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Democrats’ secret 4-step plan to jam public option!!! www.humanevents.com Step 1: The Senate Finance Committee must first approve the marked-up version of Sen. Max Baucus (D.-Mont.) conceptual framework. Then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) can say that two Senate Committees have passed a health care bill, which will allow him to take extraordinary steps to get the bill on the Senate floor. During the mark-up last week, members had difficulty offering amendments and trying to make constructive changed because they lacked actual legislative text and Baucus made unilateral last minute changes. For example, the AP reported that under pressure from fellow Democrats, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee decided to commit an additional $50 billion over a decade toward making insurance more affordable for working-class families. Step 2: Sen. Reid will take the final product of the Senate Finance Committee and merge it with the product of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which passed on a party-line vote in July. Usually, a bill is voted out of committee, and then the Senate takes up the final product of the committee so that all 100 senators can have a hand in the process. With some help from the Obama administration, Reid will decide what aspects of the HELP and Finance Committee bills to keep. Step 3: Now, Obamacare will be ready to hitch a ride on an unrelated bill from the House. Sen. Reid will move to proceed to HR 1586 …
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I think they know it and thats why they rushed to do it their first year. They knew they would only be able to do things for a year before we took back their seats. Which is happening quicker and quicker. They are losing seats left and right. Now with this health care bill passed that MOST didnt want to begin with, its going to be the end of them and they are going to loose alot more seats.
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More Groups Challenge Democrats On Health Issues As GOP Lays Out Repeal Clues
More groups are jumping into campaign messaging as the GOP lays out a possible roadmap for its repeal efforts. The Hill’s Healthwatch blog: “[P]rocedural motions that Republicans filed during the healthcare reform debate offer the best insights into which provisions of the law the party wants to repeal first, a top staffer for a senior House Republican told The Hill. … If Republicans can get …
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Fear and confusion have driven the national debate about health care and the Democrats’ sweeping overhaul for more than a year. But perils now lie ahead for both parties, even for Republicans, who promise to make repeal of the new …
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Mixed signals on health care puts both parties in a bind
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Very large crowds protest the 2000 page health care bill. Comply With PelosiCare or Go To Jail biggovernment.com ‘The Hell With the Constitution’ www.cnsnews.com
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Only a small handful of Democrats across the nation are running TV ads making an affirmative case for the massive health care reform act.
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Dems in races not heralding health reform
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debate when republicans offered many counter-offers, amendments, etc. to the bill but they were all turned down by democrats?
http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpps/news/dpgonc-obama-open-to-four-republican-health-care-proposals-fc-20100302_6362160
(yes its fox, but its fox reporting nice about Obama, so no silly comments please… if you want there are many sites that show the same statement…)
notice that obama tells the media that he is open to republican proposals. then NONE of the ones he says he is open to, end up in the bill. even according to the white house website…
http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/republican-ideas
ok so lets look at the republican proposals that ended up in the bill… (ignoring for a minute that in a 2700 page bill the list of republican proposals that they allowed in the bill fits on a notecard)
•Advances medical liability reform through grants to States
(http://healthreform.gov/newsroom/factsheet/medicalliability.html) obama proposed this himself last year. its not from a republican proposal…
•Extends dependent coverage to age 26:
(almost all states have already extended to age 26. now they are just making it federal instead of state law)
•Allows automatic enrollment by employers in health insurance
(http://hr.blr.com/HR-news/Benefits-Leave/Healthcare-Insurance/Healthcare-Reform-What-Now/) this was in BOTH proposals. not just republicans. both dems and republicans put this in their bills.
•Mechanisms to improve quality
(http://www.nrlc.org/HealthCareRationing/HELPbill.html) this was in kennedy’s bill. again not republican proposal.
so with all of the “republican proposals” that the democrats allowed in the bill, it turns all of them were already gonna be included. so basically Obama is claiming to be bipartisan when there was NO bipartisanship on EITHER side. so why is it that republicans are being called the “Party of NO” when BOTH are actually the “Parties of NO”?
Is it time to end the poo flingin contest and see if we can do something productive? I see a lot of gloating on here about passing a bill, but the fact of the matter is, because of partisanship by BOTH parties, instead of a bill that works, we ended up with simply a bill that will pass…
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Updated: At 10:45 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, the U. S. House of Representatives voted 219 to 212 to pass a historic bill reforming health care in America. Thirty-four Democrats joined Republicans in opposing the bill. …
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Health care reform bill passes, Minnesota delegation splits vote …
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Campaign Claims Examined As Some Democrats Embrace Health Law In Re-Election Bids
Kaiser Health News/The Washington Post analyze myths and facts in the congressional campaigns. “The debate that preceded passage of the health-care overhaul resumed as a heated issue in the midterm elections. Politicians and advocacy groups seeking repeal of the law are making dramatic claims about its cost and effects.” Claims examined include whether the law is a “government takeover” of the …
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