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• 'Sno Go For Snowe?

  —Dan Cirucci

  From Carrie Budoff Brown and Patrick O'Connor at Politico:
  Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who is still being wooed by Democrats on health care, was highly skeptical of a proposal to expand Medicare and Medicaid — signaling Tuesday that her support for an emerging public option compromise will be difficult' [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:21am EST
  

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• Black Activists Condemn Senate Leader Harry Reid Playing the Race Card in Health Care Debate

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  Washington D.C.: Recent race-related comments made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) are highly offensive and historically inaccurate, say members of the Project 21 black leadership group. "Harry Reid has resorted to the most... " [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 4:01am EST
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• Health care reform, yes. But at what cost?

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  December 4, 2009 Senate’s excise tax proposal is the wrong approach By Barbara Keshishian, NJEA PresidentAmerica needs health insurance reform, and we need it now. But we do not need the kind of reform that... [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:59am EST
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• Safe Drinking Water Act violated and ignored for millions

  —TODAY'S NEWS NJ

  
  by Chris in Paris
  
  After watching the Bush administration ignore countless other laws that negatively impacted people and the environment, it's not much of a surprise. As the article says, this is yet another health care issue. The cost of treating Americans for illnesses [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:22pm EST
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• From Glenn Thrush at ...

  —Dan Cirucci

  
  
  

  From Glenn Thrush at Politico:
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) upped the rhetorical ante this morning by comparing opponents of health care reform to conservatives who tried to block emancipation and equal rights -- prompting the Republican national chairman to question his sanity.
  Speaking on the [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:20am EST
  

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• State Capital News for Tuesday

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  December 7, 2009 Pennacchio Responds to Menendez The following statement was released by State Senator Joe Pennacchio (R-Morris/Passaic) regarding the government takeover of health care: “Senator Menendez, rather than showing facts to defend his support... [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 3:16am EST
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• Was Democrats’ Health Care Strategy Written In Federal Prison?

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  Image via Wikipedia by Joel B. Pollak While in prison—or “forced sabbatical,” he called it—Creamer wrote a lengthy political manual, Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win (Seven Locks Press, 2007).... [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:28am EST
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• FOXNews.com - Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery

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  Image via Wikipedia Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than... [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:08pm EST
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• Obamacare’s Broken Promises

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  With the Democrat’s health care destruction bill now in the Senate, GOP Senators have embarked on a strategy of using every parliamentary trick at their disposal to stop it. This includes proposing amendment after amendment. Last week, Republican Senators successfully proposed amendments that put Democrats on record in [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:12pm EST
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• Public Option Vigil to be Held in Bloomfield

  —Baristanet

  Move On will hold a vigil tomorrow night (Dec. 8) in Bloomfield to encourage Representatives Donald Payne and Bill Pascrell to keep fighting for a public option in the health care reform bill. The last vigil, pictured, that was held in Bloomfield was in September. [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

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• They Call THIS Transparency?

  —Dan Cirucci

  From Fox News:
  Senate Republicans accused President Obama of backroom arm-twisting on Sunday, speaking at a press conference just steps away from the room where the president met with divided Democrats on an $848 billion health care plan.
  Lawmakers spent the weekend in Washington trying to hash out amendments [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:02am EST
  

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• Human tracking device - are you in?

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  12/4/2009: Human EZ-PASS Have any of you seen this new medical tracking device that’s soon going to be at the forefront of health care news? Well- the “Health Link RFID” device is being marketed as this great new way of permanently...
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:15pm EST
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• In America, when it's guns v. butter, butter always loses

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  We have no money. That is the basic argument I keep seeing from everyone across the political spectrum.
  
  We can't afford to provide health care, can't afford an expanded jobs program, are willing to let state and local governments starve and slash programs -- but we apparently have plenty [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:41pm EST
  

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• Equality For All

  —Blue Jersey

  Ann Twomey is President of HPAE - Health Professionals and Allied Employees, the union representing more than 12,000 nurses, social workers, therapists, technicians, medical researchers and other health care professionals in hospitals, nursing homes, home care agencies, blood banks and university research facilities in both New Jersey and the Philadelphia [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:35pm EST
  

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• Senate Approves Medicare Cuts

  —Dan Cirucci

  From the Associated Press and Breitbart:
  The Senate has voted to keep significant Medicare cuts in its health care overhaul bill despite polls showing seniors are concerned about their benefits.
  Senators voted 58-42 to reject an amendment by Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona that would have stripped more [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  

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• Abortion Could Derail Obamacare

