Jim Cramer: Obamacare Hurting Hiring in U.S.

Like we didn't see this coming.

CNBC financial anchor of 'Mad Money' Jim Cramer, a known Democrat is turning on Obama.  In an interview on MSNBC 'Morning Joe' stated that he had numerous conversations with CEOs and they will not hire in the U.S. due to the ObamaCare health care reform legislation.

Cramer cited CEOs stating that the U.S. Supreme Court must strike down the law to save the economy and that this legislation is the number one issues facing growth for their firms.  The number one issue.

But of course the White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill are tone deaf.  And that is why the fate of ObamaCare must be decided in the court room.  Only the U.S. Supreme Court can strike this down, and they must if they want to keep America afloat.

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Baby Joseph: When Left to Die, America Comes to the Rescue

No one really knows how long Baby Joseph Maraachli will live.  However, when the Canadian health care officials refused to peform a tracheotomy to allow Baby Joseph to breathe in peace, America came to the rescue.  Today it was reported that Baby Joseph received that tracheotomy.

The story of Baby Joseph unfortunately hits on two poltiical fronts.  The first is state-sponsored euthansia vis a vis Canada's "health care" system, and the other does America really want this?

Canada's decision to not perform the tracheotomy in the first is nothing less than state-sponsored euthanasia.  What right does Canada have to determine who gets a surgery or not?  Who gave them the authority to make that decision.  Unfortunately, Canada's health care system allows its health care administrators to play God. 

If the case of Baby Joseph, and how the American health care system is not testament to how it should  be, then no one deserves it.  For those that want to transform America's health care system to rival Canada or Britain are the same who wan to play God in similar cases to Baby Joseph.  Human life deserves greater respect than to be at the hands of some ego-maniacal bureaucrat with a rubber stamp of rejection on every procedure just to save a buck.

America prays for you Baby Joseph that you life out the rest of your life in dignity.

U.S. House Votes to Defund Obamacare

The U.S. House led by House Republicans voted 239-187 to defund the American Patient Protection and Affordability Act.  This vote marks the continual effort by House Republicans to defund the unconstitutional health care reform bill.

While the legal battle over the legitimacy over the over-reaching health care bill moves forward in the courts, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) make good on his word to defund Obamacare.   Twenty-eight states are also suing the federal government over the legitimacy over the individual mandate, NewMax reports.

Repeal and Replace

Last week, the U.S. House voted 245-189 to repeal the American Patient Protection and Affordability Act (aka Obamacare).  While that is a significant milestone to reversing big government takeover of the health care industry, it leaves a void of health care reform.  Contrary to the leftist propaganda, conservatives do want health care reform, but it must deal with cost constraint and not the delivery of health care to Americans.

During the crafting of Obamacare, the Democrats hijacked the argument and failed to focus on the end game - controlling the cost of health care.  Health care expenditures represent 1/6th of the U.S. economy, and are going higher.  Fortunately, Americans are smarter than the Democrats in Congress and voted against them in the mid-term elections.  But repealing Obamacare will only repeal the bill, and is not a substitute to not crafting legislation of meaningful health care reform that addresses cost constraint and lack of competition in the health care insurance industry.

While the U.S. Senate deals with the House Bill 2 that repealed the American Patient Protection and Affordability Act, now is the time to replace that bill with real reform.  Here are a few suggestions by BlueHenConservative:

• Health Care Inter-State Competition Act, which would compel states to mandate intra-state commerce of health insurance policies.  The bill would also compel state Insurance Commissioners to regulate the health insurance firms, much as they do property, life and auto insurance firms which compete freely in all fifty states.
• Health Care Tort Reform Act, which would compel states to establish limits on awards from health care court cases, based on historical and actuarial calculations by industry states.
• American Health Insurance Affordability Act, which is part two of the Health Care Intra-State Competition Act would compel states to establish insurance pools based on population on basic, intermediate and high-need health needs.  States would be encouraged to market the plans to its residents to reduce the number of insured in each state.
• Health Care Technology Act, which would compel states to regulate health providers to leverage technology versus paper records, and also to share records with other providers to reduce overlap of unnecessary procedures and drug prescriptions.
• Health Care Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit health insurers from denying coverage to patients who have existing conditions.  The act would also prohibit discriminatory pricing as a result of existing conditions.

Congress would be wise to adopt these separate and simple reform measures to the cost of health care.  America does not need a nearly 3,000 page bill to dictate how health care should be delivered in America.