The Senate voted 60-39 Saturday night to proceed with a floor debate on Majority Leader Harry Reid’s $848 billion health care bill.
“Like most Americans, I want to see responsible health care reform, but paying for it by sending an unfunded mandate to states, taking money [...]
The Senate Health Bill: Budget Gimmicks Galore
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled his 2,074 page health care bill with claims that the massive measure falls under the $900 billion cost threshold promised by the President.
To put it charitably, the truth is more complicated. The bill depends on budget gimmicks [...]
I have listened to Jim Cooper talk about the health care plans the past several weeks. He claims to be a “Blue Dog” Democrat, based on principal and fiscal conservatism, but in the end whether it is the stimulus plan, the budget or healthcare he falls right into line and [...]
Zach Wamp was just wondering:
We must control spending and quit this reckless borrowing. President Obama had to reassure our largest foreign lender, the Chinese government, on his administration’s plans for the deficit and how health care spending will impact it. China wants evidence that we have a plan to [...]
This is an older article on the size of the House health care legislation that I shared on the radio, but it’s worth sharing with readers too. From the Wall Street Journal:
By JANET ADAMY
The 1,990-page health-care bill in the House is one of the weightiest pieces of legislation [...]
We keep hearing about statesmanship and nobility in our United States Senate. But how statesmanlike is it to vote on a Saturday when we the people can’t contact their offices?
Are you sick and tired of the games? The deceit? I understand that Senator Tom Coburn might be retreating on his [...]
….I wanted to know how many times certain words were used in the Senate’s non-health care bill. Yes, I have been reading it, which is what got me to thinking, I’d like to know how many times certain words came up in the bill. It seemed, while reading through [...]
Pardon me while I vent for a moment.
I was just having a conversation in the hallway with a couple of coworkers about finances and credit cards, and somehow Universal Health Care came up. The context was that Health Insurance Companies charge more for people in their 50's than people in' [...]
A constituent says he never got his one on one with his congressman on health care reform:
Mr. Cooper said he would not have town-hall meetings this past summer because he did not support this legislation.
He preferred one-on-one meetings with voters. Well, I applied and three weeks later, after two [...]
What does ‘first time homebuyers’ have to do with health care?
Senate Democrats’ Health Care Reform Bill
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s statement:
“While Americans have been clear about their opposition to thousand-page bills for new government programs, it’s now abundantly clear that Democrats' [...]
Then again, I’m not among the faithful so I could be wrong:
Sarah Palin is acknowledging that “death panels” aren’t part of Democrats’ health care bills.
But, she says, she’s been talking about them to make a point — and she’s comparing her use of the term to Ronald Reagan’s cold [...]
From Fox News:
But while the task force has no direct authorization over dictating coverage, critics say findings from the group delivered as Congress is considering a massive health care reform bill that may include a government-run health insurance option surely will influence policy.
“This is the way rationing, which my [...]
That’s demoralizing:
In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the [...]
Under the health care bill being considered in the Senate Finance Committee, Americans who fail to pay a penalty for not buying insurance could be charged up to $25,000 by the Internal Revenue Service or face up to a year in jail, according to congressional analysts.
Excerpts from a letter from [...]
A Deathblow for Obamacare
The Foundry
Standing in the Rose Garden on November 7th, President Barack Obama celebrated the passage of the House health care bill claiming: “The Affordable Health Care for America Act is a piece of legislation that will provide stability and security for Americans who have [...]
Rep. Steve Cohen has a relatively tame townhall meeting after voting for health care reform:
The quiet and orderly meeting was in stark contrast to the raucous town-hall event Downtown in August, when Cohen was booed and shouted down for a House bill on health care reform that was still [...]
I tell you, right now we're so close to socialism it's not even funny... We now own the auto manufacturers, we now own banks and we're trying to own the health care system. ... We got a great socialist leader up there... You can't deny he (Obama) has a' [...]
