Missouri voters on Tuesday Told President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) exactly what they thought about his Regime’s plans to force all Americans to carry health insurance.   71 percent of Missouri voters said yes to Proposition C.   This proposition would stop the government from requiring the people of Missouri to have health insurance and would not allow penalizing them for not having it.   

Obamacare’s requirement that most people have health insurance or face penalties takes effect in 2014.   

Tuesday’s vote will be dismissed by Liberals as being largely symbolic because federal law takes precedence over state law.   However, it is a clear signal to anyone who will pay attention that Americans are fed up and tired of being herded like cattle toward a Marxist state.  Yeah, I said it.   

Annette Read, a tea party participant from suburban St. Louis who quit her online retail job to lead a yearlong campaign for the Missouri ballot measure said:   

To us, it symbolized everything.  The entire frustration in the country … how our government has misspent, how they haven’t listened to the people, this measure in general encompassed all of that.   

Mike Sampson of Jefferson City, an independent emergency management contractor, said:   

I believe that the general public has been duped about the benefits of the health care proposal.  My guess is federal law will in fact supersede state law, but we need to send a message to the folks in Washington, D.C., that people in the hinterlands are not happy.   

The Missouri Primary Elections experienced a high Republican turnout.   In Missouri’s open primaries, voters do not have to register their party affiliation.   

Republican lawmakers planned to place the measure on Missouri’s November ballot as a state constitutional amendment.   But in order to avoid a Democratic filibuster in the state Senate, they agreed to scale it back to a proposed law and place it on the primary ballot.   

Legislatures in Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana and Virginia have already 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.   

Obama and his minions say that the intent of the insurance mandate is to broaden the pool of healthy people covered by insurers, resulting in controlled premiums that otherwise would rise because of separate provisions in the disaster called Obamacare prohibiting insurers from denying coverage to people with poor health or pre-existing conditions.    

In other words, it’s a provision they added to counter-act another stupid provision in a stupid law.    

Public officials in well over a dozen states, including Missouri, have filed lawsuits because they rightfully believe that Congress overstepped its constitutional authority by requiring citizens to buy health insurance.   

There is expected to be a ruling by the Federal Courts way before the insurance requirement takes effect about whether the federal health care overhaul is constitutional.   

The Missouri Hospital Association spent $400,000 warning people that passage of the ballot measure could increase hospitals’ costs for treating the uninsured, but, aside from that, the Astroturf (Soros-funded) organizations, the unions, and consumer groups that backed the passage of Obamacare were nowhere to be seen.   

Remember when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that Democrats would “pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy?”   

That remark was probably the most honest  thing she’s said in years.  Most Americans have a vague sense that something bad is happening to their health care, but very few, if any, have a clue as to exactly what This country is in for when Obamacare kicks in.   

Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, had his staff prepare a study of the law, including a flow chart that illustrates how the major provisions will work.   

The result, which came out July 28, provides citizens with a preview of the impact the health-care overhaul will have on their lives. What it shows will scare you worse than a Rob Zombie movie.   

This chart includes the new fees, bureaucracies, and programs and connects them into an organizational chart that accounts for the existing structure. It’s so carefully documented that a line connecting two structures cites the legislative language that created the link.   

According to the chart, the new law creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 demonstration or pilot programs, six regulatory systems, six compliance standards and two entitlements.   

Getting a bureaucracy this big up and running will be next to impossible. But, don’t worry.  Obama’s minions thought of that.  Obamacare gives Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the authority to make judgments that can’t be challenged either administratively or through the courts.   

This omnipotent power is extended as well to the development of new patient-care models under Obama’s controversial recess appointment, Donald Berwick, whom Republicans are calling the rationer-in-chief.  Berwick will run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he can experiment with ways to use his newly granted power to help change the greatest healthcare system in the world into the failed socialized medicine system of Europe, which he adores.   

Dr. Frankenbama has created a hideous monster that will have almost absolute power to dictate terms for participating in the health-care system. That’s the government angle.   The effect on American citizens is even worse.   

According to The Regime, as many as 117 million people might have to change their health plans by 2013 as their employer-provided coverage loses its grandfathered status and becomes subject to the new Obamacare mandates.   

Those mandates also might make your health care more expensive. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that premiums for a small number of families who buy their insurance privately will rise by as much as $2,100.   

The way Obamacare will wind up increasing insurance coverage is an expansion of the Medicaid program. Of the 30 million new people covered, 16 million will be enrolled in Medicaid. And guess what?  You could end up in the program whether you want it or not.   The bill states that people who apply for coverage through the new exchanges or who apply for premium-subsidy credits will automatically be enrolled in Medicaid if they qualify.   

Where is the money coming from in order to pay for this expansion?  Obamacare takes $529 billion from Medicare, with roughly 39 percent of the cut coming from the Medicare Advantage program.  In other words, the government is sacrificing the care of the elderly in order to increase the Medicaid rolls.   

This will cost the American taxpayer $569 billion.   

There will also be a 40 percent excise tax on those lucky people with so-called Cadillac health plans. The higher insurance costs that are driven by the government mandates will push many more ordinary plans into Cadillac territory.   

If the government taxing people with good health insurance plans does not upset you, maybe the new 3.8 percent tax on investment income will.  This tax will apply even to a small number of home sales, those that generate $250,000 in profit for an individual or $500,000 for a married couple.   

Finally, even though Obamacare has not really kicked in yet, its’ effects are being felt thoughout the Health Insurance Industry.  Thousands of people have already been laid off, and independent brokers and their agents are struggling to provide for their families. ..and it’s going to get worse.  Here’s a recent notice from a major Health Insurance Company: 

CIGNA is committed to delivering affordable, quality health plans in the markets we serve. Provisions of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) have necessitated changes in order for CIGNA to remain cost competitive. As a result, effective October 1, 2010, commissions will no longer be paid on any Individual & Family Plan policy containing one or more Guaranteed Issue customers. 

Effective October 1, 2010, this change will impact:

* Existing policies covering one or more persons on a Guaranteed Issue basis

* New policies covering one or more persons on a Guaranteed Issue basis