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101014/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul_lawsuit
When Pelosi stood up in front of a national press conference and said Obamacare is what the people want, you think she forgot about the factual majority of the people who are supporting all these lawsuits?
No, I can’t say that I have.
IBEW Activist Tells Sen. Landrieu: Support Strong Public Option, No Benefits Tax
Stephan Babin from IBEW Local 2286 talks about the health care crisis facing IBEW members in Louisiana and how important it is for Sen. Mary Landrieu to support a strong public option and to oppose a tax on union benefits.
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Baton Rouge Insurance Brokers A Acadian Assurance Inc.
Get health insurance and keep money in your pocket with A Acadian Assurance in Baton Rouge. Also known as Brad Thibodaux & Assoc., they offer policies in health insurance for individuals and employers with policies for dental, disability, life, Medicare supplemental and more. Custom tailoring plans to meet specific needs, they strive for maximum coverage, minimum costs, complete customer satisfaction.
Visit us http://www.yellowpages.com/info-451074725/A-Acadian-Assurance-Inc?from=youtb
Duration : 0:1:26
Posted in Louisiana Health Insurance | 
Tags: A Acadian Assurance, agency, agents, Baton Rouge, Brad Thibodaux & Assoc., brokers, dental, disability, health, Independent, insurance, life, Louisiana, Medicare supplement, yellowpages | 
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Mike Mitternight from Metairie Louisiana
As a small business owner of Factory Service Agency and an active participant in health care reform discussions, he is concerned about the taxation schedule. Mike says he pays for his familys health insurance and the premiums for employees, not because he has to, but rather because such coverage should be the choice of an employer. It should not be a government mandate to provide health care.
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How do I know if my HMO covers optometrist visits?
How do i know if my Blue Cross Clue Shield HMO Louisiana Health Insurance covers optometrist do i visits. And if it does does it also cover the cost of my contacts or still pay for them my self. I get my insurance through my work and haven’t really used it yet and not sure what all it covers.
okay so i finally got the BCBS website to work and see that the plan is HMOLA POS and it says the vision coverage is a 35$ copay with a limit of 1 visit every 24 months but how do i know if it covers the cost of my contacts or not?
Most health insurance plans do not cover eye glasses or contacts. The only way to know for sure is to call BCBS and speak with a representative. It will take a lot of patience to get a real live human being on the phone to talk to, but you will eventually. Try pressing 0 and see what happens. Make sure you have BCBS card in front of you when you call. They will need your group number and ID number.
LSU Grad Orientation Presentation.mp4
An orientation for Louisiana State University graduate students to familiarize them with the LSU Student Health Insurance Plan.
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Rev. Cory Sparks from Louisiana speaks at Capitol Hill Rally for Health Care Affordability
Rev. Cory Sparks, pastor of Faith Community United Methodist Church in Lafayette, LA, speaking at a Capitol Hill rally for Health Care Affordability on Sept 16, 2009.
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How many states will Obama’s attorney general sue…?
…before his ignominious ousting in 2012?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100804/D9HCF3I80.html
"About 71 percent of Missouri voters backed a ballot measure, Proposition C, that would prohibit the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for not having it."
"Legislatures in Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana and Virginia have passed similar statutes without referring them to the ballot, and voters in Arizona and Oklahoma will vote on such measures as state constitutional amendments in November. Missouri was the first state to challenge aspects of the federal law in a referendum."
FOX TV? Nevermind that it is an AP story?
I guarantee he will not sue all the States Obama wants sued. I am 100% certain he will never be able to locate all 57 nor can Barack name them.
Cap stops gushing oil, but problems still flow throughout Louisiana
The capping of the broken oil well comes as welcome news for those along the Gulf Coast, but people there are far from celebrating. At the posh MiLa restaurant in downtown New Orleans, oil has already changed the menu.
“Lately, we’ve been buying black bass from North Carolina, Alaskan Halibut, and oysters from Connecticut,” said Slade Rushing, chef and owner of MiLa.
Creeping crude has marred the perception of Louisiana seafood, but even with BP saying it has now covered the broken oil well, the comfort that follows is not without worry.
“We’re all just kind of walking on egg shells and keeping our fingers crossed,” said Rushing. “We’ll see.”
Along parts of coastal Louisiana, the reality is the fear and frustration has not stopped even though the gushing oil has. The problems are still flowing.
“We might be out of business five, maybe 10 years,” said Belle Bundy, owner of a seafood loading dock in Lafitte.
At a meeting aimed at comforting residents about a new independent claims process, many filtered out of the Lafitte Convention Center with more concerns than when they arrived, Raymond Griffin among them.
“The oil is still out there, it hasn’t magically disappeared just because they put a cap on it,” said Griffin. “We wish it would, it hasn’t.”
We first met Griffin in early June. Oil turned his charter fishing business into a bust and his lodge a ghost town.
“We don’t know if we’re ever going to open back up,” said an emotional Griffin on June 3. “I mean how tough is that?”
Now he’s waging yet another battle: BP’s claims process. For two months of lost work, he says he showed BP piles of paperwork proving a shortfall of about $120,000. The oil company, he says, offered him $24,000.
“My health insurance is $3,000 a month, my wife’s chemo medicine is $900 month,” said Griffin. “My apartment complex…that we own, where our people stay is $3,000 month, our utilities is $2,000 for our fishing lodge, plus our taxes and flood insurance and other things, so it doesn’t add up.”
As residents head home from the claims meeting in Lafitte, cleanup crews down the road prepare for the night shift. Pristine white boom lay ready to be deployed, ready to soak up the crude. The scene is somber, but now routine.
“The oil is still going to move with winds, the tides, and the currents,” said Dr. LuAnn White, a toxicologist at Tulane University. “So it’s likely we’ll still see oil coming on shore for a period of time.”
Despite the cap in the Gulf, few things have changed along the Louisiana coast and likely won’t for awhile. From the docks of Lafitte to the kitchens of New Orleans, there is now a new normal, one that’s still hard to swallow.
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Louisiana Public Square
Health Care Reform: A Louisiana Perspective – Are you satisfied with your current health insurance? While health care reform is on the nation’s radar, what will current proposals mean to you? Are you satisfied with your current health insurance? While health care reform is on the nation’s radar, what will current proposals mean to you? http://www.lpb.org
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