House Dems to unveil health care bill

House Democrats pushed ahead Tuesday with sweeping health care legislation that would raise taxes on the wealthy, require Americans to buy affordable insurance and penalize large companies that don't provide insurance to their employees.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other top Democrats planned to introduce legislation later in the day that would dramatically revamp the health system and fulfill President Barack Obama's goal of slowing rising costs and providing coverage to nearly 50 million uninsured Americans.

The bill would create a government-run plan to compete with private insurers and penalize large companies that fail to offer insurance to their employees. It also would prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage or charging higher premiums on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions.

Obama moved aggressively Monday to jump-start health care overhaul, vowing to get legislation done this year and summoning lawmakers to a White House meeting. His goal is to sign a comprehensive bill in October.

The House measure would spend billions of dollars subsidizing lower-income individuals and families who cannot afford coverage in an attempt to cut dramatically into the ranks of the uninsured.

It would rely on cuts in Medicare and Medicaid to begin slowing the rate of growth in health care spending overall.

A new income tax on the wealthy, estimated to raise more than $500 billion over the next decade, would help pay for the bill. Democrats on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said the new surtax would start with households making $350,000 a year and begin in 2011.

In one concession to moderate and conservative Democrats, leaders have indicated that they're increasing the size of the exemption for small businesses from a requirement for employers to provide health care to their employees.

Zenith Press Association

August 15, 2017
Chicago, Illinois

Marian Shields Robinson, mother of former First Lady, Michelle Robinson Obama, died yesterday. In otherwise excellent health, an autopsy determined that the cause of death was a relatively simple to repair coronary artery blockage. She was 80 years old.

Unfortunately, under the 2011 Universal Health Care Act, passed in the last year of the truncated Obama Administration, the surgery necessary to clear the fatal blockage is prohibited on patients over 60 years of age.

The impeached Barack Obama could not be reached for comment. On death row at the Colorado Super-Max prison, he is awaiting execution for treason against the Constitution and the people of the United States and humanity.

The Republican breakaway New Freedom Party, which began winning congressional seats in the 2010 election and completed its sweep of conventional Republicans and Democrats from office in the 2016 election, has pledged to eliminate what President Palin called “…these unfortunate and unnecessary deaths of our older citizens who have, after all, done much to build this nation.” She went on to say “Of course, we all die. But this foolishly enacted legislation is consigning countless millions of otherwise healthy, capable, often wisdom-laden loved parents and grandparents to early graves for simply corrected problems. It’s just morally wrong.”

Senate Majority Leader Rand Paul (NFP, Tx) has pledged to revisit the Universal Health Care Act as soon as he and his colleagues on Capitol Hill complete the pending treason trials of 58 Obama officials now taking up the bulk of their time.

When reached by phone for comment, former First Lady Michelle Obama, muttered a few unprintable scatological and profane terms and something about no longer being “…proud of this crappy country – not that I ever was” before hanging up.

Arrangements are pending but those close to the family have hinted that Mrs. Robinson will be taken to Kenya for burial. Mrs. Obama has declared that she and her daughters will remain in Kenya — eventually found to be the actual birthplace of the disgraced former usurper president — and never return to the United States.

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(RAB/Zenith News Service Correspondent)

(Pregnant pause here…)

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