This afternoon the U.S. Senate takes up H.R. 3590, The Patient Protection and Affordability Act.After noting that the the current health care bill passed by Pelosi and crew spells out imprisonment for those who don’t join the proper risk pool, Ace gets to the core of the problem:
Economic activity is human activity, after all. Economics is not somehow divorced from humanity. Economic choices [...]
Read what Gov. Mike Rounds-R, SD says the health care bill passed by the house would do to the South Dakota Budget
Gov. says House health bill would bust SD budget
Just think, If South Dakota is having problems, I can’t imagine what it will do to states like California and [...]
I know, I know–we keep talking about health care legislation as though it is really important. It is. Here’s a video from Cato that lays things out plainly and persuasively:
Hmm. I wonder if she is any relation of the good Cardinal? In her own words, Representative Lynn Woolsey:
I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill.
I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Who elected them to [...]
Say it isn’t so! A major new governmental program proposal (this one from the Donkey Party) that will exceed it’s initial estimated cost?
AHHEEEEEEE! What’s the world coming to!
‘Fuzzy math’ could drive health bill cost higher
The official $1.1 trillion price tag for the House Democrats’ health care bill excludes dozens [...]
Now that the House of Representatives has passed the health care bill, we have something concrete with which to agree/disagree. Previously, we had a lot of different things floating around. While I would have been happier had the bill failed–I’m also glad that the target has stopped moving.
This KSFY report shows that the political environment in America toady is about money and power:
Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin was one of 39 Democrats who voted against a Democratic-written health care bill in the House yesterday. It was one of a series of votes that have put her [...]
More cool jobs for South Dakota.
SD salmon looking for home.
Still loving the principle of punitive taxation: Herseth Sandlin on the health care bill.
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