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Sally Pipes: How real reform is different from Obamacare (part 3)
Washington Examiner ^ | 8/4/10 | Sally Pipes

Posted on 08/16/2010 7:04:59 AM PDT by GailA

To turn a phrase, there ought not to be a law; Obamacare should be booted from the U.S. Code and onto the ash heap of history.

Think it can't be done? Guess again -- Congress has reversed course on health care reform before.

On July 1, 1988, Congress passed the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act and raised premiums on seniors to finance this new benefit. Retirees went ballistic, and in one of the most memorable pieces of news footage ever, an angry mob of elderly Americans confronted then-House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a Democrat from Illinois. They literally surrounded his car, smacked his hood with picket signs, and chased him down the street on foot.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: government; healthcare; obamacare; taxes
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1 posted on 08/16/2010 7:05:03 AM PDT by GailA
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To: GailA

You really know how to post a mood elevator!


2 posted on 08/16/2010 7:33:30 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (Employing freedom of speech/expression in order to condemn freedom of speech/expression—go figure..)
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To: Silentgypsy

Or a reminder of what Nov will require of us. Our liberty is only ours if we are careful to preserve it.


3 posted on 08/16/2010 11:01:00 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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