"Deem and Pass" - are you kidding???

Now that Pelosi is having a hard time getting this sham of a healthcare bill passed in the House, they're now looking at the "Slaughter Rule", which means that instead of the House actually voting for it, they can just "deem" it passed WITHOUT voting on it so they can send it back to the senate for reconciliation. YES, this is happening in AMERICA!

Here's congressman Paul Ryan discussing it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLITGkcwZIA

$950,000,000,000, or ????

The Senate democrats have already estimated this newest healthcare bill to cost $950 BILLION dollars, and they've asked the Congressional Budget Office to score it. But the CBO can't, because they have not been given the updated information to be able to do so. So if they're admitting to $950 billion, any guesses to what the real cost will be?

http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=473

Denial, denial, denial...

Some in the white house are still denying what happened yesterday in the Massachusetts election, a Republican win on a seat that's been held by a Democrat since 1952, a seat that was held by who was the country's biggest proponent of big government healthcare, in a state that was the bluest state in the country. They think it's just because "change is not coming fast enough". Ya know what, let them keep thinking just that for the next 9 or 10 months and we'll see what they den come the mid term elections.

Congratulations to Scott Brown. Now remember why you won.

http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/Obama-Advisors-Deny-Brown/2010/01/20/id/347435?s=al&promo_code=95C1-1

Dems Look at Bypassing Senate Health Care Vote

I wish I could say "unbelievable", but I just can't anymore. If Brown wins the senate seat tomorrow that was once occupied by Ted Kennedy, leaving the senate without their 60 vote majority, the House may agree to completely cave on ALL the differences they have with the senate bill and just agree to it so there would be no more reason to vote. How low will they go???

http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/US-Health-Care-Massachusetts/2010/01/17/id/346595

A tax on high end health insurance plans - unless...

... unless you're in a UNION (shocker - not...) or a state or city worker. No paybacks to the unions who helped get him elected, huh??? Here's the details - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34859430/ns/politics-health_care_reform But to make a huge point, the following quote from this article comes straight from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (bold added for effect)- "While the tax would be applied to high-cost plans, the Congressional Budget Office has said its principal impact would be to prompt consumers to purchase lower-value coverage. That, in turn, would raise the income tax they pay by reducing the deduction they can take for health care". Unless, of course, if you're a union member or work for the state or city - then you've been given a special deal. Incredible...

This can be called "redistribution of wealth" among the insured... Now you potentially have to lower your level of coverage so that you're not "better" than others. Who do these politicians think they're fooling? I'll tell you EXACTLY who they're fooling - they're fooling the approximately 36% of the electorate who are sleeping right thru this mess.

This all really needs to blow back right into the politicians' faces come November.

Now the Unions are mad at Obama too.

Why, because he broke another promise, this one being that while on the campaign trail, he told the unions (needless to say they were big Obama supporters) that he wouldn't tax higher end health insurance plans. I guess he's "changing his mind" - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/11/irate-labor-leaders-press-obama-proposed-health-care-cadillac-tax/

Just curious - has anyone found a promise he's kept yet???

A Mayo Clinic office cutting off Medicare patients

You sure you want Obamacare? Get used to this because it'll start happening nationwide. With this administration wanting to cut hundreds of $billions of dollars out of medicare, the medical community will have no choice but to stop accepting medicare patients since they already have a hard time making any money from them. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHoYSI84VdL0 And since they only want to reimburse 5% over medicare rates for public plan option patients (if they get one passed), it'll spread to the younger insureds too. For all of you who say, "we need healthcare like what the Europeans have", be careful what you ask for, you may just get it...