Posted on 02/25/2010 8:22:34 AM PST by paltz
GOP leaders of both Houses spoke to the press on Wednesday to discuss details regarding the Thursday health care summit at Washington, D.C.'s, Blair House with Democrat leaders and President Obama. The GOP is already calling the summit useless, going as far as calling it a "Sham-Wow" TV commercial as one GOP member put it.
With the threat of reconciliation looming from the Democrats, a parliamentary procedure reserved for passing spending and tax legislation in the Senate, and the bills need only 51 votes to pass without debate, Republicans are fighting back. They are reminding everyone that it was Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia who not only authored the reconciliation rule but also objected to it being used to pass health care legislation, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Yeah...like Byrd will REMEMBER that!! Hypocrisy is a prerequisite for being a lib!
every single idea the dems have is government intervention...they offer nothing...
Seems more like a "SLAP-Chop" infomercial to me.
Insanity that the Senate has people like Byrd and Lautenberg that are so old they have no clue what day it is.
I would not be surprised if Byrd were against it, whether he could articulate that ~ still speak ~ is another topic.
If not for the 17th amendment, they would have been long gone.
Repeal the 17th!
They agree on the problems, but they sure don't agree on how to solve them!
Seems to me that the Dems came into this with the intention of putting a happy face on it so that when they try to jam it through next week....it will make the Repubs look bad...and they'll go back to calling us "the party of no".
My uneducated impression of this threat of reconciliation...
The Dems are saying “We are passing this FABULOUS bill whether you like it or not, or even if some of our guys like it or not and when the American people get it, they will sooooo happy about it! So why don’t you lend your name to this so you can get credit too!”
The Dems are so out of touch with reality, they cannot comprehend, or don’t care, that they are going to LOSE with this legislation. Especially since it will further dampen the unemployment rate when people have to decide “Do I keep 45 people employed or make do with 40 that’s gonna cost me the same amount by the time I either pay a fine for not insuring them or buy their health insurance.”
And let’s not forget that only the healthy will be employable, God forbid if you were born with diabetes or something. Since the employers are penalized for YOUR handicap, YOU won’t be as necessary at their job.
This sucks all the way around.
SHAM WOW! That’s great, pressure on this, GOP cannot cave on this one
Just another agenda item to tick off here - diminish the private sector, cause unemployment, yields more clamor to "do something" about jobs, leads to more government programs, agencies, jobs.
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
Sen Scott Brown's number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke.
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan
http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.)
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
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The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware
Wouldnt surprise me if the RATS failed to get 51 votes in the Senate to pass a reform bill by reconciliation. But I dont think the vote will happen since it would have to pass the House first, and I dont think it will.
I live in Nevada.
No One I know here trusts Reid on any topic.
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