  —Dan Cirucci

  From Erica Werner at the Associated Press:
  Senators debating health care legislation are headed for a clash over abortion, the issue that threatened to derail the bill in the House. Anticipating the showdown, hundreds of abortion rights supporters gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to call on senators to keep [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:32am EST
  

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• CNSNews.com - Millions of Families Will Pay $2,100 More in Annual Health Insurance Premiums Under Senate Bill

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  Tuesday, December 01, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor (CSNews.com) – For millions of American families, the cost of health insurance premiums will increase $2,100 a year under the Democratic health care bill now being... [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:19am EST
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• Max Baucus Admits that ObamaCare Will Cost $2.5 Trillion Over Ten Years

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  Brian McGovern | December 2, 2009

  Senator Max Baucus (D - MT) today has admitted what we haveall known to be true for a while now. Since the ObamaCare bill begins to tax usnow, and doesn't actually take effect on the health care industry until theforth year, the bill will cost' [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:57pm EST
  

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• Seven Things You Didn't Know Were In The Senate Health Bill - Kaiser Health News

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  By Mary Agnes Carey, Phil Galewitz and Laurie McGinley KHN Staff Writers Nov 30, 2009 Pay attention: The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" -- better known as the Senate health care overhaul bill –... [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:01am EST
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• The ObamaCare Air War

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  Matt Rooney | December 1, 2009
  
  Thank God for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Save Jerseyans. 
  Were it not for their anti-ObamaCare advertisements on the airwaves, the current health care debate would be hopelessly lopsided in favor of Speaker Pelosi's socialist solution. Overall, spending on healthcare ads has been a recession time [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

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• Health Care Coalition Collapsing

  —Dan Cirucci

  From Ricardo Alonso Saldivar at the Associated Press:
  With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on President Barack Obama's signature domestic issue, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the health care reform legislation to advance is coming apart.
  While majority Democrats will need 60 votes again to finish, [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:52am EST
  

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• Climate Change, Health Care: These Life-Changing Issues Are a Matter of Misplaced Trust

  —Cinnaman

  
  Healthy skepticism, a long-time trait of the American people, is being tested by two of the three major issues foremost in the vaunted brain of President Barack Obama. (The third being the war, of course.)
  
  Use your own intellect to determine the value of the [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:39am EST
  

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• We Pay Them to Lie to Us - Reason Magazine

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  President Obama insists that health care "reform" not "add a dime" to the budget deficit, which daily grows to ever more frightening levels. So the House-passed bill and the one the Senate now deliberates both... [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:36am EST
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• Support Erodes For Obamacare

  —Dan Cirucci

  An editorial from the Washington Examiner:
  Two-dozen Democrats from Republican-leaning districts, who voted for the House version of President Obama's increasingly unpopular health care reform, are beginning to feel a growing public backlash. ReversetheVote.org has already raised $123,105 that will be dedicated exclusively to defeating all 24, including Rep. [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:04am EST
  

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• President Obama's Weekly Address: 11/28/09 President Obama Delivers Thanksgiving Greeting

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  President Obama calls to our attention the men and women in uniform who are away from home sacrificing time with family to protect our safety and freedom. He also talks about the progress of health care reform, the Recovery Act, and job creation to ensure that next Thanksgiving will be [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:46am EST
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• CNSNews.com - Top Catholic Cardinal Says 'No Way' Catholic Members of Congress Can Support Senate Health Care Bill That Funds Abortion

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  Tuesday, November 24, 2009 By Karen Schuberg (CNSNews.com) - A top Roman Catholic cardinal told CNSNews.com that there is “no way” Catholic members of Congress can support the Senate health care reform bill as long... [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:25am EST
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• Obamacare Support Hits New Low

  —Dan Cirucci

  From Rasmussen Reports:
  Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.
  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:36am EST
  

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• Sen. Landrieu flaunts purchased vote: "It's not $100 million; it's $300 million!"

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  Facing fallout from an apparent sale of her health care vote to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and the Democratic Caucus, Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) took a shocking approach in response to the payoff allegations:... [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:29am EST
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• Swimming Against The Tide On Healthcare

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  A new Rasmussen poll on healthcare shows that support for the Democrat’s plan for reforming (strike that) destroying our healthcare system has reach a new low.

  Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:13pm EST
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• worth-reading.com: Deep Into Saturday Night's Health Care Vote

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  Image via Wikipedia The Senate bill taxes gold-plated insurance companies, in addition to raising Medicare taxes for individuals making over $200,000 and couples making over $250,000. Web News TownHall Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's vote in... [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:55pm EST
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