Posted on 10/31/2009 2:11:35 PM PDT by Starman417
House Committee sessions where these issues were voted on were nothing but a sham! The real work went on behind closed doors in direct contradiction to Obama's promise for an open process!
Nancy Pelosi finally put her cards on the table this week. Meeting in secret She produced a bill which weighs in at a record 1990 pages (PDF). It's a monster by every measure. The Congressional Budget Office puts the full cost of the bill at $1.28 trillion dollars:
According to a preliminary CBO estimate of the bill released Thursday, the cost of expanding coverage to an additional 36 million Americans under the House plan would total $1.055 trillion over the next decade, counting tax breaks for small businesses, subsidies for low- and moderate-income families and the largest expansion of Medicaid since its inception 40 years ago. Add a variety of other costs outside the coverage package -- including the creation of a new innovations center to reform Medicaid and Medicare -- and the total cost of the bill rises to nearly $1.28 trillion, according to calculations by other Democratic aides.Pelosi and House Democrat leaders are trying to push the fiction that this won't be a budget busting bill but members of her own party are not buying it. The famous Blue Dogs are rebelling again and demanding answers from the CBO on how much the bill will actually cost after all the smoke and mirrors are gone. As we all know, government programs typically cost far more than they are projected to.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
White House Visitor List Reveals Ayers, Other Terrorists and Radicals Not just Idle Acquaintances“Eight visits by Nancy Keenan, head of the National Abortion Rights Action League. You suppose it’s just a coincidence that abortion funding keeps popping up in the health care bill?”
In addition to all of that, this bill cuts $500. billion from Medicare. It’s going to shaft our senior citizens!
This is an anti-Constitutional overreach of governmental power on a par with Social Security, Medicare, the Department of Education, and many others.
Where are the voices in opposition based on the enumerated powers as outlined in the Constitution?
It’s time to take back the country.
You are correct.
Health care is NOT a right. Never has been.
All this “it’s a right” talk started when we began forcing hospitals to offer on-demand treatment people who who never had any intention to pay. That not only made people think they had a “right” to be treated, it also raised insurance rates for all the non-deadbeats who actually pay for what they get. That’s grotesque.
If SOME hospitals want to raise money to pay for care for the “poor,” then let them do that on their own. BUT DON’T MAKE ME PAY! Don’t force your idiotic altruism on me!
You know, 0bama should do his best to keep us oldsters alive. Because if we know we’re going to die anyway under 0bama-Care, we might make some decisions that make him regret he didn’t do his best to help us Medicare recipients live long and happy lives.
I’m just sayin’ . . . .
From my email from frc.org:
“In PelosiCare, the Devil Is in the Details
In a tightly controlled press conference yesterday afternoon, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) released her 1,990 page version of health care overhaul. What does it cost, you ask? That depends on who you talk to.
Speaker Pelosi would like us to believe that the bill is cheap—but in truth, the plan clocks in at over $1.5 trillion dollars when you include the companion “Doc Fix” bill also introduced yesterday. Instead of truly reforming the health care system, the Speaker’s bill is more about social engineering than helping those in need.
The new legislation, H.R. 3962, guarantees that the government would use tax dollars to fund abortions by using the marketing gimmicks that were prevalent in the Capps amendment.
And the rewards for abortionists don’t end there. The Speaker also added a separate bill, the Indian Health legislation, into her overall reform. The move is crafty, because Speaker Pelosi has tied up the Indian Health bill in committee to keep pro-life restrictions from being included. Also missing from H.R. 3962 are protections that appeared in earlier bills to ban federal promotion of assisted suicide (Section 240) and rationing. Other sections of the bill would rewrite current tax law and redefine the family by allowing domestic partners to be the equivalent of spouses (Section 571).
If that weren’t enough, Pelosi’s plan seeks federal funding for sexual predators (Section 713) and also, in a reward to trial lawyers, prohibits states from using tort reform to reduce health care costs. Further expanding the nanny state, the bill also seeks to regulate vending machines (Section 2572). And while the unborn are left vulnerable, pets are not. Speaker Pelosi makes sure that veterinarians are eligible for millions in scholarships and hand outs (Sections 340m/765). There is still time to make your voice heard. Please sign our petition to keep abortion out of health care and tune into our webcast Tuesday night to learn more about the action you can take!”
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